But they were left homeless by the oil fires.
"The fire will stop when it reaches the river... The boys can only rely on themselves," said the old policeman.
They can only rely on themselves, so they can only choose to go down this road of no return.
A lot of the film uses the vast world as the background, and the irony is that the protagonist has nowhere to go in this vast world.
When the two brothers successfully robbed and went to the casino for the first time, there were two huge arrows in front of the casino, sticking straight into the ground, and the bright red and yellow colors were particularly abrupt, symbolizing the brothers' helpless betrayal of the earth.
When the brother died, the muzzle of the gun turned to the ground again, but this time it was more like a silent indictment - what changed their fate? What made them betray the land that gave birth to them? What made them unable to sleep peacefully when they were born, and surrounded by venomous snakes when they died? But no one pulled the trigger of the accusation.
But whether it's arrows or guns, it's nothing. What's really hurting the earth is the oil extraction machine that keeps appearing in the background, endlessly demanding from this land.
The only warm place in the film was that evening, when the sky was littered with clouds, leaving the last rays of light in the distance. The two brothers were playing with each other like children. In the backlit back, it was like seeing the moment of tenderness that fate gave them. . . . . . .
"i am not afraid to die" is sung in the background music.
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