In fact, I just watched it for Norton. At that time, I told a friend of mine that she is a Nuo fan, but I hadn’t heard of this movie, and then I started watching it haha
At first glance at the poster, there is a sense of ace to ace, because the cover is also red, and it has the feeling of a suspense film. I quickly read the introduction: the content looks a bit suspenseful, but the positioning is a drama. So there shouldn't be any suspense, let's see it.
First movie title: The 25th Hour. Then, the movie must have the most crucial thing at the 25th hour, or a turning point, or a wonderful ending. This is just a guess, the real thing will of course be seen later.
When I first saw the movie, I don't know why, but I always felt that it had a very similar feeling to the American X-Files (American X-Files: it is also the movie starring Uncle No, and the handsome Edward Furlong also starred).
OK, so let's start the movie. There is not much to say about the plot of the movie. It is about Monty Brogan (Edward Norton), a drug dealer who used to be all-powerful as the protagonist. In life, many things happen. The main thing is that Monty communicated with his girlfriend and a few of his best friends and attended the farewell party for him. Among them, he began to wonder if his girlfriend betrayed him, of course not in the end. Etc., etc.
In fact, the key is not the plot of the story, but the ending of the story: Monty rode his father's car all the way to the infinite west, and finally lived in a small town incognito, and when he was old, he told his children and grandchildren the story of that year. When I watched it with my friend, my friend felt that he was not in jail, but his father let him escape. But I thought of the title of the movie: The 25th Hour, and I knew it, and these shots are actually what happened in the 25th hour, which is what Monty's father told and imagined. In the end, it ended with Monty still appearing in his father's car, and he didn't give the audience an explanation, because he didn't need it. Let's make up your own mind at the end. At the end, there is no end. Sent to prison. But we don't have the right to guess, because that's what the director wanted.
In fact, at the beginning of the film, I saw that when Monty wanted to shoot a dying puppy off, he found that the puppy was unwilling to die, so he sent him for treatment and kept him all the time. Later found the "friend" who betrayed him and put down the shot of the gun. I can imagine the kindness in his heart, just like he sells drugs just for his father, he is kind in heart, at least it shows that after living in prison, he must be a very good person (which reminds me of the United States again Derek Norton after the X-Files was released). "One-hearted for good" is also the focus of old-school movies. Although the film is not old, it is obvious that it wants to shoot the bleakness of the earlier era.
When Monty's girlfriend appeared in the movie, I decided she wasn't the one who betrayed him, unless it was a full-on suspense movie, because I saw his girlfriend was really nice to Monty, and I think all the guys are too. I hope to have such a girlfriend, I don't want to be beautiful or fit, but I just want to treat myself well. And almost at the last time, I saw that his girlfriend was willing to wait for him alone for seven years, waiting for his reunion when he was released from prison, which was really touching.
In the middle part of the film, there is a dialogue between Monty's two best friends, and it is said that Monty has three choices: First, choose to escape in prison. But even if it succeeds, it is also a permanent flight to face him; secondly, he chooses to kill himself by swallowing a bomb. What my friend is worried about is that at the end of the movie, he will commit suicide due to excessive stress. Of course, I firmly believe that it will not, although it is quite shocking, but it is not in line with the character of the male protagonist. I still have to say "one-heartedly good", and the director will not kill the male protagonist; the third, that is, in Seven years in prison, quietly waiting for the time to pass, and after the end, he will be a person who is almost defunct who no one knows. At that time, one of the best friends told the other that we would never see Monty again, although the other didn't believe it, although the analysis made sense.
The film mentions the dirty world, dirty air, etc. many times, and there are many ruins in the film after 9/11. And while Monty was in prison, that was when he escaped from this filthy world, so the film must also aim to reflect some of the filthiness of the world. The director also used this film to reflect his disgust for the horror incident, his extreme disgust for the 9/11 incident, and his yearning for "kindness".
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