Red Road · Can you let go?

Wiley 2022-03-22 08:01:04

I have watched a lot of movies about revenge, but it is still unbearable to position "Red Road" as a revenge-type story.

This is about a woman's willful struggle with the grief that she can't let go of. The process of grief is like a teardrop falling and forbearance. In the end, we find that everything this poor woman does is just looking for herself. hatred.

How to tell this story, it seems that even the director thought it was too ordinary and ordinary and hid it together with the protagonist. Hidden behind the woman's faint and graceful face of vicissitudes of life, hidden in her silent gaze when she stared at the surveillance camera calmly every day. All this only lets us know that she is a city monitor. Facing dozens of monitoring screens, she is always on the sidelines of people performing scenes on the street every day, and she will report and deal with dangers or accidents in time.

She was quiet, lived alone, without a smile, and she had a sex partner who was a truck driver, and after getting what she needed in the car, said goodbye calmly, like swallowing a quick meal.

Most of the time, she indulges in the monitoring room, constantly changing the camera, zooming in on the details, watching the maid on the opposite floor dancing while doing housework, watching the old man walking the dog, watching someone running wild behind the fence late at night... She likes to do this. Outsiders, living in the hustle and bustle of others and having nothing, so that they will no longer lose it.

Later, we found out that she began to focus on only one person, the middle-aged man who drove a truck, who was not amazing in appearance, sang songs at night, and lived in chaos. Such an ordinary man made her eyes follow closely, and even followed him, participated in his weekend PATY, and finally dropped her arms and completed a passionate intercourse. Whether it was a gathering of love or a revenge of hate, in any case, it was the only thing she did to cheer up.

Next, she smashed her face with a stone, and came to the police station to sue him for rape. She knew that if he had a criminal record, he would be imprisoned with just a push from her. Huai waited for this smooth revenge to melt away the long-lasting pain in her heart, but... did it really come true? She felt like throwing dynamite into a swamp, and the sticky muffled sound only made her innocent heart even more resentful.

All she wanted was "they all survive" and she could ask for nothing from now on, really.

How much she hated the existence of this man, since she recognized him from the surveillance camera, she knew that his release from prison was her purgatory. That night, the drunk man driving the truck ran out of control and crashed into the shelter. Death took away her husband and daughter irresponsibly. They suddenly and silently evaporated from her life. The last quarrel with her daughter didn't have time to reconcile. She remembered that when she saw her for the last time, she was angry and told her to go away. She didn't understand how the love she called thousands of times after that couldn't cancel that sentence. What about the angry voice, she hated this man for taking away her only chance, she could apologize to her daughter, say goodbye to her lover, and even leave the world with them. And she instinctively approached him and demanded unreasonably from him, as if the breath and soul of her family depended on the person she met at the end, and she could follow that thin thread of implication to grasp the pulse of them still in the world. When she watched him being escorted by the police in the surveillance video, and his weak daughter came to the door and couldn't find her father, she suddenly realized that this so-called revenge was heartbreakingly absurd. What has been recovered is concocting new tragedies.

Let it all come to an end and forgive others for their unintentional mistakes. That hatred was originally pointless. Blame the actions of the perpetrators and the appearance of the victims, blame the drunkenness for intoxicating people, confuse the eyes at night, blame the impermanence of fate, and unpredictable world events... ...

when a man hates and does nothing, he is mostly hating himself. She uses anger at others and revenge to escape reality, and the outlet becomes lost. To pass through the opening of fate smoothly, we must let go, and we must let go of the tightly gripped heart.

She dropped the charges against him, and she chased him down the street seeking details of what happened, which she had to face, and then put down. This shit happens every day, he said, and that's life.

Can you let go? She must have asked herself over and over again. She finally unfolded her daughter's little clothes before her death, kissed and kissed, crying and saying sorry, that was something she would never have a chance to say to her. Finally, I can walk into my lover's parents' house and look at the pictures of him when he was a child and when he was young. It was something she didn't dare to touch and miss for years. She can finally mention them to others, and then cry for them. When all these are done, she knows that she can finally let go, let go of the past, and start a new life.

'Red Road' is the name of the apartment where the man lived, and it also symbolizes a hurdle of life. After crossing, the sun is shining and the sea and sky are bright.

The film handles the camera in a documentary style, and the turbulent follow-up camera and the long silent segment make it heavy. And the truth. I watched the ending repeatedly, because it seemed too real and touching. The dialogue is also intriguing.

After all, the movie comes from life, no matter how cool or dazzling the shooting method is, it is just like tricks and illusions, maybe a big circle, we really The reason for being touched is the real nature of the recording of the lens.

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  • Gloria 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    Revenge and redemption, and finally reconciled, this kind of shaking and shaking is so anxious, it is actually the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, the film is too long, and it is still a bit boring

  • Zella 2022-03-22 09:03:03

    photography is amazing

Red Road quotes

  • Clyde: [seeing Jackie for the first time] Have we met?

    Jackie: Yeah, I saw you at a cafe.

    Clyde: Right. At a cafe.

    [Clyde takes Jackie's hand and they both start to dance]

  • Clyde: Do you know what I wonder about you?

    Jackie: What?

    Clyde: How your cunt taste like.

    Jackie: [looking at Clyde blankly, not being surprised at all]

    Clyde: Shocked?

    Jackie: [blankly] Not really.