Straight in it

Landen 2021-11-24 08:01:17

I especially like the self-evident expression of emotion in this film. It shocked me with its silent silence and stirred up deafening waves in my heart. Until now, I am still a little moved, a little impulsive to tears, those forbearing expressions seem to be vivid, and I can still see them, just like seeing tears in the rain and water, I also think of "The Analects", think of After Confucius, he said: "The father is hidden by the son, and the son is hidden by the father, and he is in it."

There is also such a performance in the movie:

Scene 1: John picks up the child at his parents' house and prepares to escape. He didn't tell the old man the plan, but the old father learned everything from the ticket in his wallet. He didn't say anything, just shook his son's hand hard before leaving, hugged him hard, and told him to take care. After the son left, the old woman laughed at him and said, why are you so sad after a lot of age? The old man said nothing, as the police later showed when he asked his son where he was going. Only in the middle of the night, when alone, my father took out a map of the world, looked at the foreign country where his son was going to live, looked at the local customs, and imagined his son's future life.

In addition to the love between father and son, there is also love between mother and son:

Scene 2: John takes his son to visit Laura in prison. The child does not talk to his mother or kiss her, and stubbornly plays with blocks alone. But in life, he would fight with classmates who spoke badly about his mother. He would cherish the glass bottles and coins stored in the bottles left by his mother, and embrace them in his father's affectionate letter from his mother. In the middle, as if being embraced by the mother.

Of course, what is shown most in the movie is the relationship between John and his wife Laura:

Scene 3: John learns that there is no hope for an appeal, and he comes to jail and tells his wife the bad news. The two said nothing through the glass, but Laura saw John that. The sad eyes had understood everything, and he suddenly sat on the chair and wept bitterly. This is such a heartbreaking tacit understanding that it adds a strong sense of sorrow to the incomparable romantic phrase "the heart is spiritual".

Scene 4: John and Laura stop for a while after a thrilling scene on the highway. Needless to say about this scene, the two once again reached an understanding and compromise with each other with a high degree of tacit understanding and deep love for each other. Before that, they were very self-willed, making various sacrifices out of consideration for the other side with their own will.

This is a delicate movie. Regarding the jailbreak link, I can only say that it is somewhere between the average and the more interesting. If it weren’t for the scenes that hit my heart, I might let my spirit drift away prematurely. Outside of this movie. At the end of the story, the director arranged for the police to return to the scene of the crime that year, and in his imagination to simulate the circumstances of the case at the time, through a button, we know that Laura was indeed wronged. Most people feel that this is an unnecessary arrangement that weakens the emotional strength of the film.

I don't think so.

First of all, I feel that an open ending is not the best ending. On the contrary, it has a flaw that makes the audience too entangled in the suspenseful mystery of what the ending is, thus partially ignoring other expressions that may be truly important in the film.

Secondly, I think that this ending is not so much filmed for the audience to see, but rather filmed for the people in the play (though they can't see it). For an anti-mainstream, anti-social morality escape, "hidden" is understandable and moving, but these people will eventually integrate into a normal society and continue to live normally.

At least for me, the question that I don’t want to see a "wife may have killed someone" always lay between the two. Although their mutual trust has made me see "straight in it", I would rather have such a perfect, The innocent ending eliminates all seeds that might become doubts. Because, as expressed in Inception, any tiny seed may eventually have the effect of collapse.

The best ending I can think of is the ending shown in the movie-Laura is indeed innocent; and at the same time, the director did not compromise his film’s emotional logic setting: the police did not find the button, but these are for us The protagonist is irrelevant.

View more about The Next Three Days reviews

Extended Reading

The Next Three Days quotes

  • John Brennan: [Purchasing a gun] Show me where the bullets go.

  • Detective Quinn: Was it raining that day?