Maybe this is what we overlooked

Dillan 2022-03-23 08:01:02

When I was bored, I saw this movie, glanced at the introduction and saw it as a work of David Fincher, and watched it without hesitation. As a result, the more I looked at it, the more wrong I realized that the director was his daughter. But I still finished it, the ending is still suspenseful, I couldn't guess it, but there is no climax.
After reading it, I looked for a movie review, but the focus of everyone's discussion was different from what I thought. Maybe what I thought was in line with the meaning of the title "Monitoring" and the director's intention. Of course, maybe I thought too much, whatever, Just wanted to say a few words after reading it.
My focus is not on the two psychotic killers, or the little girl who wasn't killed, but on the two patrolling police officers involved in the case. Hasn’t anyone noticed the law enforcement problems of the two patrolling police officers, seeing someone speeding and blowing a tire directly (shooting at a family’s car, the consequences may be minor, the child may be injured, and the car may be destroyed in severe cases), and then Play as a good cop and a bad cop to intimidate and extort, some people say it's a big deal, there are bad cops everywhere. That's right, the law enforcement issues of the two cops are far too childish compared to the two murderers (so we missed the point).
The two patrolling police officers in remote and remote areas really have nothing to do at ordinary times, and they also want to make some big cases, but they can only shoot beer bottles or something to vent. Seeing the occasional speeding car on a deserted highway, shooting tires for fun and excitement. They shoot wine bottles and tires with incredible precision, and the trunk of the police car has all kinds of weapons and ammunition readily available, which makes people wonder how the police in such a desolate place are equipped with so many weapons. The problem is that the various weapons in the trunk, except for the two police officers, are used for excitement, and none of them come in handy at critical moments. Moreover, the accurate marksmanship missed twice at the critical moment (the policeman who died at the end shot the female murderer twice, missed the first time and was knocked out by the male murderer, and only hit the female murderer's arm in the last sneak attack), once Accidentally hits the partner and shoots the partner to death. Isn't this a great irony, brave and sturdy when enforcing the law against citizens, and useless in the face of murderers.
Some people will also say that it's no big deal. There are too many movies about bad cops, but the scary thing is that the law enforcement situation of these two cops is not only a case of the so-called bad apple in the movie. After 9/11, George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act, based on which the two police officers in the film could conduct searches and take their wallets without even issuing a ticket. Of course, the impact of the Patriot Act is far more than this. It expands the power of the government and weakens the rights of citizens. The government can eavesdrop at will without evidence, and can search without a warrant on the grounds of terror suspicion. Perhaps criticizing this is the real intent of The Surveillance. On June 2, 2015, the United States passed the "USA Freedom Act" to weaken the controversial "Patriot Act", but the pace of expansion of government power will not stop.
I am not here to criticize human rights and freedoms in the United States. The abuse of police power and public power in the country is worse or worse. Because in the United States, there are still legal and institutional guarantees on the surface, at least on the surface, there is media supervision, and on the surface it still pays attention to fairness and justice. But in the current dynasty, as long as you are a fart, the law is not a shield. Needless to say, everyone understands it.
The topic I want to talk about is actually very big. This is nothing more than a film review, so I won't talk about it here. I just hope everyone realizes that Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and even Koreans are all weak and vulnerable. We must be wary of the expansion and abuse of government power. Of course, like North Korea, as a citizen, there may be nothing we can do, but the development of anything is a process. During this process, have we made our own voice, whether we can realize the change of things despite being silent, or wait to lie on the chopping board It suddenly dawned on me that I had lived in a fish tank all my life.

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Extended Reading
  • Kyleigh 2022-04-22 07:01:55

    A Rashomon staged in the town of Twin Peaks, the story is soon split in three unreliable narratives into "Fun Game", which tests the audience's tolerance for violations, and the little girl's "Detective Eye". On the one hand, you need to have a sufficient degree of masochistic tendencies to understand the thrill of the abuse of power by the police and the "surveillance" of the real murderer in a few extreme scenes; on the other hand, you need to have the honesty and observation of a child Only with strength and imagination can you clear the fog of lies and find out the truth of the case in advance (of course, if you have seen countless similar movies, you can ignore this sentence). There is reason to suspect that the little girl is, in a sense, a projection of Jennifer Lynch's own childhood experiences: "I was once a sad little girl myself."

  • Keyon 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    It's done very carefully, but the story is too bad, it's boring to express it

Surveillance quotes

  • [first lines]

    Elizabeth Anderson: You're never going to sleep again.

    Sam Hallaway: That's the point.

  • Bobbi Prescott: We were pretty sure we didn't get the job.

    Officer Degrasso: Wait wait wait wait wait, you mean they didn't hire you on the spot?

    Bobbi Prescott: Oh no, we weren't interviewing to be cops.