Live where you want, and die where you want!

Rubye 2022-03-20 08:01:23

Cate Blanchett's short hair style is very close to the real person image. Kate played Veronica's righteous blood and bravery in both form and spirit, making people feel that Kate herself has this kind of character.

In fact, everyone has a sense of justice in their bones, and has the blood to uphold justice, but not everyone dares to take their lives to stand for it and fight it. The explanations before the film are all about Veronica's love of life and family, and her sense of responsibility to the society. Think about the social state of Ireland at that time? How can the MPs, the court, the police, treat drug dealers? Even the judges were bought! Fellow reporters laughed at her being shot. Threatened, intimidated and bribed, her body told her that she was afraid, she vomited, but her spirit did not give in, she did not give in! She is one step closer to the truth!

She didn't feel that this matter should be someone else's responsibility, she didn't feel that others should do anything, she didn't complain about what others didn't do, but she just kept fulfilling her responsibility as a reporter step by step and never gave up. Possibly, it is destined that the society needs to be rescued by heroes when it reaches a certain stage. Maybe Veronica is destined to save this society.

Some people live in obscurity for a long time, and some people do bad things and get infamy and hope not to die?! However, on June 26, 1996, she died, shot several times by drug dealers in her car. An exclamation mark for her short life! She made the whole Ireland remember her, and the whole world remembers her!

I've been thinking in my heart, don't die, don't die, and hope for a miracle. Isn't that how movies are made? The protagonists have their own halo, are they immortal? ! Listening to her screaming, watching her fall, until the camera pulls high, looking down, she is lying in a pool of blood! I didn't cry. The little boy's voice came out, and my tears flowed instantly! She is really dead and will never come back! The law has been rewritten, the criminals have been brought to justice, the illegal property has been confiscated, the wife of the drug dealer who used to clamor with her has nothing, justice has been done, and my tears are even more uncontrollable! She has achieved everything she wants, but she is not there anymore. She has exchanged her life for all of this. It would be great if she were here! She has changed this society with her weak single-handedness, but it is also the biggest irony to this society!

May she rest in peace! May everyone live where they are, and die where they are!

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  • Thaddeus 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    This is the last Joe Schumacher movie I want to see. A very charming performance when the Great Demon King was in his thirties. Unexpectedly, the drug dealers in Ireland were so arrogant more than 20 years ago. Not only did they sell drugs openly, but the government seemed to have no good way to deal with them. The female reporter played by the big devil is tracking down these drug dealers almost by herself. In the end, she was betrayed by her informant and assassinated in her car. After her death, there was outrage across Ireland, and the government issued some new laws to finally bring the drug dealers to justice. It can be said that her death promoted the cause of anti-drugs in Ireland. The audience may not know what this reporter is like, but the reporter she plays is enthusiastic, persistent, brave, and smart. She is afraid when intimidated, but she is very strong. Even if you have never heard of this reporter, you will think that the big devil is the reporter, and her performance is very vivid and three-dimensional.

  • Ruthe 2022-03-21 09:03:30

    So touching~ It is the most moving one of Joe Schumacher's works, and of course Blanchett's wonderful performance is indispensable

Veronica Guerin quotes

  • Veronica Guerin: It'll be worse for me, and it'll be worse for journalism or any journalist if I was to be intimidated. Then that means they've won, and they're not going to win.

  • Veronica Guerin: You think I want to do this, do ya? I don't want to do it, I have to do it!