Text / Newcomer Akun
Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful women in the world today, once said this.
To forgive is to let go of that obsession that "the past could have been different."
"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different."
We can only accept the past.
We can only influence the present and the future.
However, true forgiveness in the heart is never easy.
As an American action film, Killer of the Line also shows the usual American individual heroism.
The plot of the story is not complicated.
The protagonist of the film Duncan, who is almost fifty years old, has a tough and tough appearance, and serves the killer company Damocles, nicknamed "Black Caesar".
As a high-risk occupation, the work contract between the killer employee and the company states that when the employee retires, the company should pay a one-time pension.
Fifty is the retirement age, and according to the contract, after two weeks, Duncan will receive as much as $8 million in retirement benefits.
The contract also states that if the employee dies before retirement, the employee's pension will be returned to the company, unless the employee names a next of kin.
However, who works as a killer, who still has close relatives?
So the problem is simple.
The owner of the company, Brut, tried every means to let employees die before retirement, so that the company's accounts could turn losses into profits.
Brut colluded with the target person in advance, set up traps, and then sent Duncan a mission to kill. However, the seasoned Duncan, after all, had a lot of experience in battles. He preempted, not only completed the task cleanly and neatly, but also discovered the conspiracy.
Brut became angry and sent a five-member gang to hunt down Duncan. According to their usual practice, first send a beautiful woman to chat with them, and when their hand-to-hand combat is in full swing, following the beauty's code, "its blow time. mister", the sniper in ambush shoots, and the other personnel go up together. before the attack.
They tried this trick over and over again, and within a few months got rid of several retiring staff members, including Michael at the beginning of the film. In the face of Duncan, it is not so easy. The sturdy and powerful Duncan took it upon himself to smash the chasing gang by himself.
Seeing that the plan failed, they activated plan B and took a girl from the town as a hostage.
Duncan and the girl were neighbors and had met a few times, intentionally or unintentionally, chatting, drinking coffee, and teaching her how to use a gun.
Duncan goes to his former colleague Potter to find out. Unexpectedly, Potter had already been bribed by the company, and when Duncan was not paying attention, he poured Duncan with a piece of anesthesia cloth.
( If you can't do it on the front, find a close friend to start with )
Duncan was imprisoned in Brut's manor and was tortured by the perverted Brut for days.
After all, he is the protagonist. Even in this dark torment, Duncan finds an opportunity to undo the shackles, and he will break out of the siege all the way through. With the help of a bovine friend, Duncan started to fight back after recovering from the injury. He killed dozens of armed men by himself, cut off Brute's head, and successfully rescued the girl.
( At a critical moment, how important it is to have a Niu X friend )
Seeing this, I thought that the whole story was almost over. The protagonist successfully turned the tables, and the hostages returned home safely. Everyone was happy. The expected standard action movie plot.
The ups and downs of the story take place after the rescued girl woke up, choked up, raised her pistol, and aimed it at Duncan.
Could it be that this girl was also arranged by Brut in advance? Who is she?
A few years ago, Duncan killed the target's family members by mistake due to the wrong information he provided during the mission. The little girl watched in horror as her dearest family members fell in a pool of blood one by one. A young family has since become fragmented.
After that, Duncan anonymously donated $200,000 a year to the girl in an attempt to make up for the irreparable wrong. But even so, that experience was like a long, unhealing wound, dripping with blood, played over and over in Duncan's mind for countless nights, tormenting him from being able to sleep peacefully.
The little girl faces life alone. Now that she has grown up, she has never forgotten the warmth of her relatives. When I closed my eyes, it seemed that I could touch my brother's soft hair, smell the water of my father's beard, and feel the little life in my mother's belly. Everything seemed so real.
But when he opened his eyes, there was only Duncan in front of him, the culprit who destroyed his family with his own hands.
Finally, until this day, I can end this grievance with my own hands. As long as the index finger gently pulls the trigger, the resentment that the girl has suppressed in her heart for many years is about to be released.
The surrounding air seemed to have frozen, Duncan calmly accepted the choice the girl was about to make, and was willing to use his life to make up for the irreparable fault.
However, can punishment or self-destruction bring true relief and peace of mind for both parties?
Objectively speaking, Duncan had no grievances with the girl. Engaged in the cold-blooded profession of a killer, he is just an executor who uses money to do things, not the initiator who pays for his life.
Another important reason for the tragedy was that the information at the time was wrong. The girl's family should not be sitting in the back seat, and all that should not have happened.
Duncan has also been trying to redeem in his own way. He has been silently donating for several years. Due to the deep guilt in his heart, the memory of the little girl has been frozen at that moment, and he did not dare to ask any news about the girl, for fear of disturbing her normal life order.
For the girl, there is no way to find the lost family. In her heart, she may never be able to forgive Duncan, or she may not need to forgive.
But at least at this moment, rather than punishing Duncan, it may be more important to find out the mastermind behind the scenes, and this, Duncan can help.
It doesn't mean you're weak or forgetting what happened in the past.
It's just that the two now have the same goal and are looking in the same direction, as if heralding the beginning of a new story.
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(Text/Newcomer Akun Wechat ID: xinrenakun)
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