finally saw this film on Yangliu. It is said that the producer, screenwriter and director of Brokeback watched Tommy who played heath here and decided to let him try the role of ennis.
I don't know why it was cut in a mess. The father played by Billy Bob Thornton only felt that it was emotionally and logically confusing and incomprehensible, while Halle Berry's widow on death row was just quite satisfactory. In retrospect, he actually won Oscar Xiaojin for this role. People are just too unconvincing. The original tension-filled plot appears weak and powerless in front of the plain camera, which is incredible.
Perhaps it is the reason for preference, but I always feel that the film is worth investigating but the relationship between the father and son in this family.
Unhealthy old Buck lived stubbornly and unconsciously with an almost cold hatred for the people and things around him, including his cold-blooded betrayal of his wife, suicide of his daughter-in-law, and disobedience in this man-only family. The Discipline Befriends Black Children, "Weak Characters" Grandson. The only person he can consider himself is the middle-aged man who never disobeys his son Hank who never speaks with his own voice and thinks with his own head, if his energy was still strong then he would rule the family and he is now Disease-ridden, everything is in the hands of his son, so he can control him with only one word: we are a real family. The son who hears this will pick up the rifle or the same indifference will drive out everything that invades his life and frightens him: whether it's a black child, or his own wife.
Tommy was just a too weak-hearted child in his father's eyes, until he committed suicide, and to a woman who had also lost his son and was loved by him, he just said he was a good boy - a good boy, but not necessarily Love. There's no reason Hank hates his son so much from the movie. When the two people had the most deadly quarrel, Hank scolded his son, like his mother, who was weak-hearted and just a bitch. Maybe there was something hidden in the middle, but the movie didn't explain anything. So tommy fought back in a fit of rage, knocked his father to the floor, asked him if he hated him, Hank looked at his son sitting on the sofa and said yes, so tommy replied "but I always loved you" and swallowed the gun suicide.
At Tommy's funeral, the priest asked Hank which prayer should he choose for the deceased. Hank replied: I just want to hear the sound of the coffin hitting the dirt.
After meeting Lenia, the father seemed to come out of the shadows of his former life, not only the old man who was sent to the nursing home, but also his wife and son who committed suicide. It was so fast that people suspected that he still had the deepest ruthless blood of the irritable old man in his bones. However, the same him, trying to save Lenia's son, suddenly betrayed his father and his past life because of his love for Lenia.
This is really unexplainable behavior and feelings, maybe what he wants to put on Lenia is love that has not been used for decades, and compensation for past behavior - he gave his son's car to Lenia, Changing the name of the gas station to Lenia might be a new life that can't be explained.
The reason Tommy and his father had a dispute was because something went wrong when he executed a prisoner. Tommy, who took over the family's inheritance for the first time, became an executioner because he couldn't face the abrupt deprivation of his life and couldn't do what his father asked for. Wrong, it was a black painter who was sentenced to death, Lenya's husband was getting agitated during the last hours spent in a solitary cell after eating a guillotine, tommy tried to calm him down despite his father's warnings , the painter finally painted a portrait for Tommy, and also for Hank, and then led by the prison guards through the long passage.
Tommy couldn't control his emotions in the end, and in the passage leading the death row to the execution room, he couldn't help but stop vomiting. The first execution ended like that. Under the watchful eyes of the supervisory team, after the execution of the death sentence was completed, the angry father found Tommy in the toilet and fought hard. Colleagues tried their best to prevent them from having a bigger conflict. The next morning after returning home, Hank rushed into Tommy's room to teach him a lesson, so Tommy committed suicide.
Unlike Buck's indifference to his son's suicide, Hank, who was hit, quit his job as executioner and bought a gas station. Hank, who was driving on the road, found Lenya sitting on a rainy road with his son in his arms. ——She couldn’t hold or move her son alone. Although she didn’t tell the child that his father had been sentenced to death, the sensitive son still felt the changes in his life, and he couldn’t adapt to the pressure, so he desperately ate chocolate to reduce stress. He was too fat for his mother. He came out of the coffee shop where Lenia was working one day. His son was hit by a car. The news of the death of the child's medical ineffectiveness.
Later, Hank met Lenia on the road, so he took the initiative to send her home. Hearing her talk about her sensible son, the two gradually became familiar with each other, and gave Lenia a refurbished car left by her son. , and sent the father who insulted Lenia to a nursing home. Finally, in Tommy's room, Lenia stumbled upon the portrait that her husband had given to Tommy before the execution, and only then did she know that the person in front of her was the executioner who executed her husband.
The ending of the two people is not explained, it seems to be an indifferent black irony. Death row prisoners do not have the right to live, but the living are driven to death by indifference and ruthlessness. Lenya and Hank, who have come out of this endless disaster, have come together like this. The price was the death of two young men, one mercilessly killed and one mercilessly abandoned.
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