"New Hollywood" should be relative to the previous Hollywood movies. The previous Hollywood has formed a relatively fixed model. From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, Hollywood movies suffered from the rapid development of production companies to abandon TV distribution, etc. , Hollywood movies, which were once in decline but depressed, began to revive gradually in the mid-to-late 1960s. They appeared in the world with a rebellious attitude and resisted traditional types of movies, which finally led to "Bonnie and Clyde". "The birth of the film is actually to break the model of traditional types of films, and then choose various traditional types at will, and then reorganize and synthesize them with new formulas. This film is full of social violence, and the image is also against the current social rules and Rebels of the concept, with the theme of opposing violence, the previous Hollywood films were restrained, and there were no scenes of bloody violence. In the late 1960s, with the opening of society, scenes of bloody violence appeared on the screen, "Bonnie and Klay". Germany's stark filming of people being shot and killed created a new form of violence in Hollywood cinema.
Through the description of two thieves who are not like thieves, the film allows us to see a side of the society during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The problems reflected in the film exist more or less in different times and different countries. , the film redefines the robber, redefines love and youth, the purpose of Bonnie and Clyde's robbery is not mainly for money, they seem to rob for the sake of robbery, the meaning of their existence lies in the behavior itself, in fact, they both It is an ordinary American who is only dedicated to the pursuit of personal happiness, but is spiritually empty and has nothing to rely on. The robber Clyde is neither fierce nor bold, and his legs are a little lame, but he and Bonnie have strong self-awareness and need the society to recognize their value, but they can't, so violence becomes a display. a means of personal existence, perhaps, in their view, robbery is only a means of survival,
At the beginning, Bonnie accidentally found Clyde stealing her mother's car at the window. She expressed disdain for the stealing, but when she saw Clyde robbing her at gunpoint, she was very excited and admired it instead. From the robber in front of him, he joined Clyde's robber exile.
Bonnie fell in love with Clyde, I don't think he loved him because he was a robber, in her eyes Clyde respected his older brother, a gentle man who only killed because he was resisted, when Clyde When De announced that he was going to rob a bank, he was just taking the randomness of a wayward child, but once he made a promise, he did it wholeheartedly, portraying himself as a "big thief" and taking pride in it, so he unknowingly fell. Into the snares of their own weaving, there is no turning back, until death.
I still remember two episodes that were particularly funny, completely different from the robberies I used to watch, let's take a little dark humor, one was Bonnie and Clyde living in someone else's house and woke up to find someone outside, they thought The owner came back. In fact, the "host" had to move out because he couldn't pay the bank loan. Knowing that, Clyde shot at the house and handed the pistol to the owner of the house. Several people smiled at each other. I think this reflects the Great Depression at that time, when people had a lot of helplessness. Another was robbing a bank. When Clyde entered the bank with a gun aggressively, he found only one person writing nonchalantly at the window. It turned out that the bank had already gone bankrupt. Clyde was serious to the clerk. Saying "Go out and explain to my wife!" I can't help but laugh when I see this, in a society where people exist just to stay alive.
Maybe what the director wants us to pay attention to is the society shown behind these two people, praising the robber as a hero and making us sympathize with the death of the robber, this is a kind of rebellion, when the social reality cannot make people realize the survival At times, perhaps only rebellion is real, and those who dare to stand up to resist, even if they are robbers, are worthy of sympathy and praise.
Suddenly remembered that there was another woman yelling - Brother Clyde's wife, like a madman, made me feel funny and depressed, she was a priest's daughter, but joined a gang of robbers, she just wanted to let She and her husband were alive and well, but her husband was beaten to death, and her eyes were blown out. Finally, she was used by the police. Later, I understood that she kept shouting like a madman. It turned out that life made her mad. , the society made a person like her who didn't want to be a robber to live a robbery life, made a person who didn't want to resist had to resist, and made a weak person continue to experience parting from life and death, so she was in pain, so painful that even if she said a word If you do, you have to shout. I, too, began to sympathize with such a weakling.
I think the whole film is full of humor, but there is always a kind of repression entangled in the plot, reflecting a kind of game-style violence, but because of the game, the final death of the protagonist is particularly shocking. I was joking, and suddenly the plane shot down the bullets like raindrops, just like the calm sea suddenly turbulent, when the corpses covered with bullet holes trembled when they were shot by random guns, I was deeply shocked, and then I was lost. , When they died under the guns, I completely sympathized with them, and even felt a little sad for their deaths, such ordinary two people, such two people who loved each other, why is this ending?
Finally, I would like to talk about the aesthetics of violence in the film. The violence in the film is both absurd and profound, both purposeless and targeted. The scene where the two protagonists are shot by bullets at the end has become a classic of violent aesthetics, which brings me indulgence And cruel, Bonnie and Clyde are so desperate and wild, ballet-like beauty, it turns out, death can be so beautiful.
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