The evil on my left hand and the evil on my right hand: "Mr. Brooks"

Delmer 2021-11-26 08:01:44

Today, I heard an American little girl praying that God blessed America and her family with choppy words, and was also grateful for her toys, friends, and everything in front of her. So I remembered the prayer of Mr. Brooks at the beginning and the end of the movie. This prayer was written by Niebuhr in 1934-"My God, please give me peace and accept what I cannot change; give me courage to go Change what I can, and give me the wisdom to distinguish the difference between the two." During World War II, this prayer was printed in the United States over 40 million copies.
This is a beautiful prayer that connects the will of man with the will of God. But the problem arises. The problem is not in prayer, but in the soul. When Brooks had a conversation with another self in the back seat of the car,'Michel', his struggle turned this beauty into weak fragments-he told Michelle that this killing was the last time-and that was all The self-comfort of humanism before sins and transgressions, and the strength of the next example, cannot prevent the weakness and compromise at this moment. When Paul wrote in "Romans" that "I am determined to do good, but I can't do it", the incompetence of human self is at the extreme, so he said, "I am really suffering. Who can save me from this and die? body of". As a result, Mr. Brooks once again became a thumb killer, because if the body does not die, desire will sprout, and Michelle's 5.1 channel will surround him for life.
After killing a couple, Brooks' behavior was recorded by a photographer. The photographer seems to be holding Brooks's handle-I like that the screenwriter has made a delightful special effect here. The use of this handle is not for money extortion, but for Brooks' next murder. Get on him. But people have to admit that money or spying is equivalent in this proposition, because all these are also attributed to God's law and are regarded as "sin". At the end of the film, the photographer did shoot Brooks, although there were no bullets. For this reason, his path is reduced from the wait and see of the third party to the action of the first one. Therefore, whether it is Michel, the concrete symbol extracted from Brooks's life, or the young photographer who is not described in terms of "dual personality" in the movie, they are essentially the same. At the same time, the film describes a woman who was abandoned by her boyfriend. This is for a multimillion-rich girl to become a policeman in order to prevent her father from looking down. When she asked for 5 million compensation, she said angrily: "I wish you were hit and killed by a car as soon as you left." This sentence is as if the photographer fired a bulletless gun at Brooks, because "Anyone who hates people is murder. NS". So, in her body, a female Brooks appeared quietly in a place she hadn't noticed, perhaps she had already been lurking. This reminds me of the poet’s prayer to God: “Who can know my mistakes? May you forgive me for my hidden faults.” In the end, her boyfriend did indeed die by Brooks’ gun. In a sense, these people (and also us) have a universal evil snare intertwined horizontally.
However, the movie did not stop at these things. Brooks' daughter killed someone at school. In order to save his daughter, the father disguised himself and went to the school to commit another murder, so that the daughter could have evidence of his absence. At the end, Brooks dreamed of her daughter killing him with scissors in the night, and she also took off her father's glasses and put them on her face, as if she had engraved Cain's mark once. I think the act of killing may not be inherited. However, when "sin" entered the world by one person (Adam), it was imprinted in the human life. Generation after generation it triumphed over the human body, from birth through pain to death. From our ancestors through us until the end. We fell from the horizontal snare and bound into the vertical abyss.
When the awakened Brooks was lying on the bed, Michelle said again: "Why do you want to control your own desires?" So the struggling soul began to pray again: "My God, please give me peace and accept what I cannot Change; give me the courage to change what I can change, and give me the wisdom to distinguish the difference between the two. According to your truth, not according to my wishes, believe in God, as long as you obey your will, everything I will surely return to straightforwardness, so that I can live my life happily, be with God, and enjoy the blessings of eternal life, Amen!" The apostle Paul once questioned triumphantly: "Death, where is your power to prevail? Death, your poison." Where is the hook?" And when Paul, who once admitted that he was the chief culprit among sinners, uttered this word, his weapon was "We can be freed by our Lord Jesus."

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  • Lavonne 2022-03-24 09:01:41

    There are two sides to people, and that's the message the movie is trying to convey to the audience, and Mr. Brooks may be more extreme, given his frequent role reversals between angels and demons. While the story is great, the film falls short, with a mix of elements, but with a great sense of separation. Kevin Costner's performance is still commendable, and the soundtrack is also very particular

  • Mariane 2021-11-26 08:01:44

    Who has no dark side? It's nice to see the bad guys get away with it again. Demi Moore is really superfluous material in it.

Mr. Brooks quotes

  • Mr. Earl Brooks: [about Mr. Smith] Maybe I should drive over there and pick him up.

    Marshall: No, just honk. Maybe he'll get killed crossing the street. Save us the mess of doing it.

    [Both start laughing. Then, Mr. Brooks honks the horn and Mr. Smith nearly gets hit by a car while crossing]

    Mr. Earl Brooks: Almost.

  • Mr. Earl Brooks: Before I was the Thumbprint Killer, Mr. Smith, I killed a lot of people in a lot of different ways.