1. As the heroine of the story
First of all, as a gangster movie, it is necessary to have a major female character among the many male characters. The meaning of this female character is a little red. The most basic role is her soft image to balance the strong image displayed by the male characters.
2. The lover of the boss, the cause of all events
From the plot point of view, the heroine is the fuse that triggers the main plot of the movie. The fact that the mob boss asks the male protagonist to help him investigate whether the female protagonist has cheated is the central event that triggers the entire film.
There is an idiom in China called "Beautiful face is a disaster". The existence of the heroine in this movie is to play the role of this "disaster." She is willing to be the woman of the gang boss, she cheated, she is not a "positive" character in the strict sense, but the male protagonist still betrayed his boss for her without hesitation, and finally gave his life.
3. A sugar cube in the protagonist's bitter life, the heroine in the protagonist's sweet dreams
The title of this movie is Sweet Life, but in the movie, the protagonist's life is indeed bleak and cruel. The appearance of the heroine seems to be a little consolation for his bleak life.
There is a scene where the hero adds sugar to the coffee. I think the main role played by the heroine in the movie is the sugar in the coffee.
The acquaintance with the heroine is a little sweetness that the hero encounters in his bitter life. In the film, the scenes where the male characters appear are dominated by dark colors, while the scenes where the heroine appears are bright, soft and colorful.
4. A sweet life is sweet because of her appearance, but not because of her.
The most controversial part of the heroine is that many viewers felt that the hero didn't need to put himself in danger for a woman who was full of flaws.
A scene appeared in the movie to answer this controversy: it is not the wind moving, not the flag moving, but the benevolent heart.
I don't think the hero is in love with the heroine, it's just that the moment he's with the heroine he is respected like never before. In the film, the male protagonist and the gang boss appear respectively, and the two scenes where the male protagonist and the female protagonist eat together show the relationship between the male protagonist and these two characters.
In the dinner with the gang boss, the male protagonist serves as the gang boss's subordinate. It shows that the hero is only a tool, a machine when facing the gang boss.
In the scene of eating with the heroine, the hero and heroine have a pleasant meal. It is shown that the communication between the hero and the heroine is an equal communication between one person and the other.
The male protagonist's higher-level Maslow needs have been met, so he is unwilling to apologize to the gang boss unprincipled in subsequent plots.
He no longer wishes to be a machine, but an emotional human.
I am not the wind, not the flag, the benevolent heart. The understanding of this passage is.
It's not because the heroine seduces the hero that determines the hero's actions in the second half of the movie.
It is because of the hero's inner decision that he no longer regards himself as a machine and values himself, which leads to the hero's actions in the second half of the movie.
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