Then,
after a little hesitation, he jumped into the water, saved people, got injured, and accepted an appreciation award...
A short opening set the complexity of the character and, at the same time, the tone of the film.
In the same way,
most of us can understand why this police detective ended up getting addicted to drugs, but we still feel deeply disgusted when we look at some of his naked evil behaviors when he is addicted to drugs.
But when he was running around in order to kill the massacre, and when the slightest passion as a policeman was looming, our blood would still boil.
Faced with the complex character of Terence, the audience inevitably reveals its own complexity.
There is an extremely important core prop in the film, a fish kept in a cup. Some people say that it represents the situation of the protagonist, which seems transparent but has nowhere to escape - it can be said that he is a kind person, and most of the actions arranged for him in the plot are motivated by good intentions, but the torment of pain, drug addiction The seizures, huge gambling debts, alcoholic parents, and the indirect and direct troubles caused by his prostitute girlfriend all push his life into chaos step by step.
Perhaps bounded by the traditional moral sense of thinking and the idea of drama, I always feel that this will be a tragedy, or rather, such a gray and ambiguous character (and getting deeper and deeper...), there is no other than tragedy. It is more suitable for his ending, and there are many foreshadowings in the plot that can make a big fuss about it. However, director Werner Herzog did not bring us such a climax that we were looking forward to. Everything suddenly became clear and life went on. ——Like the Japanese novel "A Man's Good Weather"...
is this realism that breaks through the drama mode? Yes, and more than that.
When Terence unplugged the arrogant old woman's oxygen tube and pointed a gun at the black female caregiver who was covering her grandson to ask the whereabouts of the only eyewitness to the massacre, she suffered from lack of sleep, pain and drug addiction. Terence looked like a terrible lunatic. And this film is to mislead the audience in this way, making us ignore all the time that he is actually enduring pain while doing his duty as a policeman.
The audience disliked his methods further because of these flaws, and could foresee that he would gradually get himself into trouble because of it, and take a road of no return - like the old woman and the black female nurse. Horror contempt looking at him.
And when Terence finally left a sentence of "selfishness" to these two women, how could we not be as arrogant and selfish as these two women? Being bound by a value and standing on the fortress of morality predicts the end of the character?
This is the divide between China and the United States, East and West, sainthood and individualism, even in the different classes of the United States (the protagonist is the middle class, the old woman is the upper class, and the black female caregiver is the lower class.) This kind of concept can also be generated. Collision of perspectives. In the past, Hollywood also produced many extralegal heroes and dark heroes, but this film has brought this to the extreme, so extreme that you will not come out. That "probably full of hope" ending not only still has unexpected effects in the history of film, but also implements realism, and finally, it is also a loud and ironic slap in the face of the director to us audiences.
In the film, the director arranged snakes, crocodiles, chameleons and other reptiles in the background to run through the whole play. Those film critics who did not see the final may be wise to use the meaning of these animals to speculate on the director's intentions and the final formula of the plot, such as Snakes represent depravity, crocodiles represent greed, chameleons represent betrayal, and so on, but these meanings are not given by people? And as far as nature, as far as reality goes, they are just animals, or more precisely, carnivores—just like us.
So we can take this character with a grain of salt, just as the director holds the same attitude towards human nature itself.
As an aside, the starring Nicolas Cage's performance is great.
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