Not a comment, just sort out the story.

Mauricio 2021-12-24 08:02:05

Because I appreciate Ryan Gosling, I have known this movie for a long time. I watched it and downloaded it last night. Today I am still trying to understand the murderer he plays. So I want to write something, sort it out, and count it as the end of this movie. It's been a long, long time since I didn't bother to write film reviews, even this time it was for Ryan.
Generally speaking, it is not an ugly movie, if it is like me without any preconceived opinions. I didn't particularly care about the actual event prototype, I just wanted to try to understand a "story" from the movie I saw.
David was not a healthy person at the beginning. He lost his mother at the age of 7. He lived under his father's control. Even if he knew K, he was forced to obey orders to check leaking water pipes for the tenants. The love after love at first sight is the best time for two people. D got rid of his father and the "past" briefly, but just like the health food store "All Good Thing" he opened, his final giving up and surrender is equivalent to Embark on the path of "fate" tragedy. The "past" eroded the only "goodness" little by little. He forced himself to think that this was done to make K's life better. When he started to own a big apartment, it seemed to be true; but when K got pregnant unexpectedly, he was surprised to find the person next to his pillow. When it was a patient who was unable to be a "father" at all, her tragedy began. When she lost her "child’s dream", drugs comforted her, and her survival instinct prompted her to realize her "doctor dream". However, D couldn’t accept K’s "distance" and he needed someone who could prove that he was "distorted." The "illusion" of the value of "life" is a faithful, thoughtless companion who stays at home every day like that cute and cute Husky. However, even such a loyal and lovely dog ​​was destroyed only because a few inadvertent eyes stimulated D's fragile nerves. The only thing D has said to Doggo is: What do you look at! ? When his sick life cannot maintain balance, all he has to do is destroy the life around him. Even the closest one looks. This is his destiny. He believes that his father placed himself on the scene of the tragedy, which is tantamount to killing him. He originally loved his mother, but his mother was destroyed by his father, and he had to live under the patriarchy. Her girlfriend, who was killed last, said: After his mother died, he stayed alone for two weeks, and he came out as if he had never had a mother.
This is the way he exists. Anything that can't be endured will definitely let "it" disappear in an instant. So, finally, the dog was "disappeared", and K was also "disappeared". After that, he went to his father, his "creator", and told him "now I am the same as you". Father chased him out in the night and called him. He walked away and his father opened the trunk of the car... The camera didn't explain what he saw. All we can be sure of is that K is dead.
Later, in D's life movie, the language was vague, and he could only see him living in an apartment disguised as a woman in order to make himself "disappear". Because of the "threat" of the girlfriend's phone call, he chose to become "friends" with the old neighbors, deliberately set up a "house" trap to use him as a "killer", and finally saved himself. In the movie, he explained what his girlfriend had done for him-pretending to appear as K, resulting in K being just "missing" and being murdered with insufficient evidence. In the end, the old neighbor found out that he had been cheated, and D only dealt with him calmly, and was eventually found not guilty for "justifiable defense".
The film even confessed or said that after the case was reopened for investigation, the real purpose of the female prosecutor behind the scenes was to realize the money transaction with the D family (for the sake of the company's reputation). The world is like this, no one really cares about the so-called "justice" and "truth."
Some people say that the movie ended up with "bad guys at large." In fact, I think this movie has nothing to do with good people or bad people. It seems to be a grim real case, trying to show the cold, desperate, and fatal side of the world or human nature.
D is not the kind of desperado who kills innocent people. His motives for killing are so complicated that it cannot be said. At the end of the film, "D's father was dying, D rushed to meet him for the last time", which seemed to imply that it was D. Ended his father's life. For him, this is also the end of "killing".
There is another emotion. In the sweetest stage of the movie, there is never a dialogue like "I love you" in the lines between the male and female protagonists. Later, K once said, "I have never loved anyone but you." , And in D’s lines, there has never been a word related to "love". From his response to asking for BB, it can be seen that he is completely incompatible with the values ​​of love and family. He just admitted "something wrong with me". In fact, he has long been an alien who has been abandoned by "love" and cannot be loved. The heroine K actually has a chance to leave, but in the end she struggles with the unobtainable reasonable property rights and stays in D's life, losing the chance to survive. Maybe it was a fan of the authorities, she thought there was still a possibility to solve the problem.
It is said that D said "I miss K" in front of his father's dying bed (I didn't remember him in the film review). This also shows that he understands it himself. He understands that K is the only person who has loved him. Except for mother. He should hate his father. The compromise he started was hoping to get his father’s "love" and recognition, but the only place he shed tears in the film was in his brother's office, in front of his father. At the same time, his younger brother became the heir of the company.
After sorting out these things, I still don’t understand some places. I inserted some night shots when describing life on the lake. The picture of falling into the water...
Why is it interspersed at that time? The fact after the hint?
Also, when he opened K's university admission form, why did he jump into the lake to pull the boat? Say "the boat floats away, I don't want it to be stolen"? Is it also hinting at the murder related to the ship, or hinting at the violent actions he will ultimately take to prevent K from being "stolen"?
Basically, this is all my thoughts after watching the movie.
Maybe, take the time to watch it again.
Finally, with regard to Ryan's acting skills, I think this character creation is a success. A complicated character that was originally incomprehensible, under his interpretation, seems to have created the possibility for the audience to understand and figure out. How many actors can handle such a super difficult role? I think he did it. The best thing is that there are great differences in the appearance and mentality of characters of different age groups, and the voices in the old age are hoarse and rough but not artificial. Such an all-round handsome guy with superb acting is not convinced.

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  • Johnathan 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    It hurts too much. Dunst is so lucky to always work with handsome guys. This time, it's Ryan Gosling, who I especially like. This story tells us not to expose the secrets of the rich family. Soul eggs T^T

  • Stone 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    Without the two young talents (and a nude shot of one of them), this overly psychoanalytic film would be nothing but Lifetime. The film was very promising at the beginning, but it got worse as it went on. The story could not be told without some tricks, let alone horror, and it was far less fun than the real life hyped by the Times.

All Good Things quotes

  • Katie Marks: I've never been closer to anyone, and I don't know you at all.

  • David Marks: It's not awful; it's just different. People talk to each other. And there's a ham, with pineapple on it, and little cherries on it...