I watched it in 15 years, and I didn't have any impression at all. After 4 years, I watched it again now, because I really don't remember the content. It stands to reason that I basically have an impression of Jason Statham's action movies, every time there is a hormone outbreak, so I have an impression. But this film has no impression, which is strange.
So watch it again. Only then did I know that I probably didn't care about it the first time I watched it. This is a movie about salvation. Translated into hummingbird special attack, hummingbirds are too far away from the content. It was only because of the hummingbirds that appeared when Joey's mad revenge after Joey's teammate was shot, which led to Joey's hallucinations that they were all hummingbirds. The hummingbird is a symbol, symbolizing the departure of Joey's teammates one by one. Of course, a clearer statement should be that the death of a teammate and the appearance of a hummingbird have already made Joey think that it is the same thing. The whole film is actually about Joey returning to England as a deserter after revenge for his teammates. He wanted to sink forever. Unexpectedly, the garbage dump in the alley was charged for protection. He beat someone, separated from Elizabeth who was warming each other, and fled to a house in an upscale district by himself. In that big house, he found that the owner would not be back before October 1, so his friend who impersonated the owner lived there. At the same time, I want to find Elizabeth through the nun Christina at the rescue station. Then, Joey gradually regained his senses, began to look for work, and finally sold drugs to the gang. In the process of searching for Elizabeth, he had an affection with the nun. Finally learned that Elizabeth was killed by a client, knowing that there was no result with the nun, he decided to avenge Elizabeth. At the end, after seeing the nun for the last time, Joey debauched himself and let the police arrest him.
This film is one of Jason Statham's few literary films with fighting, and it has rich connotations. Here are two interesting things. Did Joey cheer up because of the nun or did he cheer up himself? The film shows that Joey went to see the nun after getting drunk and gave her 500 yuan, and then went to her for anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers. After that, Joey started looking for a job and began to exercise. Many people say that it was the nun who influenced Joey and cheered him up again. But I don't think so. At the beginning of the film, the nuns actually didn't help Joey much. In fact, there was not much in-depth interaction. This makes Joey cheer up, I don't think so. Joey happened to be able to live normally in a relatively wealthy house where the owner was not at home for a few days before he regained his hope for life. As the ending film and Christina told her the last time after the ballet party, you know that I often kill people when I am normal, and only drinking alcohol can reduce the guilt. Therefore, Joey didn't cheer up because of the nun, but after changing the environment, he suddenly wanted to return to a normal life before. Suppressing a deep sense of guilt and offering salvation to those who are still alive, this is the reason why Joey suddenly cheered up. But then he continued to drink, because he knew that the nun was going to leave eventually, and he wanted Elizabeth’s revenge, so he arranged everything, leaving a large sum of money for his wife and daughter, and finally went crazy with the nun and took revenge for Elizabeth. When the dust settled, he knew that he could leave without regrets. Life can be over. It doesn't matter to him whether he wants to go to jail or wait for death in the street. Therefore, Christina is not the reason to cheer up Joey, the last bit of love for life is the reason for him to cheer up. It can be said that Christina is not the cause, but the beauty that Joey had in his redemption career.
From this point of view, Joey walks around drinking at the end, which is the best interpretation. He wanted to be a good person and want to live again, but Elizabeth's death brought him disappointment in life. He was in the gang, in fact, he wanted to save some savings for his wife and daughter; he gave Christina skirts and food, in fact, he thanked the nuns and redeemed himself. When everything went back to the past with the departure of the nun, he was no longer in love. Just as it was written to Christina's last letter, she disappeared silently when she returned to her place. Before leaving, Joey not only returned the money he occupied the homeowner to the homeowner, but also bought pizza for the rescue station and gave the smuggled information to the police. Doesn't all of this seem to be an explanation?
Then we talk about the second point, Sister Christina. This film is actually about the salvation of two people. Redemption, there is also the longing for a better life. Christina is obviously a bitter child. She was harassed at the age of ten. How much psychological pressure she suffered? From the number of times she counted the harassment by the sports coach again and again, 17 times, at the 18th time, Qu Qiang She killed the sports coach. For this reason, she also lost the right to live as a normal person and was sent to the monastery. She wanted to like ballet since she was a child and wanted to be a ballet dancer like Maria Zelinska. She was still dancing on stage at the age of 42. She yearned for beauty in her heart, and ballet became her eternal dream. But she knew that she could no longer return to those beautiful lives. She has been harassed and killed since she was a child, and only God can take her in. But she has always had a longing for normal people to chase their dreams in her heart. This is obvious. Since she told Joey that she was harassed at the age of 10, she just wanted to tell Joey that I was also a tragic person, a guilty person, and I was the same as you. So, in fact, we all have the desire to live a normal life, and we are like people.
Like Joey, she longed for love and longed to live a normal life. But she was more restrained than Joey, probably because of the years of nun life. The several indulgences she showed in the film, all have deep self-blame. I used Joey's $500 to watch ballet, but I didn't sleep well in a day, and I tried to collect the money to pay him the next time I met. Later, because she didn't know if she should wear a skirt to participate in the photo exhibition invited by Joey, she was so nervous that she didn't eat all day. She was drunk and kissed Joey and danced in front of the mirror. She had a restraint in it. Indulgence is because she desires these in her heart. To be precise, this is the indulgence of the nun, but it is a struggle that a normal person wants but cannot get. Only the day before applying for aid to Africa, Christina completely indulged herself once. In fact, this indulgence carries a lot of meaning. Christina was harassed when she was young, and she had an inner fear, resistance and depression for sex and love. Christina is going to make a break of the good life she should have had, because she knows that she shouldn't get it, and she can't get it. In the life of the monastery, she already knew that in the future, she could only die in the courtyard full of commandments.
After experiencing a vigorous love with Christina, Joey asked Christina if he had enough money and would like to travel the world with him. Christina didn't agree. This is also Joey's last struggle.
Because she was going back to the monastery, and Joey should also go back to her place.
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