You don’t pay your sins in the church, on the street, at home

Luciano 2021-12-08 08:01:44

8.4

This is a new wave, and it is different from Godard's rationality. Unorganized life and sudden death, existentialist works, this is the loudest movie and the quietest. "This madman is a great wise man" refers to Johnny, those people who live by hope are out of tune with his universe. Salvation has never been completed. In this era and this city, the chaotic behavior he repeated is his ideal survival method and the solution to existing problems. In addition to these daily routines, his destiny was guided by a potential divine power, like a weird experience brought by some peeping angles. But the characters and the dialogue are very vivid, it is between the fable and the truth.

If money means meaning, then things will be much simpler, but why would he burn the money? We don’t even know where he spends the money. "There is no destiny that can be defeated by defying difficulties." The ridiculous consolidation is because Johnny Tsai borrowed money again and again, but he was not a sad beast, this is Charlie's view of him, and everything he showed was bright and happy. The problem that others thought of was his own solution. If he is not a cowardly person, he is an idealist. Either tolerate these moral criticisms from Charlie, or can't bear it, the next position is Charlie's uncle, and the hope he has is the opportunity to exhaust all his life.

Charlie used Johnny's failed redemption to oppose God, and then he proved the existence of God. But this surreal power does not conform to these existing dogmas. The Franciscans believe in eternity and give him punishment or redemption, or punishment is redemption. Don Juan sang "I will never stand with the person who led me to heaven", and he will leave the car after being shot, just like the ending of "Exhausted". Sin and death are inevitable, "the important thing is not to be cured".

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Extended Reading
  • Benedict 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    How long are you going to stay in my CD-ROM? ? ?

  • Francisco 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Scorsese must see! I like this precise sense of realism. I originally hoped that it would be surreal to be a little out of sequence, but I don’t have to think about it in the same way.

Mean Streets quotes

  • Johnny Boy: I was so crazy, I wanted to kill this kid. Meanwhile, I gotta get back in the game, bing bing bing, I lose four hundred dollars!

  • Johnny Boy: Meanwhile, I lost the deal, I go outside, I'm a little depressed, now. Anyway, I wanna cut this story short, 'cause I know you don't wanna hear all this and, I know I know I know, but, I'm gonna - to make a long story short, anyway, I went to Hal Kaplan, gotta new tie and I got this shirt. Do you like this shirt? It's nice. This tie...

    Charlie: Hey! Michael doesn't care if your depressed. What is he - your priest? What do go out shopping when you owe somebody money, Johnny. That ain't right.