I watched "Frozen" for the first time a year ago, and frankly, I didn't feel particularly amazing after watching it. But looking back several times over the year, it feels more and more flavorful. Today's marketing class talks about bargaining in the car market. The teacher took the example of jerry bargaining with customers in a car dealership in Ice Blood Storm (the title of his thesis, let me talk to my manager, comes from the movie jerry let me talk to my boss line). I reviewed the movie carefully today, and I find the character jerry very interesting.
When I first watched the movie, I only thought that Jerry seemed to be just a pitiful and hateful confused person, with an average career, and his father-in-law disliked him. He was a typical case of a middle-aged man in crisis. After studying the details, I realized that Jerry is literally the most liar and inhuman character in the movie.
1. Two lies in one appearance: Jerry meets the robbery duo at the bar. First, the kidnapping duo blamed him for being an hour late, but he opened innocent eyes and said that the middleman was wrong. In fact, it should be Jerry late, but successfully shirk responsibility. Then, the kidnapping duo said that there was an advance payment of 40,000 yuan, and Jerry innocently said that there was no advance payment. It was the middleman who made a mistake. I think he originally told the middleman that there was an advance (if not, the two probably wouldn't want to come), it's just another car sales trick.
2. Car dealership sales: Here is jerry's judgment: bold-face lier. He informed the client and his wife to come pick up the car, but he said that because of the tru coat, he would have to add $500 to the originally agreed price. After the client got angry, he opened his innocent eyes to defend, and then pretended to be helpless and went to "find the manager", but in fact he just walked away and talked nonsense for a while. Then I came back and told the customer that I could drop $100. Although the customer was angry, he reluctantly paid and was slaughtered by Jerry for $400. Jerry's last look, pretending to be innocent and cunning, is really wonderful.
3. Deceiving father-in-law and father-in-law's business assistant: Jerry persuaded father-in-law to invest in a plot of land and gave him $750,000. Father-in-law wants to invest, but is only willing to give Jerry some introduction fee. At first glance, I thought my father-in-law and business partner were disgusting, but later I thought they were wise. Obviously, this investment business should be just made up by Jerry to defraud money to pay off debts. If the father-in-law really gave Jerry money, it would definitely be nothing.
4. Defrauding the mortgage company: Jerry got a loan of $320,000 when he mortgaged/sold his car. The other party called him to confirm the license plate. It can be seen that he used false information to defraud the loan, and this time he lied again. After that, he also called because of the loan and still lied.
5. Found out that his wife had been kidnapped: His only nervousness was how he was supposed to make up a lie. After practicing many times, Jerry succeeded in convincing his father-in-law that the kidnapping did not call the police. His cold blood towards his wife is also evident. The wife in the movie looks just a stupid and cowardly woman, not the wife in the TV series who hates the poor and loves the rich. Jerry's cold blood towards her is even more unforgivable than in the TV series.
6. Lying to the son/letting the son lie: Lying to the son that his mother is fine and telling the son not to call the police is quite understandable. Jerry then added another sentence, if xx or xx calls (it should be his wife's sister/friend), it means that his mother is away from home. Jerry's ability to tell lies is superb.
7. Lied twice to the policewoman: The first time she lied to the policewoman that no car was stolen, the policewoman was persuaded. The second time, the female police found that the car dealer was related to the case, and had doubled her suspicions. Jerry couldn't get out of the back car, pretended to be angry and left the car and drove away.
8. Finally lied to the police rounding the room: At the juncture of being arrested, Jerry still lied to the police outside the door, hoping to escape through the window.
9. And the biggest lie, the amount of kidnapping: He and the kidnapper said that the ransom would be 80,000, and each would share 40,000; in fact, he and his father-in-law wanted 1 million, and he took the remaining 920,000. I'm very curious about how much debt he owes (320,000 to the car company, 750,000 to cheat his father-in-law by buying land, 960,000 to kidnapping). Anyone who gets this money will not end well (father-in-law, jerry, two kidnappers), just like in "No Country for Old Men".
There are three tricks for jerry to lie, pretending to be pitiful, stuttering, and shirk responsibility. He often says that a deal is a deal, but in fact he never abides by the deal, he just uses it to squeeze others. His lying habit I personally think is almost pathological, with a tendency to be sociopathic (cold-blooded, selfish, without guilt about lying). Unfortunately, he encountered a controlling father-in-law, an astute policewoman and an unfortunate fate, ruining the lives of seven people, including his wife, father-in-law, traffic police, two passers-by, and kidnappers, as well as his own future.
ps. Other characters in the movie also have obvious character traits, and thus ruin/achieve themselves: the petty kidnapper (even though he has pocketed 920,000, he is not willing to give up the car, so he was beaten to death by violent accomplices) Reconciliation and boasting (the boasting attracted the attention of the bar clerk and led the policewoman to the moose lake), the bloodlust of the tall kidnapper (if he hadn't killed the two, he might have had time to flee before the policewoman came), The father-in-law's greed for money and tyranny (even in the face of gun-wielding villains, he did not give up, so he died), and the policewoman's intelligence.
pps. Both the movie and the drama version tell us a few things: Be careful when you do bad things in a small town, the non-residents and abnormal phenomena are easy to be noticed by the neighbors; don't drive too conspicuously, the movie's tan ciera and The red bmw in the TV series are very tragic, let the police see it at a glance. If you think that the two big villains are driving a black camry or something, they may not be able to catch it.
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