and temperature

Yvette 2022-04-21 09:01:13



"It's the feeling of touch. Traveling through the city, you know? You pass people, you meet, and in LA, no one touches you, we're always hiding behind icy buildings, I think we I miss the feeling of touch very much, we collided with each other just to feel each other's existence."
In the story, I can clearly see everyone's psychological struggles and contradictions. At the beginning of the film, I was very uncomfortable, full of quarrels. , cursing, contempt, hatred, I was a little relieved until the lock repairer told his daughter the story of the invisibility cloak, life still needs such a false and beautiful fairy tale. We pretended to be wearing an invisibility cloak, so that everything from the outside world could not hurt us, thinking that we could practice a golden bell iron cloth shirt. In fact, everyone knows how fragile and powerless this cloak is in the face of reality, but we still turn a blind eye and continue. Doing their own misty dreams, no one wakes up. Because they don't know how to go on once they wake up from the dream, open their eyes, and face this devastated world.
The film talks about too much, racial discrimination, the hardships of the bottom class, the so-called justice of the upper class, and a world that lacks a sense of security. I also saw what I really wanted to see—humanity. Human nature is a very complex thing, everyone knows it, and this is the part that I want to explore, of course, I know I can't figure it out, but I want to do my best to make it as true as possible, as close as possible. Essentially, this is the source of my writing.

【Edge and Core】
The people on the edge are small and neglected. They are not accepted by the mainstream core, so they can only live in their own small world, want to go out but can't get out, so darkness grows. Black gangsters spit, complain, sarcastic, despise each other, and every now and then rush out to poke their core people in the arm and escape back into their world.
The core of society is them, government agencies, financial enterprises, military departments, they have the right to control the entire society, they build a solid superstructure to help the people below shelter from the wind and rain, they are very important. They can dictate regulations, what you should do and what you shouldn't do, and that keeps the society going, and they have a weapon of threat, when someone violates the law or they think someone is going to do it, or they think someone is about to do it. , they have just reasons to point guns at each other. At this time, whether it is a bright star or a TV director with status, they can only throw their hands on the car like a lamb to be slaughtered. Before the strength of the core, people will always be weak.
In this world of the weak, the first brave woman is a woman who says "Fuck you!" in front of a baton that is two heads taller and twice as wide as her body, while her man can only say "I'm sorry, I Wife drank." Of course he's right, he's more sensible, not to mention he wears the sensitive hat of black people, most people take this approach, calm things down, apologize is no big deal, pass a cigarette In the past, patted the shoulders and said, "Brothers, we have something to say." Then they could walk across a block and go home in peace. But women are irrational animals. Thanks to her irrationality, the man felt ashamed and began to reflect. Then he faced the resistance of the police again, and the black gangster looked at him differently, and only then did the carload of South Asians. redemption. We need people like this, people who know the world isn't perfect and still don't fear the dark and insist on making it perfect.
[Redemption and Sinking]
In this cramped and chaotic city life, too many souls float here, like plankton in the sea, struggling to survive under the penetrating sunlight, even if such In life, a slightly larger fish has tens of millions in its mouth.
The hot-blooded new police officer couldn't bear the attitude of the old police baton towards the common people, and asked to be transferred, but was taught a lesson by his superiors. What is justice? And the young people who can't stand violent law enforcement become murderers. No one wants to be a bad person, but just by that thought, their souls are devoured. And that old baton, regardless of his life, saved the woman who had been ranting to her a few days ago. And the grumpy retail store owner whom the angel saved.

It's okay, it's okay, Paul Haggis wasn't too cruel to us, the little girl didn't get hit, the car didn't blow up the policeman who saved the life, the black gangster didn't sell a car of South Asians who were also weak, the wife became docile Stop being cranky. Everything starts with a collision and ends with a collision. Fortunately, people are not numb behind the cold reinforced concrete. To touch, and temperature.

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Extended Reading
  • Kole 2022-03-22 09:01:10

    The second brush has a worse look and feel, the intention is too straightforward and deliberate, and the non-linear narrative is also fragmented.

  • Wellington 2022-03-23 09:01:12

    Multi-linear narrative, too correct, the rhythm is slow and fast, grasping it in place!! Every character can be described in detail. All people and things happen within 24 hours, and they are silently connected. Racial discrimination, not It can be solved in a moment or three, every detail is worth savoring,,, the long-lost snow in Los Angeles.. Cover up all the uncleanness..

Crash quotes

  • Graham: [on the phone] Mom, I can't talk to you right now, okay? I'm having sex with a white woman.

    [hangs up, and Ria gets out of bed]

    Graham: OK, where were we?

    Ria: I was white, and you were about to jerk off in the shower.

    Graham: Oh, shit. Come on. I would have said you were Mexican, but I don't think it would have pissed her off as much.

    Ria: Why do you keep everybody a certain distance, huh? What, you start to feel something and panic?

    Graham: Come on, Maria. You're just pissed 'cause I answered the phone.

    Ria: That's just where I begin to get pissed. I mean, really, what kind of man speaks to his mother that way, huh?

    Graham: Oh, this is about my mother. What do you know about my mother?

    Ria: If I was your father, I'd kick your fucking ass.

    Graham: OK, I was raised badly. Why don't you take your clothes off, get back into bed, and teach me a lesson?

    Ria: You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How 'bout a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. Neither one of those is Mexico.

    Graham: Ah. Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?

  • Jean: Do you want to hear something funny?

    Maria: What's that Mrs. Jean?

    Jean: You're the best friend I've got.