Foxx's performance in this film is very good. He plays an unremarkable black taxi driver in LA who runs a night shift. He is conscientious and does not dare to ask for leave, for fear of being deducted from his salary and losing his medical insurance. I dreamed of opening a limousine car shop, and I told others that I was driving a taxi temporarily. In fact, I have been driving for more than ten years. Lie to her mother that she is living well, that she has a company, and that she is the boss. When you meet a girl you like, don't dare to pursue it. When I am troubled, I will swim in the Maldives island on a postcard, and I am a bit Ah Q. He is also dissatisfied with his situation, and does not dare to lose his job. He wants to change and struggle, but he always feels powerless. He lives under these pressures every day. He is troubled but optimistic, and dissatisfied, but bearable. Have you ever thought about such a life? Come to think of it, most of us are similar to him.
The whole film shows director Michael Mann's always extravagant and gorgeous image style, LA under the night sky is dimly lit, with high-rise buildings, pure and gorgeous beauties on taxi posters, women in short skirts and swinging bodies in Korean city nightclubs, this city. There is temptation everywhere in the dark night, and everywhere is bustling and noisy. Cruise, as a foreigner, commented on this city: "17 million people, the fifth largest economy in the world, but the people here do not know each other and are very unfamiliar. An old man fell ill and died on the bus, and was only found six hours later. Passengers went up and down around him, and people sat and stood beside him constantly, but no one paid attention to the motionless old man beside him. "This is the extreme epitome of the reality of modern cities. Social development requires people to continuously pursue success. Money, material, beauty, honor and other things that represent success will follow. People have to work hard to pursue everything to satisfy themselves. Desires are the values of modern civilization. Desire makes the world run at a high speed like a machine, the world is as cold and ruthless as steel, people are becoming more and more realistic, the relationship between people is becoming more and more alienated, and it becomes only mutual use, only the exchange of interests. When people are in it, you have to have the value to be used and the capital that can be exchanged. If you don’t have it, then you will only be oppressed, excluded, and despised. The society has no special vision to take care of you. It's just mediocre, you live in a slum, a tube house, a village in the city, surrounded by garden houses and mountain villas. Living in it, people's mentality can't be peaceful. Westerners seem to rarely have a small wealth and be at ease. The harmonious vision of wives and children is more of the pursuit of personal success, mediocrity, and mediocrity. In the film, Cuise angrily sneered at Foxx: "You look in the mirror, one day your dream will come true, but in the middle of the night you will find that nothing happened, everything has disappointed you. The dream will never come true, and suddenly you droop. Old. Nothing happened, never will, because you didn't even try." In the 77th Academy Award for Best Picture "Million Dollar Baby", boxer Maggie who worked hard for several years and finally won flowers and applause money Before she died, on the hospital bed, she begged the coach to take off the respirator on her head. She didn't want to live like a cripple. She said that I had seen this world before. In "The Wire", the boss De Niro confronts the police officer Al. "Live a normal life? Barbecue and play football?" Pacino said with contempt. People should follow their own dreams, realize themselves, and reject mediocrity. This is the mainstream value in Western society. It promotes the continuous development of society, but at the same time, it is also powerful enough to compete with basic morality. On the contrary, because of mediocrity and being neglected and despised by society, inner self-esteem and pride may drive a person to the opposite of society, to take drugs, alcohol, murder, and would rather be destroyed in a world of excitement than humble and miserable. To live in a fool's errand. In the film, Cruise is a hardcore killer, shrewd and capable. He is cool. Look at his words and deeds. His essence is a weak person. Countless setbacks in the past, rejection, and injury have made him indifferent and ruthless. He has nothing but himself. Killing is not accompanied by the slightest emotion, there is no pity and compassion, and the various stimuli of the dark side of social indifference will make him even more indifferent, denying himself, denying others, he denying the world, "You and I are just lost in the galaxy. A speck of dust in it, what is the meaning of life?" He did not lose his humanity to kill, but because he thought that a person's existence was dispensable, which was a complete nothingness.
Life is complicated, and what kind of concept you hold will lead to what kind of life, and there is a reason for it. But the key is that as a human being, don’t live in vain, life is too short, and you have to follow your dreams as much as possible, and live to the extreme and wonderful.
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