The timeline is intermittent, causing different people to interpret the plot differently. The director got what he wanted. He has been preparing for this masterpiece for a long time, and each person's own memory of the past emerges from the gaps in the divided time and space.
In other words, some movies encourage you to use your heart to calculate and painstakingly collect every clue that drives the plot; some movies are convoluted, smack you in the corners and make you tremble; some movies show wounds and put matchsticks into you Seeing the pain in his eyes. And I appreciate the candor of Once Upon a Time in America. Because real memory doesn't need close-ups, and no amount of bells and whistles can change some of the poor essence.
Another example of noodles - in those turbulent years, quite all-powerful for a while. Bootlegger, bank robbing, lavish, and occasionally chivalrous, helping isolated American Communists. But in Deborah's eyes, Noodles will always be a not-so-bad ruffian who can't do big things, can't be big things, "never be a lover" little gangster-heart is higher than the sky, because the angel is destined to fly back to heaven, Fly into the arms of the successful Max. Every girl is a boy's angel, and I seem to see feathers fluttering in the air.
At the end of the day, when the rape hits, I can't be sure if the guilt is entirely down to lust. Noodle despairingly enters a body that does not belong to him, tacitly acknowledging that a heart is closed to him forever. Go back to a lucid moment, and use opium to deeply anesthetize yourself.
laugh.
Just like me, I once forgot about you.
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