One of the most notorious criminals in Argentine history;
Among the crimes committed by 17-year-old Carlitos Puch,
Including 11 murders, 17 robberies, 1 rape, 1 sexual abuse, 2 kidnappings, and 2 thefts...
With an angelic appearance, he can be called the devil's human spokesman.
The earth has gravity, the earth is round —
Geography In Argentina, which is facing the "foot" of our country, it is a magical country:
It is the only country in the world that has gone from being a developed country to a developing country.
The reasons behind its decline are complex and difficult to determine, but there is a crude argument that blames this as:
From top to bottom, the country is rooted in the spirit of death and self-destruction in the temperament of the government and the people.
Years ago, a film based on real events, "Blazing Coins"
It recreates the shocking bank robbery that occurred in Argentina in 1965 and was known as the "twin beautiful male thieves" (the two were actually same-sex partners).
In the end, the two people who were rounded up and had no way to escape burned the huge amount of money they had robbed before they died in the fight.
It is in this same turbulent country and situation,
In 1971, the crime of Carlos Pucci, who was also "talked about" by the world for his stunning beauty and crime,
Nowadays, it has also been adapted into a movie and put on the screen,
And won the 2018 box office championship in Argentina.
The audience's actions with real money and silver seem to say:
By the way, this guy's story is finally here —
Angel of Death
The Angel
The first killing was purely accidental—
Carlos, who was robbed by his partner, was shocked by the awakened homeowner and subconsciously returned a shot.
And this incident did not leave the slightest fear, remorse, shadow on him...
Even after the mother discovers the firearm, play psychological tactics:
"Do you think I'm going to point a real gun at my mother?" Reassure your mother.
This is where his horror lies:
Do not regard anyone's life as precious, as if the devil-like plunder of the higher order of mankind.
But at the same time, in front of his parents, he can also play the literary and artistic interest of the rich children they expect.
However, it is only when he is integrated into the home of his partner Ramon, whom he does not know, that he feels at ease and belongs.
Ramon's parents made a living from robbers, while Carlos, an outsider, joined forces with his father and son to carry out a frenzy of stealing a gun shop with a loyal initiative.
However, rather than acknowledging Carlos's criminal prowess, Ramon's parents, who ignore the law, seem to approve of his beauty more.
Couples who are casually open to sexual affairs are invited to have physical intimacy with them by teaching marksmanship and dating, respectively.
On the other hand, in terms of reflecting the sexual feelings of Carlos and Ramon, two flesh-and-blood teenagers, it is very obscure -
Through the smokescreen interaction between the two parties falling in love with a pair of twin sisters, it hints at the same-sex feelings between the two.
* Repeated use of front and back angle shots, mapping ambiguous
Especially in the scene of stealing the jewelry store, Carlos, who wears earrings on the spot in the face of a whim, makes the ambiguity between the two rise to the peak.
And when sex and love are not faced by both parties,
The emotions that are full of inhibition here are transformed into more extreme violent crimes.
Carlos cold-bloodedly killed two people suspected of being hostile to Ramon, which can be described as impulsive and clumsy if he showed love;
Carlos is also alert to kill the rebels after the robbery is interrupted, and if you use this to protect love, it can be said that you can turn the tide;
However, Ramon would rather sell himself to a well-connected same-sex gangster for glory, and is willing to become a so-called "straight male lover" rather than admit to facing up to his own sexuality and Carlos's feelings
And Carlos, who saw through his weakness and vanity, eventually buried his crush on his lover.
The casting of this film is undoubtedly a success -
Just as in reality, it is difficult for the outside world to kill 11 people and commit such a heinous crime as a 17-year-old beautiful teenager;
With red lips and white curly hair, Carlos resembles a holy statue of the church, like a mixture of angels and demons.
Especially the scene that restores the real arrest and escort, in the face of the media, the state it shows is confused with "innocence",
As if to prove that his evil is not an antisocial personality formed by experiencing the misfortune of injustice,
His evil seems to be a high-level human being, mixed with the angels of death and the devil's predation of mankind.
It is precisely for this reason that the director will be the killing story of this 17-year-old criminal who "seems to have no reason to be evil",
The style of the shooting is frivolous, the demon, the plot atmosphere, the soundtrack and the mirror, all of which are like this.
However, as the writer Zhang Ailing said:
The times are heavy and not easy to realize.
From the twin beautiful male thief who robbed the bank "Blazing Coin",
To the bloodthirsty angel of death in this film, under the same moving country and the situation,
The two crimes that occurred, however, more or less reflected the turbulent history of nurturing a group of Latin American (Latin American) writers and laying the foundation for the "Big Bang in Latin American Literature".
For example, it was a time when a teenager was innocent of a gun but detained for driving a vehicle without a license (alluding to the background period when rioters in Argentina took to the streets during the coup d'état).
Especially in that scene, Carlos picked up the newspaper on the guard's desk in his slumber during the theft, and saw the confusion and thoughtfulness of the news that "the shaved monkey was adopted as an orphan".
And, the lightning strikes the awakened guards...
The wind of "magic realism" that is about to come out is comparable to the fetus with a pig's tail in García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
It is as if borrowing Carlos's perspective and murder to examine the absurd decay of the whole country and the whole of Latin America.
As if he had painstakingly burned the safe he had pried open, he found that it was empty.
It is also like being "concerned" about his whereabouts when he calls his mother after he escapes, and the camera pulls his mother's head full of police officers who want him.
In the end, the historically real Carlos was sentenced to 46 years, becoming the longest-serving criminal in Argentine history;
In the film, when his parents persuade him to defend his innocence on the grounds of mental illness, he seriously thinks about rejecting his mother's question:
"Yes, a normal person would do the same thing as I did."
And echoes his confusion before he was imprisoned:
"Are the world crazy? Why not love freedom? ”
In the structure of the play, the strongest separation effect is achieved.
Of course, the strong point of justice in the film's story is nothing more than a common disease of beautifying the protagonist in artistic creation:
Even if he is such a heinous murderer,
But for the protagonist and history is equally worth reflecting on is;
How did the turbulent times create the extreme rebellion that "the world belongs to the outlaws and artists"?
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