"Nuggets" is a good movie, well-made and tightly paced, always lasting a kind of strength and concentration, especially the first half is particularly exciting, with a kind of energy, that feeling of being held. This feeling of not having any side-by-side, condensed and concentrated narration of a story in a scene is very good, and it is not clear about the truth, but the second half is a bit broken, becoming more and more deliberate, but the suspense is still maintained well, it is a film that can be watched.
The story tells the story of two men who travel through a remote desert and stumble upon what they believe is the largest nugget of gold ever found. So they hatched a plan to dig up the treasure, one entrusted with protective equipment, and the other stayed behind to watch over the gold they found. Doomsday wasteland background, desert survival, sacrificing his life for money, one-man show, male actor acting skills have nothing to say, although there are very few lines, and is it more appropriate to translate the title as "Shou Jin"?
More than half of the time in the film is that the male protagonist alone guards the big gold nugget, creates a comfortable nest for himself, kills the dangerous wandering sister, and drives away the jackals who want to eat him... Although the story is relatively simple, a man guards a piece of gold. I think that the content he expressed is still relatively rich in that kind of emotion and the entanglement of decision-making is very layered, and the two people who originally found a pile of gold will inevitably have contradictions, and there is no scene to get you dead or alive, which is already a kind of story setting. Leaving with a portion of the gold, or waiting for the so-called companions to come together, taking all the gold away from the fire stream became a tangled problem, until finally I felt that all he was holding on to was his own insistence.
The makeup and story narration of the whole movie are good, a small-cost movie constructs the feeling of a blockbuster, and the sniper phone booth has a fight, slightly insufficient is that the overall plot is relatively monotonous, quite a test of the patience of the moviegoers, the details of the makeup processing and the reversal of the ending add a lot of color to the film, especially the last arrow, scary, but also logical. It really responds to the classic saying of "mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches are behind", and it is not known who loses and who wins until the last moment, and it is often the most paid but the least gained.
Tingting of Hunan Qifa Culture Media Co., Ltd. wrote in the evaluation of the film that this movie is very good, that is, the story is more cheesy, there is no reversal, and even the space for association is not enough, the greed of human nature has always existed, and when so much gold is found, they all want to get this heavenly reward, often accompanied by heaven's punishment. The reality is cruel, the kind and cowardly male protagonist, tragically dies next to the gold, the local evil people cruelly deceive and kill the male protagonist, and finally one person obtains a huge gold wealth. There are no accidents, no revenge, no justice, darkness will come, but in the end there is an arrow of punishment.
In short, "Nuggets" is an allegorical small-budget film about human greed, telling a story that happened in a desert at a certain time and place, basically a one-man show. Alone in the desert waiting for gold, the whole process is like a kind of practice. Briefly separated from the symbolic reality and the guide, and then encountered with the mysterious woman from the desert, the self, the external world, the natural divinity intertwined, and finally the worldly ending was short and powerful, as if the head of the stick smashed the entangled spiritual dilemma, but also ended the suffering of the flesh. The end of the film is not bad, the end is crisp and clean, not dragging mud and water, vividly interpreting what is called "people for money and birds for food death", in the face of huge interest temptation, people can do anything.