Starring: Nicholas Cage
This is a film released on June 9, 1997, when I was only 6 years old haha,
The fearsome murderous maniac, who was imprisoned by full armor when he was transported, thought that he had a fierce and vicious face, and surprisingly just a pale ordinary man, and played with the little girl for a long time.
This film is a film with the Vietnam War as the main line and the side line satirizing various ugly society's rightists. The protagonist is a Vietnam Veteran, who was humiliated in a bar, reflecting the disappointment and resentment of American society at that time towards the American military in the Vietnam War. But what did this Group of VietnamEse Americans do wrong? They may know for themselves that this is an unjust war, but they need to carry out orders. They carried the honor of the United States as a world power, but they were trapped in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and the patriotism of an entire generation of the United States was torn apart, but the veterans could do nothing, only inexplicable shame.
The black friend of the male protagonist is in urgent need of insulin to save his life, a female prison guard may be raped and killed at any time, they each represent a symbol, the black represents a comrade-in-arms, and the female prison guard represents the weak. A heroic Vietnam veteran, in the most critical moments, even if he can escape alone, he will not leave his comrades and the weak people around him who need help. The male protagonist has given up the opportunity to escape again and again, and has been protecting the black and female prison guards, even if they persuade him to escape, he has no hesitation in choosing to stay.
In the film, Jalan Green, a perverted murderer. He was tied up on the plane by the five flowers, never moving his hands from beginning to end, and only occasionally saying a few crazy words. However, his words are not crazy, and I will not list them here. In short, what he wants to express is that it is not he who is crazy, but the world, which is kidnapped by the system, and eventually people become slaves under the system and lose the true meaning of life. This is the director's use of his mouth to satirize this society, and it is precisely because of this that he finally survived and gambled in Las Vegas at leisure.
Jalan Green did not kill the little girl, here are two understandings: First, if you pay attention to the song that the girl taught him to sing, the lyrics are: Who controls the world? God must be! He saved our butts and saved our lives! Welcome home. The seemingly messy lyrics are actually a kind of understanding and enlightenment for Jalan Green, who suddenly began to believe in some beliefs, and he began to believe in God. Second, this explanation may be small, I think it is nonsense, maybe this so-called murderer is innocent, just as he did not have any criminal acts from beginning to end, maybe the director wants to prove that he is an ordinary good person, but the idea is strange, but he is victimized by the ridiculous and absurd system of the moment, and he can never prove his innocence.
At the end, a scene worth pondering is when a plane crashes into a cash truck, and the money flying around and the people who rob the crowd become the background for the protagonist, who does not pick up a piece of money, but picks up the bunny that was given to his daughter. This rabbit symbolizes family and family, and those ugly robbers are the speculators, villains, arms dealers and politicians who speculated and made windfalls during the Vietnam War, who relied on the war of Vietnam Veterans who fought to the death of nine deaths to obtain profits, and also showed the ugliness of desire. However, the veteran does not care about these materialistic desires, he only cares about his family, which is also a typical right-wing value.
To sum up, the director's satire of this film is very good, and buried deeply, many people subconsciously as an action movie, it is difficult to realize. But if you read this film review and interpret this film from the perspective of the Vietnam War, you will find many details that were originally overlooked when you watched it.