Part of the plot of the movie "Going to the Soup and the Fire" was deliberately hidden by the director, and the hidden result was greatly unexpected.
Directed by David Markkenz and co-starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, and others, the film started out like a crime film.
Tanner Howard (Ben Foster) and Toby Howard (Chris Pine) brothers live off robbing small banks. Tanner is a releaseees and Toby is a man who has no job after divorcing his wife. Desperate, they wore masks, held pistols, robbed banks, and succeeded repeatedly.
From the very beginning, the film hides the key plot and does not explain why they robbed the bank, that is, the root cause of the robbery.
After the bank calls the police, they are hunted down by an old detective, Marcus (Jeff Bridges), and Indian partner Alberto Parker (Jill Birmingham). They couldn't find Tanner and Toby and could only stay at their crime scene for a long time. Time just passed, they didn't find any clues to the crime, and they couldn't hunt down Tanner and Toby. Because as long as Tanner and Toby grab the bank, they will bury the criminal vehicle and find a new car to drive out. Of course, the detectives couldn't find their whereabouts, but many of the policemen began to get nervous.
Finally, one day, Tanner and Toby robbed the small bank and had an accident. They rushed into the bank with guns, told all the service personnel and security guards to lie on the ground, and then began to grab money. But as they were preparing to leave with their money, the bank's security guards and staff opened fire, and they returned fire, killing the security guards and staff. But when they ran outside, they were shot by passers-by.
They got into the car and fled in a hurry. Passers-by followed them in a car, and when they reached a deserted area, Tanner stopped the car, took out the submachine gun hidden in the car, and shot at the vehicle of the passers-by who were pursuing them, scaring the people into driving away.
They thought they had won, but Toby was shot in the abdomen. Tanner sends Toby home and drives back, but unexpectedly, he is chased and intercepted by the police. He drove up the hill, pulled out a sniper rifle from the car, ignited the gas tank inside the car, and knocked the car down from the hillside, crashing directly into the police car and exploding with the police car. During the shootout, Detective Marcus's partner Alberto Parker was shot in the head. Marcus, believing that he could not take it lightly, took the sniper rifle and asked his guide to take him around the back of the mountain, seeing the timing and killing Tanner with one shot.
Marcus successfully completed the mission, but he checked the information of the criminal Tanner and learned that things were not so simple. So, tanner's brother Toby is found, and Toby is holding a gun in the courtyard, full of hostility. Marcus asked to sit down and talk, and Toby accepted his request.
They confronted the oil mines and mining machines in the yard and talked about the changes in their homes. And this kind of thing is the plot that the director deliberately hides, which can be called an iceberg hidden under the water. It turned out that their brother's farm had been confiscated by the bank, and the fundamental purpose of their robbery was to redeem their farm, which was the inheritance left by their mother, and they would swear to guard this inheritance to the death. It seems that it is not that they have to do evil subjectively, but that they are forced by objective conditions to embark on the road of crime. The process of developing from thieves to outlaw robbers is the process of being forced to the end of the road by the bank.
From a humanistic point of view, Tanner's tragedy was caused by society, but fortunately Toby survived and may be able to pay off the bank's debts. The director hides the root cause of Tanner and Toby's crime and exposes it at the end of the film, although it is only a few words, but it is enough to let people see the director's skill, and the infinite association triggered by the hidden two-thirds of the plot, as well as the indictment of society and the bank.