"Going to the Soup and Fighting the Fire", which seems to have a rough atmosphere of Texas, is not as good as the direct tough guy of the western style, but it is like "The Old Man Has Nothing to Rely on" that is a little more desolate, and there is also a little more cynical atmosphere, and this kind of cynicism is not a single individual spontaneously, but on the contrary, it is created by the accumulation of exploitation of the whole society, and a suppressed anger is vented.
The surprising "To the Soup" is directed by British director David Markkenzi, but he can analyze the American social customs and reflect the helplessness and desolation. Although the film is based on robbery, it is not like the general police film that focuses on the investigation of the case, on the contrary, the police in the film are even closer to reality, and the reality must truly present the people's embarrassing life.
Gathering evidence can no longer do whatever it wants, and civilians are more legally knowledgeable to face these hegemons, and sometimes the police no longer set an example of justice and redemption, but instead ask the people to take the initiative to rally to defend their homeland.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > we're robbing banks, not people</h1>
The more different thing about "Going to the Soup and The Fire" is that it is not chasing after who is good or evil, but through the outbreak of events and the occurrence of robbery, turning back and asking, why is there robbery? Who forced them to start robbing?
In the search for this answer, it is a series of digs out the vast history of the United States, and the greed and exploitation of the capitalists. When he meets an Indian at the casino, his brother jokingly asks "King of the Prairie."
At this time, the Indians only told him, "The king of the steppe is long gone, and we are left with only Kruman, and in Koruman, we are all enemies." When the brothers open the bank robbery, they also say that they have never only targeted money, not people, and robbery for them has never been to get rich, they just need enough money to get back what belongs to them, that is, the land that is now "cheated" by the bank.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > I watched the banks that had squeezed me for thirty years being robbed</h1>
The greed of the capitalists is the biggest crime in "To the Soup and the Fire", why robbery? Just because the brothers wanted to retrieve the land that had been cheated out of the bank, and the robbery was only to pay the loans and alimony of the debt, their motivation was not to be rich and enjoy their old age.
Just for the embarrassment of life, you only need enough money to save the family and maintain the future of your children. Not only the brothers, but also the resentment of the capitalists can be sniffed out in other details, and when the lawyer assists the brothers, he only downplays and says, "Isn't this what you won from the casino?" This "legitimacy" is much more justified than the deception of the banks.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > white or black? Do you say they are outward or inner? </h1>
In addition to capital, Taylor Sheridan also has a profound analysis of the dark side of American officialdom, and it can be easily revealed as early as his first screenwriting work, "Border Killer".
In "Border Killer", the satire of police abuse and the anti-swallowing of people's hearts also make a newborn calf who still believes in justice into a darker situation than Mexican drugs, although he is in the United States, but people's hearts have long been swallowed up by desire, and in "To the Soup and Fire", he is even more pointed to the greed and greed of white Americans.
Do whites and blacks matter? Appearance and skin color are by no means a sign of inner good and evil, and even the source of evil is the scourge of desires that are caused by white people, racial prejudice, slave exploitation, capitalism, the gap between rich and poor, and even the legitimate self-preservation of guns. When the brother casually said, "The Americans have guns but they make looting more troublesome."
Looking back at "The Columbine School Incident", the legal beginning of the gun ownership in the United States was that white people were afraid of black violence, but black people never hurt anyone, but their own spontaneous fear and then poured on others.
On the contrary, in terms of race, the film also has ink, especially the contempt for non-white races, which is still the superiority of white Americans. When detectives of Indian descent say to elderly detectives who continue to discriminate against Indians with words, "Our ancestors were Indians until they were robbed of everything by their grandparents, and now they are robbed of it by others." White people and capital are the root causes of American crime.
At the end, "Going to the Soup" is more fascinating than "Border Killer", and it also confronts good and evil head-on, the latter choosing to let the more evil side disappear, but the former makes the confrontation between the two more powerful. Although they all know each other's details, neither side has the power to put anyone to death, and it lies in the evil under a good profession and the good under the evil deeds.
At that moment, although the two were like the last shot duel in the Western, the eyes of the two were close-up, the air seemed to be condensed by tension, although they were both on the side with guns, they knew that there was no righteous party here.
Perhaps the current society, like an old police detective, only cares about the surface of crime, but does not care about the oppression and anger that all crimes face, all of which are detonated by accident, but a sick society that has been built by time and history.
When bankers commit fraud in the name of profit, when the police do illegal acts in the name of justice, these are the "legal" of society; when the poor people take back the land they have been taken away, take up guns to defend their homes, or think that the action of "near profit" is actually only to repay huge loans, these have become "illegal" in society.
The sharp point of "Going to the Soup and Fighting the Fire" is that it does not promote crime, but it can make the audience think deeply about their crimes, and uncover the "illegality" behind them, all that is left is poverty, countryside and desolation, and what they once had is now nothing. As the younger brother said to his son, "Whatever you hear, you must believe, but never learn from me." He admits what he did, but instead he makes a last resort decision for the future of his family.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > I want to make a conclusion, you will never be able to end, this will follow us for a lifetime</h1>
Poverty, of course, will not be completely changed by a single robbery, and poverty, more like a structure, will be firmly and infinitely extended by the suppression of capital.
Sadly, the inability to convict in "To the Soup and the Fire" is not a complete victory, but only more of a desolation after the victory, and in the end, what do they have? There is only one piece of land where oil can be extracted, but outside of this land, there is no work, no prosperity, only wilderness and banks, the evil of capital still thrives, and the oil will be like poverty, and one day it will be sucked out.
And when the brother shouted for the last time, although he was about to face death, perhaps at that moment, the scenery in front of him, the gun in his hand, this feeling of freedom, was what a "free" America should look like.
The "King of the Steppes" is me.