According to Maslow's principle of needs, after meeting the most basic food and clothing, we will seek some higher-level sensory stimulation. Moreover, once the force is excessive, some strange things will appear.
To some extent, those strange stories of magic realism are the evil consequences of "eating enough".
However, the male protagonist of today's movie, the above theory does not apply, this man is named Jeff Lebowski.
Jeff Lebowski, known as the lazy little prince of Los Angeles, likes to let everyone call him "the dude"
A veteran unemployed man with long messy hair and a pinch of flowing goat beard. The place to live is particularly sloppy, and the must-have edc for daily outings is: pajamas + shorts + flip-flops.
I only drank self-bartending white russians, and after drinking after drink, I was never drunk, but my consciousness often dropped.
He has nothing to do every day, either bowling or on his way to bowling.
Even such a loser, there are two "golfers" Walter and Dony.
Walter is very tall, a Vietnam Veteran, a leader in the Loser trio, and he commands all group activities.
However, he is not a good leader, and he has a bad idea to add to the blockage of his teammates.
Donny is the little follower of both of them.
Whatever was said would be interrupted, and Walter would often yell at him, "You fucking shut me up". In the whole movie, he should have only said 3 whole sentences.
One day, two kidnappers came to the house of this "buddy", claiming that his wife, Bunny, owed their boss a large amount of money and wanted him, a millionaire, to pay it back.
Jeff Lebowski looked confused, how he didn't know when he got married, and he had a large deposit.
It was later confirmed that the kidnappers had torn the wrong person, and it turned out that he and a millionaire had the same surname.
Confusingly, jeff did not seek revenge on the kidnappers, but went to the millionaire theory, and the purpose was even more bizarre: because the kidnappers peed on their own carpet, the millionaire must be compensated. (OMG!) This is divine horse logic! ）
And this whole movie is basically a story of ridicule caused by the carpet! (The film is ostensibly about a kidnapping and extortion case, but the footage of bowling takes up more than half of the progress bar.)
It contains spoofs, murders, pornography, and more, as well as a variety of characters of different classes: a porn boss, a disabled billionaire, a model, a policeman, and a woman who draws on a nude swing... Depict Los Angeles as a "zoo" where eccentrics gather.
However, why is this not the case in reality? The prototype of the male protagonist of the movie comes from a real-life character named Jeff dowd, who is very good with the Coen brothers. Moreover, a large part of the Coen brothers' last film, "Blood Labyrinth", was contributed to by him.
The character archetype is there, and a good story is needed, and the story of "Murder green toe" originates from the famous American mystery novelist Raymond Chandler.
The Coen brothers have said that they particularly want to make a Chandler-esque story, a strange beginning that requires the protagonist to solve a mystery, interspersed with a particularly complex plot that connects people from different classes in the city, and in the end, it seems that the protagonist does not have any use in doing this.
In "Murder of the Green Toe", these messy shots, fragmented stories, it is estimated that only the Coen brothers can strategize and let the plot tell the story. Some of these bizarre and hilarious plots are reminiscent of their 10-year-old work Raising Arizona.
Some of the surrealist shots in the film are more than a decade ahead of the explosion head effect in "Ace Agent".
Rather than being a film, Murder to The Green Toe is a message of an attitude to life. However, those kidnapping and extortion plots, it is easy for you to ignore this.
In fact, the whole movie is about Jeff Lebowski, how to remain calm in the face of chaos.
In the beginning, he was beaten, soaked, and insulted. He only cared about his carpet being peed on, simply because the carpet fit well with the room.
His car was stolen and nearly scrapped when he found it, and he was just speechless.
He was seduced by a woman who was only trying to get his little tadpole, and he thought about it and made only one request: not wanting to take responsibility.
He had a chance to win a million dollars, and when the box was repackaged, he didn't complain much.
In his apartment, after being beaten up and having a bizarre dream, he acted like no one else.
Like a Buddha, he doesn't care about the details, he only cares about the "big picture."
Have their own "shack", can drink white russians, usually smoke a little marijuana, have their own golfers. What else can you ask for?
Murder of the Green Toe is a cheerful comedy and an inspirational sticker for waste wood!
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