When a middle-aged man is plagued by migraines every day, the cries of neighbors' children, boring TV shows, and his ex-wife and daughter who never wanted to see him
He was suddenly informed by his doctor that he was terminally ill and that colleagues who had always had a good feeling for him suddenly accused him of losing his job.
So what will he do at this time?
Don't make trouble, I'm not talking about Yu Huanshui, it's an American movie "God Bless America"
His production time is much earlier than Yu Huanshui, and I don't know if there is a reference relationship between the two, but compared to Yu Huanshui's shallow taste of the mid-life crisis, "God Bless America" can be said to be vivid.
But until now, I couldn't define what type of film this film belonged to. Some people say that he is a road movie, but compared to the road movie' process of narrating and solving problems in the process of traveling, it does not exist in this film, and as a feature film, this movie lacks the rhythm of the story core and narrative.
What makes people feel even more destructive is the large number of dialogues in the film, although it sounds like a needle in the needle, even deafening, but in terms of the rhythm of the film, it is counterproductive.
After thinking about it for a long time, I boiled him down to a pseudo-documentary, though he didn't look that much like it.
Speaking of the story, after the middle-aged fat man lost his job, he began to release his repressed emotions, taking all the people and things that he did not like and thought were contrary to social morality as the object of punishment, and attracted a young girl who ran away from home to participate in it and began to kill along the way.
Leaving aside the slightly wordy dialogue, the large number of bloody killing scenes in the film is actually quite enjoyable, not that I am a murderous person, but because the protagonist punishes the people we see every day who you hate but can't do anything about.
If that's all there is to it, he shouldn't be a story, but the problem is, he's just that, really, the guys and girls are killed after they kill the referee of the last talent show and an actor they thought they needed to be saved but actually enjoyed being humiliated, and Glory was killed.
So the story ends.
But after watching it, you can't help but ask the director and screenwriter what kind of story they want to tell.
I read it over and over again, and suddenly found that I thought the problem was simple, and the meaning of the story was far more complicated than what I saw.
It's not a comedy, a road movie or something like that, it's actually a very serious social film.
What the creators really think about is, what is the reason for the increasing violence in American society?
Boring bubble TV shows, all kinds of eye-catching but meaningless social events? Or a political show that has nothing to do with the general public? Or is there a faint lack of affection behind it?
The director himself can not answer, he complains about the woman's general questions, but can not answer the questions, the reason is very simple, under the American culture of his life, he can not use American thinking to deny the United States itself, just like a person can not grasp his own hair to mention himself is a truth.
So the director also let his character end up destroying everything like a lone wolf.
The same thing happened in China, and the reason why the good man of Liangshan who returned to loyalty in "Water Margin" was not that the author could not find a better way for this group of grassy heroes?
The inner volume cannot solve the problem, only makes the problem more acute and intense.
This is probably why the title of the film is called "God Bless America"!
Well, let's talk about this side, continue insomnia, good night everyone!
