Author: Li Xiaotian
Close your eyes when it's dark!
In the "Killing Game", everyone hopes that they can get the killer card, so that they can assume a fun and exciting role, and they can kill people wantonly. But if you don't play well, it is easy to be killed. How to be a killer requires some wisdom and a certain amount of pressure.
Games are like this, and so are real-world killers, which require both intelligence and pressure.
Today, let's talk about "A Week Without Dying: Full Refund" and "Extreme Cold Comeback" two films about killer stories. Just finished reading the two, too lazy to write two articles, put aside to say together.
Both films are about how the killer faces retirement. "A Week Without Dying: Full Refund" is about the elderly killer Rethysley (Tom Wilkinson) who is reluctant to retire and wants to continue his career, resulting in a ridiculous joke. "ExtremeLy Cold Comeback" is about the old killer played by "Uncle Pull" Max Mikkelson who reached retirement age and wanted to enjoy his old age but was hunted down by the killer organization, and in order to survive, he had to carry out counter-killing, and then it was a bloody killing war.
Two stories, one to the left and one to the right. To the left, take the humorous and playful route, and at the end there is some warmth, while to the right is extreme violence, killing and killing all the way, cult to the end.
Let's start with fun.
"One Week Without Dying: Full Refund", the title of the film is very interesting. It's basically a spoiler for the story of the film. I accept your services, kill you, and if the week doesn't work, I'll return the money you paid. It is about a young writer William, whose works are not appreciated by people, whose life is gray and boundless, and who cannot see where the light is. So he chose to commit suicide, but he wanted to die a little more decently. He suddenly jumped out of the alley into the street and wanted to be crushed to death by a car. The car did come and really hit him, but it was an ambulance that saved him by the way. He wanted to jump off the bridge, throw himself into the water, and after a long struggle, he finally closed his eyes and jumped, and as a result, a cruise ship suddenly appeared under the bridge. He broke through the air and instead startled a group of men and women on board who were having a party. He tried to hang himself and tied the rope to the lampstand under the ceiling, but the whole chandelier fell under gravity. He wanted to jump into the lion's territory in the safari park, intending to be bitten to death, but when he jumped in, the lions were resting, and they lay for half a day without the lion paying attention to him. oh，no！ In this way, William committed suicide seven times without success, plus three times when he called for help on his own, a total of ten times, all of which were very funny and did not end his life.
Unable to bear it, William called the killer and decided to hire a killer to kill him. Turning over the encyclopedia of death methods provided by the killer, he wanted to choose to save a little boy who was in a car accident on the road, but unfortunately he was killed by a collision. He felt that it was decent to die like this. However, the killer asked him, do you know a little boy in real life? Do you have a Rolls-Royce? Can you handle the municipality? Full set down, this price will be very high. There is no way, he only has 2,000 yuan, can only choose the cheapest way to die, that is, to be shot remotely, unconsciously, painless death.
Do you think this method of death is a bit inexplicable? It's a child's play. But that's where the story is funny. Moreover, through these children's plays, it is actually the sense of confusion of young people that is reflected. The uncontrollable future, the pain and disappointment of the untouched life, the boredom and powerlessness of life. This kind of emotion, not only as a writer William, but also very common, reflects the helplessness of many young people today.
Correspondingly, it is the choice of the old killer Resley. The elderly Resley, who was young enough to kill people like a hemp, never lost his hand, basically killed with one shot, was once the king of killers. But now that he was old, the hand holding the gun was shaking. Moreover, in the killer company he was in, the killing performance left for him was also difficult to complete, and it was really time to retire. Even if you don't want to retire, but if your performance is not up to standard, you must also retire. At his age, it was already difficult to complete the difficult assassination mission. So, in order not to retire, in order to achieve the performance standard, he made a death book, printed a business card, and went to the river and the bridge. Once you find out who wants to die and hesitates, hurry up and take care of the living things that help people die. This time, he met William. The two sides hit it off. That is, the two sides signed a contract that stipulated that Leslie would kill William within a week. The contract amount is 2,000 yuan, and if Within a week William is not dead, then the killer company will have to return the 2,000 yuan william paid in full. That's how the name "A Week Without Dying: Full Refund" comes from.
Corresponding to the young William's confusion about the future, the old Resley's nostalgia for his career and not wanting to retire early to spend the endless days of waiting for death is too life-worthless. Here, Resley reflects the problem of life care for the elderly, the value of the existence of the elderly, and the difficulties faced by the elderly, which is also a theme of great value. Life and death, the value of life, the meaning of life, all collide here.
One small and one old, the confusion of two generations about life is reflected through a story that makes people laugh. "A Week without Dying: A Full Refund" is actually not only a torture of life and death, but also a greater degree of humanistic care.
This ultimate torture of life, as well as the humanistic care for life, has had an excellent interpretation in "Killer No Holiday". "Killer No Holiday" was released in 2008, and "One Week Not Dead: Full Refund" was released in 2018, just a decade, very interesting coincidence, and both films are about the story of the killer.
Although "Killer No Holiday" tells the story of a cold-blooded animal killer in this world, the core of the story revolves around a killer who kills a young boy by mistake in a mission. The killer's mistake of mistakenly killing innocents, and being a young boy, this mistake made the principled killer organization extremely dissatisfied, so he arranged for the wrong killer to go on vacation, and then sent other killers to him. Thus, in the desolate and remote town of Bruges, Belgium, a twisted and full of principles and moral torture was staged. All of this makes "Killer No Holiday" wonderful, very good-looking, and the culmination of British humor films.
British humor is different from American humor, in that British humor is a kind of elegant high-level humor in the bones, not harsh and seductive, not pretentious posture, not vulgar, not vulgar, not kitsch, not American shameless and impatient version of naked, but through the absurdity of the story to produce humorous effects, relying on dramatic conflicts to create laughter. After a long time after "The Killer Has No Holiday", I finally waited for the exquisite British humor film of "A Week Without Dying: Full Refund". Although it is not as big as the card division, it is not as elaborate in production as "Killer No Holiday", just a miniature version, but it is enough. The whole story of the whole film looks very serious, there is no deliberate creaky laugh, but it can always make people smile coldly, a serious nonsense that feels, and the whole viewing process is full of relaxed and humorous atmosphere. Moreover, the film also gives a warm ending at the end. Young people are finally able to find the value of life and regain hope of living. And the elderly can finally understand that retirement is also a life, as long as there is love, it can still be wonderful.
The old killer is played by the old actor Tom Wilkinson, and the young writer is played by Anaerine Barnard, a name that seems strange, and the most famous work before is the French soldier in Dunkirk. The two people acted well, showing the two diametrically opposed states of life vividly and vividly.
After watching "A Week of Immortality: Full Refund", turning around and watching "Extremely Cold Comeback" is a completely different state. The former also has an enlightening meaning, the latter is pure appreciation, and it is a bloody killing, with a feeling of happiness. Similar to the combination of "Fast And Furious" + "Mandy" + "This Killer Is Not Too Cold".
The story of "Extreme Cold Comeback" revolves around the retirement of the super-killer "Black Caesar" played by Max Mickelson. The Black Caesars here, like Leslie in One Week Undead: Full Refund, have served the killer company and are of retirement age. Resley was old and did not want to retreat, and Black Caesar was natural and should retreat. Leslie didn't want to retire because if he did, he would lose his regular income, and if Black Caesar wanted to retire, the company would offer a pension worth up to 8 million. It seems that this company is more righteous than Resley's company. But don't be busy. As a killer company, although the Resley family does not have a pension, it is still a bit human. The black Caesar family seems to have a high pension, but it is not easy to get it, because the boss wants to give it at all. Not only did he not give it, but he also wanted to kill black Caesar so that he could swallow the pension smoothly.
The next story is that the company sent a team of killers in Matt's costume to surround and kill Black Caesar. No, the nickname "Black Caesar" is not a white name, and it is not easy to be easily killed. So, what we see is how Black Caesar sniped down these so-called high-energy killers one by one. Blood plasma and knives, guns and sticks flew up one by one, killing and killing, dead and dead. Black Caesar not only had to kill the people who tried to kill him, but also had to go back and turn the entire killer company on their backs, blood and limbs flying.
More than that, it doesn't need to be said, just watching the plasma splash around, no need to think.
The lead actor Max Mikkelsen is Danish and a Danish national treasure actor. In his early years, he quickly became popular in the collaboration of Danish geek director Nicholas Winding Leifern. Later, he entered Hollywood, and his wonderful performance in "King Arthur" and "007: Casino Royale" became a golden supporting role, and won the Cannes Film Emperor with "The Hunt". Later, he starred in the American drama "Hannibal", becoming the well-known "Uncle Ba".
"Extreme Cold Comeback" is not particularly good, even not as good as Keanu Reeves's "Fast Pursuit" series, nor as good as Liam Neeson's "Hurricane Rescue" series, mainly because the action is not powerful enough, the editing is not sharp enough, Uncle Ba is always just a cold face in acting, and the mustache is not sexy enough, which is a pity. However, if you want to cool down without using your brain, it is quite interesting to see.
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