#影视杂谈 #
It's hard to define whether this is a crime movie or a philosophical movie, and I think this contradiction is universal for a lot of films that are called "classics."
Overall, the tone presented in this film gives me both a sense of darkness and depression, as well as a bright and cheerful charm. The crime section in the film is solid, but the vision of a better life in the connotation is also ready to come out.
As stated in the "Core Overview", this is a story about a professional killer and a down-and-out little girl. The film was released in 1994 and is set against the backdrop of a criminal american social situation.
After watching the film, I pondered that if I combined the film with the social background at that time, I might be able to understand the film more thoroughly.
On the whole, in the United States in the 90s, it was not long after it emerged from the economic crisis, and there were many incidents related to the war during the period, and it is conceivable that the social situation at that time was almost the same as that presented in the film.
So from that point of view, the film is really socially symbolic.
The film's heroine, Matilda, is an unwelcome child in the family, often beaten by her parents and sister, and the only one who gets along well with her is her 4-year-old brother.
During a drug dispute over her father, her family was wiped out by anti-drug police, and she was going downstairs to buy milk for Leon.
Holding the shopping bag, she pretended to be calm and walked through the door, straight to the door of Lyon's house, constantly pressing the doorbell, just at the moment of a thousand gunshots, Lyon opened the door, and at that moment, the light hit Matilda's face, like the door to a new world opened.
Matilda told Leon that her grief was sad, only for her brother, he was only 4 years old, what did he do wrong?
Leon didn't want Matilda to follow him, and even that night, he tried to kill her while she was asleep, but he couldn't do it. Later, under matilda's nonsense, Laon agreed to keep him by his side.
During the time they spend together, they change each other, Matilda's lively jumping brings joy and joy to Lyon's dull and boring life, and Lyon also helps Matilda get rid of some bad habits, such as smoking.
Matilda found herself in love with Leon, and her frank personality made her show affection in front of Lyon more than once, and Lyon was always caught off guard.
Because Matilda follows Lyon to learn to be a killer, Lyon takes her on simple "work" and hands-on teaching.
When Leon professor Matilda used a gun, I once felt the darkness and depression of the atmosphere of the film, but the result was not live ammunition, but some prank-like toy bullets.
One time, Matilda returned to her former home to get something back, but in the process she accidentally learned the address of the murderer of her family, so she began to obsess over revenge. This is also a turning point in the plot.
Matilda found some private money at home, a small amount, and wanted to pay Leon to avenge him (Leon had previously told her $5,000 a head).
Leon refused, and he refused with a classic line: "Once you start revenge, there will be no good results, believe me, or forget the good, after you kill people, everything will be different, your life will be completely changed, and you will probably have to turn a blind eye to sleep for the rest of your life."
Naturally, Matilda could not listen to persuasion, and she finally chose to do it herself, which caused big trouble.
Her family's killer, Stan Fidel, is a high-ranking FBI officer who is ostensibly a narcotics cop but is secretly engaged in drug crimes, and after learning that Leon has broken into the FBI to rescue Matilda and kill his men, he makes a big fuss and sends troops to surround Lyon and Matilda's hotel.
As a result, Lyon helped Matilda evacuate first, while he put on the clothes of the casualties and escaped the danger, and as he prepared to escape from the hotel, the light outside the gate illuminated his bloodstained face, and he smiled slightly, and a new life was in sight.
But he could never arrive, and Stan Field followed behind and fired a dark shot, and Leon fell in front of the gate of light. Interestingly, there was no tragic gunshot in this section of the bridge.
Before Leon died, he put something he was holding tightly into Stan's hand, which was a grenade safety plug... Then there was a violent explosion, and the flames were brilliant, impacting in all directions.
It dawned on me that Stan's dark gun was so insignificant compared to Leon's grenade, so he didn't deserve a sound.
The violent explosion was like a farewell to the old days, and it was like a salute to the new era. The picture switches, Matilda runs through the sunny streets with Lyon's beloved potted plants and her own teddy bear, her face is not sad, but the sadness in it is self-evident.
In the end, Matilda followed Lyon's instructions and went to Tony (Lyon's boss) to inherit his inheritance and then returned to school (Spencer School).
In the process of matilda and the headmaster of Spencer School, the old headmaster's words are quite intriguing: "When you first came here, we didn't have time to get to know each other, but I hope you can understand that I will never let a child down, no matter what her situation is, no matter what mistakes she makes, so I will help you and sincerely welcome you back here." 」
At the end of the film, Matilda plants Lyon's beloved potted plant under a large tree on the campus lawn and mutters, "I think we can live here in peace, Leon."
I must admit that since I began writing film reviews, "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" is the most informative film, it focuses on not many characters, but the personalities of these characters are precisely condensed the characteristics of that era.
Matilda's environment of growth allowed her to see the darkness of society prematurely, which had a great impact on her worldview.
For example, once, Matilda and Leon finished work together and ate in the hotel, and after a little drunkenness, Matilda wanted to kiss Leon in public.
One night, after the two became intimate, Matilda wore a pink dress that Leon had given her and asked Leon to have sex with her. And she was only 14 years old (though she said she was 18).
Leon is an Italian, fled to the United States due to emotional troubles in his early years, and has been a professional killer ever since, he can kill people calmly and calmly, but in his heart he yearns for a normal and beautiful life like a normal person.
In a way, his beloved potted plant is his true self, and he once said: "It is my best friend, always happy and carefree, just like me, without roots".
When Matilda arbitrarily breaks into his life, the kindness and cuteness of the humanity he has always hidden are slowly revealed, such as when he first opened the door to Matilda, using a cartoon pig's head glove to role-play, trying to alleviate Matilda's sadness.
He also cooperated with Matilda's innocence, playing role-playing and guessing names with her, and these details showed the warm side of his personality.
In addition, Matilda, after experiencing a family tragedy, desperately wants to become a killer, while Leon is tired of the life of a killer, and the contrast between the two is like the sentence that Qian Zhongshu said in "The Siege": "People outside the city want to go in, people in the city want to come out."
This contrast is not only in line with the inner contradictions of the people of that era, but also in line with the contradictions of the hearts of contemporary people. People who haven't experienced it desperately want to experience it, and people who have experienced it just want to flee quickly.
The little girl's love for the uncle can be described as the heaviest taste in the film, and it is also the strongest artistic contrast in the film. This almost crazy plot design is like a kind of emotional catharsis that reflects people who are helpless and depressed.
Although bold and extreme, Xiaopin felt that this was a way to pursue happiness in the context of that era, and the final confession of the two was particularly touching:
Leon: "You will not lose me, Matilda, you let me experience the true meaning of life, I want to be a happy person, sleep in bed (Leon originally sat and slept, and did not dare to sleep too deeply, until Matilda asked him to sleep in bed one night, he slept well that night), landed on the ground, I will not leave you alone again... I love you, Matilda."
Matilda: "I love you, Leon..."
Judging from Matilda's story line, she went from the very beginning of escaping from school, experiencing family tragedies, to spending a wonderful life, until finally returning to campus and being accepted by the school, implying in the dark that no matter how ridiculous life is, returning to normal is the ultimate shortcut to happiness in life.
Lyon, by contrast, paved the way for Matilda's path to happiness and represents a beauty that everyone inadvertently loses as they grow up.
The film is titled "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and the anti-drug police who are supposed to represent justice in the film are portrayed as heinous bastards, and the professional killer who should be notorious has become the guardian of the beauty of the world, which reminds us that we should look at everyone in life in two.
The biggest feature of this film is that at the beginning, the tone it sets for your first instinct is gray and depressed, and when you watch the whole film, you will find that those gray and depressed colors will be annihilated little by little with the advancement of the plot, and finally only the truth and warmth are left.
Speaking of this, the content of this article is almost the same, life is really hard, and finally uses a line from Leon as a conclusion: "You have experienced a terrible day, go to sleep, we will discuss it tomorrow, okay?" ”
May we who trek in the long river of life be able to taste the beauty and warmth of human nature.