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Today I want to talk about an old movie that I like very much - "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", the reason why the classic is a classic lies in the details, different time periods to see, always encounter new resonance points.
What touched me this time was the title of this article: Two lonely people are in love.
Next, let's cut the details, and I will take you to revisit this classic.
First, lonely people meet
At the beginning of the film, Lyon appears. At this time, the middleman (Tony) gives him a new task, and they don't talk much, their faces are half exposed, and they are full of mystery.
The Middleman: Are you available on Tuesday?
LEON: Well, there's availability.
After saying that, I took a sip of milk.
What followed was a hearty fight scene, which was also where I was directly attracted to watching this movie when I was a child. Leon divided three by five, easily killed Xiao Fat's men, and finally put the knife holder on Xiao Fat's neck and let him dial the phone on the piece of paper.
After the little fat finished fighting, Leon collected the knife and disappeared into the darkness, leaving only the frightened little fat.
The design of this play is very subtle, the rhythm is fast, the music is in place, Leon kills people like chopping melons and chopping vegetables, and the little fat breath is like gossamer. To be honest, the first time I watched it, I was also frightened by Leon's ghostly figure, and I also remembered this top killer.
At this point, the protagonist Leon's first label is standing: the top killer.
At the end of the mission, Lyon took the subway home like an office worker, walking around the store with a suitcase, and the boss asked him: Two cartons of milk as usual? (This is his daily behavior.) In addition, he has been drinking milk, and I also started drinking milk after watching this movie. On the road to drinking milk, Lyon is my guide)
Going upstairs home, Leon met Martina, who was sitting by the stairs. I have to say that our Nana's clothes are really good, small leather boots, stockings, flower autumn pants with comic strips (I also want one), striped sweaters, loophole white shawls, small neck collars, coupled with her short hair, melancholy look, the image of a little girl with a heart, ready to come out.
I want to come to ten autumn pants
In the blink of an eye, Martina was slapped by his father, a crisp slap, fanned out Nana's family status, but also fanned out the absurdity and misfortune of this family.
At a deeper level, you can see that Martina, who grew up in such a family, must be unhappy.
Back at home, Leon began his series of daily operations: collecting greenery, closing windows, bathing, blowing a fan and drinking milk, ironing clothes, wiping down greenery, and finally putting on sunglasses and sitting in a chair to sleep. I woke up the next day, exercised, placed greenery on the windowsill of the rising sun, went to the movie alone, and showed a rare little smile.
It can be seen that Leon is very lonely, not to mention the tenth level of loneliness, even if there is another hundred levels, he can also occupy it all.
Also pay attention to this line in the movies that Leon watched – love makes us look at people and things from different perspectives (or translated as love makes our lives different). It was actually a foreshadowing, and after Leon and Martina were together, his life changed a lot.
Leon returned home for the second time and met Martina again. Classic dialogue appears:
"Is life always so hard? Or is it only like this in childhood? ”
"Always."
This dialogue is very classic, resulting in many authors writing about life is not easy to put in from time to time. But when I saw it again, I noticed Martina's straight-laced eyes, transposition, and the twelve-year-old certainly couldn't say such a thing.
If I had seen Leon dressed in black, the most I could have said was, "Uncle, come back."
Leon replied to me: Hmm.
But Martina opened her mouth differently, asking very philosophical questions, directly exploring the origin of life. This is the gap between me and Nana, which shows that she loves to think and thinks less.
Combined with Martina's smoking, dazed, and beaten earlier, compared to her question "Is it only like this in childhood", it shows that she especially wants to grow up and live her own life.
There is a detail in the film when she receives a call from a school teacher who asks where Martina has gone, and she pretends to be her mother, saying that she is dead. A little girl, saying that she herself is dead, is desperate and helpless, and only she herself knows.
She imagines that adults have the ability to love others, so lying about their age, pretending to be adults, everything, is to hope to be loved.
When her family was killed, Martina was walking back with what she had just bought, and she reacted quickly, walking directly to Lyon's door, ringing the doorbell, and begging Lyon to open the door.
At this time, Lyon witnessed everything outside, and at the same time was repeatedly entangled.
Do you want to open the door?
As an outsider, I want Leon to open the door quickly and save Martina, and even hope that he will take the gun and go out and get rid of the bad guys. Of course, he definitely has that ability.
He finally opened the door, but the whole time he seemed extremely nervous, repeatedly looking out from the cat's eyes and scratching the area behind his ears. I don't know if you have noticed this detail, as a top killer, why should Leon be so nervous?
In my opinion, in the film, Leon is also an outsider, and a real outsider. He has been engaged in the work of a killer for many years, living in simplicity, trying to pretend to be an ordinary person on the one hand, and on the other hand, he must not want others to disturb his life.
He was struggling, because after opening the door, there would be one more person in his home, which meant that his life would change.
Change, for a killer, can be fatal.
But he still opened the door, and the moment he opened the door, the light hit Martina's face, and she embraced the light.
Leon asked her: Do you still have family, or can you go anywhere else?"
Martina shook her head.
When Leon goes to get the milk (I suspect he drinks it as water), Martina discovers his weapon and asks about his profession, indicating that she wants to hire Leon to avenge her brother.
Leon said: Five thousand dollars per person.
At night, Leon was distraught and had trouble sleeping, and he couldn't make up his mind about the strange intruder, and then took up a gun and prepared to solve the problem.
The muzzle of the gun was already aimed at Martina's head, but Leon couldn't get his hands on it.
His principle is: do not kill women, do not kill children.
So a new life began.
Two, two twelve-year-olds fall in love
Director Luc Besson once said: "It's about two little children, a girl and a boy, in their hearts, they are both 12 years old, they both feel lost and love each other deeply." ”
I don't know if you have noticed that Lyon only when he is with Martina, he will show his true feelings, laugh and be shy, and when he is out on a mission, he is as cold as a mountain.
After meeting Martina, Leon is no longer cold and becomes a talker. He would repeatedly tell Martina not to smoke, not to socialize with strangers, and to tell her to forget revenge, because doing so would completely change her life. He is no longer an outsider, he has become a "party" completely.
Martina says she wants to be a killer like Leon, but Leon refuses, citing being too young to be appropriate.
This hurt Nana's self-esteem, because she always wanted to grow up, didn't want others to treat her like a child, picked up a pistol and shot it out the window.
The two moved for the first time.
Classic scene
Finding the hotel, because Leon is not good at words, Martina deftly copes with everything, saying that she is an art student, that she and Lyon are father-daughter relationships, and tactfully take the form and fill it out herself. All this shows the cleverness of the character, and in contrast to her is Leon's alertness, and when he goes to the room, he examines it carefully, showing his consistent professionalism.
After moving in, Leon began to teach Martina the skills of using a gun, Martina was responsible for daily chores, and the two trained together, drank milk, played dress-up games, and their relationship deepened.
Leon, who had been serious before, gradually had a smile on his face.
He said: "This green plant is my best friend, just like me, without roots.
Martina said: If you really like it, you should plant it in the park and let it take root.
As Leon said, the green plant has two meanings, one is like him, without roots, floating around; the other is like his best friend, accompanying him, and he also gives the green plant the most careful care. (When the girl was finally allowed to escape, Leon wrapped the green plants and threw them down the ventilation duct.)
Martina fulfilled her words and buried the green plant in the ground and let it take root.
The cold killer is dumb and hammered.
After meeting you, a lot of things have changed.
In the movie, as a milk drinker, Leon sprays milk twice before and after.
For the first time, Martina said his name was a little cute.
The second time, Martina said: "Leon, I seem to be a little in love with you."
LEON: How do you know, since you haven't loved.
Martina: I feel it.
Lyon: Where?
Martina put her hand on her stomach and said: Here, in my stomach, it is hot. It used to be like a knot here, but now it doesn't.
Leon said that he was going to be late, but as soon as he walked out of the house, he broke the defense, leaned against the wall and exhaled, put on his sunglasses and walked out of the hotel.
The mission is complete, and Leon returns to the house, where he uses his left hand to hand over the gift he bought for the girl. Bow your head and say: This is for you, a gift.
Before he entered, Martina quickly switched transformers on TV to news because she didn't want to be treated like a child by him. At the same time, Leon was breathing heavily as he delivered the gift, and he should have taken a few deep breaths at the door to calm his nervousness before he said the gift-giving words.
This was the first time Leon had given a gift, and there was shyness in the tension, and there was anticipation in the shyness, and before he could finish speaking, he was chased away by the hotel owner. (Martina tells the boss during the day that Leon is not her father, but lover)
Second change of accommodation.
Martina was obsessed with revenge, but Leon didn't want her to do that.
Leon said: Once the revenge begins, there will be no good results. I'm afraid you'll have to sleep with one eye closed for the rest of your life.
He began to think sincerely about the other party, and finally helped her avenge.
The girl raised her gun and said if I win, you will never leave me for the rest of your life.
In the end she did win, and Leon raised his hand to save her.
In addition to Martina's resoluteness, there is another detail here, where Leon can hear the sound of bullets being loaded.
This detail explains the final stage, when Leon walked out of the passage, he must have known that the bad guy was behind him, but he had already made up his mind to die with the bad guy, otherwise he would not have pulled out the ring of grenade after being beaten.
After the last incident, their feelings deepened, and Leon was convinced that martina was already in his heart. He doesn't know how to respond to this love, so he can only follow Martina's heart, teach her killer skills, and take her on a mission with him.
They cooperated again and again, sticking gum, cutting door chains, and entering the house. It wasn't until during a mission, when the others had taken precautions, that Leon protected Martina and settled the battle with grenades.
He said, "That's called the pull-ring game." At the end of the movie, he uses the pull ring game again.
This is also a foreshadowing.
Third, the truth is revealed
Leon again finds the middleman, Tony Sr., and begins to entrust the aftermath, making it clear: If something happens to me, my money will be left to Martina.
After handing this over, he was actually ready to avenge Martina, and coincidentally, both of them took action, and Martina was captured.
Before going out, Leon revealed his true feelings: After I met you, everything was different.
Learning that Martina went alone to get revenge, Leon went to the Federation Building alone and told the taxi driver: Wait for me here, I will come when I go.
Enter the door, beat the security guard, find someone, shoot, save the girl, all in one go.
They hugged each other tightly and staged the most cute height difference.
This rescue and this hug represent the first time that the relationship between the two is obvious, before Lyon is in a state of "knowing but not how to confirm". In addition, his previous missions were basically assassinations, and this time it was a blatant storming of the federal building and killing the police.
A killer walking in the dark, turning on frontal hard mode, all for the sake of his beloved.
Back at home in the evening, Martina put on the dress that Leon had bought her earlier, with a shy face (in memory, this was Martina's first shyness), and expressed her desire to give her first time to Leon.
Leon refused, saying what he had done before he came to the United States.
He had liked a girl before, but the girl was from an aristocratic background, and her father disagreed and killed her. Leon later avenged the girl, ran to the United States, and became a killer.
Finally he said with tears in his eyes: I will not be a good lover.
It can be seen that he already loves the girl very much at this time, but he still has a little inferiority in his heart, afraid of not being worthy of her, and afraid of hurting her.
That night, the girl let him sleep in bed, which was the first time in so many years that he had fallen asleep.
The next day Leon asked: Am I asleep? I've never slept in all these years.
Martina: I haven't seen anyone who hasn't fallen asleep, but snores so loudly.
Did I snore?
Like a baby.
At the side of his lover, Leon felt warmth and security for the first time.
Here's another detail, after Martina got out of bed, Leon continued to lie down on the bed, straightened her feet, and relived happiness.
Later, the troops knocked on the door, and Leon, after saving Martina, insisted on sending her away. Here's the real outpouring of true feelings, I'll go straight to the picture.
At the end of the film, Leon dies with the bad guys and avenges Martina.
Martina buried the green plants in the ground and started a new life.
Fourth, the song will eventually disperse
Counting up, this is the tenth time I have seen this movie, and every time I have a new feeling, this time I simply saved all the details I liked in the form of screenshots and shared them with everyone at once.
In fact, in the past, I especially hoped that Leon would survive, and even when I already knew the ending, when I watched the movie again, I would silently expect Leon to kill her opponent.
Objectively speaking, judging by the abilities that Lyon has shown earlier, he should be aware of the danger of the passage and should also know the hidden bad guys. Maybe the same end is the end he chose, to help Martina fulfill her wishes, but also to help her start a new life.
Who knows? Good works are like this, leaving people with countless imagination space, leaving regrets, leaving sighs.
To put it another way, if Leon survives and they continue to live, what will they face? Perhaps it is the world's incomprehension and more troubles, a killer is originally unable to see the light, and the love between the older killer and the little girl has no good ending.
So the director said, it's the story of two little kids, and in their hearts, they're both twelve.
Leon said: "I am old enough, but not yet mature.
Martina said: I have matured, and I can only grow old in the future.
They met each other and changed each other's lives. Love, though short-lived, has been deeply planted.
I think this is also the charm of love, its form is thousands, here, we see a very special one.
I remembered Leon's laughter and Martina's last calm.