Today I would like to share a classic film from Nicolas Cage's early days, Stickman.
At that time, Nicolas Cage was still a movie emperor, not a box office poison.
"Stickman" is an American slang term,
Talk about scammers who can make you pay your heart and lungs plus money.
As the name suggests, this is a film about deception.
Cage plays a skilled "stickman" - Roy,
Roy has a partner, Frank.
The two of them are highly skilled in deception, and they cooperate very tacitly,
Take advantage of the weakness of the human heart like greed and cheapness, and win the hand.
Even if the victim wants to call the police, they will pretend to be a trading committee member and tell them that there is insufficient evidence.
In the years of his career, Roy has never missed a hand, calling himself a "cheating artist."
But Roy has some problems of his own:
Can not be outdoors for a long time, can not see the light otherwise will cause shortness of breath;
There is also a strong obsessive-compulsive disorder, such as opening the door three times;
Or super-typical "clean and secluded".
So Roy can only rely on the drugs prescribed by doctors to maintain his life and relieve his tense nerves.
Once Roy was furious and knocked over all the pills, and the doctor moved again.
So Frank reintroduced Roy as a doctor and counselor.
The doctor quickly saw Roy's problem,
It turned out that Roy had a falling out with his ex-wife 15 years ago, when she was pregnant.
After leaving his ex-wife, Roy began to suffer from this heart disease.
In the course of receiving treatment,
Roy learns that he has a daughter Angela from his ex-wife.
After that, Angela began to appear in his life.
Angela shows great interest in learning of the nature of her father's "work",
At her strong request, Roy taught her some tricks.
The clever Angela soon learned,
After the first deception plan succeeds, Roy asks her to return the money she has cheated.
The reason was that he didn't want her to go his old ways.
The new father-daughter relationship makes Roy both fresh and comforting,
Angela's appearance gave him a kind of satisfaction and joy of being a father,
For her, he had the idea of washing his hands in the golden plate, and she was changing him little by little.
Later, because of the special situation,
The only time angela was involved in a scam,
However, because of Frank's mistake, the process has become a problem.
The deceived found that the suitcase was transferred and chased all the way over,
Although they later escaped in shock, they left behind them with troubles.
After this facelessness, Roy was determined to quit the circle and fight for custody of his daughter.
But he didn't want to, the last time the deceived person came to the door and threatened him with this.
In the midst of the chaos, Angie pulled away and shot the man.
To protect his daughter, Roy asks Frank to take Angela to safety.
Roy stayed behind, ready to dispose of the body and take the charge.
At this time, he was knocked unconscious, and when he woke up, he was lying in the hospital.
Two policemen then pressed Angela and Frank about their whereabouts.
At Roy's request, the police called his psychiatrist,
And ask him to convey the code in the safe, which contains all his possessions.
If that's the end of the story,
At best, this is a warm and full of fatherly love movies.
However, it is not. At this point in the story, there is a new reversal.
What exactly is the ending? Leave some suspense for yourself to feel.
We have an old Chinese saying that "the praying mantis catches the yellow bird in the back", which is most appropriate for this movie.
In fact, the ending of the film is very easy to guess, the success of the film comes more from the actors' brilliant performances, in addition to the film emperor Cage at that time, especially to say that Alison Loman, it is said that when she made this film, she was 24 years old, and played a 14-year-old girl Angela vividly and naturally, innocent and cute.
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