In ancient times, seventy and do as you please, this is not arbitrary, but self-enjoyment.
The term is aptly applied to the 1930-born American director Clint Eastwood.
After so many years in Hollywood, The "super long standby" Toki old man got the award he deserved, won the honor he deserved, and created a unique film language.
He has achieved fame and success, and he no longer needs to prove anything to the world, but he is not willing to "retire" like this.
The pure love of movies has become the last stubbornness of the old man.
Through film works, deep and unique "self-expression" can be carried out, and in addition to Martin Scorsese of "The Irishman" and Quentin Tarantino of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", there is only Eastwood left.
Eastwood, who "let go of himself" in filmmaking, has loved "adaptations of true events" over the years.
Last year, he dedicated a "Mule" to the fans, and also played a stubborn and humorous, gentle and tough old man who transported drugs in the film.
Everyone thinks that this moving result is Eastwood's best "curtain call".
Unexpectedly, the old man is still so stubborn and strong, and his desire to perform and create is still full of points.
Similar to The Mule, Richard Jewell's Lament is based on real events.
At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, a security guard named Richard Jewell became a "hero" who saved many lives because he was the first to find explosive devices and disperse many innocent passers-by in the Olympic Century Park.
Subsequently, with the help of the agents investigating the case and the media reporters, the reversal from the hero of the rescue to the mastermind of the explosion case attracted too much attention.
Even after investigation, he was ruled out, and the name Richard Jewell was destined to be full of controversy.
In the eyes of "normal" film and television investors and moviegoers, "The Lamentations of Richard Jewell" is a work with no "highlights":
It's been so long since the Atlanta Olympic bombings, and who remembers the last name of that chubby security company employee?
According to the routine of Hollywood hero movies, Jewell should be the kind of super good guy who is in prison, but can complete a series of impossible tasks, and finally exonerate himself and prove his innocence.
However, in Eastwood's "The Lamentations of Richard Jewell", Jewell has no superpowers, is bloated, unattractive, a bit "eccentric", and is an ordinary person who cannot be seen in the pile of people.
Speaking of this, many fans will think of another work of the old master, "Captain Sully".
Like Captain Sully played by Tom Hanks in "Captain Sully", Jewell is also an ordinary person who has been pushed to the forefront of the storm due to accidents and is under unimaginable pressure from ordinary people.
In "The Lamentations of Richard Jewell", all conflicts and reversals are in the flow of time, and Mr. Dongmu's precise grasp of the rhythm of the story, as well as the restrained and restrained narrative style, make people feel familiar and comfortable.
However, the whole story is not "comfortable".
"Character determines destiny," which has been rotted by the success doctrine, is aptly applied to Jewell.
From the "God perspective", the audience felt Jewell's sensitivity, caution, kindness, sense of responsibility and memory.
Perhaps, he is an "old stubborn" who does not understand the sophistication of people, is unwilling to compromise easily, and cannot let people get off the stage, so he has been repeatedly complained about and dismissed by the boss of "reasonableness", but he is also a security worker who performs his duties and does things according to the rules, and adheres to the idealist of "law and order".
It is precisely because of this personality that Jewell's vigilance and decisiveness at key moments have been achieved, and it is precisely because of the various "flaws" in work and life that he has been pushed to the cusp of the storm.
Joe Hamm, the FBI agent played by Joe Hamm, originally has a certain "tendency" above - to investigate Jewell.
Jewell is not as heroic as the public imagines, he grew up living in a single-parent family lacking fatherly love, under the influence of patriotism, from an early age fantasy to be a good policeman. This desire was so unusual that he was too stubborn to lose his position as deputy sheriff and had to constantly look for a security job to make ends meet.
The extension of responsibility by the former employer and the criminal profile of the expert "firefighters setting fires and then fighting the fire" are all increasingly unfavorable to Jewell.
In addition, "abnormal behavior" such as living with his mother as an adult, not being confident in interviews, not paying taxes for a long time, having grenades in his home, leaving debris at the scene as a souvenir, and making homemade bombs by friends have surfaced.
The background, motives, logic, accomplices, and even circumstantial evidence all came to an end, and gradually, the agent trusted his "judgment."
The law enforcement agencies, which represent "justice," have targeted him from the start, and Hamm, who is dutiful in the course of the investigation, is only the fuse of Jewell's personal tragedy.
On the other hand, the media, which represents the public conscience, cannot sit idle. No one likes to have no follow-up news, constant tracking, reversal to attract everyone's attention.
In order to obtain the "truth" of the world-renowned bombing, Kathy Scruger, played by Olivia Wilder, used some means to find clues, and even used his body to obtain the progress of the investigation of the identity of the suspect in the bombing.
"Heroes are criminals", this is what she wants most.
Her role is to violently "burn the flames" and add fuel to the fire of the whole thing, with only one purpose - to provoke the public's attention, increase the attention and influence of the media, and add a bright color to the name of her well-known journalist.
In the name of "pursuing the truth", the media bombarded indiscriminate praise or slander, but in a blink of an eye, the so-called "turning the face faster than turning the book" is to please the audience and get considerable ratings and circulation.
The agent completed the case, the reporter completed the report, the public vented their anger, justice was done, everyone took what they needed, and the result was perfect.
Is the truth or rumor, how Jewell and his mother feel, really that important?
A "suspect-free" letter from law enforcement agencies lightly returns Jewell's innocence.
In the eyes of all, the wronged and trampled on for no reason is nothing more than an irrelevant stranger.
However, it is precisely because of the help of some people, under the incomparable pressure, it is inevitable to wrongfully wronged a "good person" in the end.
At the Spring Festival Gala, Shen Teng and Ma Li humorously and bitterly interpreted a prisoner's dilemma of "not being able to help", even if he was not perfect enough and not great enough, he was just one of all sentient beings, but he still chose to stand up at a critical moment.
Eastwood didn't seem to say anything, but said a lot, and the audience was always unsatisfied. This is the charm of this old cowboy, and the final stubbornness can always be touching.