Thoughts on killing people with a knife
What we need to worry about in our time is not so many murders, but that one day, the murderer is right.
The power of this work surprises me. I want to describe it as a tusk. Short and strong, you can see blood in one bite. I couldn't help watching it three times at once, except for the last part, which was a typical Hollywood cliche and not worth mentioning until the rollover part was very interesting.
To some extent, movies can be regarded as a kind of satire. Killer's clothing is a typical professional manager, working according to the contract, using a tablet computer, doing a lot of "preparatory work" before killing everyone, and accurately following the schedule. Even the whole philosophy he used in the face of unexpected events is regarded as the standard by people in the shopping mall today? Adapt to the environment, improvise, and always be ready to start Plan B. If the "killing" itself is stripped off, Vincent is a perfect professional manager. This reminds me of the author's diagnosis of modern society in the book "The End of Western Civilization": in the workplace, emotions are stripped out. In the business environment, all "personal feelings" behaviors are considered "unprofessional". A great victory of modern rational discourse is the exile of emotion, and our era is an era in which reason overcomes sensibility. So Vincent is going to laugh at the sentimentality of taxi driver Max. Vincent often said, "I live by this!" " "(I make a living), the subtext is: this is just my job, and it has nothing to do with emotion and morality. Just like an example mentioned in Said's On Intellectuals, one of his students who killed people by flying bombers in the war called his job "target recognition" and instantly washed his moral responsibility through professional terms. In fact, Vincent posed a moral dilemma to everyone: If your work is immoral, do you choose to give up resolutely with "emotion" or strive for a major with "reason"? Perhaps in the extreme case of killing people, ordinary people can easily make a choice. But in another case, for example, a project of your company will damage the health of some consumers, can you make a quick choice?
Even in the extreme case of murder, the eloquent killer Vincent pushed the conscience of every ordinary person to an awkward corner. If we don't care about the fact that millions of people in Rwanda were slaughtered before sunset, why should we be sad that he killed an irrelevant person? Adorno's famous saying "There is no poetry after Auschwitz" seems to have found a distant bosom friend. Can we talk about the murder after Rwanda?
If you and I are just a speck of dust lost in thousands of stars, what is the meaning of life? I find that I like this philosopher killer more and more.
Thoughts on Killing with a Knife (Ⅱ)
"Max, a man got on the subway and died in it. Will anyone find out? "
The movie Killing with a Sword unites two Hollywood superstars, Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, and they perform a psychological suspense action movie together. This is a story about two men and a story about this city. Los Angeles, a bustling metropolis, is creating countless money and huge wealth every day. However, behind the bustling streets and endless crowds, what is hidden is the extreme indifference and loneliness between people.
From the beginning, the film showed us the noisy scene of a metropolis. The noisy crowd and traffic intertwined, forming the modern city of Los Angeles. Taxi drivers waiting at the main station, some reading newspapers, some talking on the phone, are too busy to talk.
Max, the hero of the film, is an ordinary taxi driver. He worked day after day for twelve years, without benefits, social security and paid holidays, and lived on a meager income of $350 every night. He works hard every day and dreams of getting rid of the mediocre life and starting a car company one day. Until one night, he met Vincent, a cold-blooded professional killer, and coerced Max to start a desperate journey with him.
In fact, Max has an ordinary life and an ordinary job, just like those of us who live in cities. He has a little dream in his heart, but he looks pale and weak in front of reality, a little vain, but lacks courage. Dreams and reality are incompatible after all. Taxi driver is not a decent job, let alone a successful career. He is not a successful person, but he always likes to imagine himself as a successful person. In his spare time, he encouraged himself with the dream of the car company, but his dream was never put into action. In fact, Max is a microcosm of millions of urbanites in Qian Qian, just as you can see you at the age of 60 at the age of 20, and your youthful ambition gradually loses its original appearance in daily necessities. The boss's smelly face, soaring oil prices and boring work are bound by the cruelty of reality, and people will never have a chance to bargain. While creating great material wealth, bustling cities are eroding our inner world bit by bit.
Vincent seems to be more like a program killer. He is cold, professional and meticulous. He is a killing machine. He was hired by others to kill people he didn't know, and then simply pulled the trigger and took others' lives. As a killer, he is always expressionless. He does it for a living. In his world, there is no sympathy and pity, only killing and being killed. But deep down, he hates this indifference. "A person died in the subway, and it took people six hours to find that people in the subway went up and down, even sitting next to him, but no one noticed." This is Vincent's evaluation of Los Angeles. There are tens of millions of people in this city, but no one knows them. No one cares about your thoughts, your actions, or even your life and death. Extreme indifference and selfishness are suffocating in the air of this material world. Every day, everyone, everyone just wants to do their own thing and go their own way. Other people's business has nothing to do with yourself. In the film, the killer Vincent can kill four witnesses in one night and coerce Max to drive for him. Max is reluctant, but he can't resist. The taxi is parked in the alley next to the street. Max's hands were tied to the steering wheel. He honked his horn hard, hoping to get help from passers-by, but no one paid attention to him. Everyone hurried on, and no one cared. Finally someone came to take a taxi, a group of street hooligans. Ignoring Max's request, they robbed the property from the taxi again and again, and then ran away.
Director michael mann created two completely different roles. In a specific scene, Vincent's coldness and Max's cowardice form a sharp contrast and fierce collision. The distance between dream and reality is magnified with the deepening of the film, and both * * * show the desolation and helplessness of the city. City life gives them the same pressure, but they release it in different ways.
To some extent, the indifference of this city has created a homicidal maniac without humanity. On the one hand, I don't agree with his cold blood, on the other hand, I feel lonely and helpless. People living in cities have no standards of good and evil. Killing people doesn't need a reason, just for killing people. Since you don't care about other people's lives, who cares about yours? Vincent tried to use this theory to persuade Max to calm down and continue driving for him.
In fact, the movie "Killing with a Knife" is about the meaning of life. What are we living for, living for our dreams? Live for money? When one day we are old and forget our dreams, we are hypnotized by TV every day, and finally we find that nothing has happened. Max finally achieved self-salvation in this life-and-death journey. When he saw all the innocent people die because of this game of impeded lives, the courage hidden in his heart finally broke through his cowardice. "It doesn't matter. We are all insignificant in big cities, so what if we don't succeed? Let's do it again. " He found that all he needed to do was to pursue his dream for many years. As long as he has a dream in his heart, he must bravely practice it, and it is never too late.
At the end of the film, Max successfully rescued Vincent's last goal that night-a female prosecutor he had seen. In the subway, Max and Vinson had a duel. In the end, Vinson lost. He didn't shoot again, but sat quietly in the empty car seat. For cold-blooded killer, who is no longer attached to this world, death is a relief. He witnessed this disappointing world with his last strength. "A man got on the subway and died in it. Will anyone find out? "
Thoughts on killing people with a knife
I had great respect for the killer when he lowered his head. A professional killer who killed for a living ended up dead at the hands of a taxi driver who couldn't even use a gun (see the part where he broke the glass). Think about it, what else can it show except that the murderer deliberately released water? Let's review the killer's killing process and methods from beginning to end. Clean and tidy, never dragging his feet, almost shot his head. In the ballroom with so many people, no one was accidentally injured (everyone here is passers-by A and B). As for the police, it can't be counted, because I think the police are always the opposite of the murderer. ), when the hooligan snatched MAX's wallet, the killer's skill once again proved to us his professional skills and his magical judgment when he finally chose the subway. Through the above performance, can we still question his professionalism? So, seriously, the killer released water on the last subway. For the murderer, releasing water means suicide, so he chose to let Max end himself. Then people will ask, why did he choose to release water and why did he choose to die at the hands of this taxi driver? I will elaborate on why this is the case, which is exactly what I respect about him.
From the beginning, when he chose to take a MAX taxi, he certainly didn't think that this car had been his goal. He certainly didn't think that MAX would like his female passenger, and he didn't think that the driver would have a series of entanglements with him. When he lost to Max in Bet on Time, he decided to spend all his actions with the taxi driver tonight. I think a killer can rarely find a taxi driver who can keep the time to minutes, and here we can see that the killer himself is also a person who pays great attention to time (of course, the killer himself is very strict with time. What I just didn't expect was that such an accident happened. A flying man smashed a car and let the taxi driver know his identity. This is really unexpected for the killer. At this time, the dramatic content began. The killer learned that MAX was oppressed by his boss and stood up to protect MAX's rights and interests. The hooligan robbed Max and was ruthlessly suppressed by the killer. Visit Max's mother and learn about Max's dream. In the conversation, we can see that the murderer woke Max up after knowing Max's personality weakness. Here, I think the murderer has developed some feelings (feelings of mutual pity) for MAX. From the picture of two people watching a wolf crossing the road, we can directly see the killer's affirmation of MAX's character until he went to get the information. I think he sent Max on purpose. Why did he do it? I think it's to make Max sure of himself. Break through yourself, because there are few opportunities to break through yourself in life. If you can't grasp it, you can only wait for death. Of course, this is expressed in an exaggerated way, because for MAX, there is only one chance. If you can't do it yourself, it's a way out. This is the intention and purpose of the murderer. In many lines, the killer is coaxing MAX and teaching him to seize the opportunity. He also fully believes in MAX's ability, because he sees himself in MAX. This shows that the killer is confident and trusts MAX. Until the end, he knew that the person who was finally killed was MAX's secret crush, and he asked MAX to call him. He said there were only two people tonight. Through these, I saw the bright spot in the murderer. He is not so heartless, but full of human feelings, because he didn't want to kill the taxi driver Max from the beginning.
Let's start with the ending. Killer itself is an unconventional profession. They are destined to carry out the task alone and die alone. So the killer chose a quiet way to end himself on the midnight subway, and of course helped Max. In my opinion, the killer made a sacrifice for Max to complete a heroic rescue. Until the end, everyone is still struggling with the ending, so I still want to say why everyone is struggling with the ending. That's because people can't accept a professional killer like me, but it is this kind of death that is of great significance to the killer, because he helps him think that there is an ideal other him, that is, Max. So in the end, I think that the killer is not alone, because MAX has become his friend. Although the process of making friends is a little different.
The most unforgettable thing in the film is the taxi driver's attitude towards life!
He may be mediocre, but he has many qualities that the so-called elite does not have. In today's declining social morality, it may be difficult for you to do good deeds, because in most people's minds, selfishness is in line with common sense. I'm afraid your kindness will be misunderstood as ulterior motives, which is nobody's responsibility. This is a big environmental problem. Sadly, alas!
Is such an ordinary person, he also has his own beautiful ideal, although his life is not very rich, but because of this ideal, it can be said that his spiritual world is rich and his life is very substantial!
Can you say that his life is unhappy?
This is not the spirit of Ah Q, but a very valuable attitude of taking things as they are and facing life correctly.
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