? Wei Mou

? The movie "Mystic River" tells the story of three childhood playmates, Jimmy Macken and Dai. The stories of Vee Bowie and Sean Devan. Different life experiences have resulted in completely different fateful endings for the three people.

? The film spends a lot of time on the intertwining of the three people’s lives as adults. It uses the murder case of Jimmy Macken’s daughter Katie Macken as an analysis point, cutting through the layers to reveal the intricate... The connected relationship, and gives the ending of the story development. The childhood friendship has experienced the fading of time and the destruction of fate, leaving only a sigh.

? (1) Film and cast

? The film stars Sean Penn, with Laurence Fishburne and Laura Linney playing supporting roles in the film . Due to Sean Penn's outstanding performance in "Mystic River", for his role as Jimmy Macken, he defeated Johnny Depp, who starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean", at the 2004 Academy Awards. Won an Oscar for Best Actor once. Sean Penn won the Oscar again for his movie "Milk" in 2009.

In the film, actor Tim Robbins, who played the role of David Bowie, also won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. "Mystic River" won these two awards that year, but in the fierce competition for the best picture award, it was unfortunately defeated by the superior series film "Lord of the Rings 3".

? In addition, in addition to Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden disguised David's wife Cleese in the film, adding many "doubts" to the character. "The content and the way it is expressed through eyes and facial expressions are also remarkable.

(2) Character analysis of the film

? A. Jimmy

? Jimmy is a character who is both good and evil. He loves his family and waiting for his daughter to return at the door every night is enough to feel his love. At the same time, he has a ruffian spirit in his bones. He has been in jail for robbery. As an adult, he has interacted with several gangsters such as Nick and Weir. After learning that his daughter had been killed, he led his brothers into the scene and arranged for his men to investigate the murderer. He wanted to find the murderer before the police and carry out revenge.

? B. David

? David has a cowardly character and loves his wife and son deeply. When he was a child, he was tricked into the basement by a pedophile criminal and sexually assaulted, but he escaped from the clutches of the devil in 4 days. David picks up his son every day and plays baseball with him. He is a major suspect in the murder of Jimmy's daughter Katie.

? C. David’s wife Cress

? Cress is obviously a kind-hearted woman who loves her husband and son very much. After Katie was killed, she and David spent several days at Katie's home to comfort and keep company. She was sensitive enough to realize that the robbery case David said was false, and David was most likely the murderer of Katie. The relationship between Cress and David became increasingly cold, and she even took her son to stay in a hotel. After a difficult choice between her husband and her conscience, she would rather sacrifice her husband and she told Jimmy the truth.

? D. Sean

? Sean, Jimmy and David were childhood playmates. When they grew up, the three of them became very indifferent. As a police officer, Sean is resolute, kind, decisive, and a capable officer who thinks everything through. Maybe he is a workaholic and his wife and son are separated from him.

? (3) David’s Lie

? Next, let’s take a look at the content in the video. David Bowie came home from the bar at three o'clock in the night. He was covered in blood and his belly was cut. He explained to his wife, Cleese, that he encountered a robber, and the fight may have resulted in the robber's death. In the following days, the newspapers did not publish news of the man's death, but only the news that Jimmy's daughter Katie was brutally murdered in the park.

? Regarding his injured hand, when others asked him, his answers were completely inconsistent, and it was obvious that he was not telling the truth. When Jimmy asked, David said he moved the sofa and hit the doorpost. When Sean and Detective Bowers asked, David said he was injured by the garbage disposal. During the interrogation after the car was stolen, David told Detective Sean and Bowers that he was scratched by the barbed wire fence in the backyard while helping his son pick up baseballs.

? About the time of the crime. The McGill Bar is only a five-minute walk from David's home. He left the bar at 1 a.m., but it was 3 a.m. when he returned home covered in blood. He had plenty of time to commit the crime.

There are various signs that David’s lies cannot withstand scrutiny and he is very suspicious. Since the time of Katie's murder coincided with the period when he deliberately made up lies and concealed it, the suspect information in the case pointed to him.

(4) Development of events

After Katie disappeared, the police investigated Katie’s boyfriend Brandon Harris, but the investigation found that he was not suspected of committing the crime, and he He and Katie are planning to get married secretly in the near future. With Katie's body found in the park, police investigate to find her killer.

While the police were investigating the case, Jimmy also arranged for his personnel to investigate the murderer of his daughter. After learning of David's suspicion, he and his men forced David to confess by the river. David changed his story and said that the bloodstained body on Saturday night was not a robber but a fight with a pedophile criminal. Jimmy didn't believe it and forced David to confess. After killing Katie, Jimmy shot David and dumped his body in the river.

At the same time, through ballistic analysis, the police traced the ".38 Smith" pistol used by Ray Harris to rob a hotel 18 years ago, and traced Brandon Harris. Brandon went home to look for guns and learned that his brother and friend John O'Shea had killed his girlfriend Katie.

(5) Six cases

? Below, we will sort out several real cases in the film.

? Case 1: Lao Lei Harris

? Lao Lei Harris, born in 1957, was caught embezzling subway tokens in 1983 and therefore lost his job. 1984 hotel robbery. He served a year in prison for robbing comic books in 1985. After he was released from prison, he took drugs. In 1986, he was caught stealing a car of cigarettes, but he was not imprisoned because he confessed to Jimmy, the suspect in another robbery case in Boston. Disappeared in August 1988.

? Case 2: Jimmy

? Jimmy Macken took the lead in committing the crime when he was a teenager, but the police never had evidence to arrest him. Because he led three people to commit a robbery in Boston, he was confessed by Old Ray Harris. He served two years in prison and was released from prison in June 1988. (Old Ray Harris disappeared two months after Jimmy was released from prison.)

? Case 3: David

? When three friends were causing trouble on the street, David was A pedophile man was forced into a car, placed under house arrest in a basement, and escaped after being sexually assaulted for four days.

? Case 4: Katie

? Jimmy’s 19-year-old daughter Katie and two girls went to the bar to have fun on Saturday night and disappeared after leaving the bar at 00:45 on Sunday morning. She was shot in the car and killed in the park by Ray Harris Jr., the brother of her boyfriend Brandon Harris, and his friend John O'Shea with a hockey stick and a pistol.

? Case 5: David

? David left the bar at 00:45 on Sunday morning to go home. On the way, he saw a pedophile man killing boys in a car. Out of justice and because he had been hurt in the same way, he stepped forward to fight the pedophile man and help the boy escape from the clutches of the pedophile. David returned home injured and covered in blood. Because he had a psychological shadow over such incidents, could not bear to look back and did not want to mention them, he explained to his wife that he had met a robber.

? Case 6: Jimmy

? Jimmy lost his beloved daughter Katie and hated the murderer.

After confirming that the murderer was his childhood playmate David, he arranged for Nick and Will to trick David into getting drunk in a bar, and forced David to admit killing Katie by the river. Then he shot David dead and dumped his body in the river. Jimmy learned from Sean early the next morning that he had killed David by mistake last night.

? (6) Details

? Let’s enjoy some of the wonderful details in the film.

? A. Three naughty children signed their names on the newly poured concrete pavement: Jimmy, Sean, and David. However, when David wrote the letters DA, their behavior was stopped. . After that, their lives completely changed. The unfinished story of David happens to correspond silently with David's life that ended abruptly, which makes people deeply moved. In addition, Sean and David did not dare to sign, but Jimmy was the first to "bravely" sign first, which is consistent with his impulsive and fiery personality as an adult.

? B. When David came home injured late at night, he explained to his wife Cleese what happened to the robbers. David said he punched the robber when he stepped forward. After a while, he said that the robbers showed off their knives and stabbed David while pretending to borrow a lighter. Kress casually asked: "Didn't you punch him first?" At this time, David's lie had been revealed, and the case he described was fabricated.

? C. Sean once asked Cress privately what time David got home on Saturday night. In order to protect her husband, Cleese said that she had fallen asleep when David came home and did not know the exact time. At this point, she was still in love with her husband, and it was only later that she was tortured by her conscience and told Jimmy the truth.

? D. The differences between David's wife Cleese are becoming increasingly serious. David also knows what Cleese is suspecting, but he cannot tell the truth. One night he had painfully named the pedophiles, Henry and George, but he could no longer describe them. And Cress did not encourage her husband to tell the truth and resolve the misunderstanding, and missed the opportunity to change David's fate of being accidentally killed.

? E. Jimmy, accompanied by the funeral home staff, went to choose a tombstone for his daughter. The audience can feel how heartbroken Jimmy is at this time.

? F. The voice of the police call for Katie’s murder was a boy’s voice. The person who called the police said they found blood stains on a car and called the police. When asked about her name by the police, the caller said: "I was just passing by, how could I know her name?" Katie escaped from the car and was killed in Baozhou Park, not in the car. If the caller only called the police after seeing blood stains on the car, how did he know that the victim was a woman? The conclusion can only be that the person who called the police is the murderer.

? This is consistent with the truth of the real case. Of course, Ray Harris Jr. and his brother Brandon Harris’ girlfriend know each other. Ray Harris Jr. and his friend John O'Shea greeted Katie who was driving, and then they used Ray Harris Sr.'s pistol to scare Katie. The gun went off, and Katie fled to the park. The two were afraid that the matter would be exposed. Chase Katie in the park. Afterwards, the two were in shock and hurriedly called the police.

? G. David fought with a pedophile criminal and rescued a strange little boy from the car. At this time, David shouted to the little boy: "Run, David! Run. !" He called this strange boy David. In fact, this little boy seemed to be himself when he escaped from the clutches of the devil.

?H. Early the next morning after Jimmy killed David, Sean told Jimmy that the Boston police had found the body of a pedophile criminal and needed to confirm it to David. Jimmy looked stunned and understood that David was innocent. Sean said: "Are you going to send money to Cress on a monthly basis?" It turned out that Sean had always known that old Ray Harris disappeared from the world two months after Jimmy was released from prison, and The Harris family still receives $500 a month from Brooklyn. The Harris family believed that Old Ray Harris had abandoned his wife and children. They felt ashamed of their family and sent back financial compensation. The money was undoubtedly Jimmy's handiwork.

? (7) Reviews

? After Jimmy accidentally killed David, he and Sean walked on the street where they once played, the piece of cement where they once signed their names. The ground, the familiar sewer mouth that once swallowed countless baseballs, seemed to be a sharp irony and ridicule at this time. What was once a friendship has turned into hatred and killing, into regret.

? Who is the murderer of David? It's Jimmy, and it's also David's wife Cress; it's an impulsive hot temper, and it's also a stubborn prejudice.