may be watching this movie with too much expectation, so I felt a little disappointed after watching it, because at first glance this movie seems to have a lot of things to say, so it must be divided into three paragraphs and the words are quite messy and messy. It can't be coherent, but when you think about it, there are very few things it says, and it can't justify itself. To put it simply, this is still a movie whose picture style is stronger than the film content.
This time the director wants to tell a story about the relationship between father and son, and incorporates fateful marriage, police darkness, school drugs and other common issues in today's movies, and also adds some action scenes. The film is divided into three parts. The first part is starring Ren Gusling. It describes the story of a motorcycle rider. He lost his father since childhood, has a gloomy personality, and has no savings. He accidentally learned that he was a year old. In order to let his son enjoy his father’s love, he did not care about everything (including ignoring the fact that his girlfriend played by Eva Mendes had a happy end and that his son was not without a good stepfather) and wanted to invade and change his son’s Life ends in tragedy. This section of
is the best and most touching part of the whole film. At the beginning of the film, the director once again used a repressive narrative tone and image processing to announce to the audience the tragedy of the story, the melancholy temperament of this speeder and the lack of thoughtful stupidity. Romance can make the audience forget the selfishness hidden under his behavior when watching movies, and they are moved by the warm picture of him feeding his son ice cream. The group photo of the three parents has also become a symbol of affection throughout the film. I think the director must have tasted the infinite joy that the innocence of this little baby brings to his parents in his own life, in order to shoot such a moving passage. The excitement of this section can resolve the shortcomings in the characterization of the script. In fact, the film's narration is not detailed enough for the mentality of the speeder, his girlfriend, and even his stepfather. Moreover, the details of the protagonist's bank robbery added in the script after the brief meeting of father and son made people feel less sympathy for this character. This point will be discussed later in the article. On the whole,
is an ordinary movie that describes the darkness of the police and the protagonist’s conscience struggle. The style of the image is not as attractive as the first paragraph, and the inner handling of the characters is rougher. We only see that the protagonist in the script seems to be burdened with the guilt of taking a life due to his improper duty, and the behavior defects that caused him to face his family (including a one-year-old son). But the design of his behavior, words and deeds, makes people unable to feel the guilt, so the whole story is actually not very convincing, and it is difficult to understand why the script is arranged in this way. If it is just to highlight the influence of the two fathers' images on the children's two growth backgrounds, I personally think it is not too successful. But the drama in this part is indeed very strong, with the excitement of watching criminal underworld movies.
It’s a pity that the performance of these three sections is getting worse. This section is performed by two young actors, without the acting skills and celebrity charm of Rainn Gosling and Bradley Cooper, plus the horror of Eva Mendes And the unconvincing old makeup, this school drug story about the fateful meeting of two teenagers makes the whole film lose its charm. Because the three stories are out of focus here, what exactly does the director want to say? The fate of father's debt repayment? The warmth of atonement and understanding? A child who has lost his father's love will go astray? Then how to explain why the stepfather's care and affection for Rein Gosling's child still makes the child a habitual thief? Is the relationship between father and son in the director's mind important to blood identity or caring and giving?
In the end, the son of the robber rode a locomotive around the world like his father, and the son of the police accompanied his father to continue his political deception career. What does this mean? Is everything in life fate? So why is this whole story involving police darkness and school drugs? What is the purpose of arranging a stepfather who is so tolerant and loving? The logic and context of the entire script makes people feel a little puzzled!
In short, the image style of this film is still admirable and worth seeing. However, the character design is not perfect, and the plot structure is too large. The arrangement of the three stories finally made the theme out of focus. I personally feel that it has not reached the director’s own statement: "This is a classic debt repayment. The tragedy or redemptive effect of the "fate-causal action story" is generally a pity.
