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Today, I watched the movie "the equalizer", although the male lead is very cool and awesome, but there seems to be subjective obscenity between the director and the main character.
Starring Denzel Washington, the film tells the story of McCall, a retired agent, who meets a prostitute who is bullied, and an unfair path to justice, and he ends up going to a lair of gangsters alone.
From the start of the story, there is no tension, because McCall is too tough. No matter how many gangsters one faces, no matter how many gangsters are really calm, it is a superhuman feeling.
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In fact, what I want to talk about today is the beauty of violence that is shown in this film. Maybe because we evolved from the most primitive forest, inside human bones, we still worship violence.
The film starts off with a gentle plot, with the main cast reading, working and drinking coffee, and a regular rhythm of life and with a personal attention to energy. It seemed like he was determined to live an ordinary life. Until he heard that the girl involved in the pornography service was beaten and admitted to the intensive care unit for rebelling against the guests.
For $ 9,800, he found the leader of the little gang and wanted to make up for the girl, but he was rejected. Within 21 seconds, five bandits with knives and guns were killed instantly.
The movements are clean and tidy, and each person has his own path of death, which is very fast. This is the point of view of this film. Perhaps what catches the audience is that deep inside everyone, they are obsessed with "superpowers" that are not ours at all.
Who does not want to take his knife and drop it, strong enough to do it his way, having punished evil and promoting good, his blood is not stained, and the man is still gentle. From this point of view, violence is a kind of beauty, the beauty of evil that fascinates people.
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At the first murder scene, there was still a hint of fear in my heart. Slowly following in the footsteps of the actors and the plot, you will find that you have become a little excited, and no longer have any fear or anxiety about blood, murder and death.
He even stretches out his fists, knives and weapons from the heart, follows the protagonists' movements, shoots them with punches, punches and gunfire, with a hint of excitement and madness, hits the enemy hard - Is it hard to beat the enemy? Pressure, hostility and discontent.
The other person is no longer a physical body, a living person, and we gradually lose our ability to "sympathize." The person who was covered in blood and killed gradually became numb, gradually lost the ability to "be human," and became a killing machine with the label of justice.
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Just imagine, if you had a friend or lover by your side, would you feel scared. Although, he never shows you a fierce light and releases hatred, but you saw with your own eyes that he broke someone's neck empty, stuck a knife into the opponent's chest, and stabbed a chainsaw into the opponent's internal organs.
Can you continue to maintain a relationship with him calmly?
At the end of the film, McCall returns to his usual job. The prostitute has turned her crime into the right path, and of course she doesn't know everything she's done, so they're still good friends.
Let us also imagine the follow-up story. The girl slowly developed a favorable impression of the middle-aged uncle, so they fell in love and got married. After getting married, she found out her true identity and all that she had done.
People who are warm and moist have a strong and bleeding side. She just wanted to get away from him, so he started to betray and run away. In order to find a stronger power, he fell into the underworld step by step, and a new chapter of battle began ...
Who is the director of this story? It's not you or me, it's violence that's unleashed. Once a person has demonstrated the beauty of violence, his subconscious mind will continue to create opportunities for himself to use violence. He wants to live an ordinary, peaceful life, but the violent cells that ensnare him will never allow him, they are always calling and creating opportunities for him every moment.