Chapter 487 "Impunity"

"Catch Me If You Can" is a high-IQ crime film produced by Spielberg itself, and it is also a film based on a true story that Spielberg personally selected to set the theme. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Art comes from life, and at the same time is higher than life, many movies and television novels seem to be nonsense and exaggerated plots, but in real life there are more dramatic stories than those in real life.

The real protagonist of "Impunity" is such a dramatic life, whose real name is Frank Abanel, was born in New York in 1948.

He is a security consultant who has impersonated an airplane pilot and a pediatrician in the 60s of the last century, and used various means to defraud millions of US dollars. Before the age of 21, he became a wanted criminal in many countries, and since his release from prison in 1974, he has assisted the FBI in appreciating a large number of financial fraudsters and designing anti-counterfeit checks for banks and other countries. He is now an FBI researcher and a consultant and lecturer in field offices.

This transition from a felony to a federal employee makes most people feel like a dramatic scene that only appears in movies, but in fact it does exist in reality, and it is in the United States.

From a criminal to a security officer, and later helped the official improve the check security technology, cracked and arrested a number of financial fraudsters, a legendary life of 'reforming the evil and returning to the right' made too many people to believe.

The movie script is basically completely changed according to Frank's real experience, a seventeen-year-old high-IQ teenager who completely changes his outlook on life because of sudden family changes, his father goes bankrupt, and his mother cheats, and finally embarks on the road of crime.

This movie perfectly tells the importance of family education for children's growth, as well as the importance of parents to the shaping of children's character and values.

Leonardo plays Frank who was impressed by his father since he was a child and regarded him as an idol, but his father was actually a 'fraudster', and passed this gene to Frank, and taught it to Frank as an ability, so that he followed him everywhere since he was a child.

So since he was a child, Frank has a sharp and alert reaction that surpasses many people, and a face that does not blush when he lies, and his father has reached the pinnacle of life with the trick of 'fraud', which has made a great impression on Frank, and he thinks that he should be like his father, and he does not realize that it is illegal.

In the movie, sixteen-year-old Frank has the skills to pretend to be a teacher to deceive the whole class, and even the parents of the whole class, and almost even the school leaders are deceived by him.

After being criticized by the parents at school, the father was still proud of Frank's 'skills', and it seemed that he couldn't tell the right son from black and white without the right guidance.

The father suddenly went bankrupt, the family was kicked out of the mansion, and the mother, who was used to living a rich life, could not accept the poor life, so she cheated.

Mother's cheating and parental divorce are the direct causes of Frank's depravity, growing up in a family environment where his father loves his mother, and suddenly finds that the previous family is happy, and the love of his parents is an illusion, and the blow to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child is undoubted, as if betrayed and deceived by the whole world.

So Frank chose to run away from home, and in order to live, he began to cheat and embark on the road of crime, and at the same time naively thought that as long as he made more money and changed the family environment, his parents could get back together, and their family would be able to return to its previous state.

This mentality shows that Frank's essence is kind and even a little naïve, after all, he is only a seventeen-year-old boy.

His father's genetics and experience quickly made Frank a master of deception.

After swindling enough money, Frank finds his depressed father, hoping to help him settle down, reconcile with his mother, and stop cheating.

But the father instigated Frank to continue to deceive, because the father saw Frank's talent, and the government and banks and even the federal government that could cheat were everywhere, and the father who was "persecuted" by the government and the bank to become what he is now, wanted to use his son to take revenge.

Because in his opinion, everything now is caused by the government.

This drama reflects more deeply the economic chaos of US imperialism caused by the Watergate scandal that year, and social borrowing accelerated the gap between the rich and the poor at that time, and the social status became the most realistic.

In fact, this is reflected in the film, such as Frank's father, because he changed from a rich man to a poor man, his wife immediately cheated, and the front showed that their sincere love collapsed instantly. This is where social status and money play a decisive role.

After accepting his father's 'assignment', Frank began to 'work', and he began to use various professions to cheat, and this trick was based on the tricks taught by his father.

A professional uniform capable of deceiving everyone's trust.

For example, Frank got a flight attendant uniform, and everyone really thought he was a flight attendant.

Spielberg said that this era of only looking at the surface of uniforms is real, because at that time, the United States was still innocent, and people's willingness to wear clothes was a symbol of status, and it also reflected how human beings in the era progressed.

Progress in 'deception'.

Frank was not happy in the process of cheating, his original purpose was to reconcile his parents and return the family to its original state, what he really wanted in his heart was a complete home and a sense of stability.

But to tell a lie, it takes a thousand lies to make a circle, and once the road begins, it cannot be stopped.

Finally, Frank was investigated by federal agents for forging checks, but with his superb reaction, Frank actually deceived federal agents, which also shows that in those days, even federal agents were very innocent.

So the agent and Frank began a game of 'cat and mouse'.

On the first Christmas, Frank took the initiative to call the agent, which seemed provocative, but in fact it was just a seventeen-year-old kid who wanted to say Merry Christmas to him.

With a wealth of experience in seeing people, the agent immediately saw Frank's mind and saw his fragile inner holes.

At the same time, I feel a little sorry for this lonely 'liar'.

Frank later went to see his father again, and when he saw his father's depressed appearance, Frank knew that the family could not go back, and he wanted to help his father, but was rejected by his father, who wanted to save face.

Frank, who lost his goal all of a sudden, wanted to settle down, after all, he was still an adult child, and no matter how good his deception skills were, he couldn't fool himself.

After developing a crush on a nurse at the hospital, Frank falsified his academic qualifications, disguised himself as a doctor, and later married the little nurse, whose father-in-law was a lawyer and an old man.

The father-in-law sees that Frank is cheating on them, but he is willing to give Frank a chance and accepts this son-in-law, and in this home Frank seems to find the warmth he has always needed.

He prepares to get engaged to the little nurse and invites his father to attend, but the invitation is discovered by the agents who go to investigate, revealing the location.

On the night of the engagement, Frank confessed everything to his bride and wanted to elope with her, but abandoned the bride the next day because the airport was blocked and he had no chance to meet the bride.

Frank, who had escaped the country, continued to forge checks in France, and the agent, knowing the motives of the poor child's crime, found Frank's mother's hometown and found Frank, and the two had an argument.

The agents hope to bring the child back on the right track, and in the end, Frank, who has lost faith in life, decides to surrender.

After spending three months in prison in France, he was extradited back to the United States by agents, and was told on the plane that the news of Frank's father's death made Frank completely devastated, and once again aroused a trace of desire to survive, and when the plane was about to land, he escaped through the bathroom passage.

But this time he didn't flee, he went to his mother's new home.

Because he wants to finally confirm whether his mother will be sad after his father's death.