The unforgiving mountains filled the sky, came to life at dawn, and then looked still, and for generations, the sun watched them.

It's funny, it makes them green again, and the houses and melons will divide the green.

At dawn, every plant is a magical life, and the clouds take on meaning.

Pass those hillsides and churn in the sky to the front. Like the buildings in the city, does it make sense? They're all bare.

A country jaw to get there, will feel desolate like the emptiness of the sky. It's ridiculous, as if city people would walk on the rooftops. Cities are like barren land, with houses clustered together, rain that rains and then dries in the sun, but there is not a single leaf in the lawn.

Cover the house and the stone with greenery so that the sky makes sense, and you need to dig the black roots deep into the darkness.

At dawn, the light will spurt up the earth, so powerful. The blood of all things will be more active, and so will the body, making the veins so dark that they look black.

At that time, the road traveled by those country chins made sense.

- Cesare-Pavese

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"I'm never going crazy. ”

On the big screen, Rui was lying on the small wooden bed in the rough bedroom and muttered, this unprovoked sentence ended her mood at this time.

The silence in the Brown Bear Theater makes it clear that the audience is falling into the abyss, and fans are beginning to see that the idea of VIY has emerged, this is not the kind of film with only one theme, it is intertwined with many aspects, through the persuasive portrayal of a region and a group of people, women's rights, growth, and the struggle for fate.

Watching Rui's disillusionment, that invisible and powerful force made her strong and unyielding so small, so ridiculous, so frustrating......

It's not just women who fight for women's rights, it's all those who fight for hope in their hearts.

Roar at fate, be crushed by fate, and then, where should I go?

The image turns grimly, leaving the night and the dilapidated house not to give the audience a breather, but to trample on every finger that climbs on the edge of the cliff. - Outside the school during the day, Sonny and Harold are walking on the concrete road with a grim expression, and the over-the-shoulder camera sees them following two boys of about the same age in front of them.

"Cotton Milton!Catfish Milton!" the two boys suddenly shouted in unison, their voices overflowing with anger. As soon as the two boys turned around, the brothers were already rushing forward with their fists clenched, swearing for the first time in the film: "You-!", "-you horses!"

The two boys immediately raised their fists and hurried away, without the slightest surprise or fear, "Fuck you horse mongrel Dolly!"

The long shot shows the four boys fighting together, Harold being knocked to the ground in a single shot, Sonny desperately punching in front of him, and the two Miltons ferociously beating him together. Harold got up and threw himself like crazy, screaming like a heart-rending sound.

It was in the school that he was heading into the future, and Rui took the initiative to fight with his two younger brothers, who were a little further away.

It may be the first time, it may not be, but it will never be the last.

Both Sonny and Harold have changed.

The atmosphere in the theater became heavier and heavier, but the camera, as always, did not take this matter seriously, did not explain who won and who lost this brawl and how it ended. Apparently many days have passed.

In the panoramic shot, in the open mountain area in front of Dolly's house, Rui walks from the porch with the garbage basket in his arms, and there is a large rusty iron bucket on the ground in the near view, and there are two garbage baskets next to the bucket.

Her look was different, wearing a brown coat and faded jeans, still black combat boots, and a dress nowhere to be found. In the close-up shot, her hair is scattered, her face that was not humanoid before is better, her right eye and cheek are not so swollen, and the wounds on her nose and mouth are scabbed, but her nose and face are still blue and swollen.

Her eyes seemed harder, and they seemed more numb.

With a few thuds, Rui emptied the basket full of waste into the large iron bucket. In a few shots, she picked up an old and small goose-yellow children's dress hanging by the barrel, lit it with a lighter, and threw the burning skirt into the iron bucket, and a thick puff of black smoke suddenly rose.

She watched with a blank face as her old dress and other things were turning to ashes.

"Sweet beans. Gail's voiceover sounded. Rui turned to look, and the oblique camera saw Gale walking from the side of the house, she was wearing a darker brown green jacket and jeans, and her reddished brown hair was draped straight behind her head, exactly the same as when she appeared on the stage, with no change.

Gail's expression was flat, and his tone was the same: "You're almost fine, I'm going back." ”

"Go back?" Rui frowned slightly.

In the close-up of the singles, they are separated, as if they are in different time and space. Gail said, "Go back to the RV." ”

"Why?" Rui was anxious and helpless, as if to say that Freud was still a bastard, why should he go back and endure him, endure that kind of life......

Gel was silent for a moment, looking into the distance, avoiding Rui's gaze. The movement of her hands in her pockets and her erratic eyes made everyone off the screen see her confusion, sadness, and sadness. Only then did Gail say, "You've had enough trouble of your own, I shouldn't have stayed here, and ......"

She sighed silently, and her voice became more and more shady: "I have a baby, I can't raise him like this, I can't." Ned and I had to go home. ”

"Home?" said Rui, but couldn't say, "Do you really love him?" Freud?"

"I don't know. Gail's face showed some pain, as if to tell Rui to stop talking, Rui, don't talk about these bastards, just let her be numb and pull on. She shuddered, "But I love Ned, I love Ned very, very much! You know? He can't live without his father." Not here. ”

Rui looked away without saying a word.

The audience also fell silent, with different feelings.

Alicia remembered the only words, should she blame Gail, a weak woman who has no chance, but in the face of the cruel reality, how can she be feminist?

Who doesn't want to be like the feminist stars who talk about the power of a new woman, to be a flawless-looking public icon, but can you? It's a city man's game, and you're not even a city man. Their femininity is a luxury, just like their designer bags.

Gail is willing to do anything for the sake of the child, isn't her patience strength?

Maybe there was a better way, there should be, but Gail didn't understand, she was just a stupid girl in the country, and with her worldview, she only knew that Ned couldn't live without her father.

In this story, the characters in the friendly camp, both men and women, are faced with the same choice: on the one hand, the affairs and responsibilities of their relatives, and on the other hand, their own affairs, themselves.

Jesup dies from his responsibility, Connie goes mad from evading her responsibility, Rui blames her mother and two younger brothers, Gail and Floyd blame Ned, Uncle Tears blames Rui's family, and the two boys blame Rui. Except for Freud, who chose himself, everyone else chose responsibility.

If Gail chooses herself, throws Ned out of the RV, and leaves here on her own, is she a feminist?

The so-called feminism should not be a woman becoming a man, of course women must live with dignity and self, but women must also fulfill their biological and ethical responsibilities, in a female way.

Women who do not just do the same things as men are women, but women who do what women can do and what they should do are no worse than anyone else and deserve the greatest respect. Extreme feminism gives society the illusion that feminism is the complete opposite of traditional women, even including marriage, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and love for men and children.

It seems that there is shame to be made, and it seems that being a bastard like Epry who plays with men and ignores the baby is feminine, and it is the noble, powerful, and wonderful life that is lived.

Even the part that women should do well, they have to compete with men for things that men should do well, and blame women who are still doing women's things, so as to prove that they are great. In this story, the symbol is that Rui wants to join the army. Betraying one's own nature will only create another kind of misery and emptiness, making this bullshit society even more chaotic.

Men and women have different natures, each person has a different self, and protecting the family is the same responsibility, which is out of love.

Freud would have chosen to be irresponsible, Gail would not. Women usually don't, they can sacrifice everything for their children, younger siblings, and families, and they are also in pain, but they carry it on their shoulders, and they won't go crazy if they can catch their breath every day, so God arranges for them to give birth.

Giving birth and raising offspring has long proved the ability of women, no matter what the circumstances, mothers, sisters, even if there is no man in the family, they can always raise their children, try their best to raise them well, they are indomitable. From ancient times to the present, it is not the rise of the modern feminist movement that women have power, but women have always had power.

This is perhaps the greatest feminist force in the world, born with no need to awaken.

It appears in the hearts of every mother.

Feminism is not a luxury.

Feminism is a nature.

Gail used her strength to make her choice, is there any other way?

"I just think it'......" On the big screen, Rui looked at the smoky iron bucket and whispered uncertainly, "It may not be like you think in the future." ”

"What the future holds, no one can say. Gail raised his hand to wipe away his tears, the wedding ring was so eye-catching, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

In the double shot, Rui in the close-up suddenly became more and more anxious and depressed, "I plan to join the army and leave here." Gail in the middle of the rear right was stunned, "So?" Rui said in a low voice, "The blonde Milton said that he and Sonya wanted to take Sonny over and raise him for me...... But they're going to turn Sonny into what I don't want. ”

"That's what they want sons for. Gail also looked down at her toes, how could she make Ned like that, and looked up and asked, "What about Harold? What about Auntie?"

"Harold he doesn't like it, and neither does his mother. Rui said as she picked up another garbage basket at her feet, and emptied the basket full of waste into the iron bucket, the sound of burning mixed with her words: "I'm going to take my mother to the madhouse and put her at the door, and that's all I can think about." Then beg Tears and Victoria to take Harold in. ”

And then Harold will grow into tears, making ice, selling ice, sucking ice, there is no doubt about it.

Gail shook his head slightly, there was nothing he could do, and said, "I hope things don't end up like this, it's too bad......"

"Do you think Freud and his old man would like to buy my wood?" Rui turned to look at Gail, also at a loss: "If I have to sell it, I'd rather sell it to you." ”

Gail said in a daze: "I ask, I ask......"

There was a heartbreak outside the screen, and the faces of the audience were also stunned.

The road seemed to have come to an end, Rui had lost, Gale had also lost, they had all fallen off the cliff, and they had all knelt down to reality. Everything they have held on to and resisted will come to naught, like a little splash in the Dead Sea, and in the end nothing will be lifted.

Like a burning waste in an iron bucket, the heat soared into the sky, and the ashes drifted everywhere, and the stench filled the air for a while, and then disappeared into the wind.

It's not that Rui doesn't want to protect her family, she feels powerless, so she has to accept the way here, let the man decide things, and if she wants to pursue herself, she has to become a man.

Otherwise, what else can be done?

Fans have other feelings, if SS and TLB are a gradual healing process, giving birth to new hope from despair, W'sB is a process of gradual destruction, all hope is confirmed to be disguised doom, and after exposing the fangs one after another, only despair that cannot be broken free is left.

You think it's the end, but life steps you deeper into hell.

On the big screen, the scene ends with Rui and Gail staring blankly at the tin barrel with smoke billowing.

It was night, and in the living room of the dilapidated house, there was no room for Gail's mother and son, Connie sat in a rocking chair by the fire, and Rui sat on the sofa opposite to look through a dilapidated and dusty photo album, and the two boys sat on her left and right and looked at them together, both of them with hemostatic patches on their faces.

Inserting the lens, I saw that the album was a little damp and melted old photos, a man and a woman, their faces blurred, like Jessup and Connie in their youth. Connie was all wearing skirts, red skirts, blue skirts, and green skirts, and at this time, the hand flipping through the photo album stopped, and in a large photo on the left, Jessup was picking up Connie on the top of the hill and spinning, and the skirt of the gray and blue dress was floating high.

"Is this really Mommy?" Sonny whispered, looking at his mother across from him. The camera shoots that Connie still looks like an old dead tree.

"Well, these men who are with her are dads. Rui said and flipped through the page of the album again, and the photo on the left showed the two sitting at a table in the room, full of empty beer bottles, wrung cigarette butts, and a conspicuous stack of bills, their blurred faces must be smiling happily. The photo on the right is a little girl in a skirt running by the fire.

Although this is not a good family, it is definitely once happy.

Harold asked, "Is that him? Daddy used to have hair like that?"

"yes, these are his ......," Rui paused, "a picture of him before he first went in." His hair fell out later. You don't remember. ”

The audience can see that there was a time when Rui was a child, probably after her family stopped raising pigs, and the Jesup family also participated in local family crimes, so they made a small fortune. At that time, the Dolly family should have been full of laughter, and the husband and wife thought that they were going to be developed, Rui didn't understand, but she lived in happiness, like a little princess in the mountains.

Soon Jesup was arrested and imprisoned. Connie's affair with blonde Milton was apparently from that time. Everything has changed.

Rui turned another page, and on the left was a single photograph of Zhang Jesup, on the side of the train platform, a man with a bag on his back, and behind him was a crowded train car, and it was impossible to tell whether he was leaving home or returning home. Sonny said, "He was so young. Rui said: "This one of him is... Twenty-something, it seems. ”

She seemed to lose her energy, and quickly closed the photo album after a few clicks, and said softly with exhaustion: "It's time to go to bed." ”

The boys all sighed, and Rui stood up with the album, looked down at them, and said, "I repeat, don't make trouble anymore, not now." ”

"When will that be?" asked Sonny, and Harold frowned, both of them a little unconvinced, like a wolf and tiger who were not allowed to eat meat.

"When the time comes, I'll tell you your ......," Rui dragged Suo Ran's voice as she walked to her mother opposite.

Maybe this time will come soon.

The scenery is empty on the screen, the stars and moon are not visible in the dark night sky, the cold wind rolls up the wood chips and fire ash on the hillside, and a rotten tire hanging from the treetops on the side of Dolly's house is swaying. The audience is full of lonely and oppressive darkness, and everything is dying.

"Wake up, girl, wake up. The voiceover of tears brought the camera to Rui's small bedroom, she woke up and looked at Uncle Tears on the right side of the bed, he was holding two shotguns, and the one in his left hand was thrown at the bed and smashed on Rui, and the whole person was heavy: "No, he's stupid to wait, let's go to their place and stab them for a while, and see what can happen." ”

Rui sat up, clutching the shotgun, and walked out of the room with tears in her eyes.

The tension once again enveloped the theater, and the pace of the images was rapid, and in the blink of an eye, Rui was sitting in the passenger seat of a dark green pickup truck and looking out the window.

The panorama of Uncle Tears was even clearer, at the intersection of a township, with old cement paved roads, a few low-slung cottages closed around the bar, and six or seven cars parked in the parking lot outside.

When Tears walked into the bar, the noisy background sound became clear, the rumbling dance music was very annoying, the moving camera followed the tears briskly, several scantily clad women danced on the small stage, and the drunken men shouted and laughed in bursts.

"Ronnie the dog. A group of men walked towards the bar with tears in their eyes, and they all looked at each other, but there was no movement. A short, fat man stood up in the middle, and he said, "Man, what are you doing here?" ”

The scolded dog Ronnie suddenly became angry, and said with tears in his eyes: "I haven't seen your brother! He may be dead, but I don't know where he is." The men on the left and right got up, and the bustle of the bar continued, with the bartender walking by with their drinks and the dancers continuing to dance, as everyone was accustomed to.

"Really?" Tears didn't stop at all, and took a few steps forward, "You stupid, I've been smoking ice for days in a row, are you going to mess with me?"

"Listen, tears. Ronnie the dog seemed to be holding back and not making a move, "There are six of us here, and if you want to make trouble, you will be the one who will be beaten up." It's like the girl from Ho-Kefer beat the poor boy. ”

The eyes of tears changed, and he slowly smiled, crazy, restrained, and the three tears tattooed in the corner of his right eye were beating, which made people shudder. He sniffed like an addiction attack, raised his right hand to wipe his nose and clenched it into a fist, "Ronnie the dog... Nobody told you what tone to use when talking to my tears......"

"Hey, that's her, isn't she?" Ronnie, the dog on the other side, suddenly laughed, and the men all looked in the direction of the door, tears in their eyes.

The camera was everything, Rui stood not far from the door, her eyes stopped at the dancers, and she didn't know what to think. At this time, Uncle Tears strode past her, grabbed her arm and walked outside, "Let you wait in the car." Rui didn't speak.

The tense nerves of the audience relaxed slightly, and the door slammed shut, and Rui, who was pushed into the pickup truck, was still sitting down, and the tears outside the car walked towards the back of the car, and then took out an axe from the car body, and walked to the bar again. Rui in the co-pilot saw it, and she shouted nervously: "Hey!"

Tears grabbed the axe and walked to the row of cars in front of him, stood still and looked at it for a few moments, then picked up the axe with both hands, walked to one of the white sedans, and slashed at the windshield!

Bang! Close-up of the glass is seen to have a large hole cut out of the glass and shatter open. Tears and axes were chopping again and again, bang!

Rui in the car froze, and shot the camera back, several men rushed out at the door of the bar, and Ronnie the dog yelled angrily from afar: "Hey! Tears, what the hell are you doing!!

Bang! Tears split again, causing the entire windshield to burst into slag, and without saying anything, he slowly turned around and walked back to the pickup. The dog in the back, Ronnie, was still shouting angrily: "You're dead! Son of a bitch, we won't just count it like that, you're dead!!"

Bang, tears threw the axe back into the car, and bang, he sat back in the driver's seat and closed the door, and said to Rui as he drove the car away, "I just don't like the tone of his voice." ”

Rui's face showed a hint of a smile. The rare black humor in this film also made many viewers laugh, but then it cooled down, like being blown by a cold wind, although it cooled down, it was very painful. Is this the life that Sonny and Harold are going to live in the future?

The wind blew more and more violently, and the audience watched as the tears carried Rui to a ruined cemetery in an old forest, and took a flashlight to find Jesup's bones, but did not find them. The scene turns to a pickup truck on an empty and car-free main road on the outskirts of town, which is the best and smoothest road that has ever appeared in the film.

But at this time, the siren of the police car sounded, and the tears continued to drive as if they were not heard, the siren became louder and louder, Rui frowned and looked back, and through the rear window, a car with flashing police car lights could be seen approaching. Tears finally pulled the handbrake, the pickup pulled over, and the driver's window slowly lowered.

The camera comes to the back of the car, and it is the police officer named Baskin. He was dressed in an army-green police officer's coat and a smoky gray hat, and the road was illuminated by swirling flashing police lights and bright headlights. As he walked towards the close-up, Baskin said, "Tears, turn off the car." ”

"I don't want to do that. The sound of tears was deep, and his hand reached to the left for a shotgun.

Rui on the left side of the frame was suddenly a little nervous, and craned her neck to look back, and from her subjective lens, she could see that Baskin's figure outside the car continued to walk, and he said in a commanding tone: "Turn off the engine, get out of the car, and put your hand where I can see." ”

"Nope. Tears calmly unsafed the gun and sat still, "I'm not going to do anything you tell me to do tonight." ”

The camera went outside again, Baskin noticed something through the rear window, stopped one step away from the driver's window, slowly pulled out the pistol from the holster on his waist with his right hand, couldn't hide his nervousness, and said louder: "Get out of the car, Harold, get out of the car immediately!"

This confrontation took the audience's breath away, and there is no doubt that by now, it is clear what kind of person each main character is, and Jesup, who has never really appeared, is also clear. But this seems to be a trick and it's not clear, is he a good guy or a bad guy?

In addition to being weak and incompetent, he seems to be a good person.

"Who did you tell the informant that it was Jesup?" said suddenly, and Rui next to him was stunned, and the audience's hearts jumped. The camera is everything, and Baskin stands there in a froze and scolds in a tearful voiceover: "Which fucking bastard pointed a gun at your head?

Baskin's face was blank, and he looked into the car a little panicked, and Rui in front of him took a shotgun, and from the rearview mirror of the car, he saw tears holding another gun, and there was a slight click of scraping the metal handle with his fingernails......

The camera returned to the car, and tears were also looking at the rearview mirror outside the car, and a bandit and a police officer were looking at each other like this.

In the middle and close up of the front, Baskin's momentum is rapidly fading, the pistol in his right hand hangs down, and his annoyed and crying voice has a huge powerlessness: "I have given you a legal order for a horse, and it is a legal order for a horse......"

The police officer scolded for the first time in the film, so powerless, he was already enforcing the law and doing his duty, but in this place, who listens to him?

Who cares about the law?

"Fuck you, Baskin. Tears scolded coldly, as if stepping on the accelerator, the car started again. Rui sat there silently.

In the panoramic view, the pickup truck drove away from Baskin and out of the frame, and he stood alone, bowing his head slightly in despair, as if he was about to cry. In the back view, the pickup truck has gone far away, and Baskin is still motionless.

There was also silence in the screening room, and many fans sighed, no surprise, Baskin is also a complex character.

Perhaps the tearful speculation is the truth, and Jesup was used as an informant in the bureau after his arrest, so he didn't want to leave the prison even if someone tried to get him out. But he was bailed out in the end, and at first it was fine, and Epri had seen him, and he had talked to Tears about it. He may have also provided the police with some tips, until Baskin was pointed at gunpoint to his head and told him who the informant was, that killing the police was a nuisance, and that the killing of Jesup was trivial.

And now, Baskin has finally confirmed the predictable death of Jesup.

To a certain extent, it can be said that Jesup, who was killed by Baskin, did not choose the responsibility of protecting the informant in the face of life and death, but chose himself.

He may have righteousness in his heart, but not to the point where he was willing to sacrifice. But who knows if he has any concerns? Other responsibilities? His family, his wife, his children? In such a poor mountain with a meager police force, a person who goes to work to Dolly's house and calls for support has to drive for two hours on the mountain. What can Baskin do?

He's just an ordinary guy in a police uniform, not a superhero, and that's what makes him sad and hateful.

After this tense confrontation on screen, the scene returns to Dolly's house. It's another day, the sunset is dyeing the sky red, and on the side of the house, Rui is walking to the kitchen door with a full load of firewood, and the two boys are swinging punches, dodging, and playing with each other on the tire swing.

The camera shows Rui working in front of the kitchen stove, throwing a squirrel carcass into an iron pot with a sizzling explosion. In the next shot, she flipped the squirrel corpse in the pot with a spatula, and suddenly there was a knock on the door and a woman's shout: "Crazy girl, crazy girl!"

Rui's face froze, and her hand froze.

Outside, the side panorama is that of Ho-Kevre's people, with the old woman, Meghan and another stout woman standing on the porch, dressed in long coats and jeans of various colors. The door clicked open, and the three women's subjective, Rui stood behind the door, holding a shotgun in both hands, the muzzle of which was pointed at them.

"Come with us, we'll help you solve your problem. The old woman was not afraid at all, did not take a step back, and did not panic at all.

"Now I'm going to shoot you to pieces. Rui said coldly, the fingers on the trigger were pressing.

"I know you want to, you're a Dolly, but you won't. The old woman remained still, "Put the gun down, come with us, and we'll take you to your father's bones." Rui sneered: "Do you think I'm crazy?" The old woman said with a cross eyebrow: "Then you should be smarter, we know where it is." We don't want to hear all the gossip about Ho-Keffer anymore. ”

Rui's gaze glanced slightly, "I didn't say a word about you. ”

"We know, but everyone else is saying it. The old woman said.

At this time, the two boys in the room walked up behind Rui, and they looked at the three women with very angry eyes, almost staring straight at them, as if they were going to kill them. Rui's tone was indiscriminate: "Go back to the house, don't let me see it, go." They paused for a few seconds, then took a few steps back and stood not far away.

"I've got to take this with me. Rui lifted the muzzle of the shotgun, the wariness on his face undiminished.

"No, you can't bring it. The old woman also didn't give in, "If you want to find his bones, put the gun down and follow us." She turned around and walked away, with Meghan and the others following behind. Rui hesitated for a moment and said to the two boys, "I'll go and go back." They kept their faces composed.

Tension overflowed the screen and filled the theater, the women appeared suddenly but reasonably, tears were everywhere, and the beating of a backbone girl also affected Ho-Keffer's reputation on the road. They must have been instructed by Samp to find the bones and hand them over, and that was the end of the matter.

In the eyes of the audience, the image shifts, the sound of the car door slamming, in the dark of night, in a clearing next to the dense woods, a black pickup truck is parked horizontally on the right side of the panoramic frame, the old woman takes the lead into the forest on the left, she is holding a large and heavy flashlight, the other woman is holding an orange chainsaw, and Meghan who is behind pulls Rui to follow, Rui has a sack on his head, like a prisoner being escorted to the execution ground.

This scene made the hearts of those viewers who had read the original book tug at their hearts......

In the middle of the cut, they walk in the silent woods, stepping on the winding mountain road. When they came to a small stream, which looked like a small pond, surrounded by weeds, the light and the night barely made it visible. They pulled Rui into a small wooden boat against the shore, and Meghan and the two rowed out with wooden oars.

There was no sound except for the faint mournful cow cry from afar.

"Girl, you might know where this is. The old woman's voiceover connects to the next scene, the small wooden boat slowly rows into the water, and the old woman sitting in the middle ripped off the sack on Rui's head on the right, "If you know, then forget it, understand?" Rui squinted his eyes and glanced around, nodding slightly, "Where is he?"

"He's right here, strapped to an engine and sinking underneath. The old woman spoke plainly, and the flashlight in her hand shone on the water, and the surface of the water with some aquatic plants shimmered. In the close-up shot, Ruina's still bruised face is expressionless, and the old woman's voiceover says: "You reach down and pull him up, the dead won't be too heavy." ”

Rui opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't say anything after all, he reached sideways and went down, fishing for something in the water.

"Go straight down, don't touch the side like that. The old woman said as she took the chainsaw from the woman's hand, "Or you can see it, and I'll catch it." ”

"No, no......" Rui muttered, his spirit getting lower and lower.

"Aren't you crazy girl so daring? If you do, we'll not be able to finish it until dawn. The old woman scolded, "If you can't do it, go away, you won't need it." ”

Rui didn't say anything more, she leaned over the side of the boat, her arms stretched straight to the bottom of the water, and the whole person almost fell into the water. The water surface was completely stirred, she suddenly seemed to have caught something, her expression became more stunned, her eyes turned red, her arm slowly lifted up, and a swollen and rotten man's hand was pulled out of the water, appearing in the dim screen.

The audience's hearts were in their throats at this time, and before they could think about it, the whining of the chainsaw vibrated through the theater, burrowing into everyone's hearts, sawing off the last glimmer of hope.

This is a very brutal two-person close-up shot, Rui leans sideways and grabs her father's hand, the old woman on the left is already drawn from the neck up, and she can only be seen holding the roaring chainsaw in both hands towards the rotten hand saw, it is quickly sawed off, and the splatters of rotten flesh and bones hit Rui in the face.

When cut to a solo close-up, her dirty face was full of tears, and her mouth trembled to prevent herself from crying.

Many viewers almost vomited when they saw it, not because of the blood, but because of the greatest terrifying power, despair.

On the screen, Rui reluctantly stood up and handed the hand to Megan, who came to pick it up, while the remaining arm and body sank to the bottom of the water.

"Why did you let go?" the old woman scolded angrily, "both hands!" Pull him up again, quick!"

The condensed breath of the theater made it difficult to breathe, Rui leaned sideways like a machine and reached out to the water to fish out the other arm of his father's corpse, and the old woman drove a roaring chainsaw to see it down again, and a little bit of rotten flesh and rotten bones splashed again on Rui's face, the dead tearful face.

The father who never wanted to beat her, the father who promised to come home as soon as possible with a big bag of cash and a whole car of happiness, and an irresponsible but hard-working father......

When the rotten hand is half-sawed by the chainsaw, the scene changes.

The audience couldn't see how it was completely sawn off, how they left, how Rui got home, how she picked up the pieces of her mind that had also been sawn up.

Vague and restless, like a nightmare that will never end, ringing in my ears and haunting my heart all the time.

Whatever the symbolism of this sawing scene, watching a 16-year-old girl do it is not enough to calm the shock in her heart with a sigh. At this point, the film is shown in a classical three-act structure, the long and tiring second act is over, and the film has less than 10 minutes left, and the equally swift third act arrives.

How will this brutal story end?

It's morning on the screen, on a dilapidated mountain road where Rui sent his two younger brothers to school, a police car stopped on the left, Rui on the side of the car handed a bulging wet sack to Baskin, she was expressionless, Baskin tightened her face, took the sack and looked at the bag, rolled the bag tightly, stared at Rui and asked, "How did you find it?"

"Someone threw it at my door last night. Rui said indifferently.

Baskin paused, and without asking too much, he opened the door of the police car on one side, "I think I'll have to take it to the city quickly and let the medical examiner see if it's his hand." ”

"It's his, it's my dad's hand. Rui's voice suppressed something, and his expression could no longer suppress the hatred and disdain for Baskin.

"We'll find out soon if it's true. Baskin was about to get into the car when he suddenly stopped and said, "I didn't shoot that night because you were in the car." He'd never bothered me like that. ”

"I think he's definitely hit it. Rui said.

"Girl, don't talk nonsense. Baskin's words were as peaceful as cowardly. Rui said disdainfully: "I never bothered to mention you, Tiaozi." Baskin suddenly sulked as he spoke, "Sometimes I really hate you country chins!

His eyes looked around, his face turned red, and he said a little excitedly: "We could have developed tourism here, and everyone could have a decent life." But you destroy the roads and don't let the tourists come to them, and you'd rather hide in the mountains and make ice!

Rui's face changed slightly, and she was stunned, as if Tiaozi's words were beyond her comprehension, and she didn't know how to react.

"You know the......" she said after a moment's pause.

Baskin, who was about to get into the police car, stopped again, and he turned to Rui and said, "Girl, my surname is Dolly." His flushed face had calmed down, and his tone was the same: "My wife and your mother are elementary school classmates, and they are both from the Beaumont family. I've been fighting with you and your uncle since I was a child. Do you think I know?"

Just as Rui was stunned, the audience was also shocked by this reasonable message.

What? Slivers are also a Dolly?

"Your dad ...... him" Baskin sighed lightly, looked at the sack in his hand, and said, "Do you know that when he was young, he went to the oil fields of Louisiana to make a lot ......of money?

"How come?" Rui said suddenly, her eyes squinting at the police car next to her, "It's a slip?"

"I have a sister. Baskin's voice was lower, "Just like you, she made me be." ”

Rui stared at him and asked, "How is she?"

"I died early because of AIDS. Baskin's bland tone had a bottomless vicissitudes, "She supported me as a prostitute." He bent over and sat in the police car, and said, "Girl, don't do that." There's always something else you can do, as long as you're willing to do it. ”

The sound of slamming the car door shut, the sound of the police car's engine starting, and the panoramic shot on the back, the police car drove away bumpily on the rugged mountain road.

In the middle and close-up of the front, Rui still can't understand the frowning look, and he doesn't know where he went.

The huge impact brought by Baskin's words not only subverted Rui's cognition, but also made the audience's hearts beat fast. A lot of things are clear, why he is carrying two boys, why he can use Jesup as an informant...... He's not from the city, he's the country chin who walked out, but he's still implicated in the mountains, forever.

He may not have much ability, but he was an idealist, and he wanted to change here, and so did Jesup, and they both failed.

The screen turned around, and the audience saw the scenery again, the dark sky seemed to be about to rain heavily at any time, the birds returned to the mountains, and the woods swayed, there was a kind of gloomy beauty.

Rui leaned against the wooden pillar on the porch of the room with her hands on her chest and looked into the distance, just so quietly, as if admiring and thinking. The answer to the question she asked, "What's the point of having a good view?" and the answer to Gail's question "Why didn't they fix the road?" was answered, and the hillbilly here made a choice.

The film still does not specify where the story takes place, but it is not said that it is the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. It can happen in any poor place in any country, in that environment, in that kind of family, in that kind of school, in that kind of person, in that kind of thinking.

Such ignorance.

Sometimes it's one thing for a region to be poor and the local area to be barren, and another thing to be ignorant about it.

This kind of stupidity, ruthlessness, and barbarism can make people destroy roads and block the patronage of tourists, preferring to make ice and make a quick fortune, can make people think about how to rob and rob things all day long, and can also make people cripple their own flesh and bones and let them go out to be child beggars.

But who a person is is not born and destined, but is created by growth. The same Dolly, it can be a drug dealer or a police officer.

Why is Rui ashamed of her father for being an informant? Because she thinks about things with the ignorant thinking that this environment has cultivated, she educates her two younger brothers, and hopes to take them out of this environment. Neither she nor Gail understood.

And Freud seems to understand that this is all the work of human psychology! Because the country chins don't understand the rules, so life is not easy.

Rui had warned her two younger brothers never to ride in Tiao's car again, if not as criminals, but as police officers?

On the big screen, Uncle Tears' pickup truck arrived, and Rui walked down the porch. The camera was everything, tears walked out of the car and walked towards Rui, "The police confirmed that it was his hand, and the matter was over." Rui asked, "Baskin is also a Dolly?" and replied with tears in his eyes, "He is no more." Rui thought about something and asked, "Did he ever have a sister?" Tears didn't want to answer: "What did he say to you?" Rui asked, "Is he married to a woman from the Beaumont family?" Tears nodded without saying a word, and took out a large cigarette and a lighter from his trouser pocket to smoke.

At this time, two boys came from the side of the house.

Tears glanced at them, and said to Rui: "They are getting bigger and bigger, it costs a lot of money to raise them." I can teach you how to make money here. ”

"I didn't do the ice, and whoever touched it didn't end well. Rui said without hesitation that her persistence was still there.

"Oh. Tears took a deep puff of cigarette and exhaled long, as if there was nothing more to teach her to make ice.

At this time, everyone noticed that another car was coming from a distance, it was the high-end off-road vehicle. Sonny and Harold walked up to Rui, and they both watched as the SUV stopped, and the man, Mike Sutfield, got out of the car and walked with a bulging, dirty blue plastic bag.

"I know you, don't I?" said Satfield, looking into his eyes.

"Your daddy Creek used to protect my dad. Tears said.

"Oh!" said Satfield, unfazed, as he handed the plastic bag to Rui as he surveyed her unhealed face, "it seems that you earned this money with blood, and it belongs to you." ”

Rui took the bag suspiciously, she looked at it, and the subjective camera saw that it was full of crumpled bills, "How is it mine?" she asked.

Tears were also looking at the blue plastic bag, his expression changed, as if he recognized something, his eyes widened, and he walked away.

"That guy put the money in Jesup's name, and he probably won't come back to get it, usually not. "We took a commission, and that's the rest, even if it's yours." This should be good news for you. He turned around to leave, took two steps and turned back and praised with emotion: "I don't know how you did it, kid, not many people can do it, you are very capable." ”

"Life is just forcing it. Rui's soft voice was full of loss, and his father's life was exchanged for this bag of money.

"Take care. Satfield got in the car without saying a word.

In the middle of the three of them, Rui handed the bag to Sonny's hand behind him: "Take it back." The two boys, also very disappointed, took the money. The metaphor of this scene is not obscure, and Rui earns money to support them.

The tears in the left close-up of the oblique panorama were expressionless, and suddenly said, "I know who it is." ”

"Huh?" Rui, who was one step away in the foreground on the right, froze.

"Jesup. I know who it is. Tears said again.

Before the tears fell, Rui's face flushed, her eyes reddened, and her mouth trembled like she collapsed in an instant, and she opened her hands and hugged her uncle, trembling tightly. She couldn't hold back her crying any longer, and her uncontrollable but suppressed sobbing resounded on and off the screen.

Sonny and Harold stood behind at a loss, their young faces struggling to be resolute.

Rui's first cry stabbed the marrow of every bone in the audience, and the tears knew what it meant to know who the murderer was, and everyone already knew it.

The tears just hugged Rui lightly, patted her on the back and pushed her away, turning away. Rui gritted her teeth and swallowed her cry, her right hand raised to wipe the tears from her eyes.

During the camera clip, tears did not look back and walked up to his pickup truck and drove away. The siblings looked at the car as they looked away, and a sobbing Rui turned around and sat down on the wooden steps of the porch, with the two boys following her, Harold sitting to her left, and Sonny putting the bag of money on the porch and sitting down to her right.

The frontal flat panorama shows that the dilapidated house occupies almost the entire frame, there is no sky, only the muddy ground in front of the house, and the feet of the three people are on the ground.

Rui, who was crying, raised his hands resting on his lap, wiped his tears, blew his snot with his right hand and threw it on the ground, stretching out his foot to rub off his snot, while wiping his left sleeve, still making a very low sobbing sound. The boy tried to shake her hand, a little uncertainly.

"Now that we've got the money, are you leaving?" asked Harold softly. Rui turned to look at him, and said in a hoarse voice, "Why do you think that?" Sonny looked at her and said in a low voice, "We heard you talk about the troops or something, that's where we can't go." Are you leaving us?"

Rui turned to look at Sonny, silent and choked.

At this moment, the audience can feel the feelings of the 16-year-old eldest sister, this money may be enough to settle her mother before leaving, but when she is gone, who will take care of, discipline, and provide for them? Who will try to make them grow up to be what she wants?

In just a few seconds, Rui turned his head to look forward, and his voice was calm and calm: "No." I don't have you two on my shoulders, I'm going to get lost. ”

The boy didn't say anything, his expression didn't get active, and he sat quietly with his eldest sister, looking into the distance.

"It's snowing. Hadro said suddenly.

Rui's unhealed face seemed to have that thoughtful tranquility again, and said, "Tomorrow we can build a snowman." ”

The soundtrack sounded for the first time today in the silent auditorium off the screen, and the prelude to the ending song was Bob Dylan's I-was-young-when-I-left-home. The music that was like a wailing, like a cold wind, like a freight train passing by, reached the hearts of every audience.

This bleak ballad is just like this movie.

Rui used her strength to make her choice and continue to take responsibility, but not by anyone, on her own, and that's her feminist way.

On the big screen, Rui got up to stand up, her country chin couldn't sit still, just when she was about to stand up straight, the ending song ended and the prelude began to sing, the screen cut to black, and a huge gray ash appeared, this time the first thing shown was not the director, but the online starring:

JENNIFER-LAWRENCE

"I was young when I left my hometown

I went out and ran around

And I never wrote a letter home."

ALICIA-VIKANDER

"Give me my home, God, God, give me my home

I never wrote a letter home."

JOHN-HAWKES

"Just a few days ago

I sent my salary home

I met an old friend I knew."

Directed-by

VIGOR-YEAH

"He said your mother died

Something went wrong with your precious sister

Your dad needs you to go home right away."

Screenplay-by

VIGOR-YEAH

"I didn't have a shirt on my back

My name isn't worth a penny."

Based-on-the-novel-by

DANIEL-WOODRELL

"I can't go back this way

Such a way, God, God

I can't go back that way."

Produced-by

VIGOR-YEAH

PETER-HELLER

"If you missed the train I was on

Count the days I set out to go back

You'll hear a whistle coming from a hundred miles away

One hundred miles, darling, baby, God, God

You'll hear a whistle coming from a hundred miles away."

The audience in the Brown Bear Theater had already given a standing ovation, no matter what they saw from the 107-minute video, at this moment, the applause of the audience was non-stop, because of the incredible performance, because of the pain in the heart, because of the moistness of the eyes, because of the indescribable emotion.

After the creators, the detailed cast list then scrolled from bottom to top, and the vicissitudes of singing continued, as if it was the past of Jesup, as if it was the future of Rui and others.

The end of the tears is decided, Rui, Sonny, Harold, Gail, Ned, Floyd...... What about them?

How will Rui make a living?

If you want to embrace the light, you must first embrace the darkness!

No matter how painful life is, get through it, get through it...... When you go out of the countryside and into the city, you and your family live in a dense townhouse, lying on a lounge chair on the lawn of the courtyard that is regularly trimmed for a good look, basking in the warm and dazzling sun, looking at the blue and empty sky, and exclaiming, "How beautiful." ”

That's when the sky makes sense, and the path you have traveled makes sense.

At that time, you can build a snowman in the winter.

At that time, it will be tomorrow.

"I'm performing on a side of the road

Mom would come and call me home

Right in the car they borrowed from Big Jim Mackay

When I pay off my debt to the welfare shop

I would pawn my watch and chain and go home

Come home, God, God, God

I would pawn my watch and chain and go home

I used to tell my mom sometimes

When I see the homeless people on the empty freight train

I've also seen wandering away from home, drifting in the wind

In the wind, God, in the wind

I also saw drifting in the wind

I don't like to drift with the wind anymore

I want to go back to my hometown again

But I can't go back that way

Such a way, God, God

I can't go back this way

I was young when I left my hometown

I went out and ran around

And I never wrote a letter home

Give me my home, God, God, give me my home

I never wrote a letter home."