救世2014

The US has been using its strengths in industries to further its national strategic objectives ever since it first embarked on the path of Empire two and a half centuries ago. The US movie industry is no exception to be exploited by this American imperial tradition. Nurtured in and nutritioned with the prolific home-market, and having grown prodigally in the first half the of 20th century to become a major cashcow of the US economy by the end of WWII, the US film industry has been employed since as a prominent tool to serve the US propaganda goals and further the US imperial narrative.

With the best staging money can buy (and it must be noted that the more money you have, the better staging you can buy; and the better staging you have in a movie, the more money you make. One should look no further than the intelligence-devoiding Hollywood visual extravaganzas, mostly sequels, which always haul in the most profit while breaking "box-office records", to appreciate this rule), and the unmatched shamelessness (the only truly exceptional trait of the Exceptional People) in appealing to the audience's baser instincts, the US film productions, unsurprisingly, have seduced and enthralled the gullible masses, around the globe, ostensibly for the Messianic goals of civilization, but in fact using the Satanic means of seduction, and achieved the Money-Changers' ends of self-aggrandization and destruction.

Using English, the Empire's language, the American narrative of the light and shadow is made into a narrow, crude, and monotonous one-way street dominated by crass stringent chauvinistic insensitivy: either you are with me, or you are against me; either you think and speak in the Empire's way, or you are a pagan barbarian, and your thinking and speaking do not matter and are wrong, categorically, and not even worth being looked at or listened to.

Nonethelss, amid and despite this crude and disgusting prevalency of the American narrative, other cultures are striking back.

This time, it is Denmark taking the lead, using no less than English itself, scalding bare the skins of American racism and American sanctimony-ism, revealing them for what they are: hypocrisies and double-standards that are parodying themselves.

The Dannish middle finger to the Americans is this: you think you are white? Well, sorry; we are Whiter. Since you think having fairer skin means having more superiority, we are, by God's will, which is the excuse you never stop resorting to in lecturing others, superior to you, so what about you people taking some raceo-culture put-downs from us?

Yes, you discriminate against the Jews; we could understand that, sort of. But you did not hesitate to rape the wife in front the child and kill the child in front of the wife of someone who is much Whiter than you. And you somehow invented the KKK? What is the problem with your American brains?

Well, the problem is actually no problem; it is just that the Exceptional People in the United States of America are hypocrites, and the kind invoking God's name all the time.

The sanctimonious sheriff no less appeals for "compassion" from the husband who had toiled in the desert for years to be able to get his wife and child from Denmark across the ocean and the country but had to finally see them raped and killed in front of him by licentious American outlaws for no other good reason than needing a fuck.

But this same "compassionate" and Lord-invoking "brave" sheriff did not hesitate to give an old woman and a disabled man to a murderous thug to be killed, so that the Sheriff could appease and satisfy the Outlaw.

This church-going sheriff, after having blamed the husband for not showing enough compassion in killing the outlaw who raped the wife and killed the son, somehow suddenly found the divine inspiration to reverse himself and claim the husband a hero, after seeing that the husband had killed all the outlaws so that the sheriff would not need worrying about retaliation by thugs if any other law-abiding citizen per chance did not show enough compassion to killers and rapists.

But only seconds later, God again showed his mysterious ways by making the American sheriff again reverse himself by declaring the soul of the just-made hero fosaken, sanctimoniously denoucing the husband, who had been deprived of his wife and son because the American sheriff himself and his gang were too chicken-shit to enforce laws, was somehow audacious enough to keep a White woman raised by Indians company since it was she who saved his life in his one-man fight against the outlaws when the American sheriff and his gang were too chicken-shit to go anywhere near the battlefield. Or maybe it was just because they had too much "compassion"? But why did not they show that in Ferguson, I wonder? God's will, I guess.

Of course, the Dannish production is as an austere and serious piece of film-making as I can think of. They would not be as untactful as their American counterparts, since they probably know that as crass in language and conducts as the Americans are to others, the Exceptional People always value "decency, civility, and politeness" in others when being spoken to; they do not, cannot, and will not see right from wrong in their own ways, but they will say that you are wrong if you point out that they are wrong, in clear and unambiguous language.

It is just like, if you say "fuck you", the Americans will object even if you did not fuck them. But if you fucked them, and did not say "fuck you", the Americans will take it in strides and probably will even express their pleasure and gratitude. The Dannish obviously took the latter course toward the Americans.

Last, but not least, to fend off nit-pickers, invoking a phrase that would make any American speech "decent", and thus "fit for the general audience", no matter its content or intent, as always done by America's Presidents, I say, God bless, and thank you for the "Salvation".

干净利落的西部片，情节毫不复杂，所有出现的人物的作用和走向你都可以猜的到，麦斯老兄饰演这样的受虐倒霉蛋也是绝对得心应手无出其右，甚至结尾American Laws也一如既往的姗姗来迟，帮忙让大家来感悟到底何为正义，而这些我们姑且认为都是经典西部元素，不这么用都不好意思标榜西部片。好了，现在透过现象看本质，不知导演意欲何为，片子却让我想起了前些日子在飞赴非洲大陆途中一段闲聊，某位在非洲大陆跌打滚爬了许久的江湖老人家（新殖民主义老炮）告诉我，非洲的储油似乎还是超乎我们的想象，但是某些很多咱们中国哥们几乎闻所未闻的非洲国家，不知当地的总统是高瞻远瞩还是出于自私保位心理，就是和当地老百姓一起穷死也不开采，而据说他们的逻辑原因很简单：那黑色的黏黏的着起来火焰极其明媚的珍贵的油，如果开采出来，哪里出来哪里就会引来战争，哪里就会民不聊生.... 这是强加的给影片的概念还只是为了推动一下情节的发展呢？我不得而知了。

还不错吧，中规中矩，是一个男人复仇的故事。简介竟然这么少，我就再补充一点吧。一个男人和他的弟弟这两个外来户生活在西部正在开发的一个镇子，镇子有当过兵复原的恶霸及其团伙，警察也是帮凶，欺压镇上的老百姓，将土地廉价回收，可能是有石油的原因。恶霸还有一个他弟弟的老婆，占为己有，给自己当会计。然后外乡人把老婆从车站接上回家的路上，遇到了恶霸的弟弟刚出狱，这家伙在车上强奸了外乡人的老婆，杀死了孩子。外乡人生气后展开报复，一路杀向西的故事。