救世

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".

北欧冷风和西部热土的结合体，但观感并不是很舒服，假到让人发指的特效屡次出戏，一个渣男的死蝴蝶效应弄死了一个小镇的所有人，也成全了最后的雌雄双侠走天涯的暖色结局。祝贺Eva终于的角色不再碧池，虽然是个丧脸的哑巴。整部影片看点不多，不过当曾经的“曼联国王”坎通纳出现时，不禁让我们感慨岁月的力量。

看了个开头就不想看了，编剧太狗血。一个男人的妻子在马车上被两个恶棍调戏，自己被枪指着头，前一秒还机智地指示妻子咬恶棍自己借机打掉恶棍的枪，掏枪指向恶棍，后一秒钟又愚蠢地让自己的儿子去捡恶棍掉在脚下的自己一伸腿就可以踩住的手枪，被恶棍绑架了自己的儿子，像个傻B一样被踹下马车，一分钟不到又变成约翰韦恩+terminator，狂追马车，干净利落地秒杀两名恶棍。我要是说他的老婆孩子是被他自己害死的，虽然有点儿残酷，可以一点都不过分。

本来不想看下去了，但到豆瓣上一看居然有6.9，强忍着看完。越看越觉得弱智。男主居然后面还害死了自己的兄弟，然后再次突然发力，就像绿巨人一样，单枪匹马干掉了所有的反派，当然干掉大反派时一定是要有个女人相助一下的。

前面儿子离他不到两米的距离被人拿着刀抵着脖子，他都把枪扔了，后面一个女人被人用枪指着头，离他几十上百米，他能一枪打断匪徒的腿。

看了这么多电影，对我来说最虐心的电影就是这种，主角傻B呵呵的犯了一堆低智商的错误，害死一帮人，然后突然华丽转身成为英雄，拯救自己和万民于水火。一个电影的编剧有一万多种方法可以让自己的表达至少看上去合理，然而此片的编剧显然连这个力气都不想费。只有在典型的B级片里编剧才会如此的偷懒。而能给B级片超过5分评价的就不要在写影评了。

至于有人提到片里暗含的宗教和哲学含义，算了吧，就这编剧的水平，想表达的思想也丧失了所有的说服力。

          竟然是丹麦人拍的西部片，一点不难看，我看得一气呵成，从两个不怀好意的男人上马车之后，情绪就一直给吊着，麦叔的棱角分明的五官很丹麦，很适合角色，想起了年轻时的伊斯特伍德。
          这当然是现代的西部片，更暴力一些，比如：恶霸当街枪杀老太婆与残疾人，即使是镇上人贡献出来的肉参，活生生地被爆头于眼前，其他人包括至亲的人即使是用面做的都应该爆发了吧，更更重要的是，围观的看客里也是带着枪的，大不了干个鱼死网破又如何？
           开棺材店的镇长是脱了麦叔的藏钱的靴子，是地价收了地又转手卖给了恶霸（恶霸帮石油大亨收地），但似乎也罪不至死吧，麦叔爆他的头只是为宣示自己的复出？
            麦叔的兄弟是为麦叔而死，麦叔最终抱得美人归，可否勾起心中的悲凉？警长手下也是有几条人马的，外加上麦叔兄弟两虎，枪支弹药杂货店是有的，豁出去跟恶霸干一票，不一定会吃亏的，只是警长为何就看不到这一点，还要作亲者痛、仇者快的事来，比如绑住麦叔兄弟献于恶霸，自损实力不说，自认为的时机未到，暂避锋芒之说更是鬼扯，麦叔两虎在，你们都不敢搞，还等得到神马时机？
            石油大亨连哄带骗也好，大约还是给钱的，只缘由人民手中合法地持有着枪可随时想入侵自有领地的任何人开枪，然后，看看当今的兲巢，与手无寸铁、菜刀要实名登记的屁民们……