"American history" outstanding also now narrative style smart, poetic use of chaxu perfectly embodied in this film. In the process of growth and dry noodles brothers, young, middle-aged, young and old age are callous decay overlapped together, the life dream and variation, loss and return in the front in the exhibition at the moment the audience goes, let us in the shuttle time of seeing self, like kate.
The background of the American past is the emergence of various social problems caused by the rapid development of the American post-war era, and the instinct of people's survival to challenge all kinds of limitations: family, friendship, love, betrayal and belief and so on. It seems a record of the abbreviations of life in the big cities of the United States in the 20-60 years. The story begins with the memory of the noodle. The story is always in between the noodles and Max entanglement, with many flashbacks and flashbacks, staggered time. First, through the hole in the wall of a pair of eyes flashed back to the distant 1921, dates back to childhood to youth noodles life experience: fascination with the girl next door; for little brother revenge and suffering from prison; a group of poor children to play practical joke in water; rob the jewelry store when the face of Carol's violence...... 35 years, accompanied by guilt and remorse, but understanding: the past is Nanke dream of noodles. Who won? There seems to be no winner in a game of life. The music in the film, flute blowing slowly, mournful, slightly nostalgic sentiment.
Starting from an unanswered phone, the hero began to look back on his life. It can be said that the noodles recall has always been guilt, regret, sore wound. Occupy the center of the scene is the memory of noodles, 35 years ago because of his mistakes or "betrayal" and his friend, the noodles gang boss Max". However, in the 35 years after him, a letter from the "past" letters but recalled him to New York, let him see the cover up the veil, this veil almost deceived his life. Even if the "Bailey minister" Max. He also refuses to admit that The case is entirely cleared., the scene 35 years ago is an elaborate good game, in front of the old friend is he took everything, including the beloved girl Deborah enemies. At the end of the film, the old noodles had returned to 35 years ago opiumparlours, he was lying in bed, quietly waiting for the answer the phone, but the phone has no sound, so he deal with the lens, a smile, just understand everything of remorse and pain but he always have good based on fantasy, but the reality is far more than the previous remorse ruthless. His dream was smashed, including the wounds and pains derived from his dream, and it was taken away from the reality.
Kors has some kind of worship and fear, handsome noodles, emotion Shigeyoshi, reckless impulse, is the kind of man not bad woman does not love the protagonist, but like Deborah for his accurate cognition, "you're just a done punk", Max played for the noodles into trouble, in after the "cause" development, tries to get Max to his noodles to him gradually but the worship of worship, with the continuous expansion of Max ambitions gradually turned into fear, always want to escape the noodles is unable to truly escape. Max is opposite the envy and control, there is no doubt that Max love noodles, because he has the ideal self to find the noodles in the body, but the projection of this ideal also brings jealousy in the noodles with Deborah or any other woman relationship, Max's ambiguous attitude will this man jealousy between the performance of the obscure and clearly, so that Max and Carol and Deborah's emotional deformity is more like a jealous after revenge, because Max would neither Aikaluo didn't love Deborah, but just jealous as the shadow follows the form control.
Black social life, bootlegging, stolen diamonds...... Everything needs wisdom, devotion, courage and cooperation. Don't look down on it. Any practice has its advantages and reasons. Is there no harm to other people in our office building? Is it brewing in his company? Our work is just right? Can we get or repair the influence of oneself and around to others and his side? Can we think about the back of it when we look at the front of the matter?
Character is destiny, life experiences and outcomes of noodles and Max also but is the natural character after stream of twists and turns, the great film let us thrilling after sigh with emotion, and leave the infinite mind, like the end of the film the mysterious smile on the face of the noodles.