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"You're a fucking retard. You're just a fucking retard."
Tony needs to change his life, because this dirty world no longer belongs to him. Maybe he even became a father. His mother died a year ago, while he was in the cage. Not a tear.
"You're a useless asshole."
A nonexistent father, the Duke, who thinks about his youngest son and believes that Tony is now doomed, irretrievable. A loser.
A film with a misleading title. A documentary about the life of poor desperate people, inept and antisocial (in the sense of being totally alien to society).
Sex is just pornography, the arrival of a child is just an economic problem, celebrating means 3 things: alcohol, drugs, and whores.
Existence is routine, moving forward passively, carried by chance. Maybe all this happens when there are no more goals. When there are no more dreams.
Beasts in civilization.
Tony lets himself be dragged by that paranoid Kurt into utterly nonsensical situations, both of them with brains burned by dozens of toxic substances, used and abused more for self-destruction than for a high.
Refn paints stylish urban compositions, manages to create suspense, to involve and even to thrill. The class of the Danish director is this: he manages to move with little, a bit like in Drive, where he built a love story made of few glances and silences, deeper than those seen in hundreds of romantic movies.
"You're a constant disappointment. A retard. Disappear, asshole!"
Tony is impermeable to life, sex no longer makes sense, not even death sends shivers anymore.
Only two explosions of violence, which are not driven by anger, but by frustration. Being stuck in an empty existence, surrounded by empty characters. Walking dead.
Refn sets up a visually splendid and meaningful scene: Tony, on a train, at the edge of the carriage, with the train approaching the end of a lit tunnel. Emblematic and very clear image.
There's nothing left but to disappear, reach the light at the end of the tunnel.
Tony can't save himself, he is resigned, unable to build himself a future.
The only hope is to take that little creature away, which maybe isn't even his child, from a trap of nothingness, from a maze of dense smoke and white dust.
"You can't save yourself.
You're just a fucking retard."
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