Do you really understand?

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2020)

When it comes to the movie, the first thing that comes to mind is a 10-minute street shoot-out scene, which has been praised as the best in film history, or a dialogue between two best actors in a cafe. Indeed, as the movie is "hard", the former no matter from the use of a shooting, the actor walked a point of view, or the overall rhythm control is indeed can be written into the classic textbook, which fully embodies the two best actor acting, the opposite is sparks between two people.
But if watching this film only focuses on these two scenes, I am sorry to tell you that you have missed exactly what this film wants to tell you most, if you are a man.
This is the most "male" movie I've ever seen, and I don't think any woman can really understand what this movie is about. The film is actually about two men, who choose between love and friendship, responsibility and affection:
Neil Macaulay, a very intelligent and principled robber boss. After the weather-beaten finally met with his true love of the woman, then want to end their years of straight and dangerous crime life, do the last vote.
Vincent Hanna, a good detective with a bad temper and a long career that broke up his family. When he is about to reunite with a single mother, he meets his match, Neil.
Neil's last move was foiled by the treachery of the men he had kicked out of the team, and the deaths and injuries of several of his brothers who had followed him for years. Neil could have chosen to run away with his beloved woman, but in order to avenge the death of his brother, he chose to shoulder his own responsibility, and finally headed towards the fate between Vincent.
I often wonder if the last did not inform Neil a traitor to the address of the phone, he will be how smooth and girlfriend can walk away, but even so, in the future that the traitor's whereabouts, Neil that afraid he would have been far away from the river's lake, or have a happy family, he will be back, to fulfill his duties as a for many years to do.
The three most important things in a man's life: his principles, his feelings and his responsibilities are reflected in this film. Vincent compromised his family in order to do his duty as a policeman; Because of the angry friendship with neal and involved in the police responsibility; Finally because of the police principle and personally killed Neil. Neil is due to their own principles and led to the betrayal of the traitor, finally in order to assume the responsibility as a boss gave up the hard-won love, and thus martyrdom.
Men's world may be so, in this life is entangled in the above three points: principles, heavy feelings, responsible, but really can do and how many?