On the characterization of "The Killer Is Not So Cold"

Luc Besson's films are always fast paced, stylish and quirky, and almost every film inspires anticipation. "The Killer is Not Cold" is Luc Besson from art film to commercial film successful transition. As Madida moves the evergreen plant from the pot to the earth, the camera climbs higher and higher over the girl's head. New York City in summer is sunny and verdant. The cold face killer Leon has just been irrevocably cold by the warm blood, but this heartfelt human love song is remembered by all the audience. The story between Lyon and Madida raises eyebrows because of its legendary nature, but it is all the more true because of the subtlety and rigor of the details. The artsy French commercial film is still a popular example for film students around the world, with memorable details such as the green plant around Leon and the line "Remember never to kill women or children". In his first work in Hollywood, Luc Besson combined the artistry of French cinema with the commerciality of American cinema.

Leon, played by Jean Reno, is a 40-year-old loner who comes to New York from Italy -- a fringe man who sucks blood and kills for his employer. His unchanging image, with his dark suit, beard and cloistered sunglasses, conveys a message of indifference and rejection. Fierce action, quiet personality and dry sense of humor are his consistent impression. His muscular physique and aloof personality are in stark contrast to Natalie Portman's quirky, impish 12-year-old Madida. He seems to have been used to milk when water drink, pot as a friend love, never sleep on the bed he also used to sit to sleep life. As a killer, Leon's life must be immersed in intense war and blood, so Leon can only give Madida a desperate answer. The calm of despair, there is no helpless. Leon's identity is doomed to him is lonely, sunglasses cover the eyes can not see a little bit of feelings. He had no family, no friends. He was also a simple man, perhaps precisely because he was a professional assassin who had little contact with people and did not know what happiness was. There is, no doubt, a metaphor for the never-flowering plant in his hand: The killer has to seal off something, perhaps emotion. The killer was calm and warm. He slept sitting up, drank only milk, and carefully watered a plant every day because it was his only friend. Among his many peers, only the unmasked adult can match. When he got up every morning, the first thing he did was to put it in the window, where the sun could shine in. He had told Madida that he himself, like the plant, had no roots. Only plants will not betray you, he said, sad life. After each murder, he always took a bath, and when the cool water sprayed his cheeks and then poured over his body, I think his expression was pious, like that of a man who had made a mistake and was repenting and asking God for forgiveness. No one understood him and no one cared about him. The film impresses people with the accumulation montage, which shows Leon taking a bath several times. New York is home to all kinds of people from all over the world. Rich, poor, white, black, good, marginal people, bad people, dragons and snakes mixed, for everyone, New York is not home, it is just a temporary sojourn in the hotel, all people here are in a hurry, like duckweed rootless drift, lonely life. The presence of the quirky Madida seems to have given him some sunshine. However, the nature of the killer and Madida's help let him hand in hand to teach the girl who died in drug trafficking how to use a gun, but also extended a strong hand to protect her, so that she can not take a gun, until finally, because of her, and took a fatal shot.

However, as the plot progresses, you will find that he is more like a child than Madida. He is shy and simple, cold and lovely, and he protects her only because he is a man. The man was ruthless, but when Madida, whose family had been murdered, knocked on his door and asked for help, the man who seemed sure not to believe in fairy tales opened the door after a few seconds' hesitation. He went to the cinema alone to see the movie, watching the protagonist singing loudly, and he was all eyes in the audience, like a simple and simple. He was so cute when he stammered and asked Tony for money. He rushed frantically to the police station, and when he saw her safe and sound, he looked like he had found her and held her tightly. He breaks the pipe and bids Matilda farewell under a hail of bullets, saying "I love you, you make my life fun..." He entrusted his task to Tony, if one day he met with accident to hand over his money to the little girl when the cautious expression is unforgettable. The problem remained, however, that he was neither qualified to be Madida's lover nor her father -- all he could teach this little flower was how to play with a gun. However, she has become an indispensable part of his life.

The original regular life can be until Leon's old day, the result of an encounter but changed all this, this is because of an accident, a 12-year-old girl walked into his world. Madida, neighbors who don't know each other and just meet and say hello. Finish one day take to the streets to buy things of horse back home, the association found that the whole family was killed by a drug group of people, and she had to get help neighbors Lyon, the results are conscience of Lyon opened her door at the last minute and saved her, but because of his profession is a killer, so he hesitated in front of the drive to hesitate before, because he has already been used to the life dull, cared about, He was used to having no contact with outsiders, but Madida's begging eyes and Shouting finally softened Leon's heart. He could not stand to see such a little girl also killed, so he finally opened the door of his home. Would he have been better off without Madida's intrusion? There is no doubt that he could have lived a longer and safer life. His hands will not tremble because of tenderness, he will not be late for business, he will not kill because of care and injury.

When his family is killed and Madida comes to his door with milk and begs him to open it, his career as a killer is about to end. Madida, a troubled girl who never gets warmth and care and who tells lies, rushes into his life helpless and helpless. During the night, he suddenly jumped up, put on the silencer, and pointed the muzzle of his gun at Madida's sleeping head. He had to push her away. There's no room for a little melting in the killer world. What makes him such a killer is that he has no weakness, only a murderous streak. He had to push her away, or he would sink and die. However, as fate would have it, Madida came into his life. Madida is mature and cold beyond her years, but her flirtatious appearance does not hide her innocent eyes. Two cold hearts in the proximity of each other gave out a faint light, mutual warmth, mutual salvation. He became her faith, and she became his weakness. The blood that EXUDates when the killer Lyon opens the door shows the abatement of murderous spirit, because of that tenderness and concern in the heart, he was very rarely injured.

"I want to be happy, sleep in a bed, have my own roots, I love you." These were Leon's last words before he parted from Madida. Until the appearance of Madida, a troubled girl from a troubled family, she is stubborn, willful, cunning, precocious, but still cute. She would buy two quarts of fresh milk for Leon, she would train with him, she would play mind-relaxing games with him, she would say, Leon, I love you. The love of a 12-year-old girl, like a spring, so pure, without impurities; Like the sun, so warm and dazzling. Leon's numb nerves relaxed, he would smile, sometimes even carefully and gently. From then on, he believed in fairy tales. A killer, fated, can not have love, have love is to have weakness. So, the killer's fairytale ending is necessarily tragic. Leon gave his life to protect this ray of sunshine in his life. When dealing with the scene where he was shot, the director used slow motion and silent method to see the slowly expanding blood spots between the eyebrows until he fell to the ground. His footsteps never hesitated, and he always walked toward the bright exit. He wanted to escape from this dark world, even if this idea is only a pale hope. His death, in exchange for the life of Madida, so his death is also a manifestation of value.

It seems that the most ruthless and cold-blooded professional killer has the simplest thinking and sincere emotion, so it is also the most touching. A period of forget the year of grief, people are alienated, indifferent, everything as if the passage of a fleeting cloud, vanity, uneasiness, unrealistic this heart, as if to use the pot of orchid grass as his displaced life defect umbrella. Heart to heart, Madida entered a normal life. She went back to school and planted the rootless orchid in the ground. As he planted orchids, Madida was talking to himself with such fervour and vagueness. The grass kneels and touches the spirit: It's safe here, Leon