fast and furious java_Fast and Furious 8: Family ever more (film review)

#F8 poster

"The most important thing in life would always be the people right here, right now. That is real." Following the #F7, "The Fate of the Furious" has come with the hot breeze this summer, when Dom's words in 2 years ago is still echoing in our minds: "I don't have friends. I and them are family." The family is coming back, Dom is coming back. Yet things have changed a little bit, when it appears to be a little upset with the words "FAMILY NO MORE" in the #F8 poster.In the previous clips of #F8, with the bitterest hurt to Letty-"You gonna turn your back on family?", the family is forced to play against to their big boss: "Okay, team, listen up. This crew is about family, but the game is changed now. Dominic Toretto just went rogue. We only got one chance to make this family whole again." Will the family be broke apart? We will see.

#F8 previous clips

The "Fast and Furious" series is as significantly influential in my teenage as the "Star Wars" series, which is quite alike "Harry Potter" series to others, and there is a poster of #F6 is on my dorm's wall just right in front of my sight if I am sitting behind the desk. If you ask me: Is it a series about car racings, burning passion and excitement? YES. But if you ask: Is it a series just about racing, buring and excitement? The answer is NO. One of my friend has criticized that the Fast is merely attraching eyeballs by its luxurious cars and exciting racing scenes, there is nothing worth compliment about the plot itself, nor connotative value in it. Agree to disagree. My suggestion is that do not comment a work so casually. It's true that the US action movies seems never do too well on the plot development side. Why? It's just an action movie, not a drama one. There's no need to be so cruel on it. You don't expect a omniponent one, which is perfect in every component of making a movie. Anyhow, it is not a practical expectation.

Back to the Fast 8. I have to admit that the burning feeling is one of most important incentive for me to refuse to miss any single one of the series. Fast 8 starts with a racing in Cuba with a car racer there. Dominic raced with the fastest car in the town by driving a reffited vehicle which had been the slowest car, and without any doubt, Dom never fails. This is just a warm-up. In the later part, the family is chasing by the millitary and even the torpedo and thermal tracking missile, which is much more furious.

Nonetheless, it's more than exciting car racings. It's about family and love. Such is human nature that our lives and our family always come first. Luke Hobbs quited his job for daughter, Deckard Shaw retaliated for his brother, Dom worked for Cipher to save loved one, the family fights together, and even in #F6, Giselle died for Han, and in #F7, Blaine left the team for Mia. The most impressive part of Fast 8 is when they are in Russia, the thermal tracking missile has hit the submarine, and there is going to be a second explosion which is going to kill Dom. What I expected to happen next is that Letty will drive fast enough to pick Dom away or Letty will somehow save her husband. But surprisingly, it is not Letty that save Dom, but the whole family. They both drive towards Dominic and quickly line in a curve like a barrier between Dom and the submarine. Therefore, everyone in cars get some hurt, while Dom can stay alive. It has been much easier for us to guess and to believe that we or they will sacrifice ourselves for our lovers, yet when it turns to a team who works together to show the commitment for one member, it's even more positively electrifying.

The successful point in the Fast is that they reveal the truth of human nature. It is so real in the way that they express the human loves. Yes, our country is important, and national safety is sacred. No, no holly duty can be more vital than making our loved ones safe and sound, and happy. Families will never turn their backs on us, and neither will we. That' s why Dominic would say "The most important thing in life would always be the people right here, right now. That is real." US movies used to love creating American heroes, especailly individual heroes, to save the country, like the Captian America, the planet, like Alice in the Resident Evil, even the universe, like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. However, quite differently, we've been able to see something else in the Fasts. Luke had been ignoring the national safety mission until he finished his daughter's game. Dom chose to rebel the country, and even placed the whole world into a dangerous situation, when his son had been caught as a hostage. The initial incentives of these family members to take such risks most of time are always for the family. Moreover, there's no individual hero in the Fasts, although Dom is the main character. The whole crew works together, while they can't achieve anything if there's no teamwork. Everyone contributes, and everyone helps and saves each other. Everyone counts. Fasts make the entire family to be the hero of their own, not the country or the world. It is attachment between people that what makes us human.

The movie is worth watching, of course at least for the furious racings. Besides, I am also moved by the teamwork and the love involvd in the family.

《速度与激情8》-“家族”预告