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"Send him up the river" nghĩa là gì?
02 Mar, 2021
"Send (one) up the river" -> nghĩa tống cổ ai vào tù.
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But the scene in 1991’s Cape Fear in which De Niro’s Max Cady — an ex-convict (cựu tù nhân) hell bent on revenge against the family-man lawyer who helped send him up the river 14 years prior — rapes and mutilates (làm tổn thương) Douglas’ character, with whom Nick Nolte’s Sam Bowden has been having an affair, is the elephant in this movie’s room.
Hernandez fears that she’ll be showing up to testify (làm chứng) against him at trial, and Hernandez’s lawyers want to know if the mother of his child is about to send him up the river.
No outs at all for this guy, send him up the river, he knew what he was doing. I don’t feel sorry for him, not nary a bit.
And I think that it’s actually very timely right now, that there’s a lot of the arrogance of colonialism and the lack of respect for indigenous (bản xứ) cultures expressed in the characters in HEART OF DARKNESS, and there is a definite class divide between the people who send him up the river and the people who are trying to collect ivory out the jungle.
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