This is not a film review, but a notepad, to preserve the momentary impressions.
This film with no dazzling skills and simple scenes contains several elements that I love:
1. Metaphor:
Nader, who is firm-willed and stubbornly refuses to compromise, Represents the people in a country who choose to stick to traditions and defend the country. The
father represents the rigid and dying past. The daughter
represents the future before the choice
.
. We are in a kind of division all the time:
while struggling to find an exit to another country, we are in tears and drooling at "China on the tip of the tongue"
; Those who pursue and survive, dress brightly in the office during the day and call the wind and rain, squeeze through the six rings at night, get into the rental house shared with a few strangers, and think about the future of me, who has no household registration, in this city;
On the one hand, it is professional ethics, on the other hand, it is human feelings;
on the one hand, it needs to break through the secular love, and on the other hand, it faces the family responsibilities of parents; on
the one hand, it is the ideal of changing the world, and on the other hand, it is the reality of survival
; Sometimes I am afraid of all the absurdities in this country;
on the one hand, I am moved by the virtual story, but on the other hand, I see the sympathy that is deceived and tortured;
3. The details of the characters:
4. The truth and the lie: the
boss arranges a Forum, the highlight of which is to let each manager choose a
case of the toughest person in his team. To describe the entire process and harvest.
My case is quite dramatic. A few months ago, I tried both hard and soft to let the boss
promote this person, but now I can't avoid it.
How can I objectively and neutrally describe
how deteriorated and collapsed step by step? Not easy. Sometimes it is self-deception,
sometimes it is deceitful. When a person is subjectively describing, he will subconsciously lean in the direction of self-protection
. From the ocean of data, selective blindness gathers information that can support its arguments.
Nader can be regarded as someone who can make small sacrifices for the truth, such as making his daughter insist on correct pronunciation of
words, even if she will be deducted points. But even like Nader, in the face of major interests, the
subconscious escape is not conducive to his own answer.
5. Tolerance:
Because I tell the truth, you can't accept it, so I have to lie.
So, the sharper and harsher a society's moral standards are, the easier it is for people to lie.
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