Needless to say, with the presupposition of "beautiful mistakes", it is not surprising that the movie is full of afflictions. It has a forewarned death, life and death, and unexpected tragedy. Usibal has multiple identities as father, lover, son, intermediary, and psychic. In ordinary movies, his role is equivalent to the capacity of three characters, or even more. If in the past, director Inarido would do this, split the film into three parts, multiple clues, a bunch of characters, influence each other, entangle each other, everyone's fate is changed by an accident. However, after parting ways with his early partner Guillermo Ariga, Inarido also wanted to break through himself. If you use the three-stage style that you are accustomed to, it will inevitably fall into the real situation, and you may not want to make progress.
Although "The Mistakes" also presents three types of characters, white, black and Chinese, the differences are obvious, but the three are only part of the film and cannot change the structure of the linear narrative. Because Usibal exists like a radioactive source, he is connected with most of the people who appear in the film. Therefore, "The Mistakes" is actually a personal show film, which places high demands on the actors. Fortunately, Javier Baden showed strong and precise control. Sean Penn said that Javier Baden’s performance is comparable to Marlon Brando in "The Last Tango in Paris." At the end of life, the two films both rendered feelings of loneliness and decadence, but "Beauty Mistakes" does not have so many lusts intertwined. It is a spider web intertwined with different ethnic groups and complex social relationships. Everyone is stuck in it. The prey above.
Aside from the soft whispers and the surreal opening, Uzibar draws blood by himself in the hospital, picks up the child and goes home. In a few scenes, the character comes out: he insists on his own opinions, has a sense of responsibility, and is kind to his children. At the same time, the inner emotions are suppressed. It happened to be such a person. He was alone and dragged his family away, busy and exhausted. What else would Usibal? He eats black and white, can also communicate life and death, and exists like a god. If we take this to say a little bit further, in Babylonian, Babel and Babylon are the same word, but one means chaos and the other means the gate of God, meaning completely different. So the more he knew about Usibal, the more trouble he got. In the film, he is a collection of suffering. He suffers from cancer, does not work well, and is exhausted. It can be said that he abuses people and his heart, and he cannot be miserable.
Long after the movie opened, many people recognized that this was Spain, it was in Barcelona. If you compare it with "Midnight Barcelona" starring Javier Baden, it is really a city for directors. Such a realistic ground floor, dirty and messy neighborhoods, and dilapidated rooms are definitely Inarido's aesthetic pursuits. He needs a dark curtain background, dotted with a few shining stars. He never objected to roughness, no matter how rough the stones were, he wanted to grind him into pearls, and it would be better to squeeze out a few tears by the way. As for whether the audience will buy it, that's another matter. From many perspectives, "Beauty Mistakes" fits the Chinese people's compassionate thinking. Good people must be rewarded, and if good people are not rewarded, it will be blind. With dying themes and family issues, the misery is superimposed and there is a good intention to help the wrong, such a tall and tough protagonist, but has a humble and sensitive kindness-it is really difficult for people to be sympathetic. Fortunately, the film does not stop at the moral preaching level of popular drama. Regardless of whether the starting point is good or bad, as the police warned Usibal, "It is very dangerous to rely on people who are about to starve to death, let alone rely on a bunch of children. People who are about to starve to death". He was also at fault, and he could not escape the guilt. In the huge social food chain, he was only one of the links in the middle.
The film captures the director's past creative inspiration, animals, souls and people of different skin colors, allowing them to live together in Barcelona, listening to the heartbeat of the protagonist and the city until it stops. Inarido explained the creative thinking that "The Mistakes of Beauty" is both simple and complex. Simple is a protagonist and a single clue; complexity is a multitude of complexities. The protagonist reveals the true corner of Spanish society, such as Ucibar and China. Put another person in between the bosses. No matter how the director modifies it, "Beauty Mistakes" goes to the grand and the grand. This is unavoidable. Topics such as the meaning of life, the overlook of the soul, and the love of the family are all too familiar, just by Havel. · Baden has acted in several plays. Inari had extraordinary ambitions, but unfortunately he chose a set of outdated motifs. In this sense, it is not an exaggeration to criticize the old tune of "The Mistakes".
From a critical point of view, critics cannot direct how the director should shoot and cut, whether to remove the gay couple, and so on. And just as you can praise "Mei Mi" for everything, but its biggest problem is looseness and loss of focus. Whether it is a personal situation, family trouble or a social problem, the film moves back and forth among the three options, like shaking hand-held photography and oppressive composition of the characters, it focuses on entanglement itself, and it does not fall to the ground, which is not realistic enough. Some people would say that the focal point is not the event, but the character, but this focal character is too perfect, almost perfect. Let a person with no shortcomings face all the trivialities, which leads to his various divisions and is busy with various coping. Seeing these sad things in the eyes of the audience, it is equally exhausting and unclear.
From the perspective of the Chinese, there can actually be more words about "The Mistakes", but it is by no means a slander and accusation of angry youth. Compatriots who went to Spain, they yearned for a better world, pursued a better life, regardless of treatment and circumstances, is this also a "beautiful mistake". When the point of departure and the end of the goal deviate from each other, can this frighten people? The answer is obviously not that simple. Fortunately, "Beauty Mistake" shows a real texture. When it comes to the image of overseas Chinese, our understanding of them is often blank or missing. Just as foreigners see them, their faces are also vague and difficult. identify. Perhaps due to the tragic accident that occurred in the early years, "The Mistakes" also chose similar clues to express it. This is not deliberate, but a factual necessity. As for the setting of gay characters, it can only be said to be questionable. This is reminiscent of "A Night in Spring Breeze" when it was screened in Rotterdam, and foreign audiences laughed. Perhaps in their opinion, Eastern men are always biased towards rigidity, and once they show true and rich lust, they are a little uncomfortable.
If you look at "The Mistakes of Beauty" from the clues of the Chinese people, the film is obviously only phenomenal. It is due to personal vigilance and lack of reflection. Of course, Uzibar alone cannot deal with such increasingly globalized international issues. However, the problem of Chinese passages also exists in the whole movie. Usibal saw too much, and as a result, he left. This is not a question of whether the presentation of "Beautiful Mistakes" is good or not, but whether the film is too simple to show, and there is no way to find a solution. It is too pessimistic and fatal to rely on surreal dialogue. Or it can be said that "Beauty Mistakes" only has a personal worldview of the director, which is lacking in methodology. Although there will be rebuttals, is such a conclusion too demanding for a movie? But let’s take a look at the content conveyed by the media today. The family content in "The Mistakes" is too familiar even for illegal workers and foreign ethnic groups. If the creator has higher demands on himself, he cannot be satisfied with stating facts and creating conflicts. From a small point of view, the divorced couples and parent-child education in "Beauty Cuo" behave fairly and well, and there is nothing too attractive. Without Javier Baden, no matter how much the protagonist has, it will not save the movie itself. 【China Business News Daily】
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