BIUTIFUL, a miswritten word "beautiful", a noir film about life, left me with deep thoughts.
The film takes place in beautiful Barcelona. It tells the story of Uxbal, a low-level figure in Spanish society, and a group of illegal immigrants on the fringes of society.
Uxbal is an unemployed vagrant who wanders among "snakeheads", black factories, piracy vendors, and Spanish police. The gray trade that helped China, black illegal immigrants and the police open up the relationship is the source of life for him and his two children. Tousled hair, tired figure, helpless eyes are the image of this down-and-out father throughout the film. He will run away from subway tickets, eat in messy bars, and pile up crumpled euros one after another. Although life is hard and suffocating, what I see from Uxbal is a heart that is always kind and beautiful.
However, life is cruel and merciless after all. Uxbal's kindness and expectation of the beauty of human nature have not been rewarded.
Uxbal had hematuria and urinary incontinence, and his life came to the end;
his childhood friend who was a policeman who helped the immigrants deceive him deceived him, and the black immigrants who sold pirated CDs and imitation brand-name bags on the street that he "cared for" were all taken to prison. . His partner threw him a sentence "Don't be silly, the good people in the world are not rewarded";
the Chinese illegal immigrants in the black factory he cared about were all dead because of leaks in the second-hand gas stove he kindly sent to warm them. basement;
Chinese black boss of the factory will be 25 dead bodies thrown into the sea, leaving his family, killing his homosexual lover, fled;
his wife and children dropped him, with his rich mixed underworld brother;
be The wife of the black immigrant he rescued left behind the children he had entrusted to her before his death, took all his savings for the children, and left...
The reality, darkness, and cruelty of life make people feel terrible, just like the name of the film "biutiful", a wrong answer written after a daughter asked her father how to write "beautiful". The beauty of life is illusory, just our wrong imagination. The beautiful Barcelona also has her ugly side. All the goodness, kindness, and moral conscience are so pale in front of the cruel life (to be precise, survival), faint like a dream, like a beautiful mistake.
If the film is just like this, it is not a classic movie that is memorable. The most wonderful thing is the handling of the beginning and the end of the film. The father passed the beautiful ring in his hand to his daughter before he died. In the child, the beauty, kindness and beauty have been continued. The world in the eyes of children is always beautiful. Maybe after they grow up they find that everything is just a beautiful imagination, but the glory of human nature is continued through a ring and a dialogue on the snow at the end of the story, leaving us endless The aftertaste and imagination.
The first movie I watched after I came to Barcelona was aimed at shooting in Barcelona (a Spanish classmate of mine said excitedly that there are all the most beautiful places in Barcelona, go watch it. After watching it, I said to her: If one has never been here After watching the people in Barcelona, they must not want to come all their lives, I k, looked like Iraq), and went to the lead actor Balden. The film's performance, scene processing, and music are all classics. After watching it, I felt very heavy, just like what I felt after secretly reading "Alive" in a high school class. I was immersed in the film for a long time because of something blocked in my chest. Because of the bad portrayal of Chinese immigrants and the black scenes, this film will be banned 200% in China (perhaps to arouse "patriots" to criticize the director). But, to be honest, it's really real, bloody real (the scenes about Chinese shops and black people selling pirated copies on the street, I really experience it every day). Especially living in a foreign country, living in the city of Barcelona, I have a special feeling in my heart.
In short, a good film that makes me think and recollect. The world is still beautiful, and Barcelona is still beautiful. I always believe in the kindness and beauty of human nature.
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