I don't understand why we say "blockbuster" when we talk about Hollywood, there are a lot of big productions, big stars, but what really matters to me in Hollywood is the spiritual pursuit it still maintains in an extremely commercial environment , so those actors, directors, and playwrights can still consider themselves artists, making contributions to the human mind.
One transgender, two lesbians, one imprisoned woman - such a niche subject, the audience must not have asked to see a movie like this, but why would they make a movie like this, and it's done so well, especially It's "The Danish Girl" and "Carol". It's really beautiful, like the simplicity of every summer rose, as clear as the light of the Nordic sky. Why would anyone make a movie like this? I think it's because they were moved by these stories, like finding a pebble on the beach with a special brilliance, so they decided to tell the story in the language of the movie and in their own way. Others can see that peculiar brilliance.
Hollywood is a magical place, the most concrete image of the American dream, and it must have shaped and spread the so-called American spirit beyond all that the American state apparatus has done, including the nonstop CNN, including the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. At the same time, Hollywood can be "anti-American", leading and revolutionary.
In 1993, it was The Philadelphia Story's account of AIDS that changed American society's views and sentiments about AIDS.
In 2005, a film called "Brokeback Mountain" pushed homosexuality into popular culture, so much so that people could "pat themselves on the back for sitting through 'that movie where the cowboys do" the American people's reaction to the film. it." (Everyone thinks it's amazing that they can watch this film). In the following ten years, the LGBT movement in the United States has gone up and down, and finally won the historic verdict of legal same-sex marriage in the United States last year. "Brokeback Mountain" should have a credit in it ten years ago.
In 2014, when Snowden was still wanted for "treason", the documentary about him "Citizen Four" won the Best Documentary Award, and its director Laura Poitras also from the FBI blacklist and secretive. The state of self-imposed exile in Berlin became an overnight red carpet star. Hollywood is completely unabashed in promoting its left-wing values, and is not shy about giving the U.S. government a slap in the face every now and then.
I read Carol's wiki online and found that although I think Hollywood is revolutionary enough, Americans obviously think it's not enough. Many film critics are very dissatisfied with Carol's absence from the "Best Picture" nomination, thinking that it reflects the Hollywood Film Union. The narrow-mindedness and arrogance of the largely white male voters, who think they are completely incapable of understanding "its quiet, sophisticated ... mid-century romance focuses entirely on the unstoppable attraction between two women where neither has the decency to sleep with a man , suffer tragically or die at the end" (the quiet, subtle romance based entirely on attraction between two women who not only don't sleep with a man, but suffer tragically and in eventually die), "about characters who actively flout the presence of men in their lives ... [The film's] strident interest in female inner-life and how it doesn't relate to men is still more radical (the film's focus on pure The interest in women's inner world, and the notion that this inner world can have nothing to do with men is very extreme), and gay romances are only "Oscar surefires" when they use the tragedy/desolation equation be an Oscar winner).
Due to the particularity of the subject matter of these two films, the first thought after watching the film is to know whether these stories have a real background. The "Danish Girl" story actually exists, it's just that Einar was 48 when he underwent sex reassignment surgery, not in his twenties in the movie. The story of "Carroll" is also based on a novel "The Price of Salt" published in 1950, when most Americans didn't even know there was a "lesbian" thing. Once again, I feel that the human landscape is so different. In 1930, when the Chinese were still struggling with arranged marriages, Europeans could start to try sex reassignment surgery; in 1950, when Chinese women had just been "liberated", Americans Already started writing lesbian literature. Well...
the last thing I have to mention is the soundtrack albums of the two films. When I was watching the movie, I noticed the soundtrack of "The Danish Girl", and with the clear and distant scenery unique to Northern Europe, the sunlight penetrated the clouds, as if it came directly from heaven. The music of "Carol" and the street scene at the beginning of the film that slowly slides through the taxi window in the rainy night and reflected on the wet ground are indeed New York in the 1950s.
Thank you Tencent, thank you QQ Music, although I don't know if you bought the copyright, but I'm happy to find these two soundtrack albums without any effort and enjoy them for free. And they've finally replaced The Philadelphia Story and Great Expectations as my new all-time-favorite sound track. (It's just that these two works didn't win the best soundtrack, which is really unfair).
Finally, I would like to thank Hollywood for allowing the people on the other side to continuously expand their international horizons and improve their aesthetic tastes. Well done Oscar, keep on.
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