The story of the film mainly revolves around the forest adventure and escape of a fat boy and an uncle. The popular configuration of one old and one young, beautiful original ecological scenery, and pleasant soundtrack, the protagonist's different mentality, personality and thinking collide with subtle chemical reactions. The exaggerated, satirical and even absurd storyline also shows that the director's playfulness is not lost. It looks like a game, and all it needs is to let go and play freely, so it is less true.
For most people, bad boys are always eye-catching, and rebellion and destructiveness seem both charming and forgivable in them. What's more, this handsome little fat man named Ricky Baker has a very cool appearance:
he walked out of the car in silence with his hands in his pockets, and calmly inspected the house of his prospective adoptive parents and adoptive mothers. After a circle of surroundings, he sat in the car in silence and closed the car door leisurely, without saying a word or any expression in his eyes, he vetoed the adoptive mother's family who were standing in front of them with smiles and expectations. With his arrogant, rude, and difficult to communicate character, this indifferent fat man was a fat man with a story from the very beginning.
And then the narration of the head of the Children's Welfare Institute and the director's introductory quick editing scenes gave the audience a deeper understanding of this fat man: as expected, he was a little bastard who was abandoned by his parents, refused to accept discipline, and "does no evil". But it's not a good thing for him to face his adoptive father who is about to share an adventure with him: an uncle hunter who has been imprisoned for manslaughter, and who is also arrogant and taciturn.
In fact, before embarking on the adventure and escape, the first ten minutes of the film are very exciting, mainly about how the amiable and humorous adoptive mother tries to keep Ricky who wants to escape and tries to melt some series of his defensive inner heart. Actions: Including telling bad jokes, composing weird birthday songs, hunting together, etc.
This part directly throws out the core of the film's raucous exterior: understanding and communication. However, the unexpected death of the adoptive mother caused a big reversal of the plot: after the fake suicide scene, the little fat Ricky took the shotgun and got into the forest to start an escape adventure.
The director adopted a chronological chapter format for this adventure and escape. The two arrogant protagonists entered the forest with different motives, and after encountering each other, they started the mode of mutual ridicule, survival in the wild, and escape.
From the beginning, the adoptive father-like relationship was gradually rumored to be a kidnapping incident. Later, it turned into an obscene incident with the help of Xiaopangdun's words, and finally developed into a nationwide search operation.
Along the way, they foraged, read together, fled together, experienced and grew together, and gradually developed a friendship of mutual affirmation, appreciation and dependence, and this is the greatest meaning of this journey to them.
The title of the film is "Chasing the Barbarians". The barbarians refer to the little fat man and his adoptive father who escaped from the boring and boring civilized world and entered the jungle to escape. In fact, the real barbarians are speculating about this incident. The most direct representative of the hype and the civilized person is the hypocritical head of the child welfare institution.
The most interesting part of this movie is that it allows children to play with the adult world of false justice. So in the end, the shot that the little fat man accidentally shot at the uncle's butt was far more sincere and more forgivable than the sentence "We never give up any child" in the mouth of the person in charge of the child welfare institution.
What is certain is that the director who shot this film must be a "child" with a childlike innocence. In the whole story he constructed, the child's game is the focus. In this game, the crazy Uncle Sam is cute, the chatty little girl and her father are cute, and even a few stupid bounty hunters are cute, but the civilized people who follow the rules and hypocrisy become the villains.
The film is like a statement from the director: if a child wants to play cat and mouse to his heart's content, the whole world should make way for it.
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