Dogtooth was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year, but Frenchman in Cannes won him the Un Certain Regard Best Picture in two years. The reason why he deserves "attention" is mainly his metaphors, in addition to the usual large-scale visuals.
The story mainly tells about a pair of parents who raised their adult son and two daughters in a house in the suburbs since childhood. The purpose is probably not to want children to be harmed or "polluted" outside, not to mention whether they will be harmed outside, or whether human growth needs to be harmed or not, the theme of the movie is not to warn parents not to over spoil their children or something. , this kind of pure theme of Mamma Mia, if it is for this purpose, then this film should consider importing it into China, but if the censors see it, it will probably hack the director, and the reason is not excessive nudity or too indecent, It is in his political metaphors. A "Let the Bullets Fly" has already made the whole nation addicted to some metaphors, and it is estimated that it will be more careful and strict in the future.
In order to better manage their children, the "parents" in the film keep them isolated from the world for long-term brainwashing. The world they describe to their children is like this. Outside the walls of the house is a place full of danger. This kind of danger is terrifying. Unknown, if you want to get out of the house, you have to meet a condition that is adulthood, but the standard of adulthood is set by your parents. They stipulated that "you are an adult when your canine teeth (that is, the name of the movie) fall out", but even if you are an adult, you can't leave casually. , the road is still very dangerous, you have to drive, and learning to drive has to wait until the lost canine teeth grow back (I rub it, it's more outrageous than the 21st military regulation.) Basically, the world children live in is stipulated like this, In fact, everything in their world is defined by their parents, such as telephones, which are defined as salt shakers; zombies are defined as yellow flowers. Anything that is not conducive to governance can be redefined (this is the same as each country writing its own history textbook). Parents have two management methods as usual, material rewards and physical torture. Control children through grace and control, and implement autocratic rule. Of course, in the name of protecting the child and being good for the child.
In the development process of human civilization history, such old-fashioned plots and methods have been tried and tested again and again, and it was not until the enlightenment of thought that everyone knew that they pursued freedom, pursued equality, and pursued democracy. The "despicable" intellectuals' life-threatening practice of "freedom or death" finally made people see a glimmer of light, and let the autocratic rulers see scenes of dark and unbeautiful tragedies. In the movie, what acted as ideological enlightenment were two videotapes that the father received from the female worker for mating with his son. According to the plot, they were "Rocky" and "Jaws" respectively. The eldest daughter who watched the two films was open-eyed. The world is in turmoil. Maybe it was naive to think that he was mature. After the hammer smashed his teeth, he hid in the trunk of his father's car and went to greet the world, and the movie came to an abrupt end.
The resistance of people in a state of ignorance is usually naive and unconscious. Why is the history of China's civilization for thousands of years from one feudal empire to another feudal empire, forced, you don't give me a way to live, I can only do it myself Find. But without breaking the shackles, what society needs is always thinkers first, and then scientists or political or military strategists. Please enlighten our world.
Looking back and thinking about it, any regime, autocracy or democracy, has created a worldview for the "children", the American dream of the American imperialists, the French dream of being a cultural center, the dream of a great power of the Celestial Empire, not to mention Smecta, the world After all, it's theirs. The circle of tragedy is the law of circles, who said that the world we define is the real world? Maybe others are laughing at our worldview too.
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