"World Trade Center" is the work of the great director Stone. Of course, the film director who has always had a political complex will not let go of the extremely sensitive subject of 9/11, but when we watch it, we will find that this film has almost nothing about politics. There is almost no condemnation of terrorism and doubts about the Bush administration. This has nothing to do with politics, or even the heroes in previous disaster films, so this is an extremely alternative disaster film. The collapse of the two towers is only a matter of It is a disaster. It will not carry too many international problems, nor will it carry the achievements and mistakes of some leaders.
But it must be pointed out that there is a certain marine search and rescue personnel in the film, and his appearance represents some international background factors to some extent, watching the news that Bush is on vacation, preparing for war after search and rescue, etc. This is the only political part in the film. position, and his main role in the film is still in the search and rescue work, and because of his efforts, we rescued our protagonist. This is the implied meaning. It is self-evident that a man who wanted to dedicate his life to his country rescued the victims trapped in the ground. It seems that although Stone tried his best to avoid political factors, he still brought out some of them unconsciously. The whole film doesn't have much to do with it, so let's put it aside for now.
Speaking of the film, since the collapse of the twin towers is regarded as a disaster, then we can completely classify this film into the category of disaster films. As mentioned earlier, there are no heroes in this film, and there are not many scenes of search and rescue. It is obviously a little different from the rescue and rescue plots of Hollywood's previous disaster films. In this film, the director cares more about human life.
I have been thinking about how many relationships can be found in such a theme when I encounter a disaster film. Because this film abandons politics (that is, the reason for the disaster) and abandons heroes, it just happened to give an example.
First of all, the film is about the friendship between the two police officers in trouble. In a disaster, friendship and life among comrades is a huge play. The success of this film is that the director put this kind of friendship on a Jedi, that is, the two warriors have no possibility of moving at all, and can only rely on words to encourage each other, which is indeed an adventure for a film, the protagonist Even being unable to move is a great test in the feeling of film and television.
Therefore, Mr. Stone set up various obstacles for this ultimate friendship. The first is the uncertainty of the accident scene, which may cause new dangers every once in a while. This is impossible for two unaided police officers to operate. inescapable. Secondly, being at a depth of twenty meters, this is obviously a desperate situation, it is simply hopeless. The third point is the injury to the body. Friendship can maintain each other's life, but due to injury, the power of friendship is not absolute. It is just an effort, and it is very likely to die at any time due to internal bleeding and other reasons. There is also the occasional backfire phenomenon, and even the misfire of the pistol has become an obstacle. It can be said that it is God's will for the two police officers to survive, otherwise it is really unexplainable.
The above mentioned are all external and objective obstacles, and more internal ones, including a happy and unhappy family. This involves the second relationship in the film, the relationship between the victim and his family.
The family backgrounds of the two police officers are different. One is not very passionate in life, his wife is wild and pregnant, and the other has aesthetic fatigue due to an excessively long marriage. So the performances of the two wives are also very different. Thanks to the director who finally brought us out of the Jedi because of the different performances of his wives, we can see everything in the light. The pregnant young woman tried her best to control her worries, she kept her grief to herself, and covered up her grief with an action that was close to madness, while the other wife was more or less careless, but because of her son's order She wakes up to the benefits of her husband, and she wakes up from that cold feeling, and becomes warm and worried. In terms of character, the two wives move and remain silent, but in the process of the whole story, their psychological process is static and silent. It can be seen that the director put a lot of effort into these two wives.
At this time, we can look back at the two police officers who were trapped. Similarly, the two are also moving and quiet, one talking more, the other talking less, and one can even say that one is young and the other is old. This comparison reveals that Two people with different personalities. And this different character misses his wife in different ways. When the young police officer saw Jesus, everyone understood that he had experienced a baptism of death, and faith saved him. The light and shadow came suddenly, and of course it left in time. During this process, at the moment of death, the young policeman did not miss his wife too much, although his wife was the driving force for his survival when he was awake. But unlike him, the old police officer, because of his long marriage and his understanding of life and life, when he was on the verge of death, what he saw was exactly the wife herself. Yahu's role, so he got the encouragement of his wife, he was saved, and when he was lifted out of the ground, it was a rectangular exit, and he could finally get out of the coffin. Through the comparison of the death moments of the two people, we realize the dominant role of family in this film, and it is not difficult to understand the main reason why this film is far away from heroes and politics.
Friendship and family are the elements that are extremely publicized in the film. The opposite of this element is naturally death. In the face of death, all the original disappointment and estrangement have disappeared, but the power of death is so powerful that defeating it also requires courage. , so we see the enormous and incomparable courage of friendship and family affection. The power of ordinary people appeared at this time as a kind of love.
As for how the film touches people's hearts and makes the audience feel sad and heartbroken in the details, this is almost a routine problem for Hollywood movies, and it has won many battles, so there is no need to say more here. Of course, the film also involves more relationships, such as the relationship between the individual and the country shown by the Marine Corps, and the relationship between the country and the world is also briefly explained through endless news background analysis. There are also things such as mutual aid of strangers in times of distress. All of these are indispensable for disaster films, but the film's main focus is on family and friendship.
Taking family and friendship as the expression point, revealing the value of life, this is the theme that Director Stone seems to reflect through the film, a theme of life, a theme that is so heavy that people can't breathe when watching the movie. Therefore, when we can only see the paleness of ordinary people's lives in the face of disasters, we will sigh at the insignificance of life, but when we also see ordinary people rescue each other in various ways, we will Proud of those powers that sustain life, because these powers may be unique to us, the expression of our human beings, I am afraid this is human nature!
2006-11-27 in Tongzhou
Han Xi
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