The first time I watched "The Pentium Age" was in 2009, I was facing the college entrance examination, and as far as I know, it was nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film at the 2004 Academy Awards Art direction, best costume design and many other awards, but none of them won.
Of course, it's no surprise if you've seen the Academy Award-winning film nominations in '04. Best Picture, Best Director and many other awards went to Peter Jackson - "The Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King", Best Actor Sean Penn - "Mystic River" (if you don't know which movies he has acted in , which awards he has won, you only need to know that he has dated with the following actresses, Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Tyrone, Robin Wright), best supporting actress Renee Zellweger - " Cold " Mountain ", Best Original Screenplay Sofia Coppola - "Lost in Translation" (whose father Francis Ford Coppola directed the famous "Godfather", of course, Lost in Translation also Won a number of international film festival awards in the same year), Best Cinematography Russell Boyd - "Fighting the Sea". Among the many films nominated in the same year are The Last Samurai, Pirates of the Caribbean, 21 Grams, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Big Fish, Finding Nemo and many more. It's like a fight between gods, like the 1995 Oscars. Many of these nominated films have occupied the top 100 of major movie rating websites all year round, and they can almost be said to be must-see movies in all types of films.
In contrast, "The Pentium Age" is unremarkable, just like many members of the Oscar-running movies in those years, drowning in the vast sea of films. I did, however, rewatch the film from time to time over the next ten years. Because, like Forrest Gump, this is an American theme film, which can directly show the many interpretations and annotations of American popular culture on the American spirit.
The movie was changed based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book "Ocean Biscuit: An American Legend," which said the legend, "Ocean Biscuit," was among America's Top 10 Newsmakers of the Year in 1938, along with Franklin Roosevelt , Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, among others, are equally famous, and he himself is just an ordinary racehorse - it is short and flawed, its jockey is poor, but together they create A miracle in the history of horse racing.
The film starts with three different protagonists, namely, a wealthy businessman who started his own life but lost his son in middle age, a horse trainer who wandered half his life but saw the advent of the automobile age, and a young rider who was forced to separate from his family due to the economic crisis and struggled to make a living. They came together because of an unremarkable racehorse and created a legendary story.
It can be said that the difficult situation grows, and it is not new to create a legendary story prototype. This is what almost every qualified Hollywood assembly line product can do. But the interesting thing about the film is that he tries to put characters of different classes at a certain node of the larger historical background, to consider and observe, in order to reflect the American spirit that runs through every class in the United States, and the response will last for a long time. Since the background of the story happened in 1922, the American financial crisis, and the main characters of the film are from different classes in the United States,
What is the main theme of the United States? When I was very curious about the separation of powers and advanced systems, we may have not read the history of the United States. They are very similar to us. In order to get rid of British rule, Washington, who was selected by the First and Second Continental Congresses, led a rabble, and after many defeats, crossed the Delaware River in 1771, which became a turning point in the War of Independence, and then because of the abolition issue, Lincoln defeated It fought the American Civil War and ensured the unity of the United States, which to some extent defended the spirit of the American Constitution and guaranteed the integrity of national sovereignty.
There is a saying in that rabbit that is particularly good. Today's United States is not so strong from the beginning. They have also gained through years of capital accumulation and the hard work of the people. Throughout the history of the world, almost all powerful civilizations have come from hard work, the liberation of the United States, the French Revolution, Napoleon's Westward Expedition, Japan's Meiji Restoration. The reason why Chinese people who worship foreigners and seduce foreigners is annoying because they can only see the current shortcomings of their own country, but they cannot see the possibilities and ways of their development. They only see the development and advancement of foreign countries, but they do not know that others are also Years of development and hard work have resulted in painful reforms. So they become, just sit back and enjoy it, just want to walk on the street with two bottles of wine, thinking that they can get an exciting life, thinking that as long as they embrace other people's systems, they can become the perfect middle class. All I can say is that they are delusional, people with this mentality, even if they were born in the advanced system they thought, they would only be marginal characters in society, and they would only be a big waste of blame. When a new system appears one day, they will embrace and cheer without hesitation. It can be seen that they have never been the founders and inheritors of a certain civilization, and they should not and will not be the mainstream voice in this culture. Because they don't know how to build, they only know how to destroy, they don't know how to fight, they only know how to beg, they don't know how to persevere, they only know how to ridicule.
I just feel that what Mr. Lu Xun said is very true,
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