If it weren't for "The Legend of Xili" in the official film list of the 3rd Golden Strawberry Film Festival, I'm afraid my fate with it would have been indefinite.
In my opinion, most of the "pseudo-documentaries" are the director's lack of confidence, like the narration of the nervous chatter from beginning to end in "The Legend of Xili", trying to make the audience feel dazed through a large number of real pictures and events full of the sense of the times. A sense of reality, and there is no time to take into account the lack of expressiveness or boring fictional plots. This kind of "hands-on" method really makes people feel that they need to lower their IQ to cooperate with them than the usual tricks of Japanese ghost movies.
The self-identity and anxiety generated by "chameleon" people are more like the fear of not knowing how to control superpowers. He keeps changing identities and roles out of control, and even in the split personality, he feels that insects are also part of his self. Maybe he wants to be an ordinary person in a noisy crowd, but he turns into the focus in a self-defeating way; Each of his identities has become a sharp blade to tear apart modern morality and civilization, a boulder cast into a calm lake, the temptation of curiosity, greed, and vanity fair. I can't find myself, but I can't find myself. The allegorical nature of it is used to highlight and reinforce historical characters, but it is counter-intuitive. I have always hated woody allen's arrogance and philosophical speculation. It seems humorous and put it in the movie. Another self-perceived disorder and anxiety?
From the Jazz Age to the rise of Hitler, the Great Depression or the Peaceful Years, the story of the chameleon has been read a hundred times, and the rambling interpretations, coupled with the "butt-back-flat-sand-falling geese" escape, the magical "male" man finally Harvesting love, the truth that painstakingly created is debunked at the end by "surrendering yourself", geniuses and idiots are all in the line, you say good and I say bad, isn't it self-interpretation?
When I watched "One Step Away", I always felt that the scene at the beginning matched a certain piece of the movie puzzle in my memory. Now I finally found that it was "The Legend of Xili", which can be regarded as finding this windbreaker in the old wardrobe.
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