Coincidentally, "Welcome to the North" released in France in 2008 broke the local box office record held by the old film "Tiger's Mouth Escape" for 42 years. It is said that it was applauded by the whole people. Gudao warm-hearted, frustrated people find spiritual sustenance and so on. Although there is no sense of historical loss in the time dimension of "Cape No. 7" ("North" mainly bridges the cultural differences between the north and south of France in space), the folk reactions caused by the two are quite similar. Think of it as the French "Cape VII".
When watching "Welcome to the North", I was very surprised by two questions - one is that France, which has literary films such as "Lovers in the New Bridge", "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", "Amelie", is actually the two highest-grossing films in the past 42 years. "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth" and "Welcome to the North"? The content of this "North" is simple, with obvious funny traces, and the method of wanting to be promoted first is obvious. Although the warmth of the town and the scenery of the clock tower are beautiful, the artistic method should be more natural, subtle and smooth, so that we can make this work. An outsider who has nothing to do with the French countryside should be convinced. Second, I am quite surprised by the cultural gap between the north and the south of France: it may be because of China’s large territory. Looking at France, we are a province, and I feel that the cultural gap in such a territory cannot be so great. The north is regarded as backward by the southerners. , a remote and bitterly cold place, like a mysterious Siberia. If this film really convinces French audiences, it can only be said that their domestic population movement and information exchange are too little. Are "provinces" still as undervalued as they were in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Urban culture and the pursuit of the so-called "successful life" make modern people tired and numb, so with such a film, we seek warmth from small places, establish confidence and interest in living in ordinary life, and establish a love for the country. to find some kind of survival in the age... Maybe this will become a fashion in the age of heroes and passions? The high box office of the two films in Taiwan and France, on the one hand, is the upsurge caused by the works being raised to the height of patriotism; Implemented consolation method.
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