"Yuzi" is not just a story of a girl and a big black pig
On June 28th, Feng Junhao's new work "OKJA" was launched directly on the NETFLIX website in the form of digital on-demand. NETFLIX tested the water for simultaneous online and offline distribution, breaking the usual "time window" distribution method of movies. As a protest against this online distribution method, the three major theaters in South Korea directly reduced the number of films for "Yuzi". There were only more than 300 films on the first day. Nevertheless, thanks to Bong Joonho, Tilda Swinton, and Jack The combination of Gyllenhaal and Lily Collins guarantees that "Yuzi" still has more than 20,000 viewers on the first day of its release.
It has been four years since Bong Joonho’s last Hollywood work "Snow Country Train" (2013) was released before the new work of today is available. It can be seen from "Yuzi" that Bong has become more and more familiar with Hollywood commercial creation rules. In addition to insisting on personal style, "Yuzi" also has the commercial flavor of Hollywood. From "Memories of Murder" to "Han River Monster", to "Snow Country Train" and "Yuzi" created for Hollywood, Feng Junhao gradually completed his transformation into a mature industrial director and became one of the few Asian directors who can land on the other side of the ocean.
"Yuzi" combines the two concepts of "monster" and "dystopia" in Feng Junhao's previous works. In order to solve the human food crisis, Miranda Bio uses artificially induced mutations to create a batch of super black pigs that require little consumption but can produce a lot of meat. Tamako, as one of the super pigs, has been deposited by a biotech company in the home of Mija, a South Korean farmer since she was a child. She has developed a deep relationship with Mija who grew up with her for ten years. Miko not only regards Yuko as a family member, but Yuko also sacrificed his life to save Miko who was unfortunately off the cliff. The ten-year period has come, and Yuzi was rated as the best super pig. Miranda forced Yuzi to return to the biological laboratory in the United States for research and production. After knowing the fate of Yuzi after losing value after the research, Miko decided to go with ALF Together, the members embarked on the road to rescue Yuzi.
As a typical Hollywood-style film, although the story is unconventional, the effect of the filming is not bad. Because of the cultural background of the United States and South Korea, only the more universal side can be conveyed in the cultural interlacing, so it can be implicit The meaning is not as good as Bong Joon-ho’s previous works, such as the satire of Korean society in "Han River Monster", but it may be a bit demanding for a commercial film.
The ending of Dzogchen seems to be a consistent flaw in the genre, but this ensures that the film’s story structure is neat, the narrative rhythm is well grasped, and the control of the pictures and the modeling art maintains Feng Junhao’s consistent and rigorous attitude. It is worth mentioning that the film For example, Mizi went out alone to find pigs, Mizi rode pigs for the first time, similar to several scenes. With the cooperation of music, it has a kind of commercial aesthetics and makes people very comfortable to watch.
Some people say "Yuzi" is Feng Junhao's another environmental protection theme educational film, but in the author's opinion, there is another layer of communication. In addition to the trust and close relationship between people and the environment, it also illustrates the most difficult situation in human society. The underlying cause: Technology can always only be used to expand new relationships to destroy us, but cannot repair relationships that have gone into decline.
There seems to be no era in human history that fears the future like our generation, the energy crisis, the food crisis, the fear of genetic modification, and artificial intelligence. Further digging, we can feel that no matter what kind of "crisis" is actually the "relationship crisis" between humans and others, when natural biological resources are exhausted by us in large quantities, we find that it is difficult for them to continue to satisfy us. , So humans began to try to genetically modify, create new plants, to forge new relationships; when the existing labor relationship in human society has been unable to satisfy us, people have begun to develop robots and artificial intelligence to create a new society Labor relations. The fact is that every time a new relationship is constructed, human uneasiness comes from two aspects: we cannot be clearer that our technical means cannot repair the relationship that has been exhausted by our use, and moreover, the exploration of "new relationship" , Where is its end? Can it be replaced forever? One day genetically modified plants may not be able to satisfy humans; one day, the labor provided by robots will not be able to completely cover this "material-serving society". At this time, is there a new solution?
The principle that the world must advance and that the future is better than the present has never changed. What is it that makes humans so uneasy in this kind of continuous substitution of relationship casting activities? In the final analysis, it is a loss of trust in relationships. It can be said that a sense of closeness to the natural environment is gone. When a relationship is being developed, what actually needs is mutual respect and trust. No matter how you look at it, if the story of "Yuzi" is placed in a purely rural environment, Yuzi is like an ordinary black pig, growing, dying, and being eaten, and it will not have such a big emotional motivation to narrate. Formally because this story is "dystopian" set in a highly developed technological and industrialized background, Yuzi’s birth was "calculated" by humans, scientifically researched, forced to bred, and slaughtered. Humans created it for Exhaustion of it, after watching it, there will be such compassion. The unilateral betrayal, consumption and distrust of the "relationship" of human beings have caused today's emotional dilemma.
The words of "Yuzi" are precisely this kind of human distrust of relationships. Although it is an excellent commercial production, it also contains rich expressions. Miko took out the "golden pig" symbolizing the dowry and bought it back. In the time of Yuzi, using behaviors like "marrying" to win back the trust relationship between man and nature, Nancy Miranda only cold-tested the gold. At this time, the positions of the two were so obvious.
"Yuzi" is never an adventure story with only a girl and a big black pig.
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