【40/100】"Wild Pear Tree"??
This is probably the most novel-like movie I've ever seen. Whether it's the title with the same name as the novel, the male protagonist who is a literary youth, or the long dialogue of characters full of literary and philosophical thinking, the style of this movie is infinitely close. literature. In fact, it can be seen from the male protagonist's name Ceylon (same name as the director) that this is a director's autobiography. The young man in the film who graduated from college and is out of tune with his hometown is the author's own youth. The story is very simple. A young literary man who was unemployed and returned home looked down on everything in his hometown, even his gambling father, but he was unable to change his future, and his life was a mess. Recommending his book to the mayor, boss, and famous writer was fruitless. He sold his father's dog to collect enough publishing fees. Finally, he found that the only reader was his despised father. The wild pear tree is a metaphor. It is the life of the father and son who are incompatible with the environment, but helplessly move towards overlapping lives under the influence of the environment. At the end of the film, the male protagonist chooses to reconcile with his father, and his lies and futile youth are also "hanged" in the well that can never be dug. Although the dialogues full of philosophical thinking in the film are obscure and drowsy, this film does not prevent me from remembering such a director who can take the beautiful pictures of his hometown into novels, a "film language master". Li Cangdong's "Burning", which I watched last year, is a movie with a similar theme, the same myth of a literary youth returning home, but one chooses to reconcile and the other chooses to explode, both are good films that make people think.
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