The Chinese translation of the title is inevitably reminiscent of "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains", which seems to be a mocking title, but implies an appreciation for the tenacity spirit. In fact, the Russian literal translation is "idiot". Personally, I prefer the latter, which is short and straightforward, like an angry rebuke, but also vaguely sad. The protagonist Ji Ma is such a stubborn and almost naive idiot. He confronts this long-collapsed power system with his own opinion. What is even more tragic is that the building has not collapsed, and the human heart has already collapsed. The film is more like a fable. This building, which is crowded with people from all walks of life, is the epitome of a society. From the moment the heating pipes were broken, the society began to fester from the inside. Jima once thought that it could be saved. So through the layers, he found the sheriff, the architect, the minister, and the mayor. In a cramped conference room, senior officials began to blame each other and reveal the bottom line. What they were worried about was not the building that was about to collapse, but their own interests and reputations in the whirlpool of public opinion; the seemingly honest and open-minded female mayor He scolded his subordinates in anger, and then began to cry about a woman's difficulties. This scene had a strange sense of joy. The country that is best at self-deprecating is South Korea. Last year's "Train to Busan", "Tunnel", "The Insider", and "Asura" were almost visually fatigued, and an absurd officialdom appearance made the South Korean government completely black. Comparatively speaking, the tricks of the black government in "Fool's Dangerous Building" are even a bit pediatric. But I secretly think that the Russian film is superior to the Korean film in that it ostensibly points the finger at the government, but in fact it points at everyone. This is a moral dilemma that involves everyone, from high-ranking officials to the bottom, from fathers to sons, to decide between conscience and survival, and no one is spared. By the end of the film, Jima, giving up his hopes on the authorities, goes door-to-door, warning the building is about to collapse. The bustling crowd went from panic to confusion to daze, and finally to anger. They thought it was just a nasty little prankster, so they punched him until he lost his instincts. The last shot is a big overhead shot, Ji Ma is lying in the white snow, the red coat is dazzling like fire. The gleam of idealism was finally completely extinguished. The deepest despair is not the festering of a system, but the festering of people's hearts. Although it is a Russian film, it is infinitely close to the reality of China, and it is terrifyingly realistic. Different from the depiction of high-ranking officials with different identities in Korean movies, from the first shot of the film, the camera is aimed at a man who is prone to domestic violence in the old building. In this building, there are teenagers who are drug addicts, men who play cards and drink heavily, and women who endure domestic violence all year round. even mirror Turning to Jima's house, he also spent a lot of space describing the family's poverty and divisions. Jima's mother is bloated and rambling, complaining about the worsening world all day long; his father has been diligent and upright all his life, but in the end he had to desperately persuade his son to give up, even blaming himself for it all. The son was not given the "correct" education. In a world permeated with hypocrisy and malice, the education he practiced in the end only allowed his son to fall into darkness. Jima's wife can't understand him either. 800 people are just symbols to her, but family is everything to her. In the unspeakable silence, he replied to her, "We live like pigs and die like pigs because we are nothing to each other." Perhaps as early as the beginning, the film predicted this sad ending . On the night Jima decided to go to the mayor, he was walking down the cold, deserted streets, and long shots followed him slowly through billboards and bus stops, across snow-covered sidewalks, Frozen hearts pass through this world that no longer has warmth. He walked calmly and decisively, like a lone hero.
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