The film "Listening Girl" won the "Best Picture" award at the 94th Academy Awards. It was directed by Cheyenne Hyde and remade in the French film "The Belliers". The able-bodied girl was born in a deaf-mute family, experienced the ordeal of her family and her own dreams, and finally was admitted to the Berwickley Conservatory of Music and reconciled with her family.
The film does not use general inspirational films such as "The Spice Girls", etc., and the financial difficulties of the previous family or family are used as obstacles in the pursuit of dreams, but the "vulnerable groups" (deaf and mute people) are used as the cornerstone of the entire film. In a family of vulnerable groups, only the protagonist has normal hearing, and the protagonist has become a link between the vulnerable group and the normal society. It is the particularity of this role that provides unexpected drama for the second half of the plot. tension.
This bond role puts the protagonist between the dream and the reality, making the dream and reality constantly pull left and right. This is the core point of the film that reflects the central contradiction of the film . The teacher discovers the protagonist's talent and is unwilling to let the protagonist waste it. In these two situations, no one is wrong, which makes the plot appear exaggerated dramatic tension (similar to "I'm not the God of Medicine", selling medicine, buying medicine, There is nothing wrong with the three parties in the investigation of counterfeit medicines, but they are both for girls, working hard for the family to sell fish, and they have shown that their careers are booming, and learning to perform music is just a talent, and it is not certain to be successful)
Different from the usual antagonistic relationship, the family of the protagonist in the film is not the same as the family of ordinary people. The protagonist also undertakes the task of bonding in the film. Once the protagonist goes to participate in the music audition, then the bonding role will be divided , the protagonist will be separated. The family members are also out of touch with normal society (excluded) due to the temporary departure of the protagonist, but even if the protagonist is in the family, the whole family and the social mainstream are only close together, and they are not fully integrated. (The whole society still discriminates against the protagonist's family, etc.), which is a subordinate line in the film.
As a whole, the plot of the film is relatively mediocre, but the director mixed a lot of subordinate lines in the case of the main line of the film, which did not destroy the overall style of the film, but made various subordinate lines show through the background and narration. Breathe together with the color lines of the work; share the destiny with the characters in the work ( the characters' listening choices, etc.), think what they think, love what they love, hate what they hate, so that we can resonate with the protagonist of the film. , which is one of the reasons why the film won an Oscar.
Finally, society is made up of various groups of characters. As filmmakers, we in China should also pay more attention to the voices of disadvantaged groups. The Chinese film industry requires art creators to go deep into life, observe and experience life carefully, and face social problems. Form the concept of truly studying the happiness and suffering of life, and understand the fate of characters in all social strata, so that the works created can truly reflect the real social life and let more audiences understand the living conditions of different social strata and different groups.
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