Five stars is of course my fan filter. Because it's Tolkien. It was only after watching the movie that I found out that the biography of Tolkien I bought before had hardly remembered anything. I want to read it again. How to say it, I fully understand that non-fans will think this movie is average. Because I want to know everything about the protagonist’s life, family, friendship and love are not leaked, so it seems a bit dull, and the climax is not prominent enough. Although I also think this is a common disease in biographical movies. Some fans (at least me) may not be satisfied with the movie's portrayal of how Tuo Lao conceived China. Although the whole film sometimes interspersed with a few names, a few words and some pictures from time to time, it is very scattered, more like an easter egg rather than a story line. The director wanted to seize the motivation of Tolkien "want to give life to the language he created", but apart from that, he simply couldn't see how the huge and complex worldview of Zhongtu was formed in his mind step by step. The life experience and how the people who occupy the main position in his life are incarnate in his novels, and most importantly, why he wrote such a work. I think a better way may be to intersperse some pictures of Middle-earth stories in it. Of course, one is that there is no copyright and the other is that this may pose a barrier to understanding for non-Lord of the Rings fans. In short, this is still a trade-off. However, as a fan, I still scored five stars. I can see the fairy friendship of TCBS on the screen, the fairy love of Tuo Lao (it’s weird to call Tuo Lao to Nizi’s face, let’s call it Ronald) and the fairy love of Edith, and the fairy love of Tolkien as a scholar on linguistics and The fairy enthusiasm of mythology, and the fairy appearance of Nizi and the young actor who played the young Tolkien, I can't be satisfied anymore. At the end of the movie, the part describing World War I almost made people want to cry. TCBS’s partner died on the battlefield. Tolkien went to their meeting place alone, interspersed with various memories. I think it’s really "a little bit of acquaintances." " what. The youth who wanted to change the world used to be so energetic, but after all, art, beauty and love fell meaninglessly in the mud, becoming another 1 in the number of casualties. The shot of the charge made people go to "War Horse" again, and the cavalry officer played by Dou Sen must have the same good friends and lovers before entering the army, and his death is even more uncomfortable. I also remembered the issue of "Who do you think you" where I watched DTT as a guest some time ago are", excavating the history of his own ancestors. The show said that his grandfather was also sent to the Battle of the Somme. Perhaps this stretcher from the military band from Londonderry and the young Oxford student had met in the trenches of bullets and fire? At that time, if there was a stray shrapnel that was a little bit off, maybe there would be no Middle-earth, and maybe there would be no DTT person today. In other words, we should think the other way around. Those young people who were not so lucky and fell on the battlefield might have had a wonderful life in the first place.
At the end of the movie, Tolkien took the children walking in the forest and said, I tell you a story, and I know it must be the phrase "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". definitely is. Although I got it right, I cried as soon as this sentence came out. The story of adventure, courage, and friendship is Bilbo’s There and back again, and Tolkien’s own There and back again. Bilbo came back and wrote down their stories for Thorin, Fili and Kili who could not return. TCBS could not return either. Tolkien could only help his dead friend publish his unfinished collection of poems. When Edith danced under the tree, I also seemed to see Lucian in Belen's eyes. This Lucian was equally tough and beautiful, and she was finally married with her Belen after hardships. The soldier of Tolkien who took care of the trench heat on the battlefield was named Sam. He didn't know if he intended to remind everyone of Samwise who took care of Frodo in the Lord of the Rings who was dying because of the power of the ring. Samwise's famous saying is "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you", here is the reverse. I can't carry you on my back, but I can fulfill your mission for you and find your friends.
I don't mean to say that Zhongtu's story is a metaphorical narrative of Tuo Lao's personal experience of World War I or other experiences. This is a bit too implicit and a bit demeaning to Tuo Lao's imagination. It’s just that I want to believe that Tolkien, who gallops freely in the imaginary world, has reserved a corner of Middle-earth for every important role and place in his life, leaving behind their shadows. There he will never be separated from them again.
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