When you don’t have money, you would rather commit crimes than make money. When you have money, you can’t get used to it anyway. He would rather steal a necklace than accept his wife’s huge wealth. Is Woody’s idea of a little old man weird? Behind the comical and exaggerated psychology and behavior, Woody showed a warm smile to his beloved little person.
In this work, Woody almost gave up all those special techniques in the past, and instead tells a dramatic and rapidly changing modern fairy tale in the form of a close and popular drama. The protagonist of the fairy tale is just an ordinary little character in urban life. A nearly absurd way to realize their dreams, and finally give them idyllic helpless comfort. Although the film carries the narcotic effect of "the poor have poor lives, and the poor have poor service", it cannot but be said to be a kind of blessing from Wen Xin, to comfort all the little people who have toiled all their lives.
Woody is getting old, and his perseverance to resist society has faded as early as 20 years ago. The burlesque fighters who bravely resisted the centralized society (albeit in their own way) in "Fools' Brain Science City" went to "Anne. In Hall, ridiculed the New York intellectuals who refused to bow their heads, to the helpless comedians in "Stardust", to the film directors who face the ambiguous moral society in "Crime and Misconduct", and then to this As the little social figures in the ministry, Woody's 30-odd years of declining spirit can draw a clear parabola. Is it a good thing, or is this a society that is less and less thinking about rebelling, pushing this independent master who has his own beautiful paradise out of the mortal world?
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