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The American Dream in the Movies——On the movie "Nurse Betty"
, the last elective course in college and the last movie I watched in the classroom -"Nurse Betty (Nurse Betty)".
Although the film is called "Nurse Betty", there are actually two protagonists: one is Betty played by Renée Zellweger, an ordinary middle-aged young woman, her husband has a disorderly life style, has no goals in life, and is timid and cowardly. One is the robber Morgan Freeman. Drug trafficking and smuggling, although showing a calm side, are irritable, and are fundamentally a mentally insufficient person. At first, both of them had the same dream, hoping to find the life they yearned for. In the process, both of them were defined as "madness". The completely different ending between the two comes from whether they have returned to reality, in the words of Morgan Freeman, "It is enough for you to have yourself." Betty finally recognized "self", but Morgan Freeman failed to "know yourself". . He insisted on going his own way, in order to see a woman who only existed in his own adultery, and eventually killed his son, he naturally couldn't escape. So in the last scene where he said to Betty "All you need is yourself", and the happy life after Betty, in my opinion, it can only be the super lust of the screenwriter, which is ridiculous.
Later, I quickly realized that this movie is another inspirational American dream movie. The images of these two protagonists are representatives of incompetent little people and grassroots figures. Similar to the huge panda in "Kung Fu Panda", it resembles a potbellied American working class who eats junk food every day. This image is anti-elite. Betty is the woman who is the least likely to be a "nurse", Morgan Freeman is the beast that is the least likely to find beauty, and the panda is the animal that is the least likely to be a martial arts master.
Like countless American Dream movies, the insignificant little character (Betty) is about to start saving the world. She has saved countless people along the way. The cross-editing at the end of the movie is all related to her getting a happy life... and her The opponents are the evil criminal Morgan Freeman and his son Wesley.
Americans especially like this subject matter, and we have watched countless movies of this kind. For example, "Pretty Girls" series such as "Pretty Girls" and "Pretty Girls in Law". This story structure and philosophy are entirely the product of mass production. American society uses this kind of film to instill and educate the American people, especially American children.
The core philosophy of the story is a very American set of things: everyone is special and different; you must find yourself, know yourself, and believe in yourself; believe in yourself to succeed. The other is an optimism that almost transcends reality. The child will probably be very happy and inspirational after seeing it. If you are a little older, I don’t think you should look at this kind of stuff too much. I'm relatively cynical, and I think these are all made up propaganda materials, scams, and anesthetics. This philosophy of success can be properly instilled in a certain stage of the child's growth (the obscenity starts from the baby), but it should be adequate. I think the United States is a bit flooded with this kind of stuff, which has also created amazing optimism among Americans. Of course, some people will say that this concept has caused social optimism and progress, as well as personal satisfaction, which may make sense. But I don't like it subjectively and emotionally. I like the bleak reality. Tell that Betty: You are old and faint, and you will never be a pretty nurse. Such movies are purely obscene, I watch them less. If you watch too much, you will have an illusion of yourself. The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
Real warriors, dare to face the bleak life! Face the bleak life and stay away from vain lust.
The other is that the director of this movie is really not very good, the rhythm is too slow. This reminds me of the movie "Mei Lanfang" I watched a few days ago. I always thought that Chen Kaige was a director who made a good movie based on a good script, that is, "Farewell My Concubine". (This is the difference between big-name directors and ordinary directors) And the director of this film, Neil LaBute, is obviously not as good as Chen Kaige. There are also many films discussing the relationship between image and reality. The movie "The Purple Rose of Caico" shot by Woody Allen in 1985 is also one of them. The beginning of the film only used three shots to fully explain the storyline, and all the key characters appeared on the scene. The three shots are: a film pictorial with "Purple Rose in Cairo", a subjective close-up shot of a woman reading the pictorial, and a panoramic view outside the cinema. Hitchcock's "Rear Window" illustrates the characteristics of the movie with only a fixed curtain-drawing lens. And "Nurse Betty" directed by Neil LaBute completed what Woody Allen and Hitchcock wanted to explain after 24 shots (2 minutes and 54 seconds of the movie). It is said that the script of this movie won an award at a certain Western film festival, which is exactly what Acheng said, the film produced is directed by the director and has nothing to do with others. Looking at it this way, Chen Kaige is quite successful in this regard.
In the first film instruction class of the freshman year, the first sentence the teacher said was: a movie is a dream. So, what is a dream? Dreams are deceptive, they cause chaos, and they are unreal. Basically, the movie is an obscenity, but obscenity is not guilty.
The world has entered the 21st century, and it has also entered an era of "globalization". If we were to find a synonym for "globalization", it would be "Americanization". This film also embodies a strong sense of postmodernism when it shows a relationship between images and life. Nowadays, not only the society is divided, but the people in the society are also divided. For example, human beings, on the one hand, strongly protect the right to privacy, but as a tool for peeking into the privacy of others-movies have been hailed by the public. The emergence of the Internet even caused the weird phenomenon of people actively exposing their privacy. People began to be keen to write blogs and upload their own photos. People in society have been divided. So, Betty said that George was a scum, but on the other hand he eventually participated in the TV show, and it can be seen that the film encourages this kind of division. The heroine of the Woody Allen era can only return to reality alone. Although the protagonists of Hitchcock are in a state of being peeped at any time, they have not actively exposed.
The two leading actors of "Nurse Betty" were ultimately defined as "madness". This involves the relationship between "madness" and "dream". I personally think that the director does not have such a high level, and the film is not here at all, otherwise it would have won an Oscar early. "Madness" is the highlight of Michel Foucault. The relationship between the two is clearly discussed on pages 93 to 95 of his book "Madness and Civilization", so I won't repeat it in this article. In this regard, "Flying over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a very good movie. Although it is also made in Hollywood, the two movies are completely at two levels.
Pascal once said: "Humans are bound to be crazy to this point, that is, not crazy is just another form of crazy." When all kinds of professional and non-professional film critics said that they were caught by this film. When the movie was inspired, even when it was inspired by children's cartoons like "Kung Fu Panda," it has to be said to be a kind of sadness for modern Chinese people. In addition to nationalism, modern Chinese people can achieve such a high degree of unity in their value judgments, and this thing is not a religion, it turned out to be an "American dream."
In Foucault's works, "madness" is defined as "irrational." So, what is rationality? Reason is the order, the restraint of the flesh and morals, the invisible pressure of the group, and the uniform requirements. And the strength of the United States lies in this. It uses a supremely rational language to close other countries in the world and control the world. Therefore, China is always demonized in the West, because we have been defined by the United States and its "American Dream" as a "crazy" nation. There is no common language between the two, and there is no meaningful communication between them.
In general, this film is too healthy. For a slightly black adult, watching this film is simply a nerve torture. This film has given me a new perspective on the American film classification system. If a few more scalping shots are defined as adult films, then the American film classification system is not as rigorous as they say, at least in In my opinion, it is not much different from "Kung Fu Panda". Of course, is it China?
The teacher said "get out of class off".
The fluorescent lights are turned on and time is over.
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