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Of course, it's not just the enviable swimming naked in the water. People can be as free as fish.
It's not like the little black people are completely free from social treaties, and they can hit any animal they want. If you want to catch a cow, catch a cow, if you want to kill a bear, then kill a bear, if you want to kill a kangaroo, kill a kangaroo. You can also tie a dozen lizards to your waist and perform hula dances.
It is the best irony of modern civilization. Greed and extinction of modern people. It's like a high anthill.
Herzog also showed something like this. Primitives witnessed modern people's greed and destruction of the environment, and some committed suicide.
Poem at the end: Into my heart an air that kills from yon for country blows. What are those blue remembered hills? What spires? What farms are those? That is the land of lost content. I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The original temperament brought by this movie, the atmosphere of going out of Africa in the Garden of Eden, was brought by the black actor David.
Many film reviews do not involve some ultimate questions. Why did the child's father burn the car suddenly and then commit suicide? Why did the black people commit suicide after dancing all day (courting? farewell)? Why is there a scientific expedition team?
First of all, this movie, which returns to the outback of the Australian outback, reflects the boundaries of civilization and barbarism on multiple levels. The white civilized society and the black indigenous civilization are intersected in many parts of the geography. For example, the balloons released by the scientific expedition team have been encountered by little girls, but they have not become a way to save their plight. As at the end of the movie, the younger brother ran into a mining company, but did not save them.
Why did the child's father and the black man commit suicide? This is indeed the ultimate question (not even the heroine said 37 years later). It is also the black hole of a movie. Of course, we can interpret it superficially as they are crazy, or as a religious sacrifice. But this is like explaining why Cain killed his brother in the Bible. Why would a Jewish family suddenly fall into such a predicament?
In fact, the poem quoted at the end has already said very clearly, where is the return path of modern human civilization? We cannot go back to the Garden of Eden. Is it because human society is too greedy, or is our reason to give up our imagination and cut the connection with nature?
I think this is the same as I used to say about Angelopoulos-you have to interpret every shot as a line of poetry. Beier Shuang.
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The trailer explains: 30,000 years later! A primitive man and a young girl came together again.
This time point the core to David. This person who was prosecuted for domestic violence 10 years ago, this person who stopped acting last year because of lung cancer. It is so primitive, which in itself is a miracle. When so many aboriginals were albino, he and his father were hunting by the river. Gulpilil spent his childhood in the bush, outside the range of non-Aboriginal influences.
This great and peculiar Yolngu (Marwuyu, at Maningrida in Australia's North East Arnhem Land), who grew up in northeastern Australia, speaks Mandhalpuyngu of the Djinba language family, who promised to spread the old saying.
Just like the killing kangaroo in the film, he can track prey very well since he was a child, kill prey, throw javelin, and can track for a long time.
But what he was famous in Australia at the time was that he danced very well. The district chief here recalled that he was the best jumper in the tribe at that time. Their Marwuyu totem is an eagle, so he also dances these dances. In the film, an eagle's perspective is also reflected.
In the expansion piece, he gathered with less than 100 fellow villagers and drank water from an enamel cup. Now they are all wearing colorful clothes, more modern, they are very peaceful people and will not cause trouble.
In a way, this movie is about David. He is not called acting, all he shares are his own experiences and stories.
In the late 1960s, the films reflecting the indigenous people were all performed by white people with their faces blacked out. Real aboriginals can hardly be on TV,
So David is a great discovery.
He also let more people know that money is not the only goal of this society.
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