First of all, if you are a person who is used to watching movie reviews before watching movies, I strongly recommend you to watch it! There is absolutely no loss in these 100 minutes!
Last week, the teacher organized to watch it in class. (This kind of activity, the more the better) I just hate it in the classroom. You need to control your tears when the movie is sensational, and you need to control your violently shaking legs at the climax of the game.
As its name suggests, the movie is about the birth of the legendary Pele. From another perspective, it is actually the rebirth of Brazilian football.
The movie begins with the famous Maracana massacre in 1950. Brazil was in the lead that year and lost to Uruguay 2-1 in a crucial round. "Brazil is really a country that can live for football and die for football. Their favorite team loses the game, and the blow it brings is the same as your broken love." After watching this movie, probably I understand. As in "My Motherland and Me", people gather together to watch small TV, listen to "diodes" and learn about women's volleyball matches. When Brazilian people gather together to listen to a football game, you can experience their excitement and excitement. After the final whistle blew, their helpless arms and dragging footsteps showed their despair. Therefore, it is not surprising that many people committed suicide for this. It feels like, if one day, our table tennis loses to Japan in the Olympics.
After the huge contusion, people were very angry and hesitated to doubt, but the Brazilian people did not give up. They only experienced this process of thinking before awakening after experiencing self-knowledge. The protagonist’s mother still likes the romance on the court; his father still supports the protagonist to become a professional player and leads him to practice; friends in the same village are proud of his ability to become a professional player; the noble boy who looked down on the protagonist’s play before and later The national football coach finally realized what Brazil is and what Brazilian football is after failing to imitate the European style of play, and encouraged the players to use Brazil’s own way to win the game (it’s so sweet); and all the players, such as Galincha, actually It is also in keeping with the times and not forgetting the truth.
So, despite suffering such a heavy blow from the Maracana tragedy, has the fire of football of the Brazilian people extinguished? not at all! It's just that a demon wind blew out the fire in the fire. They tried to follow the wind to keep the flames, but the flint was still hot and hot, and its essence remained the same. Numerous burning matches were forced on the way to the fire. Learning the appearance of the wind deviated from the original trajectory, and with the support of the people around him, the matchstick "axis" ran all the way to the fire and finally reignited the fire. This match affirmed the existence of the Brazilian people themselves, ignited and awakened their national self-confidence.
At the beginning, I felt that these are actually too special and the conditions are too harsh. Will it respect history? There must be a good mother who understands you, a good dad who always supports you and teaches you to play football, a good scout can recognize Maxima, a good coach who can conscientiously discover and encourage you, and you also have to have the talents of advancement. Then I thought about it again, isn't it? Let alone this is not a documentary. I personally think that historically adapted films can respect the historical lines and exaggerate appropriately to attract people to understand this period of history. This is enough. Respecting the historical line and grasping this point well, I think the movie has done a good job. There are exaggerated male protagonists on the court, allowing them to play more powerfully, but they did not downplay the efforts of others; there is an idealized male protagonist’s road to fame, but they did not focus on the legend that only needs him. In the film, the scouts admired Ren Jia, the noble boys and coaches initially disliked Ren Jia and believed in European tactics, the media reported the irony of blacks and Ren Jia, the Swedish coach ridiculed the Brazilian nation, and the national football coach blocked it. The male protagonist mentioned Ren Jia at the press conference and so on. These all reflect from the side the atmosphere and pressure on the entire football world in Brazil at that time. The exaggerated technique has improved the viewing quality of the movie and attracted more people to understand this history and Brazil. This movie is a success, and what he wants to convey has already been conveyed. The rest is just to be happy for those who are not interested, and those who are interested will delve into it, and they will verify the authenticity and will not cause misunderstandings.
In conclusion, it's over! Thieves out! (I am tired of writing|･ω･｀))
ps.
1. The Ginca mentioned in the film, later called Capoeira, is actually the Brazilian war dance, which can be said to be a form of entertainment for slaves during the Portuguese colonial period. Therefore, it can be said that Brazilian football is a fusion of Brazilian war dance.
2. The sudden change in the attitude of the noble boy and the national football coach in the film is actually not a sudden change. Brazil is a country that was discovered, colonized, "independent", and actively integrated. In the movie, the last World Cup is going forward. In fact, Brazilians have more or less self-doubt and imitate the European trend. Until this time they won the World Cup trophy, they believed that "This is Brazil. Brazil is Brazil. No matter what you were before." From that country, now you are Brazilian, then you are a part of Brazil, different from the independent Brazil of any other country in Europe."
--Bruno
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