The state of Dugu seeking defeat at the age of forty is called "the epee has no edge, and the skill is not working." Yang Guo got it after reading it, and after raising the profound iron epee in one hand, he was invincible in the world.
Hollywood has developed for a hundred years and has thoroughly studied the photographic editing and soundtrack. They turn the story into an industry, processing, inheritance, and transformation are like surgical operations, stimulating adrenaline and hormones almost as they please, but after all, they are just skillful and sharp. When it comes to realm, it's still one level worse.
The director of Hoop Dreams spent 6 years filming Arthur and William, shooting 250 hours of material, and cutting it into a three-hour movie. This is an epee. In 6 years, two families; young people from 14 to 20 years old, with detailed running accounts and rough pictures; no suspenseful surprises of deliberate design, ups and downs, and no stern tone of worrying about the country and the people. feelings. This is not working. But this is nothing. Anyone can have it for 6 years, and it doesn't require any artistic achievement to pile rough materials on the screen in chronological order. But there are not many people who can make a three-hour running account movie look like a stormy sea with nowhere to escape.
Qiao Feng fought Taizu Changquan in Juxianzhuang, Linghu Chong had no way to win, and the world number one hid in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and swept the floor. To put it bluntly, it is the word realm.
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Who can say that this movie does not have his value orientation? Who can say that this movie has no social issues that it wants to reflect? But the more you want to hear him, the less he will say it. He wanted to say it too, but he didn't.
I bet the director must have thought about inserting a narration in a certain segment of the movie: how many black children in the United States are using basketball as a way out of life, how many of them come from the poor black people, and how many of them can take drugs and commit crimes. , Will be murdered. But he didn't, it was too sharp. not good.
I also bet that the director would definitely want to ask William what made him a father before graduating from high school during the interview. Maybe he actually asked. But we didn't see it in the film. This trick will be seen through without it, it is better not to. So we only saw William and his girlfriend holding the baby, smiling happily at each other, looking at the baby.
By the way, this shot is like saying to them: "The road ahead is long, and your eyes are darkened. I wish you all the happiness you are today."
We lived with the two children in the high school silently. Watch them fight. Fight on the basketball court, fight in life. Fight against poverty, fight against injuries, fight against family conflicts, and fight against social expectations. The director did not tilt or comment, and directly put all the audience in a cage. No matter how many questions you have in your mind, no matter how much you think, they will be separated from the life of the protagonist. Their lives move forward unchanged, and all your voices and explorations fall into the sea.
The story is overwhelming, and your exploration is not only unresponsive, but also immediately submerged. But will you give up? you will not. All your problems are accumulated in your heart. Only when the outside world is calm and the waves are finished, the last scene of the movie is finished before you whistle in the tsunami in your heart. You wonder what would happen if you were Arthur or William? You would think what would happen if the two of them were white? What if William was not injured? What if Arthur's father didn't take drugs? And to all these questions, you have only one answer: there is no if in reality.
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People say that this movie is about dystopia and anti-chicken soup. He talked about race issues, education issues, poverty issues, drug issues, but he was much more than that. He was talking about the lives that two living basketball geniuses had personally experienced. These problems are not their lives, and they are entangled with these problems day after day until they disapproval.
When facing their own lives, people don’t talk about Big Picture, they talk about the life of every minute and the dreams in the distance.
In the first interview segment of the entire movie, the 14-year-old William said with gleaming eyes into the camera, I want to play the NBA. And four years later he said:
"You know, four years ago, that's all I used to dream about, was playing in the NBA. I don't really dream about it like that anymore. You know, even though I love playing basketball , but I want to do other things with my life too. If I had to stop playing basketball right now, I think I'd still be happy. I think I would."
"That's why when someone say, when you get to the NBA, do not forget about me, and all that stuff, I should say to them, well, if I do not make it, watch you do not forget about me. "
you see, only a few will do without Furiously.
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the way, the next level of Dugu's defeat is "do not stay in things, you can do everything with plants, trees, bamboos and rocks. Since then, you have refined, and gradually progressed in the realm of no sword to win the sword." I don't know when I can see such a movie.
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