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In view of the special background of the animation, it depicts the social life and customs of Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban. It's easy to categorize the film as an Afghan cartoon.
Knock on the blackboard, this movie speaks English!
Take a closer look, the production team of "The Breadwinner" is almost all of European descent:
The script comes from Deborah Ellis (Deborah Ellis)'s adaptation of the original work of the same name. Tom Moore (Tomm Moore), a small celebrity in the animation industry, is the producer, and the director is Nora Tomei, who is also a cartoon salon animation company. Nora Twomey).
The cover of the novel of the same name "The breadwinner"
Of course, there is also the appearance, the UN refugee agency goodwill ambassador, Angelina Jolie joined the production. But you and I both understand her position, and while in charge of the platform, it highlights the important attributes of humanitarianism.
To put it bluntly, this cartoon is produced by the Irish animation company Cartoon Saloon.
The logo of the cartoon salon company is slightly random
Established in 1999, the Cartoon Salon is a “wonderful flower” in the animation industry. It has sprung up in major animation cities in the United States, Japan, and Europe. I am willing to draft a slogan for it:
"From the Cartoon Salon, every frame is art."
The 2009 work "The Secret of Kells" (The Secret of Kells), the hand-painting style is sometimes sophisticated and complicated, sometimes agile and moving, and imagination is even more imaginative.
The lacquer-decorated manuscript "Kell Sutra" was fascinating to see, and a song from the outside world of Eslyn, the forest elf, made people dreaming.
Every frame can be taken as a wallpaper of "The Secret of Kell"
AislingSongChristenMooney-BrendanEtLeSecretDeKells "Alsling Song" Listeners will follow the white cat
In 2014, "Song of the Sea" is also Irish folklore, and it is also a high-quality hand-painted style. This time there are many more ink rendering effects, giving the entire animation a layer of islands. Persistent water vapor.
The music is becoming more arbitrary, Irish folk songs are spread all over the film, coupled with non-industrialized pipelines, and they are full of European literary and artistic temperament.
The magnificent and fantastic style of "Song of the Sea" is unforgettable
Today's "Breader", in view of the fact that the Taliban in Afghanistan has no relationship with Lingdong, the animation style is calm and realistic.
Is the impression of cartoons greatly compromised? After all, isn't it just to go to the cartoon salon for the unconstrained style of painting?
Not at all. "The breadwinner" has found a magic weapon for his own family and life. That is the indispensable historical legend or folklore in the cartoon salon. In this part, the painters indulge in their play, seeing you owe it to you.
The legendary story is displayed in the form of paper-cut stickers, which is very clever
Did you notice the sudden appearance of the third hand of the old woman?
II | Those things about Afghanistan that I want to talk about but haven't finished talking about
Those of you who are not military fans or al Qaeda-controlled people are still a little stranger to Afghanistan's complicated history.
If it hadn't been for the beginning of "The Breadwinner", where my father Nurullah gave a vivid explanation to his youngest daughter, Parvana, I wouldn't be interested in the history of Afghanistan that dates back to prehistoric times.
Afghanistan, the border between East and West, connects South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia. It has an important geostrategic position and has experienced countless aggressions and conquests in the long history. Correspondingly, it has also suffered various cultural shocks.
The founder of the ancient Persian empire, Cyrus the great, created the glory of the ancient Persian empire for more than a hundred years and led a devastating expedition to Central Asia. Afghanistan was incorporated into the Persian Empire. (Mid 6th century BC-336 BC)
Then Alexander the Great, who unified the entire territory of Greece, conquered the Persian Empire and established the Kingdom of Macedonia. (336 years ago-325 years ago)
After Alexander the Great withdrew his troops from the Indus Valley, India's Moonguard King (Chandala Gupta Peacock) rose up to establish the Peacock Dynasty. One said that he was born in a family that raised peacocks, and the other said that his mother's name was homophonic with peacocks. In short, the Buddhist civilization of India also passed by here. (324 years ago-about 187 years ago)
The beautiful legend of princess Bactria
The Governor of Bactria, Diodotus I of the Hindu Kush Mountains (Northern Afghanistan) declared independence and established himself as king, establishing a Hellenistic slave country on the grasslands of Central Asia, also known as the "Great Xia-Hellenic Kingdom" , Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions at this time. (About 250 years ago-about 135 years ago)
It is probably the Yue clan of the Tibetan-Burman language family. The part that moved west is called the Da Yue clan (the Xiao Yue clan resides in Qinghai, Gansu) and conquered Da Xia. One of the five tribes, Guishuang, this nomadic nation expanded into the Guishuang Kingdom, guarding the main traffic arteries of the Silk Road. (1st century-3rd century AD)
Army Horse of the Tang Dynasty
Arabian turban
Later, it belonged to the period of the Kouta people, and the Turkic dynasty was established, and then the Turkic ruled to the Tang Dynasty (659-751). The middle Arabs controlled Tochar (962-1151). After that, all the Western Regions belonged to the Arabs. This was the beginning of Islamization.
In 1220, the Mongols established the Mongol Khanate and the Ir Khanate and other subsidiary powers here. Afghanistan under alien rule is almost over.
In 1747, the Pashtuns of Afghanistan established the Durani dynasty, and the unified Afghan country was formally formed. After the Barakchai dynasty (1836-1973), it survived the repeated battles between Britain and Russia before World War II.
During the Cold War, without exception, it became a pawn in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union launched three coups in Afghanistan and invaded Afghanistan several times, calling it "supporting class brothers."
Afghanistan is plunged into civil war. The students dissatisfied with the warlord's melee formed the Taliban in 1994 and swept the country in a few years, establishing a rule of Islamic fundamentalism, taking the Quran as the law.
It wasn't until 2001, after 9/11, that the United States overthrew the Taliban regime on the grounds of cracking down on bin Laden.
The story of "The breadwinner" happened before 2001.
Afghanistan is like a swaying balance. On one side, there are wars and dynasties, and all kinds of civilizations come here; on the other side are the harsh Islamic fundamentalism and the Taliban.
The balance finally tilted towards the Taliban, and an anti-modern, anti-freedom, and anti-secular repressive rule was born.
It condones and even encourages brutal torture, resists all modernizations other than weapons, discriminates against women, and hates all pagan religions.
Afghanistan under the rule of terror is highly religious, so that it is difficult to find the clues of various civilizations.
Afghan hand pilaf
"The breadwinner" depicts the social customs and sentient beings in Afghanistan during this period, but the firepower of the film is relatively concentrated. What this part of the realistic passage shows can basically be summarized as "100,000 Afghan women can't do."
They can't receive education, can't participate in work, and adult women can't show any part of their body, they can only wear thick "polka".
They are not allowed to travel alone, and even if they appear in public places accompanied by a man, they cannot have any behavior that attracts attention, and they can get married as a minor.
This kind of self-consistent rogue rules, the judge is any man in power. In such a society, fathers are planted by students and mothers are injured by men. Helplessness spread like a plague.
The last node selected in the film happened to be the eve of the Afghan War launched by the US military. Interestingly, the film did not attempt to justify the US war on terrorism.
Was caught on the battlefield as a boy
On the contrary, the movie partly shows the cruelty of war. People under totalitarianism did not actively choose to break the tyranny, and of course they did not rejoice in being involved in the war.
Director Nora said that the animation tries to imply a kind of "reincarnation" or "cycle". Afghanistan has once again become a knife and fish.
The following involves spoilers, please read carefully
Three | End
Fortunately, the little girl Pawana disguised herself as a man and solved the family's main livelihood problem.
Fortunately, Pawana became a storyteller, inherited the fascinating legend of her father, and brought some comfort to the unfortunate world.
The boy in the story turned out to be his elder brother who died at an early age. The cause of his death was finally revealed. Therefore, he succeeded in getting the seeds from the colossus back to the villagers.
Pawana, a little girl outside the story, finally rescued her father from prison. The mother and sibling who were trying to be taken also escaped and met.
In the end, Pawana dragged her injured father, her mother with her sister and brother, whether it was towards home or the endless darkness.
Twenty years later, did she meet another girl disguised as a man at the beach?
The open ending did not provide any answers. It just said, "In our hometown, talents are the most priceless treasure."
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