1. About the film 1. Picture: Overall it is good. The style of painting is different from the current mainstream animation. It uses a combination of 2D animation and 3D animation, plus some oriental elements such as paper-cutting and hand-painting. The change and variety of styles will not be so easy to make people visually fatigued. The background color is based on the typical yellow earth color of the Afghan country and the perennial gray-yellow sky, but bright colors are inserted from time to time, giving people a sense of lifeless but always full of hope. Maybe we have lived in peaceful times for too long. Such a movie might be more realistic if it were performed by real people, but it might be too cruel for some people, so the director chose to use animation. 2. Plot: Afghan version of Mulan. The film tells about an ordinary Afghan family. Under the rule of the Taliban terrorists, the family had a hard life, and the father was accidentally imprisoned. For the family’s livelihood, the youngest daughter Pawana shaved her hair and changed clothes for men. (The Taliban organization does not allow women to go out alone. His father went to jail, and there is no male in the family. In order to be able to buy and sell on the street, he can only shave his menswear), which supports the burden of the whole family. During the period, Pawana tried every means to save her father, but was subjected to various restrictions and encountered countless difficulties. She was beaten and scolded and driven away. But in the end, Pawana rescued her father. Although the ending is not perfect, it leaves people with hope, but in other words, it is also called leaving regrets. In addition, the arrangement of the characters is a bit too abrupt and coincidental, and the arrangement of the plot also has a little flaw. Unfinished stories, unfinished belongings... But these are actually irrelevant. The most important thing about the film is its theme. 3. Theme: Deep social problems, childhood growing up under thunder, the other side of the world is gray. The theme is actually easier to understand. It is nothing more than anti-extreme religion and anti-war, criticizing extreme Islamic civilization. However, the film is not limited to the use of plot, but also adopts another form-story. From the beginning, the film has been telling the story-about the glorious civilization of ancient Afghanistan. Among them, there is a story that fits best with the theme of the film and is also the most frequently told. The story of Suleiman and the Elephant King: Suleiman was a child in a village, and the village had a good harvest every year, until one day an elephant king came in the mountains, and his leopards robbed the villagers from planting in the coming year. Seed, the village fell into desolation. Suleiman told the villagers that I was going to regain the seeds, but the villagers laughed and despised. So Suleiman walked into the mountain alone. In the mountain, he met an old man. The old man said that no one can beat the Elephant King, unless they found three things-the same shiny, the same as a trap. , It is also calming. Suleiman found these three things and eventually defeated the Elephant King and regained the seeds of the villagers. This story is a profound theme throughout the film. As for the moral of it, I will explain it in detail below. Two, some thoughts 1. Awakening and resistance. ①About feminism and religion: The background of the film is a small town under the Afghan state ruled by Taliban terrorists. The extreme Islamic religious culture and the traditional culture of women’s powerlessness caused them to suffer immensely (no men are allowed to accompany them If you go out, you will be severely beaten; women are not allowed to show up, and they must not attract attention, or they will be arrested and tortured; they must be married before they are fully developed, and the person who marries may be as old as their father, etc.). Faced with this reality, the girls in the film choose to pretend to be men, go wherever they want, and do whatever they want. Even in the desert full of mines and abandoned tanks, there are people who want to see the beach and the sea. eager. The girls disguised themselves as men, and Pawana and her mother went to prison to find their father regardless of the risk of being beaten up. All of these manifested the awakening and resistance of female consciousness, and of course also included helplessness towards reality. Since the development of the feminist movement, the issue of women in the Middle East and its neighboring regions has always been the focus of attention, and the issue of women’s rights has never been resolved. This is why European and American countries always interfere in the internal affairs of Middle Eastern countries on the grounds of human rights issues (for example, Europe and the United States attack Afghanistan) Regardless of whether Europe and the United States are because of the so-called maintenance of hegemony, the human rights problem in the Middle East is indeed very serious and has not been guaranteed. But the film wants to express more than that. The cruelty of extreme religious culture is not limited to women, but men also exist. For example, the Taliban boy, when he wanted to catch two girls who were disguised as men for his so-called "belief", his uncle told him to put down his gun Don't catch the girls, he doesn't listen, his eyes are still angry, and he pursues the girls with such determination. When his uncle asked him to pick up a gun to fight for the Taliban and Islam, his eyes were blank. It seems that his belief is not only about extreme Islam, but more about the rights and power brought to him by weapons and religion, and this is a more primitive ignorance. All of this is attributed to extreme religious culture and Islamic civilization. ②About war and peace: 1919. The world structure is undergoing tremendous changes, and even China is changing in the blood of young people. Before that, their country, Afghanistan, was in dire straits. Since the independence of Afghanistan, he has been coveted by Britain and Russia, and the two empires even signed an agreement recognizing Afghanistan as the middle ground between the two countries. Afghanistan has become a country in a crack. Since then, Afghanistan has repelled two British offensives, but signed a treaty of bereavement and humiliation: the British government has given Afghanistan a subsidy in the past, and Afghanistan will conduct diplomacy with other countries under the guidance of the United Kingdom. At that time, Afghanistan suffered from wars, the city was reduced to ruins, and the people lived in hardship, and they were again controlled by the two empires. What's more serious is that domestic conservatives control people's ideology, modern education is difficult to implement, and racial and gender issues, religious issues, and human rights issues are becoming more and more serious. In the film, the problem of war has almost never stopped. The war at the beginning, the fighter jets flying above the head every day, the outbreak of the war at the end, and the storytelling all indict the crimes of the war. At the end of the film, there is a story that keeps repeating: "My name is Suleiman, my mother is a writer, and my father is a teacher. One day I found a toy on the street, I picked it up, and he It exploded. I don’t remember the rest, because this is the ending.” This story appears repeatedly at the end, seeming to be a cry from the heart, strongly indicting the ugly acts of war and the strong vision for peace. Living in a peaceful country in a peaceful age for too long makes us forget the cruelty of war, so that many people cannot feel the tension, helplessness, and despair in the film. When the war really comes, all struggles are just futile. . ③About stories and morals: The film tells many stories, but the core story is the one mentioned above The story of Suleiman's victory over the Elephant King. Sulaiman, as a child in the village, bravely stood up and faced the challenge of the Elephant King alone, representing the awakening and resistance of women like Pawana; the villagers, representing the citizens under the Taliban’s terrorist regime, were against the Soviet Union. Lehman’s ridicule represents their incompetence, helplessness, fear, cowardice, and compromise; the Elephant King, as an invincible existence in the mountains, represents all the evil forces in Afghanistan: the Taliban terrorist organization, extreme religion Culture and Islamic civilization, solidified concepts of consciousness, endless wars and conquests; three things needed to defeat the elephant king-the same shining, blinding the eyes of the leopard; the same as a trap, catching the leopard; the same Calm people and calm down the angry elephant king. The first represents that the light will eventually overcome the darkness, and evil will not suppress the righteous; the second represents that people will gradually rise up to resist, form a net, and arrest and eliminate all evil forces; the third represents peace, peace makes people calm, and peace can All evil forces are wiped out. 2. Cruel society and reality. The film uses animation, but it is the most authentic portrayal of contemporary Afghan society. In Afghanistan, the ending is the most important. What they want to know is whether the ending is happy. After all, life is not like Indian movies. Afghans always like to say: Life will always go on. They don't care about the beginning or the end, success or failure, in danger or in the dark, they just advance slowly like a nomadic tribe. As the end of the film said: "Pick up your words, not your voice; it is rain and dew that nourishes the earth, not thunder." Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes flowers grow, not thunder. Cruel society and reality. The film uses animation, but it is the most authentic portrayal of contemporary Afghan society. In Afghanistan, the ending is the most important. What they want to know is whether the ending is happy. After all, life is not like Indian movies. Afghans always like to say: Life will always go on. They don't care about the beginning or the end, success or failure, in danger or in the dark, they just advance slowly like a nomadic tribe. As the end of the film said: "Pick up your words, not your voice; it is rain and dew that nourishes the earth, not thunder." Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes flowers grow, not thunder. Cruel society and reality. The film uses animation, but it is the most authentic portrayal of contemporary Afghan society. In Afghanistan, the ending is the most important. What they want to know is whether the ending is happy. After all, life is not like Indian movies. Afghans always like to say: Life will always go on. They don't care about the beginning or the end, success or failure, in danger or in the dark, they just advance slowly like a nomadic tribe. As the end of the film said: "Pick up your words, not your voice; it is rain and dew that nourishes the earth, not thunder." Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes flowers grow, not thunder.
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