This film is one of my 15 favorite movies in 2019. The camera voice is very powerful, and the rhythm is also very good, but these are not discussed. The following two aspects are mainly discussed. 1) How the monkey team is like the "fly Like the characters in "The King", they move step by step to the Law of the Jungle, losing their humanity step by step. 2) It is why the political reality in Colombia is the Law of the Jungle. Magic realism is actually realism in Latin America.
01 There are many big panoramic shots at the beginning of the film, and there is a towering boulder in the picture. Compared with it, the monkey squad is extremely small. At this time, a superior officer who was less than five feet tall came to train the members of the squad. Please note that their clothes are very clean at this time. This officer is actually a symbol of authority. Under his training, the squad is responsible for taking care of the cow and a hostage. At this time, the work is basically in order. Then they had a party and ate something suspected of drugs. The next day someone killed a cow by accident. In fact, this was the first thing from the civilized world to be killed. Next, radio stations, pigs, etc. will be destroyed or killed. , The clothes representing the civilized world were also stripped off, the less people crossed, and they were coated with mud. Of course, the iconic turning point is that the officers were killed by Bigfoot, which means that they have completely moved from the edge of civilized society to the law of the jungle, and the second half of the film is indeed mostly in the jungle. Just like in the novel Lord of the Flies, when a group of people survives in a close-closed environment, the original civilized world is no longer applicable, and everyone enters a state of war between all people and all people. Especially the two shots of painting the body and the pig's head are highly compatible with the novel.
Of course, there is still the so-called human awakening in this jungle, and that is Rambo. From the beginning, he seemed to be out of place with everyone. When Bigfoot slid into madness, he did not choose to join in, but tried to escape by himself. jungle. At the end of "Lord of the Flies", the ship came to the island to pick up everyone, while in this film came the helicopter of modern society and picked up Rambo. The name of the film is Monkey, which can actually refer to the monkey team, or it can be said that this team has transformed from the so-called ordered warriors in the orderly world to the monkeys in nature that only obey the laws of the jungle.
02 Of course, while viewing the film as a metaphor, it is also necessary to point out that various variations of this story are happening repeatedly in Colombia. Although Colombia was independent in the 1820s, the land did not have a moment of tranquility. Especially after the 1960s, affected by the huge increase in the sales of cocaine and other drugs in the United States, the cultivation and smuggling of drugs in Colombia slowly developed. The Colombian Revolutionary Front was established in 1964. At the beginning, it promoted itself as a democratic organization for the poor, but some people soon became a terrorist organization engaged in drug trafficking and kidnapping. Although there were reconciliation measures with the government in 1984, it was not until 2016 that the disarming agreement was finally signed, and the specific implementation was again in 2017. Although Colombia has been established for almost 200 years, due to various reasons, people all live in the state of the jungle. Although it has a government, many parts of the country are in the hands of guerrillas or drug trafficking organizations. The American drama "Drug Lord" tells the story of the Colombian drug dealer group and the government fighting wits and courage. Obviously, the monkey squad belonged to a guerrilla group engaged in kidnapping and extortion. In order to become fighters, they obeyed the arrangement and entered the jungle to take care of the hostages. This kind of national conditions in Colombia is rare in other parts of the world, so we call it magical, but for them this is realism and daily life.
03 It can be seen from the film that in order to maintain the order of a place, external authority is sometimes necessary, otherwise it will become chaotic and become a primitive fighting situation, and this is precisely not free. After the foot monster has the final say, the others have no say, and kill people who disagree at will. Of course, the hostage changes in the film are also worth talking about. Her initial escape plan didn't hurt anyone, but in the end she not only killed a girl but also abandoned the other team members, taking his boots lightly. The same-sex kiss between Captain Wolves and Rambo and the guards and hostages is also a point of concern in the film. In this seemingly open but closed environment, has everyone's sexuality changed?
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