Author's public number: Lao Sun's Xianyun
A group of children blindfolded and played football on a hillside covered with mountains, misty clouds and dense vegetation. The ball hit the wire fence and hit the bottles and cans hanging on it, making a harsh noise, accompanied by the cheers of the children. This is the opening scene of "Monkey". The blindfold under the far-reaching tone of the flute and the game of football symbolize a group of young, ignorant and ignorant children. Under the dark clouds, it seems to foreshadow a kind of anxiety. coming soon.
The rich green tones, mixed with a touch of light blue and a touch of melancholy, are like an isolated island of Eden that is always ready to collapse. The story of 8 boy scouts dressed in Bohemia, one of their hostages, and a cow. The first impression of the familiar feeling reminded of "Lord of the Flies", a group of choir children were forced to drift to an isolated tropical island because of the war. From sincere cooperation to group divisions, they gradually escalated to violent competition for life resources and production. Tools, until ignoring life and killing companions. And the perpetrators of the behavior are all children, this is the cruelest place. Children are supposed to be ignorant and naive at the beginning of a human being. Under the competition of the environment and the group, the children finally evolved into animal-like barbarism. The title "Lord of the Flies" is also a metaphor for the nature of flies that tend to foul, such as those who chase fame and gain.
The children's war in the two movies is just a microcosm of the adult world. The latent barbarism of human beings since ancient times has always reminded us that "violence is eternal, and civilization is only a short respite from violence."
The prototype of "Monkey Monos" is the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces guerrillas, and the dwarf instructor actor in the play is also a guerrilla. To put it bluntly, it is the bandit entrenched in the jungle mountain area. In the play, the dwarf bandit instructor also reprimanded the undressed Agou, "Are you a soldier or a bandit?" It was ironic that the bandit asked the bandit.
Like all non-governmental armed forces in the world, the main income is drug dealing and kidnapping for ransom. The goal is to kidnap foreigners in Europe and the United States, so the ransom will be higher. Perennial wars, barren economy, declining labor force of young and middle-aged people, more and more orphans, in order to survive, began to play with guns at the age when they should be playing. From the narration of the dwarf instructor reprimanding Bigfoot, we can learn that "I have always raised you as a son...". On the one hand, orphans do not have many choices. On the other hand, it is because the children are ignorant and ignorant. Before, the brain was easily controlled by confusion. This inhuman operation is often used extensively by warlords, political or religious groups! There is a saying in "Brainwashing": Successful brainwashing is called religion, and failed brainwashing is called brainwashing.
In the play, Monos kills the couple who took in Rambo, and the lady armed with a gun finds three orphans hiding under the table who witnessed the death of their parents. This scene also indicates that the boy scouts will begin a cycle of fate.
The dwarf instructor who represents the organization in the play often patrols. And if the men and women in the team want to form a partner, the organization’s consent is required, and the representative of the organization is the will of one person (a word of the dwarf instructor), do you think all dictatorships or religions often use this trick to change the individual’s subjective will? Pretending to be the spokesperson of the "organization" or "god"?
In the peculiar chase in the first half, everyone chased someone with a belt, everyone rushed to slam twice, and the hostage doctor was also asked by the children to join the game. . Later, I realized that this was an alternative birthday party. They celebrated their birthdays in this way. After a bonfire party, they woke up with a hangover in the morning to celebrate, and unexpectedly killed the only cow. A soldier who was in charge of looking after the cows (and at the moment was also in charge of imprisoning the criminals who killed the cows), when he witnessed everyone skinning and deboning and dismembering the cows, he shot himself. Is it self-blame for negligence? Or are you afraid of organizing punishment? The cause of death is unknown. So there was a conflict over whether the small group should "lie or tell the truth" to the organization. At this moment, the Garden of Eden has grown "apples".
In the jungle, the hostages escaped. This led to this team producing more "unspoken secrets", concealing, deceiving, and treacherous organizations, and having independent ambitions. The instructor once again held accountability, and let a group of children sit around and expose each other, the clumsy trick of groupism, the collapse of humanity, trust, and friendship. An accidental revelation is like a storm set off by a butterfly's wings, so the revelation will sweep the brothers who have been eating and staying together for a second and are still playing with each other. The inexperienced youth hates betrayal the most, so ironically, he shot the instructor with a big foot, betrayed the organization and became a traitor. Then return to the base to punish the "traitor" Smurfs who betrayed him. Rambo rescued the Smurfs in the middle of the night and was discovered, so he became a traitor and was hunted down.
He was rescued by a kind-hearted couple, taken in, and watched TV together. The TV is broadcasting a Gummy Bear factory in Germany, and workers are inspecting substandard gummy candies. Some "bad" soft candies that did not meet the requirements were selected ruthlessly and thrown aside. One of the shots was five gummy bears connected together, which were picked and thrown out. It seems like this group of guerrillas of children abandoned by fate.
Finally, in the rushing river, chased and killed, pushed forward by the waves, the only thing that can be done is to breathe in each ups and downs, and the rest can only be resigned to their fate, just like their fate.
Looking down at the camera, it's like God's perspective. Two rivers-one is clear and the other is filthy. These two different streams of water converge and become a river, clear and turbid, and finally all fall into turbidity and become a unified color.
The government helicopter spotted Rambo on the muddy riverbank and took him (even though he was always mentioned in the play, but the audience will definitely find that Rambo is "her". Eve's body, skin, and eyes cannot be covered. It is a pretense. Not out of Adam) rescued. The helicopter leaves the jungle that symbolizes primitive dream anarchism and arrives over the city that symbolizes civilization. The helicopter's walkie-talkie kept asking the base "What to do with this boy? Please tell me..." A pair of tearful and crying red eyes looked at the camera and the audience in front of the camera during this repeated questioning. What should we do with him?
How to deal with them?
Silent stare... helpless questioning...
End
(One of the easter eggs: Which one is inserted in front of the Smurfs? The pig head on the wooden pole is a tribute to the classic shots of "Lord of the Flies"! The above pictures are all from the movie screenshots)
Author's public number: Lao Sun's Xianyun
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