When I saw this title at first, I thought it was a very heavy story. In addition, the oil-like gray color of the film inevitably makes people think whether it is particularly serious, but it is accompanied by the very crisp acoustic guitar soundtrack in the film. After watching the movie, I found that it was completely different from my first impression.
"The First Cow" is a short fable, about the pure friendship between humans.
The whole film gave me emotionally like watching "Happy Lazzaro", and it uses a very realistic plot to highlight the purest and beautiful virtues in people's hearts.
The film's plot structure is also very interesting. The background of the first act of the screen is in modern times. A woman found two bones in the wild. Then the camera changed the era, and then kept telling the life experience of the two male protagonists. . In the last scene of the film, the two male protagonists fell asleep in the jungle on the way to escape. This echoes the two bones at the beginning, and the values of the film are instantly reflected, which is very touching.
The key to why this story is touching lies in the grasp of that pure emotion. The whole plot of the film is about the two male protagonists coming to a wild land, this wild land has not been set foot by humans so far, so many people who know this place come here to "go for gold", the two male protagonists will Are two of them. One of the male protagonists is a chef, and the other is a very clever businessman. The male protagonist of the businessman was chased by the Russians and hid in the jungle. He happened to meet the chef who was looking for ingredients in the jungle. The male lead, the kind chef male lead gave him food and let him rest in his tent. The male lead businessman ran away again for fear of being caught the next day, and the two male lead separated like this.
One day the male chef went to a wine shop to drink, but he unexpectedly met the male businessman, so the male chef asked the male chef to go to his "new home" here. It turned out that the businessman, the male protagonist, finally got rid of the Russian chase and settled down here, thinking about making a fortune by catching beavers and transporting them back to China to sell them, but he has no sales channels on his own.
One day an official of this place bought back a cow. This was the first cow to set foot here. Because the arrival of this cow gave the chef the idea of making oily bread, which is necessary to make this kind of bread. They added milk, so they went to steal the milk late at night. After the production was successful, the business man proposed to sell this kind of bread, because this kind of bread had never appeared in this wild land, which made it stationed in The gold diggers here are ecstatic, they like the taste very much, and the business of the two male protagonists has been successful so far.
Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. The officials finally found out that they were stealing milk, so the two male protagonists began to escape. On the way to escape, the male business man ran away because he knew how to swim. The male chef could only hide and be injured on the road. Fortunately, he was rescued by the barbarians living here. After being in a coma for a few days, the male chef finally woke up. The first thing he wanted was to go back to the male businessman, so he thought of going back to the place where they lived together. The house had long been smashed. He stayed here and looked around. It happened that the male businessman came here long before the male chef came to retrieve the money they had left here. After getting the money, he didn’t leave, and he was looking around here, so the two met again. They negotiated to leave here together, but the two were already exhausted, and then the two lay down in one place to sleep, and the film ended here.
In the plot setting of this film, what impressed the audience the most was the profound friendship between the two male protagonists: strangers from foreign countries take care of each other's lives, and they are bent on accumulating wealth and returning to the city to do business, even if the plan fails. They didn't abandon each other on the way, until they snuggled and died in the wild. This kind of emotion is very pure, it is a noble thing in human nature, it is especially touching in a movie. The director's shooting method is also very calm, and he has not over-exaggerated this pure emotion, which makes it easier for the audience to feel the emotion he wants to express when watching, and it is very stable.
The above film reviews are only my personal feelings, and I also respect the opinions of each viewer.
"The First Cow" was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 70th Berlin Film Festival; the 86th New York Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture; the 30th Gotham Independent Film Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor Nomination, Annual Breakthrough actor nomination, best screenplay nomination; dozens of awards.
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