GOD and DOG, two words in English, exist almost in a mirror image. Looking at it from the left, it belongs to looking up, and looking at it from the right, only looking down is left. Therefore, the easiest way to evaluate this movie, White God, is a movie about'perspective'.
How many people try to talk to a child, squat down, follow her height, look into her eyes equally, and then talk? Or, how many people would use this method to meet the dogs in the house? Even if we always talk about how much we love children, or those fanatical dog fans who are self-proclaimed; but an adult will always unconsciously occupy the high ground and look down on those people or things that are not on the same level. . However, at this time, it is inevitable that people will not be aware of their incarnation as "God".
At the beginning of the story, there is a cow peeling scene in the slaughterhouse. Men in white overalls will peel and cut the blood of the cows in order to check the conformity of the meat. After the work was over, the man called by his workmates as a professor waited outside the factory for his ex-wife to send his daughter and stayed there for three months. Came with her daughter, and the dog named Hagen raised by her daughter. The father obviously didn't like this dog. Obviously, this kind of dislike was not because he hated the dog species, but because he didn't know how to get along with it. This kind of helplessness is also reflected in the relationship between the father and daughter. "Internal and external troubles" can make the story contradictory enough to "legally" transition to the next node. My dissatisfaction with the dog, the daughter's resistance, the complaints from the neighbors and the threats of the administrator, coupled with the factors of the dog, forced her daughter to leave the music group. All kinds of conflicts caused the father to abandon the dog under the elevated road in a rage.
Since then, the story has begun to develop in two lines. The girl part, like all youth or growth-themed movies, not only portrays the estrangement and contradiction between father and daughter, but also does not forget to add a few questions, yearning, and confusion among minors about the adult world. , And the final emotional reconciliation and return of the two parties. And the dog named Hagen, after being abandoned by "God", gradually embarked on a path of no return.
Often this kind of "human and dog love" story, in our viewing habits, is nothing more than two. One is that the dogs who are forced to be abandoned will try their best to wait under the bridge for a ten-year "limit". Waiting for the girl to come back and die in the "love's arms", which is a common technique used in Japanese "affair" movies; the second is the American comedy style of home headed by little ghosts, dogs are beating the boss of wild dogs, from animals After escaping from the adoption house, after many hardships, when the little master opened the door one day, it barked at her at the door.
Mudluzzo’s White God seems to liberate the dogs from the “vulnerable groups” of the film industry and embark on a “sexy” road of revenge for the prince. This is almost the "mantle" for the dog world to take over King Kong or "Caesar" in the Planet of the Apes. Hagen under the viaduct, like all innocent children, has clear eyes, as well as the helplessness and ignorance of facing the urban jungle. He walked tremblingly on the bridge, and the whine of the motorboat on the river in the distance shocked him. In the movie, it is never the "beautiful new world" that greets the ignorant. For the first time he saw the same kind of corpse in the Wilderness. As an abandoned domestic dog, he did not know how to forage in this reinforced jungle. After avoiding the butcher's chase and the round-up of the adoption income, an inadvertent man was caught by a seemingly friendly tramp and sold it to a dog dealer at a cheap price.
This is the price of not being thorough.
As a result, the story ushered in a new chapter, how to become a tough guy on the battlefield. Being drugged, beaten, tortured, forced to become another kind of dog, discarding heart and soul, only hatred and ferocious beasts. And the reason why the dog gambling dealer chose him was that he was still interested in seeing him. How ironic. When a devil looks at you, it's not because of how much evil there is in you, but how much space for goodness can be replaced. In the jungle world, kindness equates to weakness, and the greater the space it is replaced, the greater the potential for igniting hatred, and hate equates to strength. Hagen is dead, and he is replaced by a monster named Maxi. It was the first time that Maxi killed the same kind in the fighting field. No one would know, at the moment of victory, did it remember the dog that had been seen dead in the wilderness. Afterwards, it was like a dead man who came back to life in all gangster movies, taking advantage of the black silence of the moment of tripping, and escaped to heaven. And this is just the beginning of the road to revenge.
Can all suffering be an excuse for revenge? When a life holds the power of life and death of another life, it becomes a'God'. DOG was turned into GOD, the conversion from the weak to the strong, and doubts followed. The so-called question of universal moral values. When the viewer sympathizes with the experience of being a weak Hagen and resents the humans who have harmed him, but seeing the beast called Maxi, its bloody road of revenge and the indiscriminate killing of innocents, is there also a kind of resistance that breeds in the heart? We are used to sympathizing with the weak, but we cannot applaud the bloody revenge of the strong.
The film chose an eclectic and open return. The little girl never gave up the idea of finding Hagen from beginning to end, but she finally met it, Maxi or Hagen with resentment. The trumpet sounded with reminiscence messages between the swords, saved everything. They lie on the ground, looking at each other, and the night gradually turns pale.
White God, this movie has won a kind of attention award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and it deserves it. The camera is aimed at the dog, this animal that appears in daily life, abandoning the "camera" habitual overhead thinking, and using a subjective perspective, it is constantly personified to achieve the point of "face-up" with people. The film boldly uses symphony-this kind of music can only be used in epic movies or large hero or science fiction movies, and it is used in non-magical animal movies. It is hard not to praise this breakthrough. And cleverly use music puns to connect the girl's story with the dog's story. The setting for girls to learn the trumpet is also very symbolic, and even in the final scene, it can be seen as a truce on the battlefield. Also, Maxi took the group of dogs and rushed out of the shelter. The corners of his mouth were bloody, and he roared up. The group of dogs stepped on the waves, almost like a martial arts movie.
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