The female director of the two directors was too entertaining and consuming South American-especially Colombia-drug trafficking stories, so they decided to tell the same story, but from a different perspective.
"The Godfather"/"Scarface" + "A Hundred Years of Solitude", well, it just sounds great!
The super-sensual experience of "Snake's Hug" is almost invisible in this "Migratory Birds", but there are still embers. I really like the pictures of a few dreams, lost, bad omens, all those thousand years that are about to disappear.
Using Hollywood’s traditional narrative structure, tell a story that Hollywood audiences are familiar with—in fact, it should be an ancient Greek tragedy—a "routine" story. In such danger, fortunately the two directors abandoned Hollywood routines. For example, a zero-violence scene is used to show the most extreme violence. The gun is raised, sometimes there is sound, sometimes there is no sound. The next scene is full of corpses.
The disappearance, disappearance, and swallowing up of traditions are basically doomed in the context of globalization established by capitalism after the industrial revolution. The ancient ballads have become a curious art. The principles and creeds that have been adhered to for generations are vulnerable to a few stacks of banknotes. The predictions are not listened to. The once glorious civilization of mankind has become like a drug lord built in the desert. The modern villa is out of place, magical, and instantly destroyed by money, greed and desire.
Migratory birds are not only important birds for the indigenous people, but also the route used by drug dealers to travel between Colombia and the United States-the same as the migratory route of migratory birds.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist confronts the enemy who has come to claim his life and says that we are already dead. Perhaps this piece of land is also the ghost of the era of being exploited, squeezed, assimilated and abandoned, still struggling to pass through history, desperately not knowing where to go.
In "Embrace of the Snake", the heroine creator Cristina Gallego served as the producer, and the director was Ciro Guerra; the second film that the two collaborated on, Cristina was more involved, and became the director together with Ciro (Cristina said in an interview I am mainly responsible for the story itself, and Ciro spends more energy on studying how to tell a story).
The concept of "Migratory Birds" was born before "Snake's Embrace". After the great success of "Snake", "Migratory Birds" has a broader possibility of realization.
Unfortunately, the couple broke up in the middle of the filming.
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