"We don't have anything in common, we just happened to be born here."
The writer’s homecoming, Spanish, a two-hour documentary-no matter from which point of view, this film with a standard "sleep film" is not enough to attract people, but almost from the beginning, "Outstanding Citizen" A sense of humor that is almost unconsciously allowed to occur throughout the whole process, and the human feelings and cultural barriers contained in it are constantly removing some scars that people usually ignore.
At the beginning of the film, the writer's car broke down and had to spend the night on the road. In order to keep warm, he burned his own book. The driver also used his book to load the large size-this seems to be a premise, implying that his hometown is an act learned by the writer. Where the guidelines do not apply-it is simple and primitive and almost rude. The writer continued to encounter collisions and suffering. After watching the shoddy welcome video in the auditorium, he was dragged into a fire truck to parade, dragged into a vulgar TV show, followed by passers-by with a mobile phone, and his old friend called his nickname Titi Hug him... but he seems to have maintained the maximum tolerance. However, the hometown has changed even more severely-old friends who drove pick-ups to hunt and prostitutes, young men who were good at learning to castrate boars, and morally kidnapped folks who invited him to eat and donated money-even the writer went to travel to the former home of the barber shop. , And the boss yelled indifferently, "We are closed!"...Despite the dramatic exaggeration, the embarrassment of returning home is almost borderless. In the eyes of the wanderer, the hometown often triumphantly uses vulgarity against knowledge, with Violent shows off ignorance.
In addition, the fierce political debate has become the most antagonistic conflict in the film. When the paintings selected by the writer were replaced, he took off the medal of "honorary citizen" and said: "There is no word in the vocabulary of some ethnic groups on the African grasslands." The word'freedom' is because people are free every day. On the contrary, the people who talk about freedom every day are the least free. The hero became a traitor.
Although "Outstanding Citizen" also has some common settings, such as an inspired writer, such as an old lover married to a friend in his hometown, the writer and the people and things in his hometown in the film are not simply a parallel of travel and sadness. The relationship, but immediately set off a rich substance, until in the end the writer almost died.
In fact, the images of writers in most films are closed and stagnant. They are often spiritual and even material finishers. Underneath their weak and modest appearance, they often have a lonely heart. They have an unrealistic tendency to criticize. , They maintain a bottom line of tolerance for disadvantaged groups; they layer this contradictory characteristic in the film until it becomes unbearable, such as "Homesickness". The most "outstanding" of "Outstanding Citizen" is that the nature and motivation of the author Daniel Mantovani are flexible and variable, and have an open extension.
The writer, who hadn’t written for five years from the beginning, suddenly changed his attitude and decided to go to his hometown alone, implying his suspicious motives; then the writer let go of all his original taboos, and almost unconditionally mingle with the folks—— The chairman of the Painters Association, who has been slanderous due to bad reviews by writers, seems to provoke revenge everywhere, but the core point of insulting is actually intriguing.
Finally, with the publication of the author’s new book "Outstanding Citizen" of the same name, the audience cannot be sure whether the entire film is the author’s personal experience or a fictional work, or whether the two overlapping parts account for each of them; the author points to the upper left of the chest Scars-"It may be a bicycle fall, or it may be a gunshot wound." After putting on fashionable white glasses, he showed a sly and triumphant smile, and the film came to an abrupt end.
Furthermore, the topical openness of the film does not just stop at whether the story is fictitious or not, but opens a new dimension to the writer who is always innocent and passive in the film, and in this dimension, the audience is still not sure about the writer’s thinking. The structure, whether to embark on the last trip back home with the value of squeezing the hometown, or to let go of the knot after a life-and-death confrontation with the hometown-and deeper, penetrates the combination of the regionality of the art creator and the global writing The gray area, where the indistinguishable motives of rebellion and betrayal are buried, and the conversion between accusations and accusations-this is also the most fascinating part of the film.
Some excellent expressionist psychological description passages have also been added to the film. When the writer feels that his hometown is in danger, he dreams that everyone is holding guns and looking at him suspiciously; when he is kidnapped by a friend on an off-road vehicle, the film uses a psychological guided approach to target the writer’s psychological entanglement Presented one by one. The image of a flamingo dying in a pond has repeatedly appeared three times. This large wading bird that lives in groups and can migrate across continents is almost the best hint of the writer's mood and destiny.
Is the courage you had to leave when you were young enough to support the whiteness of your temples? When we leave our hometown, what does the countryside mean to us? A topic that can be picked up at will, some self-deprecating material? A set of whitewashed images? Disturbing hole cards? Is it the strange place you are most familiar with, the lighthouse that you can't and don't want to approach, the place of your concealed soul? Or is it a faded shell, a distant fire, established methodology and destiny, entanglements to be picked up, burning ice, thorny sentiment, a scourge patient waiting for your return?
——2016.9 at Lido Island
Originally published in the October 2016 issue of Movie World
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