Of course, it's actually a satirical comedy, but it's not easy at all, and occasionally just makes people feel ridiculous. The film is a good film, but it is destined to be a minority. A Nobel Prize-winning writer made a decision one day to return to his hometown to participate in the award of the "Outstanding Citizen Award". The documentary + fictional presentation, the story is not strong, so it is destined not to be a "good-looking" film, but a "durable" film. After reading it, I only feel a tremor in my heart, and I have plenty of stamina.
"My hometown-Salas, the protagonist in my book, they can never leave; and I can never go back." The famous writer Daniel suddenly decided to return home. The small things after returning home form the core of the whole film.
When I returned to my hometown at the beginning, I was faced with various shocks that were completely different from the European way of life. After returning, in order to cooperate with the performance prepared by the fire brigade in his hometown, he was dragged into a parade on a fire truck; walking on the road would be followed by onlookers along the way; he was arranged to participate in a vulgar TV show; and inexplicable fellow villagers came to recognize relatives. Consciously lead the role in the work-"My father is the prototype of the boy riding a bicycle in your novel..."; the vulgarity of the small town is unfolding in front of the writer.
Of course, there is a big celebrity in his hometown, and these things are basically unavoidable for this celebrity. The most obvious example is the relationship between Mo Yan and Gaomi's hometown that many netizens have come to think of. After Mo Yan won the award, the obscure Gaomi also began to attract attention. Mo Yan has also become a brand in their hometown. In the past, the Mo Yan Museum of Literature in Menkeluoque increased 10 times the number of visitors after Mo Yan was awarded. Seeing business opportunities in China, he began to sell photos related to Mo Yan.
Everyone's focus has never been on literature, and it has nothing to do with the writer himself. What they care about is the fame and fortune of that person. However, there is nothing to blame. After all, "the world is booming, all for profit; the world is hustling, all for profit."
The value collision shown in the next film blocked the people in the small town, and became more ignorant and conservative.
A fellow villager went directly to the hotel to find Daniel, hoping that he could give money to buy a wheelchair for his son. Because "this little money is nothing to you."-the typical "I am poor, I am reasonable" thinking.
The old classmate who married his ex-girlfriend showed his affection in every way because of jealousy. He took Daniel to the bar to show his male attractiveness: "Every woman in this bar has done it with me 20-30 times. I think men should After going out to play and going home, there is a woman waiting for you..." Finally, I want to show off my prestige through a shotgun.
Of course, the most typical representative is a doctor in a painting competition. Because Daniel let him lose in this competition, he maliciously slandered Daniel. The core content of his abuse is: Daniel is a traitor, and he has not returned to his hometown for 40 years. In addition, he also printed out excerpts from Daniel's works to support his point of view, saying that the works are all innuendoes, destroying the image of his hometown, and so on.
A detail in the film is that there were many people who came to listen to his lectures at the beginning, but when he asked if anyone asked questions, only one person wanted to ask, indicating that few people understood him. After the second class, the third class... Fewer and fewer people came to listen to his lectures.
So in the end, after he expressed his views on culture and freedom in the exhibition, the fellow villagers agreed that this man was a traitor. Few people could really understand his generous speech in the exhibition; when he was in the lecture, someone asked him "Why not write more beautiful works", it was doomed that his efforts were useless.
Just like the comment on the film by the Poison Tongue movie: "Intellectuals want to wake up the people, but the people insist on pretending to sleep."
The values of the fellow villagers are no different from when he left. Ignorance, blind conformity, unabashed selfishness and jealousy, blindly denying values that are different from them, blindly conforming to the outside world, crusade against him is a traitor... This kind of obscured values is actually in every big city and every country. Yes, but people like this in the town will be more concentrated.
Just like in a news report, after a Chinese farmer participated in the program and became popular, many people asked him to borrow money after returning to his hometown. Not borrowing would be ungrateful. And most obviously, the Weibo Village in our country. A big V objectively said about the shortcomings of his hometown, and was attacked by fellow villagers from all over, saying that he was "regional black";
There is also the previous incident of Yang Zhenning’s return to China. The Internet is full of various evaluations. You can even rate these evils. For example, "Returning to the country for the elderly"-Yang Zhenning is really good, and he has returned to the elderly; the best research career is left. In foreign countries, when he gets old, he comes back to find respect; he quickly stepped into the coffin and came back to enjoy the treatment of veteran officials... The
people don't care about his contribution to physics, but only care about the gossip and rumors he heard. For Yang Zhenning, the motherland is his hometown, and it may be his Salas, a hometown full of absurd public opinion.
The film has to express much more than that.
Why does a writer who has been away from home for so many years suddenly want to return home? He said that escaping there was the most correct decision he had ever made. Why did you change your mind and want to go back and have a look? What kind of existence is his hometown for him? Is it the source of inspiration or the material?
How many of the stories in the film are true and how many are fictitious? It's like when he finally asked the reporter when he opened his shirt and pointed at the wound. Is true or false important? There is no truth, only the interpretation of each person.
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