[Watching at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival] The opening film of the "Director's Fortnight" section of the Cannes Film Festival this year. The Colombian director's last work "Snake's Embrace" received rave reviews. It is said to be a strong style of author's film, but I haven't seen it yet. In my impression, Colombia is a country full of crime and drugs. Unsurprisingly, these two stereotypes appear in this work. In fact, this is a vengeful theme. The director uses chapters to narrate the story of an indigenous family in Colombia in the 1970s who took a risk and thrived on the marijuana business. Later, he encountered the betrayal of his partners and led to a series of gangs fighting and the family annihilation. I feel that the traces of commercial genre films are too obvious, but they fail to show the director's unique author style. The unfamiliar plots with folklore connotations, such as courtship dances for men and women at the beginning, and prophets, exude a touch of mysticism and fatalism, while the language and survival philosophy of the local tribes, and even the topic of colonialism are covered in the film, but only In the highly dramatic narrative, I skipped it like a dragonfly, and it's a pity that I didn't dig into these topics in depth. However, making such a commercial film shows on the one hand the director's mastery of genre films, and it seems that it can also attract more viewers' attention to the country of Colombia.
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