Last night, I went to Big Dream again. I wanted to watch Meryl Streep's "Sophie's Choice", but the film was two and a half hours long, and it was almost ten o'clock after watching it. I'm really embarrassed to extend the working hours of the shop assistants, even though they are very friendly and even patiently help me put a movie that I only watch for a dollar a day.
Later, I watched the road movie "The Story of the Leningrad Cowboys" (director: Golismaki), a road movie recommended by Maomao. This film tells the story of a classical band from a remote mountain village in Finland who traveled across the ocean and came to the United States. , originally wanted to develop in New York, but was sent to Mexico by the bar owner on the grounds that "rock is popular now, not classical". The whole film is 78 minutes long, and various musical elements including rock, classical, country, and jazz are integrated into it, and they are displayed one by one in front of us through the tour of the cowboy band from north to south. The music styles popular across the eclectic United States vary widely, with jazz in the northeast, country in the middle, and rock further south.
After two world wars in the early and mid-20th century, North America successfully replaced Europe as the center of the world. Although it has successfully embraced cultures from all over the world, the short 200-year history of the founding of the People's Republic of China cannot change the fact that the foundation of cultural precipitation is unstable. It eventually became the birthplace of the "cultural industry". It is also the best place in the world for foreigners to find their identity, but it cannot make everyone lose the idea of returning to their homeland completely.
In this context, as a Finnish film with obvious surrealism and a lot of dark humor, the director closely grafted the quiet artistic atmosphere from northern Europe with the hustle and bustle of American culture. (Although a group of villagers who obviously have no cultural foundation can communicate fluently with people from the time they get on the plane and start learning English to when they get off the plane, it is somewhat emotionally unacceptable for some people who have studied English for many years and still fail the CET-4 test). The peculiar rocket boots of the group owners, the nose of the plane, and even the silly smiles on everyone's faces, are not only an additional joke, but also confirm the fact that in the United States, there is no such thing as "do as the Romans do". ”, as long as you can speak English.
We are accustomed to asking about the theme of each film, and many people even regard this film as a dream-chasing journey for little people. Although this habit can make it easier for us to improve the efficiency of recommending movies to people, it can also easily kill the unique charm of movies as an art with super information content. If the group of people in "Column" lived in real life, I'm afraid none of us would like it. On the other hand, as the "civilian heroes" who ultimately bear the high expectations of the audience, they do not see any natural advantages to reach the shore of glory.
Fortunately, the Leningrad Cool Boys did not win a "Super Boy" championship, nor did they become the legendary "Adele", but only found themselves in a simple wedding in Mexico. If the whole film is filled with a surreal smell, then the ending happens to be the most natural and in line with the normal order. It is also the self-return of these men after the hardships, which makes the film have a reality that can no longer be realistic. doctrine.
In fact, we don't have to always put too big themes on the little people, and we don't have to lament their bad luck from beginning to end, and they can't always counterattack.
Because someone once said that the world is rich and handsome, white and rich, and in the final analysis, it is diaosi.
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