Watching enough Hollywood blockbusters is like eating too much meat to make people angry. The plot of "White Balloon" is so simple, the scene is so real, as light as boiled water, but it really quenches thirst and greasy.
The film uses a documentary approach to show a very real story (who would doubt that such a story is not true?), I am very advocating such a story theme - even if it is fictional, it is real and will not arouse the slightest doubt. On the contrary, I often see "small production films" made by some netizens on the Internet. Although they also use documentary methods, their content is more like a myth. There's nothing more disgusting than feeling different from the outside.
A lot of people use money as a shield, saying that they can't make good films without money, and even I once thought so. Today, I accidentally glanced at "White Balloon", which surprised me a lot - it turns out that a great man can make a movie with an extremely simple plot and such a profound connotation with milk powder money.
The director said the film was a reflection of "the influence of marginalized people on things." It is reflected in the plot that the humble Afghan boy selling balloons finally solved the biggest contradiction. Yes, for us adults, the contradictions in the film are really nothing, we can all agree with what the adults said to the little girl in the film: "Let's talk about it when the shopkeeper comes in a few days, anyway, the money will not be gone. of". But for the little girl, getting the money back today can fulfill her best wishes for the New Year, as well as eliminate the fear of being criticized at home (adults know that her mother doesn't blame her too much).
"The Influence of Marginal People on Things". I believe that if it is replaced by a Hollywood director, it is likely to be interpreted as "alien attacked and a beggar accidentally saved all mankind". Not surprisingly, "alien attack" is a big enough thing in our adult subjective consciousness. However, the Iranian director took a different approach but achieved the same goal. In the child's subjective consciousness, "the 500 yuan was lost" is equivalent to "alien attack". Everyone has a childhood, and there is one experience that is the most universal - when you look back on your childhood, you will definitely find a "big event" that is as heavy as a mountain but now seems as light as a feather.
Those adults also helped the little girl to some extent. Unfortunately, they were absolutely capable of helping the little girl get the 500 yuan back, but they couldn't help it to the end. This is because they don't take it seriously or don't take it that seriously enough, in other words, it's not an "alien attack", so it can't stimulate their action.
Adults cannot understand the pain of little girls because they are adults. The little girl's brother and the Afghan teenager can understand the little girl's pain. If the little girl's brother's great help is because of the family, then the Afghan boy's helping hand is definitely very humanitarian. You must know that he sacrificed two balloons, which is not a "hands-on" for him.
Everyone has his huge existence, even if it is a small person and a marginal person, it will have a huge impact on someone or something. Therefore, we should not be good at small things, and we should not ignore the huge subjective world behind the small objective reality.
There is a classic in "Schindler's List": saving a life is equivalent to saving a world. This world is the subjective world of the saved person.
In the same way, you can easily trample an ant to death, but it destroys a world - the world of the ant; helping the little girl to regain the 500 yuan may be just a little effort, but the little girl's world is full of Happy new year.
The film does not have a Hollywood-style finale, and everything seems so simple. The simplicity shown by the director is precisely giving the viewer an ability to savor it more and more, allowing me to pay attention to the inconspicuous white balloon in the last nearly static shot.
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