How to put it, this year's Oscar nominated film, there is no perfect "candidate" in Sansan's mind. For example, I admit that "City of Philharmonic" is indeed a well-made film. The technical aspects of photography, music, lighting, etc. are handled well, but the story is old-fashioned, like a movie at the end of the last century. "Dream", the taste of thick chicken soup is ready to come out.
The technical processing of "Moonlight Boy" is also the best work of the same type of film in recent years. However, the narrative structure is too mysterious, with a strong style of Wong Kar Wai and Hou Xiaoxian (the director himself admits this), but it is always put in this film. It feels so overwhelming. Of course, it is understandable to say that the theme needs this kind of expression technique to express, but it is closer to the expression of the director's emotions than to the public taste.
In the final analysis, the intentions of these two films make Sansan feel like she is watching a fairy tale. Believe that human nature is good, but unrealistic fantasy is not desirable. These two films live in the American dream, but fail to see the reality of society clearly. Perhaps the more courteous the society is, the more people need someone to touch oneself. This year's Oscars selected these two films to be shortlisted, perhaps because they want to make the Oscars "Moving America".
Take "Moonlight Boy" for example, it is probably the story of an "African American" boy "Xiao Rong" who broke free from social oppression and bravely pursued his "sexual minority rights". If Yu Qiuyu were to write the award speech for this movie, it would be like this:
It is hard to find a quiet desk in the face of discrimination. He has been tough before he grows up. With the help of kind people, he, an ordinary African American, wrote the immortal epic of pursuing the American dream. For the love in the heart, never leave, tell us: there is true love in the world, and great love in the world.
At the beginning of the film, the drug lord Juan, played by the old drama bone Mahsala Ali, and his younger brother staged a soul dialogue, explaining the background of the story. In the long shot, the black handshake and the dialogue with the Rap are very emotional, and even made me feel like I am playing GTA. And because I watched too much at the House of Cards, every time I watched Juan, I always felt that I saw Remy in the beast.
The beginning is not dull, probably street drug trafficking, wearing gold and silver, black buddies with gold teeth are familiar symbols all over the world. Of course, white people also have drug dealers. If I don't add this sentence, I might be ashamed.
In short, Brother Juan is a drug dealer, but after all, he is black, the story must not be that simple. As for the latter part, Brother Juan promised to Xiaorong, "Look for Brother if you have something to do," and we'll just call him Big Brother.
And the protagonist's appearance is really caught by a bunch of bear kids. The bear children ran after Xiao Rong, laughing and scolding him as a gangster. Xiao Rong ran into an abandoned house and locked himself up. The bears and children were consciously boring and also acted as birds and beasts. Big brother and Xiao Rong met for the first time in this room.
The eldest brother is black, and he was also the first black to appear, so according to reason, he must not be a bad person. Sure enough, the WeChat marketing account can write him an autobiography: "I am a drug dealer, full of golden teeth, but I love Gay, and I know I am a good guy."
The drug dealer cares about the children's mental health and provides psychological counseling for Xiao Rong. I don't know what happened. Anyway, the eldest brother sees Xiao Rong at first sight and decides: I'll be the eldest brother. He took off Xiao Rong's guard, and Xiao Rong finally told his eldest brother that you can call me little.
But in fact, the last thing a drug dealer cares about is the life and death of others. If he cares, why does he sell drugs?
Of course, the above drug dealers, please add the attributive limit to: "Non-African drug dealers".
As for Chiron's mother, the title of the marketing account is also the same: "I am prostitution, I take drugs, and I have domestic violence, but I love my gay son: I know I am a good girl." Yes, on a barrage website, a netizen said at the beginning of the film: This is a good mother.
I really don't know what to say.
It is hard not to blame the government. Since you have chosen homosexuality, you must go on silently, otherwise it will not be a good homosexuality.
Later, the kid grew up, and Xiao Rong became the real Xiao Rong. After all his companions rolled his eyes, the child met his good friend Kevin. Of course, Kevin is also black. The whole school is black. In fact, before the police came out, there was no one who was not black in the whole movie.
There are some unspoken rules in the American film and television industry. For example, God must be black, and blacks will not be the first to die. Blacks who are good at the beginning will generally not go bad, and blacks who are bad at the beginning are likely to be undercover agents.
Speaking of Xiaorong and Kevin, they soon fell in love, and something beautiful and indescribable happened on the beach.
But who knows that Kevin quickly betrayed Xiaorong. At the end of the second act, Kevin listened to Liu Ruoying's "Later", and he did not learn Chinese very authentically. He did not understand that "you must hurt the one you love". It's just a metaphor, just because I heard the school gangsters, I inexplicably beat Xiaorong.
Xiao Rong couldn't swallow this breath, he chose to retaliate, and was cruel, but was taken to the juvenile management office, bidding farewell to his childhood.
Later, Xiao Rong became an adult and eventually became the current black (black).
After coming out of the juvenile control office, Xiao Hei chose to re-behave: inheriting the legacy of his eldest brother-starting drug trafficking.
Although the eldest brother died inexplicably as early as the first act, but Xiaorong, who came out of the young guard, may have listened to probation music more in it, and didn’t like Chinese. I didn’t know that "I will become a You" want to learn from a positive example and become a drug dealer when you come out.
Of course, one thing that has a greater impact on Xiaorong is that at the beginning of the film, his elder brother used to take him to swim. However, what the eldest brother taught him was not breaststroke, but freestyle. Fighting the wind and waves in the sea, but also feeling suffocated in the sea. Sansan thinks that the scene of learning to swim in the sea is the essence of "Moonlight Boy".
In this section, the director also asked what Moonlight Boy is: Black people are blue in the moonlight. Blue is the color of freedom, the color of the sea, and a synonym for melancholy. Black people yearn for freedom, but they are very melancholy, so they also have Blues music.
Therefore, there must be black talents and jazz, and there are no blacks. The whites in the City of Philharmonic can be said to have poor skills.
But Sansan thinks the metaphor of moonlight is more worth thinking about. Moonlight is a metaphor for social background, and the most interesting thing is: Moonlight is white.
In fact, this movie has nothing to tell, and the story is quite mixed. It is probably Xiaorong quarreling with his mother, struggling with classmates, and making her mark in society, winning the world, but losing to Kevin.
Until one day, when Kevin heard a song, he remembered to call Xiao Rong: "Dude, miss you, come and post?" Then there was the ending scene. Xiao Rong and Kevin were in childhood. On a restaurant date, after a period of chattering, the two of them settled down and finally cuddled up and wept together.
"Twelve Years as a Slave" won the 86th Oscar for Best Picture, which is similar in structure to "Moonlight Boy", but "Twelve Years as a Slave" does not have the same or other problems as "Moonlight Boy". At least, in the narrative, "Twelve Years as a Slave" is coherent and the characters are full. And the people in "Moonlight Boy" are thin like pieces of paper: the heart-warming black brother, the helpless black mother who loves her children, the confused black youth, the brave black Xiaorong...
"Twelve Years as a Slave" makes people feel suffocating and makes people ponder the meaning of abolishing slavery. The last Oscar-winning "Focus" is also a politically correct story. It admires the freedom of the press in the United States and criticizes the establishment's monopoly of social resources and abuse of social trust, but at least it also tells a coherent story.
So, what story does "Moonlight Boy" tell: the self-knowledge and self-salvation of black Xiaorong. But in the process, Sansan felt that the lines and passages that deliberately strengthened race and gender made people play in minutes. Unknowingly, they thought that the film was about "LGBT is suppressed, LGBT must be awakened, LGBT people Love is great!"...
(Lines emphasizing racial awareness appear repeatedly in the film)
There is nothing wrong with pursuing mainstream values, and there is nothing wrong with unifying an understanding of political correctness, but don't take political correctness as a mistake. In film, the most basic requirement is to tell a story or to shape a certain emotion. On this basis, we can discuss the superiority and inferiority of conception. This year’s Oscar’s works have good technology and high-quality pictures, but they are somewhat helpless in terms of narrative.
Of course, the flaws are not concealed. Sansan thinks that this "Moonlight Boy" deeply dissects the emotions and hearts of the characters, and also expresses the director's emotions very well, revealing certain social problems. Compared with most non-ill groaning movies It is definitely a good film.
Finally, let's think about a question. What is the reason why the story of "Moonlight Boy" is so thin? It's because "Moonlight Boy" wants to express black rights and LGBT rights too much and forgets that basic human nature is inherently complicated.
Juan should have flesh and blood. He should be a villain. He may reflect on it, but the director is unwilling to face the complex human nature of blacks and LGBT. We want to protect the rights of minorities, but this does not mean that there are no problems for minorities. If we are blindfolded, the stories we tell may not be so convincing, and are only suitable for broadcast on the stage of "Moving America".
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