This film is said to have been affirmed at the Ghana Film Festival. The story is simple. An orphan is naturally optimistic and willing to help others. After Zhang Da came out of the orphanage, he lived in a slum. In the struggle with real estate developers, he inadvertently got help from his mother from heaven. , With this white dove from heaven, he can do everything he wants. However, those poor people always seem to have unsatisfied desires, and TOTO is simply exhausted. Later, the pigeon was lost and the real estate developer was victorious. They were dragged to the city square. At this time, the pigeon returned to him with the help of TOTO's lover, and he took everyone to the sky on a broomstick.
If it is not a black and white film, from the rhythm of the film, the scheduling of the scenes, and the performance of the actors, Ken Ben cannot tell that it is a film more than 50 years ago. And the reason why I couldn't bear to sleep when watching the movie translated into Chinese in 1954 was because of the subtle dubbing. Dialogue translation is vivid, and the jingle of those poor people is just like the Chinese themselves said, without the literary accent of the Cultural Revolution and later translated films.
I am accustomed to class analysis (sometimes it is simply the sensitiveness of the poor at heart). Looking at TOTO so optimistically, I thought that apart from the poor's own hardship and pleasure, do capitalists also want the poor to think the same way? After TOTO got the pigeons, the various desires of the poor for satisfaction also convinced us that even if the poor are not born lowly, their shortcomings are not less than the rich because of poverty. When the capitalist paralyzed the poor, he said that we are the same. We all have five fingers. He is right. In some weaknesses, such as desire, the poor and the rich are the same.
Movies are sometimes a kind of entertainment, sometimes they are not, and the content related to the poor is more difficult to turn into entertainment. As a film reflecting the lives of the poor, it also directly involves the struggle between capitalists and the poor. Does the director have a clear theme? The director is not stingy in expressing the ignorance and greed of the poor and does not put any cover up, so in the end, even if he has the intention to let them live a good life, he is somewhat unconfident, so he can only hope for a gift from heaven, but overall Said he was kind and sympathetic. So, what about capitalists? The complicated and romantic thoughts of the poor do not affect the director's sober understanding of reality. The capitalist who finally won in the film did not pay any price. Therefore, the director did not have the consciousness of criticizing the capitalist. Watching the poor people go to heaven, I feel that the director is whimsical and disappointed at the same time, so the attitude of riding on the fence is too weak.
In Italy in 1951, probably still very nervous about the class struggle, it is very unrealistic to ask them to make a film with a clear attitude. If you don't think about revolution, the poor people have limited ways in this world. Apart from revolution, it is not easy to help them or even reform them. In "Milan's Miracle", we see the cruel reality, because the poor are eventually dragged to the city square, and their homes are leveled by bulldozers. Probably the director himself is helpless. In this world, the poor are always at the mercy of the rich, and sympathy is so cheap. Sometimes, apart from God, it is almost impossible to know who can help the poor.
Does God love the poor? He hasn't appeared before, so there is no way to prove it. But many so-called revolutionaries are playing the role of God who loves the poor, and they are treated by God as a result. In the beginning, the poor worshiped sincerely, but later I found that it was impossible not to worship, because this is the case in religion. It is either my people or my enemy. And those who become God through the poor, once they become God, are more cruel than the rich, so the poor have to sigh, how can God love the poor?
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