young, my mother always told us: I picked you up from the gutter. At that time I thought, if I really picked it up in the gutter, who would abandon me? If I am not abandoned, what will my life be like now? There is a girl in our village named Lu'er, who was picked up by his father from the side of the road. When Lu'er was five or six years old, her biological parents came and wanted to take her away, but Lu'er refused to follow them. Luer said: Back then, why didn't you want me?
Lu'er’s biological parents’ family is very wealthy, and her adoptive parents’ family is also pretty good. If her adoptive parents’ family is very poor, how would she choose?
Two or three months ago, my girlfriend told me an old news. It is said that a nurse in the obstetrics and gynecology department had a whim and exchanged beds for 11 children in the nursery. Twenty years later, she, the God of these 11 children, told the story. What is the fate of those 11 children now is not said in the old news. If they knew their biological parents, would they want to return to them? I believe that most people would rather not know the fact that they have been replaced.
This is a good prototype of the story. Eleven lives have come to the world without being able to choose, and they have been turned in another direction by a hand of destiny. I told my teacher that this is a very good subject, in which there are infinite possibilities, and wonderful stories can be designed. The teacher said, yes, it's like "Blood Doubt". What about the story of "Blood Suspicion", I have long forgotten, I only remember that Japanese people like to shoot terminal illnesses. Reflect.) But I remember the "Orphan of Zhao Family" that the ancient literature teacher said with a grin in his undergraduate course, but "Orphan of Zhao Family" does not care about the fate of the person being replaced.
"Little Hero Toto" is a movie that cares about the fate of people. In the nursery room of the hospital, a big fire broke out. Mothers ran into the nursery room and took their children away. In the end, only Toto and Alfred remained. A woman rushed in, first picked up Toto, looked around and put it down, then picked up Alfred, and ran out. Another woman rushed in. She looked at Alfred's empty bed anxiously, and finally had to pick up Toto and ran out. Toto and Alfred exchanged identities in this way. But this is not the beginning of the film. The beginning of the film is a gunshot, a bullet smashes the glass window, and an old man is hit. The old man died by the pool. The voice-over of the elderly Toto accompanied this scene. The voice-over brings the subjective feelings of the whole film, and the whole film is the memories and fantasies of the elderly Toto. What is a memory, what is a fantasy, this is uncertain. It is not clear whether Toto and Alfred exchanged memories or fantasy. In fact, swap is a simulation of birth.
From Toto’s point of view, his life was full of misfortune, his family was not rich, and he was always bullied. Father died, sister died, mother died, and a younger brother was a fool; and his neighbor Alfred has lived a pampered life since he was a child. His father drove a supermarket and inherited a large inheritance. When Toto finally finds his love, he realizes that the person he loves is Alfred's wife. In this world, where all happiness lies in others, Toto has only misfortune. This is the opinion of most people in the world, and it is also my opinion to some extent.
Jia Zhangke said that I feel more and more that the quality of a movie is not whether it tells the truth or not, but how deep the feeling it has. This can easily be misunderstood as a sensational movie is a good movie. If the story itself is touching enough, love does not need to be incited. The history of the story is as long as the history of mankind. It has already been told by all kinds of art. What can move people is not the whole story, but the details of the story. "Little Hero Toto" is full of such details. Childhood Toto’s mentality of looking forward to his father’s home, imagining the love of his parents, imagining the birth of himself and his sister, is really full of innocence. I don't know how the screenwriter imagined these details, it may come from memories, or it may come from godsend.
Repeated rhetoric techniques are used a lot in this film, and they effectively express Toto's love for his father and sister. A scene is always tender the first time it appears, but it makes people sad the second time it appears. This is the movie "I don't know where the human face is going, and the peach blossoms still laugh at the spring breeze."
In many aspects of life, Toto feels that his happiness has been taken away by Alfred, which belongs to Alfred's happiness. Belongs to Toto. But what prompted him to plan to shoot Alfred was not the misfortune he had suffered, but the happiness he had enjoyed. When Elder Toto went to kill Alfred, Alfred said: "Do you think I am happy? You don't know how much I envy you and do whatever I want." Alfred has a normal marriage, but talk Not emotional; he also has a lot of money, but there are always assassins who want to kill him. In Alfred's view, happiness lies with Toto. In this way, the film not only has deep feelings, but also tells an existential truth: living elsewhere, living with others.
The ending of the movie was unexpected. Now that Toto knows that Alfred may not be happier than himself, the normal ending method should be "Not See or Break" style. Following the plot, the last scene is Toto's coffin being lowered into the grave. But the director did not do so. Toto put on Alfred's clothes, lived in Alfred's house, and received a shot for him: birth is not a choice, death is always possible.
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