Perhaps Modison tried to impose on the audience his own concerns about the gap between globalization and world polarization. The choice of story and name in the movie "Mammoth" is somewhat similar to the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2006 movie "The Tower of Babel". The taste is on par. Mammoth is a huge prehistoric creature, but in the end it cannot prevent the fate of extinction; where is the social development of modern mankind at the cost of loss of basic emotions? The film focuses on two separate worlds from the United States, Thailand, and the Philippines: the luxurious material life of New Yorkers and the empty and lonely mental state; Thai prostitutes are forced to prostitution for the sake of their children; and Filipino mothers are forced to prostitution for their children. The child is forced to stay away from the child for a materially plentiful future... As a left-wing socialist, Lucas, "Mammoth" is more like a weapon for his political stance, undoubtedly has a strong power to criticize reality.
In "Mammoth", Ellen met a boy Anthony who was stabbed by her mother at work. She couldn't understand how a mother treated her child like this, but when she faced her gradually losing daughter Jackie, she never realized that she was there. Suffered from the same mistake. Although Anthony has not many roles in the movie, his death is a symbolic symbol of the tragedy of all the children's characters in the movie. Jackie is accustomed to gradually estranged parents, and loves Gloria, the nanny who is with him day and night; Salvador, in order to let his mother go home as soon as possible, eventually becomes the victim of pedophilia; and the children of Thai prostitutes have already experienced the hardships of life in their infancy. Leo’s journey in Thailand is more like the Thai version of Sofia Coppola’s "Lost in Tokyo", but the loss of this computer genius who has not fallen into a mid-life crisis is not convincing at all, and I am watching the movie. Zhong even feels disgusted with the close-ups of the characters’ faces that are too long, although the photographer Marcel Zyskind from Denmark still contributed to the film a beautiful, lonely and perceptive atmosphere that fits the scene, especially those who are lonely. The picture is unforgettable.
"Mammoth" was once shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Berlin Film Festival. Immediately after its premiere, film critics and film lovers were divided into two diametrically opposed camps. Many people are dismissive of Modison’s "Epic" of "The Tower of Babel", while supporters think it is an "epic" work. To this end, Modison once argued that he was interested in the "message in a bottle" method of communication when shooting this film: people often have weak hopes that it can drift to a beach and something will happen from it. Something did happen in "Mammoth". The pen in the movie, which was made from the fossil of a mammoth, worth 3,500 dollars, was finally sold for 15 dollars. Personally, this is also an "epic" movie by Modison. The feeling the work makes me
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