I first watched this film under the strong recommendation of Old Wei. After being exposed to many American blockbusters, I have rarely been accustomed to accepting the beginning of such a lyrical film. I browsed it hastily and placed it. I can start watching it with the desktop, but I really can’t find a movie to watch.
This is the first movie I have written to evaluate. I admit that when I first watched it, I watched it in a more witty attitude, but as the film progressed, I was brought into the scene of the film by this very slow and repressive tone. This kind of simplicity that has been lost for a long time, just like Old Wei said, there is no commercial element of Hollywood blockbusters.
The story takes place in Sarawak, Malaysia in 1936. "In 1936, the territory of the British Empire spread all over the world. Young people completed their education by going to distant colonies to serve. However, they tried to change the country they govern, but more Was changed by those countries.” This is the beginning of the film. I rarely pay attention to the opening of the film. I watched too many blockbusters. I always think that the opening is nothing more than some tempting gimmick, but I was wrong. Called the theme of the film, it is a meaning brought in the film's invisibility. As Yuan Tengfei’s video said a few days ago, “The soul of a country lies in its culture, and China is like this. Whoever conquers us will become us.” People in the so-called civilized world always advertise their advanced civilization. , Civilization or not, put aside for the time being, because the forced invasion of culture itself is a kind of barbarism, because it is forcible, and did not solicit the will of the people in the "barbaric" areas, just like Cecil took pictures of Cyrima in the movie, Cyril Ma’s resistance and dissatisfaction is like a kind of contempt for the conquerors of civilization. You have no reason to bring anything to them forcibly, because people are free.
The protagonist Tosca took his father’s last wish to teach the local indigenous Iban people and came to Sarawak. Henry, who received him, told him some practices of the Iban people. Tosca was invited to participate in their banquet, three consecutive bowls. The rice wine made him fascinated, the heroine Selima appeared, and the ancient dance made Tosca start to burn. When he was pushed out to perform, the embarrassment made the entire Iban people begin to silence. The sand was soaked with red, the wreckage of the broken red class, the machine gun was blocked, the captain died, everyone was fascinated by the yellow sand and smoke, the river of death was full of the embankment, England is so far away, honor It’s so close. Suddenly, a child’s voice came, playing music, playing music, and jumping!" The Yiban, a tribe who admires alcoholism and all the actual jokes that make people laugh, laughed in Tosca’s botched dance. .
After being drunk, Tosca saw the most primitive form, the punishment brought by the violation, the barbarity of death, but he was drunk. The "Dictionary Lover" shocked him the next day. After receiving a rigorous education under the civilized system, Tosca could not understand this system and faced a lively woman. When he was nakedly teasing, he became uneasy, something that was contrary to his spirit always appeared, and contradictions followed. "Specifically, they choose you, not you choose them." Henry's words gave me a lot of doubt. The tribe in the most primitive state has the right of women to choose. Tosca faced the books that he had been gnawed away by ants, the seductive voice of Selima, the irritability and inner contradiction, on the one side was his own "spirit" shackles, and on the other was the enjoyment of peace without responsibility. Peace of mind is unacceptable. The next day Selima directly hit Tosca's heart, "You want to sleep with me, but your spirit doesn't allow you to do this." A man's desire is a contradiction. The various moral condemnations before the desire prevent him from venting. The strong desire can make him abandon all responsibilities and go crazy. After the desire, he thinks about the responsibility. Perhaps it is precisely because of this moral concept that Tosca cannot free himself from his guilt.
Ears and temples are the easiest to feel. As Henry said, no one learns faster than the language on the bed. Facts have also proved this. In the next few days, the "dictionary" brought Tosca not only language, but The feeling of the flesh has completely made him abandon everything. The so-called "first love", Selima brought him the real experience of being a man.
Schopenhauer said: "Love is a traitor to the liberation of life. Why should a man in love be so confused by the fall of his beloved woman that he is willing to give up himself completely without hesitating to make any sacrifices for her? This is because of something in her. Everywhere has an indelible charm, so that everything else is of no importance. People have a lively and passionate desire for a particular woman-no, almost crazy desire, which proves that the core of our existence is difficult to break. And this is also the direct guarantee that this essential core will survive in the race.” Tosca’s madness seems to have already cited this point. The women of the primitive aboriginals let him understand that they are first naked under civilization. People with desires, so this kind of natural experience brought about by desires is not worthy of shame and guilt.
The three men
Tosca, Henry, and Belle Sai should be called the three main men in the film. As a former old man, Henry can only make choices in the face of the system’s helplessness, and give him the most practical and smallest person in his heart. Injury, he appeared as a defender, but surpassed the defender's authority, because he himself was a violator. Toss has not yet been involved in the world. He connects desire and responsibility. Good intentions are not a good thing, and stubbornness has caused the most direct and practical harm to everyone. Belle Sai felt that people could only feel helpless, what he did was just what a man should do.
As for Hippolyte, who appeared in a morbid form from the beginning to the end, was eventually killed by the most primitive Yakatas. The most primitive way and the simplest people's minds can solve the most practical problems. Chef Samos is like a matchmaker that should exist in all love stories. He has been facilitating the good deeds of his own master. "Drinking twice a month regularly" is his wages.
Three women
Henry's wife, Angel Brad, would rather send her youngest daughter back to the UK for her husband. The unselective life created the psychology of the youngest daughter Saihir, "I was chosen by someone, not by me." She Not allowing her husband to leave her sight even for a moment, this woman is sad, a smart woman never needs surveillance or means to conquer a man, charm is enough. Selima, the daughter of this dictionary lover, repeated the mistakes of her mother and became a tragic lover of another generation. The combination of civilization and primitive blood gave her the idea of pursuing freedom. In the first half of the film, she always said The identity of the active person is conquering Tosca, and the conquest is successful, but the ending is very tragic. There are often dramatic reincarnations in reality, and people are always struggling helplessly in the vortex of reality and making painful choices.
Until modern times, there are always countless people criticizing men's randomness, but the film tells us bluntly that men can never let go of the first woman they love. This is the drama of the protagonist Tosca. Most of the first love is always difficult to succeed, some people choose to give up, and slowly recall in later life, some people are persistent, and eventually end up with many scars. This is probably the sentimentality of first love. It seems that the first love of the hero and heroine is not as pure as we think in reality, because it is mixed with sensuality. But it is purer than us. In the most primitive environment, people's desires are completely unfolded, and the most primitive impulse in the soul should be the most real and purest. The arrival of a child in the
end of
love often means the beginning of responsibility. Tosca, who sees his child, is instantly moved by another emotional impulse. The most direct blood impulse created his most ardent return and guilt. As another dramatic woman, his wife Sehir in the legal sense resolved her embarrassment with the most brilliant actions.
Everyone will find their own destination in life. Good or bad, get one or the other, but you will find it. It's not you, it's not me, it's just a passerby. Only the most steadfast struggle can obtain the truest fruits.
I turned the page and looked at it. The writing is terrible, but I highly recommend this film, not bad.
2010-5-15
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