Such a magnificent movie is not from Hollywood, nor from the mainland, but from that magical island. This cannot but be said to be a miracle. Fans who have watched Jinling 13 hairpins and Sediqbale should be able to silently calculate 600 million yuan or 700 million Taiwan dollars, which is more valuable.
However, I still have some doubts about Sediqbale. Although this is an anti-Japanese movie, it is not so much that the Sediq people resisted the foreign aggression of the Japanese, it is better to say that they resisted the invasion of the Sediq tribal culture by modern civilization. In the film, the Japanese are accompanied by giant steamships, rifles, trains, telephones, schools, post offices, and grocery stores. Before the Japanese invasion, the Sediqs were accompanied by bamboo baskets, flintlocks, bare feet, huts, machetes, and headhunters. This is the confrontation of civilization against barbarism, and the city against wilderness. In the words of Mona Ludo: "If your civilization is humbling, I want you to see barbaric pride." The Sediq’s anti-Japanese war looks more like dancing with wolves and the last warrior. Cultural conflicts, not naked racial confrontations on the mainland. And the "threat of civilization" represented by the Japanese can be applied to any ruler who came to the small island of Taiwan—the Japanese, or the Kuomintang’s relocation to Taiwan, or the upcoming mainland visitors. Focusing on the conflict and integration of different cultures has always been a masterpiece of Hollywood. And rooting this concept in the War of Resistance Against Japan, which is a national salvation plan, obscured the nature of Japanese militarist aggression consciously and unconsciously.
In addition, in this film, who can represent the real Taiwanese? Are they the Han Chinese who end up fighting in the face of aggression and doing nothing? Is it the naturalized Shengfan who has received the baptism of Japanese civilization and became contradictory? Was it a Japanese who came from afar and claimed to be a master? No, the film reminds us time and time again that the true masters of Taiwan are those proud and free students-Saidi Kebari. But is this in line with history? Is it possible that the now marginalized Taiwanese Sediq were the real masters of this small island back then? The island of Taiwan has been wandering on the other side of the mainland. For thousands of years, it has been immigrating, settled, re-immigrated, and re-settled. Who dares to say that he is a real Taiwanese? Even the Seediq people emigrated thousands of years ago. Local people, Gaoshan people, and people from other provinces, such ethnic groups coexist in Taiwan. Who is the real Taiwanese and where to find their roots, I am afraid that Wei Desheng is not the only one who is confused.
Let me talk about the problems of the film itself:
1 The clues of the film are so many and complicated, and many dispensable clues can be completely cut off. At least the next episode of Rainbow Bridge does not need to be so lengthy. The scene of suicide appears again and again, and it is weakened. Dramatic conflicts can be combined into one drama.
2 Although it was a Taiwanese movie, it failed to escape the fate of YY. In the movie, the Japanese soldiers and Japanese policemen were killed in piles. Are the Seediqs too capable of fighting, or the invaders too bear packs? This is a huge gap with only 22 Japanese soldiers killed in battle in history. Kamada Yahiko sighed: "Three hundred soldiers resisted thousands of troops and committed suicide without dying in battle... Why would I see our samurai spirit that has disappeared for a hundred years in this remote mountainous area of Taiwan? The cherry blossoms here are too blooming. Is it brilliant?" It's too bloody. In addition, the old Japanese actor broke away from the shackles of the Japanese director and was finally able to play with flowers, but he was a little too hysterical, lacking the calmness and restraint that a commander should have. Compared with the American movie "Saving Private Ryan", although the battlefield on the Western Front in World War II was far less fierce than the Eastern Front, and the quality of the German soldiers on the Western Front was not as good as the Eastern Front, the American troops in the film were not all like Rambo. As soon as you shot it, one fell down on the opposite side. Give your opponents the respect they deserve, not only for your opponents, but also for yourself. At this point, Sediqbale must not follow the mainland movies.
3 The ending of the film is too wordy. The whole film can be ended by Mona Ludao alone with a gun and walked into the woods of the gods. This is still more interesting, it is better than everything. In addition, in the end, the special effects scenes like Journey to the West appeared by the Warriors of SurTec, let's avoid it. It would be better to use the landscape lens and their chorus directly.
Finally, guess what will be missing in the edited version released in mainland China. First of all, there is a scene of internal fighting among the Seediq people. The Tunbal Club and its leader, Temu Wallis, will not appear in the film. Secondly, there will be no more scenes of killing women and children in the Wushe incident, as well as Sediq children taking up weapons to kill Japanese people. The scene where the two naturalized students committed suicide at the end may also be cut.
Although Sediqbale is not perfect, from the director Wei Desheng to the aboriginal actors, they have paid a lot of sincerity. They make movies for the sake of making movies. In this regard, they are much better than the so-called big-name directors on many continents.
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