The film revolves around the protagonist, Bryan, who was born as an agent, rescues his kidnapped daughter in Paris, creating a lonely heroic image of a "sensational dad" to the audience. Based on the identities of the old capitalist countries of Britain, France and the United States, the pervasive cultural atmosphere in the film makes audiences in the Eastern world feel a strong personal heroism. Among them, Bryan is a retired old agent. Out of love for his daughter, he committed danger alone and went deep into the tiger's den. Finally, he successfully rescued his daughter and completed a Chinese-style happy ending. Of course, there is no lack of thrilling scenes, but at every critical moment, this "invincible dad" can always turn the danger into a breeze.
This exciting and admirable heroic image reflects, to a certain extent, the legal essence of a capitalist country—protecting individuals’ legal private property from infringement. This kind of economic roots has long been deeply rooted in the values of Westerners and manifested in various forms. And personal private property sometimes does not simply refer to tangible material, but more intangible property, which can arouse people's desire to control, such as women, such as family affection. "Iliad", a huge production that reflects ancient Greek wars, described the origin of wars as a woman, but the fuse of a woman as the fuse of the war is only the appearance, and it is more due to the influence of the concept of private property. Materialize women as personal property.
In Freud's psychoanalysis, everyone has an Oedipus complex, and most people do not feel their own complex, but his consciousness carefully avoids cognition of such feelings. The protection of potential personal private property is also hidden in a kind of subconsciousness. So from this perspective, excluding the father-daughter relationship within ethics, the kidnapped daughter Kim is Bryan’s private property, so once his private property is violated, the property owner will do his best. Recover and protect. So under this subconscious control, Bryan can even disregard the social order and the law to save his daughter, as he said, "I can even overturn the Eiffel Tower if necessary." This is precisely a kind of conflict and irreconciliation between individual and collective contradictions. Under the domination of this kind of economic roots, all heroic confrontations have been stained with a strong color of individualism.
In contrast to Bryan, he was once an agent. His French colleague, as he said, was involved in illegal activities because "the salary is x, but the expenditure is y, in order to support the family... "This conflict between personal interests and collective interests has been further magnified in the imperfect capitalist system and has become an irreconcilable conflict of interests. What's interesting is that in "Schindler's List", Neeson portrays an image of a benevolent hero who dedicated himself to the collective and the country. In this film, he returns to the lonely hero who is dedicated to the individual and the family, regardless of the collective. , Incarnate as a loving father in reality.
The value concept that runs counter to Western countries is the concept of collective interest emphasized by socialist countries. Personal interest is only legal if it is subordinate to collective interest. Therefore, in Chinese-style movies, heroism Characters are either buried in the city, or they are incorporated by mainstream authorities as soon as they become famous. But in Hollywood movies, this kind of individualistic heroic shaping has lasted for a long time, from "Once Upon a Time in the West" to "Saving Private Ryan" to "Superman" and "Spiderman" that are popular all over the world. The one-man show of the ideological hero has been sung all the way, loading the national culture of the Western world into the movie and spreading it to the world. As a rising Chinese film, how to find a place in this commercial film market, so as not to let this wave of individualism rush the Chinese market into chaos, is the question that really awakens Chinese audiences.
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