But here comes the point. I watched this movie again last month. As my understanding of American culture and American music deepened, I discovered something wrapped in an inspirational and historical shell. (The following are all personal opinions, don't like it.) The
director is the standard American Fifty-Four Party, a firm supporter of the main theme of the American dream, as can be seen from the following points. 1. Maliciously vilify many early rock singers, describing Elvis as a thief, bob dylan as whore, and lennon as an unrealistic utopian. . . . I don't know what he thinks. 2. He held a mocking attitude towards the hip movement, rock spirit and love and peace movement of the 1960s. For example, when A-Gump was speaking, no one heard it, and the people below applauded, wanting to say that these socially critical movements are blindly following the trend. By the way, I don't understand why he still adds a lot of classic rock music to the movie, which feels quite contradictory. 3. The description of the president and the Vietnam War is quite official. After a brief introduction, a good president recognized by the government will have a good evaluation, and a bad one will be blacked out. It feels that this dark line has no other meaning besides reminding time. I have written a lot without knowing it. It’s not a problem to say that I want to satirize through the movie, but this malicious demonization of rock and hippies is as low-level as the behavior of Halehei is as low as the fans to tear and scold but start to post p pictures.
So it’s really a magical movie. The more I write, the more I feel that the movie is not worth it. I give 9 points to the actors, 6 points to the script, and 1 point to the director. As for the 95 Oscars, Forrest Gump is after all the main theme of American movies, and it is normal to have won Shawshank. I personally prefer Shawshank.
The above is what I wrote before. Today I watched the legendary epoch-making work "The Birth of a Nation". Its greatness is ready to come out, but I was very uncomfortable watching it, and I have a new perspective on the movie.
As the carrier of culture, film art has its spiritual existence just like music. Just like the constantly changing spirit of rock and punk. I have always believed that characters and plots are movies, at least the core of narrative movies, and they occupy the most important position. There are other skills such as editing sound effects and composition as auxiliary.
So my previous evaluations of movies are based on the above criteria. However, "One..." made me change this view. There is a soul above the things in the movie, maybe it is the director's concept or the screenwriter's cognition.
There is no absolute right or wrong concept, but there is a difference whether it is consistent or not. Racial egalitarians like me can't naturally like "One...", even if its story is more interesting and its approach is innovative.
It is also impossible for me to like Forrest Gump now, because the main theme of the United States it represents conflicts with my concept too much.
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