Many years ago, I learned about this film from the recommended dish magazine, but I always mistook it for the story of Outer Mongolia. When I saw it in the archives today, it was actually the story of Inner Mongolia, China. I was shocked!
Mikhalkov keenly captures the nomadic landscape that the Mongolians are the last guardian in the face of the rapid development of globalization, urban industrialization, and modernization.
After watching it, it reminded me of the first time I saw Hang Gai Band perform. The band's lead singer Hu Richa said the only time in Chinese to the audience in the whole process: " We can no longer be nomadic! " Chen, and the meaning of it, must be able to explain a thing or two in this "Mongolian Spirit" more than 20 years ago.
In the film, Peking Opera is often used as a metaphor for the impact of the Han culture on the Mongolian people. This impact is particularly strong during the entry into the city. Moreover, the Mongolian couple in the film is not only facing the Han culture. The problem of contraception is actually the problem of becoming a "modern person". , the great ancient nation faced the stimulation, temptation and impact of modern civilization, just like that TV set, there are only two channels of the US President and Chinese Peking Opera, and no channel of their own nation. Faced with these, the Mongolian people cannot stop Yes, just like Gangba's choice, fertility may be the last resistance to the process of modern civilization. But on the other hand, Gangba is watching us through the TV, why are we not watching them through the TV?
In addition, Stallone is used as a metaphor for the United States in the film, but whether it is a reference to American hegemony or globalization, or both, is not clear, and can only be doubted first.
I'm very confused, why a Russian director came to Inner Mongolia to shoot such a film. Of course, the film has a taste of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Is the song sung by the Russian driver in the dance hall from the Soviet period or the earlier Tsarist Russia period? , I don't know enough about this, I can't confirm it, and I continue to doubt it, but I guess that maybe the Mongolian culture was impacted by the Han culture or socialist consciousness and the Soviet Union's trauma to the Russian culture is similar. Take this film.
The images of cities and towns in northern China in the early 1990s seem to be really precious now. They are almost the same as the two worlds now. Friends from Inner Mongolia have seen them and lamented that they are "full of memories". I feel that something has passed away...
Today, "Mongolian Spirit" has indeed verified the failure and compromise of the nomadic people in the face of the modernization process, and with the demise of the ancient nomadic civilization, they are all sighed by Mi's extremely keen and advanced cultural vision and broad pattern!
2016.11.15 Record
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