Some time ago, American socialite Kardashian used a video to show her bathroom. We can imagine that the bathroom in the mansion must be large, but we can never imagine that the sink is flat ! This design, which is beyond most people's cognition, immediately climbed the hot search list.
There are honest people in the comment area who are still thinking about practicality - won't this shampoo splash water everywhere?
Oh my god, my silly boy, this kind of person with mines at home doesn't need to wash his hair by himself, and he doesn't need to clean up when the water splashes all over the place!
For a time, the topic "You can't imagine the happiness of the rich" once again sparked heated discussions, and netizens with perfect self-deprecating ability also contributed a wealth of material.
However, the scary thing is that the joke that we "can't afford to climb high" is people's daily life. For Kardashian, I just basked in the sink, and this is just the tip of the iceberg of the mansion that cost 130 million to renovate.
The cognitive gap and difference in value judgment brought about by the huge gap between the rich and the poor make people at both ends of the world have huge prejudices because they are completely unable to communicate. We can only see each other's lives as a joke.
But imagine if a person born at the bottom really completed the class leap from self-made to the upper class. How will he face this apparent upheaval, and how will he face the present and the past?
The movie I want to recommend today tells such a very realistic story, but in a relaxed way-"Welcome to the North 2" (hereinafter referred to as "North 2").
"Welcome to the North" is a super big IP of French comedy. 10 years ago, it broke the 42-year box office record of "Escape from a Tiger's Mouth", and it still holds the record of the number one box office in French. The film is written/directed/acted by French national comedian Danny Byrne.
In the previous work, he played a postman in a small northern town. In the sequel after a 10-year absence, the protagonist Du Enke he played was also born in a northern town, but he stayed in Paris by virtue of his examination, and became famous by virtue of his excellent design talent, and entered the career field. golden period.
Because of the comedy nature of this film, Chunxiao only recommends and interprets it from the background of the story, and does not involve spoilers for comedy plots and characters' laughs. Please read with confidence. For those who are serious fans of cleanliness, please directly pull down to buy tickets and enjoy pure viewing.
Dunke's life path seems to be what every young man in the small town is looking forward to, making achievements in the field of his dreams, marrying Bai Fumei/Gao Fushuai, and embarking on the pinnacle of life. But those who climbed to the top seem to be reluctant to look back at the days at the foot of the mountain.
Dunker is like that.
His parents lived by buying scrap metal, and the warehouse was littered with junk cars. The roar of grabbing the car and the lingering smell of gasoline are his childhood memories. In such a small town, he has an extremely extravagant dream, he wants to be a designer.
Dunker's dream started with a box of colored pencils from his mother, and his dream continued because his father took out all his savings to send him to Paris to further his studies. And help him spell out a classic car that is enough for him to drive into the future.
But the car did not accompany him to the end, not because the classic car itself did not have a long lifespan, but because he voluntarily abandoned it.
Paris, the fashion capital of the world, has fierce competition in the design world. The one who can get ahead is not the favored son of heaven, but also a famous family. The background is the first stepping stone, followed by talent and ability. Of course, Dunke doesn't have a strong background. His hometown is the old-fashioned north, and his parents bought dirty and smelly waste products, so he chose to hide everything, and he chose to be an orphan.
His hometown and family were covered up by him with a huge black cloth. He was willing to pay all the price for success, and finally got his wish. But after becoming famous, this black cloth is even more difficult to uncover. There was no way he could clarify the truth, because that would mean telling everyone he was a liar and all his success and status would be in vain.
So he decided to embrace this lie, to make indifference into a kind of peace of mind, to face Paris and turn his back to the north.
We have seen too many stories, but it is hard to be more vivid than "North 2", which made a small town youth complete a complete transition from material to spiritual, and made him completely betray the past from the inside out.
Dunke, who has worked hard in Paris for more than ten years, has long forgotten his local accent. He has a pure Parisian accent, wears gold-rimmed glasses, eats top-quality dishes, and maintains the demeanor of a high-class person. And these are not superficial skills he has done, his changes are in the bones, a complete worship and recognition of the cultural habits of the upper class.
According to the traditional routine, a person like Dunke should arrange a two-heroes setting and find a character who is evenly matched but has a more perfect personality to hang him. Or debunk his lies and let him suffer a complete defeat from now on.
But "North 2" cleverly lets the characters slap themselves in the face , and this way is even a bit brutal.
The film uses an accident to bring Dunke back to the age of 17 and let the 17-year-old Dunke face the world he built with his own hands 25 years later. The "young" Dunke is full of puzzlement and confusion about this new world. He doesn't understand the way people speak, eat, or design and set prices.
In the film, his luxurious bathroom will also be shown. The 17-year-old Du Enke is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, breaking into the Grand View Garden he designed 25 years later. Confused by a series of designs beyond imagination. How confused he is at the moment proves how thoroughly the 42-year-old betrayed himself.
"North 2" inherits the essence of French comedy, connecting serious topics with a barrage of satire. And the characters in it are extremely brilliant, just like Dunke in this film, he is hateful and cute, and his family members are also distinctive, with obvious flaws and flashes.
We have seen too many stories of small people counterattacking, but most of them belong to the characteristics of Shuangwen. One is to use the advantage of getting rich to carry out a top-down dimensionality reduction attack. For example, after getting rich overnight, the beautiful car is surrounded by beautiful women, kicking rivals, and slaughtering opponents, such as "The Richest Man in Xihong City"; the other is poor. The boy worked hard to get into the upper-class platform, using his power to retaliate against the upper-class people, and repaying his own body with his own way. A typical example is the headmistress in "Starting Line".
But the ironic edge of "North 2" is not against others, but only against self and betrays oneself. That's the heart of its comedy, and it's the heart of reflection.
Perhaps the real meaning of "never forget one's roots" is to never let down the old self.
Would you dare to invite your 17-year-old self to visit your present world? Do you remember him/her? Do you still know him/her?
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