Most of the films about Vietnam I watched in the past were directed by foreign directors. For example, American films about the Vietnam War, all metal shells, field platoons, Apocalypse Now, Vietnam War loyal souls; Hong Kong directors filmed the true nature of heroes, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Anita Mui's interpretations are classic; ". Impressions of Vietnam include the streets of Saigon, boatmen on the Mekong River, villagers with hats, flower girls hiding bombs, and hot and dilapidated hotels with half-closed doors and windows. These are independent images.
A few days ago, I watched a BBC documentary about Genghis Khan. The Mongolian army entered northern China. In the shot, a group of farmers wearing bamboo hats were planting rice in the paddy fields. The residents of Beijing city actually wore pigtails from the Qing Dynasty. As a professional news media, the BBC should still be serious in its creative attitude, and there are such obvious mistakes. No wonder many Westerners have the impression of China as braids, rickshaws, Shaolin monks, or Red Guards with red armbands and red armbands. What is seeing is believing? The image misleads the audience in this way.
From this point of view, the impression of Vietnam obtained through the film of foreign directors is hardly true. Fortunately, there is this "Three Seasons" (the three seasons of love or the season of forgetfulness, I personally think the former is more artistic), the work of a young Vietnamese director in 1999, showing a more authentic contemporary Vietnam.
The English name of the film is "Three Seasons", which literally translates to "Three Seasons", and consists of three relatively independent stories in structure. The relationship between a kind rickshaw driver and a girl who sells spring; the communication between a girl who picks a lotus and a teacher Du who suffers from leprosy through poetry; the experience of a child who buys groceries lost the cargo box and finds it, interspersed with the search of the American Vietnam War veteran. daughter's story.
These seemingly simple stories contain a lot of the director's reflections on Vietnam's history, current situation, culture, the mental state of the Vietnamese people, and the reforms in Vietnam. Through the eyes of the rickshaw driver, the audience can see the polarization between the rich and the poor after the economic development. The rich live in the magnificent hotels, singing and drinking every night, "you can turn on the air conditioner all night." On the other hand, people living by the railway and in the slums live a poor life, sweating like rain in order to survive in the hot season. This is somewhat similar to our country.
I think the symbolism of several characters in the film is very obvious, depicting the current situation of Vietnam from different sides. Selling spring girls can be seen as a gold-worshiping Vietnam. Fear of poverty and at the expense of self-esteem in exchange for money, the dollar in hand can not offset the pain in my heart. Just like Vietnam in the reformation, driven by material interests, blindly worshipping the West, and abandoning traditions, this can only bring about short-term superficial prosperity, not lasting, and will also bring about deep-seated problems such as polarization between the rich and the poor and lack of belief. Social issues, this road is a dead end.
Suffering from leprosy and dying, Mr. Du can be regarded as a traditional Vietnamese. Under the impact of the modern material world, he completely lost his self-confidence. He hid in the temple in the lake and did not dare to see people. He was reluctant to show the beautiful poems he once wrote. It was only with the encouragement and help of the young lotus girl that she started to create again. After his death, he left the manuscript to Caihe Nu. "The world will eventually realize its value." Cai Henu's words show that people will one day recognize the value of tradition again.
The little boy who lost the box and found it is Vietnam in exploration. Losing the box means losing everything, looking for it in the rain, hoping for help from the West but being ruthlessly rejected. In the end, I found the box myself and walked towards a new life.
From the above analysis, we can see that the director believes that the current development path of Vietnam is still under exploration, traditions are abandoned, and there is a tendency to flatter the West. This is not the right path. We should pay full attention to the value of traditional culture and rebuild national self-confidence and self-esteem. Just like at the end of the film, the former spring saleswoman washes away the lead, wears no makeup, wears a white dress, and dances pure and happy under the red leaves.
Because he did not understand Vietnamese, the rickshaw driver held a book in his hand that he did not know the name of, and finally he gave the book to the girl. This book appears many times in the film, and it should have a lot to do with the theme. I hope someone who knows it will inform you :)
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