I still bought "The Blind Side" (I don’t know much about rugby, but I still don’t understand why the title is translated as a weak point, not a weak side), and dragged on, and finally my sister returned to the United States this summer. Only when it was about to end did I have a chance to watch the film.
I have always said that American movies or so-called American blockbusters are actually an industrialized process, so the products produced are also industrialized products, but the processing process is very delicate, from photography to music to storytelling methods, generally speaking, the quality is very high. There is a guarantee, but most of this kind of commercial things are tailored to the tastes of the audience, and it is even more difficult to find some surprises from them.
Back to the movie, I will briefly introduce the plot. Unfortunately, this is another American cliche. Oher, a tall black boy (or a young man), wandered on the streets since he was a child. His mother took drugs and gave birth to twelve children. His father was very vague. However, this child whose academic performance is almost 0 points has amazing athletic talent. A certain private middle school recruited this homeless child out of Christianity or sports spirit, but he could only spend the night in the gym to keep warm.
The perfect white family (rich, leisure, huge and beautiful house, one son and one daughter) discovered this boy and brought him home. From then on Oher's life changed. He got rid of the slum life, and with the help of his new family, especially the white mother (Sandra Bullock), he progressed academically, gave full play to his sports expertise, received a scholarship, entered university, and finally entered American Football Professional League.
The story is adapted from real events, probably due to the lack of my sister’s Christ story, so even at the stage when I was so depressed, I did not cry like rain. But honestly speaking, the film is quite touching, and the American sensationalism comes from the place where it can move people's hearts. Unlike Chinese sensationalism, Americans pay more attention to details. For example, Sandra Bullock wants to guard Oher legally. Legally speaking, she only needs the approval of the judge, but she still insists on finding his biological mother. The two mothers were sitting in the black mother’s dilapidated house. Ms. Sang’s elegant attire seemed out of place. The black mother said, I agree with my son, but you have to know that my son is a "Runner", no matter what Wherever he was, he would run back to me (after he was forcibly taken away from his mother at the age of 7, Oher changed 11 adoptive families, every time he ran back to find his mother). If it were our director, the next one would definitely be the black and white second mother crying. Mother Bai swears that this child belongs to the two of us. Let us raise him together! But in the movie, Ms. Sang just walked silently across the messy living room, sat silently next to the crying black mother, and gently held her hand.
This kind of typical sensational passage is very common in American movies, but it can make people's heart move every time. I also watched a movie "Step Mother" starring Big Mouth Julia Roberts, which I once liked. It was about Step Mother, who must live with the two children of her husband’s ex-wife as a stepmother. Because the ex-wife had cancer, later the ex-wife was also taken over to take care of such a cliché story. In this family and love film, there is such a fragment. The stepmother Big Mouth Ju and her weak mother (Susan Sarandon) sat together and chatting. Big Mouth Ju said, the thing I fear most is that my daughter will get married in the future, and I will dress her beautifully. She is wearing a wedding dress and standing in front of the mirror. She is the most beautiful bride in the world. At this time, she turned around and said to me, if my biological mother could see this day, how wonderful it would be! Mother Su slowly said that the thing I was most afraid of was that she didn't think so at that time. No one shed tears in the movie, and a hard-hearted audience like me would cry.
The sense of proportion is a difficult thing to grasp. Our sensational masterpieces are often out of proportion and restraint. The actor’s tears are so many that it makes a certain stranger, but the audience’s mind is drifting around, even unable to enter. play. Although Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar for this film, her performance can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, not as explosive as Xu Fan. I also don't know where the problem is, why the products coming out of the assembly line are more moving, perhaps because of a different perspective. For example, the film didn't write much about Oher's hard work, but he has been writing from the bottom of his class, he is very educated. After the sports game ended, he quietly picked up the trash. During the Thanksgiving meal, he did not go to watch the sports broadcast, but sat at the table by himself. Life was so unfair to him. He was not angry, but was always so quiet. polite. After reading it, you think, how could this be? ! But not suspicious. And it is more and more sad.
I checked it online and found that the film was adapted from the works of Michael Lewis. OMG, it is my favorite financial writer, the author of "The Liar's Playing Cards", no wonder it is full of my favorite little humor and little irony. Lao Liu, originally not only writing about financial crises, but also non-fictional works of this genre of sports (later checked Wikipedia, Lao Liu actually wrote many aspects of works, Wikipedia defined him as a contemporary American non-fiction writer and financial reporter .Michael Lewis (born 1960) is an American contemporary non-fiction author and financial journalist.). Give Lao Liu extra points. It seems that in the future, he cannot be regarded as just a financial writer. If he can write such works, he is indeed a writer.
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