The carnival of the prosperous age is still an elegy

Hoyt 2022-03-21 09:01:21

Going home for the Dragon Boat Festival, my brother just came back from Hangzhou, a rare gathering after four months. But when I got home, I didn't know what to do. I turned on my brother's computer and found that there was nothing, not to mention movies, not even one of his favorite novels. Finally, my brother sat next to him and thought about it for a long time and said, "There is only one movie, "The Boys Here".
What a coincidence, I just saw it. Immediately remembered that I went to Central City to watch "Kung Fu Panda" the day before, and I read on Weibo about Kong Qingdong and several people's comments calling on parents not to take their children to watch "Kung Fu Panda" during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The so-called foreign blockbuster.
At that time, I was a little surprised to see that the initiator was Kong Qingdong. After all, I once watched many videos of him and his books because of his research on Jin Yong's martial arts. Although it has been many years, the memory remains Still pretty. But sometimes I can't help but feel that the IQ of adults is really regressive. I think that I am smart but I am mistaken by wisdom. The seemingly grand and righteous words are actually narrow-minded but deliberately raising the moral point. To put it bluntly, in my eyes, it is more like a speculator.
In less than an hour and a half, the laughter of the people around did not stop, and sometimes the voices of children came over, and everyone was very happy, including myself. In my eyes, a movie that can move me will think it is good, whether it is joyful or heavy, at least it tells a story well.
I asked my brother, "Why foreign countries can make good use of Chinese elements and culture, and make a slam all of a sudden, but China itself can't use its own things." I deliberately threw a more serious question in the past, originally I wanted to have an in-depth discussion with him, but as a result, he dismissed me as "impetuous". He choked back my long and succinct remarks in a concise manner. In his eyes, I like to speak more rationally, and I have many rules.
It seems to be the case, for example, this question just now was mentioned by me when I was helping Jingjing conduct the thesis interview. Under the bombardment of the media, the Chinese Film Festival is thriving, as if ushering in a carnival in a prosperous world. But in fact, everyone knows that this is just the public being represented by these few elite groups, and more directly, it is just a few people making money. The so-called prosperity of the film industry is only the obscenity of a few people and the cry of the media. This is also the reason why people feel tired and tired after watching too many so-called film festivals, and they have not changed any new tricks.
The topic of celebrities, the focus of the media, and the laying of large scenes and large investments have created a Chinese blockbuster debut, and finally the audience is unsure of what to watch. When Jingjing interviewed me, what is the most intuitive feeling about Chinese movies, the first thing that came to my mind was impetuousness and commercial speculation. Let's not talk about it, let's talk about the upcoming "Founding of the Party". I won't comment on the level of the film, but it is not difficult to see in the recent relevant information reports that China Film is crazy about money and wants to receive it under the great banner of the main theme. money, so I really don't like Han Sanping's group.
What is the future of the film industry, not your thriving one, but should be a hundred flowers blooming. Instead of abandoning one's own local culture and background and blindly pursuing the so-called internationalization, a blockbuster can be packaged up without a lot of Westernized thinking. In fact, sometimes when I think about it, it's not that the director can't do it, the actor can't do it, and it's not necessarily that the film that was good in the past may not be able to do it now, but the current society is too impetuous. It is true that the economic base determines the superstructure. The collective impetuousness of the false prosperity of the economy has urged them to keep up with the pace of society. So a prosperous carnival opened its great curtain.
In the face of the impact of foreign films like "Kung Fu Panda", we should not resist as Kong Qingdong said, but should reflect on why others can make better use of what should belong to us.
I've been looking through old movies lately, and it's not hard to sigh when I think of the prosperity and decline of the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps no halo belongs to anyone forever, and even today's Hollywood has long lost its glory. In addition to the occasional commercial release, Hong Kong movies can clearly feel that they are beginning to seek a return to localization, and mining their own cultural resources can be regarded as finding a new way out for themselves.
The mention of "The Boys Here" is only because the two films were watched at about the same time, which inevitably caused some feelings, and I happened to discuss these things with my brother. In fact, I didn't like this movie very much at first, just because I liked the book, the author is Jiangnan. The thought of Jiangnan, the thousand-year-old pit god, aroused my infinite anger. It was said that how many pits he left in the past made me resolutely give up while waiting, and he would fill in when I had forgotten the plot of the book. The other thing that made me very desperate was Sun Xiao's "Heroes". This pit stayed for several years, so I ended up in YY alone.
However, this movie made by Yin Xiang is actually quite good, maybe it should not be a movie, but more like a DV. When I first opened it, the green acting and the rigid dialogue made me want to give up the show, but after watching it, I was fortunate enough to keep watching it. At least what this story told me touched me. When I thought that it was shot by several college students, I was still quite moved. There are always some ideals that I have to stick to. The most fearful thing in life is that the dream has not yet begun, and the ideal will be broken.
I wrote another article that wasn't a movie review, and finally used someone else's words to end it for myself!
Can't stand Homecoming, can't escape the youth here.

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    Po: Yep.

    Mr. Ping: Well, I knew you would! That's why I had these signs made! "My son saved China - you too can save! Buy one dumpling, get one free!"

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