love and times

The last of the Mohicans, a story of a soul-stirring hero saving beauty. There is a funny thing here. If you are very good at telling stories, then let the story itself move people, and the background and other things are to drive up the atmosphere; and if the story itself is actually very simple, or even a little weak, then you must use the environment and The times come to build momentum. Based on my reading level, the most prominent examples are Zhang Ailing's two novels, one is Eighteen Spring (Half Life) and the other is Love in a Fallen City. This Mohican, when you take off its gorgeous coat, is actually a delicate and innocent girl, just like Alice in the film. The screenwriter is very clever, putting a love at first sight in the era when Britain and France compete for the American colonies, and the colonists strive to maintain independent struggle and free will. Space, to explain the historical background of this love, showing the race of the aborigines, the living conditions of the colonizers and the settlers, and the intricate relationship of dependence and hatred between them. This makes the process of the hero saving the beauty seem to be about a love story, but what moves the audience is basically something other than love: independent and free thoughts, not surrendering to tyranny, and the idea of ​​protecting home and family first. Telling a story with a journey of life and death is a skillful technique used by many blockbusters (for example, The Lord of the Rings is a standard book and movie that uses travel to tell stories, there are too many, too many to list), all kinds of differences and Reconciliation, all kinds of conspiracy, betrayal or righteousness, intensifying conflicts and contradictions, fighting to the death, or resolving grievances with ease and humor, the audience will easily follow the footsteps of travelers with joy, sorrow, hatred, and finally, even their thoughts are synchronized. . Of course, the director is very good: the red sky in the night, and the background sound of artillery fire, Yedu is tense and quiet; the evacuation team encountered a large-scale ambush, and the British army commander was devastated by revenge; Struggling to race, waterfalls rush and rush, and cliffs stand steeply. The majestic scenes of nature and the desperate clinging to the lonely castle became the inspiring backdrop for this heroic rescue of beauty. It has to be mentioned that the original soundtrack of the movie runs through almost the entire movie, along with the ups and downs of every mountain and every step towards freedom, sometimes beating like a drum, beckoning everyone who is unwilling to be controlled. The soul is sometimes like the resolute oath of a lover, lingering in melancholy and fear, but still bravely dying, sometimes it is the chanting of the Mohicans, and the last person is willing to spare, sometimes it is a morning song full of hope, freedom and love, as long as you I believe that they will always be the common pursuit of mankind. When watching a movie, the picture, the plot and the music are just right to weave together. A comprehensive feeling, this is an important aspect of the performance level of a good film, and the last Mohican should be a model of this. The link for a more professional interpretation of film music is as follows:http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48eb57670100lqrb.html
One of the problems with the film is, whether it is to express love or history, the director is obviously a bit ambiguous on this issue. The original book should be partial to history, and love is just a wave of history, while the movie highlights the hero's rescue of beauty, and history has become a gorgeous background. Even so, the director still wobbles from side to side in the structure and time allocation of the film. So much so that I don't know which one is better to emphasize. Although there is this flaw, as I wrote at the beginning of my film review, even if she is a delicate and simple girl, she is so beautiful, so she can wear clothes, and her simple eyes are just as charming. There is no way, I still like her.
The second question is that Hawkeye and the others did not succeed in evading in the slit of the waterfall. They had to choose to escape in time, leaving Kerna, Alice and Duncan behind, and said very touching words before leaving, "No matter how long... I will find you", it was really moving, but he was very puzzled at the time, he would bet that Ke Na and Alice, as Magua's well-targeted enemies, would not be killed on the spot? Magua killed their father, but he did it on the spot, and Hawkeye saw it with his own eyes. This is a big loophole. Alice jumped off the cliff, the same is true. Although there was a scene in which Enkas hugged her and comforted her, it seemed that the two of them were in love with each other, but the elders of the Huron tribe made it clear that they wanted to let her go, and Magua also beckoned her to let her go. When she came back and left the cliff, no one had any intention of hurting her. Hawkeye also said when she parted, that if she lives and endures, she will definitely come to rescue. Her jumping off the cliff can only be said to be deliberately done to make people move. At the end, Duncan deliberately mistranslated Hawkeye's words, asking for fire, which is unreasonable. Of course, it can be interpreted as chivalrous demeanor, and it can be interpreted as lover's unintentional, seeking death quickly, but he and Hawkeye have been diametrically opposed to each other from the very beginning. , even if he has never been a cowardly person, but there is absolutely no reason to sacrifice for a rival in love. If there is no Hawkeye and only Kena alone, it is reasonable to die for Kena. With eagle eyes, unreasonable. Hawkeye and Kona, even if it is true love, people like Duncan will know that a British noble lady and the adopted son of a Mohican have no future.

The flaws do not hide the beauty. At the end of the film, Lewis' adoptive father, the last of the Mohicans, recites a prayer. In that wind, the spark of freedom has been ignited... 18 years later, the American Revolutionary War broke out.
In 1620, when the first group of 102 immigrants came to North America, 58 people froze to death in one winter, but the next year, no one was willing to return home. Those who have tasted freedom will never give up their pursuit of freedom and independence, even if they die! Please remember the words of the Tunmin in the film: if they (the British) abandon the king's law and go their own way, they have no right to dominate us, they are tyranny at all, and I don't want to be oppressed by tyranny...
classic!

(This review contains quotes from other filmmakers' comments)

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