The first half of the movie is not very interesting, and some places are a little unclear. When I saw the end, I was suddenly enlightened. When the movie ended, there was a word in my mind: the more knowledge, the more "reactionary"
The film tells the story of a shepherd's son who wins the battle against his ignorant father and finally acquires knowledge through self-study. When the film went to the end, when I appeared in person, I was very emotional. In an era where education is so developed and common, it is hard to imagine the efforts and sacrifices that people in the past made in pursuit of knowledge. My favorite scene is the last scene where the protagonist wears red clothes and sits in the place where the shepherds were once let go. And slowly recalling the past, there is a kind of gentle cruelty.
In the ignorant and closed social structure, the father not only represents the parent, the material patriarch, but also the owner of knowledge (experience), the spiritual patriarch, who tightly controls the future of his children, according to his own Live with ideas, live in shackles from birth. Except for some culturally different customs, the overall structure of the whole film will not feel abrupt when placed in Chinese rural society (where I live in rural areas, and I don't know much about others), but it feels like this is what often happens in daily life. . Inexplicable fights, unreleased sexual desires, and the fact that education is useless rather than herding sheep, parental control over children: marriage and the family after marriage... these are all real. Very ignorant, where the parent represents experience, and what he has experienced will become the code of conduct for his descendants.
However, history tells us that where there is oppression, there is resistance. The film's scenes of rebellion are imaginative and intense. The sheep pooping in the milk, and the surreal main shot, the dialogue between the sheep and the protagonist, this is the confrontation between the sheep and the milkman. As well as the jokes performed under collective masturbation, here I think there are imitations and disdain for patriarchy, and they are also wild and primitive. In the clip of carrying something (I don't know what it's called, let's call it "thing" for now), immigrating to Germany to work is a group of people who were once under the rule of ignorance who want to pursue their own freedom. Later, the upward shot of the father, who represents the patriarchal power, is converted, King Kong glares, and it is very expressive. The pee scene after that is very interesting. A sentence in the short comment (thank you to the author) "I am not a shepherd" is particularly apt, and the resistance reached a small climax. The protagonist joins the army and thus obtains a formal channel to seek knowledge, thus truly opening his own path to freedom. "The more knowledge, the more reactionary." The so-called landlords and feudal classes in history are the embodiment of patriarchy in the film, but the public is the son of the shepherd, so similar.
In the final shot, the time-space transitions on both sides took very seconds to look back in an instant, using a subjective look back instead of a flashback, and it was a series of close-up shots of the children to show the inner world of the seedlings under the brutal patriarchy: Some are afraid, some are thinking, and some are angry, with resistance written on their faces and engraved in their eyes.
It is too late to resist.
(There are two scenes that attract more attention: one is the person who was killed, and the people around helped to dress the dead person. The individual thoughts expressed in that scene are very interesting, and this is a very real scene. I have seen people with my own eyes. At the time of his death, his son, niece, daughter, and others were eagerly asking where the bankbooks at home were kept and where the money was. Usually, the care for the elderly was not in place at all, which was chilling. The other was a father who seemed to want to kill his son and ran on the road. The lens, this piece is actually very beautiful, the long lens is beautiful, and it is also a long lens with a large wide angle and a relatively fast speed. Careful. The father who is "surrounded" by the greenery has been running for a long time, and his anger is already...)
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