As the name "Victoria and Abdul" reflects, this is a successful biopic of an individual based on a true historical event; but as a public release, the film may cause some audiences to fall asleep on the seats in the theater. As far as personal preference is concerned, I appreciate this film very much, the queen reminds me of the princess in "Roman Holiday", but I would like to talk about this film and some of the problems that this film deserves to be improved in this film review, all because I love deeply.
1. Loss of the correct educational function
I am a head accustomed to thinking about things with dialectical thinking, and I have always believed that history has no truth. It is said that the friendship between the queen and the Indian servant was discovered by a female reporter. The film and television people took a picture of this historical story and wanted to present this story to the world, which was a happy event. But the film does not seem to see a good position of the director, which makes the viewers who focus on restoring history and certain historical issues in the film lose their trust in this type of film.
Is the director's design of the image of the British royal family and Indian servants biased? I'm not sure, but this consideration is not perfect. At least some people will have the influence of extreme disgust for the impression of the British royal family, and infinite sympathy for the Indian servants. I suddenly remembered the anti-Japanese drama in China. The Japanese soldiers always fell under the muzzle of the Chinese soldiers one by one, but the Chinese soldiers remained intact. What I can be sure of is that the design of this kind of plot is definitely not to exaggerate some things to express some good things, and it is not an artistic need.
The failure of entertainment
The friendship between Queen Victoria and Abdul is enough to move a large number of moviegoers, which is the result of a personal autobiography; but for a larger group of moviegoers, it is really nothing to be moved, as someone talked about Wu Zetian in his later years It was time to raise male pets in captivity - the Zhang brothers. From the point of view of a lonely queen, that is really cruel and inhumane enough. But from the perspective of our society, this is really nothing. The queen is nostalgic for her power and refuses to give up. Shouldn't she give something? Loneliness is just an external manifestation of her greed and selfishness, so after a little thought, there is no such thing as moving.
Can Abdul and the royal family have more conflicts, and if they create more laughs, will it affect Abdul's image? When you spend money on a movie theater, you seek excitement and joy. If you want to learn knowledge, you can go to a lecture, which is definitely more thorough than a movie.
There are even very few memorable pictures left for the audience. It can be said that the film is like a still water, and the waves are calm.
3. The adaptation of parallel transplantation is not as good as the new creation
How to adapt historical events and novels with film art has been debated in film theory circles. In fact, practice has already given us the answer. The bland adaptations often fail to give the audience new thinking, grasp the essential things, and boldly change the form of the films, but they are well received.
Looking back on the past, various classic films created in different regions and cultures, countries and regions always give people spiritual enjoyment and low-level thinking.
If you can't have the confidence to come up with some innovations, let's review the classics! The classic form cannot be imitated, and the classic story is not worth adapting, but the classic creative form is definitely worth learning. Maybe we should explore some methods and formulate some basic principles to prevent film reviews from becoming criticism instead of praise.
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