"Big Man Napoleon"-a dose of "inspirational sustained release film" away from sorrow

Inspirational movies have almost become a genre. Often these kinds of movies will do their best to create a series of sufferings for the unfortunate protagonists that are difficult for ordinary people to afford, and then struggle from the sufferings, rebirth from the ashes, and the phoenix nirvana. This seems to be the usual routine of inspirational films. Because we always think that inspirational movies are to let the protagonist complete what we hope to complete but can’t complete or haven’t completed yet. In the aesthetic process, we get emotional catharsis and purification (although this word is generally used to deal with tragedies). Evaluation, but I think that it can play a role as a tragedy and it can be regarded as a kind of "purification" of the rich connotation. This feature of inspirational movies is particularly obvious, because it is somewhat rich in a certain tragedy Meaning-in the early stage when the fate of the protagonist has no turning point, they often suffer. This process is the content of the tragedy. The difference between them is that, according to convention, inspirational movies will end the audience with a comedy at the end, while tragedy But not. Both of them, the former brings hope to the viewer, and the latter brings a warning similar to "intimidation" to the viewer.), thus relieved of the pressure, doubts and hesitation in our hearts And slack. Therefore, the more the protagonist experiences ups and downs, the more we think it is not easy, and the more weight he ultimately gains. We will understand this in our hearts: "The protagonist is like that, and he may succeed through hard work, not to mention the situation is not so bad for us." So our passion, hope, and desire for success are ignited. For our sluggish body, a considerable amount of chicken blood has been imported to support us to continue our journey.

It seems that the lack of success is because the disaster is not severe enough...

This kind of film is very common both in China and abroad. For example, "Ballet of Two People" (domestic) and "Dancing Out of My Life" (foreign). Although these two films are both very good films, because of the life experience of the viewers and the photographers and the various forms of artistic conventions in the past, we think that inspirational films are like this. Rise again, this is an inspirational movie.

However, although this kind of inspirational movies can make us excited and adrenaline soaring in the short period of time after watching the movie, we have to admit that they always reveal a sorrow. Their previous setbacks and failures are always miserable and sympathetic. Before the protagonist rises, when the protagonist is in the quagmire of life, they always stare at the camera with a vague look, making you sigh, why Destiny must do this to him. Therefore, this sad temperament is always accompanied by inspirational movies. The viewer shed tears of sympathy or anger for his failure, and was also grateful and encouraged that he could finally raise his head to be a new man. However, how much of the emotion in it comes from compassion, and how much is from respect?

I dare not say that there is more compassion than reverence, because the images and deeds of the characters in these inspirational movies have indeed shocked our hearts and brought me a great shock. This is the purpose, so it does not matter whether the emotion is dominant. , The key is to make the viewers see what they think of. I saw it, shed tears, inspired, and thinking about it is a good result.

However, what I want to express is that we also need a relatively pure encouragement and motivation. Just like this big man-Napoleon. He is as ordinary as us, even more ordinary than us. They have their own immature and imperfect sides, and even they are people with various defects. Such defects and immaturity cannot arouse our pity, and we will not pity them just because we see them. This shields other emotions in inspirational films that are easily confused with the purely "inspirational" spirit.

However, it is just such a group of people who have their own personality or other defects, how they behave and do things in daily ordinary life, how to achieve every little thing they hope to achieve, and insist on the friendship and kindness they want to adhere to. Indeed, the more ordinary, the more real it is, and the more ordinary it is, the more it can give us an unknowingly impact and impact. There is no miserable life in the early stage of sadness, and no success in the later stage of elation. Everything is as natural and unpretentious as we breathe air, free from deliberate arrangements and exaggerations; avoiding the possibility of causing people's pity; just showing a real little person ( From a social perspective) is also the daily life and handling of things by big people (for themselves). For the protagonist in the film, the most glorious moment is the break dance of Napoleon. However, this dance is not deliberate preparation and arrangement, but just a temporary method for the election of friends. But what we can imagine is that for Napoleon, this is not the so-called transformation. Even if there is no such "opportunity" for him to achieve transformation, his life will still be as usual, because he did what he usually did. Things; we can also imagine that Napoleon’s life will not change drastically because of his breakdancing. His classmates also laughed at him because of the unconstrained questions he answered, and made fun of him because he spoke big words.

However, his inspiration is that even if you are so ordinary, you will burst into brilliant brilliance. Maybe this kind of brilliance can't be the turning point of your life to the peak, but it will indeed appear in your life.

Yes, for most of us, recognizing this is an "inspirational slow-release film", bid farewell to the sad temperament, which accompanies our real life.

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