A while ago, I saw a video at station B, which talked about the domestic people’s adoration of foreigners and foreigners, and the reason was that the young people in China were celebrating Christmas. In my reply, I wrote: The American tradition of Christmas is to go to church as a family, unpack presents and have dinner together. If the Chinese are really flirtatious, they should also go to church. In fact, Chinese people spend Christmas just to find a reason for their little lovers to date and play. Of course, there are also business promotions.
In fact, the situation mentioned by the UP master has been mentioned earlier: the meaning of Chinese festivals is losing, May Day, holidays, sightseeing, shopping, drinking wine. Dragon Boat Festival, holiday, sightseeing, shopping, drinking wine. Mid-autumn festival, holiday, sightseeing, shopping, drinking big wine. October 1st, holiday, sightseeing, shopping, drinking big wine. New Year's Day, holidays, sightseeing, shopping, drinking wine... In addition to the two Valentine's Days in Zhongyang, the third Valentine's Day in disguise is Christmas. In fact, it is also eating, drinking, playing and having fun. If all festivals are the same, what's the point of festivals? Isn't that just the reason for the holiday and fun business promotion?
As you can see from this movie, the problems that Chinese people have encountered, Americans have also encountered: Christmas people only know how to have fun and ask for gifts, no one cares about family and gratitude. The traditional meaning of Christmas has been impacted by commercial culture, and no one cares, let alone Santa Claus, so Santa Claus is only reduced to a commercial symbol, but he has no copyright, so his life is equally miserable. In order to survive, he had to switch to the arms business.
When a child asks for a gift, he immediately becomes jealous and sends a killer to kill Santa Claus, which shows the status of Santa Claus in people's hearts. On the other hand, killers shopping around for other people's childhood gifts, which they can get for the money, are also an irony of how business culture impacts the meaning of the holiday.
But in general, the film is intended to be satirical but not deeply interpreted. It only ends up being a big battle between heroes and demons. Fortunately, it is neat and tidy, not sloppy, and it lives up to the spirit of Gibson's old hero.
Yes, festivals in China are the products of farming civilization. In the modern era, when commercial civilization dominates the world, they have long lost their meaning and value in the past, but we live so tired on weekdays that we need festivals to rest and play. Children are happy, and the country also needs to find reasons to promote commercial activities, so the festival has a new meaning, although it is ambiguous, it will not disappear. Such is the awkward status of modern festivals.
Of course, the significance of festivals has a resting side, but it is more to commemorate and cherish a certain spirit. If this spiritual core cannot be found, festivals are always just an embarrassing existence in modern times. In the movie, there is a scene where Santa Claus receives a thank you letter. It seems to be saying that someone is still grateful, but it is too pale and only pitiful. On the other hand, the old man finally abandoned his gentle and charitable demeanor and threatened a child who did bad things, as if he was looking for a new meaning, but after all, it was just an entertainment nonsense of the movie.
In terms of the embarrassing status of the festival, the situation faced by the Americans is actually the same as that of the Chinese.
In the end, the movie shows a small, but still lively and interesting shootout scene, which shows how much Americans love guns. This is one of the reasons for the proliferation of guns. We think that too many guns are dangerous. Americans probably think so too, but they just love guns.
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