"The Barbaric Story" completely shattered my thoughts, and I am still depressed. This is much tougher than the Northeast Brother (sorry to open the map cannon). According to the "Barbaric Story", if the Argentine is Say "what are you looking at", it is not a question of tearing, but a question of how to tear it to death and who was torn to pieces first.
Although the film crew has a Spanish background like Almodovar (Spain and Argentina have a close relationship based on colonial history), the story still takes place in Buenos Aires and other suburban counties in Argentina. The director is a cloth born in 1975. A native of Buenos Aires, born with a calf, he is self-willed and vigorous.
The film is divided into six short stories. There is no connection between the stories. They are all full of violence and black humor. For example, the first one was a group of people flying on the same plane, and it turned out that everyone knew the same person and caused harm to this person at different times. This person is the pilot of the plane now. In the end, the plane was shocked by everyone. The parents who crashed into the pilot during the call (there was a psychologist in the passenger "remind" the pilot that the parents who brought him into this world are the culprit)...This is the introduction to the beginning of the whole film, and then the role will be played. The list of personnel, each name is matched with a wild animal, which also reflects the title (Relatos salvajes) and the tone of the whole film-the literal translation of the title is the meaning of "wild (animal) story", which is now generally translated online. "Savage Story" does not violate peace.
The second story is that a waitress in a fast food restaurant discovers that the man who came to eat is a politician who has ruined her family. She has been hesitating what to do, but the man is stabbed to death by the old chef of the back kitchen. The third tells about two things. People were rude to each other when driving. As a result, the conflicts gradually escalated after the car broke down, and they eventually "cut" each other to death; the fourth described a blasting engineer who was angered by bureaucracy, and finally bombed the municipal department; the fifth talked about one In the case of traffic accidents, the wealthy people scattered their wealth, and the poor went to top up the packages and were smashed to death by the families of the angry victims. The last one was that the bride found that the bridegroom was carrying herself on the back of a female guest at the wedding, and she was furious. It developed into a chaotic situation of promiscuity, but in the end the two still loved to kiss each other.
In addition to a certain Chinese financial institution brand implanted in the film, the Chinese film "Destined to Heaven" is often compared with "Barbaric Story" by domestic netizens. However, the two films are similar in addition to the short film collection structure and the description of violence. In fact, it means completely different. "Savage Story" teased the system a bit, but there was no obvious "critical realism". For example, in the first story (forgive me for remembering the tragic German aviation accident that just happened), you insist that society is responsible, but basically Is that unseen murderer a psychopath? The murder of a fast food restaurant can be regarded as a kind of "female assassin" in the green forest, but when driving, they were rude to each other and tore each other to death, as well as overly angry engineers, greedy top dicks, and almost murdered at the wedding. For newlyweds, this has nothing to do with the system—it has to do with physique. In essence, this reflects the sturdy character of the Argentines; secondly, it should also be related to the general mood of the current Argentine society.
After the dictatorship of the military government was broken, Argentina has become a concentrated representative of the "Latin American disease." With the economic downturn, high unemployment rate, and political turmoil, the entire Argentine society is filled with a mood of resentment and resentment, and all ethnic groups and classes are full of emotions. Contradictory emotions. At the beginning of the 21st century, Argentina fell into the predicament of an economic crisis. Until now, it has not fully recovered. Under this background, the Argentine people, who are free and easy, romantic, and willing to enmity, have become more irritable and irritable. "Savage Story" can be seen as a catharsis of this sentiment.
It is said that Argentina has also established a Western-style modern democratic constitutional system, and it is said that there is an independent media, but the cancer of corruption and social injustice is still the same as me. Perhaps the Argentines themselves don’t understand it, the system is unreliable, and they don’t know what to do. Change, so, a word of disagreement can only be fought.
So, here comes the question, why are so many young people in China so eager for this film?
(Published in the 13th issue of China News Weekly in 2015)
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