Two excellent actors, the comedian who played the postman (who was originally a fisherman) played a humble, humble, neurotic little character so well.
He was also the one who first initiated and spawned the film, and the director was hired by him (it is rare for a British director to have such a good person, and he is not very famous).
The old man who played the poet Neruda played "New Paradise" (Paradise Cinema) six years ago in this film. He is really a generational actor in terms of acting skills.
The soundtrack of this film reverberates in the hearts of the audience and can be hummed at any time. Beautiful and sad.
This film is both a popular film and an art film. There are very few good works of this kind of cross-border killing... It is like a sketch, but it is powerful. Just like "everyone can be a God of Cookery", everyone also has a poetic heart, not only a great writer or a young writer, but also a commoner at the bottom. The key is whether the emotional and romantic locks are opened. Poetic heart, in this film is explained and carried forward through love, so vivid, so easy to wake up. As it happens, Neruda himself is a lover.
The wit and humour of this film, as well as the magnificent view of the sea, are really good.
In addition, Neruda was a believer and revolutionary of socialism, and the postman (the fisherman) was so involved in the left-wing protest movement. This film eats three fish with one fish, talking about poetry, love, and the value of revolution (great or illusory, passionate or cruel). Did the revolution have to sacrifice some silly little people? In the end, Elder Nie, who was walking by the sea, was not only about friendship, but there was a big question in it.
Maybe we don't need to investigate for the time being what the left-wing hurricane of the last century should look at. What we feel is Old Nie's feelings for the world, and what we cherish are the cute little people.
The actor who played the fisherman died suddenly of a heart attack after the film was completed at the age of 44. However, the reason for praising the film has nothing to do with the life and death of an actor. In other words, it is not because a person is dead that the film is praised. Whether he dies or not is a tidbit, at most you can think of it this way: His hard work and dedication made such a good movie. ~ He melted himself into the truth, life and death of a small person. perhaps. Well, it also incorporates Nie Lao's truth and complex dimensions (Xue Wenqing's words: thank you for dimension. Wenqing also likes to use "span", and I still have a crotch).
I played the DVD of this film at the Wenshan Community College in Taipei. Many students watched it for the first time and were very enthusiastic. When they saw it at the end, everyone was very moved. When the end credits were posted, they were still intoxicated and sighed, and the audience was speechless. Later, when I discussed with everyone, I talked about the sudden death of the hero (the fisherman), and everyone learned about it.
On the final screen of the Taiwanese DVD of the film, a poem by Lao Nie appeared, with charming sentences such as "The waves hit me like seven green tigers, it said yes, it said no,...". But the DVD I bought from Continental 10 years ago didn't have this poem, so I felt it was a bit of a fly in the ointment.
Addendum:
It has been raining this afternoon. Just now, I picked up a space when the rain stopped to walk the dog. I remembered that my friend Wang Kuiyi, the poet Wang Kuiyi, once typed the poem of Old Nie at the end of the film on the bbs "egg roll" poem board. I have printed it. Well, let me find it. The following are:
The subtitles at the end of this poem are in English (it is reasonable to say that Nie always wrote it in Spanish). At that time, Wang Kuiyi typed it out according to the subtitles translated from Chinese. The time is the end of 2002. I read Wang's post and found this very shocking, so I went to the rental store to find the film "The Postman". So eight years after the film came out, I just kept up with it on DVD. However, I have quite the impression that in the mid-1990s, the film and television edition (also known as the entertainment edition) of the newspaper was a mad push for this film, and it was very popular. The movie version is mainly about the legend of the late actor who killed himself for this film. This is the entertainment version of the "entertainment" (hunting) angle. On the one hand, it is also helping the filmmaker to promote it. This film has been shown in Taiwan.
(Sorry, I seem to have misremembered, the ending doesn't seem to be the one above. The sentence in the end credits is roughly, "On the street corner...in...in silence...in...so I got the mood for poetry." or something like that And this piece by Wang Kuiyi is a section in which Mr. Nie recites his poem to the fishermen, and the two of them have a good conversation. I don’t bother to delete the previous section, so let’s just leave it.)
Also attached is Neruda's moving speech, which I compiled this morning: about Neruda's 1971 awards, and speeches.
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