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Pork is very expensive recently . I wonder if the main dish will be ham sausage for Chinese New Year this year?
One of the reasons for the price increase is the outbreak of swine fever, and the other is that environmental protection has forced pig farms to retreat. What is the specific situation... The prodigal son is just a movie number, only movies. Speaking of environmental protection and pigs, I immediately thought of Bong Joon-ho 's "Okja" in 2017 .
This film, funded by Netflix, was rejected by the three major South Korean cinema chains because the online streaming media was to be released with the cinema, and was even kicked out of the Palme d’Or by Cannes – because the French cinema chain It also refused to release Netflix's simultaneous movies.
But it's still a good movie.
Many people say that "Okja" is Bong Joon-ho's worst film, maybe. But according to my personal preference, it's rated above "The Monster of the Han River" and "Snowpiercer" and second only to "Memories of Murder".
The double inner gallbladder is false, and the appearance of the skin is true
This year, because of the relationship between "Parasite", Feng Junhao has become a talking point among many people, and he is familiar like a childhood sweetheart.
I admit that "Parasite" is a good movie, but I just don't like it-maybe because the prodigal son is from a poor family, I know the poor group too well, how can Miss Jessica's family be as powerful?
But Miss Jessica is still my favorite female character this year.
Back to "Jade".
In France and South Korea, the most criticized point of "Okja" is that it is too commercial and has no connotation. This is also the point I don't understand the most: why does business have no connotation? In other words, is it not business that has connotations?
In my opinion, business or not, it has nothing to do with whether it has connotation or not. For example, "Hello, Zhihua" invited Shunji Iwai and Zhou Xun to come and go to commercialize, but they are still empty like the stockings of a broken leg; and "Tama" is a simple commercial film, but it is worth pondering from the overall situation to the details , after repeated chewing can still taste new ideas.
It is even said that the most unique connotation of "Yuzi", which has the dual liner of environmental protection movies and pet movies, is actually its commercial skin. It can be said that what Yuzi wants to discuss most is not about environmental protection, the dislocation of pets and livestock, or the "Chinchilla-style" feelings, but the commercial society.
As the villain of Mirandor, you can think of it as a hybrid product of "The Great Gatsby + Apple." Their intoxicated, business and entertainment-oriented style brought out the so-called "merchant group", which is the best microcosm of today's money society .
As for the cruel slaughterhouse, although it looks like a Nazi concentration camp, it is actually only realistic - any behemoth in the business world will have all kinds of bloody foundations at the bottom, to different degrees.
Even the so-called Animal Liberation Front is just a lunatic, entangled with a group of environmental idiots, an interest group formed . This reminds me of a recent popular documentary: "American Factory". Is the "union" shown in the film really fighting for the rights of the workers with good intentions? Or changed to a form of scrambled wool? If Laomei is really a "beacon", why was a consulting company specializing in dealing with "union" also born there?
I only see conflicts of interest.
As long as it is an interest group, there will inevitably be other interest groups to compete with it and share profits. This is the unchanging truth of business society. The only difference is: from which side you can get the oil and water.
This is also where Yuzi really touched me: pure things, if you want to fight against the commercial society, it is not impossible, but you must use their rules. So in the end, Meizi (with a blurred face) bought Yuzi with the golden pig - it's like the so-called hero defeated the undefeated dragon, but the scales of the dragon gradually grew on his body.
Extremely ironic and powerless.
Finally, we see in the easter egg that Yuzi is actually pregnant, and Mirandor has been monitoring her belly, wanting to see if the new generation of super pigs will be bigger, fatter, and more commercially valuable?
Maybe, Mirandor is really a savior
In the information society, Hedong and Hexi do not need 30 years, and 3 years is too long.
Two years ago, when we watched "Yuzi", we thought that Mirandor was so annoying. Why should we catch the cute Yuzi and kill it for meat? But today, the price of pork is soaring, and some people have already proposed a "super pig factory rescue plan" on the Internet. From the villain in the movie to the savior in reality, it seems that it only takes the time to fry a large row.
Therefore, if we watch "Yu Zi" again today, we will find that this film has been sublimated a little bit.
The discussion on the nature of business society was conveyed by Miko, who "turned into a dragon" in the movie, in conjunction with Mirandor Company. And this round of discussion, two years later, has become more meaningful. I think this is the connotation.
Today, we are more business, more anxious, eat more, and enjoy more expensive things, and enjoy being wrapped in sensual dogs and horses-interesting garbage. Just like the beginning of "Yuzi", the competition of 26 super pigs is now dominating the screen. Is not it?
They will do whatever they can to create the fattest and biggest pigs, and we are tearing our hearts out like squeezing pustules - squeezing out idols who can be the lovers of the whole people and who can harvest the most brainless fans; Everyone turned their fingers into knives, turning each other into leeks, scrambling to cut and scramble to defend the essence of business.
Maybe, super pig companies like Mirandor will really become the savior. As the lines in the "Okko" movie:
"As long as it's cheap enough, they'll buy it, like crazy."
Yes, as long as it is cheap enough and meets the "cost-effectiveness" of the surface, who cares whether those pigs are commercial, whether they are fraudulent, whether they are packaged, and how much humanity is there?
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