["Tender Mercies" - soothing all beings with the gentleness of the wind]

Tender Mercies

"Tender Mercies" ("Tender Mercy") is an old film directed by Australian director Bruce Beresford (Bruce Beresford) and released in 1983. The film won Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor at the 56th Academy Awards. Throughout the whole film, it has almost no very intense external conflicts, but depicts the story and the characters in the story bit by bit through a silent presentation technique. It depicts a portrait of all beings with the warmth of blood, the hustle and bustle of wine bottles, inner struggles, and peaceful happiness. The male protagonist Mac was once a very successful singer, but later lost his family and musical achievements due to alcoholism. He lived in a daze every day until he met the mother and son who changed the rest of his life at the motel... 1. "Tender Mercies" belongs to the small plot movie. In order to popularize everyone's knowledge about small-plot, big-plot, and anti-plot movies, I quote Robert McKee's comparative method to explain: closed ending VS open ending (big plot VS small plot) external conflict VS internal conflict (big plot VS small plot) Plot vs subplot) Single protagonist vs multiple protagonists (big plot vs subplot) Active protagonist vs passive protagonist (big plot vs miniplot) Linear time vs non-linear time (big plot vs antiplot) Causality vs coincidence (big plot vs antiplot) plot) coherent reality vs incoherent reality (big plot vs antiplot) It's important to note that most films are not just one category, it can also be multi-category - big plot, subplot and antiplot should be Look at it as a whole. The following is an example given by "Nine World One" in the Jane book: "Forrest Gump" revolves around a single protagonist, Forrest Gump, which is part of a big plot, but its ending is relatively open, so it also contains small plots aspect. 2. The sound of the wind, wrapped in the smell of freedom from the fields, swept over the motel by the road, and passed on to the characters' hearing and touch. It is there from the beginning of the film and disappears with bgm at the end of the film. The gentleness of this wind, just like Rosa (the heroine) who devoutly believed in religion, gave Mike gentle mercy, took him to baptism, gave him a warm family, and saved him from the brink of death. It is worth mentioning that because Mike and his ex-wife in the film are both singers, there are many good English songs interspersed.