I don't understand how this movie has such a good reputation, let's review it.
The entire film content can be divided into four parts:
The hypocrisy of British high society
The primitive jungle is unfathomable and full of surprises
Conflict between family and ideal
Ideal inheritance between father and son
At first, the male protagonist did not do well in the officialdom. He went to the jungle to find civilization, and came back there to give an exciting speech: treat the jungle people as equals, and discover new possibilities for human civilization. Later, the hypocrisy of modern Western civilization was exaggerated again through Fat Dun Erwuzai.
I'm looking forward to it. I thought the theme was the relationship between civilization and civilization, or human exploration of new possibilities.
In the end, all these are gone, and it falls to personal ideals. And the male protagonist's dedication to personal ideals has no strong support at all, resulting in his image becoming straight male cancer + paranoia.
And, the heroine's line is really redundant. If you want to show that he sacrificed his family, you can show it well. When you come back directly, let the child ask you which one I don't know and it's over. Get a tool man wife to talk about feminism and finally say that waiting for a man is her lifelong mission, who is disgusting?
What is the significance of the war plot? Use national struggle to supplement the British people's exploration motivation, can't you explain it? Need to shoot an unimportant scene?
Huo, in the end, when you arrived in the jungle, it was still a war between tribes, or something like modern civilization. I really don't understand what you are trying to do.
The ideal inheritance relies on shooting deer and shooting rabbits. Isn't this still the masculinity of white invaders? Killing a small animal and complimenting each other, going into the jungle to see that the jungler had no choice but to kill, it was amazing, and after returning, my son killed rabbits. I really laughed hhhh, does the jungle really mean anything to you? I can only interpret these contradictory points as the director thinks that these scenes are in line with the romance of men, so they piled it up without thinking, and finally made a meaningless ideal.
The biggest problem, the so-called adventure in the movie is: male humans are very curious about everything, but there is only curiosity left. We don't know what's the point of you seeing these sights.
I think it's probably because it's a biographical film, the blending of reality and ideals is so chaotic and twisted. Inheriting the father's business may be fun for a child for a few minutes, and his wife may not care if he doesn't come back. The male protagonist's expedition may be just for the sake of fame and the like.
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