-Watching "Cold Mountain" feels
about the theme of
searching. Finding is a kind of escape. The American veteran in "The Three Seasons of Love" sees the daughter who is looking for with a professional indifferent perfunctory and teasing to deal with freely. , The tearful old man could only leave silently.
Looking is to face reality. In "Everything About My Mother", the mother who has gone through hardships only finds her husband who has changed sex.
Searching is a kind of hope. Little Joshua in "Central Station" embarks on a journey to find his father with the longing for his father and Dora.
In Anthony Minghella’s "Cold Mountain", Yingmeng is looking for the way home, we see persistence: under the constant attack of the security team chasing deserters, Yingmeng did not give up, holding the books and letters from Ada to him in his hands. , Ferrying, fleeing, killing, redeeming; we have seen growth, Yingmeng is no longer the introverted and shy farmer under Lengshan, but has become a man with heavy shoulders step by step in the 300-mile road; we also see When it comes to the warmth of human nature, when Sarah and Yingmeng hug each other in the damp little room with faint fire, what they transcend is the boundary of male and female feelings, and more is to give each other humane care.
The use of parallel montages The
director used a lot of parallel montages to narrate this epic love story. The familiar picture editing seems to bring us back to "The English Patient" in 1996.
The raging gunpowder and the bloody war embodies the director's anti-war ideas everywhere. The dead soldiers, the faint tone, the shaking camera, and the visual impact are self-evident. The 10-minute war in the beginning of the film shows the Civil War in the eyes of a small person from a relatively small point of view. Some people use this film to compare with "Gone with the Wind". I think "Cold Mountain" has a better description of human nature in war than "Gone with the Wind". "A more shocking power. The director wanted to expose the cruel, hypocritical, and instinctive nature of human nature hidden behind the appearance of life through the eyes of Yingmeng and Ada through the return of Yingmeng and Mongolia through war. Of course, the director's subjective color is still very strong, as we can see from the film.
Literary and film adaptations
Astruk said: "Film is like a literary work. It is not so much a specific art as it is a language capable of expressing any category of thought." The relationship between film and literature is always a thousand words. The inextricably intricate, films adapted from classic novels can often attract people's hearts and lead the way in major awards, such as "Gone with the Wind", "Ben Xu", "War and Peace", "Lover" and so on.
The author of "Cold Mountain" Charles and director Minghella led us through the wild and dark green mountains with text and camera respectively, swimming in the clear water of the clear stream, the endless yellow cornfield, and the cold and freezing white snow. All kinds of images make people feel relaxed and happy.
André Bazin once said: “The more important and critical the literary quality of a work, the more difficult it is for the adaptation of the work to be comparable to it. Therefore, the more creative genius is needed to rearrange it.” Anthony Minghella used a skilled camera. The sporty, sophisticated editing structure puts this novel showing the friendship during the Civil War on the big screen. It seems so easy to do. The nomination of the eight Golden Globe Awards does not show anything. In the film, the love that human beings never give up is what we really need. The reason for this movie is also something we need to stick to.
Conclusion
Some netizens on IMDB commented on "Cold Mountain" in one sentence: Find the strength. Find the courage. No matter what it takes...find the way home.
Find the way home. I think this should be the theme of many movies. Care, humanity, warmth, we should get more from the movie.
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