There is an inexplicable conjecture about the title of /First Cow/. Without obtaining any background information, I even keep away from the concept of /cattle/ related to agricultural animal husbandry, but the previous attribution The decorated / first head / also vaguely indicates some kind of suspense and grand narrative (if East Asia is introduced, this name may be replaced by a hot and sultry title).
Kelly Richard doesn't have many works. With such a resolute and unyielding face, she can imagine how she thought hard about the script and the camera, and thought about it again and again. Sure enough, her shots and narration perfectly reflect the character of rational restraint, the dramatic conflict and storytelling are deliberately weakened in her films, the rough and even noisy pictures, the unpopular 1.37:1 aspect ratio, and The disappearance of blood and irritability in the context of turbulent and chaotic times, etc., these are all contrary to the mainstream Hollywood film narrative.
The film is adapted from a novel and has a solid literary foundation. Such a targeted change follows the narrative framework of the original novel in terms of storyline, but the subjective understanding and judgment presented by the film itself are entirely the director’s own.
The performances of the two protagonists in the film are not primary and secondary, but develop in parallel, relying on each other - cookie and king respectively represent the little people in the budding stage of capitalism in the pioneering era. In the film, the details of the two people's lives are presented in a delicate, temperate, romantic and feminine form. They are gentle, sweet, and soft-spoken (murmured), and bystanders are looking forward to it unconsciously. The sublimation of their relationship, and even at a certain moment they hug and kiss and develop into a broken back is a matter of course, but the style of painting will come as soon as you want to make a small cookie with milk and blueberries/I have an idea for marketing and promotion, and also manage revenue planning and investment. to the level of intimate partners.
In the late stage of the Western Gold Rush era, all forces (England, France, Russia, China) encountered resource bottlenecks, and the fur trade with Indians also declined due to the change in the orientation of the European fashion industry. At this time, the emerging handicraft capitalism The rise is the general trend. Gold prospectors and hunters from their hometowns to the wild west have not succeeded in escaping to gold and thus have no savings and face to return to their hometowns. They have started from their original occupations and sold them to the pioneers of the past. own skills and resources. The cook set up the hearth, the shoemaker opened the shoe shop, and the blacksmith, the veterinarian, the coachman, etc. They spontaneously and consciously opened a shop in an unfamiliar field in order to make a living, during which cooperation, competition, and more What is mutual encouragement and reciprocity, there is no distinction between nationalities and races, the self-organized supply and demand relationship forced by this life and the self-generated supply and demand of handicraftsmen is weakening the agency-based state capitalism, the original makers of these rules. Faced with unprecedented challenges, their interests have been nibbled up and divided, their authority has been diluted and ignored, their status is no longer consolidated, and their reputation has deteriorated, so they take anger at these homeless people who have nothing in their eyes, hate them, and envy them.
Back in the movie, the protagonists cookie and king are such craftsmen, the chef is tired of bad food, tired of being displaced, and wants to make cream cookies, no milk? Go to the agent's cow and steal it! Make a short version of cream cake, delicious, everyone will like it, go buy it, it will be sold out in an instant, and then go to steal milk to make more cakes, people are rushing, rushing to buy, alarming agents, agents tasting, delicious with London hometown But in the Wilderness, when there was a cow at home, I didn't think about the cream at all, and then invited them to make raspberry (blueberry) pot helmets for the European generals at home, and then their confidence expanded, and they were a little eager for quick success. Natural disasters and man-made disasters (the tree branches are broken and make a sound) led to the exposure of the incident, and finally fled for their lives in the wilderness.
By the way, the role of the Indians in the film is worth saying a few more words. The chief who went to the agent's house, the translator and the chief's wife showed intimacy and discussion about lace after the big men went out for a walk. The owner of the Buddhist boat he met, and the old Indian couple who rescued Cookie (no dialogue, just like a dream) Who do these aboriginal elements represent in this capitalist torrent, what do they symbolize, and which side do they stand on? It doesn't matter, they are just spectators, just outsiders in this rolling wave.
The sky is going to rain, the trees are going to bear fruit, life has to go on, time is flowing, the river is widened and you can run boats, the gold is gone, but there is business everywhere. The gathering of life and death in those days was nothing more than two bones, but the thriving business was flourishing. Rise up, as said at the beginning of the film.
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