Fan Movie 200, I climbed up the Gem Mountain with my cold body and watched "The First Cow". I also heard the sharing of Mr. Fei Nei and Mr. Ruan. It was quite worth it. "The First Cow" The story on the surface of this film is told very well, so when I hear the interpretation of the second and third layers, I don't think it is over-interpreted.
The Desire Triangle of Male Homosexuality
The surface story of this film is clearly about the same-sex sociosexual desires of two cisgender heterosexual men, why do I emphasize heterosexuality, I find that many reviews will treat this film as a same-sex film. But obviously, the social relationship between the two men was completely abstinence, including the first time they met, Cookie was naked and naked, but King had no evil intentions, just let him sleep in his tent.
In this desire triangle, it is indeed a cow in the female position. All the love words of Cookie are directed to the first cow in the village, and this cow has already fallen in love with Cookie, and the milking cow This time, when talking about love, happens to be the most tense time of the situation (although this is also to appease the cows.)
In fact, the film has already set many things to the characters of the two. For example, when they first met, the king said: "I escaped to avenge my friends. They killed my friends, and I gave one of them to me. Killed." ①, on the one hand, it can explain why the king will come back to find cookie in the end, because he has always valued friendship, and on the other hand, you can refer to the following plot, you can actually make up a lot of things, what is the killing The calamity.
As for Cookie, who has been setting himself up for being unable to find a job, unable to survive independently, being abused in the gold rush team, and unwilling to take him with others when he goes out to work, it all shows that he is more honest (the honest man is a stone hammer) and has few crooked brains. He's not too daring, but he's always been a romantic and able-bodied person. The first shot he gave to cookie was that he let the squirrel go and picked wild fruits on the roadside to eat. So the conflict between him and King can always be seen, saying that he picks flowers and cleans the room does not mean that he is like a woman, but that he is more romantic, he is not willing to steal milk, and hopes to stop there after making money. But king doesn't seem to be content with that. So it can be seen that king is actually not very skilled, but there are many ideas. King is stepping on the shoulders of cookie to make money, and I gave it twice here.
And some people say that the female director saw inaccurate men, not men, but in fact, his portrayal of two different types of men is quite accurate.
There is only one woman in the film directed by a woman who speaks English and is also a translator
Because the director is a woman, I have to look at it from this point of view. Several female characters in the film are aphasia, and they are necessarily aphasia. For example, the Indian woman does not respond at all even if someone talks to her, and On the contrary, acting as the heroine in this film is indeed a cow. Therefore, I have to look at this matter comprehensively based on the relationship between the ethnic groups.
Of course, I didn't expect that one of the most controversial points in this film is that the film begins to discover whether the person and child with bones are male or female? From this point of view, this is actually quite queer, or that women didn't speak at that time, and now people are arguing about gender and moving towards queerness.
relative culturalism
Although it was not seen at the time, it is true that primitiveness and modernity will be a major relationship discussed in this film. A very important character in the film is the lord, and the Indian female characters just mentioned should be his wife and children. I think the most anti-western point of this film is that the native Indians no longer appear as a symbol. Many Westerns have portrayed Native Americans as symbols of a kind of evil existence. Their presence means life-threatening. It doesn't matter what they say, and they don't have to say it in the film. They no longer appear as symbols in "The First Cow". They ask with disgust: "Where did your shoes come from?" "Why don't you eat tails?" Everyone's ideas are different, they deliberately coexist happily, but they Their words are not necessarily responded to, and their ideas are not necessarily cared by anyone, so the Chinese, Americans, and aboriginal people arranged here should have his intentions. In the end, Cookie was picked up by the Indians and killed, and King bought an Indian boat to escape.
However, how did the Indians go about symbolizing, yes, they intermarryed with the lord, and they got a temporary peace by intermarriage with the lord. This has to mention the difference of hierarchy and power behind relative culturalism.
power difference
This is also the focus of my viewing of this movie. The two male protagonists are obviously at the bottom of the power level. In fact, what affects the fate of the protagonist is this sentence, which roughly means that if the benefits of punishing a person outweigh the disadvantages, then I will even kill him deliberately, otherwise I will not do it. This is actually saying that there is no reason for the leader to kill them. After all, the taste of home cookies, only cookies have this craftsmanship, but the uncertainty here is the captain. As an outsider, the captain is well-informed, and he is in a higher position of power. On the first floor, these facts were discovered by the captain, the lord lost face, and naturally he must defend his self-esteem.
And if such a power structure and relative culturalism are put together, it is actually quite interesting, because the film also has a focus on aborigines and outsiders. The above mentioned a little bit of intermarriage between outsiders and aborigines, but through the interpretation of others, the director did set a lot of things.
There are still many, many places worth interpreting, such as the gun that didn't fire at the end, the way time flows, the boat that goes against the current, and so much can be said about the unfolding. Of course, there are also many things that I haven't read yet, such as the lord gave the camera twice from head to toe, there must be intentions here.
The place ① is marked because many people say that the Chinese portrayed here are too shrewd and cunning, but in fact, if you read the king twice to avenge a friend, you can understand that the Chinese portrayed here are quite pretty Accurate, it is indeed similar to the loyalty and courage in "Mulan". Many people here will interpret the relationship between the two countries. I think that the relationship between two men is not bad. There are many kinds of men, and the relationship between men is also diverse. Does this count? Echoing the queer at the beginning?
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