Intellectually, it is hard to say that a writer must be any different from his hometown.
Behaviorally, it could be the same. Maybe it's just that their ways are different. The natives have their vulgar "policies" and guns, and the writer has his powerful microphone and pen.
For example, Mo Yan, I don't think he is any different from his hometown. Including that rustic cunning. To be honest, his award is more like a technical achievement, or even an unexpected result of technology, which has no meaning from a linguistic point of view.
In fact, it's hard to say which is more profound or noble, football or words.
At the end of the film, the writer still wears the wild flowers of his hometown on his chest, and the summer sunshine of his hometown will be projected in his life as always.
But I have to admit that the writer in the film is humble, elegant and a little deeper than his hometown.
Sometimes the expression determines the thought, and what looks like a thought is only the expression. Perhaps, it is because the protagonist has the ability to express profoundly.
In any case, the progress of civilization has a formal side.
The actor played a great role, and he deserved the award as the best actor in Cannes.
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