Passionate about imagining the American dream

Wiley 2022-03-23 09:02:46

great. Integrating youth and sports, it is easy to be bloody, and it is easy to spill dog blood. But the control of the director and the main actors is very good, the whole filming is clean and not instigating.

At the individual level, the mediocrity moves towards success; at the group level, the marginal moves towards the mainstream. What do these two achieve? Sports - the core is the spirit of fairness. Before the last game, the national anthem was sung at the gate of the stadium for so long, "bring the warriors home", the meaning of the whole film could not be more clear: this is a story that happened in the United States, this is a group of neglected The story of immigrants who became heroes who were seen.

Of course, apparently, this is the American dream. The ambition of storytelling at this level is bigger. The narrative of the American Dream is immersed in every moment of the film. "Let them be us" is also an inexhaustible effort by Americans and people from other countries in the United States. It's always been like this, and the interesting thing is that when the final prototype appeared, they certainly changed their fate to a large extent, getting rid of cheap labor and getting on the right track, but they didn't achieve any class jump. So, are they "them" or "we"? Are the high steps and closed doors of private schools open to them? Is this a realization of the American dream, or an imagination?

Teacher Mao Jian is right: don't take the main theme as the content, but take the main theme as the method. No, half of the Hollywood movies are this way. So, the main melody is no problem, the problem is to shoot well.

Finally, the photography is really good. And I really love Kevin Costner.

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  • Maria Marisol: [reading Jose Cardenas's paper] We fly like blackbirds through the orange groves, floating on a warm wind. When we run, we own the earth. The land is ours. We speak the birds' language. Not immigrant no more. No stupid Mexicans. When we run, our spirits fly. We speak to the gods. When we run, we are the gods.

  • Maria Marisol: Welcome to McFarland, Blanco.