(Chinese Drama Film and Television Director Exam Preparation Film Review, 2020.11.27)
"Central Station" tells the story of a retired teacher named Dora who makes a living by writing letters for people at Rio de Janeiro's central station. During this period, she met and took in Joshua, a little boy whose mother died unexpectedly in a car accident, and embarked on a journey to take him to find his father. On the way to find her father, Dora's originally cold heart was touched by Joshua and the people around her. She became emotional and learned to love others. The two took care of each other on the way and became each other's most sincere friends. Dora helped Joshua find her relatives. The black and white world in her eyes became colorful, she had colorful emotions, and her world was no longer hers. Alone, she is no longer alone because she has a fiery heart.
After Joshua lost his mother, he found Dora, and the gentle light hit her, as if she was Joshua's hope, but at this time, the camera was fighting back and forth, and she was opposed to Joshua. Joshua is numb, the little boy does not arouse her empathy, they are never in the same picture, but two separate individuals. After Joshua was brought home by Dora, the two people began to live under the same roof, and the two people in the camera began to exist at the same time, and their relationship changed. come together to some extent. Joshua is a fire to Dora. Fire can illuminate the darkness and transmit warmth to the surrounding things. Joshua brightens Dora's heart, and she begins to see beautiful things. Dora's The heart becomes hot, and she can be touched by beautiful things. The two of them are no longer alone and closed, but approached each other and walked into each other's heart, Dora realized the beauty of being accompanied by someone around. As the film progresses, there are fewer and fewer scenes of Dora being alone, and her side is more and more lively. At the end of the film, Dora took the return vehicle. Although she was not in the same scene as Joshua and surrounded by people she did not know, her face was full of infinite beauty and enthusiasm at this time. hot. Although she is leaving Joshua, she seems to have returned to a person, but she is no longer alone. She and Joshua are closely related in the spiritual world, and various people will enter her spiritual world.
The film revolves around the "letter" from beginning to end. At the beginning, the narrators told the content of their letter emotionally, and when they cut to Dora's reaction, she was expressionless, as if she had set up a barrier for her own heart, she could not understand the emotions of others, Instead, they looked at them indifferently. When she got home, she read other people's letters aloud, even made fun of them, tore up other people's letters or put them in her own cabinet forever. In her eyes, letters are the tools for her to make money, and even the object of her pleasure. She has no emotion for letters and the people who write them. But during the journey, Joshua's determination to meet his father and hand over the letter to him touched Dora. This determination came from his love and expectation for his father. She gradually understood that these letters are not just sheets of thin paper, but also countless love and expectations. Inside are the emotions of each narrator and their heavy emotional sustenance. After she failed to help Joshua find her father for the first time, she was penniless and continued to make a living by writing letters with the help of Joshua. Facing the writer's narrative, she no longer blocked herself, but opened Her own heart, listen carefully, and write down what everyone says with heart. At this time, letter is no longer a tool for making money and an object of jokes in her heart. She begins to understand the narrator's emotions, and her heart follows the narrator's heart. And moved, because of this, when Joshua wanted to throw all the letters away, she chose to send every letter. At the end of the film, when Dora left Joshua, she still wrote a letter, but this time she was no longer helping others to convey their emotions, but expressing her own heart. She had a strong desire to express herself, and she used her fiery heart When she treats the people around her, she sees the world with beautiful eyes. She misses her father. She wants to be loved. She is afraid of being forgotten. She will cry for a person. Through the different attitudes of Dora towards the letter these three times, we can see that Dora's inner temperature keeps increasing while helping Joshua to find his father. The originally indifferent individual has a fiery heart.
My favorite of the movie is the "Dora leaves Joshua at dawn to get on the bus home". Before dawn, she lit her face with a candle, she put on lipstick and put on the blue dress that Joshua bought her, she changed her image, no longer like Joshua before Evaluation of her - "old and ugly, never wear lipstick, like a man". She pursues beauty because she feels that she has changed, she has a beautiful and hot heart, she wants to show her best side to others, even if she doesn't really become a beauty from the outside, but her inner beauty Driven her external beauty. She left when it was dark, walking on an empty path. The blue sky in the early morning was against the white clouds, and the clouds glowed blue. She seemed to be glowing in her skirt. The further she walked, the brighter the light gradually became. Dora went from dark to dawn, from darkness to light, just like Dora's heart, she went to light step by step. This shot of Dora walking away step by step seems to summarize the process of Dora's heart opening throughout the film. And the light brought by the rising sun also heralds the transformation of Dora towards her sunny and beautiful new life. She wrote to Joshua with a lot of love in her heart. Tears flowed out with her fiery heart. At this time, she was undoubtedly a living and emotional person.
At the beginning, Dora was undoubtedly numb and indifferent. She was not used to empathizing with others, and always put on a fierce and distant face. Maybe this was her way of protecting herself in an environment like Central Station. . It was Joshua, a simple and lovely boy, and the various people she met on the road—truck drivers, pilgrims, believers, Joshua’s brother, who made her experience different emotions and life Beautiful, with a fiery heart. I think that those who seem to be indifferent in their lives have a fire in their hearts, but they use a numb barrier to seal the "seed", and there must be another fire in our life, A "seed" ignites, and that fire is love.
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