When an actor's life is his own life, will that world be what they want?
Dystopian films already belong to a large category in the existing successful films. The 1927 "Metropolis" and the 1971 "A Clockwork Orange" all present the dystopian world in a surreal form.
This type of movie is undoubtedly a bit solemn in terms of the tone, and science fiction is one of the good performance options. So if it is expounded in the form of witty comedy, what is the effect?
In 1998, "Trumen's World" swept the nominations of major film festivals. In the same year, another good movie of very similar genre was buried. It was "Happy Valley".
1. Story summary
Time Satellite TV is the only TV company that broadcasts old black and white films. The preview of Friday's Happy Valley "Marathon" special and a knowledge contest with a $1,000 prize are being shown on the TV.
Happy Valley-is a harmonious existence of all things, without greed, anger, ignorance, resentment, curiosity, dissatisfaction, and sex. Everything is maintained at just the right baseline.
The male protagonist in reality is an introverted, shy and clumsy middle school student.
The hostess is a brave and enthusiastic "bad girl", obviously there is a huge gap between the characters of the brother and sister.
For him, life in the school is also constantly listening to teachers talking about employment difficulties, AIDS, the greenhouse effect, earth disasters, and other places that constantly export survival anxiety.
The only thing that can give him a warm moment is the Happy Valley time every day.
At 6:30, the heroine is preparing for a date, and the hero is preparing to watch the Happy Valley special. They all need the right to use the TV now, and the remote control broke during the snatch.
At the same time, the doorbell rang. It was an old man who came to repair the TV. The old man and the male lead were chatting about the upcoming Happy Valley. The male lead responded fluently. The old man seemed very satisfied, and replaced the ordinary remote control on his hand with a magical one.
The TV can finally be tried out normally, but the struggle for the right to use has not stopped. The male protagonist accidentally pressed the red button of the remote control, and the two put on the TV. At this time, Happy Valley was playing. It happened that the two brothers and sisters were arguing in front of the TV. They replaced the roles in TV.
The whole world is black and white. The old man appeared on the other side of the TV. They thought they would be very happy and excited when they traveled through the past, but they couldn't accept it. They demanded to return to the real world, and the old man went away angry.
The two had no choice but to accept. According to the male lead, only by living the way in the play would the old man reappear and let them return to the real world.
Everything looks orderly, but the rebellious heroine is unwilling to repeat life in this unchanging world. She enjoys sex with her suitors, tells her female classmates new vocabulary, and makes the absurd course of saying that the end of the street is the beginning in the classroom is incredibly ridiculous.
The male protagonist has no intention of changing people, but invisibly affects the restaurant owner, telling him to break the original order and tell him that he can make his own sandwiches and close the restaurant himself.
Until one day, the restaurant owner refused to make sandwiches. He wanted to change his life.
The world has begun to change. Lover’s Lane has become an open air, furniture stores have begun to sell double beds, basketball teams no longer arbitrarily score goals and lose the game, some people go to the doctor because their tongues become colorful. Everyone finds it unbelievable that these things are not in their cognition.
The housewives were talking about these strange phenomena at the card table, and my mother suddenly saw the colors on the cards. The mother was very puzzled, and asked the heroine what sex is, which is obviously far beyond her scope of cognition. The hostess sympathized with the mother in this world and told her another way of sex that does not require a father.
Mother opened the door to the new world, and the fire lit the trees at the door. There is nothing in this world that can be ignited.
More and more colors appeared, spreading in Happy Valley like a plague.
2. Details and film reviews
There is a line in the whole film that is worthy of scrutiny. The father of the hero and the hero in Happy Valley will repeat one sentence: Honey, I'm home.
The whole film appeared five times, from the first modeled drama-style joy to the last chatting with the stodgy men in Happy Valley, and a lot of doubts about the life in front of me.
The first basketball captain to receive sex training, except for being the first person to see a colored object, he turned himself into color with everyone in the last court. He even regarded having sex with the heroine as one in the middle. The new reciprocating cycle must be done.
The stubborn mayor also turned into color under his anger. But so far there are still two questions that puzzle me. The restaurant owner who first realized freedom and self has always been a black-and-white body and painted in color. In court, he actually tried to admit that he was a guilty person. So in the end, Happy Valley People here are discovering themselves, and only when they face up to their hearts will they turn into color. Is there some contradiction at this node?
It has to be said that it is indeed not meticulous in the plot and it is worthy of scrutiny. But it does not affect its excellence.
Therefore, whether sex is a means to inspire people’s true self, of course, so is anger, including but not limited to.
The core of the story is very ambitious, but even "in the Happy Valley of the Revolution", it is still relaxed and happy, and it can even make people laugh.
3. End
People smashed restaurants with colorful nude pictures, accusing them of becoming colorful. Today, the appearance of the new crown abroad is very much like the black and white characters in the movie.
They are confined to their own cognition, using everything in their own vision as the criterion for judging, denying all the real unknowns and possibilities.
Regardless of whether the background of the film is satirizing what efforts the United States did for equal rights in the 1980s, the term equal rights is still on the way today.
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