Everyone has heard the story of Mulan. Both men and women, young and old, were moved by Mulan's deeds of joining the army on behalf of her father and taking on family responsibilities. Hua Mulan has both the tenderness of a daughter and the courage of a man, which everyone talks about. In fact, in addition to such heroic sons and daughters in Chinese history, there are also women like Mulan in other countries and in different eras, and what she did was not to join the army for her father, but to act as an 11-year-old girl. Put on a men's clothing, took on the responsibility of supporting the family. What Yu Meng wants to talk about today is this impressive movie - "The Breadwinner".
The film won the Los Angeles Film Critics' Best Animated Feature Film Award in 2017, the Toronto Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature Film Award, and the 45th Animated Annie Award for Best Independent Animated Feature Film at the end of 2018. Matching so many awards, it is based on the story of a family in the context of Afghanistan: tenderness and strength.
11-year-old Parwana has a poor and happy home in Kabul. Her home is so poor, and sand is pouring in from all directions. Although it is a broken home, it has a clean and bright dream. The enlightened teacher Dad taught her and her sister to read and hyphenate words, and told them the history and fables with hidden truth. Whenever he was so poor that he was hungry for water, his father took his daughter to the market to become a seller, and Parwana's beloved dress was also sold. But that's not the worst - in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2001, women were never allowed to appear outside, let alone receive an education. So, Dad was taken away by the Taliban. The poor need to eat and are always hungry too fast. A family of four lives in a squatting house where the sun does not see the light of day. The mother is ill, and the younger brother is waiting to feed. Parwana refuses to wait to die like this. While doing hard labor in the city, he inquired about his father's whereabouts.
A person's growth is often in that moment. At the beginning of the film, the scene is put on Parwana and her father's seller. A patient father, a daughter who is not very sensible, even if the family has been unable to open the pot, the father still taught his daughter many fables about the country and the nation in the past, while the 11-year-old Parwana is obviously not so good. All her thoughts were on the dress she was about to sell, and she reluctantly touched the bright red dress. This dress represents Parwana's daughter status: weak and beautiful.
In the blink of an eye, because of family changes, when Parwana had to cut her long hair and went out to make a living, it was the scene of selling the property, but now the father who told her the story has been sent to prison, only The remaining Parwana, who changed into men's clothes, also gave herself a name that represented the meaning of "fire" - Addis. Today, Parwana has no nostalgia for her dress. She can tell the customers who pass by a lot of the advantages of this shiny dress, bargain with each other, and try to earn enough money to meet her father as soon as possible!
It is also selling dresses, one after the other, forming a sharp contrast. Yes, growth really happens in an instant. There are many people in life who always live in greenhouses. Even if they are 20 years old, they still cannot see through the complexities of society, do not understand people's hearts, and do not know how to go in the future. However, 11-year-old Parwana has begun to assume the responsibility of supporting her family and saving her father with her wisdom, courage and sense of responsibility to the family. I have to say that this is an educational movie that is very suitable for parents to bring their children to watch.
Among the animated feature films nominated for the 90th Academy Awards, although the film is not the best, it bravely and uniquely uses the shoulders of animation to take on the righteousness of the world. The story is about the miserable world, but it is not only miserable, it also tells about the bright mind in misery, and in the world of positive and negative collision, it emits moving brilliance. The film's contribution to the world is that it brings the most desperate life in the distance, the smallest existence, and uses concise animation to live it in front of people. Of course, this story can also be shot in real life, but the hand-painted, more "meaning", unexpectedly undertakes a broader and more transparent narrative. In the light and shadow of the animation, people read the blood and tears of Afghanistan again and understand the life without a way out in this world, another weight and measure of joys and sorrows, so humble and so powerful.
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