watching the 2006 Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film "The Gangster", which is commonly known by all the media as a "hot action blockbuster", I felt a shock that I haven't had in a long time. To be honest, the title of the film is a vulgar translation, but its original title "Tsotsi" ("Tatis") is more well-known, and the word Tsotsi is a South African street slang, which means black criminals, thugs or thugs in the city. gang members.
The protagonist of the film is Tsotsi, a small gang leader who wanders in the city, and several other accomplices make a living from robbery and murder. The director shakes out a bloody robbery and a bloody robbery in the car at the beginning of the film. Murder, before the audience reflected it, immediately reminded me of the South African version of "City of God". But then, also because of the murder, one of his accomplices suffered and broke. The mood of the story began to change, and most of the time left a story about how Tatis was transformed from an inhuman and brutal youth in 6 days. When he carjacked a car, he accidentally found a baby girl in the car and took it home, so in the process of learning to take care of the baby girl for the first time, his kind nature was gradually awakened, and he finally put down the butcher's knife.
The leading role of the film is quite wonderful, reminding me of the hero of "Children" at last year's Palme d'Or, and the whole painful process of breaking with his past and accompanying childhood memories are also convincingly shown in the film. . The difference from the lives of other marginal characters presented directly and plainly lies in the process of self-salvation in "Tatis". It seems that films that ask questions have become popular in Oscars in the past two years, and the genius of "Tatis" is that it not only asks questions, but also solves and solves problems. Although this process seems to be a little flattering at the end, it is upward after all. "City of God" is a distorted and naked display of the entire cruelty. While the director directly presents the violence, he has more inner power to control the emotions of the film, the actors and the audience. This kind of nature is good to human nature. The excavation and self-rescue of the film is indeed rare in today's films, and it is no wonder that the film beat many films to win the Oscar for best foreign language film, and it deserves its name.
As for the second Oscar-winning foreign language film introduced in China (the first one is "The Pianist"), it is also the only introduced film that won the Oscar in 2006, and this gray theme has always been a forbidden area in China. It is said that this time However, the submission process went very smoothly, and nothing was cut. It is surprising that the scenes of murder and violent robbery in residential areas in the film were not deleted. And changing the title to "Redemption" is also more realistic than "The Gangster". It is also worth looking forward to the domestic market with such a facelift. For such a character depicting the fate of the bottom of the society, the proposition of redemption and self-redemption will always be in the movie. New topics can be introduced, and the introduction of this film, no matter in the gap between the bombardment of today's good-for-nothing commercial films, allows domestic audiences to breathe a rare breath of air, and also provides domestic filmmakers with a textbook-like experience. How Third World Cinema can open the way to the international film market.
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