The film is said to be based on the novel of the same name, and in the end the protagonist becomes a terrific trade union representative, a reality that ends the film well.
Pelle's actor's real name is also Pelle. As soon as he appeared, he looked at the foggy seaside with a touch of sadness, and then the father played by the old drama bone Max von Sydow sleepily instilled Pelle with a beautiful blueprint for this "new world". From this moment on, the characters and images of the father and the son have emerged, paving the way for the contrast between the two in the future.
I. Entering Stone Farm
, my father sold himself to the foreman on the pier, and then kept nagging "don't be in a hurry to accept the first chance", but everyone rejected him outright on the grounds that the father was too old and the son was too young . "You're too late!" A foreman said to his father, and he spoke of his father's life. In the end, the father and son were picked up by the foreman of the stone farm and began their life in Denmark.
In the dark work on the farm, my father's original dream became cannon fodder. As laborers from Sweden, the father and son were bullied by apprentices and other workers. Pelle was bullied by an apprentice after stealing milk once. Her father was not as good as Erik, the foreman.
II. Trapped Stone Farm
Stone Farm is a small world, where everyone has a story. Foreman Erik saved money to work in order to fulfill his dream of conquering the New World in the Americas, "First to the United States, then to the Netherlands and then to China", Erik always said this, saying that when he returned to the land in the spring two years later, he would get on a ship and go to the United States. . But he still failed. As free as he was, he wanted to get out of the sea of misery immediately, and he always touched the bottom line of the contractor again and again, and stood up for all the suffering laborers. In the end, the foreman threatened to deduct all wages, which made the fearless man's mind collapse - without wages, there would be no America, so he looked at the foreman with his hoe, but he was smashed into dementia by a stone that fell from the sky. Like the protagonist of "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest", he brought the ideal of freedom to everyone, especially Pelle, but he was not spared and ended up sadly.
The foreman and assistants seem to represent "authority" and "power", bullying the soft and fearing the hard. It can be said that in the first half of the film, they represent the symbol of the evil force of "oppression". But after Erik became demented, the contractor turned out to be the person who took care of him the most, and Erik only listened to his words, watching them hold hands in the market to give everyone a comforting warmth. Finally, the foreman left with Erik, which also symbolized the exchange of blood of the "authoritative" class of the stone farm. We all know they didn't go to America, and the place they went to was probably darker than Stone Farm.
The story of the farmer and his wife is even darker and more twisted. The wife and Pelle cry out that they took a million-dollar dowry to get rid of their husband and made him the boss. It made the lady unable to bear it, and finally castrated him. In the story of this thread, the scene where the niece was washing clothes by the river deeply affected me. The farmer looked at her with indifferent eyes, full of conceit and pride, and he was lying on the sofa with no energy after the castration. Eating dim sum is a stark contrast. The castration incident also made the lady get rid of the image of the resentful woman. She left the "howling" to her husband and her dignity to herself. This is accompanied by the disintegration of the "authority" of the foreman, symbolizing the birth of a new owner of the stone farm.
The plot is about the affair and the disproportionate lovers, they have a dark birth, class and family differences have murdered their children and themselves, but in my opinion they died of bravery, although their endings It became a tragedy, but it also gave Pelle a kind of inspiration and encouragement, which was also a very important milestone in his growth.
III.
The story of Stone Farm The Stone Farm pushed the two protagonists to split, and they grew up in these struggles, changes and developments. The father's desire for family and wife eventually made himself a laughing stock, and because of this desire, he finally chose to combine with the fat maid Karna rather than adventure the world with his son. And Pelle has learned to resist, learn to show, and learn to pursue. He used his courage to make his classmates respect him, used wisdom to make himself stronger, used integrity to defend his innocence, and used reason to choose the most correct path.
In the second half of the movie, the father has become very different from the dreamer on the ship, especially after learning that the widow's husband with whom he was dating is back, his last dream collapsed and he planned to use alcohol to numb himself. The strength and courage Pelle showed at that time showed us a completely ready conqueror: Psychologically, the breakdown of his father and the bullying of his classmates could make him lose his courage and determination; physically, he You can also fight one against five, or even ride on the priest's child and beat him. In his stumble as an assistant, Erik's departure brought him back to his senses, and he understood deeply what he wanted, the one he had seen from his good friend Rud, the one he had in two years Something I started thinking about before. So he resolutely left the stone farm with no future, and started his dream practice early.
The father came too late, too late without the ability and time to prepare for a dream, the ability and time to start a new dream, the ability and time to accept the shattering of a dream. So he stayed at Stone Farm, leaving his dream to young Pelle. Pelle came too early. At a young age, he experienced the various changes and warmth in the world. His heart was already a strong warrior, waiting to conquer the world. He has time to dream, he has time to make himself stronger, he has time to break, to touch, to fail.
At the end of the film, on the coast where the snow and ice gradually melted, he left his father with his full youth and courage, accompanied by the sound of the approaching whistle. Different from the symbolic meaning of "400 Strikes", this is the departure of a warrior and a conqueror. Every step is courage and fearlessness, just like the coming spring.
View more about Pelle the Conqueror reviews
