The background of the film is Barcelona, Spain, an ancient city that has hosted two World Expos and an Olympic Games. Under the lens of Inarido, the beauty and civilization of the past have changed, and all the streets are cramped and dirty. , and the ubiquitous violence and oppression. "Death, estrangement, violence, and racial issues" are eternal topics in Inarido's films. These have been interpreted many times in his estrangement trilogy. Compared with "Love is a bitch", the sharp and stunning, With the poignant literary temperament of "Babel Tower" and the strange and blurred atmosphere of "21 Grams", this "Beautiful Mistake" appears to be forbearing and heavy, and in addition to the dark atmosphere of forbearing and heavy rendering, there is still no lack of human warmth and dawn. Dawn. This is also the most valuable part of Inarido's film.
The story revolves around the life of the male protagonist. Cancer-ridden, children waiting to be fed, ex-wife sinking, and life is hard, all of which are like a mountain pressing on the male protagonist. Every day is difficult. What he thinks about every day is not how to survive, but how to live in the limited days. Make a pair of children have a reliable whereabouts. Such a tragic character, which combines great suffering and great love, is very suitable for the consumption taste of the public, and it is easy to be shaped into a tragic hero with a mask. Sensation, nothing but earning a few cheap tears of sympathy. But "Beautiful Mistakes" presents a complex and multi-faceted character. In order to live and take responsibility, he has to endure physical pain while working hard to make money; he has to suffer the condemnation of conscience and the doubts of others, while wandering on the fringes of law and morality.
Obviously, when Inarido created the character of the male protagonist, he not only gave him the responsibilities of an ordinary person, but also gave him the characteristics of a god. He is both a kind father and an intermediary who is both black and white doing illegal activities; a son who is nostalgic for the unknown past, and a husband who is powerless to his decadent wife in reality. He has a charitable and amiable side, as well as a hypocritical and hateful side, has psychic abilities that others cannot, and also has the joys, sorrows and sorrows of mortals. The male protagonist is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. His performance can be described as remarkable, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a one-man show. With precise control and expressiveness, Javier Bardem interprets a respectable, hateful, pathetic and pitiful image vividly, presenting the audience with a visual feast of spiritual and spiritual games, sin and redemption.
The film also shows the living conditions of Chinese and African immigrants in Spain. It is not difficult to see that everyone in the story had a good starting point, but the results backfired. The appearance of one tragedy is just one beautiful mistake. Smuggled immigrants, wanting to live a better life, are either deported or killed. The male protagonist wants to give some help to illegal immigrants while making money himself, but makes them suffer disaster. The wife just wanted to add some color to her boring life, but she fell into the abyss of being unable to extricate herself. I wanted to redeem myself and others, but fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire of sin and death, everyone is struggling in life, everyone wants to make themselves and others a better life, but life is like a grumpy old man , you can never predict when he will turn his face, you can only read the vicissitudes of life from his wrinkled face, and recall the beauty and cruelty behind those vicissitudes afterwards.
Like most films with heavy themes, the story ends with no answer, either hanging in the air, or resorting to magic. Such as this film, which discusses the essence of life, it is difficult to draw a conclusion. The entanglement of beauty and wrong will not disappear with the death of the individual. As for the expression of magical realism in the film, whether it is a compromise or sublimation of the theme, it is a matter of opinion.
The beginning and end of the film are the same set of shots, the dialogue in the dark, the snow-capped forest, beautiful and desolate. The inheritance of the ring means the continuation of life. The dialogue between the father and the son and the surreal expression techniques show the continuation of life while downplaying the tragic color. The baton of life will be passed on one by one, and the entanglement of beauty and error will be endless. Perhaps the beauty and troubles of life lie in this.
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