to tell the truth, but the attraction is the exotic culture. Amazon culture, as I understand it, what the film conveys is the culture of the native Indians. The basic elements of this culture, from the point of view of the film, are "natural culture" and "psychedelic culture". Worshiping nature and revering nature is a main feature of human primitive culture, because not only does it obtain all survival resources from nature, but also the power of primitive human beings is compared with the forces of nature, such as the "snake" in the film. It seems insufficient, so the Indian young Kalamakat in the film promised to help the German scientist Theo find drugs and proposed:
This rainforest is very fragile, if you destroy her, she will retaliate, we can only respect her, go through her, we can't eat meat and fish, unless the rainforest rains again, we have to get consent from the owner of the animal, we can't Cut them from the roots of the trees. It is an illustration of this culture. The so-called "psychedelic culture" does not seem to be specially emphasized in the film, but it cannot be ignored. The film talks about various Indian medicines, such as kapi, cocoa leaves, manbi, and yakuna. It is obvious that Kapimu is a sleeping and dream-inducing drug; Cocoa leaves and Manbi are just like "chewing gum", and it is estimated that they also contain stimulant ingredients; there is also the legendary Yakuna that cures all diseases. However, in the film Kalamakat doesn't want the two scientists to find Yakuna (I don't want to educate my people, I don't want to educate you, and give them more than they ask for), but wants them to feel something else, A kind of soul experience, and the way of experience is naturally the traditional Indian "psychedelic drug". But just like we are seeing young people in Europe and America abusing marijuana and fashionable psychedelic mushrooms, it is actually an era shift of these cultures. Because the real world is "clear", but we are not satisfied with being clear, the old Kalamakat told Ivan, an American scientist (asked how many banks of the Ivan River have, Ivan answered two): Then you are wrong , this river has three, five, a thousand banks, a child can easily understand this, but you can't, this river is the son of a giant python, we know it from a dream, but it's a real fact , which is more real than "real" in your mouth. Therefore, there are many expressions of soul and rebirth that we Chinese are familiar with in the film. When the old Kalamakat saw Ivan, he said: You are not alone, you are two. Alluding to the spirit of Theo in him. And also said to him: I, once wanted to kill you, I also killed you, in the past, timeless, yesterday, 40 years ago, maybe 100 years ago, maybe a million years ago, but you're back. Where do these imaginations that transcend time and space come from? There are also many "deja vu" mentioned in the film. To put it bluntly, in the historical process of trying herbal medicines, Indian wizards discovered not only some medicines to treat diseases, but also some psychedelic medicines. Therefore, in the film, Kalamakat gave the two scientists drugs, which made them realize. However, because American scientists are utilitarian, they did not realize it in the end, while German scientists seem to have realized something, but they cannot explain it.
This is the so-called Amazon culture. 16.12.15
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