Latin America is a magical land, the soil of the so-called magical reality; many outstanding writers have also been born in Latin American countries, such as Marquez, Llosa, Neruda and others who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as Borge Such an uncrowned king. After Marquez won the award, the whole city honked his horns to pay tribute to him, and he brought yellow roses to the ceremony. It sounds like a legend, but it's true.
So what happened to the great Argentine writer Daniel?
Before entering the ceremony, he was anxious and arrogant when awarding the award. Taking the opportunity of the award-winning speech, he issued a creative declaration: he will not grind the edges and corners because of official recognition, and will not forget the original intention of writing. Sounds like a biopic of a (fictional) author?
Not exactly, the focus is on life after the award. He turned down a lot of invitations, but because of the invitation from his hometown, he decided to return to the hometown that "has always been based on this, but has been fleeing."
It was only later that I realized that this was a satirical film, combining the absurd with the reality and making fun of it unscrupulously. Watching it on an airplane, the screen is small and the noise is loud, but it does not detract from the charm of this film that performed well at the Venice Film Festival.
The car broke down on the road and couldn't move, so he had to tear up books and set fire to toilet paper; he got into the fire truck and did a heroic parade; he had an awkward meeting with an old friend, and got involved in the local "power vortex"... a bunch of ironies The short story of the book is indeed like a caricature, which criticizes the social phenomenon in a savage and piercing manner.
At first, I unconsciously regarded Daniel as Uncle Mo Yanmo from Argentina: he is also a great writer from a small place, and he also arranged a lot of activities after winning the Nobel Prize, and he is very likely to encounter writing block; but Daniel He chose to escape from his hometown (and refused a lot of activities), but Mr. Mo still sticks to the Northeast Township of Gaomi (as for how many activities he has turned down, I don’t know). This is why the media is bothering them. The constant hype for a hot topic is actually becoming more and more impetuous, so that when Daniel really wants to discuss some serious topics, the readers are not enthusiastic, and they end up one by one; Judging from his personal experience, maybe many people are really just for fun (like me), and maybe they really don't care about his career - if you meet someone in a foreign country and say that you learned Spanish for his book, if you say I still believe in what I learned from Messi Harvey. He became a symbol, as a friend put it: "When you win a Nobel, you become a statue." It was.
If you think about it again, this may be Argentina's "Hometown". "I braved the heat and went back to my hometown that was separated by thousands of miles and separated for more than 40 years." After returning home, there is some vitality (in fact, it is just an appearance, after all, there are many activities in the town). After a long absence, but he has been writing the story of his hometown. Perhaps it was his insight into the country that helped him win the award; a shoddy PPT was enough to make him cry: After all, this is the hometown that has been remembered for more than 40 years! But he found that he had nothing to say with his former friends, and his relationship with his old lover (and their daughters) was delicate; he found that the townspeople were still so ignorant-the hometown had not changed, and it was still the same backward appearance, so he wanted to escape; My hometown has changed, far from what I remembered and what I wrote, so I can't go back. That strange reader thinks that his father is the prototype of the character in Daniel's book, which may be just as wishful thinking as Daniel's memories of his hometown.
The "Midnight Escape" at the end is already crazy, and what's even more funny is that Daniel wrote the experience of returning home into a book, the title is "Outstanding Citizen"; Daniel sneered at the flash, as if looking at the audience in front of the screen, this kind of Wonderful intertext, can't help but sigh: Isn't it also a kind of magic?
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