The audience knows it well, pretending to be deaf and foolish to immerse themselves in this kind of "reality", choosing to stay in this reality for a few hours, recovering their strength in the "sweet dreamland", so that they can continue in the real world of life. roll.
Therefore, movies that stretch reality are often sought after as talent or style, while movies that care about reality are often despised or ignored.
Under the influence of two kinds of thinking, our revolutionary films appear too much impatient to please the audience, which are actually acrobatic behaviors that insult the audience's IQ, such as "tear the devil by hand", such as the recently popular "meat bun bomb"... ..It
is also a revolutionary movie, which tells about the independence of a country and a nation. The 2006 movie "The Wind and the Wind" can be called a model for almost all movies of the same type.
The film comes from one of Britain's greatest directors, Ken Lodge.
Known as "the most important director of the new realism," his films cut through the fabric of society like a scalpel, allowing you to see everything behind the story.
"The Wind Blows the Wheat" won the best picture award at the Cannes Film Festival that year. It tells the story behind the Irish War of Independence, and presents us with the majestic background of sociology, the personal experiences of the little people and the inescapable fate under the big historical pattern.
"The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" is definitely a movie that needs to be watched three times.
The greatest thing about it is that it presents the way the movie itself should be. It is different from most visual films that count the audience. It is restrained and unhurried, and a shot must be no more or no less, neither long nor short.
The story, the characters, and the emotions are in an astonishing balance of calculated editing.
The fat brother was ashamed, he could only see one or two of them, but he still couldn't fully see through the master-level control.
Those empty shots, those supposedly redundant parts of the narrative, leave the viewer with a moment of catharsis after each narrative's emotionally climaxing moment.
Not too much, not enough, but let the story go on as if nothing had happened, let the emotion be revealed.
The masterful sense of proportion made me panic, consciously focused all my attention, and cherished the passing of every minute of the film.
"The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" does not have any half-second redundant pictures. Every frame of the picture serves the story, is designed for the characters, and stands for the theme.
Brother Fat is not going to focus on the technicality of the film here, but go deep into the story of the film, so that everyone can feel what the foothold of a master-level revolutionary film should be.
The background of the story of "Breaking the Wheat" is the Irish War of Independence in 1919.
Ireland was still under British rule at the time. British political giant and World War II hero Churchill ruled Ireland with an iron fist.
In 1919, Ireland announced the establishment of a parliament and demanded independence.
There was a military confrontation between Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The film starts with two Irish brothers, Damian and Teddy, telling us the story behind the war from the perspective of ordinary people.
Although it is an ordinary person's life in the details, the sophistication of "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" is that every event and every scene is carefully selected, allowing the audience to clearly understand the beginning and end of this battlefield from the side, and at the same time See through the conflict of forces behind this war.
In the story, Damian is a medical student with a bright future. Before he is ready to embark on a trip to study medicine in London, he witnesses the brutal execution of his companion because he does not want to tell the soldiers who are searching his name in English.
This appalling incident made Damian's brother Teddy extremely angry. The incident gave the audience a clear glimpse of the brutality of the British military against the Irish people.
But Damian is still preparing to go to London. In his opinion, in order to preserve his ancient language, he does not know how to retreat when facing power, and he is killed. Although it is pitiful, it is also a stupid act.
It was not until Damian saw the rudeness and unreasonable treatment of train crews by British soldiers at the railway station again that he realized that the death of his companion was not a small probability event.
The entire Irish people were not treated fairly under British rule.
He stayed in Ireland and joined the IRA with Teddy.
The story begins in a resistance movement with Damian and Teddy as the narrative backbone, but the film does not fall into a routine journal, but selects multiple scenes that highlight the theme.
Through narrative and scene changes, we see the identity and spiritual transformation of the two protagonists.
One of the two protagonists is a revolutionary idealist and the other a realist.
They can work together in the face of the power, but when the power throws the temptation, when the power changes the way it is informed, subtle changes will divide the group internally.
The first key point of the film is the scene in the prison after the Republican Army was arrested for robbing the local army camp of weapons and shooting and killing British soldiers.
Damian and brother Teddy, including accomplices, are jerky and scared.
Facing the torture, Teddy didn't say a word.
And Damian, with his knowledge, needs asylum as a political prisoner.
Although they were all ignored, the British military arbitrarily announced that they would all be shot the next day, but a group of people went from fear to death, and we saw the unity of the Republican Army.
At night, with the help of Irish soldiers, they narrowly escaped.
A second turning point in the story soon comes when Damian captures the landowner who denounced them, as well as the whistleblower companion.
Damian shot both of them. When a comrade is shot, a dispute arose within the team, and Damian fought back tears to kill a comrade he had known since childhood.
That scene fully demonstrated the director's level of scene scheduling.
Shooting the landlord is just an emotion brewing. Everyone knows that the difficulty is the shooting of a former partner.
Damian asked the companion to take out the suicide note, but the companion said that the elderly mother was illiterate. The companion continued to cry, hoping to find a burial place for himself, his eyes still begging for mercy.
Damian was on the verge of collapse, he pulled the trigger in pain, and fired three bullets out of control.
After seeing his companion fall to the ground, he completely broke down, dropped the pistol, and hurriedly fled the scene...
In the camera, no one dared to look directly. Damian quietly moved away from the camera. When the emotions were about to boil, the screen went black.
The director gave time for emotional catharsis, but he would not tolerate emotions affecting the narrative. The story still has to continue calmly.
The ending of this scene is crucial, it symbolizes that Damian has completely embarked on the predicament of self-enclosed idealistic revolution.
Before the execution, he was angry and justified himself by saying that he hoped that the result of the revolution would be worthy of the death of his comrade.
Hopefully his actions against his conscience will see his dream of revolution come true.
Not only Damian, but almost all of the IRA companions present have walked into the narrow door of morality. The death of the companion and the result of the revolution have become cruel events that must have a causal connection.
If the revolution turns out to be slightly wrong, then they will all be guilty of killing their comrades.
In the next scene, the Republican army and the enemy robbed the British army halfway.
There are small sights everywhere in the film, there is no grand war scene, there is no cathartic roar that can provoke people's emotions, but restraint is maintained, leaving plenty of room for rational moments.
The main idea of the whole film is cleverly arranged in the two internal debates before and after.
At the height of the revolution, Teddy protected the local businessman who oppressed the elderly in order to continue to get weapons, and Damian obviously could not agree with this.
The differences between the two in the attitude and extent of the revolution were thus foreshadowed.
The revolutionary situation changed, Britain declared a truce, verbally approved the independence of Ireland, and withdrew British troops from the territory. However, the 6 northern counties of Ireland are still under British rule, the king of the United Kingdom is still the king of Ireland, and the United Kingdom will send the governor as the supreme commander of Ireland.
Therefore, the United Kingdom just loosened the control of Ireland and gave it more room for autonomy.
This piece of cake has divided the IRA.
The entire film takes 10 minutes to present this debate that symbolizes a complete division.
The idealists centered on Damian believed that the revolution must be carried through to the end, a complete republic must be realized, the Irish should be equally distributed, and a completely fair, non-classified social state must be achieved.
In the previous debate, Teddy exposed his views on social stratification. The Free State centered on him believed that peace was not easy to come by, and that Ireland was actually unable to resist Britain, and should seize this opportunity to recuperate.
Later, Teddy put on the uniform of the Free State Police to replace the British soldiers and maintain local law and order.
The fateful tragic fuse was thus ignited.
Damian, together with like-minded former members of the Republican Army, went to the Free State military camp to steal weapons, his whereabouts were exposed, and he was arrested on the spot.
Several very ironic scenes pointed out the mystery of human nature.
One is that he was a companion of the Republican Army at the beginning, and now he is wearing the police uniform of the Free State, and went to the farmhouse that once protected them to arrest the Damian remnant.
The peasant family blurted out that they looked exactly like the thugs in British uniforms who killed her son.
The high point of the conflict in the film is undoubtedly the end of Teddy and Damian's relationship.
Teddy kept Damian back again and again, and let him go back to be a doctor with a bright future and go back to school. That was his life.
As long as Damian reveals the location of his accomplice, he can be released.
Damian refused.
The entire video is aimed at Teddy's hand!
In this prison, the British army pulled out all of Teddy's nails in order to obtain information, but Teddy did not say a word.
Now, Teddy's hand has been healed, but his hand is extended to his own brother, and in this prison, he is pushed to the point of death by shooting his brother.
The film ends with the same emotional rhythm when Damian shoots his comrade, but this time it's more heart-wrenching.
Teddy kept persuading, hoping that Damian would change his mind. After repeated negotiations, there was still no result. Teddy could only personally shout the order to execute the shooting.
Looking at the fallen brother, Teddy has long been lost.
The last time he was shot, Damian couldn't face his companion's family.
And this time, Teddy was beaten by the other's wife with Damian's suicide note.
Teddy could only run away.
"The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" shows us the beginning and end of the civil war embodied by the two countries from various details.
Seeing the big from the small, it explained to us the truth of the conflict in a precise way.
The breakup of the two brothers was the result of the separation of the two values, and Damian's fate was the complete failure of the revolutionary idealists.
Several shooting scenes echoed before and after, with a strong sense of resonance, shaking people's hearts, making people feel complicated and uncontrollable emotions.
Surprisingly, the director is not completely biased towards one value, although director Ken Lodge is a leftist opinion, and the film shows more sympathy for Damian, but he still gave Teddy's in the film. Compromises enough to prove themselves.
For the development of the country and for the independence of the nation, what is the appropriate level of revolution and what kind of revolutionary spirit is in the interests of the majority of people?
"The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" does not have any juggling, insisting on constructing the story in the authentic way of the film, while presenting the master idea, and leaving room for the audience to think.
We don't see emotionally hijacking stories, we don't see stories that are radicalized to castrate the subject.
All elements of the film are masterfully balanced in The Wind Blows the Wheat.
All, it's great enough!
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