It is not a new thing for writers to take their hometown as the basis of their creation. Faulkner in the United States, Marquez in Colombia, and Mo Yan in China are all writers of this type. Therefore, it is natural for us to think of reality from the movie. When these writers return home, what kind of mentality will they hold, what kind of attitude will their hometown people hold, and whether it is as glorious as shown in the film. Not glory, hypocrisy is hypocrisy?
The above are all common and even universal phenomena, and the practical significance of the film is also largely based on this basis.
Back in the movie, Daniel, the novelist in the story, turned down all invitations and always held a cold and withdrawn attitude to the outside world. But an invitation letter from the hometown of Salas received a different treatment - Daniel embarked on a trip back home.
Imagine the original intention of Daniel's return to his hometown. Why did a man who never went back to his hometown for the funeral even when his father died? Is it because of the outbreak of the rural complex? Or because of vanity? Or is it a statement similar to that of falling leaves returning to their roots?
After careful scrutiny, these speculations are reasonable, but they are not completely established. You must know that the hometown and town have always been the source of Daniel's creation. His themes, his stories, and his life are all extracted from this town. From this aspect, the so-called hometown has a strong artistic color.
In other words, the small town of Salas is a more complex image in Daniel's mind, an intertwined derivative of the two metaphysical thoughts of homeland meaning and literary and artistic creation. The foundation of his life is here. Departure is very attractive to him. All along, these thoughts must have been deeply rooted in my heart. When the invitation came, he had not created a new work for five years.
However, the series of events after such a Nobel Prize writer returned to his hometown was not as glamorous as he imagined.
What happened to Daniel in Salas? An old lover who never forgets the old love again, but accidentally had a one-night stand with her daughter; negatively evaluates paintings that have little artistic value, and gets smashed in her literature class; He was expelled with a gun, and he was shot mercilessly in the back... He
returned home, but the core of his goal was not glory, but worship and hatred, I am afraid that there is more jealousy, glory and ugliness, and ugly is better than almost all. Everywhere I went was full of embarrassment and incongruity.
What is the reason for this result?
From the fundamental point of view of creation, writers who create stories about their hometown will inevitably reveal the appearance of their hometown to a certain extent when they complete the work. We outsiders don't know what to do, and literature should only be understood as literature. But for a small town like the one in the film, there are only so many people coming and going, and they all know each other well. As soon as the text comes out, it seems to be a private exposure. Everyone knows that your story and mine, was printed naked on paper.
On the other hand, when a big man appears in a small place, it is like an uproar in a quiet and repeated life, especially when the big man returns to his hometown. In the past, big people were on TV and on the Internet, which was out of reach, but now, you can literally follow behind big people, take out your mobile phone and take pictures. The big man has moved from the cloud to the earth, and the unreachable has become within reach. The advantages will not be magnified, but the shortcomings will be magnified extremely quickly. Big people can only exist in the cloud.
Under the attack of these two aspects, the understanding and the ignorance, the unknown and the unknown, are all transforming each other. After a few cycles, the shattering of worship can easily become the breeding ground for hatred; the hatred that existed in the beginning is more likely to intensify, and the hatred is deep into the bones. Those who are unwilling will feel that they are people of the same blood and blood from the same country, so why should he do what I can? Will those who are looking forward to it feel that the people they look up to are all crowned and famous by blatant hypocrisy?
Going back to Daniel, facing this, he was afraid that he was a little unexpected, but what can he do now? The theory of separation between a piece of work in class and the writer's personal character was the only refutation he could do. I believe that the main creator of this film must be well versed in the writer's mind and pain, and the irony and criticism under the rough digital images have almost fatal lethality.
As for the ending, as early as I was watching the movie, I thought many times, in the end, will this journey back home also become a book? After all, there is no better ending for the writer protagonist to adapt the experience into a book. And the creators of the movie did do this, as expected and reasonable, with a ruthless leopard tail.
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