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On Monday, for some indescribable reason , Mr. Ge clicked on the live broadcast of the Oscars (click me) .
Speaking of this matter, Miss Chen will roll her eyes .
But Mr. Ge misses everyone very much, so he volunteered to work overtime on Friday night . Together with Ms. Chen, from ten o'clock to nearly midnight, we will live chat about the best foreign language film nominated for this year's Oscar.
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There is a saying, do you know which movie is the best to watch every year? The answer is the one that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
why?
First of all, Mr. Ge should start to explain the essence of Oscar... (Miss Chen starts to play with her mobile phone at this time)
What exactly is the Oscar?
First of all, it is necessary to have an understanding of the awards themselves, in order to better predict the awards and accept the results of the awards.
So remember one sentence:
The Oscars are the industry's annual meeting
Just like everyone's annual company annual meeting, in order to win over the feelings of colleagues and improve the relationship with superiors and subordinates, there is always a gathering at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.
Eat and drink, give a little gift, touch a little prize, that's what it means!
You don't have to take the results of the Oscars too seriously.
Because this award has a balancing effect.
Trade unions in various industries have played a relatively important role in it. For example, this year's Oscars are almost a replica of the major trade union awards.
For example, the reason why Guillermo del Toro won the award this year is that after years of operation, Toro has accumulated a very deep network of contacts.
Do not give or not!
but
The Oscar for best foreign language film belongs to the horned, it has no union.
The best foreign language film is a piece of a country, selected by the government.
In the past, it would have a high degree of overlap with the Palme d'Or in Cannes, but this year's Best Foreign Language Nomination Film has all three awards.
Chile's "Ordinary Woman" Best Screenplay Berlin Silver Bears
Sweden's "Square" Palme d'Or, Cannes
Hungary's "Flesh and Spirit" Berlin Golden Bear
Russia's "No Love to Tell" Cannes Jury Prize
Lebanon's "Shame" Venetian Actor
The winner was the chilean film "Ordinary Woman" , which tells the story of a transgender named Malena.
Malena had a boyfriend who was 20 years older than her. On her birthday, after the two had a good time, her boyfriend died suddenly. The film revolves around the conflict between the man's ex-wife, children and Malena.
However, Teacher Ge thinks this film...
not so good……
Of course, it must be a good movie in itself, and I was very moved when I watched it.
In particular, the protagonist, Daniela Vega, who plays Malena, is a transgender herself . She has to face up to her gender. She used to be male and now she is female.
First of all, this is the prosperity of modern technology, which allows people to change their gender according to their free will.
When I saw her on the Oscars red carpet before, I was very surprised .
Not only is she beautiful in appearance, but her gestures are very feminine .
Thematically, this is a declaration of human free will.
In the story, the ex-wife and others kept stimulating Malena, inspiring her plight.
Only by stimulating the predicament can she enter her inner world.
At the same time, it also shows the attitude of the people around us towards "transgender", in order to torture us how much we know and how much respect for free will.
The idea of the film is very good, and it is in line with the trend, but the plot is slightly bland .
Although it won the best script in Berlin , the overall strength is still not enough, and the selection of events is still a little short.
There is one scene that I can share with you.
The police took Malena to the police station and conducted a mandatory physical examination on her .
Being stripped of clothes and taking photos of all kinds is obviously a bit of an invasion of privacy.
And the expressions of the two policemen are also cold.
The unease, embarrassment, and displeasure on the heroine's face are conveyed very clearly.
The nomination of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is actually more meaningful than the award . As long as it can be nominated, it is the greatest affirmation. It doesn't matter who wins the award.
The other films are also very good. Among them, the Lebanese film "Shame" has not yet released resources, but after all, it won the best actor in Venice, and it must be very good.
Next, let's talk about "Square" that Mr. Ge is quite fond of .
The most interesting part of the movie is this scene on the poster.
At a party full of tall, rich and handsome men, a man was imitating an orangutan .
As he acted, his behavior became more and more outrageous, and people didn't even know if it was part of the show.
Not only to provoke male guests;
He even nearly raped a beautiful woman in public.
This passage is thrilling, and what it wants to express is the difference between animal logic and human logic .
The people present were the elites of rich, literate and tasteful people, and there was a sense of nobility around them, but when faced with orangutans, people's sense of cowardice was revealed .
They are both the founders of the system and the beneficiaries of the system. So they keep saying benevolence, righteousness and morality, but the truth is the opposite.
This "gorilla" directly uses the logic of desire to show the cowardice of the rich.
The entire film is a torture of the audience, and what it wants to show is the wretched sense of intellectuals .
(Miss Chen looks at Teacher Ge, smiling but not speaking)
For the expression of abstract theme, it needs to be presented through concrete events. What kind of event to choose is an important criterion for evaluating a movie.
The male protagonist in the film is a man who thinks he has a lot of status, and the film is to embarrass him in various ways .
For example, he went to the heroine's house to have sex with her, and saw that the heroine's pet was an orangutan.
He quietly closed the door, when the orangutan looked at him, his eyes seemed to say: isn't that the case, why are you still closing the door?
In addition to what the movie is going to output, there is a sense of enchantment to the additional details.
After that, the heroine wants to help him throw away the condom, but the hero is unwilling and insists on throwing it by himself.
As for why not give it to the heroine? The reason everyone can open their own brains, the more dirty the better .
The cinematography of the film is also a highlight. It even makes one think of "The Beautiful City" , which is a contemporary flavor of contemporary cinema.
The movement of the camera, the distance between the camera and the person, as well as the angle and the environment in which the person is located are very contemporary in dealing with the emotional relationship of contemporary people .
This feeling can only be understood and cannot be described in words, so everyone must go and see it with your own eyes.
The next thing I want to recommend to you is "Flesh and Spirit" , which won the Berlin Golden Bear before.
The first impression of the film is that the cinematography is great, and it has the feel of an advertising blockbuster .
In the film, the deer in the forest is used to express the protagonist's dream.
This photography style brings out the loneliness of contemporary urbanites, it's so clean, it's like IKEA.
Every time I go to IKEA, I feel very uncomfortable because it is too clean and too cold .
I don't know if you all feel the same way?
In addition to the photography style, the makeup and art direction of the film also adhere to this cold talk.
Miss Chen said that when she first saw the heroine, she felt that she was a girl full of spirituality like a deer.
Since the core plot is very critical, we try to recommend this film without spoilers.
First look at the title of the film "Flesh and Spirit", you know that this is about desire and faith .
We have been discussing love. If a person really goes for love, then he must believe in love.
You don't need to take faith too seriously, you think it must be some kind of doctrine. There is an obsession with one thing , and that is faith.
If you are convinced that there must be one person in this world who loves me, and the only one I love. That is a belief.
The hero and heroine in the film are all borderline temperament .
The male protagonist is the owner of the slaughterhouse, and through his work, we can see a little bit of reality in Hungary.
The police go to the case and take some steak with them when they leave.
As a result, I went to his place for the second time, and I was long-winded. I wanted to say that the steak last time was good, and I wanted a little more.
As a senior steak lover, Mr. Ge's saliva is about to flow down when he sees this place. (The picture has nothing to do with the movie)
So a good movie must have this kind of detail that impresses you .
As a wise creator, I have the same views on many issues, and the height of understanding a thing is similar, and the final comparison is how to express it.
In the scene where the male and female protagonists meet for the first time, the boss and the new employee have to greet each other.
Immediately afterwards, we saw the heroine talking to herself in a small bottle of salt, simulating the conversation that happened that day.
Through this small paragraph, we can know without any obstacle at the first time that this woman fell in love with the boss at first sight.
Confirmed eyes, I met the right person
Looking back, their eyes at that time were the eyes of a stag seeing a doe. Contemporary urban fringe people will feel this way.
Miss Chen: Teacher Ge, you are quite marginal.
Teacher Ge: I am often attracted to beautiful women all at once, but once I am attracted, I never look at her again.
Finally, let's talk about "No Love to Tell" .
Mr. Ge saw this movie very early, and even though he had not seen other nominated films, he said that this movie would definitely win the best foreign language film (it didn't).
The film also tells the story of the middle class.
A divorced family, the mother lives with the children.
The mother once said to the child: "I will love you forever" . But when the child was still in elementary school, she had already broken her promise.
The collapse of one family creates two new families, but these are two loveless families.
One day the child disappeared, and the film kept us immersed in the incident of looking for the child, but in the end it was not important to find the child.
There is a scene in the movie where the heroine runs on a treadmill , which looks very contemporary and urban.
Why go for a run? This is an emotional calming method that uses physical movement to reduce stress.
But why run on a treadmill instead of going into the woods?
What the director wants to express is that her life is like a treadmill without real displacement.
There are only thoughts, no actions, and no efforts to make a real difference.
Losing her child is God's punishment for her.
The story of losing a child is so heart-wrenching that it is generally not read.
The director of this film is more restrained in order to make the audience stick to it. In the process of watching the film, I was pushed by a huge hidden force, and finally made two lines of tears burst out of my eyes.
Like the previous films, the film uses all kinds of predicaments to inspire the protagonist and the people around him, so that everyone can see the unbearableness of the middle class .
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