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Original: She is Song Dandan's stepdaughter. She participated in Cannes and was nominated for the New Talent Award. Her works are very affectionate!
At last year's Cannes Film Festival, the quality of the participating films was mediocre.
And this year's Cannes Film Festival competition can be said to be very fierce,
The directors and their works of the three countries of China, Japan, and South Korea who went to the exhibition are very amazing.
The director Li Cangdong who has directed "Miryang" has long been an "old contestant" at the Cannes Film Festival.
The origin of the writer, who is concerned about the living conditions of marginalized people, the ancient traditional way of life in Korea and even the entire East Asian countries, the values passed down from ancestors have been destroyed, and the society in which utilitarianism prevails,
Small individuals in this melting pot are inevitably implicated by society. Sticking to their original aspirations and saving the people may be what the heroes in the movie should do.
In Li Cangdong's films, the protagonists can only struggle in the cruel reality of life. After all, it is not easy to live, and why can he pursue some heroic things.
This year, Li Cangdong sent "Burning" to Cannes, and received a collective high score in the first round of the judges' awards.
With her delicate and in-depth acting skills, the heroine won the second Asian actress after Maggie Cheung.
And the Japanese director who went to the exhibition was Hirokazu Koreeda, who was also very good.
"Nobody Knows", which he once directed, helped Yumi Liu, who was only 14 years old at the time, to win the honor of Cannes Best Actor.
He is good at family themes and prefers children, an ignorant yet sensitive and curious character as the protagonist.
This time, his "The Thief Family" is advancing and developing step by step under the light and shadow of mild sunshine and a warm and harmonious family life environment.
To the most layer-by-layer spinning and cocooning, what we show is Hirokazu Koreeda's profound thinking on reality, social environment and family relationship.
This time, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who had mentioned the Palme d'Or in Cannes five times and finally won the grand prize.
The Chinese director participating this time is Jia Zhangke, the most important literary film director in mainland China.
Director Jia's works have also been shortlisted for many times at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals.
This time, Jia Zhangke's "Children of Jianghu" paid tribute to his past works, completed the shaping of his own movie universe, and also heralded Jia's further leap towards film masters;
And popularized the word "Jianghu" to foreign media,
It's a pity that Jia Dao's competitors have all made big moves this time. Although we missed the Palme d'Or, we as the audience are full of joy.
This time, the grand event of several masters from China, Japan and South Korea competing in Cannes is destined to be recorded in the history of Cannes.
The works of several masters at this year's Cannes Film Festival describing young people, low-level families, and small towns in their own countries all show their observations and reflections on the current society .
Hongyanxiu also introduced in detail the "Thief Family" by Hirokazu Koeda and "Burning" by Li Cangdong in the previous issues.
In September, I will also continue to share Jia Dao's "Children of Jianghu" with you.
Today, Hong Yanxiu wants to introduce to you a work about the American West directed by a Chinese director:
"knight"
The director grew up in Beijing. Her stepmother is Song Dandan, a famous Chinese actor. She studied in the UK and the US and worked in New York bars.
After hearing countless "New Yorker" stories, he began directing films set in rural America.
She is Zhao Ting!
This small-budget film was not only shortlisted for the Cannes Director's Fortnight, but also won the Art Film Award, the biggest award in the Director's Fortnight.
As a foreigner from China, Zhao Ting's works are carefully depicting the life and emotional state of ordinary people in the American Indian Autonomous Region.
It's a very gimmicky movie.
A film about the American Westworld by a female director with Chinese identity!
First of all, what do we think of when we mention "Westworld" ?
Is it the rough and old yellow sand, cowboys wearing leather shoes, cowboy hats, drinking beer in "Red Dead Redemption", high-spirited and uninhibited?
Or are the tough cowboys and stubborn girls in "Thunderbolt" who are irritable and careless on the outside but keep their promises and are extremely gentle on the inside?
Or in "Westworld", in the future Westworld is just an elegant and hazy appearance created by people, and inside is the desire and hope of human beings, as well as the struggle between humans and robots.
"The Knight" tells a different story.
Without the high spirits of the Westworld and the blood and blood on the rivers and lakes in our previous movie viewing experience, "Knight" has a long history, undercurrents surging under the calm appearance.
"Knight" tells the ordinary story of a young man from the American remote west .
The young cowboy Brady was a very talented horse trainer and a rising star in the rodeo world,
In another competitive game, Brady was hit by a horse in the skull and was seriously injured. The doctor announced that he could no longer continue his competitive career.
Brady had a hard time accepting all this, not only because rodeos and horse training had always been his whole life, but because his family depended on him for a living.
When he got home, he found that,
If he can't continue to do equestrian sports that make his life meaningful, he has no idea why he lives.
As Brady attempts to regain control of his life, he seeks a new identity and what it means to be a man.
The story of "Knight" is actually quite simple.
A cowboy with talent, small achievements, and a promising future, but because of a sudden accident, he was forced to give up his dream and his career.
But this is not simple, there is also a young man and a knight struggling and wandering in thought and behavior.
Brady once had a brother who broke his cervical vertebra accidentally and became a vegetative person and lived in the hospital for years.
Occasionally and Brady looked at the once high-spirited self on the ipad and smiled;
Brady's sister is in her teens, but she has been insisting on not wearing bra, because she feels that as long as she wears bra at the beginning, she will no longer be that cute and innocent 13-year-old girl;
Brady was thrown to the ground by a horse, some brothers suggested that he continue to run on horseback; some brothers said that life is more important, and he can no longer take such risks;
His father silently decided to sell the horse because the family was already struggling to make ends meet.
This is a very common story that happened in a remote town, full of power, wild atmosphere , but delicate and long inside, full of restraint and "speechless thought" of oriental thinking.
The growth path of this cowboy, as well as the core, is somewhat restrained and thoughtful like an oriental or mature man,
No upbeat humour or outpouring of emotion from American men in The Line of Happiness, The Avengers;
It's not that the "Godfather" is calm and calm on weekdays, and the strength and ability accumulated over the years burst out in an instant.
Brady's growth is reflected step by step in his ordinary life experience and thinking. He is delicate, vivid and powerful.
For example, he said to his sister, "You're a stubborn guy like your brother, aren't you?"
This is actually also considering whether he should stick to his dream or give up;
The scene in the supermarket seemed to be calm, but in fact it was emotionally accumulated to the extreme. He met his little fan, and the little fan asked him, "Will you continue to ride, Brady?"
He said stubbornly and firmly, "Of course!" In fact, his expression revealed uncertainty and unwillingness.
The paralyzed brother held his hand and gestured and said, "Don't give up on your dreams"; while his father said to him, "Brady, sometimes dreams don't have to come true."
These are all bits and pieces in ordinary life, but they make up the lives of all ordinary people including us,
They seem calm, but ripples in our hearts,
Brady's own thoughts and emotions are rarely displayed actively, but are constantly projected in the interaction with outsiders.
Different people in the movie instill and influence Brady with their different attitudes to life, pursuit of dreams and reality, but the final choice is still in their hands.
For a knight, which is more painful, a severe skull injury or the inability to hold the reins and gallop on the grasslands?
For a Mustang, a torn thigh or the inability to gallop across the prairie, which hurts more?
Brady kept struggling in his dreams and real life, and finally figured out the meaning of the cowboy spirit to himself before going on the court:
Don't give up on your dreams, and that doesn't mean you have to be on horseback forever!
The meaning of dreams is not necessarily to be realized, but to infect us in every corner of our life, in our spirit, and support us to live.
The joy of life cannot satisfy life, the horse with a torn thigh can only die, and the knight with a broken skull must live.
The cowboy has to take care of his mentally handicapped sister, epileptic brother, elderly father, and scan supermarket barcodes;
As a cowboy, his duty is to gallop in the grasslands; as a man, he also needs to support a family.
The whole chapter of "Knight" talks about the cowboy spirit and the life of a knight;
"Knight" focuses on how the failed knight finds himself and finds the meaning of survival in the ordinary days of cocooning.
Falling into a trough and starting all over again is not difficult, but it may be more difficult to give up the choice.
Some wild horses should belong to the vast grasslands. For them, they either run freely, then give up their torn thighs and accept death.
But Brady chose to remember his ideals, and then continued to live with courage.
The whole article is about the spirit of cowboys, which is actually our story.
You seem to feel "mourned", a cowboy who did nothing wrong, but was forced to give up his dreams, career and future because of an accident,
But when you think about it carefully, it is incomparable courage and beauty, there are regrets that you cannot pursue your dreams, there is understanding and support from family members, and there is support from friends and no persecution, but what makes it even more special is healing, acceptance, and yes. "give up".
A real wound on the scalp, a young knight who finds himself after a severe wound to his body;
The story of plummeting, falling to the bottom of the valley, and then regaining a new game, although the blood is heroic and high-spirited, but in life there are many unwillingness and forced to give up that cannot be chosen.
And we can also hide unrealized dreams in our hearts, because they are the forces that support us to live, infecting us in every detail,
The knight found himself again after suffering heavy physical injuries, and kept the chivalry spirit on his back and in his heart;
It is courage to face challenges bravely, and it is also great courage to embrace the pains and setbacks in real life.
The vast land, the setting sun, the knight and the horse, the arc shadow cast by the cowboy hat on the grass at dusk, and the free smile on the knight's face.
The one who spares no effort, the one who never gives up,
How small a person is in front of reality; how huge is the power in the heart!
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