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I don't watch many Russian movies, but this time I was really amazed by "The Fool in Dangerous Buildings".
The film tells the story of an honest plumber, Dima, who reports to the government after discovering a dilapidated building that is about to collapse due to a cracked load-bearing wall, but the government ignores it because of various shady stories. story. The whole film is full of irony and struggle, tearing the fig leaf of the dark side to shreds, facing the ugliness, despair is completely breathless.
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1. You fell down before I exerted any force - "Journey to the West"
The film has been accumulating power since the first shot.
In less than 10 minutes, the old house was dirty and messy, the parasite-like drunken wife in the old house, the comparison between the old house and the new government building, the family suggested that Dima bribe before the exam, the mother sprayed the father too much. Too upright, the police will not care about the dark side of waiting for a wave of complaints.
There is a wave of metaphorical gray surfaces that adults habitually eat unpalatable dinners, indicating that adults have accepted and adapted to this kind of life, and children's refusal to eat indicates the pursuit of a beautiful nature, unpolished character, and hope of thriving.
But there were also a wave of compliments, such as Dima insisting on taking the exam, father asking his mother to let go of the teenager who insisted on driving away the broken bench, father repairing the bench hundreds of times, and father letting Dima make his own decisions. . This determines the tone of the film and seems to predict Dima's next fate.
Only 10 minutes.
However, the further back you look, the colder your back gets.
Maintenance engineers are drinking too much and cannot work; the government blames each other after knowing the truth; the cost of maintenance has long been corrupted; the deficit cannot guarantee the safe transfer of residents; .
Wave after wave, without shyness, directly to the point. Every line in this film is worth pondering, and it must contain the long-standing complaining energy of the director and screenwriter.
In the end, the long-buried burst of fists to the flesh, neither fell on the dangerous building, nor on the fool, nor on Dima, but fell into the hearts of the audience.
2. I am a monster in your eyes, but what are you in my eyes - "Journey to the West"
The original name of the film is "Дурак", which means fool in Russian. It's just that this idiot may be referring to Dima, someone inside the building, someone outside the building, or... Maybe it's multiple-choice questions.
There lives in the building the bottom of the society who are self-deprecating and self-abandoning. They take drugs, drink, smoke, and gamble, regardless of age. They are worthless and the scum of society. There was no cracking of the load-bearing wall this time. But, nonetheless, they are also citizens of this country! Besides, some people are innocent.
In addition, the director of this film may want to say that the product of the Khrushchev era that is about to collapse is not just a dilapidated building.
And Dima, like her mother's father who complained at the beginning of the film, has no loss in virtue and shame in her family. Such people are more or less well-received in the society, but they may only be verbally praised on the surface and temporarily moved inwardly, and then they will become jokes in the mouths of others and objects of grievances by their family members. time! life too!
3. It's not that he can't control it, but he doesn't want to control it. You don't care, I control it - "Journey to the West"
The protagonist of this film reminds me of the famous Guan Dekuan - Lu Yun, one of the protagonists in the famous novel "Heroes" by Sun Xiaocheng, a martial arts novelist. The two have too many similarities, the same duty, integrity, loneliness, and even the same pedantic. However, Dima did not have the opportunity of Lu Yun being supported by nobles, nor did he have an adventure under the waterfall, but the pursuit of the two was surprisingly consistent - the right way! Sun Xiao also used Lu Yunzhi's mouth and Gu Siyuan's order to explain the meaning of the righteous way: the righteous way is to do the right thing. Every time I see this episode, my heart is filled with excitement. Lu Yun and Dima are like the holy light in "Heroes", so that the filth has no place to hide, so that the filth has no place to be ashamed, illuminates others, burns himself, and there is no return.
However, the two episodes that left the deepest impression on me in this film were not the gods complaining about mothers and wives, nor a series of divine operations by the bureaucrats headed by the mayor and her husband, nor those who "need not to repair pipes but to repair pipes". The survival logic of the residents of the dilapidated building with "brain" is not that Dima was caught, escaped, continued to go back and told people to leave, and was finally beaten down by the group.
One is that Dima decided to go to the mayor's birthday party after denying the family's doubts, and walked alone on the cold night street in a red coat (except for the mayor, the only one wearing warm-colored clothes, in contrast to the whole cold-colored atmosphere, Similar to "Schindler's List"), coupled with a pathetic soundtrack, bloody and tragic. It's more bloody than the episode of Genji Takiya in "Hot-Blood High School" where one person turns into a hundred people, and more tragic than the one in "Killing" when the bull is killed. Everyone was drunk, only Dima woke up alone, but he couldn't wake up the people who pretended to be asleep. This is the case with the managers in the film, and the same is true for the residents of the dangerous building. Despite this, he never gave up. Dima, a true warrior!
The second is that when Dima reported to the mayor late at night, he was drunk with the big fans of gold, in stark contrast to the residents of the dangerous buildings who were left to fend for themselves. As everyone knows, when the national army was defending Ma against Japan, it also caused the loss of Xiangkou because most of the garrison officers participated in the graduation ceremony of the training class organized by the officers (to be verified). Next, when the mayor and ministers held a pot-sharing and pot-throwing meeting, the head of the house management who had been advocating from a professional height and other experts' argumentation, the head of the fire department who only worried about going to jail and not caring about human life, who only cared about his own site would not The police chief who had the accident, the out-of-control mayor who confessed and criticized by name, and the mayor's husband who continued to be brainwashed and whose heart was darker than his coat formed an intriguing picture of all beings.
4. Evil is not suppressed is my unshakable belief - "Journey to the West"
I don't know since when, the movie that exposes the ugly has become the guarantee of a good reputation. Why is it that Hollywood movies, where justice triumphs over evil, who are small and big, and who complain about managers, have already exploded, and such movies still have such a high sense of identity? I think there are several reasons for this:
(1) Near
Countries like Korea, Japan, and even Russia are either geographically close, or ethnically close, or historically close, or that close (404 Not Found...you know)
(2) more
With the opening of concepts and markets, more and more people began to pay attention to this type of film, began to accept this type of film, and more and more such works began to appear. In recent years, South Korea is a typical example. Of course, there is a lack of freshness, which is typical of South Korea. If you want to last forever, you still have to be thought-provoking and resonate.
(3) Deep thinking
I often joke: Just like American movies need certain actors to be politically correct, Korean movies need to criticize managers to be politically correct. In fact, the key to whether this type of film is named or not is not how to grasp the psychology of the people and expose the dark side of society and human nature to be praised, but whether it will cause people to think deeply after the scar is exposed, and whether it can affect the social managers. Decision-making, such as "The Furnace", "Dallas Buyers Club", "I'm Not the God of Medicine" and so on. This kind of deep thinking, I think the vast majority of moviegoers will have a deep understanding, because there is resonance.
(4) Resonance (sense of substitution, sense of justice, sense of gap)
empathy. Most of these films are not from a very high angle. Their protagonists are ordinary people, or characters that ordinary people can reach, such as the plumber in this film, the teacher in "The Furnace", "Horror Live". The anchor in "Golden Dreamland", the courier in "Golden Dreamland", etc. And we are not like Li Gang, who is like Li Gang, who "is full of all living beings, and lies in the setting sun without saying goodbye to illness", nor is it like Yu Qian, who "is not afraid of being smashed to pieces, and wants to keep his innocence in the world". We are saints with the world. Also ordinary people. Therefore, these popular people in the movie make it easier for us to substitute, and it is easier to resonate with everyone.
sense of justice. In the face of such darkness that everyone may face, the fire of justice in the heart is also raging. The more sense of justice, the easier it is to form resonance.
The sense of gap, the last one is more sensitive. Of course, we still have longing for the Chinese dream and yearning for a better life tomorrow. come on!
The recent vaccine incident, there is a word that is really unpleasant.
People's hearts are the foundation of a country; health is the load-bearing wall of a nation; self-esteem is the backbone of a nation. This wave of three kills is not to be hated! It is not shameful! It is also necessary to keep in mind that it is easy to support the building, difficult to support the heart, easy to move the mountain, difficult to call the heart!
You are cold like a piece of ice, you will not warm the people around you, you will only hurt them, so I say you will never win - "Journey to the West".
(Original, first published on the public account "Liaokouchao sees the world", please indicate the source for reprinting.)
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