Westerners often have an ideal misinterpretation and excessive exaggeration of Eastern culture.
I'm curious how the Japanese feel when they see the movie.
The opening credits have a brief note about translation. As a Chinese, I was a little dizzy when I saw the square characters on the left and the first base on the right. I stared at it for a long time without understanding what it meant. But as the drummer played the music that runs through the entire film, I gradually understood the sense of alienation built up by this deliberate effort.
For those who don't understand Japanese, that's what is being led to watch the movie through a dog's point of view. From the introduction of the crew at the beginning of the film to all the dialogues of the characters, they are presented in the form of no subtitles. I am also very grateful to the translators, who can understand the director's intentions before an ignorant audience like me. After all, I can't guarantee that if I pirated a movie on and off my computer, I would see the same design that was in line with the director's original intention.
So, I was attracted by such an ingenious idea. On top of that, there's the delicate composition that Wes Anderson fans are familiar with. Although I don't think it is more than "The Grand Budapest Hotel", it is also a visual enjoyment. Unconsciously, he will lean forward and try to find easter eggs and metaphors in the symmetrical picture.
And the soundtrack. Zephyr music with drum beats is especially capable of evoking emotional resonance. Even if there is a certain language gap, you can feel the ups and downs of the plot and sensational agitation through the rapidity of the rhythm.
However, under the gorgeous appearance, the core of the movie cannot be seen.
The emotions between the dogs are so abrupt... In addition to Oracle, a female canine with a prophetic meaning, the only two bitches in the film should be the partners of the Chief and Spots brothers? Perhaps slightly influenced by the Japanese culture of male superiority, it seems that Nutmeg (nutmeg) and Peppermint (mint) are just the flavorings and accessories of those "leaders", without more autonomy.
Chief was tamed by Atari, I also feel very uncomfortable? Are dogs born servile? ? Born to like a 12-year-old boy, let him be playful and unreasonable? I was looking forward to the conflict between Chief and Atari, I know it will eventually be resolved, but I'm curious how it will be. What I never thought was that it was through toss & fetch that Chief "recovered himself"? It really is... As I said before, I have been brought into the identity of a dog by the director, and I have developed a sense of alienation from "human beings". To make me succumb to "nature" and inexplicably become a subordinate of "human beings", I feel a little incompetent.
Maybe it's because the original Chief is a stray that has lost himself. Having never been cared for by humans, Chief bites back when a little boy is the first to offer him a friendly little hand. The fear of human beings is Chief's heart disease, and then through Atari's "slavery", Chief gradually finds himself back? This may be the spit of a cat slave on Weibo:
Don't Wang Xingren have a life of their own?
Tracy Walker's episode was even more hilarious. Do you have to send a righteous person from the West to promote the government’s conspiracy theory, become the main force of the student movement, stir up the people’s emotions, and drive changes in the political world? Are the people stupid? Is it so easy to be brainwashed? The students came to the stage to say a few more words, and they seemed to realize it again? I know this may be a political metaphor under the garb of animation. It may refer to a certain period of real, stupid people in a certain region who were deceived by a certain piece of political propaganda that seemed convincing at the time. It's just simplified after being converted into animation, so there's no need to over-entangle the rationality.
Maybe, but I still can't let go. Are you Wes Anderson? !
In the end, Atari's homeopathic shoulder hook was disgusting to me. What is this? Heroes hold beauty back? Although the hero and heroine are happily together in the end, I cannot accept the result without the process. I can even see Atari's terrifying future in this small gesture! ?
This is a movie that pursues conscience, humanity and love, but I was stunned to interpret it as rank, servility and submission. I don't know if the director had such an intention. If this is all irony, then I still have a little admiration. Thinking about it again, I still hope so.
After a war, they were simply abandoned for the legal status of slavery.
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