Wes Anderson's new movie "Isle of Dogs" has not yet been released, and many people have come forward to say that it is a healing movie, but it was released, and it hit a lot of people in the face, it is a depressing movie Department of movies.
But obviously, quite a lot of people didn't understand the movie and started talking about how healing and how warm it was.
I really want to beep at him.
The film is full of political metaphors and even satire from beginning to end, and I believe these are director Wes Anderson's political views.
So without further ado, let me tell you what I saw.
The film begins with a Taoist-like character working in a shrine full of cat designs, apparently making offerings to cats. The spokesperson of the cat is the Kobayashi family, and tells the story of the headless horseman and the young warrior. It sounds like this is a story of a young man who is not afraid of power to do justice for the dog and defeat the devil. It is not vulgar, and it is just like other Like bad folklore, it doesn't say what happened after the war.
The story begins when the mayor wants to exile all dogs, and the first one to exile is his own dog, Diandian. After half a year, all the dogs were exiled to the garbage island, and their lives were miserable. There are five dogs foraging together. These five dogs are pet dog monarch rex, boss boss, duke, king king and chief, a stray dog leader. The domestic dog has been reminiscing about the good old days during the foraging process. , and the stray dog leader scoffed at this, thinking that he can only survive on his own.
Atari, the adopted son of Mayor Kobayashi, hijacked the plane to the garbage island in order to find his dog Diandian. When the plane crashed, he was rescued by five dogs. Then five dogs (mostly four pet dogs) help the teenager start looking for dots.
They first found the big dog Jupiter and the little dog prophet to ask for directions, and then went to the island where the legend once abused dogs, looking for a little bit. In the process, they escaped the pursuit of mechanical dogs and humans, experienced separation and reunion, and the leader was domesticated by the teenager.
In the end, they found the point of becoming the dog leader on that small island, returned to the human world to save all the dogs, overthrew the regime represented by Mayor Kobayashi, and finally the young Atari became the new mayor.
This is the whole story. It's not complicated to tell. The film is full of humorous scenes, and it won't be too boring to watch.
But everyone who has watched it will find that there is no Japanese translation in the entire film. The dialogue between the dog and foreigners is in English, and there are translations and subtitles. The explanation of the film party is to let the audience see the world from the dog's point of view. But obviously, there is another meaning here. Dogs are completely different creatures from humans. Born as dogs, they cannot understand the language and behavior of the human class higher than themselves.
Mayors, stewards, and other heads of human power to eliminate dogs, are carried out with the benefit of cats, that is, cats are the power behind these people. The housekeeper, in particular, was obviously on the side of the cat when the mayor adopted the boy. It is conceivable that the plan to eliminate the dog has already begun since then. But why did the mayor arrange for a dog to guard the boy's side at this time?
To explain this problem, we have to start from the end of the film. When the teenager brought the dog back to the city and the whole plan was revealed, the mayor did not make a decision to forcibly kill the dog, but made a 180-degree turn to admit his mistake and rescinded the bill to banish the dog. I'm sure most viewers will see this part as a failure.
But if we stand from the mayor's point of view, the result of what he did is to abandon the power behind him (the cat), and put his adopted son, cousin, and young Atari to the position of mayor, and let the Xiaolin family's Dominance remains unchanged, this is the practice of losing the car and keeping the coach.
In the film, the mayor exchanged the kidney for the teenager, expressing very clearly that the inheritance of rights is the inheritance of the family, the inheritance of flesh and blood
Then it is understandable to arrange a dog next to the teenager. As a mature political family, the Kobayashi family, after attaching to the cat, still left behind the family's future, allowing the younger generation of the family to maintain a good relationship with the cat's opposite dog. This kind of operation will feel familiar to anyone who has a certain understanding of history.
Let's talk about five dogs again.
From the names of the four pet dogs, it is obvious that they had a very good life and a high social status before they were exiled, so when they met the juvenile, they were very active in helping the juvenile. in past lives. However, their attitude changed later. After they met the boy and the leader, they didn't jump off the gondola and meet up. This is because they lived in the industrial machinery, saw the cruel side of the revolution, and their past good experiences made them retreat.
As a stray dog, the leader is at the bottom of society and cannot understand the good old days that the other four dogs are talking about. So when he met the teenager, he couldn't see the class promotion channel as keenly as the other four dogs (this can be seen from his experience of being adopted for one day). But he has a very strong fighting power. When the boy expressed his political views to him, he was tamed by the boy, washed away the black dirt representing the identity of a stray dog, and became a human guard dog like Diandian. At the end of the film, he becomes the most trusted guard around the teenager, the second-top class in society, and the dog with the highest status.
How did the boy express his political views to the leader? It is necessary to start from a place in the film that seems to be idle. The boy, the leader, and the four pet dogs passed through a slide. Next to the slide, there was a height limit sign with the image of a samurai holding a knife. The boy knew that he was not tall enough to play the slide, so he went up and slid. The slides and samurai symbols are a reflection of violence. The teenagers forcibly play the slides when they are not tall enough to prove that they have the ability and determination to carry out violent revolutions, although they appear to be unqualified on the surface.
Let's talk about juveniles. Throughout the film, the young man's image has always been bold, unafraid of bloodshed, and very militaristic. The most obvious is the boy speaking to the five dogs and playing the music of Shichibu; it is the revival of Japanese militarism.
About the mechanical dog. A mechanical dog that can be fully manipulated with a remote control is a dog that is completely brainwashed and obeys the ruling class. At the end of the film, all the mechanical dogs were exiled to the garbage island, which also shows that they are the wrong group in the revolution.
About the American girl and her dog. Cardamom is a show dog and obviously has had a fair amount of education on how to please humans, but on the Isle of Dogs, those skills are worthless. Cardamom is in good shape, and while she denies she has an abnormal relationship with other dogs, no explanation is given on how to take care of herself. American Girl is the most radical of the student body, and she is the one with the most juvenile dramas. She got the antidote from research assistant Yoko Ono (the voice of this character is the famous Yoko Ono, and her shape is also close to herself), and she speculated on the plan of the mayor's group with her own power, and was almost expelled by the mayor , and the young man showed goodwill to each other, and even after leading the students into the venue, the mayor even gave her a chance to speak. Logically, these actions should not be something that a student can do, but as a foreign force, they can understand. Foreign forces help the boy and the dog to make a revolution, seize power, and gain benefits. What is the benefit? Just like cardamom, a show dog that can perform acrobatics in front of its owner, a group of dogs that can show the greatness of its owner.
About Jupiter the Big Dog and the Prophet the Little Dog. Jupiter is the main god in Roman mythology. His Greek name is Zeus. It is religious to provide wine to five dogs. The Prophet is the only dog that understands human language, and all she possesses is the ability to read TV news. These two characters guide the protagonist's group and give them help, essentially the help of religious and sociological scholars to revolutionaries.
About lab dogs. These dogs are a group that has been oppressed by those in power for a long time. They have the strongest revolutionary consciousness and determination. They are not understood by other dogs and are regarded as "dog-eating dogs" and are outliers. They rescue DianDian because of their hatred for those in power, so they must unite DianDian who was abandoned by those in power.
About the dots. Dian Dian first existed as the guardian dog of the teenager, and then was first abandoned by those in power. After being elected as the leader of the resistance organization, he realized his responsibility and proposed to the teenager that he would no longer serve as a guardian dog, but to exist as a revolutionary leader. In the movie, he is the only dog that "dies", the only character who makes a real sacrifice. At the end of the film we can see his sculpture, while he and his wife and children continue to live underground. But why is it so designed about the final destination of Diandian?
Because he is no longer the boy's guardian dog, and the new mayor's closest and trusted dog. Since he wants to be the leader of the resistance force, he must sacrifice it. Only in this way will the resistance not repeat itself. In the end, Dian Dian is half-mechanical and half-dog, which also shows that he is closer to a mechanical dog without self-awareness, and is no longer the leader of the dog clan with thoughts, fighting spirit and sense of responsibility.
About ordinary citizens. Ordinary citizens have almost no sense of presence in the film, and have almost no role other than cheering for the ruling class.
Regarding democracy, the behavior of the five dogs is done through democratic voting, but because the four pet dogs are all senior class, and only the leader is a civilian, all decisions are four to one, and the civilians have no right to speak at all. Such democracy is bullshit.
In the finale, the teens and student groups form a new government, and they are discussing what punishment should be imposed on people who behave disrespectfully to dogs. Some people propose the death penalty, and the juveniles object and decide to imprison them and collect huge fines. This dog-enshrining policy is clearly the opposite of their predecessors, the other extreme. At the end, it is the Taoist priest who appears in the cat shrine in the beginning of the movie who delivers meals to the Diandian family.
Here we can imagine their future policy. People who behave disrespectfully to dogs use such severe penalties. What will they do to the cat behind the scenes who once exiled dogs? It is conceivable that the sequel to Isle of Dogs must be Isle of Cats.
Let's go back to the legend at the beginning, the young samurai killed the demon of the Kobayashi family for the dog clan, and what happened later? The young warrior became the hero of the dog clan, the leader of the people, and later the demon of the cat clan. Afterwards, a young man killed a young warrior who turned into a demon for the cat clan, and became the hero of the cat clan and the demon of the dog clan, and so on. But every young warrior continues the lineage of the Kobayashi family. No matter how the times change, whether democracy or dictatorship, ancient or modern, red or blue, the ruler has never changed, and the dragon slayer will inevitably become a dragon .
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