So we can clearly see that Tom Hanks is challenging the limits in the performance unit. The image of a stubborn Taurus man is vividly interpreted by him. Although he is still stupid in a certain sense, but Victor does this. The meaning of image as a "mirror" is roughly equivalent to Forrest Gump to American history and Xu Sanduo to Chinese. I will judge whether a character has the meaning of mirror image, usually to see whether the character can cause a kind of "clear embarrassment" while providing a clear sense of substitution orientation, in other words, the character's situation and his actions in the situation , When the audience puts themselves on the ground, can they feel a similar "embarrassment" emotion. For example, when Victor is paid a little by collecting airport trolleys, that feeling is quite in line with what I call "embarrassment." In fact, this is also one of the important tasks for screenwriters and directors to do-to create this sense of substitution, or to strengthen the meaning of characters as "mirrors".
Returning to the story, obviously, this is a story that magnifies "waiting" to the extreme. This is a common way of writing fantasy novels: give a setting, find a reason for this setting, and then tell a normal story. In fact, in my opinion, the story of "Happiness Terminal" gives me the feeling that it is quite similar to Zhang Yimou's work, but the number of lines is a very standardized Hollywood story structure and guarantees political correctness. In fact, it’s not too much to know the ending after reading the beginning, but we still watched it with gusto. In addition to Tom Shu’s superb acting skills and the big beauty Zeta Jones, there are many things worth talking about.
For example, we can read this story as a story about linguistics. Language learning is actually a metaphor for the birth and growth of people. From this perspective, "Happiness Terminal" is of course a growth story. It has all the elements and roles of a growth story-most obviously about friends and enemies. , And love. Of course, the story actually has a rather Zhang Yimou-style ending, but under the routine of the growth story, the basic structure of hero-hero naming is still easy to see.
For another example, from the perspective of the so-called globalization, this film is obviously a text worthy of attention. The prototype of Victor's mother tongue is Bulgarian, and the direction of the fictional country of Krakozhia is quite obvious. In an "enclave" that is most suitable as a symbol of globalization, the airport has gathered representatives of major ethnic minorities in the United States, in addition to the male protagonists of Eastern European origin: blacks, Indians, Latinos, and Indian immigrants, while the villains are Is the representative of the white elite in the United States, at the same time, the beauty is also a white. In this intricate picture, the spatial composition of the airport-the flashing flight schedule, and the chain stores of major international brands are further showing globalization as a visual presentation. In fact, this is another story related to the world situation after the end of the Cold War and the victory of the capitalist camp. As the victor, the United States is certainly qualified to carry out various trial-style imaginations of the defeated Soviet-Eastern European camp. A military coup and a "humanitarian disaster" occurred in Krakozhia. This event can quickly lead to the severance of diplomatic relations between the US government and the Krakozhia government, but it cannot give Victor an even imaginary solution, only waiting. Even if we no longer entangle these things, let's just talk about the reason Victor came to the United States-to fulfill his father's last wish and collect the signatures of great jazz musicians. And what kind of imagination of "America" and "the free world" does jazz, which can be called a native product of the United States, carried in the time of Victor's father? Victor's father "saw the picture in the newspaper". Then there was this wish—oh, what a wish is this. How many Americans who feel good about themselves can take this "wish" as the support of the whole film? But in fact, these are not important, because this is a sufficiently globalized film, it deals with some "human" common experiences, such as waiting, such as survival, such as promise.
So this film still requires our four uncles to shoot. Only he has the ability and courage to make such a seemingly small-cost comedy, install four elevators in the studio, and take more than 50 brand chain stores. An airport was built out of thin air in front of him. I thought that at the 2005 Oscars, it was a bit harsh to not even be nominated for a movie star. Of course, this film is almost impeccable in terms of technology, but in the final analysis, this is an event that we cannot experience daily. The film is a mirror, to some people, it is only a mirror.
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