(Text/Yang Shiyang)
"Leave No Trace" is an indescribable movie. It has no big plot, but more of an atmosphere, a symbol, like a short fable. Its story is very simple, a father and daughter have been living in the forest park, picnics, tents, primitive, simple and self-sufficient. For the two of them, this is a happy life, but for others, it is displacement that does not need to be disputed. This piece of woodland belongs to the state land. Living here violates relevant laws. They were accidentally discovered by a construction team. The police came to take the father and daughter away. Since then, some subtle changes have begun.
If you look at it in detail, there are many implied issues involved in "Leave No Traces", such as the placement and psychological reconstruction of veterans, such as family education, school education and peer education for minors, such as assistance to marginalized groups and individual self-exile. The rights and so on, and obviously, this story does not point to social criticism, but more about the personal spiritual history.
The change happened after the father and daughter were resettled. They re-entered "modern civilization". Electricity, gas, tap water, work, remuneration, a secular circulatory system and trading method, the daughter soon adapted and even fell in love with all of this. But his father was always alienated, trying to find a chance to return to the primeval forest. Debra Grannick, the director of "Bones of Winter" in his new film, uses a slow-release method of dripping the surface of the paper, showing a trace of the separation of values and worldviews between father and daughter. The outside is still It maintains a symbol of a certain emotional community, but the sound of internal fragmentation is clear and audible. To a certain extent, this story is about the process of growth, transformation, escape from the "mother body" and the subsequent psychological tearing and maturity. It reflects a grand story with a small pattern. And the universal meaning-the process of individual growth and understanding of the world.
At first, in the woods, my daughter saw the necklace dropped on the ground by others, and she instinctively liked it. It was an adolescent girl’s instinctive yearning for beauty and civilization, and her father dragged her away—this became the whole The most symbolic detail of the story. Yes, the silent details make this movie. They are silent but accurately point to a certain spiritual meaning. For example, his father loves woodland the most, but after he was placed, he got the job of cutting small pine trees. After sorting and packing, it was transported to the city to make Christmas trees, and the wild life was cut down and transported to the homes of the urban middle class to become illusory decorations. This was almost a punishment for his father, and it was also an abolition or denial of his previous life and beliefs. This story has an indescribable ghost charm, but when you think about it carefully, it is actually "negation" that gives rise to this kind of force. Men deny urban life and modern civilization, while modern civilization and the legal system deny his choice. Something indescribable emerged from the seesaw, tearing, and confrontation between him, and apart from him and the secular world, the relationship between him and his daughter gradually changed from being one to a split, and then negating each other. But this denial is not hostility, but obstruction. What "Leave No Traces" shows is that everyone is an island, trying to connect to a continent, but it will eventually fail. After this failure, there is no gray and decadence, but some people continue to regroup, and some people are happy to enjoy loneliness. .
From a structural analysis, this is a cyclical story. It starts with escape, and then is included, then escaped, and then incorporated. There are passive and active, nothing more than self-deconstruction, but also by the institutional and cultural inertial structure, someone desperately deciphers it. , Someone desperately blended in. Some stories may have been written down in the face of such isolation, but this story tells a trace of sorrow and disinterest in recognizing each other's differences, and then respecting and understanding each other.
The daughter met new friends at that new foothold, and the old beekeeper let her see the hive. "It is a very happy thing to let them trust you." The old man said, looking at the bees with their palms full. What is she talking about? It's nothing more than talking about intimacy, people gathering, socializing, intimacy and trust, and my daughter loves it all the more, gatherings in the sunset, playing guitar and humming folk songs, a hug and a bottle of beer, and people's hopeless smiles. , The help between each other, the walls and roofs that sheltered from the wind and rain, but his father still returned to the wilderness by himself without hesitation.
At the beginning and the end of the story, there is a clever echo. At the beginning, the father and daughter jointly "exercise" to avoid the police who came to find themselves. They cooperated and tacitly cooperated, and the daughter always followed behind the father. In the end, at the moment of separation, the two only Can silently look at each other and cry, no one can keep anyone, but they still know that letting each other go where they want to go, this may be the best ending.
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