While my dad and grandma were out to watch the lantern festival, I asked my mom, "Go to the movies?" She was a little surprised, as if she remembered something old that was left behind many years ago. She was as happy as a little girl and said yes, wait for me to do my makeup. There are some things that only seem to explode in a teenage age, like dating, playing games, endless fights, and watching movies.
My mother suddenly talked about the same shy male college classmates in that era of shyness, and the feat of jumping over the wall for the whole class to skip class to watch a movie. She sat next to me painting details from twenty years ago, pinning back the loose hair on her forehead with her thumb from time to time, and I looked at her, her freshly permed curls bobbing up and down regularly.
She said that she would save the ticket stubs after watching a movie, and then write down the time and place of the movie, the outline of the story and some thoughts. I said we will write this on the Internet now, you can see what other people think, she snorted and asked me if I was watching "The Hero of Heaven", I brought her a leaflet, and she read it out softly: " Wolf, totem." Perhaps in her opinion, watching a movie is an interesting thing in itself, regardless of what movie you are watching.
But in my opinion, if a film lacks visual and storytelling, it will be difficult to attract me to the cinema. A movie with a complete visual spectacle and narrative structure is not necessarily a great movie, but it is not a bad movie either. I can't predict whether the films of Zhong Kui and Jackie Chan will be effective and redundant, and the audience for the two "Where is Dad (my mother's language)" will not be tricky like me.
At the beginning of the movie, a waning moon rises on the cliff, and a black shadow on the cliff moves slightly, it is a wolf. The music was pressed down heavily, and the feeling of wolf totem came to my face. "Wolf Totem" is very rich in visual language, especially the battle of horses. Such a grand and intense scene is depicted only by sound and picture, which is really out of words and beyond words.
Another advantage of the movie wolf totem over the novel is that the movie's focus and control of the narrative is very sophisticated. I saw someone comment that this is a documentary, but it's not, it's not a documentary, not even a fake documentary. It is an authentic plot film, with layers of contradictions and conflicts (I won't spoil it) and excellent performances by the actors (including the wolf, of course), which constitute the whole film. If it is a documentary, we will not see the deliberate battle between the yellow sheep and the horse herd, or even the interaction between the protagonist and the little wolf. Everything is done with the utmost artificial ingenuity.
This is the excellence of this film. Compared with the original book, which eloquently demonstrated how cowardly and timid farming people are shortsighted, and the Mongolians, how brave, tactical, and strategic people were changed into "Mongols" in the film, the film's sincere storytelling is worthy of encouragement. Maybe it’s because of personal preference. I really hate adding too many macro concepts into the original complete story. If you really want to argue, it’s better to write a paper that is straightforward and straightforward, and it’s less “cowardly and timid” by the Han people. little".
Of course, there are also shortcomings. The scene of mosquitoes raging seems to be the material downloaded from the Internet. "Man and Nature" is the visual sense. Yang Ke suddenly jumped up and asked Bao Shungui, "Have you ever seen a natural lake?" It was like asking, "Have you ever eaten hardcover milk chocolate?"
The most incomprehensible thing for me is that Chen Zhen told Batu's widow that I Love you. what the hell! Just messed up. The screenwriter may want to aggravate the plot conflict and the rationality of Chen Zhen's rescue of Batu's children, but it is too far-fetched. Men and women don't necessarily have to be together.
After watching the movie, my mother excitedly discussed the plot. She thinks that there should be a "human wolf melee". At the critical moment, the little wolf who returned to nature, in order to save Chen Zhen, turned around and rushed to the wolves...
I couldn't help laughing at her old-fashioned idea, maybe they were in that era 's film narrative is such a template. I wanted to tell her that if you want to see wolves betray the wolves, you can go to Yan Geling's "Female Grassland", but she realized that the last book she read was "National Geographic South China Sea Special" three years ago. It all hurts.
Without answering her, she handed over a meat muffin. I heard that I like to eat moon cakes filled with meat floss. She and my dad went to Walmart to weigh three and a half kilograms, and they ate my mouth ulcers. I felt like I took her back to her school days. She was in her twenties and could eat four papayas in one go. She didn't know who she would become in the future, and she even hesitated to get married. I suddenly wondered, when I get her age, will I feel nostalgic and trendy in movies, and will a child say to me, "Go to the movies?"
I hold her hand, which is usually hers. I, while stuffing the meat muffin into my mouth, said, "I'll take you to a movie next time when I get home."
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