Just listening to the soundtrack of this film is already a pleasure, sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes depressing.
The director's greatest contribution to Jacques Arnold was to add an Oscar temperament to "Wolf Totem". At least I got the same look and feel as watching Kevin Costner's "Dancing With Wolves".
This film is essentially an elegy for civilization, and the spiritual totem of "the strong eat the weak" has actually come to an end.
Only two times in Chinese history have been defeated by nomads who possessed the "wolf totem", that is, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
The Han nationality, as a traditional farming nation, is still something to be proud of. China's 5,000-year-old civilization has only failed twice. Isn't it worthy of our praise? From a historical perspective, 80% of the time, the farming people defeated the nomads with the "wolf totem", so there is absolutely no need for us to belittle ourselves.
In "Dancing With Wolves", the Indians will not lose to the Anglo-Saxons in the age of cold weapons. They have totems similar to "wolves". They advocate the law of the weak, but in the end they withdrew from the stage of history as a backward "civilization" .
This film brings a deeper level of thinking, that is, the strange background of the story takes place during the "Cultural Revolution", and who is the "wolf" has become an unusually paradoxical proposition. During the Cultural Revolution, was the farming civilization of "Iron-blooded wolf" and "returning grass to farming" a wolf? Since it is not a wolf, why does it have the "wolf nature" of the jungle?
From this perspective, the most eternal totem of human civilization is the "wolf totem", and the world has always preyed on the weak. Is America a wolf? Of course, weak civilizations are naturally bullied by powerful civilizations.
This is thinking beyond the content of the movie. If a movie can arouse extensive thinking, it must be a good movie. Are Hollywood and Oscar a wolf? Of course, Chinese films are sheep, otherwise the filmmakers would not have asked James Horner to score the music and Jacques Arnold to direct.
"Wolf Totem" is the closest movie to an Oscar, a victory for the wolf. Author's Weibo: Shen Mubai.
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