The title of the movie "World News" is actually very confusing. Looking at the plot introduction, we seem to think that this is how Captain Kidd, who was a minor figure after the American Civil War, was involved in a shocking conspiracy to subvert the federal government. In the story, that little girl, maybe an Indian princess, maybe a huge fortune.
As a commercial film, shouldn't it be the above mentioned path?
Just like in the movie, Captain Kidd chose the treacherous road without a carriage at the fork in the road, and the other road has been tightly jammed by carriages.
This film chose a style different from the five traditional Hollywood styles.
Producer Netflix has enough patience and funds to make a not-so-commercial film, and this film is also the second film released by Tom Hanks in the past year, and it is also the second film released on online streaming media. (The last one was "The Greyhound").
In a large historical background, this film tells the story of how two humble little characters repair their inner trauma through a journey.
The whole film has no reasoning, no turning point, no mystery, and even a few shootouts and two guys who looked like the final BOSS only appeared for no more than 15 minutes.
In addition, the aura and performance of the two bad guys in the film can be played as half the protagonists in other westerns. As a result, they basically fired a few shots here. After talking about five or six lines, the two actors You can go to another crew...
Captain Kidd, a soldier, a Southern soldier who surrendered after defeat, a Southern soldier who had a successful career and family in the past but now lost everything. He has no secrets, or even a decent pistol. He wanders in Texas, charging a dime every time, reading newspapers for illiterate American country folks, and letting them know about the "News of the World". They laughed while listening to gossip. When he heard the name of the federal government, he yelled at him.
Johanna, a descendant of a German immigrant, was taken away by Indians when she was a child, and she became a half-Indian who could only speak Indian Kiowa. Her parents were dead, she did not carry earth-shattering secrets with her, and she was not proud. Blood lineage, thrown on the ground in that wild west, will be swallowed by cruel nature and greedy people at any time.
The whole story line is the story of a dead leaf-like old man drifting in the wind, taking an orphan girl who is similar to a savage to the house of her only relatives and aunt.
The story takes place in the 1960s and 1970s. The film is also trying to restore the history of the time. The restoration I am talking about here is not just about the props. The antiques of houses, vehicles, and clothing are not dazzling. This movie is the most successful antique. It lies in the group actors in the movie, not their costumes, but they truthfully reflect the mentality of Texans and Southern Americans at that time.
Blacks, Indians, and northerners were people who were punishable by everyone in the eyes of southerners at that time. In the movie, we can see black people who were hanged, Indian tribes killed by regiments, and the residents of small towns abused the northern garrison. And disdain.
In the eyes of the southerners, it seems that the world owes them everything and is against them, so some people.
And this kind of grievance seems to have infected Hollywood, making the South seem too unreal in many film works.
Southerners are like aristocrats. In Gone with the Wind, we watched Scarlett Scarlett in a big skirt dancing with the well-dressed Bryder in the pavilions.
Southerners are traditional defenders. In "The Gods and Generals", southern men fight as soldiers to defend the righteous state, while women sing prayer poems at home and sew the Southern Confederate flag. In addition, it must be Amway, this film can be called a masterpiece of war epic, it is a pity not to watch it!
Southerners are knights, and in "The Birth of a Nation", they smashed the conspiracy to establish the so-called "black kingdom".
Although Captain Kidd is a Texan, he holds a neutral perspective, so we see a more realistic southern world.
Full of illiteracy, ignoring the laws, gathering people to rebel and pretending to "build a new country", and this country is based on the large-scale hunting of American buffalo (a scene of slaughtered and skinned and a group of buffaloes galloping on the grassland at the beginning) Echoing each other in the distance makes my heart tremble), they traffic in human beings, lynch blacks, and kill the Indians.
Maybe this is the real South, the real post-Civil War world.
Therefore, in this chaotic and cruel world, the old and the young, from the friction and conflict at the beginning to the persistence in the later, the warmth that people experience is just like the lights in the dark, becoming more and more dazzling.
This kind of film that is a partnership between young and old and understands each other through a journey is generally more successful, such as "Chasing the Barbarians", "Summer of Kikujiro", "Shaking the Sky", "Furious Rescue", "Thunder in the Ground" and so on. The differences in values, habits, and perspectives between adults and children give movies unlimited space, regardless of the country, form, and style of the movie.
This kind of heart-to-heart closeness cannot be achieved overnight, especially for Captain Kidd, his heartache is more pronounced, and whether the relationship between the two advances further requires him as a driving force.
Captain Kidd lost his property after the war. This seems to be his apparent reason for wandering around, but in the end we can see that the real reason why he dare not return home is that he cannot face the fact that his wife has passed away, and this Years of wandering is to escape, and when he sent Johanna home, he finally plucked up the courage to return to his hometown to face the past. When he finally took off his wedding ring and put it in front of his wife’s grave, it marked him and the past. The painful farewell, the horse galloping after this represented his heart's desire for a new life, he immediately found Johanna, and the two of them can now become real family members.
Johanna is relatively simple. After all, she is a girl less than ten years old. She has a simple heart. We can clearly see how Captain Kidd’s care warms this child, making her go from resistance to longing to life and death. Inseparable. And Johanna also showed her intelligence and bravery in the film, such as using coins to temporarily modify shotguns, shooting bad guys with guns, negotiating with Indians, etc., allowing her to show her own uniqueness in a very ordinary setting. Charm.
At the end of the newspaper reading scene, Johanna’s surname has also been changed to Kidd, indicating that she has become an adopted daughter, and Captain Kidd’s reading of the newspaper has become more lively and interesting, especially the changes in the audience off the scene, which makes the headline frown. The wrinkle and anger, and the laughter at the end of the film, also express the situation and inner changes of the protagonists.
Yes, the war is over, it's time to laugh
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