Yuan Ziwen's last film "Sin of Love", the song "The Way Back" that was read aloud by the protagonist in the film is still reverberating in our ears. In this new work, "Mediocre Talents", we have another experience of a line being read aloud repeatedly. The impact of this line is the poem above.
I see the afterthought of many netizens: In the face of major earthquakes and nuclear leaks, Yuan Ziwen is also "good". After watching it, I know why everyone feels this way, because at the end of the film: the male and female pig's feet are running and shouting repeatedly: "Sumita, come on." Then, the subtitles rise and the movie ends. It is clearly an inspirational scene, which is different from the usual hysteria of Yuan Ziwen. This is called "conformity".
What I want to say is that it is impossible for Yuan Ziwen to be good. If it is good, is it still called Yuanziwen?
The film has two clues or angles.
The more obvious clue story is: the disaster caused by the earthquake and the nuclear leakage, the young people support each other, and finally complete the spiritual recovery and run towards a hopeful future. In addition to this soap-opera clue, there is another more obscure clue that is the focus of the film: the birth of mediocrity.
Viewers who say that Sonoko Wen is "conscientious" obviously ignore the real main line: the obscure second line.
Well, let's take a look at what kind of person is the male pig's foot who carries the creator's appeal.
In fact, the male pig foot Sumita has always had ideas that are different from universal values, and he is very unique.
During class, the teacher encouraged the students who had just suffered a disaster, "Everyone is a unique flower in the world", everyone should cheer up, have a beautiful dream, and work hard! But Sumita disagreed, and just wanted to live an ordinary life. The teacher mocked him, but he shouted in public: Ordinary is the best. He said that the only flower in the world is a flower that grows in the mountains and ridges, blooming and withering alone, so do flowers bloom with dreams?
Over the years, I have sometimes hiked in the wild, and I feel more and more that people are just like the trees on the roadside, just a creature of nature. Maybe a tree with no desires and no desires will be happier than a person.
It is generally believed that a person who is taught by a teacher is a talented person, while a male pig's foot is willing to be ordinary and should be a mediocre person. But this movie is about the exact opposite. For most people: Ordinary is the best. And some "attractive" flowers and trees are appreciated by people as works of art, and it is not their original intention to be appreciated, they just grow like that accidentally.
Besides, dreaming about this kind of thing, thinking about it, sometimes it really is like turning off the music in the disco, and it is no different from being crazy.
Later, in the plot of killing his father, Sumita himself collapsed. Although he said he would not surrender or commit suicide, he had already been sentenced to death, so he planned to use the extra life to serve the society and kill a few scumbags. And the social standard is: it's okay to kill a father, go to the crime, then go to jail for a few years, and when you come out, you can think that nothing happened. Look, people look at things, in most cases, there is no self-standard, only a unified social standard.
Social standards are infinitely correct, infinitely powerful, and ubiquitous. When he implemented "use the extra life, kill some scum and do something good for the world", every time because of the influence of society (the kind old man prevented him from dying in the underworld's lair, the enthusiastic bystanders stopped him Killing the obvious social scum, the lovely, kind female classmates, stopped him from thinking of ending his life cleanly... ). Therefore, his uniqueness is difficult to exist in the world, and in the end, he finally succumbed to the social order. The seemingly inspirational run at the end of the film is actually a cup.
The film is called "Mediocre", aka: The Immoral Secret. This movie is actually about: I love to eat radishes, but the public thinks that radishes are not a good thing, and green vegetables are more suitable for me, so people are very enthusiastic to "help" me and replace all my radishes with green vegetables, But I really only like carrots! I had no choice but to twist my arms around my thighs. With the unremitting efforts of the public, I finally began to work hard to adapt to the "beautiful" vegetable life. On the other hand, is green vegetables really everyone's favorite? In fact, those who love to eat green vegetables are mediocrities without characteristics. And my preference for eating radishes became an "immoral" secret.
We are all familiar with social norms, but what we really need has long been forgotten or even thought about.
Mediocrity: I know everything in my chest, except myself.
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