The Darney brothers give Bai Zuo a slap in the face

Winona 2022-04-19 09:03:10

On the last day of the EU Film Festival, the easter egg turned out to be an interview with the Darney brothers after the film. Comparing with the "reflection record" of a European white-left female volunteer who met refugees I saw in the movie in the morning, it is too consistent, that is, "unable to communicate". But that one is really too rhythmic and doesn't turn. Some friends watched this film before, and the only regret was that "it only filmed the extremes of religious extremists, but did not show why he became like this." I don't seem to care about this. Because this is the way of thinking of ordinary people, we first assume that everyone, every organization, and nation are naturally the same. If there is any extreme behavior, there must be some causal stimulus to change. Rather than expecting to see a cause, we expect to see a cause that matches our imagination. But for extremists, this is not the case at all. It's not a "shift", they always think they're doing the right thing, they're living within their own laws, and they've always been. If you imagine that a little love education can influence the collective consciousness that has survived under the different set of laws for thousands of years, it is no different from the naivety of the earthly people who are still praising the purity and beauty of the dangerous "water droplets". In the interview after the film, the Darney brothers also expressed their interest in explaining the beauty of their life backgrounds, but they wanted to try to show the circumstances under which religious people would suddenly return to their original state. Under what circumstances? In the movie, when the young activist sneaked into the house of the "blasphemer" to try to kill her, he fell from the upstairs, and when he was seriously injured and unable to move, he called out "Mom", begging for help and forgiveness. In that "Reflection Record", the European female volunteers were deceived, sexually assaulted, and humiliated when they tried their best to help these family members she thought. . . The most determined Bai Zuo also denied himself. It seems that everyone is the same, what is the most educated? Reality. When you touch yourself, when you are slapped in the face, you will start the "survival instinct" in a panic. What a brutal rule.

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  • Fay 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    #EUFF2021# I got it, and I was shocked (manual dog head). On the one hand, I was shocked by what power can make a child so desperate, looking for every opportunity, and obsessed with "performing the mission" without caring about his own "safety"; but on the other hand, I thought about it. , In fact, this age is really the stage where you most want to find a sense of identity and are most likely to be seduce (the original word used by the director to greet the short film before the screening). If extremist religions are still far away from most Chinese people, think about the "fan circle culture" around you. How is the core of overcoming heresy different from religions? The only thing I regret about the movie is: first, it takes a trick to attribute all the problems to the responsibility of the imam. Ahmed was already caught in it as soon as he came up, and he did not dig deep into the real social and cultural problems behind it; the second is the ending The sudden confession is too light and too Hollywood, far more powerful than simply blacking out to the end.

  • Mollie 2022-03-20 09:03:05

    The real subject of the title is not Ahmed, but youth. This "young" is like America today - stubborn and reckless. Looking back at history, we will know: To analyze the root cause of the birth of terrorism, we must start with education (ideology), and we must start with (political) leaders and (religious) teachers - Woody Allen's "The Unreasonable People" " is, and so is Manier's "A Moment to Go Out". There is no doubt that the Darney Brothers' new and uninspired work is clearly the same. The most intuitive contradiction in the film is the conflict between traditional hadiths and modern civilization. However, like many youth films, who am I - is the realist proposition that "Young Ahmed" really needs to answer. How to be a true Muslim? The male protagonist who took off his glasses had a blurry vision. Swinging between the morally distorted system and the natural love, he refuses love because he is full of fear of desire itself. In the end, the relationship between fear and desire is transformed into a relationship between love and being loved in the classic "Dane moment", but can love save the teenager? The Darney brothers answered: Nobody knows.