"Crash"
: The first impression after watching "Crash" is: It's too similar to "11:14" - there are also as many as more than a dozen characters appearing on the scene. The large-scale group play is also a series of events overlapping and influencing each other in a short period of time. However, the difference is that the latter is just a small-budget suspense film, while the former was the best picture at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005. Lamenting that the same type of method processing has different influences on different narrative content and theme structures.
(PS: It is worth mentioning that the director of this film, Paul Haggis, is the screenwriter of "Million Dollar Baby", and Hilary Swank, the heroine in the film, also has a role in "11:14", playing a convenience store salesperson The character. It's a fate.) When
evaluating "Crash", we must not sigh its greatness only from its narrative style and story structure. It contains more and more things, and even needs to be classified for a while: racial issues (Although the director has publicly denied that this is the biggest theme of the film, I think this is just a smoke bomb to avoid the important points. Otherwise, the Asian, Chinese, Latino, and black Americans that appear in the film one after another will be part of the scene. How unconvincing that it can be discussed without the issue of race); the conflict of interpersonal relationships; the standard conflict of judging the good and evil of an ordinary person in modern society... But what I am most interested in discussing is the commander in the film. The branch story that almost everyone will stop shaking: the daughter's bulletproof vest.
The father told his daughter that on his 5th birthday, a fairy gave him an invisible bulletproof vest, and after wearing it, he would no longer be afraid of any gunshot wounds. The daughter was dubious, her watery eyes widened, watching what her father took off from his body as if he was serious, and then criticized it on his soft little body. The father dressed his daughter carefully, and then said solemnly: Well, you will no longer be afraid of any bullets now, and no one can hurt you. But you have to remember that when your daughter is 5 years old, you are going to give her this invisible body shield. The daughter nodded vigorously.
The above is a white lie fabricated by the father to solve his daughter's fear of bullet holes in the glass window. At the age when her daughter believes in any good fairy tale, she naturally believes it.
Later, when the father was pointed at the pistol, the daughter took small steps to stand in front of the father and whispered: Don't worry, I will protect you, I have an invisible bulletproof vest. After the gunshots sounded, countless audience members thought that it was indeed a miracle - the daughter seemed to be wearing a bulletproof vest, unscathed. However, they overlooked that it was actually a small act by the store owner's daughter, who gave her father an empty bullet, so that the function of the gun was limited to firing a shot instead of firing a bullet. This unintentional act saved the locksmith father and daughter.
What I want to discuss here is not the touching effect of the film and the ingenious design of the story, but the courage that comes from a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, no, maybe it should be called: the power of innocence.
When the store owner is holding a pistol with a trembling right hand, aiming at the locksmith, if the daughter does not come out to "block the gun" for the father, the next behavior of the store owner may be to resort to some other violent act to continue his purpose: revenge for this Bastard locksmith. But the appearance of his daughter shocked the Persian, and he even thought he saw God at that time. From this, it can be seen that it was not the empty bomb that only sounded that changed the situation, but the victory of the innocent power radiated by the daughter.
I once saw a sentence three years ago, and I didn’t agree with it very much at the time. Now that I think about it, I have inadvertently relied on this creed to walk to this day. I can’t deny it. That is actually the title of an article: "Undefended is the highest state of fortification." At that time, I understood this sentence like this: This is not to say that as long as you believe that there are good people in this world, then they will all treat you well? Simply fart. But now, I have a new understanding of this sentence: as long as you believe that people in this world will not behave excessively towards you, even if you suffer a loss, you will feel that others are treating you well. This is a gorgeous turning point of mentality, but it is definitely not the continuation of Ah Q's spirit in this world. It emphasizes a belief in pure positive energy to repel all negative energy.
I think everyone actually has an invisible body armor, but before putting it on, we have to take off a lot of other heavy defenses.
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