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There are several realms of watching a movie: a good movie, after watching it, you will feel "it's so good, I want to give it a like". A great movie, after watching it, you will feel ashamed, and you will want to say "I'm sorry I'm a little late." But there is another kind of movie, that is, after watching it, you will be a little scared, and there will be a fluke of "fortunately I watched this movie". This kind of movie, I call it "the masterpiece". There are so many good movies in the world, so many good books and songs and people worthy of your love, how many are you lucky enough to meet? Not only movies, but life is all about luck.
There are so many movies in the world every year, most of them are bad movies, and a few can be seen but full of craftsmanship. As for the birth of gods, it depends on luck, sometimes there are many a year, such as In 1994, sometimes there was no one for several years, such as these few years. Friends often ask me to recommend movies, and I have been giving no results for the past two years. The fact that I am more telling is: I used to be a person who likes to comment on movies! But I haven't handed in my homework for a long time. There are fewer and fewer movies that can be praised, and more and more friends in the film circle lead to fewer and fewer movies that can be criticized... So today's best film critics don't write film reviews, everyone is Fight reality with silence. "I heard silent protests in their quiet sleep." Even a lot of times, when you see a standard bad movie being praised by everyone, you will feel that there is a serious problem with your worldview, you will feel Cinema is dying as an art.
Fortunately, there is such a masterpiece, which made me have the fear of "I still watched it", so that I can muster the courage to recommend this movie to everyone, so that my gradually unbalanced world view can be put in order, let me I think the art of film is still passed down from generation to generation. This is "Room".
The story and characters of "The Room" are very simple: Brie Larson's mother is kept in a closed room by a pervert for several years, during which time she gives birth to a son Jack to a perverted boy. Jack grew up in the room, never stepped out of the room, and did not know that there is a world outside the room. Until one day, his mother told him that the world is actually very big, and also planned a plan to let the children go out to see...
The story's powerful metaphor is its first great place: the world we live in is this little room. Our perception of the world, or of the room, is at different stages as we grow. When we are first born, we may think that the cradle is the whole world. Gradually, the world we realize is getting bigger and bigger, until today, the world we realize is 46 billion light-years in size. But we still cannot say that this is the whole of the known world.
Fortunately, today we are no longer the same as the Church or Jack who learned that Copernicus proposed the heliocentric theory. When we learn that the room is not the center of the world, there is an infinitely vast world outside it. The attitude of rejection. Even if we can accept the possibility, the execution of our escape from this room is unknown. Even if we accept the infinite possibilities outside the room, we can escape outside the room, so will we miss this little room like Jack when we lie on the soft clean bed?
Some people will ask: This is just a movie, how can anyone live in such a closed room in reality without knowing it?
Of course there is. In ancient China, the ancients who believed that the sky was round and the earth was the same; Fang Long wrote in "Tolerance"; even in reality, such a group of people also exists: North Korea.
Such a group of people is not only a metaphor for "Room", but also written by Lu Xun. I don't know if the screenwriter of "Room" has read Lu Xun's famous quote, "If an iron room has no windows and is hard to destroy, there are many sleeping people in it, and they will soon suffocate to death, but it is From drowsiness to death, without feeling the sorrow of dying. Now you shout, and startle a few more awake people, and cause this unfortunate few to suffer irreparably dying agony, do you think you are worthy of them? However, since a few people are up, you can't say that there is absolutely no hope of destroying this iron house."
The bone thrown by the ape was instantly transformed into a spaceship in space. This spaceship is the product of a few more sober people among the apes who threw their bones back then. The evolution of life is just as great.
But when you think that human civilization has only been born for tens of thousands of years, and when you think that in the eyes of a greater civilization, humans are still no different from the apes of the year, it is difficult for you to talk about greatness: human civilization is still at a very low level. The state of quantum physics is still half-understood, and we cannot be sure whether we are in a closed room at all.
The second great thing about The Room is that it explores what happens after you get out of the room. This question is very similar to Lu Xun's "what happens after Lola runs away" (it's Lu Xun again, I began to suspect that the screenwriter is a fan of Lu Xun). In the film, the mother and son are rescued and return to their long-lost home. Larson finds that Her parents have long since divorced, and she found that her father refused to accept her son. The biggest blow came when she faced the host's sharp questions after she appeared on TV, and found another solution to her son's fate... The bigger problem lies in Jack. , Facing this infinitely vast strange world, and facing the psychological changes of his mother, Jack also experienced a difficult integration process, and even began to miss the years of being imprisoned in the room.
Nostalgia for a place that is isolated (or relatively isolated from a place that represents materialistic depravity) is familiar to the Chinese: Remember "The Peach Blossom Land"? In the usual narrative of Chinese people, returning leaves to their roots is a mainstream narrative method, including the popular "Fu Er Love Letter". The ashes of old couples who have been wandering overseas for many years still have to be scattered in the Yangtze River after death. This kind of value, including Pen pal correspondence without exchanging phone numbers and photos is, in a sense, a move against normal values. Humans are constantly evolving, and as a Homo erectus, it is a ridiculous mentality to miss the days when all four feet were on the ground. I have a poet friend who has long been disgusted by the flood of ancient poetry in "Fu Er Love Letter". He thinks that Chinese poetry has been sad and sad for thousands of years, and sorrow has been separated for thousands of years, but it is not the same. In "Room" Jack says "I want to go back to four years old" when he learns the truth about the world. But is a four-year-old better than a five-year-old world? Of course not, it's just an escape.
"Room" tackles a potentially embarrassing question head-on: what to do after you get out of the room? And it also made itself a masterpiece because of this discussion, but "Fu Er Love Letter" avoided the problem of seeing the light of death in the most mundane way: arranging both of them to be handsome and beautiful. This approach is nothing compared to even the earliest online dating stories 20 years ago.
"If the door is open, it's not the same room." "Do you want me to close the door?" "No." Jack finally returns to the room he once thought was the whole world, only to find "the room is so much smaller. ?" Finally, Jack experienced the stage of the spiral development of mankind and truly bid farewell to the whole world he once had. In the farewell to the sink, chair No. 1, chair No. 2 and skylight one by one, the music gradually sounded, and the audience was depressed. Two hours of emotional release in an instant. Jack's farewell means the self-growth of human beings, and means that human civilization has moved forward a little bit. Most of the adults in the film are problematic, from old Nick, to Larson, who tried to commit suicide, to the grandfather who refused to accept Jack's existence, and the most injured little Jack single-handedly healed the entire adult world.
This is actually a competition between two ideologies. But under the imagination of "Room", under its unavoidable courage, under its awesome narrative that gradually piles up at the end through Jack's mouth to bring the plot to a climax, which of the two ideologies is better? , at a glance. Western movies have been doing this kind of great exploration, from "The Truman World" to "The Matrix", "Room" is also a step in this kind of exploration, and they are great because of this kind of exploration.
The final great thing about The Room is its performance. Needless to say, Brie Larson won an Oscar for this film, and the young actor who played Jack gave the greatest children's performance in my opinion. This 9-year-old actor has a bright future.
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