The movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" made me feel that the principles I had adhered to in the past were just falsehoods in just two hours. A good work of art does not analyze, but only persuades. It reveals the truth of art to others by stimulating the emotions of the appreciator. Good comments should be the same.
One night on the weekend, I lay alone in bed and silently read this business card taken by Frank Kaplan in 1939 through the 14.1-inch laptop screen. The night before, I just finished watching "Nanjing! "Nanjing" is immersed in the general decline of film art, and careerists who lack artistic talents appear on the stage, exchanging the seriousness of the subject matter for the resentment of people's cheap moral identity. In the daytime at school, I wrote a commentary on the film "Underground" made by Yugoslavian director Tusturica. While marveling at the director’s genius’ artistic creativity, he also lamented the sad fact that the current Chinese film market is completely commercialized by contrast ( Lu Chuan’s "Nanjing! Nanjing" is more like a commercial film than the previous "Looking for a Gun" and "Kekexili", although from the perspective of the original intention of the director and the moral connotation of the serious theme of the film, it is completely The result of a blunder; there are also news and legends that Jiang Wen, who I have been paying attention to, also turned his attention to commercial films). Go home more than eight o'clock in the evening, lock himself in the room, and watch the movie until near midnight.
Within two hours, my heart seemed to be gripped tightly by something, and I knew that I had encountered a movie that reached the depths of my soul. Watching such a movie is my bliss, but I have begun to fear the loneliness that is about to wrap me tightly again after the movie is over. I always believe that, regardless of the objective artistry, the most impressive thing about a movie is that it allows the audience to see their own destiny, or to see the actions he dreams of but cannot take in reality. This is exactly what Hollywood movies do. Greatness. Of course I know that evaluating a movie based on such subjective feelings is a misinterpretation of art, and it is art kitsch if a director makes a film based on such audience reactions. However, the Hollywood movie of the 1930s, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", came to me after decades of time, and it instantly made me see my own destiny. Sadly, after seeing this destiny clearly, I find lonely that no one around the reality shares such a destiny, because such a destiny originally only concerns loneliness.
Mr. Smith, played by James Stewart, is the leader of the Boy Scouts in a certain southern state. He is also a simple, kind-hearted young man who believes in American political myths. He was with the local children all day, all he cared about was "the prairie still has the high grass tip that the wind blows through, the stream trickles into the grass, the lively water in the deep mountains, and the cattle walk down the hillside with the afterglow. ......" Such a Peter Pan, who lives in the pastoral, is destined to become Don Quixote fighting the windmill alone. It is precisely because of his pure thinking and harmless appearance that he was involved in a huge conspiracy and was inexplicably selected as the state's Senate in Washington. The conspirator John Taylor tried to control him to pass a conspiracy. Dam proposal with great interest. Compared with the Washington political arena, which is full of conspirators and unspoken rules, and the media that is collaborating with politics, Mr. Smith is like an inexperienced child, full of illusions about American politics, and belongs to a typical "being kept in the dark." "Politicians ridiculed him as a hillbilly, and media reporters at first laughed at him as a puppet, but later sarcastically called him Don Quixote. His secretary, Miss Sanders, felt like a mother who brought her children out shopping for the first time. . After the truth was revealed step by step, and finally found out what a ridiculous role he had originally played, after witnessing his idol, Senate Joseph Paine, known as the Silver Knight, shamelessly falsely accuse him of the law according to the potential rules of power. After seeking personal gain, Mr. Smith suffered the most serious crisis of faith, and once wanted to leave Washington. At this time, his former secretary once resigned because he could not bear the darkness of politics. Miss Sanders, who was touched by Mr. Smith’s simple childlike conviction, came to his side and restored his courage and confidence. His more than ten years of political experience has guided Smith on how to defend his innocence through the normal procedures of Congress, to reject the dam proposal, to expose the collusion between Senator Joseph Paine and the big capitalist John Taylor, and to make Smith worthy of it. The Boy Scouts who supported him in his hometown are worthy of Abraham Lincoln and those great American fathers!
I have written too much on the retelling of the plot of the movie. Undoubtedly, Mr. Smith finally won with extremely hard work and extraordinary courage (of course, with the political correctness of Hollywood movies). The film re-establishes the political myth of the United States through the rehearsal of the motif of "Ning people are eradicated and justice is done". Throughout the film, the director’s intention is indeed to re-educate the audience in democratic politics. In fact, the magnificent parliament building and the solemn statue of the father of the nation appear repeatedly in the film shots, and the "Declaration of Independence" repeated through the mouth of the protagonist "And the U.S. Constitution have made this intention clear. The movie shows a big capitalist covering the sky with one hand. The senator only wants to keep his job. Turn one eye and close one eye to live a stable life. A U.S. Congress is full of power struggles and full of misty smoke. It is also the child’s master of ceremonies and foreign guests." On the surface, American politics seems to be incorrigible, and democratic politics has completely degraded. However, what has been passed down in American politics has been preserved from the great founding fathers and legislators, except for the "Declaration of Independence". "And the gradually forgotten in the U.S. Constitution "of the people, by the people, Like the CBS announcer who appeared several times in this film. However, both the political arena and the media have a common owner. In this movie, it is the big capitalist Mr. John Taylor. Whether it is political ideals or journalistic professional ethics, he ultimately has to remain silent under the suppression of the power, the only disobedience It was the Don Quixote, our hero Mr. Smith. In fact, in the congressional climax of the film, the main battle between Smith and Taylor is the control of the media. The splendid scene of the media contention in the film reminds me of the "Goodbye, Good Night" I saw before, but the latter is the truth and justice embodied in the final media has been upheld, and in "Mr. Smith to Washington" In, the media is a complete failure.
To be sure, the truth of history tells us that idealism always ends up in failure. Mr. Smith's victory in Congress does not mean that the political crisis in the United States has been eliminated. He is just a special case. In the future, there will be countless young people with aspirations and ideals who will still choose to compromise when faced with choices like Senate Paine, because compromise is almost the first principle of practical politics. Just imagine, if Mr. Smith continues to stay in Washington as a senator, in all likelihood, he will be killed by a bullet from the back like his father did! Nevertheless, I would like to take his victory in Congress as a great opportunity to generate meaning. After people have spent countless hours of inaction, such a moment finally emerges, and the soul is sublimated by the combination with a certain noble spiritual concept. , This is the sweetest moment, the bliss of man, even though there is a lonely destiny buried in it!
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