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"Big Buddha Plus" is a feature film directed by Huang Xinyao and produced by Ye Rufen and Zhong Menghong. Starring by Chen Zhusheng, Zhuang Yizeng, Dai Liren, Natto, Zhang Shaohuai, etc. The film was released in Taiwan, China on October 13, 2017. The movie
mainly tells: works as a night guard at the Buddha statue factory in Caipu. The most important job every day is to help the chairman Qiwen open the door late at night. He picks up the tattered exchange of posts and his brother Ducai will come here to watch TV when he is fine. It rained heavily in the early morning of the day, and Ducai came to Caipu with curry rice that was about to expire. But the TV broke down. Ducai heard that the rich world is colorful, so he encouraged Caipu to take out the boss’s car. Check the recorder for anything eye-catching.
The two people who peeked at the dash cam
, but they also got involved in a political-business collusion, lustful, earth-shattering murder plan from a small fortunate night of simply enjoying erotic radio dramas. A big Buddha, a factory, and 8 small figures of different backgrounds portray the most absurd sweet life. The Big Buddha
in the film
innovatively uses a mixture of black and white and color images. The world of the rich is represented in color, and the world of the poor is represented in black and white. Through metaphorical colors, the arrogance of the rich's life, and the bleakness of the poor's life, it gives people an intuitive and strong impact. The film is full of opposing elements-poverty and wealth, peeping and being peeped, black and white and color, compassion and banter, art and vulgarity, implicit and debauchery, etc. These opposing elements have brought the impact of the film, and the narration throughout the film unifies them. The tone of the film has always been the whispers of the little people in Taiwan. (Mtime.com evaluation)
Three poor people at the bottom of society
First of all, we will have questions about the name of this movie-"The Big Buddha Plus", why add a Plus? In fact, because director Huang Xinyao once directed a short film "Big Buddha", and this movie is an extended version of "Big Buddha", so it is called "Big Buddha Plus". If you insist on saying something special, really feels that the word "plus" here means "", which magnifies the social problems between people in the film and magnifies the class problems in this society. It is precisely because of this magnification that we can feel the existence of the problem.
The first thing I feel dizzy after watching the movie is compassion and touch. feels pity for Ducai's sudden death. It is easy to find from the movie that Caipu was killed by Qiwen. Moved by Caipu's filial heart, he faced the threat of death. The first thing he thought of was how his mother could live after he left, instead of worrying about his own life.
Caipu who took his mother to see a doctor is unique in that the film uses alternate black and white and color techniques to express the film scenes. The world of the rich is represented in color, and the world of the poor is represented in black and white. Director believes that this story focuses on two small characters, so it can be portrayed more deeply by using black and white high contrast. The movie screen is black and white, and only the dash cam is in color. This way of expression has deepened our understanding of class differences. So as to show the incomparable gap between the poor class and the rich class from a deeper level. The poor and the rich seem to live in different worlds. The second feature of
is that the director’s narration appears from time to time in the film, and the director has been acting as the narrator. Zhong Menghong, the producer of , believes that Huang Xinyao's first feature film should have personal characteristics, so he suggested that he add narration to the film. This is the director's first film work, but what we see from it is not immature, but sophisticated skills and unique performance techniques. The theme of the
movie is obvious, which is to show the current situation of society by showing the contradictions of different classes in society, and arouse people's reflection. The focus on small people and thinking about Taiwanese society have something in common, focusing on small people who are often overlooked at the bottom of society.
This is a cruel movie. The cruelty is not how fortunate the life of the poor is, but the arrogance and extravagance of the rich do whatever they want.
The life of the rich
This movie contains many philosophies. Director read them out with narration. These wordsIt's really the cry from the heart of the poor. I think the director plays the poor man in this movie, and he speaks for the poor.
"Humans can go to the moon by spacecraft a long time ago, but they can never explore the inner universe of others"
"Humans can go to the moon by spacecraft a long time ago, but they can never explore the inner universe of others". We live in a closed world. It is not the world itself that is closed, but our heart. Do you remember when was the last time you opened up to others? There are many secrets hidden in our hearts, and the secrets are hidden in this way, and will not be revealed until we die. Our hearts are filled with so-called secrets, our lives are occupied by our selfishness. We always use loneliness as an excuse for excellence, but can we really stand loneliness? may choose to open your heart and release the pressure in your heart.
Social class is difficult to cross, but we can at least open our hearts.
May we all be the best selves.
