watched the movie "Bruptly Silent" with a lot of emotion. The following will analyze its symbolic meaning from the typical symbols of Ultraman mask, stone pile, license plate attribution and sheep. There are also many clues to the loss of Zhang Baomin’s son Leizi in the film. Leizi’s background has always been the sound of mining explosions while herding sheep.
At the end of the film, there is a scene of a lawyer and Chang Wannian trading, and the background sound is also the explosion of mining, which coincides with the time when Leizi went to herding the sheep before Leizi disappeared. It is also Chang Wannian. The image of Ultraman appeared many times in the movie, the masks, schoolbags, and cartoons on TV by the butcher’s son. Ultraman represents justice. The butcher’s son witnessed the whole process of killing Leizi, so He also represents justice in the play.
appeared in the movie a pile of stones, the first time Leizi used stones to build up the sheep when she was herding sheep. The image of the pile of stones is also a metaphor for Leizi. After setting up the pile of stones, Leizi continued to herd sheep. The second time that the pile of stones appeared was when Zhang Baomin went to find his son Leizi, passing by the place where Leizi had built the pile of stones. At this time, the pile of stones fell and the film told the audience that Leizi had been killed. In addition, the stone pile is a triangle, and the triangle elephant is used in many movies. The position of the characters is the most common. For example, in the duel scene of "Three Musketeers", the position of the three people is the triangle elephant, and the triangle elephant is the most common. Stable, but also very sharp, which implies a contradiction that is difficult to adjust.
in this film Xin Yukun hints at the relationship between the three and also hides the class gap and contradiction. License plate attribution "豢": The license plate of each car in the film belongs to "豢", which is not only similar to the word "Meng" in Xin Yukun's hometown and filming location, Inner Mongolia, but its meaning also closely matches the content of the movie . The word "豢" in the dictionary means feeding, which refers to the use of profit to lure others and serve them. The boss Chang Wannian in the film is just such a profit.
came to buy the role of others. In order to get the villagers to sign a contract with compensation money as a temptation, in order to get Xu Wenjie to perjury to buy it for 500,000, he also fought against the subordinates he hired. This all reflects the word "bringing" meaning. These people who have been bought are like the "sheep" images that appear repeatedly in the film. Sheep: Whether it is herding sheep, butchers killing sheep or eating sheep at the table, the image of sheep appears repeatedly in the film, and the most closely related to sheep are Zhang Baomin's family and Chang Wannian.
Zhang Baomin’s son, Zhang Lei, disappeared while herding the sheep, but Chang Wannian feasted on the lamb at the table. Obviously Zhang Baomin is the “sheep”, at the bottom of the food chain, representing the people at the bottom; Chang Wannian is the top of the food chain , Eating lamb, eating away the little people. There is a fragment in the film, I let my colleagues eat mutton at the table for thousands of years, and the colleagues said: I believe in Buddhism and be vegetarian. But Chang Wannian said: Sheep are also vegetarian. In Chang Wannian's words, the implication is that you are a vegetarian, you are a sheep, and can only be eaten by carnivores like me. In fact, when he had conflicts of interest with his colleagues, he did the same, unscrupulously, harming his opponents, and wanting to win the mines.
