doesn't know if writing this article will let the "Buddha" character that he has been pretending to collapse - such as "spitting lotus flowers", "please rejoice", "can't watch it", etc., but I still hope it can. Sincerely, try to express your superficial views on the film art itself, and talk about things. The direct reason why
doesn't want to watch this movie is: after has watched a lot of excellent movies, he doesn't want to watch those movies that are not particularly good. Just as after reading classic literature, you can no longer read those superficial and vulgar works. People need to maintain a certain "spiritual cleanliness".
Goethe has a famous saying: " If you want to learn your native language well, you need to master a foreign language ". Probably a deep understanding of oneself comes from a comparative analysis with other existences that are different from oneself. Therefore, the same is true for the Chinese film , there is no harm if there is no comparison: if you look at Chinese films from a global perspective, you can only say a few words.
Closer to home
When I was writing this article, I strangely remembered a movie " Gang Rinpoche ", which revealed the story of Tibetans' devout belief and pilgrimage to the holy mountain "Kang Rinpoche". A comment from a well-known overseas weekly magazine (probably " Times Weekly "): "This is a movie that quietly shows human beliefs, without too many words." I have to say that the evaluation is very appropriate and pertinent, and even has some kind of implicit banter.
In short, if you just show the piety of Tibetans , you only need to go to Tibet, there are people worshipping, walking around pagodas, and making pilgrimages everywhere, there is nothing special about this.
And "Hidden in the Dust" actually faces a similar problem. If it interprets the difficulties of small characters, similar to the "superfluous people" in Russian literature , then the question is: Then what? It seems that there is no more, I don’t know whether it is the same “no need for too many words”, or it is still unfinished, and I don’t even know “where to start”; Before and after, this is unknown. In short, we seem to have nothing but heavy hearts and tears of sympathy.
Moreover, some of the pictures, actions, and dialogues in it are unacceptable contrived, hypocritical, exaggerated, false, and even childish and ridiculous; and as long as a movie has such details, it has already made people lose their desire to watch desire. This is like, when a girl is in love, if she sees black mud in a boy's nails, she will pass it directly. Besides, if you are a good person and have good conditions, if you don't even have basic hygiene awareness and can't take care of yourself in life, it will be difficult to win. Recognition and respect from others.
When "Hidden in the Dust" was in full swing, I just watched an Indian movie " Above the Clouds ", which is also a story of people at the bottom trying to get rid of the bottom life and struggling to survive, but there are conflicts and dramatic techniques in it. Extremely sharp, it integrates various dimensions and levels such as religion, philosophy, human nature and ethics, which is shocking and thought-provoking.
In particular, when the old lady learned that her middle-aged son tried to molest the boy's sister in the movie, and was injured by the boy's sister with a brick, and the old lady came from the country to the city with her two children. When taking care of her injured and hospitalized son, she also got help from a boy who falsely claimed to be the friend of the old lady's son. However, when she learned the truth, especially because the behavior of the old lady's son might lead to the boy's sister being imprisoned for a long time, The old lady made a jaw-dropping decision: a man went to the hospital to unplug his son's oxygen tube, which was still in bed, causing his son to suffocate, and then wrote a disclaimer and was willing to take it all ( attempt to exonerate the boy's sister). When the old lady who has done all this is sitting on the hospital corridor, her eyes are dull and hopeless (maybe there is also great pain, sadness and despair in her heart) looking into the distance, pushing the conflict of human nature to the extreme?
, if you were the mother of that unworthy son, could you make such a decision and act? (Recalling that a 14-year-old boy in Shenyang killed a 10-year-old girl because of indecent assault, the boy's mother also plausibly said: "He is still a child", even thisIt has become a "famous saying". )
Therefore, those movies that really move people's hearts must have profound conflicts, which can make people face the ultimate torture of human nature, belief, soul, etc., and also complete the guidance, stimulation and sublimation, and make our thinking and questioning, pushing To a higher dimension or depth, we break through our original limitations and obstacles, and gain rebirth and transcendence.
Unfortunately, "Hidden in the Dust" does not have this expression, just like the movie "Kang Rinpoche".
reminds me of the epic disaster movie "2012" released in 2012, there are also scenes in Tibet: The dialogue between an old lama and a young disciple profoundly reveals the Tibetan people or the real life in just 2-3 minutes. The mentality and behavior of people of faith in the face of disaster, the film uses 's very plain and natural language, and the dialogue with is full of Zen machine and soul questions. This kind of feeling is like a real master of art, who may outline the essence and key points of things in a few strokes (the director or screenwriter who marvels at Hollywood seems to understand Tibetan beliefs better than us), from content to form is very "advanced" ", very artistic; and superficial painters can only copy in detail and express everything in detail, but they do not grasp the inner essence and core of things, so the expression is naturally unsatisfactory.
Perhaps, this is the deadliest problem facing Chinese films: We have money, people, theaters, box office, people watching, hype, operation and all kinds of blending, as well as fraud (such as "two" who also betray the suffering. uncle"). But there is only one thing: there is no soul, no art, and has not touched the essence of art. resonance. On the contrary, the countries around us, from , Iran, , to India, from Thailand to Japan, South Korea, etc., can throw us a few streets away.
Aside from the movie itself, even if you can shoot a commercial of the same high level as Thailand, which has won top awards in the world many times, it is a pity that there doesn't seem to be one.
seems to be too patriotic or to be called an angry youth, but if we don't face this fact, maybe we will never get ahead. Of course, various experts and scholars have made a lot of reflections and discussions on Chinese films, but the actual situation is that we still have not improved or made progress, or have not found the root and key points of the problem.
Of course, this is a very big topic. The author is unable to carry out a grand discussion. I can only try to trace the origin and explore the cause and effect:
First, it has not really integrated into the humanistic and philosophical context in the world, and has not established "Connect" didn't complete "Breakout" either.
In this respect, it is possible that our five thousand years of profound cultural accumulation (burden) has made it difficult for us to return. Coupled with the limitations of the system, environment, people's education level, etc., and then there is no Renaissance and Enlightenment , the overall human environment is still similar to some kind of "prehistoric civilization" or "ignorant era", which directly leads to our inherent lack of understanding of world civilization, which reflects that all fields of art are huge constraints and obstacles. On the other hand, China’s elites have not really broken through the limitations of the current ecological environment, do not have enough awareness to actively study, educate themselves, return to the classics (worldwide), vigorously innovate, and even rarely read, not enough The "input" naturally does not produce a component "output".
Of course, there are a lot of melon-eating people in China, and even a not-so-good movie still has a box office (perhaps there is no more choice), and even makes a lot of money. In this way, the producers naturally try to leverage the largest possible cake with the lowest cost. After all, this is still a game of capital, which follows the innate nature of capital to make profits.
Second, human nature and people's hearts have not been baptized by modern civilization and contemporary art, so that the traditional way of thinking, values and ways of doing things still treats art, and naturally it cannot be improved.and beyond.
In fact, the essence of art is the manifestation of our xinxing, especially in movies. Similarly, all kinds of chaos in the film and television industry, all kinds of quick success, intrigue, unspoken rules, black box operations, all kinds of operations, all kinds of "fighting dragons and tigers" are actually a reflection of human nature and people's hearts. And our national and human nature, after more than 2,000 years of feudal rule, plus various tricks, tactics, schemes, pragmatism and cleverness, make us not have modern scientific thinking, nor pure artistic feelings, let alone The grand pattern and vision - just like we have been betraying suffering, family, officialdom, palace fighting, and war of resistance, we have never really looked up to the stars and thought about the origin and existence of human beings...
Therefore, in such an ecological environment , it is difficult to produce truly great art. Although
said that the unremitting efforts of individuals may achieve "breakthrough" and "transcendence", the constraints of the overall ecological environment sometimes produce fatal resistance. Just as oranges are born in the south, they are oranges, and when they are born in the north, they are oranges. It is not impossible to complete the reversal, but there is a feeling of "the way of Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the sky".
Let's hope we're on our way to a true awakening.