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There are fans leaving a message. After watching "The Lost City of Z", for the first time, I deeply understand what "soul dreaming" is!
When the end of a person's life, the gravitational force of fate, and the source of desire are an unknown city that may not exist, this person's life will burn violently in splendor and tragedy until it ends.
Desires make people exist, but we can never reach desires because desires are always elsewhere. We absolutely cannot generate desires ourselves.
The story of "The Lost City of Z" is simply a capitalized incarnation of desire.
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the lost city, the last piece of the puzzle of civilization, like a huge desire magnet, firmly grasping the desire of the protagonist Percy, leading his life.
The film is majestic, with excellent photography, and the classical temperament is lingering around the beam, which is memorable for a long time.
The collision of civilization and primitiveness, the pulling of desire and human nature, the tearing of family affection and dream, have formed multiple narrative conflicts in the city of "Lost Z City". Incessantly, the final climax of the story directly annihilates the so-called traditional ending, and suddenly sublimates to the other side of the cloud of fantasy, making people's desires last forever.
But the lights are on, the crowds are fading, and although the film is over, the desire remains hot. What could be more wonderful than such an experience?
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Fat brother reminds again that although the 104-minute "Lost in Z City" is amazing enough, I do not recommend everyone to go to the cinema.
Because, the normal film length of "Lost in Z City" is 141 minutes, while the mainland version directly cut 37 minutes.
I really don't know that such a huge editing project came from the master in the mainland, and I don't want to comment on it.
This film can be released, and it is not easy for audiences to see such a grand narrative on the big screen.
After all, the impetuous film market in the mainland is full of gold, and some people who have completely fallen into the money hole are indeed not surprised to do such a thing.
The 37 minutes that were cut completely ruined the film.
Not a story, but a flavor of a classical narrative.
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and cut out paragraphs, so that a French meal that requires multiple processes has become a fast food.
In other words, let the thrill of a hot pot become the tasteless experience of a one-time fast-food hot pot box.
Pleasure and desire are the highest peaks of body odor that can only be reached after experience.
Quick, quick always equate to bland, nutritious.
The film tells the story of British Lieutenant Colonel Parcy, who has gone to the Amazon forest three times to explore the unknown city over 25 years.
The edited mainland version tells the story clearly, but because of the serious loss of a large number of details, the final climax moment is instantly paralyzed.
Passy's exploration at the beginning was because he continued to use exploration to complete his self-identity. Because he was born in a not-so-glorious family, he has never been able to advance and was ignored.
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he hopes to use this expedition to restore family glory.
The first expedition should be the most thrilling.
The separation of relatives, when Passy left for the first time, the eldest son was still young, and his wife had just conceived the second child.
And this expedition is full of dangers, the terrifying Amazon jungle, the dangerous creatures full of highly poisonous, the lack of food, and the insecurity brought by various unknowns oppress everyone's nerves.
When desperate, Percy even burned his family's letters, and he had already prepared the ending of Abandoned Corpse Wilderness.
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Just when the ammunition ran out, they finally found the source, a place where no white people had ever been, and they became the Westerners who opened up history.
This exciting turning point was edited and passed by. Emotional brewing suddenly lost several levels.
This part was supposed to be the middle climax of the second act of the whole story, which was supposed to be the first high point of emotions, and ended up losing its power completely.
On this expedition, Passy accidentally saw the traces of a lost civilization. Maybe that lost city really exists.
After returning home, he was greeted by people.
New pressures continue. Desire begins to escalate.
On one side is the dreamlike lost city.
On the one hand, the family does not understand.
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the crowd's question.
The status of self-identity has never been further improved.
After the first expedition, the roots of Percy's desires have shifted from gaining recognition to more advanced idealist obsessions.
At this point, a new adversary is introduced into the story, an opportunist. He sponsored the second expedition, but at the same time, his presence allowed us to see idealism and realism clash!
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The Lost City of Z story is undoubtedly exotic. The mysterious Amazon forest is the best narrative place. Because there are a lot of unknowns in it.
And when a group of modern people is thrown into this primitive unknown land, the potential pressure and danger will pull out the mask of humanity in the shortest time and destroy the fortress of civilization.
When the danger of death looms, we see that this group of civilized people who despise the savages and despise the laws of the jungle suddenly become savages.
Fighting for food to fight for your life and death, the so-called jazz is just a shameless person who is greedy for life and fears death, takes advantage of others, and has a very narrow-minded attitude.
He let the second expedition fall through, and also delayed Percy's third expedition.
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because the First World War is coming. And in order to get rid of the troubles, Percy launched the Adventure Association.
Two expeditions have escalated several conflicts.
The first is Passy's dream and the choice of his family, which put him in a dilemma.
The questioning of the eldest son, the pain of separation from his wife.
Then there's civility and barbarism and satire.
The people of London, the order is a more advanced civilized society, but when they entered the so-called primitive land, they exposed the opposite of civilization.
They can't accept the existence of a civilization that is a hundred years or even a thousand years earlier than them. The city of gold can only be a myth, not a reality.
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this ignorance, which reflects the limitations and processes of civilized cognition.
Finally, there is the disillusionment and eternity of idealism.
Passy is the most persistent person, his friend, best friend, and finally gave up the third expedition because of family. He took his son to that dream place.
Among them, the key conflict from family affection, the reconciliation process of Passy and his son, and the transformation of son Jack are definitely the focus of the film's side story, but because of the lost 37 minutes, it seems that the logic is not enough, and the persuasiveness is reduced.
When Percy takes her son on his third expedition, his wife speaks the entire film's title line.
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people should be born with continuous improvement as the foundation of life. If we give up our dreams in order to live, then what is the meaning of heaven.
The climax of the film, where Percy and his son Jack are captured by cannibal savages, ends in a highly ritualized ending that doesn't quite make it clear what happened to Percy and Jack.
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because it is completely irrelevant!
They have reached the land of dreams, and they have completed the process of desire in action.
The film ends slowly in the dream in Passy's guilt for the family and the support of the family.
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that dark night, when the light of his dreams shone brightly on him.
His soul was burning with desire and ideals.
This process is enough to make him famous in history, enough to make him worthy of his life.
It is a pity that this ending, which sublimates the whole film, is inherently insufficient.
A lot of editing makes the metaphorical scenes carefully designed by the director completely lost, and the story loses its charm.
For example, a dish lacks a lot of condiments, relying on the mixed additives to swindle and fool around.
What a pity.
Character transformation arcs, story conflict, narrative rhythm, plot tension, almost all of them are greatly reduced.
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but even so, you can still see the shape of a good conscience.
Fortunately, there is the Internet, and fortunately there are Blu-ray films.
Don't go to the cinema, just wait for the Blu-ray resource.
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