documentary "Another New World" Looking for Sugar Man has a dark and bright story, it is told in a way that is full of hills and valleys, full of Zen, snobbish Vanity Fair and ordinary life conflict, full of talent and silent market wrestling, sparks, sparks, but the whole Because the film has a majestic momentum and a calm tone, everything flows in still water in the surging.
It is well known to the world for winning the Oscar in 2013, and at the previous French Sunshine Documentary Festival, it has been highly respected by the industry and has become the object of looting by major broadcasters, so I am also lucky to win it. I've seen it before and don't mind seeing it a third or fourth time in the future.
Different from ordinary independent producer films, it has a good story and a good use of technology, its special effects are full of creativity and imagination, and the shooting and editing methods also have good rhythm control. In the cinema, its elegant lens is also worthy of the big screen.
The film tells that in the 1970s, music singer-songwriter Rodriguez quit the music scene after releasing two albums with "negative response" and worked as a part-time job at a construction site for a living. He was once considered by the president of Motown Records " He's going to be famous, he's in the top three of the greatest musicians I've ever worked with, tied with Bill Withers." (Bill Withers was an American soul The music scene is dazzling.) But his disappointment in music did not affect his courage in life. He worked diligently and maintained his demeanor. He once wore a tuxedo to move bricks on the construction site. During his 30 years of struggle at the construction site, his musical works have swept the whole country in South Africa. He is a national idol and is worshipped as a god by young people in South Africa.
And he didn't know all of this. He still worked hard on the construction site to support his three children. Later, according to the legend of South African fans, he ended his life with a pistol in a performance. He is the death of the South African people. Icon, his "Anti-Institutional Blues", was the anthem of the South African people's movement against apartheid.
The title "Looking for Sugar Man" is taken from a musical piece "Sugarman" by Rodriguez. This song appears as a symbol in the film, and this song also shows its multiple functions as the show unfolds. The connotation, its melody is bright, the voice is clear, the song image is beautiful and fresh, Palm Springs, the silver boat, like a nursery rhyme; and when you see the middle, you will find that "sugar" is a drug, and "sugarman" is a drug dealer. , the beautiful scene is the fantasy after drug addiction, this reality is too cruel.
So in the second half of the film, when everyone thought that the idol who had drifted away with the wind was unexpectedly found alive and warmly invited him to come to South Africa for a concert, the cheers of the fans and the splendor of the scene were finally not the fans after drug addiction. Fantasy world, but like a dream.
In the midst of such ups and downs, our protagonist is indifferent and unflinching, his soul seems to refuse to be disturbed, and he has a different interpretation of life. He was so calm, he walked alone in the steel bar world of Detroit, and after a concert in South Africa, he divided his income among friends and children, and continued to work on the construction site.
His soul and talent shook hands, his pursuits were reconciled with his situation, he lived his life so peacefully, without the surprise and consternation of the poor and the rich, without feeling the forgetting of time, he himself became a high mountain, just in him in endless peace.
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