"God is Crazy" - all wounds in contrast, the same original modern package

Rebekah 2022-04-20 09:01:49

What does it mean to have a Party in your head? Probably this is it. The director probably didn't think that he could shoot where he wanted to create a classic. The tension of the action rhythm that is common in silent films is accelerated to create tension everywhere in this film. If you want to listen to African primitive tribes When the aborigines speak their own language, there is a good chance of hearing the sound of "big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate". Looking at the outside world through the eyes of ordinary people from a primitive tribe is indeed like crazy. Complexity, contradictions, conflicts, doubts, and the inability to trust and communicate make the whole world full of strange hostility. Maybe when God said, "Let there be light," he didn't know what kind of demons this light would illuminate.

An unscrupulous pilot in the desert drank Coca-Cola and threw away a Coke bottle. This hard and transparent thing drove the originally peaceful and happy primitive tribesmen crazy. This multi-purpose fetish made people selfish and greedy. Desires, fights and fights continue to occur in the tribe. Kai, the tribesman who picked up the bottle, is determined to go to the end of the world and return this evil thing to God. And the first time he walked out of the depths of the desert and came to a civilized society, can he adapt to this crazy world...

The film shows the greed and desire of the world through the perspective of a primitive inhabitant. War and death for no reason shattered the peace of nature. It also satirizes the prejudice of religion and the unreliability of machinery. People say that the collapse of the Tower of Babel is because God is afraid that the human beings who are too united will damage their authority, so people in different regions speak different languages. Not only wanting to give life to human beings, but also wanting to selfishly keep life in his own hands forever, God's crazy success has been passed on to his children and grandchildren, from elders and authority, to powerful countries and powers, all of them are playing the role of politicians. Divide him" game.

In the eyes of primitive tribes, the gift of God (here should not specifically refer to God in religion, but a god who unifies the mysterious power of nature, and has different names in various religious beliefs) is beautiful Yes, they are grateful for it and feel rich and satisfied living together. In a modern and civilized city, everything is achieved by one's own efforts, personal interests are paramount, and one seeks a rare and clean place. On one side is quietness, joy, repetition, and contentment; One side may be closer to God. They know that rhinos are happy to be volunteer firefighters in the grasslands. What kind of grass tubers can help them quench their thirst. Thunder or a plane passing by are just God's sneezes. They are simple and straightforward and cute. They laugh when they are happy and cry when they are sad. They may be more resistant to deism, they know what kind of news attracts the public’s attention, they know that planning against time can help make life more comfortable, the small flowers on the roadside and the thick trees in the suburbs are just unknown plants, carefully concealing their true emotions , Even tears and smiles must be doubted for a while. This is a game between primitive civilization and modern civilization.

The various antics of modern people on the African grasslands are really super joyful. The self-proclaimed primate human beings have arrogantly expanded to unprecedented levels after transitioning from the age of cold weapons to thermal power machines. They are busy exploring the universe, saving the world, and creating life. It was found that facing a lion with bare hands was even worse than a primitive inhabitant.

Kai, who finally returned to his own tribe, was happy and content. He felt that the cliff was the end of the world. It can be said that he is dull and uncivilized, but compared with the arrogant modern people, everyone is half a pound. The Coca-Cola bottle that symbolizes miracles, in modern people, can be crop circles, Stonehenge, pyramids, Bermuda Triangle and so on. In the mysterious cosmic mysteries, everyone is still standing on the same starting line, and the fear caused by ignorance will accompany people for life.

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Extended Reading
  • Natalia 2021-12-21 08:01:21

    Every civilization has its own value, and every culture should be respected. When a "civilized" society and its members, flooded by technology and modernization, face an isolated ethnic group and come to a barren land, they will find that they cannot survive. And the values ​​they advertise will be like a human skin mask peeled off by the scorching sun, contention and fight, intrigue, is a civilized society really civilized?

  • Shany 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    If you don't look at the behind-the-scenes information, most people may think that this is an African adventure film made by an American director, but it is actually produced by a native African director. Director Jamie Uyth is from South Africa, which has a better economic development. [God Is Crazy] is one of the most famous African films to date, but the core of the story departs from the mainstream issues of indigenous African films and falls back to the comedy line of Western films—the bizarre experience of white people breaking into indigenous tribes. The native Li Su plays the parent of a primitive tribe in the film, who does not understand the language of modern society. He picked up the Coke bottle that fell from the sky as a sacred object, but it caused the clan to fight, so he decided to return the Coke bottle to God. The conflict between the modern and the primitive, sparks all kinds of jokes. The filmmakers in Hong Kong, China also saw business opportunities for the film and invited Li Su to Hong Kong to star in the comedy [African Monk] [African Superman] [Hong Kong is also crazy]. Lisu himself did not adapt to city life, and after the "God is crazy" craze faded, he returned to the tribe and died of illness in 2003.

The Gods Must Be Crazy quotes

  • Narrator: The one characteristic which really makes the Bushmen different from all the other races on earth is that they have no sense of ownership at all. Where they live, there's really nothing you CAN own: only trees and grass and animals. In fact, these Bushmen have never seen a stone or a rock in their lives. The hardest things they know are wood and bone. They live in a gentle world, where nothing is as hard as rock, steel or concrete.

  • Narrator: Lately, strange new things sometimes appeared in the sky: noisy birds that flew without flapping their wings.

    [a small aeroplane is seen soaring]