"Yuzi" tells us how the pig industry is mixed in the entertainment circle

Marcus 2021-12-20 08:01:11

Pig industry, entertainment circle. How can these two words that are far apart have a connection? That's right! At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the South Korean director named after "Snow Country Train", "Mother" and "Memories of Murder" once again brought his new film "Tamako" to Cannes. This filmmaker who focuses on themes of social reality is even more jaw-dropping this time, allowing the pig industry to radiate endless brilliance in the entertainment circle, and at the same time triggering people’s control of ecology, globalization, elitism, and media. Thinking of global hot issues.

Yuzi is the genetically modified "best sow" born in an American technology company ten years ago, and Mirando, the female director of the company, has personally become the endorsement star of genetically modified pigs. In the "Best Sow" contest, 27 cubs were entrusted to farmers in 27 countries to raise them. Ten years later, one pig was selected as a superstar. For ten years, Mirando has been concealing the fact of "genetically modified pigs" from the public, packaging them into new breeds discovered in South America, giving them health and environmental connotations, and making them a household name through media operations. Yuzi and Mija have lived in the mountains of South Korea for seven years. When a technology company came to reclaim the best sow, they realized that Mija, who had separated from Yuzi, broke to pieces and the piggy bank in the house was smashed from the depths of the mountain desperately. He ran to Seoul in an attempt to snatch his own jade from the tech giants.

Starting from "Snow Country Train", Bong Joon-ho no longer only focused on the social reality of South Korea, but began to try to use movies to explore more in-depth and universal globalization and human issues. Just like "Snow Country Train"'s discussion of global warming and human doomsday, "Yuzi" is like a big news that spans ten years and covers almost all of the current hot topics, from nature to consumerism to the future of mankind, giving it to the public Very broad thinking space. The whole film conforms to the current rebellion against "elitism" that is blooming all over the world, and completely subverts the social order that is considered "already ossified".

The first is the proposition of humans, animals, and nature, where pigs are no longer the species at the lower end of the food chain responsible for giving human nutrition. In the history of literature and film, the pig has always been a favorite animal by the author, used to think about human beings. Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Imamura's "Pig and Warship" are both representative works that use pigs to express humanity and criticize consumer society. Yuzi is more like a tiger and a bear under the lens of Jean-Jacques Arnault. By establishing emotions with individuals in humans, they fight against a social machine and the so-called social order built by humans on the opposite side. Yuzi, Mija, and animal protection organizations formed an alliance. Although they don’t know much about each other, Yuzi and Mija simply hope not to separate. What the animal protection organizations pursue is to expose the shady technology companies and stop these genetically modified pigs. Become human food. However, their tripartite alliance based on faith finally completed a perfect blow to the monopolistic plutocrats and the social order they built.

In "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century", Benjamin revealed the essence of the "entertainment" of commodities at the World Exposition. The colorful products and entertainment make the "display value" of the product replace the "use value", and make it glow with entertainment. What Mirando created is a vigorous "star-making movement". The sow has become a star in the TV arena, Mirando has become the spokesperson of ecology and environmental protection, and the public's attention has long since been "eaten by sows". "Value" is transferred to the "entertainment attributes" created by the media. Mirando also has a strong desire to become a star. At the last moment before the press conference, she lamented that after ten years, the public’s goal has finally shifted from "sow" to herself, and she finally has the opportunity to become a surpassing "mother". Superstar of "Pig". Yes, the final celebration of the film brings the film back to the discussion of entertainment itself. Here we review the history of the development of art and entertainment, from the "concentration" in the painting period, to the "distraction" in the era of mechanical reproduction, to the "distraction" in the era of mobile Internet, entertainment is presented to people in different forms, and entertainment itself The essence of is always a kind of interconnection with the social power mechanism.

And "anti-elitism" is the public's rebellion against this kind of social and cultural manipulation. Mirando has resolutely become a spokesperson for health, green and environmental protection. She has toured around the world to give speeches and is undoubtedly an elite in business and culture. The elites have created a seemingly free and democratic society. People can choose the president and parliamentarians they like, and they can look for the media to expose their own rights and interests. But under the seemingly just social order, what is hidden is indeed the perfect use of this set of social rules by the elites, who know too well how to use this set of social rules for their own benefit. The anger of the people began to erupt at the moment when animal cruelty appeared on the big screen, and the people demanded the release of the animals in the laboratory to stop this deceitful lie. Looking back at our current world, Trump was elected president of the United States, and the people’s anger at Park Geun-hye’s political affairs is undoubtedly a strong counter-measure to this “elitism”.

"Yuzi" blurs the boundary between film and news. To be precise, it is more like a sci-fi news, and through this news, a channel can be established to connect to the real society. It makes us think about the various phenomena around us, the numerous charities in the background of the consortium? A TV star that tens of thousands of people watch on TV? Or an elite who holds the words and authority? All in all, "Yuzi" tells us how to question the world.

Original: Deep Focus

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  • Lea 2022-03-21 09:02:07

    Please let me show my keynote: Meat made us moral.

  • Uriel 2022-03-24 09:02:09

    Translation is sacred

Okja quotes

  • Jay: Translations are sacred.

  • [first lines]

    Lucy Mirando: [to camera while descending industrial stairway] Oh, thank you! What a terrific crowd! Welcome to my inauguration! I'm Lucy, Lucy Mirando, of the Mirando Corporation. Welcome to my grandfather's old factory. Now, I know, we all know, that Grandpa Mirando was a terrible man.

    [crowd laughs]

    Lucy Mirando: We know of the atrocities he committed in this space. We know these walls are stained with the blood of fine working men. But today, I reclaim this space, to tell you a beautiful story. Now the rotten CEOs are gone. It's Mirando's new era with me, and with new core values, environment, and life. Awesome.

    Employee: You're much more fun than the last chief executive.

    Lucy Mirando: Well, former CEO Nancy is my sister, but, uh... we're very different people. We have very different ways of being. We have very different business ethics. But she's totally ignorant about humanity. She lacks vision beyond her next round of golf.

    [crowd laughs]

    Lucy Mirando: The world's population is at 7 billion. 805 million human beings struggle with hunger every day, including 30 million right here in the United States. The world is running out of food, and we're not talking about it.

    Lucy Mirando: We needed a miracle. And then we got one. Say hello to a super piglet. This beautiful and special little creature was miraculously discovered on one Chilean farm. We brought this precious girl to the Mirando Ranch in Arizona. Our scientists have been raising her with love and care ever since, observing and performing various studies. And we've successfully reproduced 26 miracle piglets by nonforced, natural mating. They are like nothing on Earth!