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always feel that I always watch such inspirational films. After a long time, I can't remember those stubborn negatives that can only be said to represent the old traditions. Character. "Whale Rider" is the same as before. Even if the chief grandfather Koro is the real male number one, I still don't think the character itself has any impressiveness besides symbolizing old ideas. I think that's often the case. In the end, the old man nodded with tears, the so-called Good End that turned decay into jade silk.
There is another kind of film in this world, which lacks such a role. A group of young people looked around and talked loudly, bar banquets swaggered over the city and there was nowhere to hide in broad daylight. After all, there would be no such stern and mean old man who announced their maturity with comforting eyes a minute before the subtitles appeared. We call it a youth film.
There is always confusion. When the destination reached by the mountains and rivers is just an ever-chun oasis in the desolate Gobi, how can you judge whether it is a mirage in your dreams? Neither is it ranked among the immortal class, the so-called sense of existence is just that the sweet spring water moisturizing the throat, or the gentle breeze washing face under the shade of the tree can bring it?
On the way home, there is a glass door in the sales office. Inside the door, there is often a large dog nearly 5 feet tall with a snow-white coat. As long as I get closer, it will yell out loud. I don't mind the hostility behind the instinct. It barked, I existed, and I took off the roaring earphones, thinking self-pity.
"Somehow I experienced my time as a postponement of my life, but eventually I realized that this is my life." "Kicking and Screaming" is a sermon that may not be eye-catching in the witty dialogue, from the bartender classmate Chet Mouth. This and another line of dialogue became the reason why I included the independent work in this corner into My Top20, and my comment was "If this movie is still on my Top20 in three years, it means that I am already a loser."
A film with only resonance and no sense of identity heralds only some unsightly memories...
But it can be said that in "Whale Rider", there is only a father who abandons tradition and a daughter who transcends tradition, and there is no grandfather. Let the beliefs in the background be swallowed up by modern civilization like a Maori village, we can still see two vivid personalities on the screen, understanding, not understanding, after all, it is straightforward, and perhaps the same can be done. An ideological sublimation. But as an inspirational film, it still needs to explain where it is.
Just like the Mongolian border that I have personally seen, the Maori tribes on Yangdao have already embarked on the path of modern civilization. Only the cartoonish whale and knight totem on the roof of the worship hall is breathing the tribe silently. Ancient legends and songs. Middle-aged and elderly women smoke while playing cards. The chief’s eldest son ran away from home because he could not bear the loss of his wife and repetitive labor. The second son also stayed away from the traditional temptation to accept modern civilization, and there was pressure and discrimination from various quarters. The mysterious and distant European style in the casual words of the father who returned for the first time seemed to be ruthlessly suppressing the last trace of faith that belonged to the ancients. However, when the theme of the film needs to be positive, the ending will not be the loss of escape from nihilism or the sinking similar to the failure of the French Revolution. We must see the girl achieve what we want, we must see an old man nodding in tears, and we must see a truly shocking sense of identity...
Only then can we realize that the role of grandfather Koro is what the audience finally gets The original giver of feelings.
The girl accepted the sacred name her mother called out at her deathbed. Paikea, who fell to the ground, was born and faced a family with serious thoughts about male superiority and inferiority. His mother died of dystocia, and his father ran away from home. What made her chief and grandfather dissatisfied was the death of her younger brother. There has never been any gap between grandparents and grandchildren because of knowing happiness. Finally, a small error in the performance of a clan club made Koro an excuse to abandon his status as the heir of the tribe chief. The inspirational story is here. As for the emotion accumulated by the hardship, it will bloom at the moment when the girl on the back of the whale slowly sinks into the water.
The girl has never lost his goal. The prayers she chanted are natural and beautiful, as if responding to the call from the depths of the soul; the girl’s father may never have had a goal, and the path of seeking art may be just an excuse for him to escape, facing Secular temptation, perhaps it was those talents that prevented him from maturing to face his responsibilities, so Porourangi, who could not identify with his father and at the same time, chose to leave. Perhaps this is another film that celebrates the will of women. The immaturity of the father and the stubbornness of the grandfather make the image of Paikea, a strong girl who exudes a radiant personality, particularly dazzling.
Perhaps "Whale Rider" is not a wonderful plot, or it is only telling the story of the Maori themselves today, smeared with a fragrant legendary flavor, and as an inspirational film, it seems to be more fatalistic. color. Of course, what this movie presents is an unparalleled sense of national identity. From the response of the giant whale, to the return of his father, to the return of the entire tribal tradition, what Paikea proved is the blood of a warrior in a girl.
At the end of the film, Paikea got the hard-won sense of identity, and his father also retrieved the sense of existence that symbolized home. A nation, an ancient and remote nation, is awakening in their own way and continues...
Repeatedly listening to the prayers chanted by the girl's immature voice in the background of the title screen, I have to envy it. In the vast city, vast crowds, lack of faith, and the tradition of worshipping money, the sense of identity is simply a gift from heaven. In order to prove our existence day after day, how much do we have to give up and give up?
When to get it, when to pay, and when to give up?
We can no longer just let go of all barriers just for the sake of a tradition, and chant the chants handed down from our ancestors to help each other in the same boat. In peace times, when the unfinished paddle boat was still standing alone on the shore, those who should have held the paddles were at a loss.
I have never been able to convince myself about Paikea's father's choice. When there is no sense of identity, I can go on so independently and boldly. If I put it in another film, is this a manifestation of naivety or courage? For us, what kind of inspiration do we need more?
Of course, every young man has an unfinished ship, a ship in his heart, and they may have believed that they can ride through all the storms. Whether it is a man or a woman, whether it is from the city or the country, whether it is talent or talent. As long as the keel of the ship itself is strong and tough, as long as someone engraves exquisite textures on the hull, as long as someone places a wave-breaking statue on the bow...
As long as someone tells you: believe me, you have always been the best sailor !
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