Today we will talk about the movie "The Elegy of the Country Folk".
The film title is Hillbilly Elegy (2020), alias The Song of the Desperate (Taiwan) / The Elegy of the Hillbilly / The Elegy of the Mountain Country.
The movie "The Elegy of the Country People" is based on the 2016 best-selling book of the same name. The autobiographical novel author JD Vance integrates his life experience into the current American society, depicting the tragic situation of three generations of grandparents being imprisoned by their class, and I continue my efforts to achieve upward mobility.
The line-up of the film is luxurious, directed by Oscar Best Director Ron Howard, played by Amy Adams, who has failed 6 Oscars for Best Actress, and Glenn Close, who has failed 7 Oscars for Best Actress, Actress. JD Vance's mother and grandmother.
The original novel was published in the United States in November 2016, just the second day after Wang Wang was elected.
Those elites called hillbilliy (hillbilliy), redneck (redneck), and white trash (white trash) used ballots to draw the faces of the establishment.
And the surprised elites began to buy "The Elegy of the Country Folks", trying to understand the country folks who sent the King of Understanding to the White House through the experience of such an author who successfully achieved class leaping.
"The Elegy of the Country Folks" shows the life experience of JD Vance's grandparents and their grandchildren who have worked hard for decades in the mud of their class. They have all worked hard to change their class. Some people have tried for a period of time and failed to give up, and some people have tried for a period of time and failed and did not give up.
The limitation of class nature is the most important reason for the tragedy of their lives, and the simplicity of class nature is also the greatest source of motivation for them to move forward.
The original novel focuses on the criticism of the American dream. An empty dream can't make up for the limitations of poor life. The film focuses on showing the love of the same family and the same class, and works that originally criticized real life have become more common family films.
The ancestors of JD Vance moved north from the Appalachian area of Kentucky to Ohio, hoping to escape poverty and hardship and try to get into the middle class through hard work.
JD Vance’s grandparents were married when they were 16 and 13 years old. Grandma eventually gave birth to several children and miscarried many times in her life.
After the two got married, they quarreled continuously, until they beat each other, and the domestic violence continued to escalate. In the worst case, grandpa poured gasoline on and set fire to grandpa. Fortunately, her daughter put out the fire in time and grandpa did not die.
They tried to improve their lives, but in the end they sang a tragic song.
JD Vance's mother, aunt, and uncle grew up in such a family environment, and they were all depraved.
Take her mother Beve as an example. Beve got pregnant in high school, divorced in domestic violence, dragged the child alone, constantly changed male partners, and was expelled for stealing painkillers from patients while working as a nurse, then became addicted to drugs and took drugs. The overdose was swept out by her husband.
But at that time, Bev was also the child with the best grades in the whole year, and she had the opportunity to enter a top university for further study, but she had no family support or social funding, so she could only choose the simplest and easiest path to degeneration.
The tragic song of Beve is caused by the original family as well as by its own reasons.
JD Vance has many identities, such as poor boys who grew up in the "rust belt", left-behind children, former Marines, graduates of Yale University Law School, and managers of Silicon Valley Investment Corporation.
From his label, you can see the trajectory of his life. The young man has become a social elite all the way from the lowest countryman.
JD Vance has gone through many stages such as degeneration and hard work. At first, he wandered around with his mother, seeming to think that such a life was the normal life. Later, he accepted the values of the "American Dream" and knew that as long as he worked hard, there was hope.
In fact, the greatest resistance to a person’s upward movement does not come from the upper class, but from the same class.
Just like the performance in this film, the biggest obstacle that hinders JD Vance's progress is not from the contempt of the elites, but from the native family and biological mother. Not only was the native family unable to provide him with a good environment for growth and talent, on the contrary, it kept tempting him to fall into the abyss. Finally, there was a chance for a class jump, but the mother took drugs and overdose at the right time.
The author JD Vance’s self-report said very well: "The reason why I wrote this book is not because I have achieved extraordinary achievements, but because the things I do are very ordinary, but most of them are as long as me. Older children can't do it."
The same is true for the "American Dream" created at the national level. The purpose of letting ordinary people work hard is to make the boss realize the American dream faster, not to let the workers realize the American dream. "This is the world I live in, a world that is truly full of irrational behaviors. We spend so much that we finally have to live in an almshouse."
Just like the paragraph said, "I have struggled for 20 years, but I can only sit with you and drink coffee."
There is no JD Vance today, and there will be another JD Vance tomorrow. There are so many people who work hard every day, but the number of successful places is very limited.
When a boss chooses to fight a worker, it doesn’t make a big difference with whoever he chooses. Choosing and appointing people is just a point in the Excel table. For the selected person, there is a big difference between being selected and not being selected. To go.
If the law firm does not give JD Vance an internship, he will not be able to complete his studies, get married, and even fail to complete the class leap, and can only return to the quagmire. The bestsellers may still appear, but the author will not be JD Vance, but someone else.
The movie "The Elegy of the Country Folk" removed the critical content of American society, or failed to express the criticism.
In the routine family love scenes, the skilled shooting skills are used to make people cry. The main feature of this film is the wonderful performance of the two actresses.
The incomparably beautiful Amy Adams self-destructs her image in the film, gains weight and pretends to be ugly, and vividly shows an underwhelmed woman trapped in the bottom swamp.
The Golden Globes actress Glenn Cross showed great power in the second half. She was knocked down by life time and time again and got up and resisted again and again. It was her anger that made JD Vance climb out of the mud. possible.
Country folks crawling out of the mud swamp,
Survivor of the empty American dream.
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