The first movie and the first book I watched outside in 2019 are wonderful.
"The breadwinner" tells the story of a little girl "serving for her father in the army" in the context of the war in Afghanistan, in which the lines of reality and fairy tales are intertwined with echoes and metaphors, and various images are dug deeper.
I prefer stories with female themes. During the process of watching "The Breadwinner", I kept comparing with the cartoonist Marga Shatabhi's film of the same name "I grew up in Iran". Both are from a female perspective. Starting from the beginning, the protagonist’s childhood experience reflects the process of the Islamic country from peace to war, from open to closed, from advanced to "reverse history". However, the two movies do not directly show the cruelty of war, but see the status quo from the eyes of the little girl. Their stories are joyful and hopeful. Among them, the two films invariably talked about a problem: Islamic countries did not allow women to wear headscarves from the beginning.
I was thinking at first, why isn't this movie made into a black and white animation like "I grew up in Iran"? One is that "I grew up in Iran" is an adult animation, and the original is a black-and-white comic, "Broadcasting a Family" is suitable for all ages, expressing blood and fairy tales with rich colors. The second is the intent of red and blue throughout the story. Red is blood and struggle is the most beautiful dress for a little girl. The dress is reality. Blue is the fairy tale. The background is the girl’s headscarf. The sea and coconut trees are hope. Blue is the western director. Ideology in the context. PS Egg: The prisoner's wife is halo, which is the halo of the moon through the clouds. The film turns to the light blue moon halo after the heroine rescues her father.
However, I think the magnificent national color of the film may only be the director’s understanding of Afghanistan as a Western culture, just like foreigners’ understanding of Eastern culture, it may be just a pile of various elements.
In any case, the story is still very moving, and I choked up while watching it. The film was officially released on January 11 and is recommended to everyone.
The story is far away from us, but it still hits the soul, not for the war in the distance, but for the hometown we can't go back to.
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