Alternatives in Western Movies

Taya 2022-01-20 08:01:15

This film is very realistic. What the pioneers of that era were looking for was animal skins, which were used to make beaver skin hats favored by arty European nobles. The film interprets the most typical types of people in the west into story characters. The first type is people with skills, people who are brought by demand, and they just want to earn a living honestly; the second type are speculators. In the film, they are actually portrayed as Chinese. They are businessmen who are not afraid of risks, have rich experience and sharp vision, look for business opportunities everywhere, and aspire to become upstarts; the third type of people are those in power, this type of people are most afraid of being looked down upon by European aristocrats. The most important feature of this type of people is that they are ruthless and ruthless towards the lower class. They occupy important resources and violent institutions. The film casts them into idiots in order to satirize this group of people. The fourth category should be action. Chivalrous people, in general westerns should be mainly people like Acura, but this western film has gone the realistic way; the fifth category is indigenous, and the early westerns have portrayed them as murderous barbarians. This The Ministry is also alternatively portraying them as a display object for those in power. Collecting the first three types of typical characters, the story becomes a tragic story of a power man who is afraid of being laughed at killing industrious laborers and smart businessmen for a few barrels of milk. The first cow represents the means of production brought for vanity during the pioneering process but failed to play its role. In fact, the saddest thing in human history is that there will always be such ignorant and cruel authorities, and poor victims in the real world without heroes, no matter what era and which country.

And the reason why I like this movie is that it tore the fig leaf of the superiority theory of Western civilization to pieces and restores the so-called pioneering spirit to the human nature. Behind the propaganda of Western arrogance and prejudice, the history of the western United States is nothing but bones. The history of blood and tears that is gorgeously packaged. The West has always promoted its own advantages in civilization, including adventurous and competitive spirit, advanced science, human rights and economic systems, consumerism, and its own religious beliefs. The film mocked the low-end face of the upstart American as a supplier of low-end raw materials in the industry chain. The so-called adventurous spirit is engraved on the bones of countless poor speculators; the so-called advanced science and technology has brought endless tragic fate for many people who slurp on food; the so-called human rights or ownership system is a guardrail for the cattle by those in power. ; The so-called consumerism is nothing but a hat to cover up ignorance and vanity; the so-called religious beliefs may only be rhetoric after a meal.

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Extended Reading
  • Jaylen 2022-03-20 09:02:41

    A Hisense 84-inch large TV was installed in the home, and the movie room was like a small theater; so I started watching movies every day. This film is the number one among the top ten movies of 2020 recommended by "Time" magazine, so I am attracted to watch it. The work of a female director concisely and plainly reproduces the historical situation of the development of the western United States two hundred years ago. I wrote about the friendship between a Chinese gold digger and a white chef. This is the first time I have seen such a positive, intelligent and kind Chinese image in an American film. It is worthy of praise. The director used the 4:3 old-fashioned format, the narrative is temperate, but the plot is ups and downs. The opening quotation "Birds have nests, spiders have webs, and people have friendship." summarizes the theme. The obsessive audience can figure out the many benefits of the film.

  • Trevor 2022-04-23 07:04:03

    Shabby taverns, dilapidated wooden houses, rough fabrics, cigarettes lit by candles. Primitive forests, wet grasslands, abundant resources, and barren life. Chop wood to make fire, fish to feed. Catching beavers, fighting squirrels, picking mushrooms, baking cakes... all the details seem to come from Dennis Johnson's "Train Dream". Only a pair of bones after many years tells a story of friendship in a barren land, leaving behind an eternal tenderness of the cruel world, like amber that has passed through the years.

First Cow quotes

  • Fort Trapper: She's a very fine cow.

  • King-Lu: I think we should test the waters. Next batch, Cookie, we'll take to market. I've heard a fortune is made on this.

    Cookie: That seems dangerous.

    King-Lu: So is anything worth doing.