One hundred ways to die in my hometown

Rubye 2022-01-22 08:02:03

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I only wish you to be treated tenderly by this world.

The bitter-minded artist wife, always breeding, desperately pouring old turkey soup into the open mouth of readers.

You must know that between "you" and "world", they do not constitute a conflicting relationship. Except for the hot-blooded Junior Two teenagers, not many people would feel that this world would really be different with me.

Taking 10,000 steps back, the life experience that a person can experience in the vast world is often limited. It's better to be kind to people around you when you are around the world.

The Argentine film "Outstanding Citizen", which tells the story of a great writer returning home. The writer has won the supreme honor and recognition in the world, but in his hometown, there is no ghost shadow of being gentle.

The film uses the chapter style of writing to bring out a story that contains absurdity, exaggeration, self-deprecation and spoofing. While blacking the Nobel writer home, it also reflects the bizarre metamorphosis of the small town. As many people appreciate it, I also think that "Outstanding Citizen" is mainly focused on reversal. It first held the writer in the sky, and the letter paper was like a sea of ​​love. In a blink of an eye, he was beaten into embarrassment again. This person is isolated and helpless in his hometown and has become an absolutely unpopular character-the story has traveled to the brink of loss of control and cannot end. Suddenly, the film takes a turn for the better: it turns out that this is the author's latest creation.

The audience was in a panic, either secretly enjoying themselves, or being severely pricked. As for the story of Returning Home, it is just an exploration of the truth and falsehood that often arises from writing or film. Did reality defeat fiction time and time again, or did fiction perfectly process reality?

It is not so much that the people of the hometown have an abominable appearance. It is better to say that such a group of barbaric and violent resisters are real in the dream, subconscious or creative process of the writer. The so-called hometown, the cliche that can’t go back, is itself a dream that is constantly repeated, can be copied in batches, and sneaked into at any time.

Just like Nolan's " Inception of Dreams ", the dreamer must design the dreams to be lifelike, from the overall layout to the smallest details. If the subject of the stolen dream suspects or is aware of the existence of the dream, passers-by in the dream will look at the dreamer and the dreamer. Once the dream is seen through, they will spontaneously chase dreamers and dream thief madly, and finally wake up the stolen dream object. The ending of "Outstanding Citizen", the ancient hostility and arrogance that bred in this desolate small city, was a killing in a dream. The writer once again returned to his hometown to steal treasures, triggering a life crisis.

The perilous spiritual adventure is like letting a director return to his own film and a writer into his own work. Write words that impress yourself and express yourself truthfully. This is considered to be the criterion for beginners in writing. But you will soon find that this way, it is very life-damaging, and it is easy to hollow out yourself. How to construct non-existent people and things, give life and soul, understand them with emotions and reason, that is what makes a writer great.

"Outstanding Citizen" on the surface is that the writer has been played with by all the fellow villagers, but the last laugh is still the writer himself. He manipulates the magic pen to make himself a bereavement dog, a drowning dog and a stray beast, but his eyes are shining in the dark night, and he gets endless and endless writing inspiration from his hometown of Salas. The real beast is not someone else, but the writer has become his prey. He closed and imprisoned himself, like a madman, creating in the dark room of spirit.

In terms of form, "Outstanding Citizen" is not the kind of movie I usually promote. Its director and screenwriter’s name is unknown, and the overall lack of video skills and scene management. The real experience of the high-definition picture leads to it without the kind of nostalgic movie feeling that creates alienation and makes you look up and down.

The film almost rarely sees a monologue and a meditation, a romantic lyric, but relying on reality shows, a series of dramatic conflicts, desperate teasing, and twisting and changing the new story every day. Numerous supporting roles, from the pick-up driver, to the young brother who interrupts the commercials, the gilded painter, and the moody old lover husband, are very messy in terms of styles and words and deeds. You really can't imagine what destructive actions they will do in the next second.

The gameplay of "Outstanding Citizen" is also easy to think of the Argentine movie that was on fire a few years ago: " Barbaric Story ". I think of it as a collection of social news. You don't remember its tone texture and camera movement, but you will feel that these trivial stories seem to be happening around you. This kind of movie has a direct impact on people's hearts. It can range from black humor to soap opera dog blood. You can see you raise your hand and surrender.

I like "Outstanding Citizen", mostly because of the killing of writers. The entanglement between exposing others and hurting oneself will always confuse the spectators who enter the drama too deeply. As a self-reflection film, its attitude of admitting defeat is not annoying at least.

When the writer leaves his hometown forever, then his readers are no longer those who are hypocritical but unaware of the small city residents. Just as even a reader or fan would think that a writer and a director are like writing a work for himself and making a movie. But everyone knows that works are just works, and movies are just movies. You can only follow in its footsteps, but you cannot enter it.

As for the truth of reality, that is really annoying existence.

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  • Maeve 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    Promoting the story with constant drama conflicts, shaping the protagonist and group portraits, during which all kinds of ridicule and absurdity, irony and self-deprecation, absurdity and distortion, make people want to see. The film seems to present the second strangulation of the writer by his hometown, but it is actually a heart and brain stimulation for a black-bellied writer who has encountered a creative bottleneck. Because he understands his homeland, he goes back uncharacteristically and modestly and low-key. Sure enough, the barren, narrow and cramped hometown is not taken. An inexhaustible treasure house of Vince...

  • Scotty 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    The high level of this film is that it satirizes the ignorance of the villagers while satirizing the arrogance of intellectuals. This is exactly the predicament faced by all of us who have escaped from our hometown in this era. A very "good-looking" movie, but the plot turns too fast in the later period, and the transition of the hero is not clear enough. It seems that the rhythm is better if it takes more than half an hour!