Perfect material, imperfect expression

It’s hard not to cry after watching this movie, "Humans are the primates of all things." This is a good saying, because everyone is a gathering of the universe, a multidimensional cube. The film covers several topics including "fraternity", "killing", "kindness", "love", "children", "women", "homosexuality", "labor", "gap between rich and poor", "immigrant", and "death" Come to explore human beings and human society. This is a topic that is very worth describing, but few people have touched on it-treat the people of the earth as a whole to break the Tower of Babel between us, and see if there is such a big gap between us as human beings. It can be said that the producer of this film basically grabbed a small bottle of water from the vast sea of ​​people. Starting from the analysis of this bottle of water, he got a glimpse of all aspects of our society.
There is no lack of very touching material in the movie. The Russian-speaking father of Alyosha talked about the Jewish grandmother who was raised by the SS, the American soldiers who suddenly gave up after being bombed and chased the murderer in Iraq, the commendable tearful Chinese laborers, and talking about the rich and the poor. The Indians of the gap... are all tortures of human nature. A documentary can be called a classic if it contains one of these interview materials, but the film has countless wonderful and true emotional exchanges, which is enviable.
But... these gleaming fragments have been misinterpreted by the director's personal value judgment. This is where I am extremely dissatisfied and angry with French filmmakers. French movies always overlook the entire human society with a high-pitched attitude. Compared with American superheroes, French people are like gods. The title of the film is "Human", but it is mixed with many shots of bird's eye view of the magnificent nature. This kind of conflict that wants to embody the insignificance of human beings can't be restrained. On the other hand, the interviewees focused on the direction of National Geographic magazine, which is a poster country. The topics are also very politically correct, and they even intend to express the values ​​of "return to nature". The repeated praise of France made people suspect that he was a political propaganda film of the French government.
Man is not an animal, man has no fixed habits, and he will not stay in the same emotion forever. People cannot be photographed in the same way as animals and nature are photographed. People have their own choices and great thoughts. From this film alone, it can be seen that these great thoughts radiate at will, which is very valuable. It cannot be summed up with simple emotions, but this film just arbitrarily has one of its own opinions, and then the opinions of others are attached to his existing opinions as evidence. Documentaries are not propaganda films, and this method of filming is very dangerous.

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