The ending of the movie "Young Ahmed" was abruptly closed, making it dark and dazed after watching it. Saying it was sudden is not because the story left suspense and made it difficult to get out of the hallucination. Like the smile at the end of "Gone Lover", we know that this husband was left here; like the ending of "Inception", it attracted a lot of people. Debating whether the father is trapped in a dream and can't get out. "Young Ahmed" is the opposite, cutting through all suspense and emotion.
The ending part of the film is connected by a series of sounds, and it is realistic everywhere: the young man looks for loose nails everywhere, the sound of metal and concrete walls rubbing against the wall, and the scratching sound after the metal becomes dull; then he steps on the trash can to go to the room, seeing that he can enter the room, Suddenly, it was empty. My reaction at the time was physiological, like tinnitus, with reverberation. He fell on the grass, stunned. Then there was the sound of gasping, and he whimpered "Mom" twice; then there was an ambient sound outside the picture, maybe the sound of taking out the garbage, maybe the sound of the old sliding window closing in the distance, like the rolling of the window. The shaft was rusted and had to be pulled and rubbed against the rails of the window frame; the young man Ahmed began to drag his body towards a piece of iron frame on the edge of the grass. Once again, the Morse code-like rhythm is so stable that it makes people panic. Then there was the sound of the door opening, the teacher running out, the sound of terrified breathing, we saw the teacher's sympathetic gaze, and the slightly aggrieved weeping; then the boy apologized, the teacher called for first aid, the footsteps went away, and the boy closed his eyes. Black scene, the audience is cut off from all senses, and the subtitles appear.
At the end of this, it's like drinking a stick, so the reverberation lingers around the beam.
The suspense continued until the black field, and it was not until the teacher let go of his hand and turned around to call for emergency help. The rhythm of his beating for help was steady and powerful, the weapon in his hand. The teacher ran over and was suddenly stopped by Amedla. At this moment, the teacher was completely defenseless, with one side of the neck facing the camera. I was almost waiting for the nail in the boy's hand to go in. The hand holding the long nail was always outside the painting. ...as in "Son of Others," the father stands behind the boy who killed his son, with the rushing river at his feet and the conflicting logs floating on the river. At the same time, my common sense is suspicious. After all, he couldn't get up from his upper body, and the back of his head was bleeding. He rubbed over to ask for help. If he wanted to kill someone, he still needed a force to get up... Finally, Ahmed apologized and let go of his hand. , the teacher turned around and drew, Ahmed's close-up face gradually relaxed, unprecedented relaxation. When the bang sounds, before and after the landing is the audio-visual climax of the whole film, which can produce a physiological shock effect, and at the same time retain the possibility of the suspense of the final blow.
A certain website has a short review with high praise, and believes that the reason for the low rating of the Darney Brothers' film is the weak director's technique. Therefore, I deliberately waste two paragraphs, and restore it awkwardly, in order to blow cold air to the people who like it. This is not what I want to focus on analysis. I want to talk about the "stamina" of this film. Where does this unbearable energy come from? Still want to say dramatic.
I remember when I was a child, around the age of five, it was probably a winter festival. My grandmother took my cousin, my cousin and I to visit Taoranting together. At that time, there was a large amusement area in the north gate, and the adults and children lined up vying for breath, which was comparable to the liveliness of a temple fair. I was timid, so I didn't go to Snow Mountain with my cousin, I was instructed to wait on the high platform opposite the canteen. In the end, after waiting for a long time, I only remember the bursts of anger in front of me. Grandma and the others seem to have gone home? After waiting for a long time, my grandmother came running over with a huff and panting, and wanted to pull me off the high platform, accompanied me with a smile and told me that I was sorry that my grandma forgot you. As for me, I yelled "you bastard" first, and then took her hand off the high platform. After that, until I went to college, my grandmother would repeat it with a smile at every family gathering. For a long time, I could only sneer and cover it up. In fact, I didn't agree with it. The bigger I was, the more impatient I became. I thought to myself: Tong Yan Wuji, that was rude when I was a child, why are you still treating me as a child?
When is a person most likely to hurt someone? time of fear. Moreover, when people hurt people out of fear, they are confident in their hearts and can live without guilt for a long time.
Ahmed is always in fear, and from the very first shot, he is in a state of anxiety. He didn't say goodbye to the teacher because he was worried that he would be late for church; he refused to shake hands with the teacher because he was afraid of getting dirty hands with women; His mother, an alcoholic, refused to hug her even after being forgiven, because she questioned the Imam he revered; he washed his nose and mouth, as meticulous as a surgeon, for fear of desecrating his prayers. For the young Ahmed, there were too many dogmas and taboos weighing on him, and the hell he feared was always in his heart, invisible, but always with him.
Ahmed is a young man after all. Just like a boy who is eager to become a man, he always has the desire and urgency to "prove himself". Ahmed was dissatisfied with his teacher, because in her eyes, he was still a little boy. He was dissatisfied with his mother because she did not respect the law - reprimanded those who violated the discipline to prove that they were disciplined, typical child mentality. He was dissatisfied with his sister and scolded her for being slutty because she dared to enjoy the lust of youth. Ahmed shielded the Imam he revered, but later learned that his brother had testified against him, and Ahmed had to carry it on, in order to prove his loyalty and faith. After he attempted to kill, he made a new weapon with the meticulous thinking beyond his age, and "endured the humiliation" to create an opportunity to assassinate his teacher again. Before the action, he wrote a suicide note to his mother, which contained only one sentence, "Please forgive me for my injury. With your heart, I will prove that I am a pure Muslim".
Ahmed's "failures and battles", which would kill his teacher, stemmed from his "youngness". Like all other young people, he was full of fear and eager to prove himself. From the grumbling of Ahmed's mother, we know that he turned out to be a bear child addicted to video games. It is worth pondering that Ahmed has already grown beyond his age since he played, and he has anxiety that should not be present at this stage. How on earth did Ahmed meet his imam? How could he turn into a firm believer in just a few short days? There is no answer in the movie, but two hints are given: First, Ahmed has no father. After he was locked up after the attempted murder, he confronted his mother who came to visit, accused her of indulgence, and firmly believed that if his father was still alive, he would definitely not. I will leave it alone; second, Ahmed has a cousin who has passed away. On a suspicious website, his cousin's photo has been highlighted, and his photo is also treasured by Ahmed and is respectfully placed in prayers. under the blanket.
Ahmed, who has no father, is eager to take a "father" position, criticizing the family's indulgence by religious standards. The deceased cousin died because of the "jihad", but he was worshipped by Ahmed as a father, and in the mouth of the Imam, the cousin was honored and ascended to heaven without pain. In Ahmed's eyes, Imam—cousin—father, became a chaotic existence. It can be speculated that the light from this chaotic body led Ahmed to become a staunch believer, and he always wanted to prove himself.
In the film, you don't see how Ahmed became a believer, only the fear of Ahmed, who became a prisoner of extreme dogma. Three years ago, because I was afraid of the uncertainty of the future, I was anxious that I would be kidnapped by the obligation of intimacy. Now it seems that my fear is the source of "belief". I have always admired those who, because of their longing for glory, yearning for a pure land, or wanting to ascend to heaven, believe first and then take refuge in the practice. The first step I took was because of fear, and because of my superficial cognition, all I heard or saw were judgments or punishments that would occur if I violated the dogma, mixed between awe and fear, and I even began to worry about the past My own experience I didn't know about. In a nutshell, I was afraid, but I heard that there is a practice to deal with fear, I tried to take two steps, I found more things that scared me, so I was more afraid, and then I hoped that I could believe more deeply. Although what I fear will come eventually, and peaceful coexistence is possible only by facing the fear, but I will always be afraid of my fear until it is completely impossible to escape. Obviously, I have misunderstood the meaning of practice or dogma for my own reasons. I wrote it not to criticize any religious practice, but to tell my own experience to illustrate my perspective of understanding the film "Young Ahmed". .
In my experience, fear is one of the preconditions for fanaticism. Beijing-based writer Shi Yifeng's novel "Outer History of the Mind" was labelled by the editor as a "history of blind faith", a typical wise misreading. The story is about the love that "my aunt" has nowhere to put, and the love that "I" have nowhere to look for but turn a blind eye to. "Auntie" has never been afraid, nor has she made clear her yearning, so what is "blind faith"?
Look at Ahmed. He always demands himself as a "pure Muslim". On the one hand, he wants to prove himself, and on the other hand, he is worried that he has done something wrong - blaspheming his beliefs and dogmas, and he does not want to be judged. More afraid of going to hell. He was afraid of the dog's tongue because it was unclean. His standards are getting stricter and stricter, he is stricter with himself, and he is more strict with others. I see more of his fear than the glory he yearns for. Some people say that all this is the fault of the extreme imam.
At first, Ahmed was indeed instilled by the imam with many strict standards, but then the influence of the imam gradually weakened, and Ahmed's behavior became more extreme. This is the "stamina" of the film. The imam who opened the grocery store had a lot of spiked walls in Ahmed's heart, and the most obvious one was that he never let go of Ahmed's mentor, and he did everything he could. First, she was called "unclean", then she was accused of using popular songs to teach teenage Arabic, and then she actually instructed Ahmed to go for a gossip, saying that she had a Jewish boyfriend. These series of accusations made the teacher become a man in Ahmed's heart. "Apostate" spokesperson. Standards are set for others, and despicable people use them to control others and even attack dissidents.
The most ironic thing is that the imam of the grocery store has always violated the standards. He used scandals to disrupt the public welfare activities of female teachers, and he used terrorist websites to confuse teenagers. When Ahmed tried to kill and came for help, facing such a weak boy, the imam betrayed the pious child and asked him to swear to lie to defend the "mosque". At this point, we clearly know that this imam is the real apostate, and he cares about the territory and the believers. The "mosque" in his mouth, because the space style of Dane's films has always been partially presented, this belief space appears even more fragmented.
Interestingly, the Imam did not initiate extreme actions. His methods are really not very clever. They are typical methods of coaxing children and drawing big cakes. Through the halo of "cousin", he renders the painless road to heaven, and behind it is only by delaying the action time to control Ahmed's behavior. The photos and audios he gave to Ahmed terrorists told Ahmed That moment will come sooner or later, and before that, be prepared and follow the guidelines. Note, however, that the Imam never taught Ahmed to kill. On the contrary, Ahmed himself amplifies his understanding. In this sense, the master leads the door, and Ahmed's practice is more radical than that of the Imam.
Regarding the "standard", the film also involves speculation on the way of learning "language". In this scene, for the first time, Ahmed really hurt his teacher in public, and then left as if nothing had happened. The teacher once helped Ahmed overcome his dyslexia, but Ahmed in turn questioned the teacher's language public welfare activities, and his self-centeredness has reached the point of hopelessness. The teacher believes that language is a tool, and it must be learned in life, which is the so-called natural scene, such as popular songs. However, this gave the imam of the grocery store an opportunity. He incited Ahmed and his brother to set a standard, saying that Arabic can only be learned from scriptures; then he took the hat and said that his teacher was an apostate; and finally handed the knife , said that the teacher's new boyfriend is Jewish. In religious practice, a large part of the soil of practice overlaps with the soil of life. The imam of the grocery store, he closed his eyes and ears, and radically hollowed out the soil of the believers' practice.
Before Ahmed's intention to kill, the teacher made a special trip to find him. In front of the grocery store, the teacher questioned the imam's extreme education on Ahmed. Her father was a Qur'an student, she was a devout Muslim, and she told Ahmed that the scriptures said we could live in peace with infidels. However, Ahmed easily recited the source of the scriptures and refuted his teacher. After that, Ahmed regarded himself as a cousin like a warrior on the website, and in order to prove himself, he wanted to root out this "apostate."
Prove yourself, indicating that you are in the psychological stage with the strongest "self-centered" power. There is a high praise comment on a certain website, saying that when Ahmed fell, he thought of his teacher's Jewish boyfriend through his relationship with the farm girl, and he forgave his teacher through empathy and knew that he was wrong. Not to mention how long it takes for a person who fell from the second floor to think so much, just talking about this "empathy" is a false proposition. The premise of empathy is "same". Ahmed himself didn't realize that the beginning of a love affair was happening. Whose reason?
Ahmed was teased by the farm girl, yes, but he was always passive, not refusing, and irresponsible. After being kissed, he only thought about how to exonerate himself. In his creed, it was a felony to be judged. to the so-called "love". A person trapped in fear has only anxiety, and he has no time to empathize with others, let alone an "apostate"?
Ahmed has always closed himself, living in a standard world that he has identified, and everything is to prove that he is a pure Muslim world, which is the pinnacle of self-centeredness. In the film, the irony is that Ahmed attempted to kill and wanted to kill again, but the premise was to obtain the qualifications to meet with his teacher, and the psychiatrist thought he was not ready. So, in order to gain the recognition of the volunteers and the affirmation of the psychiatrist, Ahmed forced himself to open his heart.
He participates in community sports, teaches French to his dyslexic peers, and takes part in farm work on the farm despite being "dirty". It can be seen that he is serious in teaching, devoted to the game, and can smile from the heart when feeding the sheep. He gained the trust of the volunteers step by step, but did he do everything by himself "pinching his nose"? Obviously he was enjoying everything around him. This shows that Ahmed, who has closed his heart, has been strangling his own instincts with narrow dogmas.
When Ahmed failed to force the farm girl to convert to Muslims for the second time, his fear rushed up again. He had a fear from the abyss-because of his "lust", he would become a "rebel" like his teacher. teacher". So, after the junction of the second act, he jumped out of the car and ran away, assassinating his teacher for the third time.
It is worth pondering that, in the end, when the instinct of fear reached a critical value and was finally fully released, Ahmed put down the dogma of thorns that bound him. A young man, who has always been afraid of the unknown, such as apostasy, hell, and judgment. But when Ahmed faced his most immediate fear, death, he collapsed. It was a fear that was too direct and too realistic. After he fell with a bang, Ahmed turned on the "instinct mode", he called "Mom", and found it to be ineffective, so he began to call for help.
When Ahmed abandoned the dogma and took his teacher's hand, he let go of his "pure Muslim" obsession, really handed himself over to another Muslim, and apologized to his teacher. Finally, when the fear of death is released, Ahmed has a relaxed expression and posture for the first time in the film.
Frankly speaking, after watching the movie, my first reaction was that it was a good angle; my second reaction was that the score was not high and it was justified, maybe it was a dramatic problem, and I always felt that there was a scene missing. When I went back, I couldn't figure it out, I sorted it out and broke out in a cold sweat. This was the perfect drama. The reason why I felt it was too sudden was because the film presentation method was the usual subtraction of the Darney brothers.
At the end of the first act of the story, the murderer, Ahmed accused him of being an apostate, shot him. The second act knot, pushing the girl, accusing her of being a heretic and not being "pure" anymore is unacceptable. In order to prove that he is not an apostate, he has to kill the "apostate" again.
If the motive for killing the master includes the impulse to prove himself, the yearning for glory, and the anxiety caused by fear, then before and after the second act, Ahmed's behavior can be simply attributed to fear, because the Imam was arrested, The object to which he "proved himself" was no longer visible. Action-wise, the second act knot is a weakened theatrical action that just pushes the farm girl. But when it comes to the motivation behind the action, the Darney brothers push it up in layers. Through a whole scene, all the influencing factors around Ahmed were cut off. The imam was arrested, he could not go to Medina, his brother testified of betrayal, and he took back the note to prove himself to his mother. Then, the extreme behavior of the second act is completely driven by Ahmed's ego. Beginning with lust, he enjoys touching and kissing, which is the first step; then he falls into reproach and remorse, and then fear, which is the second step; in desperation, he accuses the farm girl and sets out again Kill the teacher. All this is Ahmed's self-behavior that is no longer affected. It seems that the intensity of the action is not as strong as the first act, but in fact, the initiative of the protagonist is enhanced because it is an independent decision. From the point of view, the whole film follows Ahmed closely with hand-held shooting, watching his anxiety, his meticulousness, and his closure.
Going a step further, from this movie to the idea of "The Nameless Girl", it is in the same line. In my opinion, this is the author's awakening of humanism through lost humanism. Because of the fear of the unknown, we have lost too much, but it doesn’t matter if we lose it, we have faced our own instincts, and let’s find it again.
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