The inseparable intertextuality between literature and film, "Outstanding Citizen" expresses in the way of play within play. Daniel, a Nobel Prize winner for literature, returns to his home town to receive the "Outstanding Citizen" medal, during which a series of ironic and even bizarre events take place.
Didier Eripon has an impressive sentence in his work "Return to Hometown": "History is difficult to be erased, and the two life trajectories that once parted ways are difficult to intersect again." In the process of dealing with the residents of the small town Due to the difference in behavior, life experience and ideology, Daniel was left and right, gradually showing weakness, and finally slipped into the embarrassing predicament of embarrassment and embarrassment.
The film is a satirical drama that looks serious but is actually absurd. Through a bizarre black story, it ridicules the hometown people and teases the expatriates, about the vague area of civilization and barbarism, about the simple imagination of old people and nostalgia.
Referring to my personal experience in recent years, every time I go back to my hometown, I always feel like a fugitive returning to the village. Like Daniel in the film, I was gradually unable to adapt to the rules of the game in rural society. It is a fact that the older you grow up, the more you feel "unaccustomed to the soil and water" in your native hometown. In the final analysis, the countryside is no longer the countryside, and I am not the me I used to be!
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