A little thought about "The Legend of Xili"

Carleton 2022-12-26 19:29:33

a. Assimilation and self-characteristics: In the context of the times (fascism, everyone is numbered, and while de-individualized, ordinary people are allowed to do extreme things) individuals are assimilated and lose their self-characteristics. It will become a minority, a minority will become an outlier, and it will be excluded. b. Love and redemption c. At the end of the film, is Xili doing another kind of deformation in order to adapt to the new label given to him by the public: self, personality? This is an up-and-coming idea d. Hobbies cannot be described as "persistence" and "hard work", it is an instinct, just like if you throw it into the water, you will paddle unconsciously. My thoughts: The movie shows the United States in the 1920s. In the Jazz Age before the Great Depression, people had a lot of fun, and Xi Li was their pastime. Such a group of people may like to watch baseball, but they want to talk about Moby Dick. Isn't it Cili? Everyone took him to the altar at once, because of the moral problems that his other personalities violated, they dragged him off the altar at once, and then because he flew a plane to escape the pursuit of the fascists, he became a hero again, a little now The entertainment industry has a feeling. On the one hand, it satirizes the United States at that time, and it also satirizes this wave of melon-eating people in modern times. The name itself is a kind of homogenization.

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