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The Mission (1986)
Continue to watch the Palme d'Or winning film. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 39th Cannes Film Festival in 1986.
The film tells the story of a Christian church in South America. In the 18th century in South America, Spain and Portugal arrested local Indians as slaves, and the male protagonist was the mercenary responsible for arresting people. At the same time, the Indians did not accept Christian missionaries and killed one of them. Soon after, a new priest came, and under his inspiration, the Indians converted to Christianity. At this time, after the male protagonist returned to the city after catching the slave, he found that the woman he liked fell in love with his own younger brother, which made him unacceptable. So, the two brothers had a duel, and the male protagonist killed his younger brother. Afterwards, the male protagonist regretted it very much. Under the guidance of the priest, the male protagonist joined the church and became a missionary. For a period of time, the church developed very well, and the Indians lived happily. However, for profit, Spain and Portugal decided to cancel the church, in order to capture the Indians there as slaves and occupy the land. In order to protect the churches in Europe, the priests from Europe ordered the churches to evacuate against their will. The hero and several other priests disagreed and decided to fight to the death with the Spanish and Portuguese armies. After the war between the two sides, the priests were all killed by the Spanish and Portuguese troops, and the church was burned. That's how the movie ends.
It's a very ordinary movie, with a stereotypical theme, a dull story, and a drowsy presentation. It seems that this is another bad film in the Palme d'Or.
Thematically, the film is, once again, a display of human selfishness. In the film, the Spanish and Portuguese armies slaughtered civilians at will, arbitrarily captured the Indians as slaves, violated their own religious beliefs, and even slaughtered the priests of the same country. The main thing is that they destroy their religious church! Everything that Spain and Portugal do is against human morality, let alone belief? The purpose of these people is only for the benefit of their own country, to put it bluntly, it is for money. It can be seen that the film focuses on the selfish desire of human beings, a selfish desire that does not care about anything for money. In all fairness, such a theme is not a bad movie, but this theme is not new in Hollywood. In more than 100 years of movies, there are countless movies with the same theme, and this movie is just a drop in the ocean. Therefore, although this film is passable in terms of theme, it does not reflect the uniqueness of this film, nor does it have the capital to win awards.
Of course, from another point of view, this film is still a film that truly reflects reality. It shows the colonial rule of Spain and Portugal over South America in the 18th century, shows the unfortunate history of the Indians, as well as the history of Europe, Spain and Portugal. The exploitation and oppression of the South American continent. In other words, the film tells the audience that religion is a political tool that needs to be dictated by national interests. If the state allows religion to save mankind, religion will save mankind; if the state asks religion to give up to save mankind, religion must give up, otherwise religion will be eliminated! It's just that the reality reflected in this film is too superficial, and it only stays on the surface without digging deeper.
As for the plot of the movie, it is also a Hollywood fixed model. First transform a bad guy with a criminal record into a good guy, then a group of enemies that are even worse than the bad guy emerge, and finally let the bad guy who turned into a good guy fight the worst enemy until heroic sacrifice. Such a routine story has been familiar for a long time, how can it attract the audience? So I can't watch this kind of stereotyped story at all, and I always doze off. According to the subtitles at the beginning of the film, we know that this is a real event, but from the drama of the film, this "real event" is too stereotyped, it is completely a Hollywood movie! This is not a large-scale adaptation of the director, right?
The highlight of this film is the shooting of the film, especially the pictures and music. Because of the story, the location of this film is all real nature, waterfalls, forests, streams, mountains and mountains, which make people feel relaxed and happy. Because the tribe is located above the waterfall in the film, you can see a lot of spectacular scenes where people climb the waterfall. From these spectacular scenes, it can be seen that the difficulties and efforts of the film crew are still admirable. Also, there is a theme song in the movie music that really impressed me. The theme song's melody is soothing and pleasant, and it can always sound in time in some beautiful pictures, making people feel a kind of pleasure. In short, although the viewing of the film is not high, the picture and music of the film are still very good.
In addition, I only saw the name before I watched this film, thinking it was a film that spread religion, and I was relieved after watching it. It turned out that it just borrowed religion to elicit a story, which made me, a non-religious person, breathe a sigh of relief.
The performance of the actors in this film is quite satisfactory, not too brilliant. The actors in the film are all familiar faces, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson. They are all acting, but in this film their performances are very stereotyped, like a movie story, like a mask: good people are good people, bad people are bad people. The only actress in the film, Cherie Lunghi, is not a beautiful woman, but she is a middle-aged beauty, and she is amazing in this dry man movie. It's just that Cherie Lunghi has never been popular, which makes it difficult for me to understand her.
in conclusion. This is another rotten film in the Palme d'Or, it's neither good nor deep, how can it win the Palme d'Or? It seems that the film quality of the Palme d'Or is difficult to guarantee.
Cherie Lunghi
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