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willing to write.
But recently, I saw two friends in a row, looking for their mother and father respectively in the WeChat circle of friends. Their parents are both suffering from Alzheimer's disease (also known as Alzheimer's disease). Suddenly, this kind of story is worth telling. The dilemmas faced by friends and the story in this film can be communicated.
Very lucky, friends have found their lost parents one after another, but this kind of thing is a strong reminder to this group of people who are in their thirties, don't think your wings are hard, what about your parents?
They are really getting old.
The protagonist of "Nebraska", also an aging father WOODY, mildly alcoholic, neurotic, and very stubborn, insists on his own opinion in a well-known scam, receives an advertisement, It said he had won a million jackpot, and he was so convinced of it that he decided to walk from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim the prize—a million.
The son, who had fallen into the realm of loser, had no choice but to accompany his father all the way through a declining America. On the way, I passed a group of relatives, obese cousins, and after they got out of prison, they watched TV at home and did bad things. By the way, they stole the old uncle's winning ticket and threw it away.
In the eyes of American writers or sensitive directors, the decline of the United States seems to attract their attention.
Through the media such as reports, movies, and books, we can understand there are many Americas -
there is one America that we have in American TV series, in "House of Cards", "Doomsday", "Doomsday Lonely Ship"... America is always full of With great darkness, corruption, conspiracy, and then there are heroes in the system to save him. This United States can be used by rightist friends to demonstrate "the self-correction ability of the United States", and it can easily be used by leftists to demonstrate that "the world is as black as a crow".
There is another United States in institutions such as CITIC Publishing House. Wall Street and Silicon Valley are its core. It is always filled with a steady stream of cash, either cashed out by carefully calculated formulas or cashed out by looking forward to an infinite future. In the Internet, mobile Internet, entrepreneurship and cloning, the United States is full of ups and downs, with an open pattern, full of infinite possibilities and vitality.
But generally speaking, there is another kind of America that is less likely to resonate with the Chinese, and that is the motel in Raymond Carver's novel, the America in Nebraska, a declining America. , the sense of crisis in the United States is indeed very strong. For example, last year's movie "The Fall of Olympus" about the White House was captured by North Korean spies, but this decline is not real enough. The real decline falls on ordinary people. In addition to the warm and bitter family farce of "Nebraska", there are some things that can be pulled out of the big. For example, the changes of a country and social model, the excitement of starting a business in those days and the ordinary today. The glorious and exciting history of the year and the shrinking reality of today - the old WOODY's past lover, when he was telling his son the revolutionary family history in the library, found in the old newspaper his heroic photos of his participation in the Vietnam War in the old newspaper. This is his history, so what?
For the Chinese, the indifference and reconciliation of the father-son relationship, the re-recognition of their hometown for friends like the Phoenix Man, and the inevitable relationship with a bunch of idiots, Acquaintances, old friends, such a subtle mood, is more likely to resonate.
Imagine that you return home like a diaosi, and you meet a bunch of old idiots, drinking every day, bragging about the scandals of your youth, and often throwing cold arrows on you.
But human beings are still a group of complex emotions after all. Friends use each other, belittle, ridicule, and laugh at each other, but when he is really hurt, there is still a little sadness. Such subtleties are also reflected in this film.
I have also seen a similar Chinese movie, "Flying Over the Nursing Home", which is too hard. The story pattern is similar, and the old man has to travel far.
But the final effect of the story is still very different. The pioneering director of China, Zhang Yang, has become a drunken rhythm.
Hao Jie's "The Bachelor" has similar problems, but is much better controlled. Because of focusing on the absurdity of youth in those days, the sexual desire is flourishing.
PS, recommend this similar American novel "In the Countryside". The Chinese people will have to pass this test sooner or later, the era of triumphant progress will stagnate, and human beings must face their ruined hometown and their decaying father.
(This column is a column in cooperation with Hunan Youth Film Society, a local film integration and promotion agency. Their WeChat ID is HNQNDYS. Or scan the QR code to add.)
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