It is unrealistic for a movie to be completely faithful to the original and fully reproduce its thinking content, value and purpose, etc., but this does not mean that a movie can completely ignore its own narrative theme and thinking direction. Judging from the original work, in fact, its content is not single, there are at least two aspects: one is about the wolf's nature, the author admires the wolf's wisdom, patience, unity, wildness, competition, and retrospectively thinks The steppe nation's imitation, struggle and worship of wolves. Of course, there are more realistic and nationalistic ones. The author demeans the so-called "sheep nature" of the Han nationality from beginning to end, and calls on the Han nationality to inject this "wolf nature" to bring the national character into balance; the second is about the grasslands. A philosophy and logic with wolves, the reality is ecological balance and environmental protection. With the existence of appropriate wolves, it can clean the corpses of people and animals on the grasslands to prevent the outbreak of plague, and at the same time catch hares, marmots, yellow sheep, and landslides. Rat and other major damage to grasslands. What transcends reality is that the prairie people believe that wolves are sent, favored and cared for by Tengger (Longevity Heaven). The ultimate destination of wolves is Tengger, and people also need to go through the intermediary of wolves. Put your soul on Da Tengger. And the prairie people think that their ancestors are from the wolf. If the film lays out and develops in-depth and detailed in any of these two aspects, it can achieve the mystery, depth and remoteness that "Wolf Totem" should have. Even just grasping the series characteristics of the wolf itself, such as freedom, wildness, unyielding, competition and cruelty, can lead some of these contents to the level of "totem" and spiritual power.
It's just, unfortunately: from the movie, none of the above aspects have been shown. None of its themes and directions are complete, which makes the viewers have to endure illogical jumping and tearing all the time - before the wolf's wisdom, intelligence and mystery are fully felt, it is mentioned that the old man Bilig is persuasive. The wisdom and philosophy of the grasslands and wolves told about, this philosophy and wisdom have not yet begun to dig deep, the male protagonist began to raise the little wolf and began to exude a small freshness. It points to the conflict between farming and animal husbandry and the ecological imbalance. The most ridiculous thing is that I don’t know whether I lost my confidence and looked for a gimmick or went to the doctor in a hurry. From the title, it sounds like a movie that is full of blood, wildness and mystery. , but still don't forget to add a little love in it (if Yang Ke's wild side under the cover of the sheep has a wild side, then the actor Chen Zhen will use himself to rescue the widowed Chismay's unfortunate marriage. , it's a complete nonsense! Not only does the love come without foundation, the goodwill between the two is completely illogical, and the male protagonist's courtship declaration similar to women's liberation work makes people feel ridiculous.) In the original work, I always reminded "Wolf Totem" It is a powerful spiritual force, and it is to defend the great life of the grassland." "If there is no divine support in life, then it is too hopeless"... I don't know if it is to call for the Han nationality to reserve this wolf nature to find the transcendental source. Well, it is still reasonable to think about the wolf totem worship for the grassland people. But no matter what, the film seems to spare no effort to structure this so-called mystery and subtlety from beginning to end, never forgetting to "de-enchant" this "divine" and "strong spiritual power": what to use to "de-enchant" "Woolen cloth? Use popular science and environmental protection theory! So we saw that the male protagonist finally said something inexplicable to Kasmai, "This is the power of modern medicine, and it is also the direction of my future research"! But he is also the male protagonist. He rejects the reality of the current situation of famine and the scientific principles of agricultural production. How can you endure this kind of tearing and internal conflict?
It is estimated that many moviegoers went to the director Jean-Jacques Arnold in addition to the influence of the original work. The foreign director did take the scenes about the scenery and animals very well, but it still made the viewers feel that the director also seemed to have a tendency to "besides animals, everything else has nothing to do with me". Then the problem should still be with the screenwriters. When I saw that there were four screenwriters in this movie, in the end, even though the original book was here, they still seemed to have their own words and their own magic, resulting in a hodgepodge of not saying anything. come out. In the end, the prairie met, and the wolf also came, just a "totem", but I don't know where it went.
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