I have read Qiang Rong's original work, a very famous book. I think its success lies in the spiritual power it conveys. I think the writing skills of the book itself can be ignored. The movie basically includes the main parts of the book, but the ending must be spit, as my friend said, the wolf came to say hello, this is too fake, it is a bit vulgar, kind of Deliberate gentleness is exaggerated, and at the end of the original work, the ending of the wolf was killed by Chen Zhen himself with a hammer. The ending is tragic, but very profound. Regarding the plot and production of the movie, just as the propaganda of the movie made us look forward to, many of the scenes of animals, that is, about wolves, are very shocking, such as the snowy day, the scene where the wolf sneaked up on the horses, the tragic fight, the performance The land is very visually stunning, but what impressed me the most should be the close-up of the wolf's various cold and arrogant eyes. The unique eyes convey a unique spiritual temperament, which is highly praised. However, the overall storyline of the film is lacking, and the exaggeration was almost made into a documentary, but some trivial stories were inserted in the documentary. Compared with the narration of the wolf, the plot of the characters is too thin, which is a great shortcoming of this film. In addition, when I saw Douyou's complaints about the dialogue between Mongolian Abba and Chen Zhen, it was just the kind of rush that Confucius and his students talked to, and I deeply felt the same. This Mongolian Abba did not have a trace of simplicity, and some were just bureaucratic. The novel shows a wise old man from the grassland, not such an inexplicable guy.
Let's talk about wolves. I only understood the nobility of wolves after reading novels. I'm glad that in the movie, this works very well. Wolves are extremely intelligent, have a strong team spirit, are good at patience, and have nobility in their blood. The death of the wolf in the novel is because during a routine migration of Chen Zhen and the others, the wolf was dragged into serious injuries because he was unwilling to be led and followed behind the car. Zhencai decided to kill the beloved little wolf with his own hands. In the hearts of the Mongols, wolves are sacred and totems in their hearts, so they cannot be kept in captivity. Abba told Chen Zhen that wolves have the dignity of their own predation, and they cannot be fed. This reminds me of another story I have seen. A professor bought a lizard and brought it back to raise it, but how to change it for food, it didn't eat anything, and it was about to starve to death. A sandwich is placed on the table, and the lizard crawls over, jumps on the table, and swallows the sandwich. I think it's similar. At that time, after reading the original book, I had a kind of respect for the animal wolf. Although it is a ferocious animal that can hurt people, it has its own important biological chain status and survival laws in nature. Survive in this world with your own wisdom and dignity. In the movie, the two old wolves were chased by hunters and had nowhere to go, jumping off a cliff and burying themselves to death respectively, which really made people respect them and sigh at the wolf's interpretation of the word dignity. So I think when everyone sees the arrogant scenes of these people chasing and killing wolves, they will secretly grit their teeth and hate the infinite greed and ridiculous arrogance of human beings.
We also often talk about wolf nature now, compared with sheep nature. The human world is actually another natural world, with all kinds of animals living in it. Are we more willing to be wolves or sheep?
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