Let’s talk about the movie "World News" today.
The title of the film is News of the World (2020), and the nickname is "Betrayal" (Hong Kong) / Newspaper Reader (Taiwan).
The film is adapted from the novel "News of the World" by Paulette Giles.
The story begins, from the perspective of the two protagonists.
- My name is Cicada, my father is Zhuanshui, and my mother is Sandian.
I am from Keowa. Indians.
They said my name was "Joanna" and they wanted to take me back to "home".
Can I escape?
- My name is Kidd, I am 71 years old, my wife has passed away, and my daughter is living abroad.
I am a messenger. In Texas, everything is turbulent, and the news is hard currency.
I want to send this "little trouble"-she is dressed in Indian costume, silent, always trying to escape-home.
I have a gun, revolver, point 32, five bursts, I hope I don’t use it.
The story takes place five years after the end of the American Civil War. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, who was discharged from the army, began to earn a living as a newspaper reader.
He walked from one small town to the next, sharing exciting news from all over the world with local residents and charging a portion of the fee.
He met a ten-year-old girl, Johana, in the plains of Texas. Six years ago, the four-year-old Johana was taken and raised by the Keowa Indians. She stayed away from the white civilization and always regarded herself as a Keowa Indian.
Captain Kidd wanted to send Johana back to her aunt's house. Although they were all white people, the old and the young couldn't communicate at all.
On the long road to the western mainland, the two supported each other. This is like a collision between two civilizations. They need to find their own spiritual home while spreading civilization.
Captain Gide, the newspaper reader, brought civilization and brought the people in the closed environment to look at the world with their eyes open.
The ruler of a small place blocks the passage and rejects civilization. This may keep the ruler for a while, but once the people have opened their eyes, they will never go back to their blind lives.
Several episodes of newspaper reading in the film allow the audience to see the changes that civilization brings to the naked eye.
Small local government orders are not smooth, and people understand the new constitution and new orders through newspaper readers, and can participate in current political discussions. After the Civil War, despite the military victory in the North, it still failed to achieve a unified thought in many places. The society looks unified on the surface, but in reality it is still fragmented.
After breaking into Alas County, Captain Gide did not succumb to the prestige of the local snakes, but gave the people the right to choose. On one side are the brainwashing essays of local snakes, and on the other side are the ups and downs of struggle news stories.
When there is no choice, everyone can only listen to the false propaganda over and over again. When the newspaper reader reads a new exciting story, everyone will naturally make an obvious choice.
More importantly, the people saw the power of resistance in news stories. Miners can fight against death in the mine, and people living on the ground can also fight against hegemony.
They also gave initiation and understood a simple truth: happiness is not the result of charity by others, but the struggle of their own.
The line of girl Johana is more like a tool person.
On the way to spread the civilization of newspaper readers, Johana enriched Captain Gide's emotional line. It was originally a story about reading newspapers for others with money and money. With the plot to help girls, Captain Gide became more vivid and three-dimensional.
Johana’s original family was killed by Indians and then taken away again. Captain Gide rescued Johana, brought her back and reintegrated into civilized society, which meant that the white civilization was compared with the higher modernity of the aboriginal civilization.
Whether it is reading newspapers to spread civilization, or bringing back a little girl to reshape civilization, Captain Gide leads by example and represents a powerful civilization to ignorance and backward civilization.
From this perspective, the story is full of white superiority, and the audience can feel the arrogance of it very straightforwardly. In their view, world civilizations are all dualistic oppositions. When two civilizations meet, only one side can exist. In their view, civilization is either one or the other.
If there were no white civilization, the aboriginal people are still living in the American continent. Only a sense of superiority can be created, and white people will not feel guilty when they slaughter the indigenous people.
The story itself is quite satisfactory, like a qualified test composition.
Tom Hanks is an important plus for the film. As the awards season approached, the old actor chose a well-balanced script, and the story also followed conventional routines, which fully satisfied the cultural self-confidence of the whites.
There is you all the way on the Western Road,
The test essay is fairly stable.
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