If "The Secret in Their Eyes" is a subtle, dense, and gentle meticulous painting, then "The Prophet" is a very large-scale, white background and black shadow, realistic and realistic scenery. Compared with the emergence of "The Secret in Their Eyes", it rushed out of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film as a dark horse. France's "Prophet", Germany's "White Ribbon" and Britain's "Fish Bowl" are all high-profile films this year, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and European Film Festival to the 2010 Oscars.
"The Prophet" won 9 awards including best film, best director, best actor, and best original screenplay at the 35th French Caesars Film Festival. In the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, "The Prophet" won the Jury Prize, Haneke's "White Ribbon" won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture, the British "Fish Tank" and South Korea's "Bat 》Won the jury award together. At the 22nd European Film Festival, "White Ribbon" was invincible all over the world, winning the best film, best director and best screenplay awards in one fell swoop, leaving only the best actor award to " The Prophet.
"The Prophet" is a prison gang movie. It tells a young gangster of Arab descent. After serving his sentence, how to survive between the two major gangs of Muslims and Corsicans, and step by step in Kosovo. It is a story of the rise among the Signians, and finally, in turn, defeated the Corsicans, integrated the Muslim gangs, and became the underworld boss. The length of the movie is 157 minutes, and there are many people and things involved, but the director cuts the film fragments by several people that the protagonist knows separately, and also uses this to distinguish the protagonist’s various stages of growth in prison, so that the film has a clear hierarchy and rhythm. Clear. The director deliberately uses remote observation techniques to tell the content, so that the whole film maintains an objective and uniform moving style.
In the first stage, the protagonist Gibena is just a small bastard, anyone can beat him up, and he doesn't even have the ability to keep a pair of shoes. Such a person, but because a Muslim gangster spoke to him in the bathroom, it changed the fate of his life. This Muslim gangster was the one that the Corsican gang wanted to get rid of. The Corsican boss Lucia let Gibbena choose whether to kill the Muslim gangster or be killed by the Corsican boss. Find a prison guard to make a complaint? no way. The prison guards were all controlled by the Corsican gang. Beating people to be confined? court death! Any small actions will only make oneself die faster. So Gibena could only put the razor blade in his mouth, slashing his mouth one at a time, practicing spitting out at the fastest speed, biting the edge with his teeth, and drawing toward the other's carotid artery. Gibena succeeded in killing, for which he got a bag of cigarettes and a ghost that went with him. The Muslim gangster who was killed has since appeared as a ghost next to Jibena from time to time. At first, the ghost was a nightmare and an avenger. After that, Jibena gradually became accustomed to his company and he became a friend. , To help Jibena see the future.
In the second stage, Gibena became a member of the Corsican gang, but it was enough to serve everyone with tea and water, and he didn't even have the qualifications to sit down. However, he met a Muslim friend and learned to read together and talked about his life after he was released from prison. Opportunities always come to those who are patiently waiting. Due to the new policy, some Corsican prisoners were transferred out, and the Corsican elder Lucia's men were reduced from 20 to 5 in one go. So Jibena upgraded and was qualified to sit down and drink and talk. The Corsican language he had learned before has also increased his worth a lot, and he is qualified to help the boss keep his cell phone, deliver meals in prison, and pick up some oil and water. In order to better control the business outside the prison, Lucia also used the relationship to get Gibena on parole and occasionally leave prison for a long time, but he still had to report back to the prison on time, like Cinderella.
In the third stage, Gibena began to grow strong. Jibena took a job in a car repair shop under the arrangement of a Muslim friend. But in fact, he spent his time outside of prison helping the boss Lucia run errands. At this time, Jibena also met a gypsy worm in the prison. Together with his Muslim friends, the three began to run their own small drug trafficking and drug trafficking business. Jibeina's purse gradually became a little thicker, and he could buy himself a TV, a DVD player, and from time to time he could recruit a recruited girl into prison to relax. However, the boss of Lucia is not very happy with this development. It's not that he cares about the money made by Jibena's petty jokes, but if Jibena loses the right to visit after being released from prison, all efforts will be lost. Put it in vain. Therefore, Lucia taught Jibena hard to let him know who he was.
In the fourth stage, Gibbena finally knows who he is, a fucking Corsican dog. The boss of Lucia sent Gibena to Marseille. He flew back and forth on the same day, contacted the boss of the local gang, gave up cooperation with the Italians and switched to doing business with Corsicans. This is the first time Gibena has arrived on the plane, wearing a suit, combing his greasy head, and eating sweet bread on the plane. Only then would a fool choose to continue to be a dog. When Gibena was sitting in the car of the Marseille gang boss and was pointed at the head by a gun, he saw a deer haunt sign flashing out of the car window, and immediately remembered his previous eyes through the ghost of the Muslim gangster. The phantom of the deer seen. Gibena shouted "Beware of animals", and a deer immediately hit the windshield of the car, dripping with blood, so Gibena was called a prophet. The Marseille gang boss not only promised to cooperate with the Corsican boss, but also helped Gibena to overcome obstacles in his small drug trafficking business and form a business partner relationship. After Jibena returned to prison, he asked his Muslim friends to help him give all the money to the Muslim gang. He was ready to do something big.
In the fifth stage, Jibena reborn as a real person. The boss of Lucia offended his boss for contacting the Marseille gang. He approached Gibena and, with the attitude of a hard-core brother, asked him to find someone outside the prison to help him get rid of his boss. Jibena originally didn't want to mess with this kind of thing, but his Muslim friend had cancer and wanted to leave some money for his wife and children before he died, so he advocated that he should do the vote, and then entrusted it to Jibena. So Gibena promised Lucia boss to accept the deal. But when it came to a juncture, the gang of Muslim friends were scared away. They had always been transporting drugs and selling drugs. How could they have thought of killing the boss of the boss? So Jibena had no choice but to bite the bullet and go out with his Muslim friends. After all, quitting is dead. The two blind cats just went out to find the dead mouse. As a result, Jibena took advantage of the boss's boss to stop by the side of the road, the bodyguard got out of the car to buy cigarettes, opened the door, and got in the car. But Jibena didn't kill the boss's boss, but just arrested him, and then told him that Lucia sent him. Afterwards, Jibena slept sweetly at the Muslim friend's house, waiting for her to go back to confinement the next morning, after all, Cinderella actually stayed out overnight.
In the sixth stage, Gibbena Phoenix Nirvana. After Jibena returned to the prison, he was kept in the confinement room for forty days and forty nights, and during this period of time outside the confinement room, they slaughtered each other bloodily. When Jibena came out of the confinement room, there was no one beside Lucia's boss. Lucia sat down alone on the prison square, and the people standing next to him didn't even look at him. At the same time, Jibena, surrounded by a group of Muslim gangsters, came to the other side of the square gracefully. When Lucia tried to get close to Gibena, he was immediately blocked by the Muslim gang. Compared to the beginning of the film, Gibena was surrounded by the Corsican gang. He was alone with his head down and could not look directly at Lucia’s. The scene is really just now and then.
Finally, Gibner was released from prison. When the prison guard took out a box and asked Jibena to sign for what was confiscated from him at the earliest, Jibena laughed. Those things are few and pitiful. Jibena took out the euro that had been folded into small tofu pieces, carefully spread it out and looked at it, earnestly received it in his pocket, and asked the prison guards to throw away the other things. Stepping out of the prison, one side is the gangster standing next to three high-end cars, and the other is the wife of a Muslim friend sitting in a chair with his child in his arms. Gibena stepped towards the mother and son, the three of them strolled in the cold wind, talking about whether to make Gibena squeeze at home temporarily, the three sparkling high-end cars lined up slowly behind, not dare Annoyed the boss.
"The Prophet" is a very good movie. The director uses a steady and confident approach to tell the story of a prison gang with a huge content and many characters in an orderly and clear manner. Every time a new character appears, which symbolizes that Gibbena has entered a new stage, the director will type the name of this new character on the letters, and use this technique to divide this complicated movie, so that the audience is clearly aware of the existence of paragraphs. , In order to avoid the lengthy plot to fatigue the audience's attention. In addition, the director also uses the narrow and hazy limited picture to create an atmosphere of peeping observation. This technique was used in the beginning of the film and in the segment where Gibbena foresees the appearance of the deer herd. This technique actually echoes the movie's name "Prophet". If the scene of the deer herd reveals Jibena's ability to predict the future, then at the beginning of the film, this same technique reveals who will predict Jibena's future? Is it the director or the audience? The other unexplained section is about the ghost of the Muslim gangster who was killed by Jibena. In the movie, this ghost is able to see the future, and when Gibbena used his own eyes to predict the appearance of the deer, the ghost disappeared. Is it because the ghost passed on its abilities to Jibena, allowing Jibena to inherit the future of the Muslim gang? Or is it because the ghost is just an illusion in Gibbena's heart to relieve his fear of reality, and after he decides to regenerate from reality, the ghost no longer needs to exist?
The director's arrangement for the ending content is also very interesting. In "The Thousand and One Nights" adapted from Arabic folklore, the Sultan of Sarria was so upset that he was afflicted with his deceased wife and brother. He couldn't sleep for forty days, became delirious, and didn't trust anyone. But in order to keep the throne, he had to choose a harem woman to marry, so he decided to get married first and then put his queen to death in the early morning of the second day of marriage. And the wise Sanghlezade resolutely married him. On the night of the wedding, Sanghlezard tried his best to save his life with the magical story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Every night thereafter, she used many fascinating legends such as Aladdin's magic lamp, etc., not only to let the Sudanese men be merciful, but also to let the Sudan get wisdom and inspiration in the story. She saved the sultan and the kingdom with her innocent love and enthusiasm, and lived a happy life ever since. And Gibena happened to be kept in the confinement room for forty days and forty nights. After he came out, he became an authentic gang boss and treated him with the contempt that Lucia initially treated him. But when he stepped out of the prison door, he walked to the mother and son waiting in the cold wind, and left the group of cars that would meet him behind him.
"The Prophet" is a prison gangster movie, but it is actually a portrayal of Muslim immigrants living in France. There are many people, but they are like scattered sand, crowded in a small space, eating poor food, although they are always gathered together, together Worship and recite the Koran, but cannot integrate into the general environment and become a minority of the "majority". Not only did Jibena struggle to get out of the prison as a gangster, he was also an Arab Muslim immigrant, seeking to do something in France, and even in Europe as a whole, and become a person who not only exists, but also has a voice. Ethnic group. This is the future that the director and even the audience will anticipate!
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