" As a story, Rango's experience can be described as a legend, but can anyone really experience such an experience?
Perhaps the question should not be asked so realistically, because everyone understands that it is difficult for ordinary people to have a life as magnificent as that of Rango. Therefore, many people do not believe in the future, do not believe in fate, and do not gamble their hopes on elusive luck. There is nothing wrong with this kind of life, and it is the life of most ordinary people. And people like Rango who grew up in boasting are mostly dismissed as heretics, so there are always a few heroes in our world.
I don't want to do more analysis on the plot, although the story is very imaginative with bizarre twists and turns, but the happy ending and the stereotyped narrative method are really nothing new. But a good chef can cook delicious food with ordinary ingredients like cabbage and tofu, and a good director can show another kind of extraordinary with a simple story.
Don't you think Rango is very similar to Mr. Lu Xun's Ah Q? Lango was bullied and ridiculed by strangers in an unfamiliar environment, and Ah Q was also a laughing stock among idlers. Rango became a hero because he did not blush in his boastful lies; Ah Q also used the name of a revolutionist to make a fortune after being humiliated. It was just random suspicion of others who didn't know the truth, so Lango used the eagle to scare off the enemy, and he killed the eagle in an unthinkable way. So Rango became a hero, and also used Ah Q's "spiritual victory method" to amuse himself.
Later literary critics believed that there was a shadow of Ah Q in everyone, so Lu Xun's sharp writing pierced everyone's humble soul. As a result, Lu Xun was regarded as a master by virtue of his unique perspective and cruel style of writing. As a funny and inspirational film, Rango is obviously not as critical as Lu Xun, who "mourns his misfortune and angers him without fighting". How did he remember him and become a real hero?
Before the serpent appeared, Rango wore a mask and did not show the real Ah Q to ordinary people. Orochi exposes Rango's lies, and Rango also wants to die in the loneliness of his ruin. In a lonely desert, there is nothing without water, and if you control the water, you will control the whole world. Humans need water to live, and lizards also need water to live. No water man will be thirsty and die, and the lizard will go to heaven after molting again and again. But is water really the most important thing?
If you regard "Rango" as a cartoon about looking for water, you obviously underestimate this movie. Water is just a bridge, a medium for conveying the connotation of the story. What the most helpless person needs is inner strength, and he must have the strength that comes from the source of the soul, in order to survive tenaciously. Rango, who was lost and waiting for death, saw the "Western Soul", and the "Western Soul" also saw Rango who couldn't find his true self in the lie. Rango kept asking "Who am I?" Even if the hero in the lie becomes a bear in an instant, there will be an unacceptable psychological gap. And "Spirit of the West" is obviously a hero who has experienced storms. He only said this to Rango:
"It doesn't matter what they call you, what matters is what you do yourself.
" Bears become heroes? What exactly needs to be done so that Rango can become Rango, not the ubiquitous Ah Q. The "Spiritual Victory Method" is something that exists in our self-imagination after all. We all have that kind of extremely narcissistic idea, but if we don't make real efforts, all spiritual ideas will be like passing clouds. scattered.
As a result, the word courage was put on the screen, and bravery has become an indispensable word for defining heroes for thousands of years. When you see Wallace, who is fighting for freedom, swinging a stone axe into the enemy camp, when you watch the gladiators who are fighting for their lives roaring and roaring in the Colosseum, can you detect a kind of blood-thumping Passion rushing into your brain? Rango was put on Rango's body in the style that a Western should have. Standing in front of us was wearing a cowboy hat, wearing thorn-ring riding boots, and a disdainful Eastwood in his eyes. At this time, Rango would pull out his waist at any time. Hanging revolvers send you home.
Everyone can dream and fantasize about being a hero. But the real hero is not in the dream, but in reality. Lango was a self-imagining lizard living in a fish tank, and he didn't find his way until he encountered a pangolin who wanted to walk across the road. Search seems to have become the theme of too many movies and novels, whether it is looking for hope, looking for dreams, looking for one's own future, or looking for the courage that has never been possessed. In short, stretch out your hands while dreaming, step out your feet, and look for it in the real world down-to-earth. Even if you are a visionary in the eyes of others, even if you are a megalomaniac in the eyes of others, no matter whether the next stop is heaven or not, you can be disappointed, but you must not despair.
At this time, I thought of Xu Wei's "That Year" again, "You have been running non-stop for so many years, and tomorrow is still illusory. The pure ideal in the face of survival turned out to be so fragile." It was so simple, but Lango, who walked into the desert alone, understood the difficulty of reality. Just like the scary children who imagined the surrounding world infinitely in "Summer of Kijiro", Lango also imagined walking cactus in the strange desert, and also encountered thorns and bumps on the ideal road.
"For the sake of the ideal, anyone can do it, but one day it's just you and me." Rango persevered, overcame all difficulties, and found his partner on the lonely road. So he changed from a fake hero to a real hero, and at the end of the film, he said a piece of chicken soup that enhances the soul but is unbearable, "People will always encounter indecision or suffer heavy blows in their life. Remember, at this moment, at this moment. And me, I'll always be watching you. And don't forget, deep down in our hearts, there's a real..." I thought the words that Rango didn't say were either courage or ideals, or maybe hope, but no matter what What, must be a good word.
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