This article is from the WeChat public account: Looking for the ideal (ID: ikanlixiang) , tells: Liang Wendao, the original title:” Douban 9.5 points, re-screened after more than 20 years: the world Do n’t forget to laugh again, it ’s dark, the title picture comes from: “Beautiful Life”
Today, we all face such a crisis-intolerance, too absolute.
At such moments, a modest sense of humor is like an antidote that not only teaches us to face the world with tolerance, but also helps us overcome fear.
Humor can make this “absolute age” release a little bit of calmness and a little bit of freedom.
Before last night, Beijing has finished the first snowfall of 2020, and 2019 has gradually become a thing of the past.
I wonder if you remember that before 2020, there was a saying, “2019 may be the worst year of the past decade, but it may also be the best year of the next decade.” p>
However, no matter how sad the day is, I am still here to hope that I and you can continue to maintain a state of mind in the future, that is, to keep a smile on life.
Yes, I always thought that even in the worst moments and the darkest times, we should still have a kind of tolerance and joy.
What I want to talk to you about today is actually a movie recently released in China. In fact, this is not a new movie, but an old movie in the 1990s-“Beautiful Life” (La vita è bella, English translation Life is beautiful) . Last Friday, a 4K repaired version of Beautiful Life was released in China.
1, a “weird” movie, a “warm comedy” about the Jewish Holocaust
The movie “Beautiful Life” is also very popular in China, and its rating on Douban has reached 9.5 points. So what kind of story does this film tell?
Simply put, it is about a pair of Jewish fathers and sons in Italy who were sent to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. His father, Quito, was terrified because he could not bear his five-year-old son, and he did not want to ruin the child’s innocence The evil nature facilitates the use of their imagination to convince children that they are only in a game and must accept the rules of the concentration camp in order to get points in order to win the final prize.
The hero of the movie, Quito, is the director of the movie, Roberto Bernini, a well-known comedian and director in Italy. He is also a very powerful talk show actor.
What kind of “weird” movie is Beautiful Life? It can be said that this is a tender comedy about the Jewish massacre.
Putting these words together, I am afraid we generally feel very contradictory. The Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis is a very cruel thing, but the words “compassionate comedy” can be compared with the historical one. Are the extinct human catastrophes combined?
Of course this sounds a bit wrong, but the reason why this film is so praised is that it almost accomplishes an impossible task-one of the most valuable things about this movie is that it Although the background is still about the cold-blooded control, abuse and slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis during World War II, but it does not render tragic and bloody, but in a comedic way, it convinces people of the glimmer of humanity in the extreme darkness.
“Beautiful Life”
2, joke and ridicule, once the “weapon” of the weak against the strong
No one has tried to make a tragic human catastrophe into a warm-hearted comedy, or even a farce. Long before the movie “Beautiful Life”, in fact, there were a lot of jokes about World War II, Hitler and the Nazis, and they also made a lot of film and television works.
It can be traced back to before the outbreak of World War II, such as “The Great Dictator”, a very famous comedy movie of Chaplin, in which he imitated Hitler, at that time the United States had not joined the battlefield of World War II, Chaplin, like the unknown prophet, ridiculed Hitler in this film, ridiculed the Nazis, and the ideology of a special dictatorship.
“The Great Dictator”
Including Disney, they have also filmed a film that satirizes Hitler with Donald Duck as the main character. In the history of the film industry in the United States, you will find a lot of jokes about Nazis and Hitler during World War II, but strangely, after the end of World War II, this theme was based on Nazi Germany and everything that happened in Germany. The genre of movies has decreased very much. Why is that?
This is of course because after the end of World War II, the Western world, including us all, became clearer.202001/06 / 153442388475.jpg? ImageView2 / 2 / w / 1000 / format / jpg / interlace / 1 / q / 85 “data-w =” 1080 “data-h =” 730 “>
“Beautiful Life”
Finally, I still want to say that many times, maintaining a humorous mood and a little sense of humor is a good thing, even in a very bleak era.
The sense of humor can not only help us to resolve the dilemma, but also help us to solve the difficult problems that must be faced by us. Humor is also an attitude that allows us to face the world a bit more tolerant.
We face the world today. What is one of the most important crises? That is intolerance, too absolute, many things must be black and white, and many things require us to take the most serious attitude.
At such moments, a modest sense of humor is like an antidote, which can let us in this “absolute age” release a little calmness, a little space for advancing and retreating.
The 4k repaired version of “Beautiful Life” was re-released in the domestic theater last Friday, (January 3, 2020) The first movie of 2020 will let you relive the emotions in your memories.
This article is from the WeChat public account: Look at the ideal (ID: ikanlixiang) , telling: Liang Wendao