In recent years, the global film market has had a quietly changing flavor~
"Political correctness" gradually swept the world, and in all kinds of large-scale films, various races began to play necessary roles.
The protagonists in "Them", "Black Panther", "Shangqi", "Vincenzo" and other works have also been replaced with corresponding Asian and black characters suitable for the role.
Not only that, in recent years, screenwriters and directors from all over the world have also entered a period of creative slack.
The number of literary adaptations, manga adaptations, and even remakes has become the mainstream trend of works in these years.
For example, the Sundance Film Festival has always been a reserve force in Hollywood, and originality and American style are very important.
With the Coen brothers' films, with the fresh and inspirational American youth of "Me and Earl and the Girl Who Will Die",
However, this year's Sundance's "Listening Girl", although tear-jerking youth and blood, is a "remake movie".
Universally applicable, less original, somewhat a pity~
There are also several dramas and movies that have been on fire during the epidemic, which are based on novels and comics.
For example, "Sweet Home", which exposes human nature and is bloody and arrogant to the imagination,
For example, with her wild imagination and the thrill of the game, "Alice at the Time of Death", which changed the downturn of Japanese dramas in recent years,
And this year's pure and scummy Korean drama "Irresistible Him".
In 2019, there is also a rather prophetic and oriental sense of the film "Kabul Swallow",
Elegant and romantic French dialogue, with the texture of ink painting, presents the dilapidated desolation of Afghanistan under the danger of war, like a small yellow flower on the street, natural and faint hope.
A style of Western-style ink painting, there is a touch of romantic lightness, but also a profound texture,
The original and realistic dubbing gives the whole movie an immersive feeling,
It turns out that those suffocating moments are not sudden collapse of buildings, but day after day of life consisting of suffocation, exhaustion, and nowhere to escape.
Self-consciousness also becomes nothingness in the daily self-doubt and internal friction.
What is a happy and normal life?
What is freedom?
Some people feel that there is a job that can be said, and a happy family of three is happiness;
Some people feel that their parents are willing to support themselves to go to the big city or far away to pursue their ideals alone is freedom;
Some people feel that there is a person who is willing to listen to his own words and understand that what he thinks is happiness;
Some people think that after the hard work of day after day, it is happy to have a short period of time to watch movies and listen to music.
And in "The Swallows of Kabul", which is indifferent and long,
The Afghan people, who exist in the same world as us, but with a completely different way of life,
They have a paralyzing sense of pain.
A young and loving couple,
The wife is a beautiful artist, but she must wear an ugly closed burqa on the street.
You are not allowed to hold hands and kiss your lover, or even listen to music at home.
Although the young husband loves his wife deeply,
But always in recognition of his wife's innocence and pursuit of freedom at the same time, but also by the brutality and indulgence of the Afghan men around him affected by the self-doubt,
For example, he would be on the street without knowing why, wavering at a strange woman and causing her death.
This is probably the unfathomable, complex and contradictory nature of human nature
While admiring the beauty of his wife's artistic atmosphere and free vitality, he was involuntarily affected by the violence and madness of the Taliban.
Under the shaking camera, the young and thin husband looked down at the stone in his hand,
He began to be unguarded and wavering, what is human nature and what is right?
When the best meets the worst evil, human nature is frantically swaying and lost in it.
And the other couple is a couple who have "experienced hundreds of battles",
There seems to be an incomparable tacit understanding and deep love between them, but they look at each other and hate each other.
The wife is terminally ill, she was also a kind and lovely little nurse who saved her husband's life when he was in danger.
Now that her life is short, she wants to tell her husband about money, but it is his impatience.
The film uses a long section to lay the groundwork for the two families that do not intersect, but the same deep and hot life,
A young and energetic, with dreams, but in the present circumstances, it seems that there is no hope at all to fulfill the promises of both sides:
"In a future like this, we'll have a real house, listen to music out loud, kiss all the time on the street, laugh at those bad movies with our friends, we'll take little Mohsen and little Zunaira for ice cream, and we'll dance together like crazy." Because we're the only ones that's different. ”
Finally in the midst of another quarrel,
The young husband fell in a pool of blood, and the young female artist lost hope and was about to be put on trial.
In another elderly couple's family, the warden's husband saw a young female artist in prison without a burqa.
For an instant, his closed and numb heart seemed to be opened, not the nourishment of love, as if he saw hope and beauty in the gray and merciless Kabul.
He longs to save this girl who is still hopeful,
He began to become emotional, and from shedding tears he began to cry secretly at home, and he went to the neighbor's house to learn the secret of this beautiful woman who had gone to prison and killed her husband.
The old, terminally ill wife is willing to pretend to be a young woman to die,
Her husband sat on the execution cart and had mixed feelings, so why did she dedicate herself? Is it because of love for yourself?
However, at the execution ground, the burqa of the dead wife was lifted, and although the young female artist was saved, the elderly couple fell together in a pool of blood.
The Taliban frantically lifted the burqa of every woman on the playground, trying to find a female artist.
At this time, they transformed into big swallows flying in the sky and flew freely.
"The Swallows of Kabul" gives people a long, endless texture after viewing,
Instead of shocking violent shots or gray and desperate textures, it is saddened by the power of hope that thrives like a small wildflower on the side of the road.
Obviously, in the same time and world, some people pursue freedom and dreams;
Some people can only wear a burqa when they go out, and their skin and hair cannot be exposed.
In the movie, only surreal techniques can make them fly freely in the sky like swallows;
And in reality, where is their future?
Although there is still a human purgatory in the world,
But the free soul is like the swallows over Kabul and the watercolors of the mixture of shades and shades, colorful and never fading,
Love in a chaotic world, although tragic, but hope, "hope" has always been there.