Before the Oscars, this pearl must be seen.
Amway it, no need to mention what award-winning hits, Rotten Tomatoes 100% freshness.
A single comment from foreign media is enough - "This is the movie we urgently need at the moment." ”
"Minari"
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One of the producers: Brad Pitt.
Continuing the excellence of the actor's career, the old Pitt producer's vision is more poisonous.
Won martin scorsese for best director for "Infernal Affairs", "The Big Short" with 5 Oscar nominations, "Moonlight Boy" for the Oscar for best picture.........
"Minari" is his latest seeded player.
The results are expected - in the Top 5 awards season leading films released on Rotten Tomatoes, "Minari" ranked fourth and has won 15 awards.
The story of a Korean family searching for the "American Dream."
Cast, original.
Yin Ruzhen.
After the South Korean film, there are few actresses in South Korea who are still active in the show business circle at the age of more than 70.
Sir likes two characters, grandma in "Grandma Ji Chun" and the old prostitute in Miss Dionysus.
This is Grandma Yin's first foray into Hollywood, and she is 74 years old.
As soon as she made a shot, she won the best actress/supporting actress award or nomination at a major foreign film festival, and is said to be competing for this year's Oscar nomination.
Steven Yuan, a Korean actor who wanders between Hollywood and Korean films.
He is the deeply rooted Glenn in the American drama "The Walking Dead";
It is also the perverted and cold rich second generation in Li Cangdong's "Burning".
But they set foot on the wasteland of the United States.
Another face we hadn't seen before.
01
Asian immigrant theme, we have a very real TV series.
Directed by Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong, and starring Jiang Wen, "Beijingers in New York".
Jiang Wen, an old Beijing intellectual couple, moved to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
Their lives are worse than you might think—they live in a dilapidated basement, where sofa furniture is picked up in garbage dumps, and work as a restaurant to wash dishes and weave clothes in a textile factory.
If "Beijingers in New York" is a flood that directly impacts our impressions.
"Minari" is like a quiet stream, a torrent of rain that hits the windowsill bit by bit.
It's subtle, subtle, delicate.
The protagonist couple's job is to break the chicken's ass on the assembly line.
The rooster sets the white frame and the hen sets the basket.
One after another.
Day after day.
Recently, they have also moved from the big cities of the United States to the deserted countryside.
The family lived in a house converted from a large van.
"Home" seems to be vulnerable.
If the front is hit by a tornado, the house will be blown away in its entirety.
Every Asian immigrant to the United States is pursuing their American dream.
Strive.
Live in a big house, more money, more decent.
And this family has immigrated to the United States for ten years, and it seems that they are getting farther and farther away from the American dream.
Watching all this was his son David, who suffered from heart disease.
In the opening scene, he puts on a medical stethoscope and hears a bang........
It was his heart murmur.
It is also the crisis that the family has been lurking for a long time.
But what is even more torturous is the chicken feathers in the daily life.
This immigrant family has a lot of "Eastern expressions" that you and I are very familiar with.
There is such a scene in the film.
The daughter and son saw their parents arguing, and the two quickly ran back to the room.
hide?
No, they folded up the paper airplane and wrote on the plane: "Don't argue! ”
Then nervously rushed out of the living room and threw the plane at his parents.
This is the children's tacit understanding, the silent expression between the family.
Parents who always quarrel, the children around them feel hurt the most.
The reason they quarreled was because their father always wanted to be "useful."
One day, David asked Dad why the company threw away the roosters that had been picked out.
Dad said that the rooster was not delicious, could not lay eggs, and was of no use.
He said to his son:
"So, we should try to become more useful."
Dad seems to be a "useful" person, and it must not be every day to lower his head and break open the ass of the chick.
He was tired of living, was he living only for his family, not for himself?
He wants to create something of his own.
Career boom, home, will certainly become better.
So he moved to the countryside with his family and bought a piece of land that no one dared to buy.
Farms are reclaimed, some Korean vegetables are grown, and sold to Koreans who continue to immigrate to the United States every year.
But the wife had enough because he was also blurring the lines between the two.
Blur the boundaries of large and small families.
Because he is the eldest son, the husband believes that he is obliged to send the money of the small family back to his family in South Korea on a regular basis.
The money saved went back to South Korea.
Blur your responsibilities as a father and husband.
This deserted place, an hour's drive from the hospital, what if my son had a heart attack? The tornado is coming, what about the children?
I came to this place without any negotiation.
This is where the wife is really sad.
Again.
People have been struggling in the United States for ten years, and in the end there is not even a place to really shelter from the wind and rain.
Can you not be sad?
02
Grandma's intrusion put the couple's unresolved war on hold for a while.
She came to live with her only daughter, and she could solve the problem of no one to take care of David.
David, who had never seen his grandmother, saw her for the first time, as if he smelled a peculiar smell-
"There was a smell of Korean in the room"
"Grandma has a Korean flavor".
What is the taste of Korean?
David, who had never been to Korea, didn't know.
All he knew was that it was a smell he had never smelled in the United States.
This grandmother can't even cook, and encourages them to play cards, scolding "fuck" while playing;
This grandmother also speaks "vulgarly.")
With his daughter in newly learned English, he pointed to David, who was wetting the bed, and said:
"Your little brother is broken";
Most importantly.
This grandmother also let him drink hard-to-drink Chinese herbs every day.
Got it, korean flavor doesn't mean...
"Useless"?
But it was also this Korean flavor that made David re-recognize the difference between useful and useless.
One day, Grandma took her two children on an expedition to the forest.
By the way, find a swamp that parents never let their children go.
Grandma was very happy--"Minari" could be planted here, and it must be planted very well.
What is Minari?
The most common water celery on Korean tables, cheap and nutritious.
"It can grow everywhere like weeds
Anyone can pick it and eat it
Whether rich or poor
Everyone can enjoy it delicious and become healthy."
Here's the question:
Is cheap water celery grown in a swamp that no one sees "useful"?
While David was still wondering, the object he was most afraid of seeing appeared.
A big snake.
The first reaction was to pick up the stone and throw it, hoping to scare it away.
But Grandma stepped forward to stop her, saying:
"It's better to be able to see it than to let it hide."
Because — the things that will hide are more dangerous and terrible.
David's eyes were full of doubt.
But he immediately saw how terrifying the "snake in hiding" really was.
03
My father's vegetable business project collapsed before it even started.
The farm can't afford to pay the water bill, the owner of the order repents, and the vegetables look rotten...
Even more tragically, the grandmother, who could have taken care of the child, suddenly suffered a stroke.
She also needs to be taken care of.
In the face of adversity, Monica still did not give up on her husband.
Because she remembered that they came to the United States ten years ago and said to save each other.
She suggested that the two could go to California to live so they could pay off their debts.
But Jacob would rather accept the separation of the two than fight to the death here.
"You'll have to see me succeed once."
Monica quickly responded:
Isn't it more important that we're together?
Now think about it – isn't the contradiction between husband and wife the polar opposite that we are facing at the moment?
"Useful" money, "useless" life;
Immediate benefits, long-term companionship;
Personal obsession, the dedication of loved ones.
Which one is more important?
Or, or which one, is more urgent?
The film is full of images of such contrasts.
Rooster corresponds to hen;
The American Dream, corresponding to the "Korean flavor";
Grandma planted, cheap but tenacious water celery.
Corresponding to the "Korean vegetables" grown by dad, which are delicate but can be sold for money.
A church without any sense of sacredness.
Corresponding to the cross that ran away on the wilderness path.
The metaphor could not be more obvious – an era of superficial inclusion and pluralism, but torn to the extreme in the bones.
The narrative of Minari is patient.
But there are also shortcomings.
Frankly, Sir thinks that "Minari" currently has a lot of praise.
Asian ethnic groups, marginalized people, ethnic integration...
Every label caters to the current situation.
In terms of content, the sudden disaster at the end of the story, and the sudden luck (such as finding that the child's heart disease began to heal itself).
To a large extent, it weakens the power of daily distress in the early stages.
It tore open the hidden social misalignment of the moment in a low-key way, and finally it was helpless, covered up with unprovoked warmth.
The story ends with a bowl of chicken soup mixed with satire.
A fire left the family completely without a head start.
In the early morning, the burned-out barn was accompanied by birdsong, but it was surprisingly quiet.
Together, the couple discussed digging a new well and starting a new life.
But pay attention to the way this well is drilled.
It is the "metaphysics" that the husband once hated the most, and the locals believed in:
The husband finally let go of his "American Dream."
Take your son and go to the swamp to inherit a piece of cress left by your grandmother.
Asians live in a foreign land, just like the ordinary Minari "lowly".
But where there is a water source, it can survive.
Is it enough to survive?
Obviously, "Minari" is indeed a much-needed movie at the moment.
With gentle brushstrokes, uncover the thrilling everyday life under the calm.
But it doesn't provide the answers that are desperately needed right now.
In other words, the answer it provides is the "no solution" of reality.
If the soil is reclaimed, it can only hold a piece of celery in a peaceful part.
What is this soil?
Right.
It's a swamp.
The picture in this article comes from the network
Editorial Assistant: Yasuhiro Ozu