I don't know when the audience's attitude towards the main theme movie began to change fundamentally, and this fundamental change refers to the fact that every time the main theme is bound to be a bad review. This is a strange phenomenon, it stands to reason that whether it is the main theme or not, as long as it is a movie, a judgment should be given from the perspective of the movie, whether it is a good movie or a bad movie at a glance, and it will not be labeled as a bad movie because a certain movie is the main theme, because this is just a film with a theme. But this change has happened quietly, and it has slowly become that it does not judge the film itself, but focuses on the subject matter, which is puzzling. Does the leitmotif suck?
The answer to this question is answered by a film, a film "Jiao Yulu" from the nineties of the last century, if you look at it from the perspective of a movie, you will quickly understand this problem, the main theme is not bad, but the creator is bad.
"Jiao Yulu" is a film that tells the story of Jiao Yulu, a good cadre of our party in the sixties of the last century, starring the famous actor Li Xuejian, the whole film revolves around what Jiao Yulu did in just two years in Lankao County, and eulogizes how he is an excellent Communist Party member, how he does not forget his original mission and will bow down for the people. The film itself is tear-jerking, and the subject matter also transcends time. Because this kind of spirit will always inspire some people to move forward bravely, no matter what era it is.
This is a compliment to this film, if you watch this film and understand Jiao Yulu, you will feel that this is not empty, but real and very fit. Did Jiao Yulu do anything earth-shattering? No, Jiao Yulu just did what an ordinary party member should do, he completed his mission, and he never forgot his original intention, and that's it. However, it is such a quality that has become rare in any era, in any era of advocating faith, and this is something that we need to think about.
There is not much to say about this film itself, the quality of the film is good, the setting of the characters is good, the use of art is good, and the construction and restoration of the scene are also good. But why do people always give more negative comments about this film because of the subject matter? The reason is that we have a prejudice against the main theme film.
There seems to be a chain of contempt among fans, Europe's is greater than America's, America's is greater than Japan's, Japan's is greater than India's, and India's is greater than ours. At our level, there are also two divisions, the artistic is greater than the commercial, and the critical is greater than the main theme. No one knows who delineated this logic, but people have followed this logic, therefore, the score of the film "Jiao Yulu" on Douban is not high, even if the quality of this film is excellent, even if the actors of this film have superb acting skills, even if the art composition of this film is not bad, even if it is ...... However, because this film is a film that promotes the main theme of positive energy, some people can label it as negative without thinking, which is beautiful, this is freedom.
Of course, swearing words can be said in the heart, no need to express it, we can judge the quality of the movie itself, but we can't divide a movie too much because of the subject matter, of course, the movie is always indispensable to the role of publicity, but when expressing the role of film publicity, we need to ask ourselves, do we want to promote the truth, goodness and beauty, or the false, evil and ugly? This is self-evident, but why can others promote the truth, goodness and beauty, but not our own publicity? There must be a logic here, and the logic lies in the fact that some people have a religious superstition about Western values, but they have a kind of contempt or even disdain for their own values.
This is a very strange phenomenon, but this phenomenon really happened in reality, just like Mo Yan once said, "Literature is used to criticize," just like this sentence, movies are like literature, they are a kind of medium, they are a medium, and naturally have a dual role, criticism and praise, criticism is a movie, praise is not a movie? Obviously, this is unreasonable, but people who uphold this view openly think that they are free and fair, which is a bit ridiculous.
When Western art monopolizes the entire art world and uses its own standards to measure all non-Western art, art loses its inclusiveness, therefore, those who advocate Western art are faced with a person or thing that they cannot understand, and instinctively attribute it to a general concept, such as the main theme, as long as it is opposed, there is no need to dwell on right and wrong, because you are different, you are different from others, and all negative words will come to you。
The logic is so simple, but there are countless people who believe that it is very embarrassing, no one will think, art itself is diverse, the bad is art, the good is also art, and art will not be swayed by a standard, when you see different art forms, can you think about the difference before making conclusions? People who despise more than are moved, they don't believe in this story, they just don't want this story to appear more among us.
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