At the 60th Golden Horse Awards, "Old Fox" directed by Xiao Yaquan won the best film, which is already the old yellow calendar.
At that time, many people felt that it was because "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" was ignored in Taiwan, the story was not new, the box office was not profitable, and it was not worthy of awards. However, later, with the blessing of the mainland box office, the salted fish turned over. Some people think that if the Golden Horse is re-awarded, the winner should be "Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere".
However, on April 23, the results of the 5th Taiwan Film Critics Association Awards were announced, and "Old Fox" once again won the best picture, director, and screenplay, and the film soundtrack Hou Zhijian won the Special Commendation Award. And "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" only Ruan Jingtian won the Best Actor Award, which is also Wu Kangren, who won the Golden Horse Best Actor, because of the Malaysian film he starred in, could not participate in this selection.
This is strange, why is "The Old Fox" so strong and repeatedly recognized? "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" has a hot box office bonus in the mainland, but it still can't win awards, what's the matter? Is "The Old Fox" really that strong?
After watching the film, I found that "Old Fox" is really good and worth savoring. In recent years, there is really no such work as "Old Fox" in Taiwanese films, and its excellence lies in its ability to show Taiwan's great history and Taiwan's great social outlook, which is an extremely rare film genre in Taiwan in recent years.
Although the story is small, it does a small incision, a large section, and a peep in the tube. It's obviously a small story, but it's an epic performance.
In the Taiwan Film Critics Association Awards, in the two awards of Best Film and Best Director, "Old Fox" won with an overwhelming number of votes in the first round of voting. The judges unanimously agreed that "Old Fox" has made achievements in all aspects such as the construction of the script, the details of the times, and the discussion of issues.
If you compare it with a movie, "Old Fox" has a lot of Jia Zhangke's movie, but it is more timeless and tasteful than Jia Kechang's works. Chief Jia's films are always rough, not like movies, more like documentaries, packing social reality directly into the film.
Many of Jia Zhangke's movies are not suitable for watching now, but are suitable for watching ten years later. Now when I watch Jia Zhangke's movies ten years ago, I will have a strong sense of nostalgia. Watching "Xiao Wu" and "Ren Yaoyao" will dream back to the 1990s, and watching "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" and "Heaven is Destined", you will dream back to the 2000s.
"Old Fox" shows Taiwan in 1989, and from this movie, we can evaluate the historical appearance of Taiwan at a turning point around 1990.
If you take Jia Zhangke as a direct comparison, it seems a little jumpy, in fact, it can be compared to "The Long Season".
Watching "The Long Season", everyone will be very interested in the story in the film at first, and they will very much want to know who the real murderer is and will follow the case. But looking at it, it is no longer important to suddenly find out who the real murderer is, the fate of the characters in the play is more important, and the changes of the times are more important. The points that deserve more attention are those related to layoffs, the Northeast, and the social transition. Autumn in the Northeast is very short, and it seems that I have just taken off my short sleeves and am about to wear a down jacket, and autumn has passed in the blink of an eye. However, the "season" of "The Long Season" is about the "autumn" of the Northeast, and it was the autumn of the 1990s, because of the wave of layoffs, the originally short autumn became extraordinarily long in memory, so the title of the film is "The Long Season". If you think about it, the whole plot takes place in the fall. The Northeast in autumn is the focus of the plot, and it really doesn't matter who the real murderer is, and even if she knows the real murderer, she is very sympathetic, but she doesn't want the real murderer to be her.
Atmosphere > plot, and "The Long Season" does it. "The Old Fox" is a weak version of "The Long Season" and it is also well done, so it won the award and it is worth it. "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" is just a legendary story, lacking the penetration of the times, and losing to "Old Fox" is not unjust at all.
"Old Fox" is such a movie, and the audience will pay attention to the growth of the child in the film, hoping that he can buy a new house with his father and live a better life. Later, he met the "old fox" and hoped that he could grow up, but he would not be able to learn badly. Later, I suddenly found out that what this film is about is not a question of how a child should choose at all, but a question of how Taiwan should choose, because the story happened at that critical point in time.
To the left or to the right, that's the question.
In order to fully understand the truth behind "The Old Fox", we must understand the historical trend of Taiwan around 1990. Just like that, in order to fully understand "The Long Season", we must understand the problem of the wave of layoffs in the Northeast, and we must know that the Northeast has changed from the "eldest son of the republic" to the "outcast" of reform, and has quickly realized the transformation of the country's "leader" into a "depression of reform". Investment is not enough in Shanhaiguan, and the Northeast is facing a dilemma of development. "The Long Season" shows the sadness and joy of the people in the environment through the form of a drama, which is a rare drama in recent years, and it is definitely worth watching.
The same is true of "Old Fox", if you want to understand the movie, you must understand a little about the history of Taiwan's economic development.
The term "Asian Tigers", which is rarely mentioned now, was a very popular term many years ago, referring to the four regions of East Asia's rapid economic development from the mid-to-late 1960s to the early 1990s, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore.
As far as Taiwan is concerned, as one of the "Asian Tigers," the 30 years of rapid economic development were basically the 30 years in which Chiang led the economy; from 1964 he served as vice minister and minister of the "Ministry of National Defense" and began to grasp real power, and later he served as vice president of the "Executive Yuan" and chairman of the "International Council for Economic Cooperation and Development," and began to dominate Taiwan's economy. Until Chiang's death in 1988, Taiwan faced a new choice.
The story of "Old Fox" takes place in 1989, exactly one year after Xiao Jiang's death. History is about to enter the 1990s. Taiwan has entered the Lee Teng-hui era in an all-round way.
Taiwan's history took a major turn precisely during the Lee Teng-hui era, and this has directly led to Taiwan's current stumbles.
Chiang Jr. has been in power for more than 20 years, most of the time it has been a dictatorship, but in his later years, he suddenly lifted the "martial law" order and vigorously promoted Taiwan's version of reform and opening up, which suddenly made his image become a positive and enlightened leader. He is also one of the few leaders in history who has been able to regain his image, and he has done it. In terms of historical positioning, the further time passes, the more it will be canonized.
For Taiwan, with the death of Chiang Jr. and the 30-year cycle of the economic miracle on the horizon, Taiwan inevitably faces a new choice. To the left, or to the right, that's the question. With the arrival of the 30 cycle, the endogenous driving force of Taiwan's economy is insufficient, but fortunately, it coincides with the mainland's reform and opening up in 1992 and vigorously attracts foreign investment. Taiwan has completed industrial upgrading, moved its local manufacturing industry to the mainland, and continued to rely on blood-sucking the mainland, and continued its rapid development for nearly 10 years.
However, for the people on the island, the transition period came earlier, and the GDP brought by the blood sucking from the mainland has been subordinated to capital and is no longer related to ordinary people, and the real transformation has already arrived since the death of Chiang, and transformation has never been an easy task for ordinary people. This is true of Fan Wei, Qin Hao, and Chen Minghao in "The Long Season", and the same is true of Bai Runyin, Liu Guanting, and Chen Muyi in "The Old Fox".
Liu Guanting's father chooses to go to the right, he is a conservative person, simple and kind, not deviant, and follows the society step by step. The old fox played by Chen Muyi chooses to go to the left, actively seeking business opportunities, taking human inequality as the biggest profit channel, and not being affectionate or face-to-face, all just to make money.
One left and one right, sandwiched between the little boy Bai Runyin, was also the choice faced by Taiwan at that time. Should I go to the left, or to the right?
Is it to be kind, or to be extremely utilitarian? Is it only for oneself or is it for others? Is it for money, or is it for humanity?
"Old Fox" takes the little boy played by Bai Runyin as the protagonist, making him face a dilemma on the road of life, whether to follow his father to the right, choose a conservative life, and become a "failure". Or follow the "old fox", choose to take advantage of human inequality, to capture all ways to make money, and step on others on the road to success.
The ending of "Old Fox" is to give a compromise answer, choose a moderate route, and when he grows up, Bai Runyin not only succeeds and becomes a new generation of "Old Fox", but also retains the beauty of his heart, and does not completely turn to evil, this is a very speculative and kitsch ending, which is more utilitarian. Such an ending is not good, probably because the director is quite satisfied with the current Taiwan.
In fact, the current Taiwan is not the same as Taiwan during the period of the Asian Tigers. The film chooses such an ending, probably the audience will think it is better, but for Taiwan in reality, that choice has led to the decline of Taiwan today. At present, Taiwan, like today's Western Europe, has been economically developed, and under the backdrop of the rise of the cutting-edge economy, it has shown a relatively strong sense of postmodernity in the way of not advancing or retreating, and it has also shown an obvious sense of decay. There is a lack of motivation for development, and the people are generally lazy, too comfortable, and lack of positive self-motivation.
Even if we compare it with provincial-level units, if Taiwan's economic volume is placed in the current map of Greater China, Taiwan will be squeezed out of the top 10. In this case, many Taiwanese people have a sense of loss and are unwilling. Of course, some people will blame the mainland for taking the wrong medicine.
Commenting on "Old Fox" is to experience the psychological choice process of what the people should do during the transition period of Taiwanese society, and the interpretation of this film is still quite good, which is also a very rare work in Taiwanese movies in recent years. The older generation of aggressive people, represented by the "old fox", is aging. The generation of the Mesozoic Era, which was dominated by "dads", was content with the status quo and went with the flow. Where should the new generation of Taiwan Aberdeen go?
"Old Fox" chose the mean, which not only pleases the audience, but also cuts to the current reality in Taiwan. In fact, Taiwan has been making choices at present, and has not been firm in its own path, and is still swaying from side to side. It is really heartbreaking that they are even swayed by ideology, that they are closed in the "Cold War mentality" and that they have not come out, and that they are almost crippled.
Relatively speaking, "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" is very simple, it is a legendary story, it is the legendary experience of a legendary killer, it is a movie about "people", it lacks enough deep meaning, and it is dwarfed by "Old Fox", which is about "things", and the value of ideological transmission is deeper. "Everywhere" was born at the wrong time, and it was natural that it met "Old Fox" and did not win Best Picture.
Of course, it's not about how good "Old Fox" is. On the contrary, it's not my thing, I don't like this film very much, at least the actors don't act well, except for Chen Muyi, who plays the "old fox", the other two leading actors Bai Runyin and Liu Guanting are not doing well. Especially Bai Runyin's children, his three-white eyes, play every minute, this kind of face belongs to the unique arrogance of rich children, and the eyes are on the door of the brain to say this kind of person, this kind of person is very unsuitable for playing the children of poor families, no matter how he acts, he is only suitable for playing the arrogant and arrogant rich children. Probably because the movie wants his unyielding eyes, I think they are all children anyway, and they are immature and written on their faces, so they will not be too out of line. But for me, it's just too out of line.
Relatively speaking, I still prefer "Removing the Three Evils Around the Corner", which is simple and rude, and it's over, where do you want to engage in so many subtle words. Well.
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