Friday's Words: In the vast grassland, the camera is far away and slowly tracking, a little girl leads the little boy to find a heroic event , Naadam. The story reaches its climax in the search, so "Naadam" has both explicit and implicit meanings, and it becomes a symbol that can baptize human nature. And this journey of searching becomes the process of self-awakening and self-redemption of the little boy. Although it is a children's film, because of the themes it contains, it goes beyond the children's world and enters a common theme of mankind.
In Search of Naadam, the story is as simple and uncomplicated as those two children. The tone of the film is simple, the story is on a line, slowly moving forward, but it is even this simplicity that attracts us adults who are hurrying in the city. What is the charm of the film? Because of its innocence, once the lights of the theater are dimmed: children, blue sky, pure eyes, flashing on the screen, the child's heart that has been buried by the tediousness of life will emerge, and a pair of eyes in the dark night is not only for the film but also for their own childhood; but also because it contains the theme - searching.
From the complicated city and the lost teenager, to the vast grassland, the childish children's voice, from the clutter to the simple, the audience walks out of the theater after a hundred minutes of searching with the child, and what should be more deeply reflected should be that they may ask themselves what I am looking for.
This article explores three aspects, following the development of the story, and dissecting the model of loss-seeking-redemption contained in the film. According to the transformation of the scene, the psychological changes of the characters and the hints of the lens language, the theme of the film is vividly revealed and analyzed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > First, lost, in the city</h1>
At the beginning of the story, the camera is shaking in this complicated place of the Internet café. Internet addicted teenager Zhao Xing, lost in the online game, sent to the juvenile detention center several times, can not save this heart that should be innocent and full of sunshine, but at this time he is full of boredom with the world at a young age, and he has been unable to appreciate the beauty and fun of the real world.
The film's choice of Internet addicted teenagers as the protagonist can be said to have a deep meaning. This is a common phenomenon and a problem that many children and parents have encountered. But the film is not just about the superficial story. Everyone knows that the story must be like life, but it cannot be copied from life without difference, and if the story is clear at a glance, then it will have no depth or meaning. Some people say that "In Search of Naadam" is a film that can leave the framework of children's films and find a lost heart. That is to say, it is not only about an Internet addicted teenager who is lost on the Internet, but also about people lost in the city on another level.
We know that the lens is the basic language of the film, and different shots will make the film achieve different effects. Through the hints of the language of the camera, we understand the hidden parts of the film. At the beginning of the story, in the Internet café, the composition of this part of the movie is chaotic and the lines are blurred, what does this mean? It's about unreality. In the dim light, the human face cannot be seen clearly, just the outline of a person, which shows his decadent and excited emotions in the enclosed space. The camera is like an outsider's eyes, pushing straight into the heart of the character. We know that another aspect of the film is to show people who have lost themselves in the city.
Cities are places where crowds gather but resist crowds, and although they contain millions of bodies, they drown millions of hearts. Although it can make us no longer lonely, we find ourselves more and more lonely. Noise can only be used to kill time, not to fill real time. The crowd, increasingly cold and illusory, walks through the crowd as if moving like a black dot in the desert.
Back to our film, yes, we're talking about searching, but in these intricate streets, there's the web of relationships that you can't see, touch, and is more complex than the Web, and the ever-changing network of relationships that you want to look for, but you don't know what to seek. The same is true of the Internet addicted teenager Zhao Xing, who has never even thought of searching, he is unwilling to redeem himself, and he is willing to fall into it. This is sadness, this is the real confusion and do not know where to go. Many people in the city don't ask themselves what I'm looking for and where I'm looking.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two, search, exile on the prairie</h1>
The scene switches here, the storyline gradually unfolds, and Zhao Xing is "exiled" to the sparsely populated prairie by the juvenile control center. The shift in location extends the conflict of the story to another level. What is shown on the screen is the contradiction and conflict of whether The Internet addicted teenager Zhao Xing can escape the savannah, in fact, something deeper is hinting: how people return to nature and find the real lost human nature. Perhaps people have been far away from nature for too long, alienated in the city, and once they are put into nature, they are at a loss. The story is cleverly arranged in an escape contest between a young boy and nature.
The language of the camera switch tells us to get lost in the city and find it in nature. Internet addicts come from a chaotic, bleak, intricate metropolis to this empty grassland, where there are no streets but the sky, no overpasses, only the reckless horizon, no lights and pop music, only the deep night sky and the stars. He immediately felt a kind of pure boredom. For him at this time, it may really feel like he is being put in prison. When Qiqige asked him again and again why, Zhao Xing would only use one word to express his feelings: boredom.
Adults sitting in front of the screen, seeing this long grassland, the blue sky, the free horse, and hearing its childlike voice, perhaps everyone will feel that this is simply an idyllic pastoral. It arouses our yearning for beauty, at least in front of the screen, we are intoxicated. But Zhao Xing, who was in the midst of it, could not understand this. To be precise, he cannot communicate with nature. In this empty place, he felt depressed. The contrast between the familiarity and indifference to beauty, we can truly see the distortion of his mind.
He began to flee, using his desire to join Naadam, and he planned an "escape" of his own. Perhaps when He is plotting in his heart, God will smile. On the surface, Zhao Xing uses his own personality, and when the path he is looking for is less than halfway through, his personality has become the spiritual leader of the Internet addicted teenager. Together, they began to search for the hero's grand gathering, Naadam. It also began Zhao Xing's road of self-redemption.
Here, the transformation of the scene indicates the sudden turn of the story. The city and the steppe became a symbol.
Decadence in the city is alienation in society. The film chooses the loss of the teenager, which can better reflect that this problem has been in danger. Most of the rest of the time is the purification process of man in nature, from boredom to beginning to accept, until the final successful redemption, and finally shake hands with nature, man finds the home of his soul in nature. One level of the film tells us about the "drug rehabilitation" process of Internet addicted teenagers; the other level tells the process of nature and people from the diaphragm to the return. It can be said that it is a film full of expectations and optimism, and the story is arranged that people can eventually find their own hearts in nature, after leaving the city.
When Zhao Xing and Qiqige hold hands to find in the prairie, we as the audience will be touched by that scene, qiqige, a child who grew up in the grassland, simple and pure without a trace of impurities, leads Zhao Xing's lost soul to find his hometown in this sparsely populated, vast and empty nature. If we freeze this picture, we may give humanity hope that our long-numbed hearts can still be saved.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, redemption, distant Naadam</h1>
Where is Naadam? Perhaps like Kafka's "castle", it is never far away and can never be entered.
Castles are everywhere, and where will Naadam be? When the audience's hearts followed the two children for a few days, eager to see the end, they never saw the grand event that Qiqi had always said. And the film has already cleverly changed the search for "Naadam" to the search for heroes.
Qiqige has led Zhao Xing to embark on the road of finding heroes.
When Zhao Xing once again entered the Internet café, he pointed to the characters of the online game and said to him, This is the "hero". Qiqi immediately said, your hero is a fake, we are looking for a real hero. Zhao Xing has always been promoted by his trust, simplicity and persistence. In this process, we found that the camera has a lot of close-up moments, the facial expression of Zhao Xing's often guilty face, his personality eyes, their mutual smiles, and the tears that Zhao Xing left behind...
These close-ups are carefully hinting at us that they are getting closer to the hero step by step. Zhao Xing is gradually being inspired, led by this child who grew up in nature and has no worldly contamination to find his true self.
Hero, gradually pushing the plot into a climax. When Qiqi's father appears, everything is solved, and perhaps there is some "deliberateness" in the story here, and it turns out that the hero that Qiqige has always worshipped is a disabled father. Qiqi's mother said that those who can overcome difficulties and overcome themselves are heroes. Qiqige has always said that Zhao Xing is also a hero, because he has overcome himself, in the face of difficulties, under the temptation of Internet addiction, Zhao Xing finally found himself and dared to face himself.
In fact, each of us has a hero in our hearts, which allows us to examine ourselves, overcome the lost, decadent self, and start life again. The ending transforms the film from virtual to real, but there is still open space for the audience to think.
Naadam, in the film, is actually a blurred concept. It is a symbol of faith and represents our ideals. Because everyone is constantly looking for it, but they are looking for different things. And the two children are there looking for heroes. What are we looking for there? The film reveals to us not only the meaning of hero, but also the focus on love. The story tells us that Zhao Xing's decadence and loss are mainly due to the lack of love. Zhao Xing's parents are busy at work, he has been ignored, has been in a position of lack of love, so he is in an extreme way to attract the attention of his parents. The lack of love is also an important issue of contemporary times, when the film shows a search for a motif, on the way to Zhao Xing's growth, we see the root of his loss and his courage to redeem himself.
For Naadam, it became Naadam in everyone's heart. You can go there to find heroes who have overcome yourself; you can find the power of love; you can also look for the faith that you have lost in your life. Friday Literature believes that it is the peach blossom source in the human heart, the unpolluted, natural human soul place. Therefore, Naadam is not far away, but in our strong hearts.
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"In Search of Naadam" is such a film full of love and determination, although it also has flaws, the immaturity of the camera, the far-fetched at the end of the story, etc., but it still does not affect it to become a good movie. As a children's film, it does not have many children's themes and those films, it is a sincere story of two children, without exaggeration or embellishment. It shows the children its own simplicity. But it also moves adults because what it preaches will never go out of style: dare to face the hurt heart, to overcome yourself, to find your true self. This is the Naadam that humanity is looking for together.
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