A pastoral hymn as warm as water
Introduction: There is no distinction between good and bad in our way of life, as long as it suits us, it is naturally good.
Based on the novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a father and daughter living in an urban forest park, and a small mistake they make makes them discovered, and their lives have changed dramatically.
"Leave No Trace" as a whole presents a strong pastoral tendency, the film's eyes focus on personal self-choice, is the choice of personal life, people have the freedom to determine their own living environment, not reinforced concrete is people's destination, attributed to pastoral pastoralism is a simple rural life ideal of intimate coexistence with nature, the word pastoralism comes from a mountain that was called Arkadi in ancient Greece is the mountainous area of Akadi, It is believed that the inhabitants there live in a state of purity as peaceful with the earth and its creatures, as in the Garden of Eden. As an environmental fantasy of modern times, pastoralism has often indulged in a naïve nostalgia, but it still contributes to the formation of an ecological morality that is cooperative rather than dominant, harmonious rather than personal, and man is part of nature rather than superior to nature. That is, to become a part of nature, in "Leave No Trace", the father has been trying to integrate into nature, to soothe the pain left by himself in the war, on the other hand, this also reflects from the side of an escape mentality, escape from the modern society full of barriers and pressures, in an anti-modern way to reflect the various drawbacks of modern society, these escapees are regarded as aliens, the outside world to make all kinds of malicious speculations, people seem to be unwilling to believe that someone will be willing to take the initiative to leave the material life, And return to the countryside and nature.
"Leave No Trace" tells us about a praiseworthy father-daughter relationship, the two are full of love, support each other's life, and they are not willing to be separated, but when in the end, the opinions of the two are contrary, the father silently accepts the daughter's desire to return to society, on the one hand, the serious ptsd makes it impossible for him to continue to live in the noisy and noisy modern society, and he loves his daughter deeply and does not want to separate, on the other hand, he realizes that he is so tied to his daughter, And for her to decide the fate is wrong, therefore, even if both do not want to separate, but both have their own necessary reasons, which provides us with a topic that can be discussed, whether parents have the right to decide the fate of their children, whether they can use a bundled way to build a family, so that blood relations have a meaning of shackles, in the Western world's looser family relations, many adults leave home at the age of eighteen, in the ancient influence of marine civilization to venture outside, And through their own efforts to live, parents and children are not bound to each other,even if they are not willing to be separated from their children, but also enough to respect the child's independent thoughts, to use a more reasonable way to properly handle each other's relationship.
Director Debra Grannick with its female excellent characteristics, for the film to build a tender like water, eloquent narrative rhythm, although the film around the word escape, but there is no escape and being chased of the rhythm of excitement, the direction of the story is natural, and has a full pre-laying, in the clue laying, good at using symbolic symbols, such as the beginning of the film, the father and daughter on the way into the city to find the necklace, the daughter is very fond of this necklace, from then on, Worn on the body from beginning to end, this necklace is an artifact that does not exist in the natural environment, but also a sign of modern civilization, the daughter's love for the necklace can both hint at the daughter's yearning for modern society, but also can clearly show the difference between nature and society, which is a clever application of symbols, in addition, there is a metaphor for the seahorse, as we all know, the seahorse is the only animal on the earth that has offspring by males, director Debra Grannick to express, The relationship between father and daughter, also father and mother, is therefore full of love for the daughter, unwilling to separate from her, the symbol of the seahorse appears twice in the film, once at the beginning of the film, the other time after the daughter has the consciousness of returning to society, the context of these two times can be described as very different, when the daughter's independent consciousness awakens, as a qualified father, you should be full of respect for your daughter and encourage her to do what she wants to do.
The male protagonist of the film is a retired veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (Ptsd), the film does not tell his life, what he has experienced, he has the idea of leaving the world, and to leave no trace, even the mobile phone is not willing to have, bent on cutting off all contact with the outside world, permanently living in the deep forest of no one, we can only infer from these characteristics, he dedicated everything to the country, but what he saw and felt on the battlefield, He became afraid of the torrent of steel or the human race itself, and because of this, he reflected on it, and finally decided to escape from normal society. The director's perspective on these veterans naturally has her purpose, whether the government agency should establish a correct attitude towards this group, to correctly resettle them, a group of people who have contributed to the country and risked their lives, but in the end they are eager to form a miniature utopian world of antimatter civilization to escape the hustle and bustle and fight, which is a wordless irony for the US government, they can not even properly resettle those who defend themselves. Getting a nature-loving person to do logging, and letting a veteran of defending the country have the idea of staying away from society, is undoubtedly a huge failure for the relevant institutions.
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Public account team: Drama and Film Studies, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
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