This year's Spring Festival, "The Wandering Earth" swept all the social media, and all kinds of praise continued, so that another masterpiece did not get the attention it deserved.
That's right, it's Crazy Aliens.
In recent days, some people have broken the news that "Crazy Alien" has been withdrawn from the North American AMC and other theaters:
Ming Ming booked the New Year's Day a week in advance, but when he arrived at the cinema, he was told by the staff that the screening was canceled.
The sudden withdrawal of the file naturally caused people's dissatisfaction, especially those fans who had been waiting for the movie for a long time.
Speculation has been rife, with some saying that the acrobatics of the monkeys in the film violated U.S. animal protection laws.
But it was soon clarified that the monkeys in the film were animated in CG and did not abuse animals at all.
Source: Douban movie "Crazy Alien"
More netizens believe that the reason why the movie was temporarily withdrawn is because the black American black of "Crazy Alien" is too fierce!
Viewers who have seen the movie should also be impressed by the following plot:
Although the highest civilization on Earth in the film is called Country C, its pronunciation is very similar to Thatrica;
The top leader of country C has hair and dress, how to look like Trump;
A gang of agents treats dressed monkeys as aliens;
Agents specially perform sacred rituals to stuff fecal-stained gene balls into their mouths;
At the critical moment of completing the exchange of gene balls with aliens, the agent angers the aliens because of the selfie, resulting in the failure of the establishment of diplomatic relations;
……
All kinds of plots, no matter how they look, are like in the black United States.
Some people even gave "Crazy Aliens" a two-star rating on Douban, criticizing the irony of the United States in the movie for not being humorous at all.
Image source: Zhihu Answerer @ Independence and Personality
However, some netizens debunked the truth in one sentence:
"Crazy Aliens" satire on the U.S. government is straight to the point, all black to the point!
(Minor spoilers in the section below)
As another masterpiece of director Ning Hao, the third film in the Crazy Series, "Crazy Alien" continues the usual nonsense style of Ning Hao's comedy.
The plot is not difficult to understand:
Geng Hao, played by Huang Bo, is a monkey player in an amusement park, and he and his good brother who sells wine, Dafei, played by Shen Teng, live a depressed life together.
One day, an alien descended from the sky, setting off a terrifying wave for their peaceful lives.
Huang Bo asks the strange-looking alien to play with the monkey, and Da Fei is bent on selling it, while at the same time, people sent by the US government are looking for aliens all over the world.
A farce unfolds...
As a comedy, "Crazy Alien" continues to laugh, even when "The Wandering Earth" brushed the screen, it still gained a high reputation.
But Ning Hao's ambitions clearly didn't stop there.
In the face of nonsense, Ning Hao was still trying to expound something, and he expressed the hope of using an absurd way to dissolve some things that looked tall.
Although he didn't say what the thing was, people who have seen the movie will understand that in a way, he wants to dissolve some of the perception of the United States.
As the most technologically advanced country on the earth, the U.S. government sent representatives to establish diplomatic relations with aliens and exchange gene balls with their own genes, while the United States took a selfie at the most critical moment, angering the aliens... The U.S. government, which searched for the whereabouts of the aliens, found Huang Bo and Shen Teng and asked them to hand over the aliens, but they exchanged the tanuki cat for a prince, treated an acrobatic monkey as an alien, and held a sacred ceremony to put the feces-stained gene balls into their mouths to exchange genes...
These seemingly bitter ironies may be to show that the United States, which is technologically powerful, may not be as "smart" as we think.
And these plot ridicules are just a layer of duckweed floating on the surface of the huge water, and the deeper irony is still hidden under the surface of the water.
Some veteran fans have made a bolder guess:
The alien who lost his head ring and was forced to play like a monkey was the arrogant U.S. government.
Without high-tech technology, they are just monkeys who are being played, and they are no better than us.
The subtle actions and certain lines hidden in the film are the best portrayal of the US government:
Detaining people at every turn;
Fly to countries around the world, thinking you are saving the planet;
Including the mouths of American agents, the words "Asian Yankees" often appear...
In connection with reality, we can feel that the arrangement of the film is not empty.
After the release of "Crazy Alien", word of mouth has been polarized.
Some of those who criticize the film feel that the film is too "insulting" to the United States, and it is a kind of Q-style spiritual victory method.
But in fact, these "insults" are compared with the deliberate ugliness of the Chinese in the history of American film, which is simply a small witch.
Those who are familiar with American movies will know that many American movies will carry some plots and lines of black Chinese.
Screenshot source: "Infernal Walker"
Screenshot source: Fatal Emergency
If some lines are only for the needs of the plot, then these movies are naked discrimination against China.
Last year, in marvel's first Chinese superhero "Shangqi", the protagonist's father was named Fu Manchu.
Fu Manchu's image, if you know it a little better, you know that he was once a representative of the image of insulting China.
Bearded, small eyes, looks very sinister and cunning.
In the 1960s, this image was flipped out by Hollywood directors and put on the movie screen, and in just a dozen years, dozens of Fu Manchu films were filmed, including "Fu Manchu", "Fu Manchu's Resurrection", and "Fu Manchu's Eyes".
Source: Douban movie "Fu Manchu's Castle"
In almost every one of these films, the good white scientists end up defeating Fu Manchu, who is trying to destroy the world.
Finally, under the protest of the Chinese, this image was finally banned.
However, now, this image will be put on the screen by Marvel again...
Source: Marvel movie "Shangqi"
Coincidentally, the BBC's comedy "Dream Witch" launched last year tells the story of london life of three Chinese girls.
The images of these Chinese girls and the words they say are full of prejudice against Chinese people.
Jackie, a girl who loves swear words, is good at performing the bed call of prostitutes from all over Asia, and is angry about her Chinese background, saying to the camera: "We are Chinese girls in London, bitches." ”
He added: "I'm not interested in Chinese, and I don't sleep with Chinese." ”
The girl Fufu spoke pidgin English and became interested in the landlord's dog, blinking and saying, "Is it delicious?" ”
Source: Douban movie "Dream Witch"
These films either starkly or implicitly discriminate against China.
But whenever Chinese stand up to express their dissatisfaction, many compatriots will stand up to defend the film and accuse the Chinese people of being too glassy!
And now, the withdrawal of "Crazy Alien" in North America seems to indicate:
The glass heart of the Americans is far more fragile than ours.
How do you think about the withdrawal of North American AMC and other theaters from "Crazy Alien"? Under the question, a highly praised answer commented:
The phrase that people use to defend a chinese insult movie is not suitable for an insult movie, but it is very suitable for "Crazy Alien" - we are only criticizing the US government, not insulting the American people. (from Zhihu user @Soningga Zhang)
The U.S. government, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be as receptive to criticism as we think.
On the contrary, the act of retracting the screening is telling us:
"Crazy Aliens" has indeed pierced the heart of the US government.