Some time ago, the news of the Oscar nomination of "Young You" swept the whole network.
Some people are surprised by this, some people think it is too prestigious, and some people are full of doubts.
But in any case, this is the chinese film that has won the best international film after 18 years after the hero in 2003.
In the end, can it go one step further and win the final jackpot?
It's still incredibly exciting.
However, this is no easy task.
The award has always been highly competitive, and this year the number of films selected by various countries and regions reached a record 93.
After layers of screening, the last four remaining competitors are not vegetarians.
Uncle Fish is very optimistic about one of them.
Its strength cannot be underestimated, and it should be the biggest roadblock on the road to "Young You" to win the championship.
Today, Uncle Fish will introduce this masterpiece to you -
Collective
Collective
Collective is a Romanian documentary.
Douban scored 7.7, and the number of scorers did not exceed 1,000, which looked unremarkable.
However, it is hotly discussed on the external network and the evaluation is extremely high.
On IMDB, it stabilized at 8.3 with nearly five thousand people scoring it.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 99% freshness, amazing.
He has participated in the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and the St. Denis Film Festival, and won various awards.
It was eventually promoted to Best International Film and Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars.
Both awards do not contain "moisture" and are full of gold content.
Only one film was previously nominated for both awards (the 92nd edition of HoneyLand).
It was also the first Romanian film in history to be nominated for an Oscar.
In summary, Uncle Fish feels that it is a hidden big BOSS.
And when the uncle seriously watched the whole film.
The idea became more determined.
At that time, even if it "upsets" and wins two awards at the same time, it will not be surprising at all.
Because this is indeed a masterpiece that cannot be ignored.
As a documentary, it truly, objectively and calmly records an event -
Together, events that changed the whole country.
Fast forward to October 30, 2015.
In a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania called "Koletsev".
When the band roared on stage and the young people swung wildly offstage.
No one realizes that danger is looming.
At first, it was just a little bit of Mars.
The long period of hyperactivity paralyzed the brain, and many people saw it, but they were not moved.
Fire can't take care of you.
The fire spread rapidly and soon turned into a fire that covered the entire site.
People who realized that things were not going well then scattered and fled.
But in a small space, doing so is bound to lead only to tragic trampling accidents.
For a time, the scene was unbearable.
Ultimately, the disaster resulted in 27 young people dying on the spot and injuring 180 others.
Such a tragedy is something that no one wants to see.
But at this point, the most important thing is to complete the aftermath, appeasement and accountability, and do a good job of reflection and prevention.
That is what every victim and his family, every Romanian citizen, really needs.
However, the development of events is rushing in the opposite direction.
Scandal and insider, because this incident was completely exposed in the sun.
The protagonist is a journalist named Katarin.
Initially, after the fire, the Romanian government vowed to guarantee medical conditions for the wounded.
"We can provide all medical services."
"No worse than Germany."
But Katarin found that during the treatment process, injured people continued to die from bacterial infections.
In just a few months, another 37 people were added to the death list for the fire.
The family could do nothing about it, and Katarin's conscience was questioned.
He then led his team into an investigation.
Since the cause of death was a bacterial infection, Katarin decided to start the investigation with medical disinfectants.
Unexpectedly, a little investigation, a big problem was found.
In Romania, most hospitals use disinfectants produced by the country's Jose pharmaceutical plant.
At first, the investigation team did not want to suspect the disinfectants.
With such a wide range of products, if there is a problem, then you have to?
However, the test results hit everyone in the face:
The active ingredient is too low, and the disinfectant of this brand is diluted tenfold.
With further field visits, filming and forensics, contact informants.
Katarin and his party determined that the inferior disinfectant was approved by the boss of Jose Pharmaceutical.
After some effort, the results of the investigation were written into a report and published, which caused a sensation in an instant.
Surprisingly, however, the government's attitude has been a great disappointment.
The Minister of Health repeatedly denied it at the press conference and made a big fuss -
"More than 95% of the tests on disinfectants have yielded satisfactory results."
"I concluded that the patient was not in danger."
The truth is that there are still people dying.
Katarin had to carry out the investigation to the end.
Informants play a role again.
It was admitted that he had been submitting reports to the government on the risks of disinfectants since 2008, but had never been heeded.
This proves that the government has always been aware of inferior disinfectants.
Meanwhile, an assistant to Katarin discovered a new clue.
Jose Pharmaceuticals has been paying bribes.
By paying bribes, it succeeded in buying off most of the specialists and doctors in charge of the entire health care system.
This explains why hospitals are willing to buy and use inferior disinfectants, and in turn why the government is flaunting its rhetoric and hitting Tai Chi.
Just like the Hong Kong translation of the film, "Medical Officer Complicity".
In Romania's entire medical system, doctors, officials, and businessmen are entangled and use the public's trust to eat "human blood steamed buns".
The whole medical system, rotten and smelly.
What killed those young people was not a virus, nor was it an inferior disinfectant.
It's the vested interests who stand behind the scenes and make a lot of money.
At the same time, the media has lost its due regulatory responsibility.
One particularly magical point is:
Katarin is indeed a journalist.
But he is a sports journalist who works for sports newspapers.
In the end, the inaction of all parties in society requires a sports newspaper to stand up and correct everything.
"When the media compromises with policymakers, decision-makers abuse the trust of citizens."
Katarin gives a refined summary of the whole absurd tragedy.
Maybe you think that after someone has exposed everything, the next job is relatively simple.
The trial of Jose's pharmaceutical boss, according to the list of bribes, was exhausted.
However, it turned out that it was still naïve to think so.
A very frightening scene suddenly happened-
Jose's pharmaceutical boss died suddenly in a car accident.
There is no accountability, let alone a list of bribes.
The film doesn't reveal a conspiracy theory here (though Katarin believes it must not be an accident), it just happened.
The plot that only appears in the feature film actually exists.
Can't help but take a breath of cool air.
Fortunately, Katarin's efforts were not for nothing.
The specific report is true, and the Romanian people are by no means blind.
Amid the outcry, the Minister of Health resigned.
The new health minister, who took office interim, was a thoroughly technical official, detached from the decadent bureaucracy.
The film also focuses more on him here.
As a man of insight, he desperately wants to change the situation of a muddy mess.
But the truth is extremely cruel.
The first thing he thought of was to immediately remove all the products of Jose Pharmaceuticals.
But his subordinates said it was not in accordance with the procedure and violated the law.
The new minister was puzzled:
"In any healthy society, a product that is harmful is immediately removed from the shelves."
Shouldn't this be taken for granted?
Greater difficulties lie ahead.
According to the follow-up investigation, in fact, the tragedy is not only a problem of disinfectants, but also the sanitary conditions and management of hospitals.
While the new minister is anxious to deal with various official duties, the scandal in the hospital continues to be exposed.
Burn patients will be covered by white sheets because of their appearance problems.
Not enough beds will leave two people crammed into the same bed.
The wounds were not cleaned up in time, and maggots even grew...
These are also the products of the complicity of the medical officers.
Because in Romania, the leaders and supervisors of many hospitals are not actually professional medical personnel.
Just because they are part of the bureaucracy, holding positions in different political parties and holding power.
Therefore, the hospital is regarded as a "fat difference", which can not only embezzle the huge amount of money allocated from above, but also accept bribes from profiteers.
What a cool word!
Faced with such a situation, the new minister knew that it was only possible to prevent it from happening from the root.
So he drafted an emergency bill before the next round of elections:
Hospital directors are required not to hold positions within the party.
Minimize collusion between medical officers.
However, the future is still uncertain.
In the new elections, the Social Democrats, who resigned in the fire, were re-elected.
The new minister will be replaced immediately, and how long will his bloody bill remain?
No one knows.
In recent years, the "Romanian New Wave" has swept in, making Romanian cinema a place in world cinema.
The courage to photograph the bloody facts is its greatest feature.
The cannes-winning "Reliable Without a Doctor" is about the modern doctor-patient relationship.
The Palme d'Or-winning "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" is filmed on the issue of female abortion.
Including the recent Berlin Golden Bear Award for "Unlucky Sex, Crazy Yellow Film".
"Unlucky Sex, Crazy Yellow Film"
Although the name is full of gimmicks, it actually focuses on the living conditions of people under the epidemic.
The timeliness is remarkable and the reality is profound.
This is very worthy of our reference.
Although in recent years, China has also emerged a lot of good realism movies.
But it's not enough.
With film, we should stop being silent and hear more voices.
In "Collective", another line is shown - the group portrait of the victims.
The most impressive was a girl named Adina.
She was badly burned in the fire and left disabled.
But there is no self-pity, self-abandonment.
Instead, he bravely accepted everything, put away his broken heart, and transformed it into art.
Through wonderful works of art, insist on letting the outside world see yourself.
This is really too much of a spiritual force, and it also gives us enough thinking.
In the present, face the problem, face the injustice.
It's not about not doing that silent majority.
But in many cases.
The silent should not have been the majority.