White cooks and stowaways from China staged a story of Yu Boya and Zhong Zi in the wild lands of the United States.
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There is an aesthetic called neoclassicism, which arose in France in the second half of the 18th century, and the "new" of neoclassicism lies in borrowing the themes and forms of expression of ancient heroism, directly depicting major events and heroic figures in the real struggle, improving and simplifying traditional works, using many new materials and processes, but also retaining the elegant and dignified noble temperament of classical works.
"The First Cow" can also be called neoclassicism in the lens language, picture performance, slow and powerful moving shots, full of allegorical composition, and do their best to imitate the techniques of natural light and shadow, all present a kind of original and classic beauty, although this beauty is not ostentatious, but very attractive, introverted, and even religious symbols, of course, also need the audience to slowly taste.
The entry point of the film is very interesting, during the development of the United States, neither the oil in "Blood Is Coming", nor the gold in "Gold Rush", nor the fur in "The Revenant", but a cow that can produce milk.
The white cook, on the recommendation of Chinese stowaways, started a pastry business, and in order to improve the taste, the two joined forces to sneak into the farmer's house late at night, massage the cows, and steal milk. Milk, which originally had no oil gold value, reminded the people in the market of the taste of their hometown, and the people who bought pastries were endless. Because of this, white cooks and Chinese stowaways continue to join forces to steal milk, resulting in being discovered by the farmer, chasing all the way to the edge of the cliff, although escaping the farmer's pursuit, but finally dying in this wild and full of desire and temptation.
Two people lie side by side, dying peacefully, just like the texture presented in the film, on the surface there is no shock, but in fact it is full of death-like silence, burying people's desires and sins for money and power in the ground, and a hundred years later they see the sky again, and have turned into two white bones.
The people in the film seem very bulky, even a little sluggish, like symbols controlled by money, hands and feet bound by desire, like the walking dead exploring the new world.
You can think of milk as fur, oil, gold, and even human blood, and in the wilderness there is no legal constraint, let alone moral restraint, and some are just for survival, in order to get more wealth, to create a bloody tragedy of cannibalism.
In the face of the invasion of capital, human nature has become very small, very weak, white cooks, Chinese stowaways steal milk is nothing more than to make delicious pastries, improve business, sell good prices, but eventually died at the hands of farmers who own milk, their white bones are also integrated with this land of cannibalism, which shows how many human tragedies there are.
Right, where did you come from, where you go, see everything in the world, and realize the reincarnation of the world.
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The director's style is very personal, testing the patience of the audience.