La guerre du feu Era: 1981 / Country: Canada, France, USA / Director: Jean-Jacques Arnold / Starring: Everette McGill, Ron Pullman, Nicolas Cady
The animals in The Jungle Book call fire the "red flower," which destroys everything it touches and puts humans at the top of the food chain. In ancient times, when ru mao drank blood, apes retained the fire through fire sources produced in nature (such as lightning to ignite trees) and used it to heat, illuminate, drive wild beasts, and roast food. "War of Fire" tells the story of a group of primitive people 80,000 years ago, looking for tinder. It is not difficult to see that hominids at this time had evolved into sparsely haired apes, which was largely due to fire, allowing them to live in colder areas, and there was a relatively rudimentary language communication within races and tribes. But after all, fire is a rare resource, and in order to compete for fire, wars will break out between apes. Some people in the barrage say that this is the "First World War", but in fact, it is not an exaggeration, and the spark of stars may even cause the demise of the population. In the film, a primitive squad of three people embarks on a journey to find tinder, during which they have fought with cannibals, and even some people have been bitten to death; they have received the help of mammoths to repel the cannibals; halfway to meet a woman, not only to solve the physiological needs, but also some of them to be the son-in-law of the village. However, the biggest gain of their trip was that they learned to drill wood for fire, and the reproduction of the race was fundamentally guaranteed. Don't look at what they say is a language that they can't understand, but it doesn't affect our understanding of the plot at all, Jean-Jacques Arnold with an attitude of respect for nature, civilization, and culture, very realistically reproduces the human existence of the Paleolithic Age, although there are many places that stand in the perspective of modern people, but it satisfies people's curiosity to the greatest extent. If the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is just a glimpse of ancient humans, then "Battle of Fire" is a panoramic presentation. The rough and original styling of the characters in the film has also taken a lot of thought, and the Oscar for Best Makeup is well deserved.
a laughing point
In the 68th minute, the tribe's primitives prepared a variety of hearty delicacies for Naoh, with the aim of allowing him to breed. Seeing a fat woman lying behind Naoh, seeing that he did not move, he simply lifted the back yard and waited for the shock wave to arrive. The purer and more crude the task of reproduction, the more amusing it is—of course, primitive people don't think so.
bright spot
In the 74th minute, Naoh witnessed the process of drilling wood for fire, and from his expression, he could see his confusion, doubt, surprise, shock, and even moved to tears. This is reminiscent of the poet Ai Qing's poem in "The Torch": "People's faces are in the fire / How cute it looks / In such a fire / No one's face is not beautiful."