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The stories of writers in movies are often mainly biographical, and most of them are romantic or bland and serious. The two films we recommend today are very different in temperament, "Outstanding Citizen" is a fictionalized embarrassing encounter of Argentine novelist Daniel Mantovani after returning home after winning the Nobel Prize. "The Hunt for Neruda" uses the shell of a detective story to carry out a poetic journey of the poet Neruda. The former is satirical and funny, the latter is deep and thrilling, but also virtual and real, which is a literary film that cannot be missed in the recent new films on this subject.
Outstanding citizens
the illustrious citizen
Director: Gaston Du Palat / Mariano Cohen
Writers: Andrés Duplatt
Starring: Oscar Martinez / Dady Breva / Andrea Frigellio / Nora Navas / Manuel Vicente / More...
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Country/Region of Production: Argentina / Spain
Language: Spanish
The film won best actor at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and represented Argentina in this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (unfortunately it was not finalized). "Outstanding Citizen" tells the story of novelist Daniel Mantovani who, after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to his hometown of Salas, which gives him all the inspiration for his creation, but when he returns to his hometown, he experiences a variety of ironic encounters.
I can't get enough of the poster with the prize
The film continues the irony of "Wild Story", and it can even be said that it is even worse, using the writer's new book as a paper driver, the father and son who reach out to him for money, the aggressive childhood friend, and finally the writer has to flee his hometown, from the worship of the crowd to the scorn, the arrogance and entanglement of the intellectuals represented by the writer are not spared.
From "Wild Story" to "Outstanding Citizen", the naturally proud Argentine has really gone further and further down the road of self-blackening.
This interesting story begins like this:
Argentine novelist Daniel Mantovani has been living in Spain for many years, and although his stories take place in his hometown of Salas, a seven-hour drive from Buenos Aires, he has not returned home for forty years.
At the Nobel Prize in Literature, Daniel dressed casually and confessed that he was deeply honored but also rather uneasy about winning the prize, because he was afraid that such a huge success would smooth out the edges and corners of art.
Fast forward five years, and Daniel remains the darling of the publishing world and the media, even though he hasn't written anything in those five years. On this day, as usual, the assistant came to ask for his opinion with a whole bunch of questions, and he absent-mindedly refused one by one, only one invitation that aroused his curiosity—his hometown of Salas intended to award him the "Outstanding Citizen" award and invite him to a four-day visit. Daniel hesitated for a long time, saying that he would accept the invitation and return home alone.
The journey didn't go well from the start, with the driver who came to pick him up take a short road on his own initiative, but the car broke anchor in the wilderness at dusk. Due to poor communication, the two decided to make plans for the night, and Daniel tore off the pages of his book and lit up branches to keep warm. Early the next morning, he watched as the driver tore off a few pages of paper as toilet paper.
After some tossing and turning, he finally came to Salas and stayed in the fancy room of the hotel, and Daniel felt like he was in a trance. He walked dazedly through the familiar and unfamiliar streets of his hometown, where residents pointed at him and people who recognized him kept filming with their mobile phones. The mayor told him that he had three open literary classes, a live TELEVISION interview, and a reviewer for a painting contest. Daniel knew that the assistant must have faxed his request for a visit as was customary, but the mayor did not take it seriously.
Moments later, Daniel was pulled into a fire truck and stood next to the town's beauty queen, which sounded its siren and drove toward the open class venue like a parade. The venue was packed, and Daniel received the "Outstanding Citizen" medal from the mayor. Before the class, a specially made short film was played, and Daniel burst into tears looking at the photos of his childhood, especially the images of his parents who had passed away. However, the course did not go well, and the young girl Julia frequently asked questions, pointing out that his statement contradicted previous views. At the end of the course, a gray-haired middle-aged man walked up to Daniel, his young friend Antonio. The two embraced and said hello, and Antonio's first words were: "I'm married to Irene." Daniel's heart was mixed, Irene had been his girlfriend, because of his departure the two broke up.
The trouble is not over, the host of the live TV is extremely unprofessional, asks a few old-fashioned questions and even takes out a drink to start an advertisement, a middle-aged man stops Daniel, thinking that one of the characters in his novel is his father... All this bore Daniel. In the evening, Julia came uninvited, and her enthusiasm impressed Daniel, and the two spent the night together.
The next day, Daniel participated in the judging of the painting competition, and despite repeated hints from the secretary of the jury, he insisted on eliminating several mediocre paintings and making a painting by an unknown author the first prize. Moments later, Romero, who claimed to be president of the Salas Artists' Association, rushed in and asked why his work had failed, daniel tried to explain, but the other side refused to accept it.
Back at the hotel, a middle-aged man is waiting for Daniel, hoping he will pay for an electric wheelchair worth nearly ten thousand dollars to give to his disabled son, who Daniel refuses on the grounds that he is "unfair to others in need."
In the afternoon, Daniel's second open class, attended by only half the audience of the first class, had just spoken a few words when Romero rushed in with a group of people, accusing Daniel of being a traitor and "slandering the town and its inhabitants" in exchange for honor. Daniel helplessly said to the audience: "This is a vivid case of reality over fiction, this is the world we live in." ”
In the evening, he was invited to Visit Antonio's house, and Antonio, who was inferior and arrogant, kept supporting Irene. Even more unexpectedly, however, Julia turned out to be the daughter of Antonio and Irene. Daniel spent the night in a blur.
On the morning of the third day, Daniel attended the inauguration of his statue, and the mayor quietly told him that he hoped that he would be accommodating and let the eliminated paintings be shortlisted for the award, "otherwise this inauguration ceremony would not be so peaceful." At the drawing contest award ceremony, Daniel saw that the first prize was Romero's mediocre work, and he went to the microphone and said that it was not his decision. Embarrassed, Romero slammed the egg in his hand at Daniel. Daniel left through the back door, and unsurprisingly, his statue had been splashed with red paint. Irene, who had arrived, warned him that he had to leave quickly.
Daniel waited for the car at the hotel gate until the evening, Irene did not come, but came Antonio and Julia's boyfriend who were going to go hunting, and Daniel couldn't help but say that he was pulled to the car by them. Coming into the wilderness, the two men threw him out of the car, and Antonio raised his shotgun: "Hurry up, coward." Daniel staggered forward when suddenly gunshots rang out and he fell to the ground saying, "It's all over." ”
In Barcelona, Daniel Mantovani, who has been writing for five years, has launched a new work, "Outstanding Citizen", which has attracted great attention from the press. At the launch ceremony, he first read aloud one of the fragments: "The first chapter of the Invitation: Leaving does not mean the end, there have been many years, whenever winter comes, my body will feel the summer in my hometown... The story begins with an invitation letter from my hometown of Salas, where I managed to escape. My protagonist can never leave, and I can never go back..." A reporter asked Daniel whether the work was real or fictional, and Daniel had an unpredictable smile on his face, "The truth does not exist, there are no facts, only deconstruction and interpretation." In the face of the reporter's questioning, he pulled open his collar to reveal a scar on his chest, "What is this?" Was it caused by surgery? Fell on a bicycle? Or a gunshot wound? That's the lesson left for you. ”
Abbreviation| Ayao
Hunt down Neruda
Neruda
Director: Pablo Laraine
Writers: Guillermo Cauldron
Starring: Gale García Bernal / Luis Nico / Mercedes Moran / Emilio Gutierrez Caba / Diego Muñoz / more...
Genre: Drama / Biography / History / Crime
Country/Region of Production: Chile / Argentina / France / Spain / Usa
Language: Spanish / French
The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature was the most famous poet in Chile and south America, and in the words of the Nobel Committee, "His poetry revived the fate and dreams of a continent."
The Chilean film, Titled The Hunt for Neruda, tells the story of an unknown past in Neruda, who was hunted down by the police in the 1950s because of his joining a political party, but the film presents not a one-way pursuit, but a two-way infiltration, where the poet is on the run, but wants to feel his pursuers up close, not hiding where they can't find it. He left a detective novel at a time for his pursuers.
As the hunt deepened, the persistent police followed in the poet's footsteps, read his works, and experienced his thoughts, and his identity began to blur, and the people who fell in the snow believed that they were no longer the sons of the police chiefs, but the sons of Neruda, the sons of the people.
Especially in the confrontation on the snowy mountain at the end, the police and Neruda have achieved a certain spiritual level of communication.
You think it's a battle between a poet and a cop, and you don't want to be led into the labyrinth of poetry. The follow-up of the starry night, the untouchable sound of gunfire, and finally turned into free praise. When Gail Garcia stepped on a motorcycle, the meme came from The Diary of a Motorcycle, and Guevara traveled across the American continent in Neruda's poems. When we first arrived in Chile, the young men cheered: We have arrived in Neruda's hometown.
Director Pablo Larrion's more well-known work last year should be "The First Lady" starring Natalie Portman, but unlike the film that focuses on individual performance, "The Hunt for Neruda" is more able to show the director's skill, it is as poetic as Neruda himself, achieving a clever fusion of text and film, and the lens language of the whole film is as poetic as poetry.
What's more, we can also recall in the movie the era when we didn't chase the stars but only the giants.
Neruda | Desperate Song (excerpt)
My memories of you came to mind on this night.
The river is connected to the sea with its own stubborn groans. Abandoned people are like docks in the morning light.
It's time to leave, oh, abandoned me. Cold petals rained down on my heart.
Oh, the land of ruins, the cruel cave sky of the victims. You have experienced war and take-off in you.
The birds that sing from you spread their wings and fly away. Like a distant distance, you swallow everything.
Like the sea, like time. Everything about you is shipwrecked! There have been happy moments of reunion and kissing.
There have been moments of panic like tower lights burning. The anxiety of the driver, the anger of the blind diver,
Intoxicated by the hazy intoxication of love, everything you have is shipwrecked! In my foggy childhood, my heart grew wings and was wounded.
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