"Push" is a political/comedy/drama film based on two live-action stories

It's purely a recommendation, I haven't watched American movies for many years. The main factor is that they don't know how people live. One day, they suddenly get tired of the formula of the American film industry. Few people will use the production line of the cannery to identify the type of American film, just like before the age of 20 and 30. Occasionally go to a movie, American movies are a good pastime, but I don't watch literary movies, mainly because every family on the island has a TV set to guard each other. In the era, there were only three TV stations . For the endless Qiong Yao drama, she has used up all the quota that can be used in this life. The common love habits and virtues of the people who created the spiritual atmosphere of the times actually numb people's nerves for right and wrong earlier than drugs. In those eras of high pressure and totalitarianism, there is no need to seek right and wrong, right and wrong. The gun of the country is axiom.

There are losses as well as gains. Regardless of the value of literary and artistic films in the era, watching less of that genre is a little better. Just like watching less adult films, people are free in some intimate emotional relationships, and they can’t help but feel in their hearts. Or play out the script you've seen in real life. It seems that if it is not like that, it is not called love, and it is not a brother who does not cut a knife. There is also the benefit of hindsight: even if they have their own gatherings and dispersal with the people they love, they also know that the encounter with each other in the world is rare and precious, and it is not possible to replicate after having an emotional relationship with anyone in the world. Happiness may not be made by a group of locks and keys. As long as you can be the lock or key, you will find each other to find happiness. Now I find that I talk about too many unimportant things. My point is to emphasize that happiness can be created by yourself. The less you watch literary and adult films, the more you can create your own happiness .

The film production formula of the American film industry is the same as when we learned to write articles in middle school. There is a similar incident. It’s not that I don’t know this, but I didn’t care about it before. When one day I watch a big celebrity perform a comedy, it’s the same funny technique. And the bridge section, I feel that the old-fashioned can't laugh anymore, so I can't watch it any longer. Just when you have grown up and graduated, don't be attached to it, lest the more you look at it, the more angry you become, the more you feel like a waste of time and money. This is the story of the American movie going from a good pastime to a refusal.

With such a unique result, I spent the money I saved to watch the documentary. The sense of realism in it can soothe the soul that needs to be ventilated in the contemporary era. Although there are many so-called scenes that are boring in daily life, but less come, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, etc. Some of the major director works of international status are long shots, and some are tests of endurance, okay! They shouldn't be confused. In the past ten years, the formal grammar of documentaries has been greatly renovated. It can even be said that there are many successful experimental documentaries, which are worth watching , especially if you have watched American films for more than 20 years. words. Okay, but, since the oil price fell once, I believe that the world can still give them a chance once in a while, and always keep some interest, and every now and then there will be some great works or some people's stories that have not been heard in the past.

The two films to be mentioned this time are "Power Storm" ("Lions for Lambs", 2007) and "Our Brand Is Crisis" ("Our Brand Is Crisis", 2015) "Queen of Crisis").

Let's talk about Storm of Power. For the year 2007, it is a very gratifying thing. A while ago, there was a group in Kojima singing "No one cares about what you care about", Robert Redford and screenwriter Matthew. Michael. Carnahan (Matthew Michael Carnahan) has long done their efforts. For those belligerent Americans who have been weaving the name of justice to wage war and then propaganda, this film also speaks more honestly about TV news stations. very precious.

The last time I watched "Vice" ("Vice", 2018, translated from Hong Kong and Taiwan "For the Vice President"), the director did more homework and made me take some notes, which is the origin of the so-called chaos (in the United States). .

Around 1989, when Bush was vice president, he sought the support of Republican Speaker Chaney, hoping that he would not boycott the president's veto of the principle of fairness, which the director went on to say is a requirement for balanced media coverage in the United States since the 1940s. After being abolished by them, Conservatives will be able to speak freely when they start a news channel, and when their business is big, they can make the entire United States more right-leaning.

That is, there is no regulation, no constraints, the people will receive the facts they want people to think in the media of the various consortiums, and the news does not have to be impartial, and it will be used as a tool for political attacks, or the central or the central government. Local governments want the best distribution channel for fabricated facts.

There are also some laws and regulations formulated by their crooked brains. Although they were finally discovered by the Americans themselves, the decision to kill has been implemented. For example, the CIA was asked to clear the Taliban's power structure, but ISIS was idiots to run away. turned into uncontrollable terrorist Islamic violence. He died and tortured a lot of people.

What tempted me to watch it was the form that the director let the film take, which was quite experimental. Well, how should I put it, the general opinion of the villagers is that not every handsome guy has a head, and if you want to be as handsome when you get old, I am afraid that there are some connotations. Several handsome Hollywood guys have turned to producers, directors, and producers, although they are not big. sold, but a lot of them really have the idea of letting people see them, it's actually not that Hollywood, which might not be too bad a find.

"Lions for Lambs" uses three different sets of character relationships to present an image of American society in a 1:1 time frame. For example, the senator is going to give a scoop to a TV reporter, and the two are very busy, so there is only one hour of meeting, and the audience is scheduled to participate in their entire hour of conversation. The concept of the experimental film is not bad! ?

To briefly talk about it, in the United States, the Americans themselves have a very clear awareness of the people's subjectivity against war, but those with political power are very unscrupulous. "Lions for Lambs" still masters the film's tension and entertainment in terms of rhythm and layout. For example, the scene of the two (African-American and Mexican-American) hot-blooded soldiers reminds me that there was an American once (my research) The offbeat teacher) criticized the best picture Oscar ("Traffic", 2000) for how disgusting American Happy Ending was, just waiting to see if these two hot-blooded soldiers would be rescued.

But if you are in the movie, if you also cherish the two of them, of course I hope that they will be rescued. Later, the bombing came, and the United States (force) was great again.

I just thought that this would be a daily dose of patriotic spirit stabilizer, and I didn't need to take it every day. But later on, the two foolishly stood up, wanting to die with dignity, and the scene paused, which really made me wonder if the enemy would not kill them, but the two were still foolish, Subconsciously, I want to raise the gun in my hand to a position that looks good when taking pictures. It looks like a garrison. I don’t want to point forward to shoot at the enemy, nor hang down like it originally did, but when the confrontation is tense, any The slightest act of firing a gun will definitely cause the other party to fire, and the two of them will become a honeycomb on the spot, and the young blood and ideals will be separated. Ah~~

When I entered the play, I wanted to say that it's okay to die for two people in other places. It's a big deal to die for two US troops! ? During the Clinton administration in the last century, 18 American troops died, and they could be used in political struggles to defeat a UN secretary general. (In order to fight for Clinton's re-election, the White House blackmailed the Secretary-General early, and used the news media to plant the Secretary-General of the United Nations when something went wrong. During the Cold War, the United Nations was the back garden of the United States, but the sixth Secretary-General He is an Egyptian aristocrat, a legal scholar who is well-known in France and the Arab world, and the first representative from Africa. He is not the kind of secretary-general who obeys the words of a strong country. Therefore, during his tenure, everyone did not pay dues and refused to send troops. Let him be sent to Wei An, his office in New York City fights with the Americans every day, and they are blackmailed like they publish news journals, so the English news or the introduction of the Chinese world that he can almost find are all non-facts that are not good for him. I followed that show a few years ago, and it was as exciting as the movie.)

There are still many bloggers on the Internet talking about this film, so there is not much nonsense. If you want to feel the novelty or special feeling of the 1:1, you can go and watch it.

By the way, there is also a hilarious introduction from the person who recommended the film, saying that it is a rare Tom. There is no footage of Cruise running.

"Crisis" ("Our Brand Is Crisis", 2015, Hong Kong translation of "Election Trickster", Taiwan translation of "The Queen of Crisis"), I once thought that the film would use the competition between the male and female protagonists to have a review of election tactics. , so that the voter audience can learn from the past and learn new things, and those old tricks will not be so useful in the next election. Maybe almost made American audiences look back on their own elections, but in the small island of Taiwan just after a bunch of voting (general elections, recalls, by-elections), this is not enough to scratch the itch. I don't know if there will be a film one day that will allow you to review or see how the democratic politics of Taiwanese society is built.

I saw the film last night, and the feeling this morning is that the whole film is also revealing the reality of the real world (usually we see appearances), and the plot is the same as "Power Storm". The climax goes on, and then an additional subsection ends, but this one ends like a dream: if those high-end intellectuals are likely to be dominated by political news sheets, marketed as "well-packaged political and electoral appeals" In a world of ordinary people, or those of lower socioeconomic status, fighting for the bullying and neglect they suffer, fighting against major powers and conglomerates, fighting corruption and disparate education levels, and fighting public opinion that is easily manipulated by populism . What moving moments and stories if possible.

It's not surprising, but I'm quite surprised that I forgot the strategists of the two main competitions and didn't know Bolivian Spanish at all (doesn't know their language but has to tell them which leader to choose). But what the film handles well is that the more Americans are involved in the election, the more they want to know what the two sides of the conflict are saying when the local people have a conflict of opinions; on the night of the vote, I even hope that there will be someone next to me who can talk to each other. Those who translate the broadcast content with the same words can actually be regarded as they no longer have that kind of high-spirited mentality. This is the beginning of their possible integration into the local people, and it is also a rare detail in the film. The night that brought the three young people from the slum to drink, dance and socialize with the campaign team was even more deliberately designed. If the social distance between them is caused, it may be overcome because of their mutual goodwill . Everyone said with joy, no one is high and no one is low , so the soul is full of rendezvous, it is a good realistic dream.

There are also some not-so-typical Hollywood roles in the film, represented by out-of- date oligarchs and heroines and heroines, who have done things that neither politicians nor actors could have done before. There is a scene where the two groups go to the countryside to raise momentum and ask for votes. There is only one small road between the mountains in the countryside. The two cars and horses start the "embarrassing car" regardless of safety and civilization. Maybe they are dissatisfied with the polls all the way, maybe they also know in their hearts The polls just won't pass, so the road is to overtake, to be in front of them, and more than half of the people in the whole car participate with all their strength . Lovely , and once again let everyone experience how catastrophic this heroine (nicknamed "calamity Jane" in the film) is. I am afraid they will miss the atmosphere of the whole group and music in the future! ?

Those who live in the election campaign, maybe only the election can make them feel the true feelings of adversity, or maybe only the imminent desperate defense can make them motivated and want to arrange and plan their lives well, so there were people on the island. It's a shame that "they forget that they are already in power, and they will always be electing..."—I know, of course, it is not good to govern a country. In other words, everyone's dream (party rotation) has finally been achieved and punctured ("their president is either corrupted or assassinated"). Any person or a society must recognize itself and the reality before it is possible to move forward. --It's not impossible to go backwards and stand still, but it's impossible to progress without awareness.

The above is not a spoiler, because the effects of those arrangements themselves can be experienced when watching the film. In terms of the (formula) arrangement used throughout the film, it is quite new.

This movie is more cheerful than "Power Storm". It is also a movie that reveals the truth and tells the truth, but after all, "Tight Time" is meant to be funny, so I am very happy that they broke the formula of American comedy. (By the way, the producer of this film is also known as one of the number one handsome George Culone.)

Many times, people in the American political circle are not unwilling to tell the truth, but worry that after the dream is shattered, they don't know what to play, but they don't know how to compensate those voters who are loyal to them, those who listen to them. The appearances they present (lies) growing up and getting old and even hating their opponent's people, they have no chance of dealing with their collapse, so, so, but hopefully conscientious American politicians don't use this as an excuse to continue to mislead People make mistakes. Therefore, this film is about piercing the dream of appearance, and then sending a new possible dream. The reality may contain the enthusiasm of life and the dream that can work hard. I feel that such tenderness is rare, so I recommend it to everyone.

Replenish:

I just checked after reading it. The Supreme Court of the United States lifted the ceiling on political donations, not just a plot, but a reality.

[U.S. Supreme Court lifts cap on total political donations] (ADAM LIPTAK April 3, 2014)

[There is no limit to fundraising in the US elections, which will only allow the super rich to extend their tentacles into the political circle] (August 30, 2019)

 Final spoilers:

At the end, because I myself have been trained to "watch videos and make videos", so at the end, when the heroine is about to get off the bus, I want to remind her: "Remember that you still have your luggage" so that if she wants to be alone Staying there, with her original belongings, inner and outer clothes, she should still feel more at ease. As a result, she got out of the car, said goodbye to her peers, turned and walked into the protesting Bolivians. The editing and presentation of these pictures are all Originally, the standard grammar of film and television movies is so simplified and easy to handle on the screen, but the whole look makes people feel that the heroine is too impulsive (lack of consideration) and forgets to take her luggage out of the car (no one in the car cares or thinks about it). , for a group of high-end Homo sapiens, it is unreasonable) If it comes to the actual situation, the crew can still arrange a bridge section where they are holding luggage, and those parting words can be said while taking them.