Be True To Ourselves
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:42 am
He Weiqi
The film And the Spring Comes is from China and the other one Mona Lisa 's Smlie is from a foreign country. The dates were similar, one in 2003 and the other in 2008. But they all have a common theme. The film Mona Lisa’s Smile was set in the United States in 1953, as the country was changing and the women's liberation movement was in full swing. It successfully portrays two types of women. One is the image of Katherine, a woman with free and innovative ideas who strives for women's personal future, freedom and happiness. One is the more conservative images of women like Betty who are still bound by feudal ideas. The movie opens with Katherine on a train leaving California, leaving her boyfriend, to go to Wesleyan college for women, where she thought she had advanced ideas, and aspired to be a distinguished professor. However, to her disappointment, the mainstream of college education was different with her own thoughts, the students were not friendly to her, but she still stood her ground and told the students in her way. The education to females is not to marry a good husband, but for her future and being respected by others.
After her husband’s betray and the divortion, Betty learned from Catherine that individuals cannot compromise easily and should search for truth and get rid of the bound bravely, which is applied equally to everyone. Go after what you want. Don't change yourself because of others. Please show the most real and happy smile whenever we want.
The film And the Spring Comes was born in the 1980s in China. China experienced a decade of cultural revolution, and the whole Chinese people were working hard for the great cause of reform and opening up. It has a storyline that shocks the heart of the bumpy life. The image of the five small characters is the most moving.They use their own bumpy life to describe a great ideal and achieve great ambitions of the mentality with their own practical actions. The illusion about "living elsewhere" drives everyone to struggle to jump out of the art of the surrounding world. On the one hand it is full of enthusiasm and love, on the other hand, it also maintains awakeness and indifference.
The picture of the film is very realistic and simple. It seems like the scene and props are talking, and the character's situation is silently expressed. For example, glass cups and instant noodles are Wang Cailing's hand-held props, which is basically Wang Cailing on their own material requirements of the embodiment. She is not petty but she put all the money and energy into her own love of the dream. It's a remarkable film, though it's still a heavy, old topic about ideals and reality. People are always hovering between hope and bread, and the characters in this film seem to be able to live completely self-sufficient, except that the egos they have are hard to match with the town so they are seen as alien, rogue, immoral. For the indifferent and ignorant crowd, the value they exist is simply a post-tea talk or a catharsis used to scold and tout their virtues. And these men and women have a purer and kinder dream than anyone else, although in the end they have been uprooted and no one sings to the Paris Opera but the town has a more crookand and a butcher shop. They did not even reach Beijing to begin to drift on and lost the strength to float.
This film reveals to the audience two questions about the ideals of life and the psychology of human nature, only to cause the audience to think, but it does not explore the root of the causes of the problem, or give a clear attitude to help the audience to solve the puzzle. What should we do when the ideal can't be realized? There is a view that this ideal is to blame for the collapse of society. Nevertheless, in fact, is not objective. The society cannot let everyone with special skills to succeed. Fate and opportunity tend to play a more critical role. In the end of the film, Wang Cailing lived on the ordinary people and she can still be very happy. If the film can do more in the regard that Wang Cailing's singing brings happiness to her and the people around her, it will be more complete.
These two films both tell us that we need be true to ourselves. In the society, inequality exists inevitably. If we don’t love ourselves, then who will love us? We are all products of ourselves, not the products of the system.
The film And the Spring Comes is from China and the other one Mona Lisa 's Smlie is from a foreign country. The dates were similar, one in 2003 and the other in 2008. But they all have a common theme. The film Mona Lisa’s Smile was set in the United States in 1953, as the country was changing and the women's liberation movement was in full swing. It successfully portrays two types of women. One is the image of Katherine, a woman with free and innovative ideas who strives for women's personal future, freedom and happiness. One is the more conservative images of women like Betty who are still bound by feudal ideas. The movie opens with Katherine on a train leaving California, leaving her boyfriend, to go to Wesleyan college for women, where she thought she had advanced ideas, and aspired to be a distinguished professor. However, to her disappointment, the mainstream of college education was different with her own thoughts, the students were not friendly to her, but she still stood her ground and told the students in her way. The education to females is not to marry a good husband, but for her future and being respected by others.
After her husband’s betray and the divortion, Betty learned from Catherine that individuals cannot compromise easily and should search for truth and get rid of the bound bravely, which is applied equally to everyone. Go after what you want. Don't change yourself because of others. Please show the most real and happy smile whenever we want.
The film And the Spring Comes was born in the 1980s in China. China experienced a decade of cultural revolution, and the whole Chinese people were working hard for the great cause of reform and opening up. It has a storyline that shocks the heart of the bumpy life. The image of the five small characters is the most moving.They use their own bumpy life to describe a great ideal and achieve great ambitions of the mentality with their own practical actions. The illusion about "living elsewhere" drives everyone to struggle to jump out of the art of the surrounding world. On the one hand it is full of enthusiasm and love, on the other hand, it also maintains awakeness and indifference.
The picture of the film is very realistic and simple. It seems like the scene and props are talking, and the character's situation is silently expressed. For example, glass cups and instant noodles are Wang Cailing's hand-held props, which is basically Wang Cailing on their own material requirements of the embodiment. She is not petty but she put all the money and energy into her own love of the dream. It's a remarkable film, though it's still a heavy, old topic about ideals and reality. People are always hovering between hope and bread, and the characters in this film seem to be able to live completely self-sufficient, except that the egos they have are hard to match with the town so they are seen as alien, rogue, immoral. For the indifferent and ignorant crowd, the value they exist is simply a post-tea talk or a catharsis used to scold and tout their virtues. And these men and women have a purer and kinder dream than anyone else, although in the end they have been uprooted and no one sings to the Paris Opera but the town has a more crookand and a butcher shop. They did not even reach Beijing to begin to drift on and lost the strength to float.
This film reveals to the audience two questions about the ideals of life and the psychology of human nature, only to cause the audience to think, but it does not explore the root of the causes of the problem, or give a clear attitude to help the audience to solve the puzzle. What should we do when the ideal can't be realized? There is a view that this ideal is to blame for the collapse of society. Nevertheless, in fact, is not objective. The society cannot let everyone with special skills to succeed. Fate and opportunity tend to play a more critical role. In the end of the film, Wang Cailing lived on the ordinary people and she can still be very happy. If the film can do more in the regard that Wang Cailing's singing brings happiness to her and the people around her, it will be more complete.
These two films both tell us that we need be true to ourselves. In the society, inequality exists inevitably. If we don’t love ourselves, then who will love us? We are all products of ourselves, not the products of the system.
