From 65438 to 0996, I watched the film "Lady in the Water" by Knight Shayama, a suspense film director in Hollywood, India. The animation at the beginning of the film was very attractive. Someone translated the Chinese name into "Lady in Water and Disaster", and I think the translator must have shit in his mind, which is full of discrimination and vilification of women by oriental culture and the usual demonization, so that he can't tell what an angel is and what a monster is, and it is indiscriminate and derogatory.
As a movie, it may not be too brilliant, so that the score of douban in literature and art is not high, and there are few items that can be found in search engines. But as a fairy tale, it is quite interesting, let alone presented visually. The story is simple. As a suspense film, it does not challenge the audience's thinking habits. In the middle of the story, we can basically sort out the context of the story and predict the final result-a fairy tale always has a happy ending, which brings bright colors and hope to people's lives-and the only thing that needs to test everyone's intelligence is to guess who plays the role of guardian, interpreter, healer, trade union and so on. Yes, and whether the law enforcer rabbit rabbit monkey will appear.
The film sets the story in an apartment with all kinds of people and a swimming pool, which is the residence of the water demon. All kinds of people gather here. Behind everyone, if you want to dig, there is an unusual story. There are macho men who only practice their right arm in fitness, Korean mothers who like to tell stories to their children, and college students' daughters who don't love school; There are 13B new serious film critics, and there are also war-weary people who sit on the sofa all day watching TV broadcasts of the war; There are a group of musicians who get together every day, smoking and chatting, thinking about saying a buzzword. Of course, they also discussed Martin Luther King. There are black fathers and sons who read newspaper crossword puzzles every day, and old women who published books decades ago; The brother and sister who quarrel every day, the elder sister is a chef, and the younger brother (the director plays it himself, who is very young) is writing a book "Cooking Guide" that will change himself (and thus lose his life) but also change the world; A Spanish family with five golden flowers, an old man with a first wife, has no secret constipation and bad breath; Of course, there is also the movie hero, the apartment manager with this unknown story. The density of characters is so high that the story of any one character is enough to make a movie. Everyone got away with it, except the film critic who wrote a film review for the newspaper and saw through all the movie scenes. He had guessed that there was no original "wisdom" in this world. I guess the director deliberately arranged for the character to die under the tiger's jaws, and ironically arranged for him to tell what would happen to the dog in a long horror movie, but it was not as "expected" as he had turned around and closed the door. Of course, he was born a man who didn't believe in fairy tales. Others believe in fairy tales and are willing to work hard and even sacrifice their lives to help them achieve the best ending. There are better endings in fairy tales than in the world. I think this is the director's point of view.
To be a "wise man" is to see through all the truth in the world with your eyes, which is not enough. Because although it can make you criticize all the comments around you, it can't give you the strength to face things that may be beyond your cognition. Besides your cognition, there are so many things to believe and fear. It is the greatest ignorance of mankind to think that you know everything and are proficient in everything. As the water demon said, human beings are so arrogant that they think they are absolute individuals that they forget that people are closely related.