He has played the war madman Hitler, but in this posthumous work he reveals the most simple humanity

This movie, released last Thursday, has picturesque Alpine scenery and the souls of the protagonists are as pure as crystal, which can make you smile and shed tears in the theater.

The film is called "Heidi and Grandpa" and is a Swiss-German co-production. This Chinese translation is a bit misleading, making people think that this is a movie about the love between grandparents and grandchildren. In fact, its original name is Heidi, without the grandfather behind it, and the story mainly revolves around the growth of a little girl.

The film is adapted from the century-old best-selling children's literature classic "Heidi" by Swiss writer Johanna Spiri. This novel has been adapted into film and television works many times. The more famous one is Shirley Temple's version of "Heidi".

Ghibli also made an animated remake called "Girls of the Alps".

This latest version is said to be the 13th time the novel has been adapted.

This is the little girl Heidi in the film. The so-called "taking the essence of heaven and earth and absorbing the aura of the sun and the moon" probably refers to her appearance and temperament. Words like cute, cute, and beautiful are too tacky to describe her. She seems to be a human elf specially created by God for us to observe and reflect on ourselves. She is a collection of various beautiful qualities, such as kindness and simplicity. , curious, brave, straightforward...

This is Heidi’s white-bearded grandfather, with a face typical of a kind elder.

However, if you name the actor, your jaw will probably drop. It’s Bruno Ganz, who plays Hitler in “Downfall” and is a top-tier celebrity at Station B. The Swiss actor passed away, and "Heidi and Grandpa" became his legacy.

The crazy war machine and the kind white-haired grandpa, this is the actor's powerful character creation ability.

Back to the story. Heidi lost her parents at a very young age. At the beginning of the film, at the age of eight, she was sent to the Alps by her aunt to join her grandfather who lived in the mountains.

In the eyes of the villagers, Grandpa was a stubborn and eccentric old man. Everyone rumored that he had killed someone and stayed away from him. However, Heidi's innocent eyes discovered the tenderness hidden deep in her grandfather's heart, and the two took off their guard and depended on each other.

At first, Yixianjun thought that the movie would spend a lot of time telling how the grandfather and grandson established a close relationship, but in fact the process was quick and smooth. That's right, who wouldn't like such an angel-like child? And Heidi's initial fear of her grandfather due to the rumors quickly disappeared under her grandfather's explanation.

The story seemed to end here, but for a small reward, the aunt forcibly sent Heidi to a wealthy family in the big city of Frankfurt to accompany a disabled lady. Thus, Heidi opened the second map of her life.

Heidi, who grew up wild in the mountains, when she arrived in the city, she was a bit like Grandma Liu when she entered the Grand View Garden. She made a lot of jokes, such as she was illiterate, didn't understand etiquette, and couldn't even use tableware. , I don’t have the habit of wearing shoes yet. But her innocence and kindness impressed the young lady Clara of this family, and the two became good friends.

However, although Heidi is adapting to city life day by day, she still misses the Alps and her grandfather in the dead of night.

So, Frankfurt or the Alps, good friends or grandpa, a life of luxury or a life of material scarcity, what choice should Heidi make?

The original novel took place in the 19th century, and this movie was shot strictly in accordance with the original background. In particular, Frankfurt’s city street scenes, interior layouts, and character costumes were all restored very well. Although the time when the story takes place is very far away from us, watching this film will not feel strange, let alone the gap between time and place.

One of the reasons is that Heidi is so beautiful. She shines with the brilliance of humanity in pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, which is enough to impress us across time and space.

She retains the most primitive kindness to those around her and treats everyone sincerely.

Seeing that the grandmother of her good friend Peter, the shepherd boy, was blind and had lost all her teeth, Heidi would secretly save a small loaf of bread for every meal when she was in the city, because the bread from that family was soft and she wanted to bring it back to Grandma eats it.

She is innocent, not vain, not greedy, and cherishes everything she has around her. In fact, the living environment in the Alps is very harsh and poor, but when she witnessed Grandma Pete's hardships in old age, she actually lamented to her grandfather: We are living a pretty good life.

The movie also expresses its attitude towards tradition and modernity through the character of Heidi.

The Alps in the film are bright and pure, like a fairyland. Every frame can be used as a desktop. Heidi and Grandpa living in it can be said to have concentrated the best qualities of human beings. In Frankfurt, which is in the midst of the second industrial revolution, the sky is invisible from the city. The sky is filled with smoke from chimneys. All the rules in Clara's home seem to be constraints on her nature.

If you only see this side, the film will fall into a tone of blindly advocating tradition and criticizing modernization.

But in fact, movies do not hold a binary opposition to tradition and modernity. The tradition represented by the Alps has both a simple and kind side and a closed and backward side. The children in the village had relatively little knowledge. When asked by the teacher what they wanted to do in the future, the answers they gave were shepherds, blacksmiths, and farmers. Only Heidi, who had gone to school in the city, said she wanted to be a storyteller in the future. Her answer was ridiculed by her classmates. Frankfurt, which symbolizes modernity, is not just noisy and polluted. It has a more developed economy and culture, and everyone has more diverse choices in life.

This relatively objective and dialectical attitude towards tradition and modernity has reached unity in Grandpa Heidi and Grandma Clara. The two elders, who have been baptized by the years, were able to overcome class and geographical barriers when they first met, and communicated tacitly like old friends. This can be seen as a reconciliation between tradition and modernity. This may be what this story wants to convey: the environment is not the most important, but the goodwill and respect of the people in the environment are the most precious things.

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