How do you evaluate the movie Qiaoqiao's Dream World (also known as Qiaoqiao Rabbit)?

Taiga Waititi, a director from New Zealand with a hard to remember name, has a distinctive style. I have seen his "Vampire Life" and "Hunting Barbarians", are full of interesting movies, a childlike innocence more imaginative, the camera language is unimaginative, quite have their own ideas.

He has always sought to be "funny" in his filmmaking, and in 17, he directed Marvel's Thor 3, which was also an effort to be funny, though it was both critically acclaimed and critically acclaimed, and many of the scenes were actually hilarious.

This "Qiao Qiao Rabbit", at first glance is also "fun", children's perspective, bright colors, some Wes Anderson movie flavor, but looking at it, the audience will find that "fun" is just the surface, the story is cruel to the core, although there is warmth, but also can not hide the sad.

The domestic translation of this film "Qiao Qiao's fantasy world", too straightforward and too positive energy, I don't like, or the literal translation of "Qiao Qiao rabbit" is better. What is "Joe Joe Rabbit"? The film takes place in Nazi Germany at the end of World War II.

The hero Qiaoqiao, a boy of ten, not only admires Hitler, but also conjures up a very different "cute" version of Hitler in his mind as his "best friend". Qiaoqiao had his heart set on joining the Hitler Youth, and the older kids in the youth group asked Qiaoqiao to kill a rabbit. Qiaoqiao is not willing to put the rabbit, it was laughed at is timid "Qiaoqiao rabbit", this is the origin of "Qiaoqiao rabbit".

After being mocked, Qiaoqiao's imaginary Hitler "stood up" to reassure Qiaoqiao, saying: "Rabbits are not timid, gentle they face the cruel world every day, they can deceive all the enemies, brave, cunning and strong."

This is quite meaningful, let's look at the movie from the "rabbit". The Nazis had a cult of the eagle, and the national emblem of the Third Reich was a winged eagle. And the rabbit's natural enemy is the eagle. The eagle is strong, the rabbit is weak, the eagle is fierce, the rabbit is timid, this is common sense.

So the big boys sneered at him as a rabbit, implying that he was not fit to be an eagle. If the eagle is the Nazi, the superpower, who is the rabbit?

The film Qiaoqiao Rabbit is to examine the world of "eagle and rabbit" from the perspective of children.

In the world of the eagle, a part of the rabbit is domesticated. They either lose their own thinking and judgment, become the accomplice of the "eagle", or simply give up thinking and judgment, mediocre life, used to accept.

In the film, a character named Miss Lamm is so brainwashed by the Nazis that she charges into battle with a gun on her shoulder when the Germans are dying, even planting grenades on children to kill them with the Soviets. She is such a domesticated rabbit.

Then there are the rabbits, who choose to fight, violent or nonviolent.

They know what is right and what is wrong. They know that the rabbit, though weak, is numerous, and the eagle, though strong, will destroy itself. So they endure, deceive, and resist, waiting for victory. Qiao Qiao's mother, Rosie, is such a "rabbit".

It is worth mentioning that Scarlett Johansson plays Rosie in this film, which is a very good interpretation of this role. The gentle, lovely, brave and firm mother from the perspective of Qiao Qiao, as well as the hidden worries and tensions in the heart, are all played out by Sister Wang. This year's Oscar, Renee Zellweger is in, she wants to take the best actress is probably lost, but the best female match is a competition.

The role of Rosie in the movie, so painful. Rosie is certainly a good mother to Qiaoqiao. She jealously guards her children, and she guards all of Qiaoqiao's whims.

You might say, well, how can you say that mom is so protective when Qiaoqiao is brainwashed?

But think of it this way, Qiaoqiao can not see the cruelty of the world, has the freedom of fantasy, can imagine Hitler as a rather lovely friend, in fact, is the result of his mother's protection.

At ten years old, Qiaoqiao is not mature beyond his years. He is naive, naive and silly. Everything is ten years old, and in that environment, it is not easy.

Good mother Rosie, but also a good person. The key plot point of the whole film is that Rosie hides the Jewish girl Elsa in her house.

It takes extraordinary courage to do something like this.

Once found hiding Jews in her home, Rosie's life would be in danger. She defended her conscience with her life, and fought against the atrocities with an act of kindness.

There is a scene in the film: Rosie takes Qiaoqiao to the street, see several people hanging on the roadside, Qiaoqiao asks her mother: "What did they do?" Rosie said, "They did what they could." Simple words, but particularly moving.

Later, Rosie, who was secretly working for the Resistance, also met with misfortune. When I saw Qiaoqiao crying and holding her mother's feet in the air, I felt very distressed.

She became a "martyr", the "way" she died for, is justice, is good, is the right way in the world. Of course, Rosie is a human being. By hiding the Jewish girl in her own home, Rosie was doing what she "could do." Shouldn't one be kind? Shouldn't we be on the right side of atrocities? It was all very simple, and what she did was very ordinary.

However, an ordinary person did ordinary things, but became a hero, become a martyr, can only say that in such an era, conscience is too precious thing, and such an era, is so absurd, let people feel sad, let people live desolate. A lot of things, in fact, can not be clearer.

In this world, perhaps we can never be sure what is really right, but we can be sure that something must be wrong, because the wrong things are so obvious, so shocking.

Through Qiaoqiao's perspective, we are more aware of the absurdity of what the Nazis did, and the lies they spun for racial discrimination, which even children cannot completely deceive.Perhaps, power can force many people to believe some of the woven lies, but these lies will never be believed by all people, and, these lies will eventually reveal flaws.

In the film, even the 10-year-old Qiaoqiao gradually realizes the truth, transforming from "Heil Hitler" to "Fuck Hitler". When he witnesses his mother's misfortune and sees the smoke of war, his imaginary world is shattered, and what will greet him will be the cruelest real life.

If you look at "Qiao Qiao Rabbit" in this light, it is a little too sad.

Fortunately, Taiga Waititi is gentle, his heart as bright as his video style and as full of life as the rock score he uses. He believed that poetry and dance were the healers of all things, and he believed that love was the most powerful weapon in the world.Jojo asked Elsa, "What's the first thing you're going to do when you're free?"

Elsa answered without hesitation: "Dance."

At the end of the film, they go out into the street and dance in the sun.