A review of "Mr. Bean's Holiday". English

The Utopia that cannot be escaped - "Mr. Bean's Holiday"

The reason why I suddenly wanted to watch "Mr. Bean's Holiday" came from a misfortune. The mobile phone I bought just 4 months ago broke down three times in a row within half a month, and the shortest break interval was 2 hours... This is one of the reasons why I've been moaning about bad luck lately. So I had the experience of visiting Nokia to repair thatched hut three times. Of course, every repair process involves a long wait. Apart from running across the street to mix a cup of 85 iced coffee for 1 yuan, and running to the bookstore next door to buy a copy of German grammar, my greatest pleasure is probably sitting in the lobby. Doing nothing, I looked at the 1-hour classic collection of Bean on the wall that coincided with the maintenance time and reminisced about it. I went there three times, and the contents were different three times, so much so that I mistakenly thought that repairing mobile phones was a kind of spiritual cultivation. Forget it! Let’s talk about the classic collection of Bean.

Most of us did not catch up with the silent beginning of movies and missed Chaplin’s silent era. Not using age as an excuse, but few of us will forget to accompany us since childhood. A fat old German guy and an English bean who grew up. I remember one winter vacation, because the TV station pirated most of the Mr. Bean collection, so I recorded it with an old-fashioned video recorder and watched it repeatedly that year. And even that didn't dampen my enthusiasm for watching it over and over every time it aired in the years that followed. This time, I had to spend so much time reviewing old works due to my mobile phone, which prompted me to immediately look at "Mr. Bean's Holiday" that had been hidden in the depths of my computer for a long time.

Beans that cannot enter reality

The reason why a movie can be placed deep in the computer like courseware for so long must have a reason why it is not popular. The Bean series is a very good television series, but that does not mean that the Bean movies are equally great. My nightmare comes from the dullness and smart-alecky nature of "Correspondent Bean" and the mediocre nature of the first film in the "Bean" series. Although Atkinson did not appear as the original Bean in "Correspondent Bean" at that time, the failure of that film had greatly reduced the value of Bean; as for the film that destroyed a painting as a The theme of the Bean movie cannot be regarded as a movie at all, at least from the scheduling to the content, it can only be regarded as an extended version of Bean that is not very funny with added lines. What makes us happy this time is that Bean finally went out of the house and came to the travel map of the European continent, making the Bean movie really start to look like a movie.

However, change is a double-edged sword. Maybe you have gone through all the hard work and finally arrived at the Peach Blossom Spring in your dreams, but when you find that there are no TVs, no air conditioning, and beauties don’t put on makeup and eat without spoons, you will find that the place does not belong to you at all. Because of this, Bean used this change to bring himself to an irrevocable territory. Facts have proved that the image of Bean is only suitable for short TV programs with few lines and many limbs, weakening the plot and emphasizing the scene. This is determined by his essence. However, once the lonely Bean was pushed on the journey to Cannes, all the performances became uncomfortable: the laughter dropped sharply, and the original pattern of three laughs per minute was interrupted and obliterated by irrelevant blanks; the physical humor was Instead of pretending to be stupid, the physical humor that originally relied entirely on the scene was limited by the plot, and we could only rely on dancing and singing to attract the audience; the plot was sparse, because we had to take into account the characteristics of Bean to express the plot, so the plot could not be used to its best, and we could only rely on To tell a lie that is not very beautiful. Finally, we must admit that the reality is before our eyes. The lovable Mr. Bean can only live in the scene forever, and he should not enter reality.

The Bean whose essence has become dirty

Perhaps the original reason why Mr. Bean is so lovable is that his ability to cause trouble and put on airs truly represents the style of the country and the two sides of human nature; The other side must be that he is also the lonely, pitiable but kind-hearted Mr. Bean. However, in this movie, we see that in order to create jokes, the screenwriter did not hesitate to make Mr. Bean start to become dirty. Whether it was stealing, kidnapping or retaliation, it seemed that Bean began to cross the original boundary of not breaking the law no matter how much he went overboard. Maybe I am a bit serious, but I can only say that this kind of joy cannot move me. I still love the beans as before.

There’s Always Sunshine

Finally, of course, I have to talk about the benefits of this movie. The film director knows European culture very well. The old-fashioned British, the arrogance of the French, the French's disdain and ridicule of the British, the British's self-deprecation, and the Europeans' collective mockery of the Americans' pretentiousness are all displayed in this film. To the fullest. From a cultural perspective, this movie uses a small length and non-key statements to give everyone a lecture on cultural conflicts. Of course, this movie takes us back to our childhood and the world of beans. For me personally, it allowed me to brush up on French and even discovered that I still know many words. And it is undeniable that the smile of the French heroine is indeed breathtaking. I began to think that maybe Thief should not be allowed to go to France, and even if I did, I should not go to him. The sunshine there will make people intoxicated, and the beauties there will make people unable to lift their legs, because every man will think that their smiles are tempting you to commit crimes. Of course, the seemingly rustic chorus in the end actually expresses the theme very well: that is, everyone loves Bean and the world is peaceful.

ANYWAY, I hope that after watching this film, you will still love Mr. Bean as always. I declare that this sentence is not meant to be ironic.