Why do you like to watch movies, to put a cliché on it? Some people will come up with that classic answer by DeChang Yang, who sang Three Times Life. But the average person watching a movie is watching a movie, not necessarily so literary. The most intuitive feeling of a movie is to do what one can think of but cannot do. If someone says a dream has come true, it’s not too much. After all, the plot of some feature films seems to confirm this idea.
Why watch movies, because dreams are good, but they are not easy to realize. Movies can help us turn our dreams into reality, and that’s enough. The movie we are going to recommend today is an ideal type of movie with a slow pace. If we measure it in terms of dreams coming true, it is not too much to discuss the realization of dreams as one of the themes of this movie.
The First Cow” is the title of this film. It is the story of a man with a cow, but the man and the cow are not the focus of the story, because you can find things in the film that are related to dreams.
The First Cow is about the American gold rush. A cook who is a straying cook in the West meets a Chinese man by chance, and the two of them start a business together. When the business is ruined, the two men leave separately, and in the end, they meet again after a long absence and end up together again.
This is a very simple story, but also a slow-paced story, one that can be told in a couple of sentences, and the film takes two hours.
Anyway, it eventually happens, and when it does, it satisfies people’s dreams to a certain extent. Therefore, the film doesn’t look so bad. It is a beautiful story, or rather, everything in it is beautiful. Why this story exists stems from people’s fervor for the gold rush, but the fact is that the 1920’s Oregon where this story takes place is long gone.
It was a region with a high percentage of rainforest cover, and the people of this region were more involved in various fur businesses. Because, instead of focusing on the gold rush, let’s take a look at why the protagonist in the film chooses to go into business. Two people teaming up to make butter cookies is another way of looking at it. While the Western cook’s job is to provide meals for these travelers looking for gold, the Eastern exile is obviously more interested in finding opportunities.
So the two men, each using what they were good at, came together to do something better. Selling cookies, stealing other people’s milk to make cookies and selling them. It seemed like a win-win situation. Until they get caught, they’re doing pretty well.
This film is meant to tell us such a story, which is obviously different from what most people think of when they think of western movies, especially those with a gold rush theme.
It doesn’t have a dangerous situation, nor does it highlight various heroic scenes. Even the casting of the heroes is not what we think of as the West. The Westerner does not show any extraordinary intelligence or heroism, and the Oriental is not too nasty or tricky; he relies on nothing more than his business acumen, which is rooted in his own intelligence.
In the midst of many Westerns, this film has the opposite flavor, and you could even say that it is not a Western, because what it uncovers is not the main core of Westerns, but an alternative story that grows out of a corner that has been left out.
Obviously, the probability of such a story occurring in reality is not very high, which is one of the reasons why the movie discussed above is not special, because in reality the year 1920 belongs to the “olden days” in the eyes of the American people, when the United States began to exclude immigrants from entering the country.
Being yellow and Chinese, it is hard to get along with an American in this film, and to do so in perfect harmony. Moreover, it’s a small chance that no one in the surrounding environment will show hostility towards the Chinese man.
Of course, you can use the circumstances of this story as an explanation, but at that time, in the larger American society, xenophobia or Chinese xenophobia was quite serious. That’s why the two people in the film are like dreamers themselves.
However, this film is good at turning this dream into a real thing, at least in the film we feel so. This is the charm of the film itself, to take a story that is very unlikely to happen in reality and turn it into a concrete thing, and to show it to the audience artistically, so that there is a way for people’s dreams to come true. In this way, the movie is quite good.
As a two-hour film, the film itself does not show any particularly long parts, but rather it always runs out of time without anyone noticing it.
To get back to the original question, the main reason why people like to watch movies is that they carry our dreams, and it’s a beautiful thing to keep them alive and turn them into something that can be appreciated when you do it with images. This may be one reason why this film is not offensive.
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