《News of the World》- Can cure the heart pain, only close to another heart

In fact, the title of news of the world is very confusing. Looking at the plot introduction, we seem to think that this is the story of how Captain Kidd, who was a little man after the American Civil War, was involved in a shocking plot to subvert the federal government. The little girl, maybe an Indian princess, maybe had a huge fortune.

As a commercial film, isn't it the right way to do it?
Just like in the movie, Captain Kidd chooses the dangerous road without a carriage at the fork of the road, while the other road has been packed with cars and horses.
This film chooses a style different from the five traditional Hollywood styles.
Producer Naifei has enough patience and money to make a less commercial film, which is also the second film released by Tom Hanks in nearly a year, and the second film released by online streaming media (the last one was "Greyhound").
In a thick and historical background, the film tells the story of how two ordinary people repair their inner wounds through a journey.

There is no reasoning, no turning point, no mystery in the film. Even a few gunfights and two guys who look like the final boss only appear for less than 15 minutes.
In addition, the two bad guys in the film's aura and performance can be half the protagonists in other Westerns. As a result, they basically fired a few shots here. After five or six lines, the two actors can switch to other groups

Capt. Kidd, a soldier, a southern soldier who surrendered after defeat, a southern soldier who lost everything after losing his career and family success in the past. He doesn't have a secret, or even a decent pistol. He wanders around Texas, charging a dime at a time, reading newspapers for illiterate American countrymen and letting them know the news of the world. While listening to the gossip, they laugh and scold when they hear the name of the federal government

Johanna, a descendant of a German immigrant, was robbed by the Indians when she was a child, and became a half Indian who only spoke Kiowa. Her parents died, and she did not carry a shocking secret with her. She had no proud blood. She would be swallowed by cruel nature and greedy people whenever she was thrown to the ground in that wild west.

The whole story line is a dead leaf old man who is floating with the wind, and takes a lonely woman who is similar to the wild man to her only family and aunt's house.
The story happened in the 1960s and 1970s, and the film also tried to restore the history of that time. What I said here is not only props, but the antique of houses, vehicles and costumes is not obvious. The most successful imitation of this film is that the group performers in the film are not their clothes, but they reflect the mentality of the Texans and the southern Americans at that time.
Black, Indian and northerners were the people who were killed by the southerners. We can see the black people who were hanged, the Indian tribes who were destroyed by the regiment and the residents of the small town scolded and disdained the northern garrison.

In the eyes of the southerners, it seems that the world owes them, and they are all against them, so some people.
And this resentment seems to have been infected with Hollywood, making the South seem too untrue in many films.
The southerners are like aristocrats. In the "beautiful people in the troubled times", we watch Scarlett in big skirts dance with the well-dressed white red in the pavilion.

Southerners are knights. In the birth of a country, they smash the plot to establish the so-called "black kingdom". Although Captain Kidd is a Texan, he holds a neutral perspective, so we can see a more real Southern world.
Illiterate, lawless, rebellious and pretending to "build a new country", which is based on the large-scale hunting of American buffaloes (the scenes of being slaughtered and skinned echo the scenes of buffaloes galloping on the grassland at the beginning, which makes my heart tremble). They sell people, Lynch black people and kill Indians.

Maybe this is the real South, the real post Civil War world.

So in this chaotic and cruel world, this young and old, from the beginning of the friction and conflict to later never leave, let people feel the warmth, like the lights in the dark, more and more dazzling.

Generally speaking, the films of this kind of old and young partners who understand each other through their journey are relatively successful, such as "chasing the barbarians", "summer of kijiro", "amazing rescue", "angry rescue", "earth thunder" and so on. The differences between adults and children in values, habits, perspectives and many other aspects give the film unlimited space, regardless of the country, form and style of the film.

This kind of heart to heart closeness is not achieved overnight, especially for Captain Kidd, his inner pain is more obvious, and whether the relationship between the two people is further promoted or not also needs him as a driving force.

Captain Kidd lost his property after the war, which seems to be the reason why he wandered around on the surface. In the end, we can see that the real reason why he didn't dare to go back home is that he couldn't face the fact that his wife died. The wandering in recent years is to escape. After he sent Johanna home, he finally summoned up the courage to go back to his hometown to face the past. When he finally took off his wedding ring and let go When he arrives at his wife's grave, it marks his sad farewell to the past. After that, galloping represents his inner desire for a new life. He immediately finds Johanna, and they can become real family now.

Johanna is relatively simple. After all, she is a girl under ten years old. She is relatively simple. We can see clearly how Captain Kidd's care warms the child, and makes her from resistance to vision, and then to life and death. And Johanna also showed her intelligence and bravery in the film, such as changing the shotgun with coins temporarily, injuring the villains with guns, negotiating with Indians, etc., which made her show her unique charm on the very ordinary human settings.

Finally, at the reading scene, Johnna's surname has been changed to Kidd, which means she has become a foster daughter, and Captain Kidd's reading has become more vivid and interesting, especially the changes of audience in the field, from frown and anger at the end of the film to laughter at the end of the film, and also expresses the situation and inner transformation of the protagonists.
Yes, the war is over. It's time to laugh.