National Assembly delegate talks about the controversy over the history of Southern Forest Land and publicly supports the film?

Recently, Southern Forest Land is the movie that is said to have received the second most attacks ever. Even people who haven't seen it are competing to insult each other...

Up to now, "Southern Forest Land" directed by Nguyen Quang Dung is still a hot topic, attracting public attention. Since its release, the film has been entangled in many controversies over its content and details that are considered historically inaccurate. After that, the Cinema Department re-evaluated the work, and at the same time the producer had to edit some details and dialogues in the film.

Facing the fierce controversy about the film, during a discussion at the recent group on socio-economic reports of the National Assembly, delegate Bui Hoai Son - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Culture and Education Committee said that the story contained in "Southern Forest Land" is not limited to just one movie, but is broader than the perspective on historical filmmaking, artistic creation and art market development. art for the home country.

"Resolution 23-NQ/TW of the Politburo on continuing to build and develop literature and arts in the new period emphasized: "Literature and arts are very important and especially delicate fields of culture". And using historical materials to create literature and art is something that is very encouraging but faces many risks", Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Hoai Son assessed.

Citing the movie "Southern Forest Land", the National Assembly delegate said that it is necessary to have a fair and supportive view of cultural and artistic products, especially works that exploit historical materials. Because, in the current context, historical artistic creativity must also be viewed more "openly", listened to more positively, and supported more.

Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Hoai Son also hopes that the audience will support the movie "Southern Forest Land" in particular, Vietnamese cinema and art in general, especially literary and artistic works that exploit historical materials. history.

As for the film's director - Nguyen Quang Dung, he just posted a letter on his personal page about his "brainchild" and expressed his concern about the culture of insulting and humiliating a part of the audience.

"There are a lot of people attacking the movie Southern Forest these days, they even insult... I read it all and see that most of those extremists have not seen the movie. They listen here, listen there and develop further in the direction they want to insult," the director wrote.

Nguyen Quang Dung added angrily: "They said they wore Chinese clothes in the movie. They showed evidence of a character playing a Chinese character or took out a picture of the MV. The MV is an actor appearing to record, wearing natural clothes. due.

As you can see, some people wear shirts and vests, sometimes the designer gives them to them and they just wear them. Or they take pictures from movies of characters in disguise. In general, they try to find every possible way to prove that the movies are full of other countries' costumes. Anyone who watches the movie will know it's not like that."

At the same time, the director also affirmed that "Southern Forest Land" has no political intentions and explained the details of the film that were criticized for distorting history. "They repeatedly mentioned the Thien Dia Hoi and Nghia Hoa Doan groups as a main content in the film.

In the movie there are only 4 lines of dialogue about groups, it is a very small part of the movie. It describes an association/group of the Chinese group in Vietnam. When I, the screenwriter, editor, and consultant, named Thien Dia Hoi, it was for the following reason:

The Southern Forest Land version, adapted from the Southern Forest TV version, also has details about Mr. Tieu belonging to the Thien Dia Hoi group. At that time, writer Son Nam was an advisor to director Vincent Son of the television version. The two of them changed the time of the novel (no historical characters) from the 1940s to before 1930 when there was no Viet Minh, so the TV version has an episode about Dong Noc Nan.

The story of Southern Forest Land also changed in the same way, because we see that in this way the boy An will wander through many environments, groups, through many cultures and ideals of the people of the Southern region when fighting in the times. period is still very spontaneous. Each group, each person has its own way, through which An gradually grew up along the struggles to find the true ideal," Nguyen Quang Dung said.

This director also emphasized that "Southern Forest Land" is a film for the whole family, a family film, connecting generations. Furthermore, the ideology of the work is to promote human love and love for the land. All adult characters, despite their different ideals, look in the same direction to protect the next generation.

The director of "Southern Forest Land" admitted that there are details that he did not do well, that were not really excellent, and that whether the audience likes or dislikes is very normal. However, the insults and humiliation of a part of the audience made him feel uneasy.

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