Artistic Value and Social Reflections of Realistic Movies

Abstract

The movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is both an inheritance of neo-realist movies and an innovation based on it. The movie "I am not the God of Medicine" is a realist drama film directed by Wen Muye and produced by Ning Hao and Xu Zheng. The storyline in the movie is based on real-life events. Taking drug selling as a clue, the movie portrays a team of five drug sellers with different professions and personalities, and through a three-part narrative structure, each paragraph sets up a convincing plot point, parsing it out layer by layer, the protagonist is forced to become a "superhero" from the boss of a marketplace peddler in the end. The film uses the localized image construction of the Hao Cai Wu style narrative, the interaction between the fate of small characters and traditional philosophical concepts, and the imaginative transformation of the environment under the intertwining of documentary and art, to reproduce the real life of the characters at the bottom of the social ladder, and to truthfully and dramatically expose and criticize the true state of the society, focusing on the return of the value of life and exploration, highlighting the aesthetical characteristics of artistic innovation, which has a very great social value and practical significance. It has great social value and practical significance.