1. Background and story 1. The grief of the nation The Chinese nation has not never been destroyed. The Mongolian Genghis Khan in the front and the Jurchen (the latter was later renamed the Manchu Dynasty) all flattened the land of China in a short period of time. The Chinese nation has not experienced massacres. In the place where the "Ten Days of Yangzhou" and "Three Massacres in Jiading" were launched after the Manchus entered the customs 300 years ago, the capital of the Republic of China suffered the humiliating "Nanjing Massacre". As we all know, it is no longer the Jurchen, but the Japanese who set off a bloody storm this time as the conqueror. The film tells the story of this period. Different from other historical films about the Nanjing Massacre, this film restores the bearers of grief to the few broken people who survived. Indeed, more important than the cold death numbers are those who have also lived. living entity. 2, The film of Destiny brings the big contradiction of foreign invasion and the small contradiction of the conflict of consciousness between two groups of women and goes straight to the climax of the narrative. The story has two layers of dramatic conflict, one big and one small. On the big side, the sparse defenders confront the Japanese invaders step by step in a church, starting with street fighting and rooftop ambush; on the small side, there is a battle between girls and prostitutes in the church with preconceived ideas. The moral conflict culminated in the row over the toilet, and began to be resolved shortly after the Japanese incursion caused by a deadly bullet. The students gave up the opportunity to hide in order to protect the prostitutes in the cellars; the prostitutes raised the wounded soldiers affectionately and attracted the students' eyes. In a living environment of extreme fear, these few days of mutual support has actually inspired the most generous and selfless death. Count carefully, not thirteen hairpins, but fourteen hairpins. These fourteen Qinhuai women who came here with a sultry arrogance are the uninvited guests of the sacred place of the church, and they are dirty prostitutes. Angel of principle. The chastity student and the shameless bitch have become a pair of metaphors in the film, which are imposed on people's double beautiful imagination of the female soul and body, and the massacre that shatters this beautiful imagination will follow. A great "tragedy" is achieved in the most classical dramatic way. Another clue is that John, the wandering mortician who entered the church for money, appeared in the shape of a sloppy drunk, full of nonsense and vulgar behavior, and he didn't look "heroic" at all, but as the film unfolded, he After several struggles, fear and helplessness, he finally pretended to be a priest and provoked the responsibility of protecting the students. After the painful choice of sleepless nights, he finally put the beauty he dressed up on the truck. 2. Character depiction The outstanding feature of the film lies in the depiction of the characters. The women are all great because of their kindness and tenacity, and the men are brave, strong and stalwart. Whether it is a man or a woman, it has become a landscape that will never fade. 1. Jade ink. Yu Mo is the leader of these dusty women. With her beauty and wisdom, John completely evolved from a corpse collector to a priest, and then to a humanitarian hero. She played a bit of a play-by-play, and through a series of vague hints and clear hints, made John unknowingly be a priest, and then assumed the role of a priest who remembered the deceased without hesitation, and protected the girls in the church school. Her mature beauty and femininity were penetrating from the inside out to the point where it was irresistible, and her chubby air and brothel style, along with twisting her waist and shaking her hips and shaking her head, made John and the priest fascinated. In the end, it was her who took the lead and formed the thirteen girls who decided to go to disaster for the thirteen girls. This little girl was raped by her adoptive father when she was young The dust girl, I don't know how much I can't bear to look back on, and I don't know how much is stronger than ordinary. She went to disaster with a generous look. Although it is not suitable to call her a martyr, at least she can be called a martyr. 2. Pandan. Along with cardamom to die for love, is pandan. She returned to the brothel just to get the earrings. No one knew how important the earring was to her, or what she would do with that thing in a life-threatening environment. Maybe it was given by her favorite, maybe it was like the jade bracelet in Little Mosquito's hand, which was given by a client who claimed to "redeem himself". The heartbreak was when she found the earrings in the drawer, and put them on in front of several clean mirrors and admired them. She loves beautiful looks, loves beautiful emotions, and her beauty-loving nature is fully revealed. When she was being pursued by Japanese soldiers, she curled up behind Cardamom and shivered, but when she was hit by a bullet, she managed to hug a Japanese soldier's leg so that Cardamom could gain time to escape. The enraged Japanese soldiers turned around and killed her and raped her. At that moment, she forgot her beauty, her fear, and her life. The blood-stained cheongsam, wrapped in her beautiful figure, radiated the most beautiful human brilliance. 3. priest. Father John was actually a priest. This American was originally a corpse collector who had been in Taoism for five years. He fell into the chaos of Nanjing, and it was the priest who came to collect the body for the church. He faced the big pit after the priest was "flyed" by the Japanese shells, and then he was ready to take the opportunity to escape. However, God sentenced him to realize the rebirth of his own personality in Nanjing, China, and he finally led a group of Chinese girls to escape from the tiger's mouth. He fell in love with Yu Mo, a prostitute, and vowed to take her back to his hometown after the war, and even confessed that he loved everything about her, including her miserable childhood and her unbearable way of making a living. In the beginning, this corpse collector was a playboy, or a second-rate in George's mouth. He just wanted to take advantage of the famous prostitute Yu Mo, or quickly complete the physical transaction. His words and deeds were out of line, and even said his lover's breasts and butts Such dirty talk. But in the end, his resolute eyes hidden behind the car window, his witty performance of deceiving the Japanese soldiers with wine and wine, made this simple foreign person immediately tall and vivid. 4. George. George is even more memorable. This outcast picked up by the former priest from the roadside, learned a little stammering English from the former priest, and did some miscellaneous chores for the church. After witnessing the ex-priest being bombed and "flying", the young man actually became a man overnight. In order to protect the thirteen girls, he contributed greatly. At first, his clumsy performance that even a mere thirteen people could not count, made people doubt his culture and even his IQ. And in the end, he resolutely pretended to be the thirteenth prostitute to go on the expedition, which made people feel that he was a man who stood upright. Although he is young, he definitely understands that this move will definitely end badly in the end. But in order to implement the former priest's order to "protect girls well", he was resolute without any hesitation. Although the fate of him and the twelve prostitutes was imagined by Lao Mozi with pity on the audience, the tragic and sublime imagination is still awe-inspiring. 5. Instructor Li. Instructor Li is a typical Chinese soldier. He is resourceful, knows how to shock tanks with high-voltage electricity, can distribute and stack grenades and beat them one after another. He beat the entire team of Japanese soldiers into a daze, and finally let the Japanese soldiers die with him, and then effectively protected the girls. them. When he carried the seriously injured Pusheng to the church, facing the wanton humiliation of the prostitutes, he swallowed his voice and performed his duties, hiding silently nearby to protect Pusheng and the women in distress. The Chinese soldiers he represents have the strong blood of the soldiers, and also have the instinct to see death as home in the face of a strong enemy. At the end, the scene where all the jade and stones were burned was bloody and even bloody. It's a pity that an individual like Instructor Li, no matter how strong, was not enough to make up for the overall weakness of the military government at that time. in doomed defeat The soldiers who are still stubbornly resisting may be the real soldiers, the real men. 6. Translator. Like a man, there is also the translator played by the famous host Cao Kefan. He grasped the dual identities of "traitor" and "kind father" just right. In order to survive and rescue his daughter who was trapped in the church, he worked for the Japanese soldiers and endured the contempt of people, including his own daughter, a "traitor". Compared to Instructor Li, compared to George, and even compared to Father Bei, his personality is undoubtedly shorter, and even his waist seems to have never been straight. However, he provided the pass for the girls to escape successfully, and he did everything possible to find the tools to fix the car. Although he did not see whether his daughter escaped or not, he was shot to death by the deranged Japanese soldiers, but the His personality finally straightened up when he crashed to the ground. A "To Gu play" between him and John, and John's saying to Er Shujuan, "Your father is a good man, your father is a good man...", were full of affection and made people cry. 3. There are many flaws in the movie, even if there are many wonderful points, it is difficult to hide the many flaws in the movie. 1, The Japanese in the narrow-minded nationalist films are all evil, described as wretched, barbaric uncles who only have animalistic desires. When chasing the female students, these beasts shouted "all virgins", and then drove the twelve or thirteen-year-old children to scream and flee, until they fell to their deaths. Hasegawa, who was among the Japanese soldiers, was a bit of a man. He could speak fluent English and play the beautiful pipe organ, but he detained the female students in the church so that they could sing and devote themselves to the subsequent celebration of the occupation of Nanjing by the Japanese army. These children have suffered brutal physical and mental torture, which shows that they are not as good as animals and have a heart of snakes and scorpions. If we have the ability to think independently, we can't help but wonder: Was the Chinese nation easily conquered by such a group of Japanese who were crooked, cats and dogs? If this is the case, isn't the Chinese nation too rotten? So far, all the Japanese in movies about Japan's invasion of China have this kind of virtue. This can certainly arouse the Chinese people's hatred and abuse of the Japanese, and subsequently stimulate the flood of patriotism, but it will inevitably fall into the rut of narrow nationalism. As mentioned earlier, the Chinese nation is not without its subjugation. The Jurchen (Manchu Qing Dynasty) ruled China with a mere million people. After 260 years, the Jurchen as a nation, whether barbaric or civilized, they no longer exist. Their language and writing have since disappeared without a trace, and everything has melted. In the Chinese Empire with a population of 400 million peasants. And when the Japanese like to scold Japan, we also like to scold Japan. Because only scolding the Japanese is the safest and "patriotic". Therefore, the Chinese still scold Japan while watching Sony TV; they still scold Japan after watching "Huang Ama"; they still scold Japan while sitting in a Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. 100 years ago, countless Chinese people were so patriotic. They shouted to kill all foreigners, kill all traitors and boycott foreign goods. The hot-blooded Boxers were turned to ashes under the fire of Mark Qin's machine guns and smoothbore cannons, and then their children were sacrificed by nobles. The guillotine of the Empire of God. Going forward another 100 years, when the British gunboats went to China, the American gunboats went to Japan. The Manchu rulers were defeated, and the arrogant Jurchen rulers suffered defeat for the first time, which they called humiliation. The Japanese also fought, and then conceded defeat. From then on, a Perry Park was built in Yokosuka City, and a monument was erected to commemorate the invader Perry, who made Japan open and reformed, and embarked on the road of prosperity and strength. The evil and darkness displayed by the Holocaust is not the evil and darkness of a dictator, nor the evil and darkness of a government or a nation, but the evil and darkness of human nature. In this sense, the Holocaust that everyone participated in. When the flood is heavy, every drop of water is involved in crime. if It may be more in line with the fact that it can slightly improve the individual image of the Japanese. 2. The biggest flaw of Zhang Yimou is that the film is full of sexual hints in the background of a Japanese army massacre. Although the sex scene is very short, the core of the whole plot is the Japanese soldiers' camaraderie towards 13 female students. coveted. It is very inappropriate to inject "sex" into a disaster like the Nanjing Massacre. But this is the core element of the film, which makes the film contrived and unconvincing, and the authenticity and credibility of the story are questioned. In addition, most of the scenes in the film are contrary to common sense. For example, the fleeing prostitutes are too flamboyant, and their dresses and tricks can't forget the "show" sexy. This kind of fragrant scene can only be made up by a scholar who has never been in a slaughterhouse. For example, in order to sing "Qinhuai Qiuyue" to the dying Pu Sheng, Cardamom, together with Xianglan, has "magical powers" to hide. The Japanese soldiers who passed the wall ran back to the brothel to find Pipaxian regardless of their lives. Also, if you read some historical materials after the fall of Nanjing, you will know that all the churches and the demarcated safe areas were filled with refugees and overcrowded. Only a dozen girls took refuge in the empty cathedral in the movie, and then more than a dozen prostitutes poured in; except for a wounded person brought in by a soldier of the national army, the refugees from all walks of life who should have flocked in were shaved. Clean and tidy. Just think, apart from the need for a one-act play, how is this possible? This is complete fiction, with absolutely no sense of history at all. In the end, the fake priest drove the car, deceived the stupid Japanese with three or four cases of wine, and took the female student out of Nanjing safely. 3. The form of expression is too ugly. Judging from the content, the theme of this film is to express the brilliance of humanism, and to seek (oh, my seeking is too good - Zhang Yimou's pursuit) to make it an art full of patriotism work. Formally, this movie is a typical pornographic movie, selling pornography under the banner of patriotism. The whole film runs through the scenes of gunpowder smoke, flesh and blood, foul language, wanton massacre, ruthless rape and so on. Frankly speaking, this film, which is full of murderous violence and pornographic obscenity, will be called a restricted-grade film even in the developed market economy countries of the West. Although the director put the story in the specific historical environment of the Nanjing Massacre, the decadent commercial atmosphere in the film still blows. It mobilized all sensory stimulation factors, and showed almost all the technical means and expressions of modern industrial films. The director's approach is disgusting. Speechless, I can only call on the old men and women of the State Film Administration who are responsible for approving and deciding which movies we assholes can only watch to establish a movie rating system as soon as possible. No matter how wonderful, active and patriotic this "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is, it should be classified as a movie that is not suitable for children. Think about it, if we take our young children to see such a movie, is it appropriate? Such a movie, it is said that it is going to hit the Oscars, is a big joke in my opinion. 4. They never die Although the flaws of the film are obvious, it is undeniable that the logic of the story is relatively strict. John got the unique status of a mortician because his young daughter wanted her to not be too ugly when she died; he rushed out as a fake priest because he thought his dead child was so old to live; Yumo said sister went for you because I felt that I had suffered as much as a child; my father stayed as a traitor and sent tools and property to the fake priest to send the Japanese soldiers because the child was still here; George pretended to be a girl instead because the dead priest asked to take care of these girls; he stayed in the country outside the church. Perhaps the military instructor stayed on hold because the gun in his hand could protect these children. There is no love or hate for no reason, everything has a cause. At the same time, the flaws in the film cannot affect our respect and thinking about the brilliance of human nature. The most powerful and meaningful part of the film is John's question: a prostitute on one side and a child on the other, let that die? Yeah, even if they are prostitutes, should their lives be worth less than children? They are all human, why use prostitutes for students? "Women and women are equal before God". The only explanation is that Yu Mo said that the Japanese are just trying to be happy. As long as they can come out, they can make do with it, but those female students may not survive. Yumo, Doukou, Pandan, Hongling, Little Mosquito... All the thirteen hairpins have a light spot of human nature. Especially when they went through painful entanglements and finally boarded the Japanese soldier's cart with glass fragments or scissors to die for their young sisters or die, the "sister, live for my sister" they left behind. , showing that although their "occupation" is dirty, it does not affect the purity of their hearts. The "Qinhuai Scenery" performed for the sisters before the trip was easily ridiculed by them as "showing one's hand", but it was so beautiful that it made people feel soft inside and out. Especially when they are lined up against the light, wearing colorful close-fitting cheongsams, and singing soft songs, they are completely beyond the impression of women in the past, and they are sublimated into the most beautiful chapters of women in the world. In the end, they knew that hell was ahead, but they went there without turning back, which was even more tragic and beautiful, which was admirable. John's unique identity as a mortician has become a person who can maintain the last dignity of the dead, so that the victims of the Holocaust disaster seem to have never died. With a pair of wonderful hands that can make the face of the deceased forever, he made his daughter who died unexpectedly stay in her childhood, and also made the soldier who died heroically still a teenager, and finally made the vicissitudes of Qinhuai girl return to her dream of being a student. The thirteen hairpins of Jinling, these great women, in the hands of John, they never died; when the flood is raging, every drop of water is involved in crime; when fighting the enemy bravely, every sacrifice is forever Immortal; generous in times of trouble, every redemption is boundless love. Jinling Thirteen Hairpins, these great women, in our hearts, they never died.
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