Watching Lust and Caution in Switzerland: Life Is Like a Play

Brett 2022-04-19 09:02:35

Wang Jiazhi, come up.

This seductive voice echoed over the empty stage, and when I looked back in panic and confusion, I saw those smiling faces of encouragement. Is it true that we all meet some people and things, and unconsciously take a different path with new and unfamiliar longings, even if we never know the beginning and never guess the end.

There are always people who are good at interpreting their own life like a play and a dream, moving others and moving themselves. Maybe they can be attributed to idealists, unwilling to be mediocre, unwilling to be lonely, unwilling to follow the common route. Safe road, always can not help but into the play, angry and ridiculous, pitiful and cute.

But this investment is sometimes quite enviable, and the dull and wonderful life is actually the difference between a single thought. If you want to impress others, you have to impress yourself first. Wang Jiazhi's success, some people say inside and outside the play, is that she takes the role she plays as herself, or it can be said that she wants to be herself. Tang Wei's success is that she can continue to act in the play, and maybe she can't tell who is the real self. But really good actors must be people with good temperament. Once they get in, they will spend too much energy to get away and may never be able to leave again. Together with the director, he must be like Ang Lee. In fact, he has already fallen to the point of exhaustion, but he still calmly plans the layout. Only then can many people with temperaments work together to create a good play and a good game.

So Eileen Chang writes novels and Ang Lee makes movies. We can see two unique plays, which are then projected into our own emotions and become our own plays, causing countless quarrels and quarrels, and becoming a rare collective of Chinese people all over the world. feast.

But even with the entanglement of national hatred and family hatred and political stance, even if there is an interesting contrast between the indifferent anatomy of the female Eileen Chang and the tenderness and compassion of the male Ang Lee, few women will hate Wang Jiazhi, even if we have been trained in life to be rational and indifferent Stand clear again. Because she is like all women who are always struggling between dreams and reality, but she will choose to bravely go forward, seemingly carrying other people's ideals, but in fact she is practicing her own beliefs and shaping her own destiny.

Kuang Yumin met Wang Jiazhi, it was his luck, his misfortune, and his life. They couldn't grasp the beautiful scenery of the full moon on the bus, but they looked at each other calmly for the last time before they were executed, and they finally evened out. The others are spectators, and only the two of them are invested, not only in love, but also in hobbies. Unfortunately, it is too difficult for men to catch up with women's psychology. But a woman who is too smart, sensitive and enthusiastic, and a young and impulsive man can not cooperate well. She was born in a wealthy family and loved to read, but she was abandoned by her family and went into exile in war. She was in her early years of love and was in full swing in her first-time cry performance. She was beautiful, self-confident, smart, and generous, and only devoted herself to performing a good show for his and her ideals. Suddenly encountered the most painful double betrayal and blow. And what else can she do besides cry and mourn the impermanence of life and the unpredictable fate in the movie theater? She will return to the old way after three years, because of fate, because she is unwilling to lose all her past efforts, and she also has a thoughtfulness and understanding to repay her old friend's apology. She is a kind person, so she didn't take that medicine.

And Wang Jiazhi touched Mr. Yi. The most subtle detail was the thoughtful gesture of reaching out and closing the door in a Japanese tavern in Hongkou. At that moment, she had already reached his heart, and she sympathized and understood that this man, despite being scorned by everyone, still retained a weak sense of self-esteem and depression. Because of this action, Mr. Yi finally knew that she understood herself, and all the defenses on his face were suddenly withdrawn. So we actually saw the accustomed sweethearts of love, he is no longer the traitor wearing a mask, and she is no longer the patriotic female student who likes to act, even though she is cute and habitually acted. , dedicated to him a song from the end of the world. For women, sympathy is often love, and guilt may be too.

After experiencing such a lingering sensational scene, even unrelated and firm spectators like us can't help but start to feel sorry for the people we love but must be separated because of fate. The purpose of several erotic scenes that drew countless saliva is to outline the subtle psychological tug of war between the two sides from fortification to disarming. Perhaps only in the naked physical entanglement, the two people have the most difficulty concealing their innermost emotions, so the unfortunate mainland audience who cannot see the original version can hardly understand how such two irrelevant hearts gradually conquered and approached. warm. If "Lust, Caution" is a tertiary film, then it must be a tertiary film made for women. It is disgusting, shocked, unexpected, and deeply deplored, moved, and shocked. Powerless.

The essence of a woman must be love first and then sex, and Wang Jiazhi's fortune in misfortune is that she can still taste a little bit of happiness from the first experience of submission, numbness, and violence, and it is the happiness of the fusion of love and desire. Therefore, few women do not sympathize with Wang Jiazhi. From the perspective of women themselves, her experience is too tragic and unacceptable. She can only overcome the cruelty of fate and the oppression of the environment by relying on her inner strength. Everyone will look forward to it. To her: Come, this is your destiny. But the gleam of light that slowly flashed in her dark destiny turned out to be the target she wanted to slaughter, to taste his flesh and brain, and to end this only care with her own hands. This care is not because Kwong Yumin can't give it, but because he has never been able to give it and doesn't want to give it to him and has more important ideals. And Mr. Yi, who was always betrayed and seduced by her, even gave it to her. What would you do if you were Wang Jiazhi.

As for the importance of diamond rings, Ang Lee has long instilled common sense in previous mahjong plays. It is not the size of the price tag, but a symbol of the importance of love. Just like the amount of money may not be important, whether it is willing to spend it on her is the most important thing, the same reason, the man who disputes money must not be cute or worth it. A woman's mentality is too subtle and complicated, with too many weaknesses, love, lust, and material desire can't escape anything, nothing can be missing, but it's too perfect and will be broken. The emotional and sensual drama has been laid out so much, and finally ended on a diamond ring. It is a wonderful portrayal of human nature.

Ang Lee's most feminine scene is Wang Jiazhi wandering aimlessly on the street alone after Mr. Fang Yi escaped. In the shop window, she stared blankly at her own shadow, dazed, vulnerable, overwhelmed, and left as if she had decided something. We all used to walk aimlessly on the street at some point in time, as if we were walking at the end of our life. Love, lust, and material desire were all reflected in the mirror of the city at this moment, and Wang Jiazhi's moral judgment finally prevailed. On the embarrassing execution ground. Does she hope to see Mr. Yi again, or does she hope to repay her guilt towards her classmates? In any case, she directed a play for herself, but involuntarily stepped into this helpless end. People who like to direct life into a play are often smart, but they often can't control the ending, and they can't escape from anticipation.

Both Kwong Yumin and Mr. Yi are much better at controlling than she is. Leaving behind a bed of snow-white folds, getting up and leaving, probably only women would be so at ease with their sacrifices that they would not regret it until death. Therefore, the gunshot did not sound in the end, was it Li An's pity, or a sigh?

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  • Mr. Yee: The people I associate with are those with high reputations.