But what the film presents is not Eileen Chang, it’s a story written by Eileen Chang through the mouths of others, a reminiscence of the beauty of the eyes, a re-creation that has diluted the author’s brand, another retelling of succession and transformation, another one Sing three sighs of liver and intestines.
Listen to the call sign of the student drama club "China must not be forgotten", the singing of the left-wing movies "Tao Li Jie" and "Angel on the Road", the refugees and starvation, the white and terrifying wolf teeth, the gloom of Huxi No. 76, These symbols do not need to be laid out too much in the image, and are enough to construct a mood for Chinese people who are familiar with that period of history.
Yes, it's emotions. Whether writing or filming, all narratives that face the past are a personal retelling. All the so-called truths of the past are reproduced in the contemporary era through the emotional color filter of the retelling. Eileen Chang’s emotions in writing Lust, Caution, and There are subtle differences in the emotions narrated in the film, even if they are telling the same story and lamenting the same fate of the same characters.
Li An is gentle, Zhang Ailing is fierce, Li An conforms to the crowd, and Zhang Ailing is lonely. Ang Lee sympathizes with the world, and Eileen Chang sympathizes with the world—or, to put it further, Ang Lee doubts in sympathy, and Eileen Chang sympathizes in doubt. Therefore, Ang Lee's sentimentality is not exactly the same as Eileen Chang's sentimentality. Personally, I am more receptive to Ang Lee's sentimentality, which is very warm.
Zhang Ailing also wrote about Wang Jiazhi's patriotic student life, and when Tang Wei's plain noodles with clear soup noodles appeared on the screen, she was simple and reserved, with no amazing talent in her eyes and lips, just like any exiled girl whose country is broken and her family is scattered. , wrote a letter to his father on another isolated island, and cried innocently in the cinema for a Hollywood black and white romance. She makes you unable to imagine that this is a little beauty written by Eileen Chang who has carefully resisted all pursuits since she was a girl. She is lonely, simple, thoughtful, insecure inside and calm on the surface. She doesn't have much scheming, but she is full of fantasies and loves watching movies, so she has a talent for acting, which is the nature of a loner. The troupe asked her to play a role, and she naturally fell into the role, whether on stage or in a beautician scheme. The actor who was too involved in the drama completely gave himself to the fictional role. ——Old Wu said that Wang Jiazhi has an advantage. She only thinks she is Mrs. Mai, not an intelligence person. This makes the veteran agent Mr. Yi lose his guard and only think that she is a pure Mrs. Mai.
When the members of the student troupe sang the graduation song of "Tao Li Jie" in the cold rain in Hong Kong, "Classmates, get up and take responsibility for the rise and fall of the world!" When Wang Jiazhi was on the upper deck of the double-decker bus, she stuck her head in the rain and smiled At the same time, this picture cannot but be said to be the most emotional part in the film, and it is also the sweetest youthful moment of the heroine. At this time, you can't deny that there is warm sympathy and praise in Ang Lee's intentions, even if this sweetness is so fleeting and gone forever, it is as short as irony.
But Eileen Chang's sympathy in the original is not so warm. The students' enthusiasm for resisting Japan and saving the nation, Zhang Ailing wrote in the style of looking down on history, with calm memories, maybe in her experience, she has never seen these too thoroughly, so she never lacked trust in fanatical love and hate, and even Don't pretend too much sympathy. Too cold and even with a hint of irony, she looked at it coldly when others praised her, but she gave a deep observation when others despised it. The collapse of the country and the collapse of the family, like the love of a falling city, arouses the sighs and contemplation of life. "We are the fragrance of peaches and plums today, and the pillars of society tomorrow, huge waves, huge waves, constantly growing..." Songs like this, when Zhang Ailing was very young, could not arouse her passion and heart. Wang Jiazhi in her writing is smart and easy-going like a rich girl, but she may not be able to simply smile in the rain on the streets late at night like the orphan girl in the movie.
Another left-wing movie song from the 1930s, "The End of the World Song Girl", is also a clear proof of the "non-Chang Ailing" factor in the film. It happens to be the climax of the movie. After singing and sighing, Wang Jiazhi pushed forward one by one, which moved Mr. Yi, and also stimulated the emotions of the audience, until it overcame the audience's calm bystander stance.
I don't know if Mr. Yi began to feel that the other party was so innocent and funny when he sang a left-wing movie ditty for the head of the traitor in the tavern where the Japanese gathered - this wouldn't be Zhang Ailing's design. Not Zhang's way. But the fun made the tired Mr. Yi lose his guard.
The ends of the earth, the corners of the world, the search for a
soulmate , the
little sister singing, the singing, and the piano, and the
two of us are of one heart
. This is a warm-up scene, and it is also half-truth and sincere. The students went into the war of resistance with patriotic enthusiasm, but they did not know the cruelty of the war. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, people wrote the poem "You are a thief of the country, I am a broken family". Personal dignity and safety were crushed in hatred and fear. Some were crushed in the name of nobleness, and some were crushed in the name of petty. There is no turning back.
When Wang Jiazhi experienced a series of ideal disillusionment, when Mr. Yi relaxed his guard and complained, Wang Jiazhi realized ironically that from the most essential source, she and Mr. Yi were not necessarily proving each other's "real existence". -- This origin is perhaps most intuitively felt in sexual contact. So when Wang Jiazhi reported to Lao Wu about her sexual intercourse with Mr. Yi, hoping her boss would understand her enormous mental pressure, Lao Wu arrogantly refused to listen. On the one hand, it is the concept of the Chinese people. On the other hand, he is unwilling to face such too profound revelations from his subordinates. revenge becomes absurd paranoia.
Jiashan, looking to the north,
tears and tears , my
little sister misses my husband until today , my dear friend in
adversity and deep love
Wang Jiazhi is not a soldier, not a well-trained espionage officer, a lonely schoolgirl who longs for a companion, a genius in the play actor.
After the first paragraph, he paused for a while and started, obviously improving the meaning.
This is a clear grief of the family and the country. Saying to the traitor leader, "The country is broken, the mountains and rivers are in the city, and the grass and trees are deep in the city." In the turbulent political arena in modern times, almost everyone has overly complex concerns and scheming, so they can avoid the simple concept of national festivals. Almost everyone succumbs to various interests and fears, and then spreads terror. From Mr. Yi’s description of Shanghai Judging from the work of West 76, he may not feel depressed and distorted. He is so complicated that there is no simple love and hate, right and wrong, only the need for survival, and only intrigue. The simple "home mountain" thought is a place that can call out the soft heart of every Chinese.
Who doesn't cherish life, cherish youth
, little sister is like a thread, like a needle
, Lang can't be separated when worn together,
love, love, Lang ,
wear together and can't be separated
Youth, Wang Jiazhi sighs about her youth, throwing it lightly in the cold rain. Purity, justice and friendship, what came after, twisted sex, violence, contemptuous eyes, rude scolding, man is a weapon, Mr. Yi's youth, not explained in the movie, drowned in the tired eyes of middle-aged people ——He mentioned that the prisoner he just caught was a classmate in the party school when he was young, and his brain blood spattered a leather shoe. He and his current enemy were also teenagers. Life in troubled times is so illusory, like a lie, when will the reeds and the bright moon return together?
Wang Jiazhi let go of Mr. Yi, and also buried the names of herself and her classmates. When she came out of the jewelry store alone, the street seemed to be quiet and lively, but it was suddenly unfamiliar, as if it was just a play and a movie, now it's over, The young tricycle driver swerved in the street, "Go home", she was like an actor who forgot the end of the play, she was too successful and failed, no one cheered, only the death of the grandfather clock 10 times, the curtain call for her.
Of course, there is another Mr. Yi in the dark. He weeps sadly. He doesn't know that these 10 bells mean that he is an actor who has returned home after a performance, or a good actor who has made a new appearance.
Perhaps only at this moment, Ang Lee's films and Eileen Chang's novels come to the same destination without being noticed. It's just that Ang Lee's sentimentality and sighs are still clearer than Eileen Chang's. If you don't believe me, go to the end of the novel.
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