Ang Lee's adaptation is more like comparing human nature and ideology from an ethical point of view, from Mr. Yi and Wang Jiazhi of the first nature to Wang Jiazhi and Kwong Yumin of the second nature.
As early as in the occupied areas during the Anti-Japanese War, there was a puppet traitor Wang who visited Japanese comfort women in a Japanese military brothel in Zhenjiang. Under the high-sounding ideals and holiness, it is tainted with decadent and prostitute desires.
Before the film depicts the love between Mr. Yi and Wang Jiazhi, the film is always based on the anti-Japanese and national salvation of the classmates and teenagers. Under the leadership of the idealist Kuang Yumin, a group of hot-blooded youths plotted to shoot the fake traitor Wang. This group of students who have just stepped off the stage of the patriotic drama has not yet woken up in the idealized illusion. They are carrying a trick to try to subvert the Japanese army's fortress. However, pure spirit is just like the saying "China cannot die", it can only infect people's enthusiasm and inspire more spirits. When facing the enemy head-on, it is tantamount to a white wolf with empty gloves.
What really needs to serve the country is the body. In order to successfully seduce Mr. Yi, Wang Jiazhi sacrificed his chastity, not to the handsome and suave ideal incarnation of Kuang Yumin, but to the wretched Liang Runsheng, who relied on the funds of the assassination funded by Huang Lei to go to prostitutes, and he had sex. Experience, so it is a matter of course to become Wang Jiazhi's enlightenment. Kuang Yumin just hid on the balcony far away, waiting for the woman he liked to sacrifice. The anti-Japanese hero can lead a knife into a quick success, but cannot be contaminated with the pornographic affairs in the lotus tent.
This is as absurd as the traitor's "curve to save the country", but Wang Jiazhi is the first person to experience the physical price from it. Servicing the country is not a symbolic ceremony of high fighting spirit on the stage. the temple pulled down. That's why she lost control of her emotions when she murdered the traitor Qian Jiale and ran away. The classmates took turns slashing, rejoicing in favor and hatred, but it was a small talent with great use. A group of killers lacked the most basic training to kill, so that Qian Jiale was repeatedly stabbed to death. The lightness of the soul and the weight of the flesh are evident. Realistic service to the country requires stabs with stabs and blood flowing like a stab at the blood. It is a bloody fight between the flesh and the flesh. That night Wang Jiazhi caught a glimpse of the hideous face of the ideal, so she fled.
The second meeting with Kwong Yumin is the beginning of Wang Jiazhi's approach to Mr. Yi. Wang Jiazhi is no longer the same as she used to be. The mediocre life and bleak future make her yearn for the path of passion. This decision is not involuntarily. , and there is no hesitation, patriotism may only be an excuse for grandeur, and what is more tempting is the experience of life. So she accepted the task of the Chongqing Assassination Organization, just like going back to school and continuing to do the rest of her homework.
Mr. Yi is the opposite of Kwong Yumin. He is a person who relies on the body to feel the existence of the soul. He is nothing more than a man who loves women. He was adapted by Li Anxing into a tangled ritual of spirit and flesh. Wang Jiazhi quickly became involved in the role. Exhausting the charm and arrogance of women, I want to get into Mr. Yi's heart. And Mr. Yi just borrowed Wang Jiazhi's body to find the ventilation hole of his soul. Danton was indifferent to death before being executed by Robespierre, but he also had to adjust his mood to the height of sex, "I want to be like stepping off the bed of a girl who is pushing rain and dew, not like leaving the confession chair Say goodbye to life in that way." Sexuality and death are often signs of existence and loss of existence. Mr. Yi lived a life where his life was hanging by a thread, and the feeling of his existence lost in the midst of life and death can be recovered through Wang Jiazhi's body. Wang Jiazhi's savage and charming is undoubtedly an anomaly, which shocked Mr. Yi to the sky. people.
Compared with Liang Runsheng's sexual enlightenment, Mr. Yi is more like a person who taught Wang Jiazhi to lift up his body. He cut a path to the soul from her body with unparalleled pain, just as the puppeteer in "The Double Life of Veronica" intends to get close to Veronica's soul by making love.
In the song "Singing Girl in the End of the World", Wang Jiazhi saw the true face of his soul. It was far from Kuang Yumin's generosity with a knife, but a friend in need and a deep love. Living on the edge of the blade, sympathy for each other is only a temporary state, and a long-term separation is an eternal state of existence. Wang and Yi finally completed the mutual traction between spirit and flesh.
Therefore, the phrase "Let's go" in the jewelry store is a moment of sincerity. After that, Wang Jiazhi was still a patriotic youth, and Mr. Yi was still a fake traitor.
In the flashbacks of memories, Wang Jiazhi's consciousness was flowing. Once upon a time, the classmates called her back, "Wang Jiazhi, come up!" That was the fork in the fate, at the age when the proud soul did not need the body. Later, the needs of the body once stripped the soul. And now sitting on the rickshaw, the entanglement of the flesh allows her to reach the soul again. Wang Anyi said in Chen Kaige's "Fengyue" creation talk that she advocated replaying the character's childhood scene at the end of the film to remind the audience of the character's growth process. Wang Jiazhi's turn in the theater undoubtedly reminded this point. It is precisely that the characters have experienced three separations and intergenerations of spirit and flesh.
Wang Jiazhi got on the rickshaw, the tri-color windmill turned exquisitely, and answered the driver's "go home?", which really answered the saying of "seeing death as home". The real view of death is not because of the belief of "as long as the doctrine is true", but just a A feeling of relief, just like the end of an exam.
Mr. Yi shot Wang Jiazhi and blocked the way out of his soul. The ancients would say that the biggest problem for people is that I have a body. Whether it is Yi who is panicking or waiting to be shot in the countryside without a single student who chooses to commit suicide by swallowing medicine, the heaviness of the body is the normal state of life, but Jiazhi and Mr. Yi The souls, once in the moment of life, embraced each other without any guilt.
This film also completes the proposition of human nature and ideology from the perspective of calm reproduction.
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