Life is like a drama, drama is like life

Jeff 2022-04-24 07:01:18

If a person lives too pure, he is destined to be buried in the turbulent world. Just like Cheng Dieyi in Farewell My Concubine, in her whole life, she only sang a piece of Peking Opera and only loved a section of Xiaolou. And out of his instinctive desire for life, his brother Duan Xiaolou betrayed his fellowship and his own love, the famous prostitute who desperately wanted to live a stable life with him----Ju Xian . Juxian is a prostitute, but also a little woman. She narrowly loves the "Chu Overlord" who firmly catches her in Huamanlou, and resolutely entrusts her life to him. A man who truly treats himself, and a desire to live an ordinary, normal life. From the good decision of "angry sinking the treasure chest" to the mother, to the arrogance of swearing to save her husband never to see each other, to finally seeing the true face of Xiaolou, life has no love, Feng Guanxia, ​​a white silk shatters the ghost, to express the struggle against the twisted world. In her life, love is all she has, and if she loses love, she loses the meaning of living. Only the temperature of love can give her the courage to resist the bone-chilling cold of this world. Duan Xiaolou was her only spiritual support in this world. His betrayal made her lose the last remaining sense of security and became the last straw that broke her down. We can't ask her to be like a modern woman with half the sky above her head, so her death is logical. Although she is a prostitute, after suffering the vicissitudes of life, she still has the courage to pursue her own little happiness. Although her identity was doomed to failure from the very beginning, she was so affectionate, she dared to love and dare to hate, and she was many times stronger than so many shameless and moral prostitutes in the world. Juxian's death, perhaps, perhaps only because the world can never tolerate a prostitute has the right to have ordinary happiness. Xiaolou is the mentality closest to a normal person in the movie. He has the common inferiority of human nature, such as greed for beauty, greed for life and fear of death. Such people are destined to be the happiest in life, the most able to enjoy life, and the most able to adapt to society. When he betrayed his wife, who was actually his beloved, out of his desire for life, I felt like I couldn't bear to criticize him righteously. (m.lz13. cn) After all, he is just a mortal, and mortal love often cannot stand the test, and he must not be so foolish as to put his love to the test. Husbands and wives are birds of the same forest, and when disaster strikes, they fly separately. There are not many loves in the world that can really stand the test. Those ordinary couples who love each other, their relationship is not necessarily deep, but it is just that they have no "capital" to meet the test of real hardships. So everything can't be too serious, too serious, you can only hinge yourself into it. It's okay to deceive yourself, or it's hard to be confused. Survival in this society is sometimes necessary. Perhaps, this is also a kind of self-defense of our psychology. Every time I think of the scene of Xiaolou's betrayal of love and brotherhood in the movie, I can't help but sigh, love, in the face of real interests, how much is it? ? ? After all, in the world, there is no love for no reason, no hate for no reason. And interest is the fundamental driving force for the advancement of this society. This is the true face of this world, extremely cruel, but unusually real. People tend to love well-decorated things and are willing to be driven by them. As everyone knows, things that are too beautiful are often the most poisonous and hurtful. And those most natural and authentic things are rarely recognized by the world. In the film Farewell My Concubine, the role of Cheng Dieyi is undoubtedly the thickest. Without Cheng Dieyi, Leslie Cheung cannot be better interpreted, and Farewell My Concubine cannot be achieved in the history of Chinese films. If a person has the temperament of Cheng Dieyi, then such a person is destined to be a tragedy. Because he is too pure and does not understand flexibility. In the world of this kind of person, there is no gray transition zone, no accommodation and compromise, only black and white. He will never be able to adapt to the extremely complex and ever-changing society, just like Dieyi, he can only go to the end with the declining Qing Dynasty. Such a person, as an artistic image, is beautiful and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but in front of reality, he is extremely vulnerable, because he suffers from the mental torture and endless destiny imposed on him every minute and every second. Exhaustedly late. There is no other way but to go towards self-destruction. Letting "Yu Ji" kill herself in front of her beloved "Overlord" is also her best destination and the greatest respect for her personality. Only the stage of Farewell My Concubine was worthy of Cheng Dieyi's death. Some people say that tragedy is to smash the beauty into pieces for others to see. Life needs tragedy, and without tragedy, people cannot feel the existence of happiness. But who wants to make himself that tragic figure? It is better to be at ease when one of the many spectators. Life is like a play, play is like a person. But the play can be repeated, and life cannot be repeated even once. The more vivid the play, the more life there is heavy. Cheng Dieyi, Duan Xiaolou, Juxian, three little people in the turbulent era, three of the thousands of historical martyrs, in the film Farewell My Concubine, together they sketched out for us what is not in the rolling red dust. The love, hatred, love, hatred that people have escaped, the complexity of human nature, the helplessness of life, and the difficulty of human beings trying to change their own suffering and destiny. Let people look at it, and it is very sad. I hope that in the future, there will no longer be Juxian, let alone Cheng Dieyi. After all, life is not as long as imagined, with hundreds of turns and thousands of turns, everything will eventually become empty, and when it comes, the dust will return to dust, and the soil will return to the soil. For some things, if you don’t like them, forget about it. Why are you so persistent?

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Farewell My Concubine quotes

  • Master Yuan: A smile ushers in the spring.

    Master Yuan: A tear does darken all the world.

    Master Yuan: How truly does this befit you. To you... only you are possessed of such charm.