"poetry"
The theme is poetry, and the core is violence.
The grandmother kept asking: "How can I write poetry?" She deliberately looked for inspiration to write poetry in every corner of her life, as if it was a story of chasing beauty.
But under the shell of the pursuit of beauty, there is a high density of violence lurking.
Beauty and Violence.
I want to talk about violence first.
The most striking thing in the film is the direct sexual violence of the six male students against the dead girl, and the sexual harassment and violence of the old age employer against the grandmother. In addition, there are many dense violence lurking in the corners: the fathers of five criminal teenagers strongly push the grandmother to collect reparations is violence, the exchange of five million for one life is violence, the school and the media collectively lose their voices in the face of the tragic death of the young girl It is violence, and social forgetting is also a kind of violence.
"Any violence about sexuality is accomplished by the whole society....Sexual violence is essentially a manifestation of power." (From Cai Yiwen's commentary on "Fang Siqi's Paradise of First Love")
It's not just sexual violence, it's violence of rights, violence of society.
I want to talk about poetry next.
I do not interpret the film as a hymn to poetry, nor as a celebration of poetic beauty, nor as a critique of arty.
Are those who love poetry necessarily true, kind and beautiful? Does it have to be noble? Maybe not.
Poetry can be painful, bitter, and even hypocritical and eloquent. The man who writes three poems a day is no more noble than the man who prepares three meals a day, and the man who writes beautiful lines can be a total jerk.
So, if you take off the halo of art, what else can poetry be?
Perhaps, I prefer to believe that poetry is to the grandmother, as Yu Xiuhua said: "When a person staggers around the wobbly world, it (poetry) acts as a crutch." In the end, she It's just leaning on this crutch, tremblingly offering a trembling farewell poem for the dead girl.
The theme is poetry, and the core is violence.
But it's not a sharp conflict or mutual dissolution of beauty and evil, it's about rickety people, walking around wobbly people, leaning on a cane.
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