Five or six years ago, I read a collection of essays written by Guangxi writer Liu Yuan, "The Dog Has Nostalgia". He chewed on fragments of his childhood in the long sleepless night, and seemed to be disconnected from his hometown. I don't think he is a bereaved dog, a bereaved dog has nostalgia, he is an outstanding citizen with a belly full of ink.
In the southern hemisphere, Daniel, an outstanding citizen of the small town of Salas, is caught in the trap of nostalgia. A clear-headed Nobel Prize winner, a great writer who has returned home, has gone from being sought after by the whole town to fleeing in a hurry in just a few days. The film is full of mirrored structures: the high-standard welcome ceremony on the fire truck when entering the city, and the trial of the people on the hunting prison van when leaving the city; it starts with a closed pen, starts with a new book, starts with a smile, and ends with a smile. . The first half is full of down-to-earth embarrassment. We can see that the writer is breaking his so-called "standard" and "bottom line" little by little. He who never hugs people makes an exception for the people in his hometown, and he hates participating in activities. After several business activities, he gave up the pursuit of the so-called quality of life and seemed to be seeking a reconciliation with his hometown.
Since there is reconciliation, where did the original contradiction come from? On the way into the city, he talked to the driver he had met once, that he had been fleeing from Salas, and the characters in his book had never left Salas-escape from the homeland is a common topic, and Mo Yan also said it The first step in knowing his hometown is to leave his hometown. Daniel has been escaping from the ignorance and occlusion of Salas all his life, but he is also supported by the ignorance and occlusion of Salas all his life. It is impossible to make moral judgments. The writer Daniel has a clear position. Ethics and morality cannot kidnap the bottom line of literature. However, he still lost in the negotiation that was losing ground, because this was not a reconciliation about literature after all, he felt It was kidnapping from home.
For Daniel, nostalgia is like a flamingo floating in stagnant water that appears at the beginning and end of the film. It is bright but smelly. Once you walk in, you can only smell the breath of death. As soon as he set foot on the road back to his hometown, Daniel's nostalgic fantasy was delayed one by one. He couldn't bear to tear off the pages of his book to make a fire, mocking himself for exchanging literature for his life, but the fellow driver didn't hesitate to tear off his book to wipe his buttocks, and what he exchanged for his life was filth. In a TV commercial in his hometown, he wanted to talk about something, only to find that he was just a figure used to advertise a certain brand; and during the judging process of a painting competition, his artistic judgment was met with corruption in the town. The provocation, the aesthetic education in exchange for violence, purely against the rules, the writer seems a little powerless, he may have a little ideal of reciprocation, but in this Salas, where everyone knows everyone, no one is willing to accept Ganlu, "Outstanding Citizen" , "Nobel Prize", "Daniel", even if these things have appeared in front of them, they are like floating fantasy, they don't understand, and they don't want to understand.
A small climax of Daniel's return to life is the appearance of his first love and the embrace of a young woman. He misses the love of his youth - perhaps the only sincere thing he has left in this land. Unfortunately, this is already a wife in front of him. , the lover who seems to have changed, but also seems to have changed nothing, he was mobilized by the young girl with new desires, and he discovered new flames in this dying land. But of course, the bloody Argentinian won't let go of this outstanding citizen, trapped in the family of a young girl, a first love and a childhood friend, and he knows -- and he should have known long ago, that in Salas there are no What is the first year that has remained unchanged for decades, and there is no fanatical Plato: young girls just want to exchange their bodies for the chance to escape from the town - what a ridiculous cycle, some people want to leave the town with sin, some people When he returned, he became a traitor.
What surprised me the most was the hunting scene. In the writer's fantasy, people in the town were holding shotguns and eyeing them. They had been his stare for years, but on this ridiculous night, he became the stare of his characters, his being torn apart is actually a kind of self-deconstruction: he fell into his own Salas gone, caught in the absurd, chaotic narrow world of his own creation, citizens are no longer citizens, as he gave up the "outstanding citizen" medal, and writers are no longer writers, as he was in the Nobel Prize It was announced at the awards ceremony that the pen was sealed. This is a truly complete life course. Perhaps this is the true process of falling leaves returning to their roots: a leaf that could have been chosen as a specimen chose the earth, and what greeted it was only rot, stink, and the same amino acid in the land. If Daniel stumbled to the sound of gunfire and met his own full end, death, true death, exile, deconstructed, then this is a story of disillusionment, a failed Prometheus rioted by a mob A stone-throwing story.
But the sceptics' spree won't end there. As soon as the camera went dark, it turned to a solemn and solemn place, giving the illusion of a funeral, but Daniel had already put on stinky white-rimmed glasses and shouted "Don't cry for me, Argentina". The press conference was held, and it was a great success, with sly smiles and witty words, like a slap in the face that the idealists in front of the screen couldn't find the North. His return home and escape, is it still a hunt for inspiration in the end? The exiled Daniel is still the most shrewd hunter in Salas. He nibbles at the wreckage of his homeland and cultivates his own vanity. As he himself said, "There are only three things necessary for creation, paper, pen, and vanity." Who is the victim, and what is the truth? Daniel pulled back his collar, showed his scars, and laughed at me and the bereaved dog.
I especially like this ending. Daniel has the infamy of "European lackeys" in Salas, but the film itself gives a middle finger to Eurocentric film culture and art world elitism. The arrogant Argentine wants to say: Culture People are heartless charlatans, and the dead-hearted dog has real nostalgia. The taste is pure, the fragrance is indistinguishable, and it is worthless.
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