"Tangshan Earthquake" is about memory, the 1976 Tangshan earthquake is the background of the film's story, and the story line for the next 32 years unfolds from this, from the microscopic family, to the focused city, to the macroscopic country, every step of the plot. development are interlinked. The memory never goes away, it just stays quietly in the hearts of those who have been traumatized, and once touched, those pasts swept in overwhelmingly. Memories make the past vivid and unforgettable; memories also make the future sound and come with firm footsteps.
Family
"Tangshan Earthquake" presents Li Yuanni's family after the earthquake, the psychological trauma of the mother and daughter and the process of final understanding. The family is the most basic unit of society. The Tangshan earthquake in 1976 destroyed countless families overnight. Many families have been separated since then. The dead are gone, and the hearts of the living have turned into ruins. The experience of Li Yuanni's family may not be typical, nor can it represent so many families that no longer exist after the earthquake. However, the great sorrow and joy that a family has experienced in the past 32 years is enough to make people realize the weight of "relatives, always relatives", and it also strongly conveys the courage to stand up again for those who have experienced catastrophes.
On one side is the home that was rebuilt on the ruins. The mother feels guilty for her deceased relatives. Even though her son has repeatedly proposed to buy a new house, she still stubbornly stays at the address of the re-planned home after the earthquake, for fear of her husband and her husband. The daughter could not find her way home; on the other side, the adopted daughter who traveled to different cities refused to forgive her mother's "abandonment", and suffered greatly. The words her mother made when she made a choice haunted her like a ghost, and she kept going. Weaving the inner nightmare.
It took only 23 seconds for the earthquake to destroy Tangshan, and the reconstruction of the hearts of those survivors may not be completed in their lifetimes. The forgiveness of Li Yuanni's mother and daughter after 32 years is the memory of this fictional ordinary Tangshan family. There are joys and sorrows in this memory. Relatives may not be good at expressing, and many words are buried in her heart, but she will remember the tomatoes she promised her daughter to eat the next day. Even if she is 32 years late because of the earthquake, she will always keep it in her heart.
The film critic mentioned at
the beginning of this article also said a sentence: "Movie watchers, you are watching movies, and we Tangshan people are watching our own past." This film is because of its special story background. Sex, so no matter what, the shadow of Tangshan cannot be erased. The biggest investor behind the film "Tangshan Earthquake" is the Tangshan Municipal Government. The original intention of the film was that Zhao Yong, the current Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Tangshan City, wanted to use an artistic way to record the scars and sufferings caused by the Tangshan Earthquake to Tangshan people, as well as the aftermath of the Tangshan disaster. A series of changes experienced during reconstruction. Therefore, the film is actually talking about the memory of Tangshan City. We saw that the film uses subtitles to mark Tangshan City in different periods, and the screen shows the changes that occur in Tangshan every few years. This city, which was once destroyed by a natural disaster in 23 seconds, was reborn from the ruins.
According to legend, a long time ago, a phoenix fell on Tangshan and turned into a Phoenix Mountain. Therefore, Tangshan is also called "Phoenix City". In the area where the sun stone is buried, after the nirvana of the great earthquake, Tangshan interprets the myth with reality. The location of the Tangshan Department Store mentioned many times in the film was originally the former site of Li Yuanni's family before the earthquake. With such a building similar to Tangshan's "landmark", the great changes that have taken place in Tangshan over the past 32 years are reflected from the side.
Returning to the film itself, although the title of the film is "Tangshan Earthquake", the story of the whole film is actually not very related to the Tangshan Earthquake. There is a well-known saying: forgetting history means betrayal. What needs to be remembered is the disaster that happened in Tangshan, where more than 240,000 people lost their lives in an instant. It is impossible to speculate on the sincerity of the Tangshan Municipal Government in investing in the filming of this film, but at least this long-lost history has returned to the public eye. Films on this subject are too rare. The filming and release of "Tangshan Earthquake" was facilitated by the Tangshan Municipal Government. The memory of this city is the eternal pain of Tangshan people and the sorrow of all Chinese people.
We saw at the end of the film that a survivor of the Tangshan earthquake stopped in front of the name wall filled with the names of more than 240,000 compatriots who died in the disaster. He watched it every day. It was a heavy memory, Yongzhi Unforgettable memory... The
country's
2008 Wenchuan earthquake gave the story of the film "Tangshan Earthquake" an outlet. Li Yuanni and Fang Deng's mother and daughter were able to meet again after 32 years, and the stagnation that had been lingering in their hearts for 32 years was finally resolved. This may be a coincidence, but in the face of the fact that the time and space are different and the disaster is the same, the hearts of people are closely linked.
I believe everyone still remembers: three days after the Wenchuan earthquake, on the National Day of Mourning, the people of the whole country spontaneously gathered and shouted the slogan "We are all Wenchuan people". Figure... Of course, there are also many people from Tangshan. When watching "Tangshan Earthquake", I didn't understand why Li Yuanni said that if Fangda could not get into college, he would be sorry for the pancakes sent by his grandmother. Later, I heard a story from my mother-in-law that made me understand the significance of pancakes to people in Tangshan. She said that after the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, every household had to bake a few kilograms of flatbread with the noodles exchanged for it every day for the Air Force to drop it to Tangshan. I believe that back then, the whole country was supporting Tangshan, just as the whole country was supporting Wenchuan in 2008.
Among the people who support Wenchuan, people from Tangshan stand out. They have experienced the same disaster. People in two parts of China, separated by thousands of mountains and rivers in the north and the south, share weal and woe and support each other. Tangshan people's gratitude has become a responsibility, an obligation, and a spirit. Such responsibility, obligation and spirit have also become the responsibility, obligation and spirit of all Chinese in the face of national disaster. This is the beauty of human nature, and this kindness and beauty can undoubtedly radiate the cohesion of a nation, and the common voice of a nation is deafening.
The Tangshan earthquake is the memory of Tangshan, the memory of the country, and the memory of all Chinese people. The national crisis needs to be remembered, and the national crisis needs the popular way of film to spread and influence. The significance of "Tangshan Earthquake" is not in the film itself, but in finally having a specimen for people to reflect on history.
This is an era of national expression. Many people are accustomed to taking words out of context. From a sentence or an interview, they infer the bad intentions of the creator's starting point, thus completely denying the sincerity and value of the film, and impatiently throwing out "boycott the film" His point of view is full of upright "sense of justice", but it lacks a tranquil state of mind, and would rather speculate than speak after reading it. On this issue, the unconsciousness of netizens and the media also triggered director Feng Xiaogang's conscious "expressed".
In the impetuous age of war of words, a movie that connects many people's memories and emotions, no matter how high the box office is, shows a strange, bizarre, and tense situation. The reality is more exciting than the movie, and the reality is more cruel than the movie. Only by experiencing it can you know how painful it is! It has been 34 years since the Tangshan Earthquake, and 2 years after the Wenchuan Earthquake. "You don't know what is gone until you don't have it." The compatriots died, and the whole country mourns. This kind of memory is not only for the parties involved, but also for the whole Chinese people.
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