The understanding of rock music is based on some old reports. It was Wangfujing in 1989, when "Cobra" and "face" were all ready to go, the original appearance of "Tang Dynasty", "Black Panther" and "breathing", and later He Yong, Zhang Chu. At that time, they were still young, with pride written on their faces.
Speaking of Chinese rock music, they are the first light.
This summer, Ma Dong came out with "Summer of the Band". The former rock men became husbands and fathers. When talking about his wives and daughters, his eyes were full of tenderness, and when he returned to music, he was full of power. Sometimes I wonder why some music has passed so long, and it still sounds like tears in my eyes.
Now I understand that some music is not good, but when we listen to those music we are young, just like the Hedgehog band sings, a generation will eventually get old, but there will always be someone who is young.
Recently I watched the work "Summer of Summer" by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, also called "Summer of Rock and Roll". This is a movie about rock and roll, but also a movie about love and friendship.
The background of the movie is Leningrad in the 1980s, just like Wangfujing in the 1980s. A young musician Victor Choi is attracted by the music of Zeppelin and David Bowie. Like all musicians who have dreams, Victor Choi also hopes that his name can be written into the history of rock and roll. By chance, I met the noble man in my life, and my life began to be different.
As a Russian director, Kirill Serebrennikov is not a popular director, and he has not many works. Before "Midsummer", he also filmed "The Disciple", "Betrayal" and "Playing as a Victim" , "Yuri Day" and other movies. "Midsummer" was filmed in 2018. It is a rock and roll memory about the former Soviet Union. Like many music, "Midsummer" has records of the times, records of rock music, and the love of music in the 1980s. The record of the living life.
After watching "The Midsummer", I remembered some records of the Hong Kan concert I had seen before. That era was really good. It contained all the craziness and dreams, and achieved eternal memory and immortal hope. The so-called nostalgia is probably nostalgia for everything from that era, because we were young at that time.
Of course, in addition to being used as background music and sound in "Midsummer", rock music also has a series of complex functional attributes and meaning symbols:
Through rock music, characters can be associated with dynamic behaviors in a specific living space.
Realize the metaphor of nature in the rhythm of rock music and embody the course of life.
Use rock music as a link to write the characteristics of the environment and the era.
The combination of rock music and pictures evokes people's yearning for a certain historical period.
Therefore, "Midsummer" is not just a "rock music" movie. It contains these four different functional attributes, which are connected in series to form the rock memory of the entire former Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Rock music and behavior:
In the movie, it is Victor Choi who is directly influenced by rock music. His understanding and knowledge of music is shared by Zeppelin and David Bowie. Under the guidance of the old rock band, Victor Choi walks. Into the high walls of rock music.
Half a dream, half a passion. Soviet rock trying to break through the rules of society, squandered youth and flesh, abandoned all the labels related to rock and roll, and expressed the power of Soviet rock in a more pure and direct way.
Similarly, Michael and his wife Natasha, whom Victor Choi met, were also guided by the music. Their encounter is like a spark of lightning, making the inspiration of music a spiritual experience. if
The music at this stage is the boundary between the old history and the new era. Traditional Soviet music has been engulfed by globalized modern fashion and free rock. Victor Choi, Mike, and Natasha have their experiences and emotions. It is the theme of the story in the Soviet rock era.
Whether it's a tribute cover or a MV-style shooting technique, their stories with music are destined to be written into history and become a historical imprint that records the changes of the times. Director Kirill Serebrennikov did not accuse the times in the film, but in such a background, it is difficult not to ignore the political background of the film.
In the movie, rock music is no longer a stable intention, but a cultural element that has grown from within the entire former Soviet culture. It is part of the former Soviet culture and therefore determines the behavior and choices of some people.
Rock music and metaphors:
The particularity of rock music lies in its power. Unlike other music genres, rock music represents rebellion. Under this rebellious cloak, rock music has provided imagination and background for many stories.
In rock music, you can see the unwilling to be lonely teenagers burning their youth in music, you can see the dreams hidden in the smoke of the club, and you can see the crazy venting and resistance with music. Rock music has made Victor Choi, the father of Soviet rock music, the best time.
In the movie, rock music represents a metaphor, such as a metaphor for current politics, a metaphor for social confinement, and a metaphor for boring life. These metaphors are the deeper part of the movie, and the most special part of this movie. I have watched many movies that criticize society through the hands of music. Some have fallen into clichés because they are too direct, and some have sunk into history because of their tricky angles.
The metaphor of "Midsummer" is just right. The whole movie looks like a description of a specific group, but it actually contains all the content of that era. Love, friendship, ideals, resistance, choices, etc., are the spiritual image of young people.
The film does not deliberately express the director’s political views. All metaphors are buried in the music. Through music, we can see the true desires of the younger generation.
Rock music and times:
In the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Russia's greatest musician Vysotsky died of illness. At this time, in St. Petersburg, Victor Choi and his music are on the stage.
History inadvertently connects the past and the future. The former is memory, and the latter is the present. Intertwined before and after, outlines the regrets and possibilities of an era. Perhaps it is precisely because of death that each era has the meaning of each era. Only in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s, the rebel force represented by rock and roll was the most shining footnote.
The reason why rock music is special has a very important relationship with the times, just like Beijing in the 1980s, the era of the rise of Chinese rock music. The same situation was in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Rock music is the landscape and symbol of an era. It is destined to become an eternal noun of that era. No matter how subsequent singers perform it, they cannot surpass that era. Because that is a spiritual wealth fixed in history, a mental state that cannot be copied.
Today, when the Internet is extremely developed, our experience and acquisition are too easy, and all the passions that originally existed in life have been washed away by the Internet. We look for like-minded people on the Internet, and measure the distance between them through words and emotions. And in that remote eighties, everything was face-to-face, love or non-love was resolved face-to-face.
In this movie, there are not so many stories of the times, or the story is not the most important thing. The important thing is the rhythm and atmosphere of the whole movie. The 1980s of the Soviet rock youth, compared with other countries of the same time, there are many A place that seems familiar. However, due to the different social environment of each country, this also gives "Midsummer" a different expression.
Rock music and nostalgia:
The relationship between music and nostalgia is the closest. In fact, it is not just rock music. It is still nostalgia to listen to music at the peak of singers such as Li Zongsheng, Lin Yilian, and Faye Wong. As I said before, our nostalgia is not how much the music is, but when we listen to the music, we are young.
After watching "The Midsummer", I got a general understanding of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Brezhnev died in 1982, Gorbachev came to power in 1985, and in 1988 Gorbachev announced that the Soviet Union would abandon Brezh Nevism has caused a series of political fluctuations. In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union began to disintegrate.
In this sense, "Midsummer" is actually an elegy of the times. It records the last madness of the 1980s. All rebellion means new life. Those who were young at that time now have white temples. For them, the turbulent eighties was the highlight of their lives.
The glorious rock musicians, the youthful free expression, the restless poetry, stop at the heartbeat of courtesy. Mike’s wife, Natasha, said, “I want to kiss Victor.” Mike said, “Then you go.” In a sense, music dissolves the sacredness of love, or that the sacred love has another Kind of expression. And all this happened only in "Midsummer" in the 1980s.
Written at the end:
The music is over, and the 80s of passion and rebellion are over, leaving Victor Choi and his music. Like countless historical stages full of fantasy and poetry, it envelops many young lives, makes them shine, and then takes them out of the stage of history, leaving behind countless stories and legends, and becoming talks for later generations.
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