"Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident" is a 1991 work by Taiwanese director Yang Dechang. The film won the 1991 Tokyo International Film Festival Jury Award and Critics Award, the Best Director Award at the Three Continents Film Festival in France, the Best Director Award at the Singapore Film Festival, the Best Film Award at the 28th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, and the Best Film Award at the 36th Asia Pacific Film Festival. Best Film Award. Yang Dechang, from Meixian, Guangdong. He graduated from the Department of Control Engineering of Taipei Jiaotong University in 1969, obtained a master's degree in computer science from Florida State University in 1972, and went to the Film Institute of the University of Southern California to study for another year. This is another modern artist with a background in science and engineering. The learning experience of science and engineering allows Yang Dechang to always use his rational scalpel to deeply penetrate the thoracic cavity of society, show his cruel and bloody cross-section, and maintain a cold sense of reality and sharp modern style in style. feel. This is a film adapted from a real case in Taipei. In the early 1960s, Mao Wu, a second-year boy in the night department of the school where Yang Dechang attended, killed his girlfriend in Guling Street because of his girlfriend’s empathy. He shocked Taiwanese society at that time and left a deep impression on Yang Dechang. Yang Dechang was 14 years old that year. ... Many years later, Yang Dechang, who has entered middle age, retraces the reality of that period of youth time and space, participated in the scriptwriting and directed the film. Perhaps because this story is a mixture of the director's own real growth experience in the past middle school stage and the depression experience of the times, the interweaving of the film presents a more complicated emotional relationship than the previous works. Due to the filming needs, there are 92 scenes that need to be revised and reconstructed, a large number of young actors aged 13 or 14, and a complex network of hundreds of characters. The budget has been expanded from 13 million to 27 million. The film It is up to 4 hours. In Yang Dechang's creative career, there is rarely such a large production structure. Especially the sculpting of the minute details of the realism of the age, everywhere reveals the creator's reverent feelings for his own growth experience. Moreover, while maintaining his consistent introspective style, this work is quite different from the previous works with a special emotion with a little warm meaning, although this emotion is expressed very restrained... In Yang Dechang's other works, For example, "Terrorists", "Independence Times", and "Mahjong", Yang Dechang deliberately expressed the interpersonal indifference that wafts in Taipei society, in which even teenagers have a kind of alienated sickness or evil. However, a large number of innocent but not indifferent teenagers appeared in this "Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident". Through the passing of the 1960s, Yang Dechang projected the pursuit of the purity of the past that was unseen. Yang Dechang is the kind of ambitious artist. His lyrical short poetry works cannot satisfy his artistic ambitions. of. And his status as a social analyst allowed him to outline the group portraits of people in Taipei society at that time in this film showing the growth of adolescence, making it a grand Balzac-like perspective. The sad epic of Taiwan in the 1960s-he used cameras and film to reproduce that period of depression, despair and anxiety, and also conveyed his own views on that period of gloomy and chaotic history. As he himself said: "I have always been suspicious of what I have learned in history class because it is not the same as what I personally witnessed. People have lived in this state of unclear truth for hundreds of years, how terrible it is. Fortunately, many wise people have left enough clues in their art, architecture, music, and literature, so that their offspring can rebuild the facts and restore confidence in humanity. Movies should also have the same effect on future generations. The main character in the film, Xiaosi, is played by Taiwanese actor Zhang Zhen. What's interesting is that the name of the character in the film is also Zhang Zhen. We have seen a similar situation in Wong Kar-wai's "Happy Together". The names of the roles played by Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung in the movie were actually the names of two staff members in the film crew. When the subtitles after the end of the movie revealed this secret, it really made people laugh. Regarding Zhang Zhen, most people know him, perhaps because he has played roles in familiar films such as "Happy Together" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Ten years ago, in 1991, he was still a young and immature boy, but in "Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident", he had a brilliant performance incisively and vividly. He put that silent and stubborn with desperate and pure idealism. The juvenile character is very expressive. Let me talk about the historical background of this movie. As we know, the defeat of the Kuomintang in 1949 enabled Taiwan to experience a rare historical migration in China's modern history. People of different provinces and different backgrounds came to this isolated island either voluntarily or forced to follow the Kuomintang. Over the past ten years, their next generations have gradually been born and grown, and hopes of counterattack on the mainland have gradually faded; material scarcity, the first time after the long-term war and displacement; the political repression caused by the hysteria that the fear of communism has not yet receded; the province The disagreement of Ji, the decline of Japanese cultural influence, and the increase of American cultural influence all made Taiwan in the 1960s a strange time and space filled with gloom and despair. In such a gloomy and depressing environment, most adults live in their own circles, humble and hopeless, and pin all their hopes on their next generation. So what about their next generation? The protagonist of the movie, P4, is a second-year student in the night section of Taipei Jianguo Middle School. There are also many boys and girls of his age in the film. And Primary Four is undoubtedly a good student among them. They are not involved in the violent activities of the juvenile gang like some of the boys around them, but are more on the sidelines. A chance encounter in the school infirmary allowed Xiao Si to get acquainted with a girl from the military village, Xiao Ming, and gradually fell in love with this girl who looked innocent and quiet like an angel. But Xiaoming is actually not as simple as her appearance. She is a single-parent girl with only one sick mother, but she often needs her care. Xiao Ming and her mother didn't even have a fixed residence, so they could only live in someone else's house when their mother was working as a servant for a certain family. She was often fired because of her mother's frailty. Every now and then they can only move to Xiao Ming's uncle's house, but they have to endure the cold words of the uncle who is in the same difficult situation. And Xiao Ming's mother pinned her hopes on Xiao Ming, who was still in junior high school, so that she could grow up quickly. Under the pressure of such real life, Xiao Ming lost the joy of being a girl at an age that should have been worry-free, and became a woman prematurely. How do we define a woman? Forget Schopenhauer’s harsh words about women, we can also learn that women are another creature different from girls. She knows what she needs and knows what skills or looks to use to grab those things. . People are often infatuated with such a woman of various styles, even though their hearts are as cold as frosty or even as cruel as a snake. But those men who have tasted the pain of life still hope to meet such a woman to save their plain or dirty destiny. Just like the woman described by the French poet Baudelaire in his poem "The Self Punisher" in the following passage: "Let me rest in love.-But, no-love does not Let me rest.—Innocence and kindness are disgusting. If you want to make me happy and restore my lust, then cruel, lie, debauch, lewd, steal! If you don’t want to In this way, I will beat you up without anger. Because I am the true representative of cynicism, my illness is absolutely incurable." Those evil love poems, maybe he wouldn't kill his beloved Xiao Ming? I know that such an assumption is really disgusting, because in the pure heart of the teenager, Baudelaire's teachings are no different from the curse of the devil. Like Xinzhi in "Bad Child's Sky", the young Xiaosi is also a beautiful creature in another beautiful world... Speaking of returning to Xiao Ming's topic, Xiao Ming lost his innocence early and chose a maturity that is not commensurate with his age. Just as no matter what we do Just like paying the price, the price of the young girl Xiaoming's premature maturity is the joy that should belong to her. Xiao Ming's way of love is that no matter where she drifts, she always depends on those who she thinks can give her the most sense of security and protection. When Xiao Si met her, Xiao Ming was dealing with several boys at the same time, and the boss of the "little park" where Xiao Si was in, Honey fled to Tainan for the sake of Xiao Ming fighting and killing people. Honey is another unforgettable character. Although he doesn't have many roles in movies, he is rarely seen in Yang Dechang's movies. He is also an idealistic character. Even if he has not yet appeared in the movie, Yang Dechang has outlined the image of Honey that is fierce and not afraid of death for us. But after Honey suddenly returned from Tainan and appeared on the stage, we will find that this is a romantic character to the extreme, romantic to almost naive. This can be confirmed by the following lines and his later actions. "...I'm in Tainan and I'm terribly bored. I can read a few martial arts novels every day. Later I asked them to rent the thickest novels for me to read. In fact, the people in the past are really similar to the people we come out and mix with now. There was an old bag, everyone thought he took the wrong medicine. I remember, it seemed that the whole city was stunned and set on fire everywhere. He was going to stop Napoleon by himself, but he was caught by the sliver. "Heping", I don’t remember the titles of other martial arts books, I only remember this one..." Then, like the Russian "old bag", he went alone with "Shandong", the boss of the "217" Dependent Village Gang. negotiation. But in a dark wood next to the railroad track, he was murdered by "Shandong"... It can be said that Honey is a person who has a deep influence on the small four, and in a sense, Honey is not dead. Because Xiao Si has silently inherited the spirit of Honey, and like Honey, continues to compete with this ugly world for Xiao Ming. Perhaps it was Honey that touched Xiaosi, who was gradually involved in the fight between the gangs, and later participated in revenge activities for Honey, witnessing the tragic situation before the death of "Shandong" who killed Honey. At this time, Xiaosi's father was censored in isolation because of political issues, and Xiaosi himself was expelled for contradicting the school. The various events around him made Xiao Si increasingly confused. It was the first time that he saw the vanity, ugliness, and cruel side of this world. He was a little overwhelmed deep in his heart that the Xiao Ming he loved was his only and last hope, and he also believed that he was also Xiao Ming's hope. But at this moment, he heard that Xiao Ming had now fallen into the arms of his rich and powerful friend, which put Xiao Si on the verge of despair and collapse. After meeting Xiao Ming at the old book market in Guling Street, Xiao Si confessed his heart to Xiao Ming again, but Xiao Ming flatly refused. "...It turns out that you are just like them. You are good to me and want to change me. You are so ridiculous, who do you think you are? I am as unchangeable as this world..." The dagger used by the Japanese woman to commit suicide stabbed Xiao Ming's body fiercely, and it seemed to be stabbing the internal organs of this cruel real world. Xiao Ming died on the spot, and only Xiao Si was left beside her body calling out in vain: "Xiao Ming, stand up, Xiao Ming, stand up..." Xiao Si and Honey, the teenagers in these two movies, are both idealized. The pure beauty of the inner world. Although the movies have a strong realistic style, these idealized artistic outlines do not give people a sense of unreality. This may be because some teenagers in this world have natural beautiful qualities, although these qualities may disappear in time in the future. Those qualities are just like Eric Burdon In "When I was Young" sang: "...when I was young, my faith was so strong. The friendship with my friends was full of firmness, and I was so mature when I was young." I thought The maturity of teenagers in this song is completely different from the so-called maturity in the adult world. The latter is better at a repressive experience and uses indifference as a protective clothing. And the maturity of teenagers is like the last of the three transformations of the spirit mentioned by Nietzsche. They are "innocence and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a spinning wheel, a primitive action, and a sacred affirmation." "Because of this, they understand happiness better than many adults and can experience happiness better. "There is always madness in love... In the eyes of me who loves life, I think that butterflies, soap bubbles and everything similar to them in the world know happiness best. When Zarathustra saw these frivolous, Beautiful and active little souls, he will cry and sing." Those teenagers with natural and beautiful qualities, those beautiful creatures in another beautiful world, are just like these beautiful and active little souls as Nietzsche said. Believe in a god who can dance. They are a type of human perfection, but perfection itself means madness, just like love means madness. At the moment of perfection, they can only be in another beautiful world, just like the French poet Rimbaud said. That way: living elsewhere. Wilde once said that the best way to make children behave well is to make them happy. Most adults in this society are surprisingly mean when it comes to making children happy. And when they are either rude, or kind, or hysterical, or earnestly taking away those things that make us happy, they will always remember to add this sentence: This is for your good. And this is really a persuasive argument, it will make us agree to destroy ourselves in the end. Of course they may also say that they are more experienced, they eat more salt than we eat rice, and they cross more bridges than we walk. And they will always regard the things that they have thought about for a long time as correct, and some things they have not even thought about, just because their own parents and teachers say that to them, just because they are acting like that on TV. Yes, that's how it is written in the newspaper. As for the problems that plagued them in their own youth, they never really solved any of them. They just survived longer than those problems. This gave them a way of solving those problems. The illusion, just like those who can't recover their sexual ability, will no longer worry about sex. And for so many From the limitations of the adult experience world, we can either silently obey, or do what they think is incorrect. So we skipped class for the first time; we used violence to defend our dignity on the street for the first time; we lit a cigarette for the first time and then learned to spit the first smoke ring; we fell in love with someone for the first time; we It was the first time to masturbate cautiously in the dark... But in the future when people taste the joys and sorrows and warmth of life, these memories seem to become so precious and charming, and other things that have been pursued become terrible. Vain. As a French writer said: "When I am dying, I will say to visiting guests: I don't need your sympathy, I just hope you can say some vulgar pasts to make me happy..." (written a few years ago Some of the stuff was published in a movie magazine. I just saw it on the computer and posted it here. It’s a long tuft, I can really write at that time. At the same time, I also cherish the memory of the eternal master... )
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