Wen/Qingyan 2007.3
"A county town that has been over 2,000 years old was demolished in more than two years. How can it be okay? If you have any problems, you have to solve them slowly!" "Three Gorges" In "Good People", a staff member of a demolition station responds with a nasty tone to the noisy citizens who come to the demolition. The noise lasted for more than a minute in the movie, and my heart was full of cordial touch. ——I am from Sichuan. I know that quarrels like this in the small county that is being demolished must happen all the time. But the director pulled it out, giving it an extremely realistic sense of absurdity.
In this issue of "Reading" there is a discussion about "The Good Man in Three Gorges", some of them said: China's reality has a huge absurdity because it is extremely closed. A forum dedicated to a new film and more than ten pages of publication, I think this should be the first time for "Reading".
As an "emotional program director" who has worked in a TV station for half a year, I have been dedicated to such absurd times all the time, so I have a deep understanding of the absurdity of the reality around us. Therefore, in the movie, Zhao Tao and Han Sanming both looked up and saw an UFO-shaped object flying over Kuimen in broad daylight, or the magnificent ancient stone building where children played by Wang Hongwei’s door suddenly vacated like a rocket, or Han Before Sanming left the Three Gorges, he saw a man walking a tightrope between two dangerous buildings. These are not absurd: no more than two thousand years of dismantling a county town in two years, no more than a wave of a man with a big belly, on both sides of the Yangtze River. So the bright lights are even more absurd.
It is a strange thing to live in such a time and not produce magical realism works.
The disc of "The Good Man in Three Gorges" has been out for a long time, but I have been waiting for the day the movie was released. ——Since I went to the theater to watch "The Banquet" and "Golden Armour" due to various factors this year, there is no reason not to watch "The Good Man in Three Gorges". Because this is a real Chinese movie.
What it makes people see is the real China...not the imaginary ancient times, the wildly fabricated love, bamboo forests, chrysanthemums, incest, slaughter and bursting breasts. It tells the story of China, the 800 million people who are unconcerned but stubbornly alive. It is not about being curious, looking down, and then telling a bunch of plausible grand truths. It is intended to tell you how mysterious philosophical thinking is. Its gaze is head-up, and the camera scans the boatmen, demolition workers, and those naked, drinking bad wine and smoking bad cigarettes, full of cordial and gentle sorrow. ——They are among us, and we are among them. China is their China, although you have all forgotten.
The host of CCTV will use a sleek and false tone and well-trained feelings to say: "Brothers of migrant workers, you have worked hard!" Then everyone will be silent. No one actually remembers them. They grow stubbornly like moss lichens in countless forgotten corners.
Have you seen Chinese movies that really pay attention to reality? It’s not playing alternatives to play abnormal love and obscene art, it’s not playing blockbuster movies, it’s not beautiful, it’s actually pale and weak, it’s not hiding in a safe history pretending to worry about the country and the people, it’s not making some silly dramas and feeling like it’s humorous, and it’s not making it. A pile of empty bubbles use movies as a money printing machine?
I want to say that "The Good Man in Three Gorges" is above the many Chinese movies I have watched in the past few years. In fact, it does not need much reason. One sentence is enough: this director has truly gained my respect, and this film is truly Gained my respect. It is happy to respect a person wholeheartedly. I have longed to respect a director for a movie for a long time, and I believe many people are just like me.
After winning the Golden Lion Award, Jia Zhangke’s name appeared on the interview lists of major media, and on the cover of a magazine, he saw a photo of him smiling slightly against the camera, like a good-tempered boy. I don't want to deliberately bluff people at all. As a media person who is disappointed with the media, I have never read any interview articles. Because I have met him once, at a lecture he came to Fudan the year before. He screened his short film "Public Space".
At that time, I went to Liangjing, a poetry friend of mine, and she insisted on leaving after reading "Public Space". I asked her why she didn't stay to listen to the lecture. She said: The film was very well shot, it is good enough, I don't need to listen to him anymore. Then he smiled at me and left.
She went back and wrote a poem that day. I remembered the first sentence "The train is like a zebra..." and asked her what she meant. She said, "I think the train is like a zebra." The train in the north was driving on the cold road. Breathing in vain. A man wrapped in a military coat was sitting in the waiting room. Many people rushed in with woven bags. Many people left. A woman came and sat down next to him. Two people sat quietly. Then the woman left, and the man continued to sit there. The white door on the small station opened and closed suddenly and the wind was blowing. The distance of the platform was night, and the clanging sound resounded in the boundless cold. ——This is the beginning of "Public Space".
Jia Zhangke is a poetic person. On that day, I still remember someone asking him: In "Ren Xiaoyao", there was a scene in which Zhao Tao was walking holding a white tarpaulin to cover the rain. Does this white tarpaulin have any meaning? Jia Zhangke gave an unexpected answer (I have forgotten many of the things that day, but I remember this one, maybe the memory has been deviated), he said: It was in September. One day, I went to Beiying for a bit. Afterwards, it rained heavily, so I stood under the pillar to hide from the rain, and saw a few girls running over, each holding a white cloth over their heads to cover the rain. After a while, I ran away, I think It's so beautiful, I thought, one day, I must use it in my movies.
As soon as he finished speaking, applause broke out in the classroom.
I always believe that the essence of art is something that can be simply said. I always love and respect those who insist on using simple language to talk about art.
That day, I was a little surprised to hear him repeatedly use the word "poetic". At that time, the poetry in my eyes was still a kind of escapism. I watched Guihong, waved the five strings, the sound of the cuckoo broke the setting sun, and the flowers were the skin and snow as the soul. So in "Xiao Wu" and "Platform" the sudden noise of motorcycles, cheap pop songs on the street, and men's slack and lazy posture, I only see the people who seem to be moved directly into the movie from daily life. Unpleasantly messy and mediocre. "The Season of Love and Smile" written by a famous French film critic for "Xiao Wu" is an excellent film review. I was surprised that he used such a beautiful name to tell the story of Xiao Wu.
——It was after countless long-distance train journeys a long time later that I learned to appreciate the profound and down-to-earth poetry expressed by the forbearance, strength and warmth of life under the rough surface of life. Just like in a movie, a child sings "I love you and love you like a mouse loves rice" in the bow of the ship; the busy and noisy towns in the small county by the Yangtze River are as busy and noisy as our familiar hometown, but the cliff above the small town The red line on it says "Phase III water level", which makes the normal life smeared with absurd colors; the motorcycle driver pointed to a soil slope in the middle of the water and said: "This is No. 5 Qingshi Street, Fengjie County." Han Sanming stayed for a long time. , Then asked: Why is it all water? Just like in front of the corpse of that handsome boy in white shirt, Xiao Ma, who didn't know where to come from, Han Sanming lit three sticks of incense with three cigarettes...
I would like to mention the most memorable scene separately: The head of the demolition worker asked Han Sanming: You pass by the Three Gorges, and you see Kuimen? Han Sanming said he didn't see it. The worker then took out a piece of paper from his pocket, flattened it and said: Look, this is Kuimen. Han Sanming took it and we discovered that it was a RMB 10 yuan. (How many of us have noticed that Kuimen is painted on the back of RMB 10 yuan for the first time?) Han Sanming said: My hometown is also on the money. . He took out a fifty yuan RMB and said, look, this is the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River. Under the dim light, a few workers leaned over to take a closer look and commented in a low voice. The foreman said: "Your hometown is okay." At
that moment, my nose suddenly sore. I think this scene will be remembered for a long time. .
Maybe every time I see 50 yuan in the future, I will think of my hometown, in this small county submerged under water, one night in 2006, it was lit with dim lights.
By the way, the day of the movie watching was the premiere day of "The Good Man in Three Gorges" at Xinjiekou Cinema. Because it was half-price day on Tuesday and Wednesday, there was a long queue at the ticket office. I queued for a quarter of an hour. After twenty or so people, the movie was about to begin, so I had to find a young man who looked good, jump in the team and buy a ticket to go in. The movie was shown in a small hall, at the golden field at 7 o'clock, there were only less than 10 people sitting sparsely. Thinking of the non-half-price days I accompanied my friends to watch "A Wonderful Night at the Museum" two days ago, the hall was almost full, I felt a little bit angry.
My friend said: How people can be blind like THIS?
I don’t know,
do you know?
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