My mother always said that my family background was not good. During my 30 years of growing up, I always reflected the light, shadow and memory from the past.
Grandma came from a well-known scholarly family at the foot of Dabie Mountain in western Anhui. She met and fell in love with her grandpa at the Normal School in Lu'an during the Anti-Japanese War. In the 1940s, after graduating from the predecessor of Shanghai Fudan News, Grandpa stayed in Shanghai and chose to join the Kuomintang. On the eve of liberation, Grandpa enthusiastically responded to the call of the Communist Party and helped the CCP persuade a large number of left-wing members of the Kuomintang to actively instigate them to stay on the mainland and welcome liberation. After liberation, he joined Anhui Daily and later became a high school Chinese teacher in Hefei No. 4 Middle School and No. 9 Middle School. This kind of background and this kind of experience were complicated and dangerous in that era. In the subsequent campaigns, grandparents went through hardships and their families were also hit by wind and rain.
Since the 1960s, the family has gradually separated: Grandma became a landlord and went to Dingyuan to receive reforms. Grandpa became a historical counter-revolutionary and received education at the farming school. Auntie graduated with honors from Hefei Normal University but was forced to be delegated to Chaohu Farm. My young mother, who is 11 years younger, started a farm life with my aunt; my uncle helped my grandfather move bricks to make a living when he was young, and then started delegating time in Feidong. A family, torn apart for nearly 20 years, was reunited one after another on the eve of the arrival of the 1980s. For this reason, the Han family of five took a family portrait in the photo studio, and the grandfather solemnly named the photo-"帰来".
As far as my family is concerned, the gathering and separation are faced and encountered in the name of time, far from staying in those later works. Although I was born in 80s, in this family, I have been listening to my grandparents’ memories of the past and my mother’s details of the changes in the family, so I understood very early that the abstract and political meanings of "reunion" and "historical background" Vocabulary. I have understood films such as "The Wrangler", "Furong Town", and "Small Street" very early, and learned that the love of Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan is so hard and timeless, and that the love of Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen is that we share weal and woe. The attachment and separation of Guo Kaimin and Zhang Yu is so sad, and I know how depressed and helpless Pan Hong is in the movie "Man to Middle Age". It is the age, and it is the age that has given people how to forbearance and cherish after going through hardships. In my opinion, people who have gone through the tests of those times and are still serious, optimistic, strong, and upright are all great and worthy of respect. The same is true of grandparents and grandmothers, and the same is true of aunts, mothers and uncles.
It has been 24 years since my grandma passed away, and grandpa has left us for more than three years. That era has been far away from us for a long, long time. The dead will never come again, and we must never let it come again; we shouldn’t let go of the “coming”, we need to cherish it.
In a few days, Zhang Yimou's new film "Return" will be released. Two days ago, Zhang Yimou and Li Ang had a conversation in the United States. Zhang Yimou said that the theme of "Return" was very difficult and painful in the process of turning it into a movie script. Because of practical reasons, many problems cannot be touched, and only a flashback method can be used to detour. conduct. Even so, Ang Lee and Spielberg, who had watched the test film, were still moved and even shed tears.
It is not clear how many people will watch and think when the film is released, and how many people will recall and reflect. Nowadays, what we lack most is reflection. Facing the past, in the face of those absurd but tearing at every family era, under a certain kind of guidance, many people chose to forget and forbidden. From this point of view, Zhang Yimou is brave. He was labeled as a director of "Forbidden Films" 20 years ago in "To Live". Now he has chosen a story with the same theme and put it on the screen. superior.
The times have indeed changed a lot, but the thinking of returning is far from enough. I don't know how much of my generation's blood is flowing from the past years, and how many people's thinking and awe can be exchanged by the memories and stories of my mother during the growing years.
At least, I have.
Pass away, never return; come back, don’t let go.
There may be more and more returning, or less and less. At least there are former Xie Jin and Ba Jin.
In "Furong Town", the people who once beaten people still sit in the temple after the catastrophe, and the once despicable people still threaten the people with "exercise" after going crazy; fortunately, Liu Xiaoqing, who persists and yearns for tomorrow, is still looking forward to Jiang Wen's Return.
In the face of history, if we selectively forget, we will lose awe, and we may usher in a cycle of tragedy again; in the
face of history, if we put aside the punishment and face it sincerely, we can head towards a proud tomorrow.
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