Jia Zhangke is the first director I have ever met to pay tribute to himself. There is almost nothing new in this film. It just tells the story he has already told again in the way he is most familiar with, or adds the "author press" to all the previous works. It's just that nothing is said this time. It was good before. Qiaoqiao III and Binbin III, take us to relive the golden years of Jia Zhangke's movies. Different from the movie's slogan, what we witnessed this time is not the formation of Jia Zhangke's film universe, but the end of Jia Zhangke's film universe.
1. What is left in the reincarnation of the character? What is missing?
Qiaoqiao is a character that combines Qiaoqiao from "Ren Xiaoyao", Shen Hong from "The Good Man in Three Gorges", and Xiaoyu from "Heaven Is Destined". Due to too many tributes, the character itself becomes blurred. Jia Zhangke used a purely straight male perspective to portray a martial artist Wang Baochai. Qiaoqiao’s feelings for Binbin seem to have changed from love to righteousness. On the surface, it seems to be praising women’s independence and responsibility, but they are praising women with three obediences and four virtues. It’s one for Binbin to go to jail. Second, working as a caregiver for Binbin, but only in exchange for two words is three, more importantly, she is one of the last, and she has gone home to open the scene. She is still alone, and she is not waiting for Binbin’s rescue. Well, although I was in a wheelchair when I came here, Binbin's role is still a giver, not a helper.
In "Ren Xiaoyao", Qiao San is a cruel brother who never fights for women, but in the past Jia Zhangke, there has never been a simple brother who is as cruel as Qiao San, and his feelings are also mixed with love and love. Control, on the one hand, he is a teacher who passed by by coincidence, on the other hand, he is a big brother with a head and a face. Coincidentally, it seems passive on the surface. In the caravan, Joe was thrown into the seat again and again, crying, but his heart was independent and stubborn. The puff has been clearly reflected.
And these two people in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" really don’t have any love scenes. Except for the setting of the plot, you can’t find any basis for the emotional changes between the two people. Coincidentally, why love Binbin again while waiting. What kind of psychology is it? When looking for it, besides staged two series of French popularization, what else is there. The exquisiteness of the past has become hasty. In the relationship between man and woman, the deep-rooted straight male thinking has occupied the high ground again, and the sense of belonging solves all problems. Because he is your boyfriend, he has to say a word to dissolve the relationship, modern women, take your time to see if this is the case.
As for Binbin, the prototype is the elder brother Jia Zhangke had contacted when he was a child, Qiao San in "Ren Xiaoyao", the fact is too long, the creation of the old Jia who is extremely dependent on experience, really can’t remember, so I took a look. He looks very loyal but actually doesn’t know what a loyal brother is. Binbin really didn't have any loyal behaviors in the whole film. Binbin, let me just ask you one thing, my second brother asked you to find out who the rumors were. Have you done it? You take money and don't do anything, you just let it go when you meet two little bastards who beat you on the leg? Brother Bin's later disability cannot help but make people suspect that it was a sequelae from the time. I won’t say anything about being young and vigorous. When Binbin returns to Datong, he doesn’t have any respect for the former Ma Tsai. Is this the brother? And his attitude towards Qiaoqiao is indeed like a big brother. The big brother will treat you well, but you will not be the elder brother's forever woman. Chen Haonan also changed Gigi Li Jiaxin and Shu Qi.
As a big brother, outsiders always feel very busy and awesome. That’s right, but I can’t deal with it like that when making movies. I just want to know what Bin Bin did. In the movie, he didn’t solve anything and didn’t treat him well. Anyone, even Liu Ye, whose role has been taken away, knows to give money to a liar to do charity. Except for the dance teacher to give his second brother another song, he has never done anything to show his personality. Good brothers, bad brothers, or even the impressionist brothers in this film are not important. As a key figure, do you allow such an image to deduce a deep sense of love?
2. In the intertextuality between the left and the right, Jia Zhangke is busy telling all the stories round at once, and he has not forgotten some things
In "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", apart from Binbin and Qiaoqiao, there are almost no important supporting roles, which means that the burden of the story rests on their relationship. What did Lao Jia do? He put all his energy on the fun of self-intoxication and the joy of decomposition and reorganization.
Today’s Lao Jia has changed from a boy who squatted on the street in the past to a greasy middle-aged who loves festivities. Friends, this means that his understanding of life and his hometown has shifted from daily to rituals. The texture of the once lively life has changed. For the scene of life and death, you say what changes will be made in the shots. The square dancing, the caravan, the video room, the billiards case, and the out-of-tune karaoke in the vast night are Xiao Jia’s keen reflection of reality, and now these have become a piece of his movie puzzle. You don’t need to ask why. It's over. Director Jia, do you know that the caravans have been improved now? The program list has been updated, and now no money is charged. It sells medicinal liquor, soaks with crocodiles, snakes, and bastards, as well as fire-breathing and dancing. If you have seen it, you will like it.
The motherland of rituals, landscapes, and magical realism, these things are already special, and they are no longer fun. Many photographers want to play with these things. The heads of people who have been sprayed by me have become dog heads. For details, please refer to me Log. The extreme point of magical realism is science fiction, but Lao Jia's understanding of science fiction is so cute. It's just that rou flies over a gadget-flying, which has become the core concept of Lao Jia's view of science fiction. Even if it is said that Bin Bin's leg was interrupted by an alien flying in! It seems that Lao Jia’s popular science materials are still at the stage of "Approaching Pseudoscience."
In sharp contrast, Lao Jia’s social outlook was severely affected by "The Progress of the Legal System." Qiao Qiao’s experience in Fengjie was filmed into the following episodes: "A woman sitting on a motorcycle meets a pervert, and she is witty and out of danger", "Uninvited guests come to the wedding banquet, eating and drinking are not rewarded", "Small Business and Big Scams" ——Don’t Believe Others by Train", each story tells us that there is a long way to go, beware of risks. Of course, we don’t have to care too much about this. After all, this is a gala show arranged by Director Jia for his friends.
In the gap between the ceremony and the column play, even hard work can actually tell a good story, but the rest of the space is also very tight! I still have to keep a tribute to myself. I cut out the material that I still can’t bear to use. For example, I was planning to go back and shoot again when I shot "Public Place" in Datong. Binbin’s gun can’t just be in the disco. Drop it once, at least twice. It is a pity that the old houses were all converted into ancient buildings in the city construction of Mayor Geng (see "Datong" directed by Zhou Hao for details), and the filming of "In the Qing Dynasty" can only be changed. So even the material from the remake was cut together. After repeated ideas, these fragmented fragments were finally inserted. Various open and dark lines, like a special feature of Jia Zhangke's film, let me get it seriously. A glimpse of the pleasure of watching a detective film.
Jia Zhangke’s current movies are so post-modern, just so structuralism. The pieces of materials that you can’t use can also be used to cook dishes for you. I have to say, when the camera scans Bin Bin and Xiao in "Ren Xiaoyao" When I was relieved, I was moved for a second. To be honest, if it is just the material of the year, if you give me 90 minutes, I am willing to pay the bill. But Lao Jia's ambition is much larger than that of Xiao Jia, which is a pity.
3. Witness the end of Jia Zhangke's film universe
The overall impression is that, in his heart, Jia Zhangke still feels that he is the kid on the street, but unfortunately, he is already another business card besides coal and wine. Sunglasses and cigar made it impossible for him to take two shots at any time in a wild case, just like the game played by young people today, the King of Glory. His understanding of the world has always stayed in his hometown in the 1980s and 1990s, and now he can only play with the videotapes of the movie puzzle guide. For him, his creation is more like a calculation driven by inertia, and his motivation is touched by reality. Become self-indulgence in memories.
As a kind of nostalgia for Jia Zhangke's films in the past, the children of Jianghu are quite good. Seeing the bus stop in the wilderness and the butterflies on Qiaoqiao’s clothes reminds me of "Easy Travel" and Ren Xianqi; seeing Qiaoqiao asking Bin Bin in a small hotel whether she is her boyfriend or not, it reminds me of Cui Mingliang on the city wall. I asked Yin Ruijuan the same thing, and that Zhao Xiaotao was still wearing a raincoat in the underground hotel; there was also a girl under the street lamp in the caravan in Fengjie, but there was no need to perform to the fake stationmaster.
Jia Zhangke mentioned in the interview that he once had a heart-to-heart talk with his girlfriend who was in love at the beginning of the year, and fireworks suddenly exploded in the sky. At that moment, he was deeply shocked. He said that he would never shoot this scene into his In the movie. I saw that scene in "Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers", at that time Jia Zhangke's cinematic universe had ended. His daylight fireworks have already bloomed.
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