(Text/Yang Shiyang)
Some vocabulary is untranslatable after all, it is difficult to explain, but it can only be understood but difficult to explain, for example, Jianghu.
The rivers and lakes have their specific people, things, and things, but compared to the existence and requirements of these entities, they are closer to a spiritual community, a symbol, a temperament, and a virtual and diffuse fog of meaning. , It means that a group of free and unsophisticated people, free from the supervision of the government and the control of power, establish and obey a folk consensus constructed by a unique morality and loyalty. In this circle, it has its own legal framework and self-consistent rewards and punishments. The arena is the parallel world and different time and space of intellectuals and official systems. It is wrapped in the halo of romanticism, immersed in the depths of time, the crevices of history, or-just some people's own contrived memories.
In this sense, what does "Jianghu Children" tell? Is it an embarrassing love? Was it because Brother Bin went from howling when he was young to the frustration and distress when he was middle-aged? Or is Qiaoqiao's affectionate and inseparable? Maybe neither. It is more about the history of the demise of an imaginary community. In the movie, the rivers and lakes have become a symbol, a loose, fluid, and autonomous world full of possibilities for the folks. In the end, it was slowly swallowed by the tide of the times. Whether it’s a coincidence or a coincidence, it’s just a grain of sand or a drop of water. He once thought that he could wind up the storm and disturb the trend. However, looking back at their ups and downs and struggles, their destiny was actually written at the very beginning. , They just unknowingly and unconsciously completed every transcription on the timeline according to the script, but they always thought that they had grasped their destiny.
From the reunion and separation in "Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers" to the farewell and reunion in "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes", in Jia Zhangke's writings, everyone has become a prisoner of time. "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" is more like Jia Zhangke's confession and regurgitation of his juvenile heart knot and youth loyalty. He wrote in his reminiscence article that he met his eldest brother once when he was a child, and a middle-aged man bowed his head and ate a bowl of noodles. This picture touched his heart. To some extent, the snoring of swallowing noodles is more like a huge sigh bowing to fate. The man who used to hold a knife and gun can now only be redeemed by the pleasure of a bowl of carbohydrates. As a result, in such an image of dusk, Jia Zhangke began to write about the bright moments and the ultimate loneliness of that group of people.
Inevitably, such stories are destined to be full of violence, street fights, knives and guns, and blood. Therefore, some people think that Jia Zhangke described the small town gangsters this time, a crude, low-level, and even the smell of copycats in mainland China. The underworld in the county town, but this understanding is too superficial. The world described by Jia Zhangke is more romantic, indeterminate, and even has a certain freehand image. Those fighting and killing are only superficial symbols. He has recollected countless times of his childhood story of betraying, his tragic experience of fighting and fighting, and his adolescent brothers who fled, but what he wrote, thought, and read was by no means a gangster in the sense of criminology, but a gangster. This kind of cultural dreamland is permeated with freedom, arrogance, unrestrainedness, courage, and disdain and rebellion against the power structure.
The story of "The Children of the Rivers and Lakes" began in an embarrassing and ambiguous era. Money exudes an irrefutable and attractive smell, but the ancient loyalty restricts Brother Bin from being too straightforward and greedy. He stays where he is. He hesitated, and was willing to accept a little Hong Kong dollar to help people shovel things, but still had to maintain a staid dignity, but the people around and the world were silently moving forward. Brother Bin has always emphasized his identity as a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, but he has never clarified the connotation of this identity. He actually didn't know what the rivers and lakes meant, and he didn't even know where the more real world would go. For him, the rivers and lakes are more like an indescribable "field". Like an animal seeking security through the smell, he must be in the smell of the "rivers and lakes" in order to determine his coordinates. And what about coincidence? At first, she tried to hide behind Brother Bin, as a "woman", but after she came forward, everything changed quietly. Brother Bin began to retreat in fear and panic, and Qiaoqiao unexpectedly Breaking into the rivers and lakes, after being released from prison, on the road to find people, in the structural sense of the external narrative, that way passed a lot of landmarks in Jia Zhangke's works, and completed a boundless look back, and from the internal spiritual structure, That is the way to step into the brand-new "Jianghu", the little scam on the wedding banquet, the touch of porcelain at the door of the hotel's single room, she so dexterously used the times and the loopholes of the people to win the possibility of survival for herself, she is considered to have entered the rivers and lakes. Do you vote for a certificate? And Feng Xiaogang's Youyi, Xu Zheng's Flicker, are they also "Jianghu" in another era, right? It's just that in this era, the rivers and lakes have also faded away from the halo of romanticism, and have become the helpless survival trick of the dead end, which is sad and a little shameful.
Like all previous stories that belonged to Jia Zhangke, in fact, all the characters he watched were people who were struggling to find their own identity and positioning. The great changes of the times gave birth to some people's unconscious and unintended ambitions. The identity of the system or destiny is quietly shattering, and the process of finding a new identity stirs excitement, but also experiences pain, confusion and hesitation. Many people, led by short-term excitement, have spent half their lives in this confusion. Brother Bin is a typical portrayal of this type of person.
Therefore, no matter how the story written by Jia Zhangke changes, whether it is the thin young man in the small town singing "Ren Xiaoyao" or the fierce elder brother raising the gun, they are all the same helpless people, sensitive, vulnerable, and soaked in sadness. In fact, they are not the real protagonists in the story. The C position of Jia Zhangke's story will always be left to the elusive and indescribable era. Compared with the hand of fate, all the characters with names and surnames are worthless. Mention. Therefore, going back to "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", everything is the same. He wrote that the wind is approaching and blowing everything away. No matter the breath of romanticism or the vows made by people, I have never heard an echo in the wind, and some people When the wind blew up, some people were torn into pieces and returned to the dust. The paralyzed Brother Bin sits at the Kang table and pushes a table of food to the ground. People who don’t know think he is just venting material frustration, but those who know others can understand that what he is depressed is the world in front of him, his own interpretation system It's already malfunctioning, he can't decode all of this, where did the high-spirited one go wrong and end up inexplicably like this? But this game of chess actually has no game record, and it cannot be repeated. Looking back now, Brother Bin and Qiaoqiao accidentally completed an identity replacement. The woman walked towards the rivers and lakes, and the man curled up and swaddled. At the beginning, the man held the woman and taught her to shoot, but now, the woman helps the man to walk again, like a mother. Treat children.
Some of Brother Bin’s former brothers walked away to do business and cling to power. They clarified a goal within a secular framework, but people like Brother Bin were greedy and disdainful of secular success. Compared with money, What made him even more obsessed was the drunkenness and dreams that everyone set off, just like the "all around the world" where countless bottles of spirits gathered in the enamel washbasin, the bragging and joy of a group of drunk men. He is just a sleepwalker at the end of romanticism. In the end, when he wakes up, he finds that he has been heavily besieged by the solid reality of the moment, standing horribly in the consternation of the younger generation and the mobile phone cameras of his peers.
The chess and card room is still the chess and card room. The stronghold of the children of the rivers and lakes is still the tea on the table and the stagnant nicotine in the air. In the cabin of the chess and card room, you can talk about righteousness, business, and mediate disputes on the road. It’s the first cigar in my life, but now, here is just a cheap casino where a group of frustrated middle-aged people chat to masturbate. It is no longer a gray area, and no one cares whether to move to Guan Erye, the walls are full. A business license with the official seal of the country.
Mobile phone video can be handled by everyone, dispelling all solemnity. Everyone is like acting in a monkey show. The red badge is hung on the wall, and the surveillance camera is inlaid in the corner of the house. It is freehand brushwork, but time has passed. Now, under the approval and supervision of power, everything is allowed to exist, it must be clear and unmistakable, and it must be invisible. As a result, sleepwalkers lose their dreams, and the arena loses their divinity. Who has the pass and where is the epitaph?
At the end, Qiaoqiao stood in the corridor in a daze, and his figure was recorded by the camera. What does it mean? More like a silent sneer from a high place, announcing that the world has since then been supervised by "God" and that one God will eventually replace the carnival of the gods.
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