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world is yours and ours. But, in the end, it's yours. You young people, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning, have hope on you.
- Mao Zedong
in the journey of life, we had to miss some of the people some of the things that we can not return to the past, so we must confront and take on all that has happened, cherish every existing today, rationally buried yesterday, frankly meet tomorrow , just like Ma Xiaojun in "Sunny Days" jumped, splitting the relationship with the past, those blocking hands and feet became the driving force for growing up, in loneliness and helplessness, this child will no longer be weak, in self-saving And in reflection, he grew up silently, in order to survive, for a person's living world.
The ups and downs in the water is an unfathomable future of life. That time when he floats from the bottom of the water, Ma Xiaojun no longer has any illusions about the world. In the adult world, it will always be a life-and-death struggle! This is the survival law of society, this is the invisible shackle that society puts on your neck!
"Sunny Day" has a strong heroism and idealism complex. The film takes "Cultural Revolution" as the theme but uses the title of "Sunny Day", which is intriguing! This is a child's personal memory of the "Cultural Revolution" in a military compound, mixed with Wang Shuo's memory and Jiang Wen's personal experience. It was a bitter look back on "public ownership" and "pureness". At present, the era of scum, lack of ideals and conscience has a sense of irony and caution.
We have left that particular "sinful" era, when anyone seems to have the right to "spit" and make irresponsible remarks, but we should just see: the era that history books rated as "ten years of civil strife" , For the general public, in addition to reciting Chairman Mao's quotations, what they perceive is labor insurance, public education and the pride of "being the master of the country". Ideology and superstructure are of little significance to the general public. At least, in those days, there were no drug addiction, "semi-open" prostitution and open gambling!
Today, we have also become parents, fighting against the tide of the times for the happiness of ourselves and our families, burying all childhood idealism for the future under the pretext of survival, and following the waves in the cruel world.
We have long lost the age of innocence, and there are only sophistication and hypocrisy. There is a thick wall between us. Although the Internet has shortened the distance of time and space, it has opened the distance of the soul. People are no longer like brothers, and some are just "relationships"!
The film is a precious memory. At the beginning of the film, the flute slowly played the elegy of an era. In memory, in that era, the spiritual outlook of people (referring to the general public, we should understand that a political party should seek for many ordinary people.) their happiness and survival is what a ruling party should consider.) They are positive, and most of them are pure, kind and selfless.
Think of Ma Xiaojun's meaningful words in the film: I can also testify that at that time, apart from some cadres with questionable political qualities, corrupt officials were rare!
The people of that era had a kind of righteousness. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong's foresighted giant, they rushed to the place where the motherland needed them without hesitation. It was simply a kind of strength, and it was the necessary cohesion for a poor and white country. And the "purification" of thought is a necessary price for a loose nation. It is a utopia with all aspects, and it is impossible to achieve in a class society. It is unfair for us to blame the complex Chinese history across the times. In that particular era, the people were simple and simple, content and upward.
The soldiers of "Three Branches and Two Armies" [Note 2] embarked on their journey in the majestic revolutionary song. A shot of blue sky and white clouds must be the memory of Jiang Wen's compound. Purity is a fleeting thing!
Jiang Wen deliberately filtered out the "cruelty" of the "Cultural Revolution", and focused on things outside the adult world with children's eyes. For the scene where the three girls danced in "Turn Up a Serf", a beam of sunlight shot in from the window to add a poetic and pictorial touch. Feeling, in the memory of the teenager, the dancer is innocent and innocent like an angel.
The bugle is loud, and the children grow up running, fighting and frolic. They are pure, even violence is pure; they are pure, even the love of men and women is pure. All of this remains in our minds, and our student days are just like them, naughty and innocent! We are also sensible and reasonable in the reprimands of the "Labor Propaganda Team" masters, and everything in our memory is clean!
In Mascani's Interlude [Note 3], a photo of Milan appeared before our eyes, which was completely in conjunction with "Ferocious Animals", and the image of youth, health, and simple smile haunted me for a long time. In my heart, this is a rare and healthy female image on the Chinese screen, which makes people feel heartbroken. Milan only belongs to an era without evil thoughts, in our youthful years.
We are no longer shy when we grow up, we are already as fierce as animals, so, in the melancholy and lingering music of Mascani, recall the years of first love, recall the intuitive feeling of love at first sight... Of
course, it has been twenty years in a flash , there is no longer that intoxicating feeling, some are just the confession of Mr. Hou's "After Thirty"!
Let us once again walk on the roof like Ma Xiaojun in our hearts, and relive the past purity in sensational music.
And according to China's national conditions. In the public performance version of our theater, two paragraphs were deleted, and one paragraph was added: The
movie deleted the scene where Yang Hao straightened up in the bathroom after their fight with Yu Beilei, which is actually the origin of adolescence , is inevitable for every young person, but it is destined to be unacceptable to our censorship system. We have been "castrated" again and again in our seemingly pure homeland, and even if we listen to "The Internationale", we are indifferent!
Youth should be flamboyant, fearless and brave. Youth should be passionate, selfless and enthusiastic. Ma Xiaojun and the others are almost the same age as me. Their experiences also have our shadow, and our world also has memories of that passion and friendship.
The play of Ma Xiaojun's father educating Ma Xiaojun in the film has the true feelings of father and son, and they have also happened to us.
The film remembers that particular era, and Mascari's melody runs through the entire film. In this melody again and again, we recall and we look forward to it!
In the film, Milan is a back image of Ma Xiaojun and his youth, and it is also a back image that we witnessed and created in the realm of our pure self. Milan's gaze exists in Ma Xiaojun and our youth memory. Illusion and reality are mixed together, Milan's candor and youthful bodybuilding have a blue sky-like purity. And the children of those times didn't have many evil thoughts. What we yearn for is often not the flesh, but a hazy feeling, a vague and forbidden beauty of the opposite sex, this is the age of innocence, this is our yesterday. In such a mournful melody, I can't help crying, but all of this has been overlapped and washed away by our memory again and again, like a lifetime!
Children live in reality, but create an illusory and magical world beyond their own age in the spiritual world, just like Jiang Wen's "dream" scene in the performance version, but this group of scenes is indeed superfluous, so in the DVD were all deleted.
However, in the public performance version, a semi-naked scene of Tranquility was deleted because of "China's national conditions". In fact, this scene showed a catharsis of desire and the separation of Ma Xiaojun and his youth, while Tranquility's tall and straight breasts are full of healthy, pure beauty of. It is a purity that cannot bear blasphemy. At the moment when we stepped into the adult world, when we looked back at the moment, was there ever that exciting moment of youth! ?
The film is shot in warm tones, and there is a warm feeling in the bright sunshine. This is the color in Jiang Wen's heart, this is a pure color, the color of friendship between children and children.
Especially worth mentioning is the scene in which Ma Xiaojun called Milan in the rain. The downpour wet the two of them. Milan's call of "what's the matter with you?" has all the female characters. Just like a mother needs labor pains to give birth to a baby, the child needs to grow up in another kind of labor pains and setbacks. Similarly, Ma Xiaojun's confession of "I like you" also announces his growth...
Hug! On such a rainy night, let your undulating chest warm my heart, let your heart feel my wildness, your body temperature and tempting smell make me return to our naked Eden in the rain, youth is everything!
In this film, the quiet youth, health and plumpness, and Wang Xueqi's serious and upright soldier image have left a deep impression on people! The image of Mr. Hu in the toilet played by Feng Xiaogang is a must, and the famous villain and old actor Fang Hua played the image of a senior army cadre. This is the last screen image of the old man. Died of illness! "King of Devils" has come to a successful conclusion.
There is also Yao Erga, who has abandoned us because of being infected with drugs. The fool played in the film has become a classic screen image in Chinese movies, allowing the seemingly "smart" you and me to look at our self-mirror. Own!
Caidanzhuma's loud and high-pitched voice traverses the capital of the new era with the Chevrolet RV, and the four playmates have changed beyond recognition after 20 years. Listen, the fool who is still riding the broom finally appeared. strong tone of the times:
"stupid b!"
on Friday, October 31, 2003 at 20:48
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Postscript:
this is my favorite movie, He retains too many memories of the past and youth, movies can be watched again and again, but about yesterday, it can only be buried deep in my heart, learning to forget is the price of growing up!
Today is Halloween, and I am still alone at home. Yoko is socializing with his boss at the Xijiao Hotel. Life is a choice between automatic and passive. Every day, individuals face the future and themselves with their own words and deeds. Tonight, on the Ghost Festival in the West, everyone is on the way!
Please believe me, the sun is still new tomorrow, may all life be happy and peaceful!
[Note 1] "sunny day"
China Film Co-production Corporation in 1994 produced
Director: Jiang Wen
Original: Wang Shuo
Photography: Gu Changwei
Art: Chenhao Zhong, Li Yong new
recording: Gu Changning
Starring: Summer, the quiet, Wang Qi, Siqin
awards: 33rd Taiwan Golden Horse for best film, best director, best actor, best cinematography award: The film won the 51st Venice International Film Festival Volpi Cup Best Actor Award (Silver Lion Award), Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography Award at the 33rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, Best Actor Award at Singapore International Film Festival, American "Time" Weekly Top Ten Best Films Award "No. 1 in the Top Ten Best Films in the World".
【Note 2】Three branches and two armies: In January 1967, Mao Zedong instructed the army to “support the left, support the workers, support the agriculture, military management, and military training”
【Note 3】Mascani Interlude: selected from Mascani’s The interlude from the opera "Country Rider" is by far the most gripping and beautiful interlude I've ever heard, and this piece is also constantly quoted, we have played in "Raging Bull", "The Godfather 3" and other films can be heard in.
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