If you know such old friends who have been resigned to their own depravity, please read what I wrote, and even watch these four excellent films. I believe you will also have some precious thoughts. I don't know what mysterious force drove me to write this. This week, by chance, I watched Coppola's "Betta Fish" and "Little Godfather" in succession, and then added Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu" and "Little Godfather". Wanma Caidan's "Talo", in the half-dream and half-awake from 3:00 to 5:00 today, has been thinking a lot about the depravity and loss of the group of young people in the 1980s, whether in China or the United States, parents and mothers. A part of them, their past, when the campus band outside the window played "Goodbye Jack" of "The Band", I couldn't sleep, then I opened the phone and popped up a QQ group message to see a friend shared with me the news of an old friend , I was a little dazed. I posted a close-up photo of the character of "Xiao Wu" in the group, and he immediately said: He and that person look alike. The moment I saw the news, I felt dazed and a little shocked. Like something, he climbed out of bed while muttering something and wrote this. He is our former high school friend. I used to admire him very much. His spirit, loyalty, courage, and arrogance. He led a group of people to "fight and kill" in every square inch of the school, and shared him with us every day. Glory scars. After that, he gave up the college entrance examination because he owed a huge sum of money to his classmates, relatives, and loan sharks because of gambling. He borrowed a loan from a friend's ID card, and his old addiction relapsed after his parents paid off the debt many times. We no longer communicate with him. He even became our pre-dinner and post-drink joke. It turns out that there is such a person in every era. They are Dallas in "Little Godfather", Rusty in "Betta Fish", Xiaowu in "Xiaowu", and Tower in "Tallo" Lo, I see all the characters here in that person, and I see mirrors of each other in all the characters here. In "Little Godfather", the southern gang composed of the rich second-generation youth and the northern gang composed of the poor second-generation are two factions that are incompatible. They fight and hurt each other. Coppola takes the two classes through a small accident The way to deal with the contradictions between them and the reasons for the formation of the social solidified structure are shown to the audience in a hormonal male image style. Matt Dillon's Dallas plays a southern gangster in this very dramatic conflict. He and the cowardly and timid actor Bernie are very good friends. Bernie and his gang stabbed to death several rich second-generation members of the North Gang in self-defense. When Dallas went to visit Bernie, he looked very much like a brother and also very similar to a gang leader and tell them: Your murder is honorable, you don't need to feel it Guilt, your gang is proud of you, our family is proud of you. Bernie accepted the so-called praise from his brother who was only a few years older than him. However, in the dialogue between Bernie and his girlfriend, Bernie expressed his true thoughts. I don't think the people of the North Gang are so bad. They are just as confused and afraid as we are. But later, Bernie's friend died because they went to the church to put out the fire with them on the way back from the escape. His gang insisted that this friend's death should be attributed to the persecution of the northern gang against the southern gang, and it was like eating human blood steamed bread. He established himself as the hero of the Southern gang to encourage the two sides' upcoming "dating fight" called life and death battle. Bernie was also brainwashed by these gang members headed by his big brother (not Dallas), in his vision Suddenly full of hatred. The final battle ended with a big victory for the Southern Gang, but if the film ended here, "Little Godfather" would not have become a film history classic. Later, when Dallas learned of the death of his friend, he robbed a bookstore in a fit of rage, and was shot and killed by the police who followed him in a green lawn. Bernie and other members of the Southern Gang were distraught after feeling it. Bernie's brother (The real southern gang leader in the film, Dallas is considered the second in command) put his arms around Bernie and said: I don't know why, but you must not be like us anymore, listen to me, you go and study hard. At this moment, my eyes were filled with tears just like the two brothers, and I was deeply saddened by the unexplained death of Dallas, and I was also happy for the poor second generation to finally realize the way out of their predicament. In the middle part of the film, there is a very striking plot. The members of the North Gang intercepted Bernie at the interface. Instead of conflicting with him, they chose to sit in a sports car and chat with him calmly, saying that he knew that Bernie killed in self-defense, and also Appreciating Bernie's heroic act of putting out the fire, he said something to Bernie that impressed me: "You know what, kid? No matter which side we won in that duel, it was you who lost in the end, because Our rich second generation, and you are just hooligans, this result doesn't matter to us." Yes, such a simple truth, why can't so many former friends around me understand it? This old friend of mine is like most of the southern gang members he represents in the film. They can defeat the northern gang through violence, but they don't understand that the social class has not changed because of the violence. There is no correct way to deal with conflicts and switch classes, so they can only live in the shadow of the North Gang no matter how many times they win, when they are no longer young, they will still be under the hands of the North Gang members. Work, Did they really win? Did my old friend really win again? Is this just a kind of self-consolation, or is it the most helpless way to reconcile the self who has been unable to break away from the lower class? It is interesting to see another Coppola film "Betta Fish", which was filmed immediately after "The Little Godfather". This time Coppola tells about a local gang leader in the United States, Russ James, still played by Matt Dillon, this time their opponents moved from the rich second generation to the BIFF gang, which is also a local gangster, but this time the gang struggle did not follow through like a "little godfather", only before the film. 20 minutes played a role in fueling the flames. In the duel between Rusti and Biff, Rusti won by an overwhelming advantage, but when he was cheering, he was stabbed with a knife by Biff. The long-lost brother rode a motorcycle to the four sides of the big killing and rescued Rusty. Rusty's brother was called "Motorcycle Rider" by the gang. He was a former gang figure, but he quit the gang for unknown reasons after a few years of fame. Later, he became colorblind and hearing impaired, and the only object he could see in color was the domesticated "Betta fish" in the pet store (this film is a black and white film deliberately shot by Coppola, and the whole betta fish is the only object is rendered in color). Rusty described his brother like this: He is only 21 years old, but he looks like an old man, but he is only 25 years old. Later, because of Rusty's irritable and immature behavior and too much obsession with women, the gang's cohesion is no longer alienated from each other. , dismissed Rusty, and the spectacled valet who used to be afraid of Rusty also said to Rusty: In fact, you are nothing, you are deceiving yourself now, and no one will respect you anymore. At this moment, Rusty is confused and helpless. Everything he once had is now scattered like smoke. At this moment, my brother stood up and patted Rusty on the shoulder and said, "What have we never owned?" What about losing? I've seen the world since I was five years old, and you still don't understand, I'll give you my motorcycle, leave this city on a motorcycle and never come back. My brother took Lusty to visit the "Betta Fish" in the pet store. You can see that these creatures are compressed here. They have a narrow vision. Even if they see their own mirror images, they will rush to fight with them. I want to let them free. That night, my brother robbed the pet store on a motorcycle and left with Douyu. On the way to escape, he was shot and killed by the police who had already been ambushed. The onlookers looked at the once legendary "Motorcycle Rider" sighed in the sky and said: Do you know who he is? Only Rusty was angry and lonely, but he saw himself in the mirror of the police car (this is the second object rendered in color in the whole movie), he broke the glass, grabbed the betta and put it into the sea , rode his brother's motorcycle away from this black and white city, he rode to the sea, and the film ended with a colorful sea as the final scene. Rusty's and his brother's father are also former gang "people of the year". Brother and Rusty's have inherited each other's mantle from generation to generation, but their father has not been able to understand his predicament until the end. A lifetime of intoxication in alcohol, the betta fish locked in the glass box symbolizes the father, the betta fish flowing freely in the sea symbolizes the elder brother, and the betta fish released from the glass box into the sea are the Symbolizes Rusty. I think that my friend and the group of people he symbolizes may be betta fish locked in glass boxes and still unable to escape, while our once-fighting partners are jumping unknowingly. Entering the sea, because there are such a group of "motorcyclists" who used to be brilliant around us. They told us that people should not fall into the struggle of being confined. Fighting in a glass box, fighting fish should fight in the sea, and those people There is no such opportunity, I feel sorry for them, they lost the opportunity to see the sea. Finally, let me talk about Jia Zhangke's famous work "Xiao Wu". Xiao Wu is a thief, but Jia Zhangke has not given him any professional characteristics of "thieves". Xiao Wu is just an ordinary person among all living beings. Just one person. Xiaowu's best friend in childhood was called Xiaoyong. Xiaoyong was rated as an outstanding township entrepreneur because of his success in starting a business out of town, so he appeared on the local TV station. However, Xiaowu was caught stealing a pager and watched in the police station. The local TV station's report on his indecent deeds, more ironically, the interviewer of Xiaoyong and Xiaowu turned out to be the same host. Xiaoyong is about to get married, and according to his promise, Xiaowu gave Xiaoyong six pounds of RMB as a red envelope. When he saw Xiaoyong, he found that he was no longer the playmate he used to be, and he became the one he knew best. The most hated and most eager to become the capitalist, Xiaoyong also does not want to have anything to do with the famous township thief Xiaowu, Xiaowu was drinking alone in the old tavern. In karaoke, the two mutual friends played by Jia Zhangke returned the red envelope for Xiaoyong to Xiaowu, saying that Xiaoyong was afraid that Xiaowu would involve him, and Xiaowu angrily countered: Isn't what he did smuggling? Where is smuggling more noble than stealing? And Jia Zhangke, who was kicked out of the room, said when he turned back: Xiaowu, let me explain to you first, what Xiaoyong does is not smuggling, it is trade . In their eyes, smuggling can be transformed into trade, but stealing can only be stealing. Everyone understands this, but Xiao Wu does not understand why smuggling can be trade, but stealing can only be stealing. The colored flag cast by the gap for the two of them, in his eyes, dirty is dirty, no matter the class, he does dirty things to make a living, Xiaoyong also does dirty things to make a living, he I don't see how snobbish this society is. My old friend, he used to rebuke those who are officials and businessmen when he was joking, but he didn't see who was in business, who was officials, and who was gambling? He may think that both are making money, what is the difference? This kind of social phenomenon makes everyone terrified, but we recognize and accept it, but he does not. So, maybe we will become their Xiaoyong after all, and they will become our Xiaowu after all. I think my friends in the circle know who I am talking about, but I am not only talking about him today, but also people like him. The self-righteous "little godfather" doesn't understand that his parish is just a small glass box. Slowly turned into Xiaowu, watching those Xiaoyong swim to the sea. I hope that he, these people, can meet his "motorcyclist" soon.
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