About the film director: Chen Kaige is undoubtedly a very famous name in the history of Chinese film. In 1984, "The Yellow Earth" was born, which has made many people excited. Facing the great river that gave birth to the Chinese civilization, Chen Kaige seems to be asking what force has created the suffering of a nation. Perhaps only the "gong family" at the end of the loess can vaguely bring a glimmer of hope. Chen Kaige placed his personal destiny under the grand historical and cultural background, with a complicated mood and reflection. Later, he discussed the relationship between the individual and the collective in "The Military Parade", and "King of Children" discussed the incompetence of individual resistance in extreme times. In "Singing While Walking", he directly described the relationship between the individual and destiny for the first time. I think this is one of his better movies. "Farewell My Concubine" created the glory of Chen Kaige's Chinese film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, but it also laid the foreshadowing of the crisis for Chen Kaige's film myth. However, for Chen Kaige, who once proclaimed at the fifth-generation director's meeting to continue to promote the trend of Chinese films, his "With You" in 2002 is undoubtedly a strong proof
. Introduction to the film: Liu Xiaochun played the violin at a young age, and at the age of thirteen won many awards from many admirable violin competitions. For this sensitive and silent teenager, this instrument has always been his favorite expression, a most precious bond with the mother he has never met, and the source of his inspiration.
His father, Liu Cheng, was an ordinary chef and was very proud of Xiaochun. In order to make his son more successful, he took his son to Beijing to participate in the competition. The noisy atmosphere in Beijing impresses the father and son from the countryside, but the chance encounters lead Xiaochun to meet a vulgar woman: Lily. So he became Xiaochun's first confidant.
Xiaochun's competition in the Children's Palace ranked fifth. For Liu Cheng, this symbolized the first step in his son's bright future. After Liu Cheng's unremitting efforts, Teacher Jiang agreed to accept Xiaochun as a student. Liu Cheng works part-time to pay for Xiaochun's piano lessons. Teacher Jiang does not use traditional teaching methods at all. Under his guidance, Xiaochun took a decisive step, temporarily putting aside his beloved violin and listening to the score with all his heart.
During this period, Xiaochun discovered that Lily, who was at the station, lived in a nearby building. Through a period of communication, Xiaochun quickly peeps out the anxiety of a woman who is taking care of herself in love hidden under Lily's beautiful face, and the sadness and disappointment of being deceived by men from time to time.
During an accidental meal delivery errand, Liu Cheng listened to the performance of a young musician who was applauded by the audience. He visited the performer's mentor, Professor Yu, and persuaded him to listen to his son playing the violin.
Full of regret, he left Teacher Jiang, who could not guarantee his success in his playing career. Xiaochun continued to pursue the path of success under the control of Professor Yu. The new teacher was strict, demanding, and controlled. He deliberately brought Xiaochun and Lin Yu, his proud female disciple, together so that the two could compete.
During this difficult process, Xiaochun also worked hard to clarify the increasingly strained relationship between him and his father. On the eve of the competition, Professor Yu finally designated Xiaochun to participate in the trials instead of Lin Yu. He even leaked a secret to Xiaochun that would affect his life. It turned out that he was the child Liu Cheng picked up at the train station. (When he picked up Xiaochun, there was only a violin beside him. In the face of all this, Xiaochun began to choose between success and family, and finally the simple Xiaochun chose the great family...
Character characteristics: In terms of emotions, "With You" at least expounds the relationship between father and son, relationship between teachers and students, relationship between men and women, relationship between brothers and sisters, etc., and these relationships are placed in the social environment and you find reasonable, such as Among all relationships, only the relationship between father and son is the most selfless. There is more or less a utilitarian relationship in the relationship between teachers and students, and the relationship between men and women is even more unreliable. The relationship between sister and brother, which is somewhat ambiguous in itself, determines that it is often the party's relationship. Conscience and intuition. Of course, all emotions exist because of human nature, and cannot simply be judged by right and wrong. The epochal nature of "With You" is reflected in this. Chen Kaige emphasized two realistic mainstream value orientations in the film. One is Personality, one is talent, these are easy to be hunted by mainstream society, but also easy to fall victim to jealousy, selfishness, and greed in human nature.
Xiaochun is a child who is not very talkative. All his language is also expressed in music. Listening to his music is like listening to his heart. Unlike his father, he has no special pursuit of success. It can be seen that what he loves is music rather than fame and fortune, just like he finally flew to the train station and gave up. The competition can be understood: he is not because of emotional impulses, but because his gratitude and love for his father are full of his true soul, and he can't express it, so he chose to use music to express all his gratitude from the heart to his father. Talk.
Xiaochun is lucky, God favors him, from the moment he was abandoned, he has an adoptive father who can sacrifice everything for him, Liu Cheng took the responsibility of raising him and cultivating him so unhesitatingly, for Xiaochun , The selfless father took Xiaochun to stay in Beijing, a place he didn't know well. He begged Teacher Jiang to teach Xiaochun, and he begged Lily to buy back the violin that Xiaochun sold. It took a lot of effort to move Professor Yu and let Xiaochun get on To the bright road to success. He did everything a father should do, and all this reflects the greatness of father's love.
Lily is a romantic but kind-hearted courtesan who is always foolish for love, quite cartoonish. Lily (the cynic, who finally wakes up in the face of Xiaochun's innocence), the design of this character is the best in "With You". The shining part, her seemingly flashy life in an undecorated house hides an unspeakable sadness
Teacher Jiang is a down-to-earth music teacher, down and out, with a civic ethos on the surface, but arrogance on the inside, living in a yard full of sewage, making do with a piano boy to earn pocket money, and being idle with neighbor women, described as sloppy, with vulgar language, Desperate and without dignity. Is this life happy?
The run-in between him and Xiaochun is also a very meaningful passage in the film, but just when the two were about to accept each other, Teacher Jiang was out. Maybe this is life, some people leave, some people enter, but we are in At the end of the film, I saw him again. He also appeared with Chen Hong in the waiting hall where the father and son reunited with tears in his eyes.
Professor Yu took over from Teacher Jiang and entered from a new angle. His Dendrobium is a symbol used to express the empty emotional world of the so-called successful people who are dressed in brocade and jade. The design of the shrewd professor has become the character of the whole film whose character has taken a sharp turn for the worse. What he did not only failed to complete the driving force of a teenager's growth, but became a reaction force. When he tried to use Xiaochun's life secret (actually adopted by Liu Cheng) to prompt Xiaochun to complete his understanding of music and gain the motivation to succeed in the competition, the film went straight to a powerless climax. go with.
The two piano boys in the film, Lin Yu and Liu Xiaochun, are brothers and sisters, and they are taught by Professor Yu, a big name in the music industry. I don't know if Lin Yu is a shadow of Professor Yu's personality, but what is certain is that she chose Professor Yu's life path - success, that is, becoming famous and starting a family, having a social status and living a decent life. This is a very realistic adult girl. She refused to let Liu Xiaochun share the washbasin with her at the professor's house, calling him a "country bumpkin"; when she learned that Professor Yu had asked her younger brother instead of her to participate in the audition, she had a hysterical attack at Yu's house; at a critical moment, she took an old Qin wrote a psychological essay and provoked the relationship between Professor Yu and Liu Xiaochun, so he gave up the competition, and she finally turned around and stood in the spotlight of her dream. Choosing such a character and such a means to represent "success", what does "success" mean?
In such an environment, the delicate relationship between people leads to the story of fame, fortune and family affection. The comparison between Teacher Jiang and Teacher Yu, Lin Yu and Xiaochun, all these prove that success is not equal to love of music, and shape the two A teacher who represents the existence of different arts, which has well explained the complexity of the society. In front of the two teachers, as the father Liu Cheng showed a simple utilitarianism, so that people can see that the pair of success and talent seems to be compatible In many cases, there is actually quite a contradiction, which also provides a reasonable premise for the last train station scene. Could it be that Xiaochun lived a lonely life like Teacher Jiang? Teacher Jiang really loves music, but what did he get? His life is called happiness? Teacher Jiang said: "If I have music, if I have music, I will be happy. "If this is a realistic film, it is quite ideal: it tries to use innocence to fight against "adultization" and socialization, and asks people to choose a life path of "poverty and wantonness". If we say that it is idealistic, its picture really reproduces the embarrassment of idealists. If we say that Lin Yu (Professor Yu) and Liu Xiaochun (Teacher Jiang) represent two extremes of "decent" The choice of society", then, this so-called choice is actually no choice, making people choose between spiritual depravity and poverty and humbleness. At the end of the film, a philosophical conclusion is derived - artistic success and art The subtle relationship between the realm, and in reality, success is not just favoring the success of those who are truly powerful. There can be many human factors. If you want to stick to your own preferences, listen to your inner call and live purely, you must be successful. By the grace of God.
Musical thinking in the movie: After watching the movie, on the way back, the music of the violin always echoed in my ears. Whenever I am frustrated and lonely, music always accompanies me. Give me strength, give me confidence, light up the street lamps on the journey of life, and brush away the dust on the spirit and soul. To me, music is my soul. "With You" combines music and family, two human spirits that transcend age, region, race and language. In more than an hour, I felt with the music and cried when I watched the family. Because there is music as the main element of the story, the whole violin background is soothing and compact.
At the beginning of the film, the daughter-in-law of the richest man in the town gave birth to a child, and asked Liu Xiaochun to "pull the momentum" to destroy the production. Xiaochun came to the colorful part of "Gypsy Song", which set a certain standard for Xiaochun's piano skills and level. It also gave the film a unique and life-filled beginning.
When Teacher Jiang from the Children's Palace gave Liu Xiaochun the last lesson, the piano and violin were perfectly combined. The soft and brilliant light hit the face of Teacher Jiang, who had always been sloppy, presenting a beautiful and holy image. With the music, The things that make life beautiful are just that. Liu Xiaochun Qin and Yi, even if they live up to Teacher Jiang's teachings, express their nostalgia for Teacher Jiang. Teacher Jiang said that he has music. Yes, because we have music, we are not alone! In this way, Liszt's "Consolation No. 3" echoed in my ears.
Xiaochun met Lily at the station, and then reunited in the alley. She fell in love in her heart. She successively performed soft violin solos such as "Symposium" to express the feelings that sprouted in the hearts of teenagers. In another scene of the film, Chen Kaige, through the mouth of Professor Yu, made a conscious or unintentional comment on this kind of music. In that scene, Lily sneaked into Professor Yu's class at the Conservatory of Music, looking for an opportunity to explain Xiaochun's piano sales. Professor Yu is explaining Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". He said that when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he secretly listened to "The Four Seasons" in the heavy rain. "There is a secret in my heart that I want to share with music." The structure of the film is handled very delicately.
A relatively long montage of music appeared when Liu Cheng went to work in a restaurant, and a group of people rode bicycles to prepare to send out takeaways. The scene was when Liu Cheng was running hard and Xiaochun followed Teacher Jiang's request, "Don't play the piano, try to experience the music with your heart." Switch between readings. The background music quickly switches between the third movement of Sibelius' "Violin Concerto", the allegro movement of Lalo's "Spanish Symphony", the third movement of Brahms' "Violin Concerto", and the urgent movement of "Gypsy Song". board, back to the third movement of Brahms' "Violin Concerto", Shengsang's "Introduction and Rondo", Wieniawski's "Second Violin Concerto", the third movement, and then back to Shengsang's "Introduction and Rondo" Rotation". After a few words, it pointed out that the years are passing by, the old father is busy, and the young son's piano skills are advancing.
Later, Liu Cheng went to the concert hall to deliver meals, and inadvertently listened to a concert, playing a violin concerto by Paganini. The reason for choosing a more dazzling piece of music here may be to pave the way for Professor Yu's level.
Again the music featured in the film is a violin arrangement of Liszt's "Consolation No. 3". Lily carefully prepared to celebrate her boyfriend's birthday but found that she was self-indulgent and also used Liszt's "Consolation Song No. 3", every time it was music to soothe the soul in need of comfort.
In the second half of the film, the adagio part of Bruch's Scottish Fantasia becomes a note of deep love. Against the background of the music of "Scottish Fantasia", Liu Cheng sweats profusely on the construction site. It is also in the musical background of "Scottish Fantasia" that Liu Cheng and Lily weave their love and care for Xiaochun into a red sweater.
Another detail is that Lily's boyfriend used a white fur coat that Xiaochun bought from a piano to lie to Lily and said that he bought it by himself. Lily didn't know the truth and happily tried on the clothes in front of the mirror. The music was jazzy Gershwin style with irony. A violin piece to foil the ugliness of "boyfriend".
The finale music of the film, Prof. Yu's entry for Liu Xiaochun - "Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major". The piece was composed in 1878. It is one of Tchaikovsky's most famous works, and is known as the world's four violin concertos along with Beethoven's D major, Mendelssohn's E minor, and Brahms' D major violin concerto. Violin Concerto in D major is more important than the expression of the inner emotions of the creator and performer. It is a tribute to the great mother country of Russia. It fits the tone of the film very well and complements each other very well.
The ending of the film, the violin playing and the film, are all highly expressive art forms. At the end of the film, Liu Xiaochun is playing the tune at the noisy train station, and another student of Professor Yu, Lin Yu, is in the magnificent concert hall. The camera kept switching, the train station was full of tears for a while, and the band in the concert hall poured out. Interspersed with black and white memories: more than ten years ago, Liu Cheng was carrying the Liu Xiaochun he picked up, carrying a violin and anxiously looking for it at the train station. The language of the film and the language of music are perfectly combined, and I can't help but be moved. Qin returned to Xiaochun's arms and heart, father and son got together, Teacher Jiang and Lily followed each other, so the good things all merged together. Only then did I really understand why the movie used a seemingly mundane title like "With You". This "you" is not only a loving father, a teacher, nor the incarnation of a mother and a lover, but a true love and an art. "With You" is to be with true feelings and art! Abandoning all fame and fortune, only the most holy family is left.
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