After watching the German film "Eavesdropping Storm"
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■Melon Xuechuan
’s New Year’s Eve, I refused the Spring Festival Gala, and sat alone in the Shifo camp on the outskirts of Beijing In his study, I watched the German film "Eavesdropping Storm" with melancholy.
The film is also translated "Other People's Lives". According to the low-key report "Film Shapes the City" sent back from Berlin on February 17, 2007 by "Southern Weekend" reporter Li Hongyu, this "sensitive and seductive film" had already won 7 Oscar nominations before it was nominated. "German Film Awards", 3 "European Film Awards".
The film's plain and murderous lens language makes people shudder everywhere. When the protagonist’s wife committed suicide because of the guilt of telling the story, I stood up, clenched fists and knuckles snapped, and I said to myself sentimentally, “The most terrorism of mankind”.
Plot
Former East Germany. The Ministry of National Security, known as "Stasi", fragilely confronts the people from top to bottom. They focused on the upright and kind middle-aged playwright, so they deployed control and made the eavesdropping equipment densely installed in the most secretive home of "others", and monitored in shifts around the clock. What happened in this family, what was said, when the husband and wife quarreled, when they had sex, who sent something, who or whom they called, the content of the call... all were recorded throughout the entire process. The appearance resembles Wesler, the small head of the security bureau of the eunuch in Chinese history, facing the playwright and his fragile actor wife, facing the woman who had no choice but to go out of the wall, the man who was busy writing was calm on the outside and upright in his heart. All kinds of anxiety, facing the threat of murderous power, the young couple's anxiety and absolute helplessness, the wife's last confession... This spy who began to be scolded by the audience as a cold-blooded killer, gradually recovered his humanity and was awakened by his conscience. On the occasion, he made a breathtaking feat—hidden the typewriter used by the writer to type criticizing articles (this article was published in Der Spiegel in West Berlin and caused panic in East Berlin). The price to be paid for telling the truth is the wife's deprivation of high officials and guilt suicide after the informant. The Berlin Wall fell. The playwright looked through the original surveillance data and found out the truth. He published a book for this and gave a benefactor on the title page. East Germans, including playwrights and Vesler, have since stood up to be humans.
background
In November 2006, shortly after the "Eavesdropping Storm" was awarded, Wolf, the former Deputy Minister of National Security of East Germany, passed away. Wolff said in his autobiography that the ideal he cherished was socialism, and that he still remains unchanged from his original intention and his beliefs. Like all high-level East Germans, Wolfes are proud of the 85,000 agents of the East German Security Ministry. The unforgettable fact is that it is this socialist East Germany, the spy agency constructed by the state apparatus monitored nearly 8 million out of the 18 million people in East Germany. The number of informants who accused and informed was close to one-tenth of the entire population. According to statistics, in the nearly 30 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, an average of 8 people went to jail every day for the crime of "undermining national security." After the reunification of Germany, all the eavesdropping files of the Ministry of National Security were handed over to the newly established "Gauck Administration" and opened to all citizens for inspection. These monitoring data are spread out all over the place, and they are 1,000 kilometers long. The kind-hearted East German citizens discovered how many whistleblowers were their colleagues, friends and even relatives. The entire society has suffered unprecedented human rights disasters and moral blows with great suffering. The reason why the film resonated with people of insight around the world is precisely the reflection and instructive nature of the "sociological text" of the film.
Aesthetic
As a materialized product of the modern world, film is undoubtedly an amazing visual text of human life behavior and conceptual form. The visual aesthetic significance of "Eavesdropping Storm" is embodied in the shocking theme, the simplicity of the story, the relaxation of the plot, the clear flesh and blood of the details, and the dignified and natural music. The main point is precisely the narrative of human nature and conscience that has become an important fashion in the West in the past few decades. From "Schindler's List" to "Eavesdropping Storm", the artistic standard that humans cannot abandon in the short term is the "artistic integrity" that Danner has long identified, that is, race, environment, and era determine the text. Spiritual and artistic nature. This is actually a modern aesthetic sociology formed in the former Soviet Union. It's just that the closed ideology of a centralized state is based on maintaining centralized rule (in its beautiful name, safeguarding national security and economic development) and harming human nature and contempt for human rights. In this regard, the Chinese have the most say. The German spirit, which sincerely faces its own evil history like this one, is exactly the same as the morality and ethics of this nation in the face of World War II, and its revolutionary position is commendable. Just as the protagonist’s "a clean sky above his head" poems and his justice as a human being is expected to impress a Nazi-like spy, why is there no lack of "Jing "The Quiet Don", "Forty-first", "The Dawn Here is Quiet", "The Sound of Music", "Road to Heaven" and the moving images in countless singular and evocative works.
Reflecting on the
Chinese, can it be expected that "Eavesdropping Storm" will be introduced and screened in theaters in dozens of cities? To put it another way, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige (and so many celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan) have the courage and conscience. In a world where China has been reforming and opening for almost 20 years, they have come to make movies similar to "Eavesdropping Storm". ? Wait a minute, just blame the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for the "Stasi" eagle eyes and fists. Haven't you already been worth tens of billions, and you have long taken the world's continents as your own courtyard? According to public opinion, you are the accomplices of the film art despotism in essence!
For a long period of time, we can only "masturbate" in an antisense society with self-righteousness and self-righteousness. For behaviorism like Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan, lower-body writing, wedding nude photos, and group naked running, this is the art festival and cultural festival where Confucius is read one after another. "Zhen Guan Grand Event", the Chinese people may only be able to applaud again and again with Ah Q's drooling. The poor post-80s, post-90s, and Chinese youth born ten years earlier, I am afraid that they can only be surrounded by an overwhelming and nonsensical culture and completely fall into this day-by-day progressing world.
Yes, we have more memories than "Staci"! East Germany still valued surveillance and obtained evidence back then. In the Chinese experience, the deer is a horse, out of nothing, forcing the good to be a prostitution, falling into trouble, everyone is in danger...Is there any less? Some experts said sadly that nowadays, everything in favor of and opposition is showing up as a light-hearted game. The masters’ aesthetic totalism has long lost its theoretical charm, and post-modern culture is turning history into fragments that cannot be gathered together. Let's close our eyes and rest our minds and let it go.
(Thanks for part of the information provided by Wang Yi's article)
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