The third time I saw it, I felt that I had a better grasp of this movie. The first two times seemed to be watching the atmosphere and scenes that everyone thought was important. After reading it, I decided to share some of my observations.
Xiaoxian has changed a lot of astronomy and Nianzhen's scripts, changing the number of scenes, abandoning the sub-scene and the emotionally concentrated parts of the script, and the important ones may be hidden in another way, even if this will affect the characters and the plot, he doesn't care, he Grasp the overall feeling.
At the beginning, the eldest brother Wenxiong played by Chen Songyong gave birth to a woman outside, named Lin Guangming. The character played by Taibao did not explain his identity carefully, but in fact, the setting in the script was that he was the elder brother of the woman outside, and this identity made him It is the avatar of the big brother to the outside world, and the big brother also needs a person to rush to the front at important moments.
Kuan Rong and Wen Qing are better friends. The script set them to live together, so Kuan Rong brought the progressive youths played by Zhan Hongzhi, Zhang Dachun, Wu Nianzhen and Tang Nuo to the photo studio to meet. In the beginning, they looked at Marx and said, "It's good to have the shelter of the motherland, it's very warm." On the second floor, they sang "Which month will I be able to return to my lovely hometown?" The next time they sit together , it turned into scolding Chen Yi, "This is the government, this is called a company", "If you make money, put it in your pocket, and it will not be given to you", "Fuck enslavement, enslavement is what we want, We are so cheap? The Qing Dynasty sold us at the beginning. Has anyone in the Treaty of Shimonoseki asked us Taiwanese if they would like to?” In these dinners, Wen Qing and Kuan Mei were both there. Wen Qing couldn't hear it, but Kuan Mei could hear it, so in the face of the events that followed, she knew that day would come. When she entered the hospital, the doctors and nurses were still learning Mandarin at first, and after Chen Yi's three broadcasts, everyone was disappointed.
Because of Xiaoxian's omission, Kuanmei's diary and Axue's letters became the key to explaining the changes in the family and the current development. Kuan Mei’s first diary on Jiufen, “On the eighth day of the eighth month of November in the 20th year of the Showa era, I brought my father’s letter of introduction to the Miners’ Hospital in Jinguashi to work. My brother was not free to teach, so I asked him to be good. My friend Wenqing came to pick me up. The mountain is already cool in autumn, and the scenery along the road is very good. I think that I can see such a beautiful scenery every day in the future. Now, I don’t know where to go. We thought about escaping, but there is no way to escape. I am writing to you today because I am in a better mood. This photo is of you. The fourth uncle was taken three days before he was arrested. On the day he was arrested, the fourth uncle was taking pictures for others. He insisted on finishing his work and was taken away quietly. I went to Taipei to investigate, but there was no news. Ah Qian He already has teeth, he has a good smile, his eyes are very similar to that of the fourth uncle, and when you have time, you can come to the house for a walk, and Jiufen is starting to get cold. to the lost.
The Shanghai Gang is the representative of the new forces from other provinces. They have no affection for this land from the beginning, and they treat everything as a business. Duosang, played by Li Tianlu, shouted, "It's true that our father and son are hooligans. Why are we hooligans? It's not to protect the whole Zhuangzi from being bullied by Japan. That's a traitor." There is friendship in this land, even if it is "fear of people to eat, fear of people to ride, no one hurts".
Wen Qing, played by Tony Leung, is a mute. This is a surprise created by a joke from Xiaoxian during the script writing stage. This can balance the inclination of the center of gravity caused by the complicated business on the eldest brother's side. Wen Qing's onlookers and silence are another kind of watching. In the film, his dialogues at key moments are subtitled. For a long time, he seems to have been lacking in participation because of his disability. Many things were thrown in front of him. The only time he made an intense expression here was to go to the mountains to find wide. At the time of Rong, "I have decided in prison that I have to live for my dead friends in this life. I can't spend the day like before, I have to stay here and be confident that I can do what you can do." I think this is also the attitude of Xiaoxian.
Xiaoxian said that it would be great if he could photograph the will of God. After watching it, I think he did.
An excerpt from "Thirteen Questions about the City of Sadness". "Fate is often an image of a blank time and space, a vast and boundless flow of rhythms, without personal will, irresistible, beyond anyone else, working there. Individuals cannot conflict with it, just as the earth moves "The way of poetry is not to use conflict, but to reflect and contrast. Neither the dramatic conflict can be used to express pain, and the result cannot be resolved by the final "salvation" of tragedy. Poetry reflects infinite time and space. The change of the poems, compared with the fact that people exist in it is also a fleeting fact, it is finally the world of people and the world of the natural world. On the other hand, poetry does not resolve with redemption, but a lifetime of eternal life. Endless chanting, contemplation, and contemplation."
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