"Three Seasons of Love" consists of four parts: the story of the poet and the lotus girl, the story of the tricycle driver Hai and the prostitute Lian, the story of the young Woody looking for the lost business box, and the story of the American soldier looking for his lost daughter. These four stories are independent and related, all of which are unified in the director's thinking on the history and reality of the Vietnamese nation. It should be said that the poet is the director's self-image. In the vicissitudes of life, he is still full of inner reflection and sincere repentance, and he is still clear and confident in the pain and self-blame. The poet's rebirth and recasting of himself is a historical event with mixed feelings. He shows us that the singers of a nation regain their magnificent voice after a long period of muteness, and sing loudly for the nation's open life. . The process of returning from the dead is difficult. The poet suffered from leprosy, and he had to be isolated from the world. In fact, he was abandoned by the world, by the century-old vicissitudes of the nation, by the great changes in reality in the ascendant, and by the complex and ever-changing life. Thus, the poet loses the ability to express. The poet's lost hands become a symbol of this loss of inner essence. This loss of inner essence has its deep historical and realistic roots. What is leprosy? It is the aphasia suffered by Vietnamese intellectuals in the face of Vietnam's tragic history of a century and the reality of the great changes in opening and innovation since the 1990s. Aphasia seems to make the poet always feel sorry for himself, feel sorry for himself, be arrogant, indulge in the glory of the past, or simply make up the glorious past until his shameful and tragic death. Those old lotus-pickers always weeping in the songs that metaphorize their sad and helpless fate are actually a symbol of the poet's aphasia. However, a young lotus-picking girl from the countryside, Xin, appeared. Xin is beautiful, young, healthy and fresh. She sings of energetic dreams and lofty love. Her singing is full of the texture and strength of life. Her appearance inspired the poet's desire and inspiration to re-create. The poets began to sing again, and the singers of the Vietnamese nation began to sing about the life of their own nation. This song echoes in the happy life of the driver and the sea, in the young and pure heart of young Woody who has gone through hardships, in the new faces of the old lotus-pickers, and in the heart of the Vietnamese nation. He is not only a true portrayal of the Vietnamese nation's indomitable efforts to open up a new life in the midst of hardships, but also leads the optimistic and confident future of the Vietnamese nation.
Who is Xin? She is the soul of the Vietnamese nation that the director sincerely loves. Amid the historical pain of a century of humiliation and the extreme sadness of the gap between the rich and the poor, the main body of the Vietnamese people is still simple, kind, clean, tenacious, optimistic, confident, still cheerful and tolerant, and Xin is theirs daughter, and their mother. No matter how many dissidents, changes, crimes, injustices, and confusion in life, the majority of a society, the people of the lower classes, are always plain, ordinary, tenacious and tenacious. They contain the great vitality and creativity of a nation. This is not populism, but the foundation of every nation's existence, development and creation. As a singer of a nation, if he can't realize this, he will either be silent forever and die in self-abandonment; or he will bluff and eventually be abandoned by the people. Toni Bao was soberly aware of this, and with sincere gratitude, he expressed the origin of the resurrection of the poet's inner essence. In front of the people, the singer of the Vietnamese nation is humble and confident.
Xin is the daughter of Vietnam and the mother of Vietnam. She has come from the past and from the bottom, embodying the traditional human nature and beauty of the Vietnamese nation. She is healthy and young. She is not only a national singer who continues the past and the present. The bond is not only the power and inspiration for its folk singers to re-create, but also the clear eyes for their folk singers to feel the national life. These eyes, sympathetically and tenderly swept across the living body of the Vietnamese nation, recording the present and future of national life, and becoming the source of life for national singers to sing. These eyes, surrounded by white lotus flowers, walked through the streets of Vietnam, and recorded the unfair reality of the gap between the rich and the poor in Vietnam. High-rise buildings, with shabby doors on one side; heavy doors and deep locks on the other side; wandering streets on the other; However, this is only the socio-political reality of the Vietnamese nation's life, not the spiritual reality of the Vietnamese nation's life, nor the spiritual future of the Vietnamese nation. The sea is the spiritual reality of Vietnam, and Hu Di is the spiritual future of Vietnam.
Hai is a tricycle driver, whose life is poor and hard, but he always smiles healthy and cheerful when facing the camera. When he is not in business, he is always reading a book, which makes him full of goodwill to the world and a firm ideal of life. Lian is his ideal. This ideal seemed so far away from the sea, but he always waited for her. Lian is a prostitute. She used to be an unwilling realist. She is soberly aware that she lives in the shadow of the restaurant and restaurant where she is drunk every night. Envy, she vowed to obtain a pass to enter that world through her own flesh, so she sealed the white and pure dream of her girlhood in the most secret and soft corner of her heart. It can be said that the lotus is the symbol of the real social and political life of the Vietnamese nation, and the sea is the person who gives this real life a tough and self-respecting soul. With his dedication, warmth, respect and tolerance, Hai aroused Lian's dream of pure whiteness. When he bought Lian a traditional dress symbolizing her pure heart with the fifty yuan he won in the tricycle race, when he warmly and piously waited for Lian to fall asleep. When he scraped off the filth of the body and the dirt of the soul for Lian, when he reconstructed the dream of the girlhood for Lian, he entered Lian's heart and blended with Lian's original soul. A spiritual reality that is still romantic and confident in hardships.
Woody is the future of Vietnam, a posthumous child of a long war who temporarily makes a living by buying and selling gadgets. But by accident, he lost his belongings, and he began a search that was as long and arduous as the war. Facing the future of the Vietnamese nation, the poet (or the director) is full of worries. Therefore, when Woody appears, the sky is always cloudy, and it always rains as if it will never end. If the poet gave Hai Helian all his confidence in the creation of a new life for the Vietnamese nation, then he gave Hu Di all his worries and concerns about the creation of a new life for the Vietnamese nation. After all, the future is the real hope of a nation. However, under the guidance of the Vietnamese daughter Xin, and under the infection of Hai who is as generous and optimistic as the Vietnamese father, it is impossible for the poet to lose his faith in the future of Vietnam. Because Vietnam's future is bound to be blessed by its past and present. Isn't it, in times of crisis, it was the sea that gave Woody the most real protection. Therefore, Woody still has the pure innocence and kindness of this age. He yearns for the beautiful world of animation, and he dares to use his weak shoulders to support the sky of an orphan who is smaller than him. Therefore, he finally found his box, which is his past and present, and the spiritual umbilical cord on which he grew up. Hu Di will walk out of the rainy season, into the bright, white and fragrant summer with a bright and clear fragrance, and into the full, rich, generous and broad autumn with the sea and lotus.
However, Vietnam's future out of the rainy season must be tolerant and tolerant of a friendly world. Fortunately, guided by Xin's clear eyes, the poet is also thinking about Vietnam's relationship with the world. It is in this rational and sensible way that the American soldier came into the sight of Xin and the poet. Everyone knows what kind of harm the American soldiers have brought to the Vietnamese nation in the more than ten years of the US-Vietnam War. However, the poet did not have a narrow vision of hating the American soldiers, but understood that he was also a victim of the war. , understood his decadent emptiness, and gave him the greatest spiritual comfort. The American soldier has forged an indissoluble bond with Vietnam. He has brought great harm to this land, but also left a huge human wound on this land. He fell in love with his Vietnamese daughter and gave birth to their own daughter. When he returned to the United States and could not get out of the shadow of the war, his life was in vain. He once again set foot on the land of Vietnam. He was looking for his daughter and hope for a new life. With the blessing of Xin, the daughter and mother of the Vietnamese nation, he presented a white lotus to his daughter, who was humiliated by life just like him. The daughter of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman is a symbol of the Vietnamese nation's unswerving and confident integration into the international world.
It may be unacceptable for Chinese directors to handle American soldiers in this way by director Tony Bao. Isn't this a deeply rooted colonial mentality? Or, is this not the self-righteous obscenity of Vietnamese national culture? However, I want to say that the Vietnamese people are more rational and wiser than us. They are soberly aware that an open Vietnam cannot exist outside the world. They must and only through national reconciliation can they heal their wounds and open up the future. What is even more rare is that Vietnamese national poets can fully understand human nature and understand that spiritual scars are equal to the giver and the receiver. And only blind and narrow-minded arrogance and unbridled hatred are the real national obscenity. The Vietnamese nation won the world when they approached the world with a reconciliation and kindness.
In the three seasons of Love, the Vietnamese national poet did not turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people, did not deliberately avoid the sins of national division, did not forget the pain of history, and did not despise the crises of the future... However, he learned from the people he came from and the traditions he was in. From the solid ground on which he stood, he truly felt the tenacity and creativity of this nation. With a grateful voice and humble voice, he sang a song of melancholy and cheerfulness, heavy and optimistic, difficult and self-confidence, bitterness and sadness. A romantic, grand and fulfilling folk ballad.
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