I have been curious about the age of my parents since I was a child. When I was very young, I often looked at the photos of my parents when they were young. I used to want to buy a green military cap like my father, and even found them when I was inadvertent. The letters I exchanged when I was young, about the era when my parents went through the Cultural Revolution when they were educated youths, I came from photos and texts, but as I got older, my curiosity became stronger and more specific. : How did young people fall in love at that time? What was the life style of young people at that time? Of course, it is impossible for me to enter the time tunnel to feel it because I want to enter the world of my parents too much. Therefore, the movie gave me the best window to explore.
Dai Sijie, his works always have a strong cultural revolution color. Maybe this is because he lived in France for a long time, so he is more familiar with and nostalgic about the cultural revolution experience in China when he was young? So this time, "Balzac and the Little Tailor" is another film related to the Cultural Revolution.
Two young people, one is Ma Jianling (Liu Ye) and the other is Luo Ming (Chen Kun). They were sent to a small mountain village called Phoenix Mountain in the Three Gorges during the torrent of educated youth going to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. The village chief wanted to confiscate Ma Jianling's violin when he checked the luggage. In a hurry, Luo Ming asked Ma Jianling to play "Mozart Missing Chairman Mao" (actually "Mozart's Third Sonata") to keep the violin.
The place where they were sent down has pleasant scenery, beautiful mountains and rivers, and the small mountain village is quietly embedded between the mountains and beside the flowing water. However, the living conditions here are indeed very difficult. In addition to doing a lot of physical labor every day, the two young people from the city have to endure malnutrition, illness and homesickness. But young people are young people after all. They love fantasy, they have knowledge, and they have sufficient desire. They peeked at the beautiful girl in the mountains taking a bath, and unexpectedly met the most beautiful girl in the mountains, the little tailor (Zhou Xun). The boring life and harsh working environment stimulated their desire to change their mental state, and their thirst for books became unprecedentedly crazy. They asked around and stole back quite a few forbidden books and hid them in a small cave.
The little tailor has the pungent and cheerfulness unique to Sichuan mountain girls, and she likes to play with the two boys. The whimsical thoughts and bold, straightforward and intellectual conversations of the young people from the city deeply attracted this beautiful mountain girl, who gradually began to be full of curiosity about the world outside the mountain.
Both Luo Ming and Ma Jianling gradually fell in love with the little tailor, but Ma Jianling was introverted and quiet, so every time the three of them read together, he always silently watched Luo Ming and his beloved little tailor. The outgoing and straightforward Luo Ming boldly pursued the little tailor, read Balzac's novels to her, and wanted to teach her all the outside knowledge, so that she could completely grow from a mountain girl to an intellectual youth, which is a lovely Therefore, the three young people often read banned books in the cave, and even watched it all night long and couldn’t put it down. Thirst for knowledge and yearning for a better life, I could feel the beating of three young hearts full of youthful vitality.
The love between Luo Ming and the little tailor made Ma Jianling very painful, but he silently continued his duty as a friend behind his back, and even more silently protected the little tailor. Luo Ming and the little tailor secretly tasted the forbidden fruit, which led to the little tailor's pregnancy. At this time, Luo Ming's father returned home in critical condition. Ma Jianling risked being criticized and quietly invited a gynecologist in the city to perform an abortion on the little tailor. He sold his beloved violin to the little tailor to make up his body.
Luo Ming came back, but the little tailor's heart had already flown beyond the mountains. The little tailor cut off her long hair and carried her luggage to leave the mountain where she grew up. Luo Ming and Ma Jianling dashed down the mountain path. Luo Ming took the little tailor's luggage and begged her to go back, while the little tailor At this time, her mind has been resolved, her mind has been opened, and her mountain person character is stimulating her to think of the outside world to venture into the world, instead of relying on the man around her and telling her stories that are out of reach , Luo Ming squatted on the ground and cried. The one who left was the back of the little tailor, and the one standing not far from him was Ma Jianling staring blankly at all this...
Twenty years have passed, Ma Jianling She is already a well-known violin player, and Luo Ming has also become a dental professor with a state subsidy in a hospital in Shanghai. When Ma Jianling visited Luo Ming, who was a father, he brought a short film he made while traveling in the old place of Phoenix Mountain. The two men were drinking red wine together. Through the dazzling smoke, they seemed to have returned to that era. In the candlelight of their memory, they vaguely saw the beautiful and handsome appearance of the little tailor they once loved, two middle-aged men. People can't come back to their senses for a long time...
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