"Sunny Days", adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "Ferocious Animals", was the most popular domestic film in 1994. Jiang Wen's directorial debut, starring Xia Yu, who was only 16 years old, won the award for his role as Ma Xiaojun in the film. That year's title of the best actor in Venice. With all these halos, as a fan, it's hard for me not to look forward to it. As a result, I felt a little lost after reading it. I didn't get the thrill, or resonance, or emotion I imagined. What still lingers in my memory is its always dim yellow tone, the smell of hormones during its pervasiveness, and Ma Xiaojun's sad or restless mood. Forgot who once said: "I am not moved by "Sunny Days" because it is Jiang Wen's youth, not mine."
This is probably the reason why I couldn't tell the taste of it after watching it for the first time. I have never been so crazy in my memory. The moment of youthful flying seems to always be accompanied by quiet shadows, restless and restless. The mind also covers it. But watching them frantically fighting together, watching them riding bicycles in the streets and alleys and shooting people, watching Ma Xiaojun jumping down from a tall chimney to prove himself, his face blackened and laughing, watching him go crazy After falling in love with Milan, she went crazy because of her. What I felt was a lack of character within the body. Because I don't have these memories and experiences, the elements of passion and restlessness in my body that should have been released by youth were buried in the deepest depths, so much that I thought they didn't exist. Waiting for a similar movie plot to wake them from their slumber. Then, the desire to explore and the regret of not experiencing will slowly dissipate with the initial unfamiliarity, leaving a different landscape in memory, a picture that has been painted into golden, a refreshing paragraph. 's music. The things that I yearn for are usually beautified subjectively, and the memories that Jiang Wen tried to restore are also similar in purpose, so at this point, I found a fit with this film. At the beginning of the film, Jiang Wen used a voiceover to express his feelings: "Beijing, changes are so fast! In 20 years, it has become a modern city, and I can hardly find anything in my memory. In fact, , this change has destroyed my memory, making me unable to distinguish between hallucination and reality. My story always happens in summer, the hot climate makes people more naked and it is more difficult to hide the desire in the heart. At that time it seemed It's always summer, the sun is always free to accompany me, the sun is full, it's too bright, and it makes my eyes go black..." The era of Ma Xiaojun's life seems to me to be out of reach, but the hazy atmosphere that belongs to youth has crossed Time and space accurately conveyed to me. That kind of feeling that we can't grasp, can't grasp, can't grasp clearly, but really bothers us, often makes people unable to vent, but can only reveal. Some people cling to it tightly, endlessly magnifying it, morbidly addicted to it, which can be seen everywhere in many so-called youth novels today. There are also some people who always yearn for toughness. They don't want to be troubled by this unprecedented sadness, but they can't get rid of it, so they use a relatively rebellious way to show their attitude, prove their existence, and find their own exit. Ma Xiaojun is such a person. He couldn't get stuck in what he thought was a lifeless classroom, where his passions were constrained so completely against his style, so he chose to skip class. From roof to roof, slip from one room to another One room, this kind of behavior does not have any emotional color in his opinion, he is just instinctively hunting for novelties in the space of others. And the almost urchin nature seems to make him happy.
The fun simply continued until he saw a picture of Milan in one of the rooms. A beautiful, slightly plump and mature girl broke into his life and broke his inner balance. When he met Milan for the first time in the room, Jiang Wen used a prying perspective to intuitively and subtly show Ma Xiaojun's complicated and subtle heart at that time. Lying under the bed, he was greeted by a more exciting mentality sent to him. The challenge made him feel a little suspicious but excited, and a faint hormonal smell began to fill the air. He may not have thought at the time, but in the end he was helpless and defeated. He began to imitate the words and deeds of adults. He waited for her to appear by the roadside, and took the initiative to chat with her on the road. When he smiled and was called his younger brother, he felt weak for the first time.
He ostentatiously took Milan to meet his many brothers. Unexpectedly, she had a good time with his friends and ignored him. For the first time, he felt a strong jealousy. So he did everything he could to get Milan's attention again, to prove that he was a man, and the desire was so strong that he could risk his life for it. The fact is that he did it too, but it was just a glimpse of Milan, a symbolic smile, a simple sentence. And then back to indifference. It was an insult, an unforgivable neglect and contempt, and probably, in his view, a betrayal too. Milan betrayed his sincere heart. But at the same time, the surging impulse in his body made him extremely nostalgic for it. This kind of contradiction and struggle made him unable to breathe, and he wanted to get rid of it but there was no way out. This is not an unpleasant mood that can be resolved with a fight, it is a sadness that prevents him from being tough. Under such circumstances, Ma Xiaojun chose the most rebellious way to make the final breakthrough. Facing his weak heart, he took on the toughest posture, and he wanted to get Milan by rape. I still clearly remember this climax scene, when the rebellious Milan shouted: Do you think this is so powerful? Then the protest stopped. "Enthusiastic!" At this time, Ma Xiaojun ran away after this. He wanted to prove himself with the toughest gesture, but tore up the mysterious and hazy beauty in a hysterical and extreme way. Everything became shocking, and Milan, who represented perfect youth in his heart, was stripped of its appearance in an instant. At that moment, he lost her, and he could only run away. In fact, I can find strong feelings similar to this scene in many works of art. Feng Tang's "Give Me a Girl at Eighteen" gave me a helpless ending with a shocking ending that made me cry. In the Swedish movie "Farewell to the Classroom", the male protagonist finally broke away from the deformed relationship that had once fascinated him. When he left resolutely, he wanted to prove his sincerity and strength beyond pure desire. If shouting Milan's name in the rainy night afterwards is a reflection of this feeling, then turning against friends in a restaurant is a complete shattering of this feeling. And the author is still doubting whether the latter is just wishful thinking, maybe the self in memory has been defeated before making the final resistance. Jiang Wen's memory ended in a metaphorical scene. Ma Xiaojun was in the swimming pool. Every time he tried to stick his head out to go ashore, he was kicked back into the water by his friends. After going through all of this, he was lonely and longed for the previous friendship, but he was permanently alienated. He could no longer integrate into the group he used to be, and was lonely and helpless. Memories are over, back to reality . The color has changed from flowing yellow to black and white. The yellow color that carries the memory makes people feel warm and emotional, but the reality that is going on is cold and low-key. One day, the current life will become the past, condensed into memories and fermented in the mind, revealing a different kind of breath. There's no point in trying to find out if it's true, what matters is that we were on the road, we were crazy.
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