But I often don't understand the Chinese people. In this country where Confucianism, Mencius, Confucianism and Taoism are the ideology of governing the country, in this country that claims benevolence and etiquette, why do the masses always show hatred for the rich, stingy, narrow-mindedness, and the pursuit of luxury? They scolded Liu Guoliang, the national ping pong player who bought an Audi car, but they tried their best to get close to the rich. They believed that they had 5,000 years of cultural heritage. Rice", but watch "Heroes", "Wuji", and this shit-like "Golden Armor"?
Perhaps, "the public is always blind", and at the same time, what is shown in the media is not necessarily the truth, so "Hero" came out, I held back, "House of Flying Daggers" came out, I held back, "Wuji" came out, I held back Hold back, "Night Banquet" comes out, I still hold back. However, when golden advertisements pop up one after another on my computer, when my mobile phone is full of spam text messages of "Golden Armor" and the theme song "Chrysanthemum Terrace", when all entertainment news is "blockbuster", "rush" When I used words such as "Ao", "Laomouzi", "Boba", etc., I finally couldn't bear it anymore. I have to scold the lowly villains who are catering to low-level hobbies and politics for their own benefit, but also to the Chinese audience who are sitting in the cinema with popcorn and giggling while looking at Gong Li's tits, wake up Well, have your own independent thinking as a person!
All Chinese singers, actors, hosts, directors, and artists claim that they have to sing and express what the common people like to hear. Such language always occupies the greatest weight, but who are the common people? What are the people like? When the TV is turned on, the screen is full of singing and dancing, and the society is harmonious, but when the computer is turned on, the screen is full of peeping gossip, haters of the rich and angry youth. When entering the society, intrigue and intrigue are everywhere. When buying a house, black hearts are everywhere. Merchant, ad fraud. As soon as I walked on the street, my ears were filled with mentally handicapped songs like "Two Butterflies" and "Husband and Wife I Love You". I couldn't help but wonder, what happened to the Chinese people? Are they all mentally handicapped? Are they all idiots? They have no idea how sinister and noisy society is? Don't know if art should have its own voice?
This is obviously not the case. What appears on the stage is always just one voice. They use this to represent the "common people" in their mouths, and to represent the truth of the facts. It is not that people chose "Two Butterflies", but TV stations and The record shops are obliged to play this song on a loop, and everyone can't help but hear it, and it's not that people choose "Golden Armor", but they use money to control the market and media that have long been stinking, so , their bad market does not reflect its beauty, it reflects that ideology still firmly controls media and art, and they even control the right of ordinary people to really choose their favorite art.
If there is repression, there will be resistance. People finally abandoned the Spring Festival Gala. They would rather play mahjong, go shopping, and set off fireworks than watch this party full of hypocrisy and fraud, because everyone is struggling to survive for the house, car, wife and son. At that time, those so-called "serving the common people" artists were dressed in bright clothes to decorate peace, the weather was good every year, the country was prosperous, the GDP was growing, and there was a harmonious society everywhere. But we can't afford to live in a house and eat healthy, liars?
What is even more sad is that the mainstream ideology still firmly controls the thoughts of most people. When class consciousness and political literacy can no longer deceive the simple people, they finally use the capitalist method - "material". , which is a historical inevitability. Material monuments are created everywhere, the temptation of high consumption, and the worship of money, people have to give up all their thoughts, pretend to be crazy and fool around in society, trying to satisfy their material desires that they can never satisfy. I love Taiwanese writer Bo Yang so much. He compares Chinese society to "sauce jar", which is really a work of genius. The word "sauce jar" will become a curse that Chinese people cannot get rid of, from ancient times to the present, and then to the distant future. Chinese people are always in the shackles of a vat, and they can't get out of it. The examples of many people prove this, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Chen Kaige, Ma Yuan... They are so heroic and talented, but after many years, they finally discovered that reality is cramped and society cannot be changed. What new views and dissatisfaction do they have with the world? They have wives and sons to support, and they must create works that are "popular with the common people" in order to live in such a peaceful life. So they either use their existing fame to create low-level works, or they keep silent.
Keeping silent is good, at least it is a contribution to this noisy world. But the most abhorrent are those creators who cater to politics and align with mainstream ideology. They help the tyrants to render luxury and materialism, use mentally inflexible plots to make the audience's thinking ability decline and then decline, and stimulate the audience with plump breasts. Their sensual desires have turned Chinese audiences into fools again and again who don’t know how to think and only understand desire, thus contributing to the mainstream ideology again and earning a lot of money for themselves. Laomouzi said in an interview before the North American premiere of "Golden Armor": This story is about feudal totalitarianism in the ancient palace, "but", he added immediately, "that was in ancient times, and it is no longer the case. "Isn't that true? Are all the collusion between officials and businessmen fake? Are we now more luxurious than the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time more pure and lovely than them? Then why did the Tang Dynasty still have Li Bai, who was "a hundred poems about fighting wine" and Du Fu, who was "three officials and three farewells"? But we can only find Yu Hua, who became a middle-aged man, and Zhu Wen, who changed his career to film?
Even before watching "Golden Armor", I have already guessed all its contents, because the trailer trailer has already appeared on the Internet like a storm, and the oncoming cannot be avoided. A person who is dizzy, does he still have the heart to consider such profound issues as innovation, profound and independent thinking? Therefore, it is still a super luxurious picture, super mentally retarded plot, super pretentious dialogue, super symbolic Chinese elements, and this time super exposed breasts are added. Laomouzi and Zhang Weiping went further and further on this road of no return. They only saw the box office, and they forgot what art was. They bombard people's eyes with bombs of color and sensuality, and paralyze people's minds with clichéd stories. I looked at the audience who came out of the movie theater. Their eyes were dull and their spirits were high. They still seemed to have those large pieces of gold floating in front of them, but their minds were still blank. Maybe they just need whitespace like this. Like drugs, in a hectic and stressful life, such films satisfy the senses and leave the mind blank. Then they face the world anew, renewing their unthinking sprint to the lure of billboards all over the street, to the luxury and material goals of mainstream society and movies. Once again they are paralyzed and poisoned by this film. Behind the wide screen, Laomouzi and Zhang Weiping showed knowing smiles again while counting the money. And above them, a face appeared faintly. He looked at all this with a blurred smile on his face, full of satisfaction. Because, all this is under his control, he used two victims and finally toyed with all the other victims.
Forgive me for criticizing all this with such a fierce tone. In fact, I know that my words will also make this trend more serious, but an urge to express strongly controls me. I have to say this out loud. Because a nation that lacks the ability to think independently is deplorable, and a nation paralyzed and controlled by breasts and colors is doomed to have no way out. I want to wake up those who are still rational, and I want to loudly curse those creators who serve the mainstream consciousness, help the tyrants, stimulate material desires, and lose their conscience. Abandoning this so-called "domestic blockbuster" is the same as abandoning the Spring Festival Gala. I just wish my words would make the day come earlier, if only by an hour or a minute.
Golden Armor, go to hell!
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