I have seen many adaptations of film and television dramas, and often say that something has been changed beyond recognition, but this time, Ang Lee seems to have reached the pinnacle of adaptation. The story is still the same story, and the plot is the same, but the two people , was exchanged soul.
Mr. Yi, who was calm and mature in Zhang Ailing's writings, who was skilled in surviving in this perverted floating world and using his wealth to seek life pleasure for himself, became Mr. Yi who was depressed, pessimistic and fanatical in front of Ang Lee's camera.
Zhang Ailing's simple and vain and dazed Wang Jiazhi has become Wang Jiazhi who is empty, depressed and desperate for love and warmth under Ang Lee's lens.
In Zhang's Lust and Caution, Wang Jiazhi's reason for doing this is very simple. She loves acting, covets the prosperity in front of the camera, and plays Mrs. Mai to give her a vain brilliance on the stage. The thrill of the audience applauding.
So when she successfully seduced Mr. Yi for the first time, in her heart, it was not the joy of the revolutionaries who saw the victory, the excitement was closer to a vain girl who once again proved her charm or an actor who perfectly interpreted herself character of.
That's why she said that it was "an unprecedentedly successful performance. Before I got off the stage and didn't dress up, I felt that I was looking forward to it. She was reluctant to let them go, and she wanted to go there again." It’s better to go to a small restaurant that is open all night to eat the first porridge, and walk all the way back in the drizzle, crazy until dawn.”
This is something she was willing to do, plus a righteous reason, a little bit The blood of young people, so she did it.
She did not fully estimate the danger of this matter, nor did she properly evaluate the costs and benefits of this matter, because she was not mature at all.
When we are still young, we always despise the shadow of death, young girls, they enjoy the glory of the moment, as for the future, they will not even think about their 30-year-old self, let alone death. If in these peaceful years, an impulsive girl can run away from home and hang out on the streets, just to live a life of arrogance and freedom, then what surprises Wang Jiazhi's risky behavior, at least she still has A guise of justice.
Therefore, when the first action failed, the word she used was remorse. She did not regret that a righteous cause had failed. She regretted that she had paid too much for nothing, that she had been a fool in the eyes of others, and even At the same time, she doubted the sense of justice and revolution of all her companions. She felt that "this time when everyone was joking her to help her, there were already people with special intentions."
In fact, everyone here should understand that Wang Jiazhi is not A soldier, she has no firm belief, she is just the most ordinary and ordinary beautiful girl, she naturally has patriotism, but the hatred of the country and family does not occupy the most important position in her life, she is just an ordinary person who has never experienced bloodshed. Young thinking girl with fire.
This footnote laid a foreshadowing for her impulse at the last moment.
She let him go, not because she fell in love with him, but because, she felt, he loved her.
It's different, it's totally different.
Lao Yi's gentle and pitying face made Wang Jiazhi think it was love, so she was surprised and softened. Whether she admits it or not, a woman will be especially soft-hearted towards a man who loves her. It was a kind of vanity mixed with pride and soft-heartedness. No matter what, you love me. At that moment, she suddenly felt that I couldn't kill him.
Wang Jiazhi is not a professional spy, not a qualified soldier. At that moment, she ignored her mission and obeyed the intuition of women. At that moment, she forgot that Yi was a traitor, and only regarded him as a person who loved her. man.
So she let him go.
However, she let them go, but she didn't seem to understand how much she had to pay for it, she was still thinking innocently, "Fortunately, I met them less often in Shanghai this time, and I didn't mention to them that they had a relative living there. It's on Yuyuan Road. You can stay for a few days and see the scenery." She seemed to subconsciously only thought it was a play. , not Yi, but her own companion, she doesn't seem to understand that this is a game of death.
If she turned back time and someone reminded her at the moment when she was soft-hearted, the consequence of letting go of Yi was that she and all her companions would die, would she still make such a decision? No, of course not, a man who loves her just doesn't deserve to die, it's not enough to accompany his own life. But unfortunately, she had no chance to regret it, and she was unlucky to encounter an extreme example.
Stupid women always have to pay for their stupidity, sometimes it is a few years of youth, sometimes a bleak future, sometimes a life.
The world is often absurd. In fact, you don't love someone so much, but you were young and ignorant at that time, and you didn't know that what you gave up for him would be so important.
As for Mr. Yi, does he love Wang Jiazhi?
Of course, in the end, Wang Jiazhi's position in his heart was different. He felt that "if he has a confidant, he will die without regret. He feels that her shadow will always rely on him and comfort him. Although she hates him, she finally has feelings for him. It's so strong that it's irrelevant, it's just feelings."
However, this status is not because he really loves Wang Jiazhi, but because he thinks that Wang Jiazhi "still really loves him, and is the first confidant in his life." He is proud and satisfied Yu himself "has this encounter after middle age."
So, how much can he love her?
He firmly believes that Wang Jiazhi loves him for real, and it is not that he has no chance to keep her, but he still kills her, and the reason is not even because he is afraid of being killed, but "Zhou Fohai himself is also a secret agent and regards the Ministry of the Interior as a parallel branch. The agency is paying close attention to him." He couldn't let him "find out that the guest of Yi's mansion was actually an assassin's eyeliner". "The head of the intelligence work, is it okay to be so confused?"
Yi is not Wang Jiazhi, he will not have unknown consequences Impulsively, he condensed everything in front of him into a weight and weighed it on the balance. In the end, a woman who he believed would sacrifice her life to save him was no match for Zhou Fuhai's censure against him.
How much could he love her?
Zhang's Lust and Caution is a contest between an ignorant and vain girl and a shrewd mature middle-aged man. They all think that they have won, but it is not always true.
Between them, is the difference in the whole value.
However, the same story, in the hands of Ang Lee, has a new soul.
Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi are on equal footing. In a dark and apocalyptic environment, they crazily yearn for a trace of love and warmth. In the end, entangled in lust, killing and conspiracy, they actually have a little real affection.
War and brutality is a maelstrom in which everyone struggles and gets hurt, including its creator, Yi.
And Wang Jiazhi is a duckweed-like character. Before entering Mr. Yi's world, her life was empty and difficult, with no sustenance, pain and helplessness. This is a heavy tone, and it is a series of changes she can undergo later. Base. Playing Mai Tai was an opportunity to make her miserable life shine, so she put herself into action and could not extricate herself until she paid the price of her life, but she did not regret it. This is a sad and weak character. In the end, he fell in love with Yi because of a little warmth and dependence, and ruined himself because of her love and weakness.
Now let's peel off those anti-Japanese backgrounds, abstract the specific crises, and reduce the story to what is essentially a man and a woman's snatch.
I believe that Eileen Chang is a profound person, and naturally Ang Lee is also profound. However, their profound directions are not the same.
Zhang Ailing likes to go down, grab one or two souls, torture them, and find out the little weaknesses and flaws in people's hearts. Ang Lee, on the other hand, likes to fly upwards, and explores the great love and passion of human nature.
These two people, completely, are not the same way.
I suddenly found this to be an interesting thing. Comparing the two people's different interpretations of the same story and their different treatments, it is more clear to see the difference in the two concepts.
Zhang Ailing is a little woman who sees through the mundane and the essence is mean, while Ang Lee is a big man with traditional Chinese and Western concepts who have been regulated by moral articles.
The human nature in Zhang Ailing's eyes is made up of all kinds of humble and vulgar emotions. In her life, she almost never praised any great emotions. Naturally, she also never praised love. In her opinion, love is just a mixed The bewilderment of vanity and self-pity women.
She has never written a noble character, never self-sacrifice and self-serving behavior, her characters, worldly to almost cruel, the motives of her actions are all attributed to the bottom of people's hearts, that bit of selfishness and weakness that can't even be called evil , even if sometimes her characters are good for others, but that's just because being good to you makes me happy. Zhang Ailing, she has always been sober and sharp.
She wrote Lust Caution, and put Wang Jiazhi's life on the other end of the scale. What she said was a little tenderness and pity expressed by a man with a diamond ring, and a woman's momentary soft-heartedness and self-satisfaction, and this achievement was achieved. What is traded is the calm cruelty of men and the ignorance of women's consequences.
As for Ang Lee, he chose this story, but with his moral values, he probably couldn't accept that there would be no love in such a story with life as the footnote. It can be tragic, but there is evil, but in any case, it can't come to the bottom of the bilge without a little bit of greatness. From the point of view of a mature man, he believes that all this should be worth it. He can accept that his character is not a good person, he can do bad things, he is not noble, but in any case he can't be vulgar, and he can't be without a noble character. So he spent a lot of space and tried his best to find reasons to design the environment, so that the two people would naturally have a little love.
Ang Lee has a strong literati complex.
There is no doubt that Ang Lee believes in love, and love itself is great. In his view, love, sometimes much like money, is a good thing, but it is tempting to sin. The fault of doing things in the name of love has nothing to do with love, it is the sin of the person involved.
But Eileen Chang, she never believed in love. In her writings, love is never a great sweeping power, but a fragile and meager miracle that needs all kinds of coincidences to be fulfilled.
Fan Liuyuan loves tassel, but his love is nothing more than that, love is not great, it is just a weak emotion, Hong Kong devoted the whole city to fulfill their love, even this kind of love is only for a moment However, for a few days, Liusu was already imagining Fan Liuyuan's mistress and her married life as a playboy. "Love in a Fallen City" is almost the most satisfying love Zhang has ever written, and there is even a marriage as a footnote, but their love is nothing more than that, weak and powerless, easily overwhelmed by the meanness and roughness of the world.
Zhang Ailing's depth is like a knife, slicing all the superficial. She does not trust emotions, whether it is love, family, friendship, she believes that all these will eventually succumb to the secular material society.
And Ang Lee, from "The Wedding Banquet" to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Broken Arm Mountain" and "Lust and Caution", he has been discussing spiritual issues, from family to love to friendship, national justice, responsibility and human nature. Passion, love and hate, reason and emotion, in his lens, all these emotions are full of power, and they will eventually break through the obstacles of the material world.
A woman believes in her intuition, she sees with the most essential eyes and writes with the meanest pen.
A man needs rules, and he uses his own ideas to define the world in the lens.
It is the same desire and impulse for sex that Freud wrote "Three Treatises on Sexuality", and Helen directly followed her beautiful boy away.
Hehe, what an interesting separation.
Characters are just tools in the creator's hands, and the choice of characters and the fate of characters represent the author's philosophy.
So don't confuse the movie "Lust and Caution" with the novel "Lust and Caution", they have the same skin, but they are expressed as different souls.
It is said that the true story is that after the assassination was revealed, the female assassin was bitten to death and refused to admit that there was a conspiracy, saying that it was just a love killing. Hehe, it seems that this is another soul under the skin of this painting.
Ms. Zheng is a true warrior with a firm stand and faith. I think she represents another level of personality. She is undoubtedly noble, and I admire her.
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