What happens when people have no sense of rhythm

Hertha 2022-03-22 09:02:24

On the night of the premiere of Lust Caution, I drank a little wine, entered the dark Hengshan Cinema, and tried to walk from the back of my chair to my seat. After I was seated, I saw the screen was colorful and chattering, and I couldn't even tell whether it was an animal or a character. Of course, there was no need to understand the relationship between the characters. At that time, the movie had already started 15 minutes. For the next 45 minutes, I was in a state of remorse. When I realized that I hadn't pressed the pause button, the graceful Wang Jiazhi had already called the second brother in Guangdong from Commander Kai for the second time. And then it's - let's go! Blockade, buy groceries, shoot, finish, leave. Being shoved out of the cinema by the crowd, who am I and why am I here, these classic philosophical questions are bubbling in my head like stinky water in a gutter.

This depression continued until more than half a month later. Under the coercion of my friends, I watched Lust Caution again. This time I changed to the Peace Cinema, that is, it was still clean. As a human being who is often shaped by experience, especially painful experience, I understood Wang Jiazhi effortlessly, and recalling the experience of watching Lust and Caution for the first time is an excellent metaphor. In this world, there is a kind of person who lacks a sense of rhythm naturally. I call this kind of person a law blind person, and Lust Caution tells the story of a law blind person.

If you have experienced a six-year bear market, once you get rid of the situation, you will liquidate your position immediately, burn incense to make a promise, hold the currency and wait and see, the small universe will explode, and you will enter a heavy position in May this year...you are a law blind.
If you take a sauna in the subway for many years, and finally buy a private car, your personality breaks out, and you watch the oil price rise all the way... You can also call our hotline and apply for a free membership.
Wang Jiazhi can be called the spokesperson of our Legal Blind Association. She's graceful, smart, and most importantly, never in time.
Ang Lee's film language is in place. Kwong Yumin's appearance is just like his debut: a handsome profile face with too strong contrast, no layers, no details, no thickness. But he's not law-blind. He is always a starter, such as preparing for a patriotic drama, such as assassinating Boss Yi, such as stabbing a little fellow villager to death, such as following the organization. He may not know what he wants, but he must know what he wants to do.
Mr. Yi? Washing leather shoes with prisoners' blood at work, drinking and drinking with Japanese people after get off work, grilling files on fire when it's cold, playing S/M with other people's wives on vacation... His life also has its own logic.
Since I have positioned Lust and Caution as a science and education film that introduces the life of the disabled, these two normal people are destined to be only gorgeous foils. The well-deserved protagonist is Wang Jiazhi. She is so dazed in the strong society of healthy people that she can tell her misery in a hoarse voice in the sensational column of Dongfang 110 with just a little black rectangle on her eyes. Life.
As for what is called dizziness? Just look at the way she turned around when she heard someone calling Wang Jiazhi's name on an empty stage, that's it.
She had never thought of acting in a patriotic drama. She might like seeing the audience get excited for her, she might like everyone running in the rain holding hands, or she might like the feeling of rain dripping on her face and lips. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with patriotism.
She had never thought of killing a traitor. She might like to wear a well-fitting cheongsam, she might like to be escorted to a mansion for entertainment, or she might like to be fascinated by someone else's husband. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with traitors.
She has soft ears and soft heart. What's more, the winter in Shanghai has always been so foggy, cold and flashy.
I think Wang Jiazhi's life is like dipping his hands into the water while riding a boat. The water flows in the opposite direction of the boat, making people feel cool and melancholy.
Or like a jazz singer thrown by God on the stage of a symphony orchestra. She was given a lot of instructions, but she still seemed so abrupt, eccentric, and sloppy.
The difference between law blind people and normal people is whether they can recurse from one law point to the next by instinct. In order to go to England and Hong Kong, her father asked her to go back to Shanghai. In order to be a mistress, the lover also returned to Shanghai. The next instruction that fate gave her was always unpredictable to her.
Fromm said in "Escape from Freedom": "The general phenomenon of masochists is that they have an inner sense of inferiority, incompetence and meaninglessness. Such people want to despise themselves, make themselves weak and do not want to dominate everything, They have a prominent symbol of their willingness to rely on others, organizations, nature, or any force other than themselves. To them, life is like an irresistible force that can neither be dominated nor controlled.”
But worse still Not only that.
Wang Jiazhi's self-awareness has not been completely cut clean. She was abandoned by her father and dreamed of going to England. She was mean to her aunt and insisted on reading. She hated Liang Runsheng from the bottom of her heart. "Self" is like a terminally ill disease lurking in her body, useless, redundant, just making her feel miserable.
The source of her pain is not that there are always people around her, it is precisely because there are people who control her, but no one dominates her. No one likes being shoved and shoved on a crowded dance floor by people with blurred faces. And a strong enough dance partner can make people without cerebellum dance SALSA well. So I believe that she and Lao Yi are happy together. The moment you say let's go is the happiest moment. She is no longer a law blind, her rhythm is Laoyi's rhythm, she wants Laoyi to live, so Laoyi lives.
She finally unloaded the burden of her life - herself.





Some digressions:

Ang Lee is indeed very sharp! For example, when they walked into the cinema, I couldn't help sighing: Tony Leung is really short! As a result, I read the original book and found that the question of height and height was written here. I was shocked to find that it was the side camera and the close-up that gave people a hint. There are also two puns that impressed me, one, the old Jewish man said, the masterpiece is already; the other, Wang Wenyi: Do you like the ring I chose?
(If it was Ang Lee, it should be Jiang Zi - Ang Lee: "Do you like the Tony Leung I chose?" Me: "I'm not interested in men. I just like to see him pressing on you." , who knows ^_^)

Of course the novel is much crueler. For example, in the end, I didn't actually get the ring, but only a white note. If you die for a white strip, it will not reflect the uniqueness of Wang Jiazhi! Thousands of Chinese peasants who died because of white strips must have far surpassed her in number and death methods. In the end, Secretary Zhang (why can someone with the surname Zhang only be a secretary? Bah.) A white note was found on Wang Jiazhi's body, and when thrown on the Yi table, it would only make a soft "snap" instead of a crisp scrolling sound. It turns out that senior officials of the Wang puppet government are also playing white papers! This episode provided a historical basis for our party cadres to make a slogan. I believe the Central Propaganda Department will like it.




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  • Mr. Yee: The people I associate with are those with high reputations.