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Cindy 2021-11-17 08:01:25

Yesterday morning, I went out to work and drove for more than an hour. Our driver didn’t know which channel the radio was tuned to. I sat in the car and heard the host talking about a French film made in 1966. Hey, to the effect that a racing driver said something when he was pursuing a little widow. It was probably about a sculptor who saved the latter from the lives of a famous painting and a kitten when the museum caught fire. . The host said that this famous painting may be Van Gogh or Qi Baishi, which is extremely valuable. The kitten is just an ordinary life. But they all sublimated the love of the two from the love of saving kittens, and achieved unity through the same choice, which is probably the same value and outlook on life. How to choose between life and matter is an eternal topic for mankind.

Probably boring, I sat in the car and thought a lot. For example, what socialist China will promote? Maybe the sculptor will rescue the famous paintings, and then promote that national property is more important than everything.

This is probably the way our values ​​and our view of love are derived. We don't have many ways, that is, textbooks, our TV, and movies.

I remember that in our history class we mentioned the 14th century Renaissance. This capitalist cultural revolution was taken over in our class, and I still mentioned the essence of the Renaissance in a TV program a few years later. In traditional art, the object of literary creation is god, and in this cultural revolution, ordinary people and non-clergy have become the main objects of literary and artistic creation in the Renaissance. This includes the famous painting "Mona "Lisa's Smile", in the eyes of modern people, it is sometimes hard to imagine where his artistic charm comes from. In fact, it is just a simple expression. We begin to value our individual rather than the god we worship.

This is actually contrary to the collectivism that we have always promoted, and the ideological and moral education of individuals making sacrifices for the collective. Someone asked a few years ago, "I love the motherland, but does the motherland love us?"

This man flew out of China. I had no intention of discussing the right or wrong of his behavior. Our values ​​and outlook on life will always be in various forms. s difference. This is also when we are watching "Cold Mountain", we will come to different conclusions.



What attracted me to watch "Cold Mountain"? A netizen said that after watching it, he felt that the Civil War was like China's Cultural Revolution. This term seems to have become an adjective, used to describe the bad nature of human nature. Although I know that war films are cruel, it has once again aroused curiosity.

However, after watching it, I realized that it was very different from what I thought. This movie did not directly describe the war scenes. Most of the scenes are about the lives of people in the rear during the war. In other words, it is indeed like the "Cultural Revolution", not a war of war.

In fact, there are many films with such anti-war themes. From an anti-war perspective, he is nothing new. So when I walked out of the theater, I realized that too many film reviews actually focused on the description of love in "Cold Mountain" too thin. Except for peace, we seem to dare not talk about the individual and the collective, the individual and the country. This is actually a very obvious conflict, but it may often run counter to our education. Who is the machine of the state who can finally profit from the war? This may still be a taboo topic that we may be anti-traditional, but we dare not cross over. I will put forward some hypotheses. If this war is not a civil war, is it happening in a war of aggression, or is it happening in a war of aggression? The answer is still different, as each of us has different values ​​and outlook on life.

Many years ago, China’s controversy literature was published in the monthly novel. I don’t remember the name of the military author. It’s called the third eye, or something else. It’s been a long time. My memory may be wrong. The parents of the PLA soldiers were fighters who attacked Taiwan back then. They always wanted to liberate Taiwan (as if they were sacrificed). As the child of a martyr, staying at the closest place where you can see Taiwan in Fujian, he can see each other’s Taiwanese every day. That person is reading a book every day, and the boss of the Taiwan soldier treats him. Extremely stern, for roaring that he can't read a book worth reading. Then one day I learned that the young Taiwanese soldier was forced to death. The boss who forced him to death was his biological father, and this Taiwanese soldier had no war in his heart. He just wanted to go to Taipei to study. He has just been admitted to National Taiwan University as a graduate student.

This novel seems to have won an award, because it carefully expresses the plot of longing for the reunification of the motherland, the soldiers in Taiwan don’t want to fight, but maybe we ignore the author and say the same, Chinese soldiers don’t want to fight, they still have wives and children. Wait, but if there are no soldiers at war, how can the rule be completed and how will the rights be manifested?



And in the film reviews posted on the Internet, I even found that today we seem to be too accustomed to questioning love. They said that it’s not bad for Simon to die, because their love will be wiped out in their marriage, how unfavorable their love is. It is worthy of scrutiny. The film is the kiss before the war. There is no in-depth dialogue at all. How can she love to die, or this woman is just a kind of consolation against the war, not love.

So the way back home is probably just an imagination, not love.

These comments remained before my eyes until the famous photograph after the end of World War II. The soldier kissed an unfamiliar lady.



But I carefully compared the two feelings and returned to the sublimation of my first paragraph of love. In everyone's eyes, love has a different definition, so I still agree that the reason for love is the same outlook on life.

For example, if you want to save the painting and I want to save the cat, there must be a lot of friction between the two people.

So I don’t doubt the love between Simon and Ada. Why? It is because they are not passers-by, they have also communicated, and they carefully selected each other to be their sweetheart. It's like I will definitely not fall in love with a man who refuses to give up his seat to the elderly on the bus. Sometimes love and understanding are not known when we sit down and talk, or sometimes the more we talk, the more our differences will increase. We saw that Simon did not take cents to cultivate the land for the elderly women. I don't think it was just for beauty. It was his diligence and kindness; we saw Ada accompanying his father without any complaints. When she was sitting at the piano playing tunes, reviewing frequently, expressing gratitude, and Simon put down the plough and looked up at each other. At that moment, I actually cried. Although there are so many moving scenes, only this one wish is still there. The shameful scenes shocked me even more. There was an era when we might have been lost, so we doubted love.



There is a story I have read a long time ago. It is about a couple getting married. In Chinese marriage customs, the new couple will get up in the middle of the night. If the bridegroom's hat is covered with the bride’s beads, it indicates that the bride will meet in the future marriage. The audience is the bridegroom, and if the bride's beads are placed on the bridegroom's top hat, it indicates that in the marriage, the bride will let the bridegroom listen to her everywhere. Before getting married, the groom was frequently told by his family to cover the beaded flowers with a top hat, so he did so and fell asleep peacefully. When he woke up, the beaded flowers were taken out, but he did not hold down the top hat. , But side by side. The woman's request for equality and love is placed in front of her heart openly. This new couple loves each other forever. This is a true story. I see it from someone's memoir.



Sometimes, I think, there is such a kind of person, whoever falls in love with him will be happy, and whoever he is with can give others happiness, because he really knows love and equality.

Men don't really value love, they don't think there is anything in love. In fact, I have always liked Qiong Yao, because I think she gave a woman a realm of her own thinking, that is, love. Although it may be met but not sought, it is really a beautiful thing.



Leng Shan gave me the same feeling. The female perspective is the leading role. I told Bai Yu that I think it is like an autobiographical novel, because I think it is easier for women to beautify their characters, men and women, and treat them steadfastly. Love, and male authors are more likely to expose male fragility in eros. This may be the difference between imagination and reality, for which I really think this is a female film.



Regarding the movie, I didn't know it before watching it. After watching it, I learned from related websites that it was a movie with a brilliant star. But what I really value is the bad guy in the security team at the rear. He said to Ada in the church, "Isn’t it OK for me?" These words are the way of thinking of all unrequited people, and he is very sad, and he It's useless, maybe this is also the pride of love. The other is that when he shot Ruby's father, he followed humming a song to make Ruby's father blindfold, or he was tired of killing people in his heart.

What I like very much about Ada’s performance is that when his father died, the joyful and relaxed smile on his face, his expression stopped abruptly, surprised, doubtful, panicked, walking outside, wanting to pick up the speech, and hurriedly discarded the speech, regardless of the speech. , I want to touch, dare not touch, crying involuntarily, I think that part of the performance is too good.

Her makeup is also in place, she looks plump in peaceful times, and thin in war years, but I don’t like her clothes in some of the last scenes. She wears a thin black coat, which seems to be too obvious to show her. The figure, or to show that she has become strong, give her a masculine look, but that look does not seem to match her style at the end of the film.

As for Ruby who won the best supporting actress, it should be said that it is not as rushing as I expected, or it is just because in the modern city, it is difficult to find someone who can restore the ancient feeling many years ago, or a beautiful female star. Is it difficult to put down her body and make her performance in this unique?

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Cold Mountain quotes

  • Inman: But I'm a deserter. If they find me here things could get bad for you.

    Maddy: What are they gonna do? Cut short me young life?

  • Ruby: I despise a floggin' rooster.