This year is super busy, and when I keep the accounts, I feel that my days are wasted. Sometimes, my memory is so poor that I can't even remember what happened two days ago; Fortunately, in such boring and ordinary days, occasionally some small goodness can be found.
For example, the night of "Kabylia", such as Wutiaoren Band or Zuo Xiaozu Mantra, I love "No Ideal People Are Not Sad" and "Good Evening, Miss Spring", the most amazing thing is that there is even a song called "Lugu Lake Love Song", when I listened to it, the memories of boating with my friends in the rain on Lugu Lake came to my mind. What's more interesting is that it is in deep synchronization with the old movie "Nights of Kabylia" that I watched recently.
"Nights of Cabiria" is a 1957 black-and-white film directed by Federico Fellini. Interested friends can download this awesome director on Baidu. This is also recommended to me by a friend in the film and television industry. Like the Wutiaoren band, I rarely watch domestic variety shows. After listening to it once, I felt very good.
In this age of information cocoons, it is difficult for us to understand each other. I am very fortunate to get to know such people and constantly broaden the breadth and breadth of my life. The songs of Wutiaoren are not really cool. They can't compare with the top 100 electronic music on Billboard in the United States, and they are not comparable to the retro jazz I often listen to or the songs from the heyday of Chinese music before the 1990s, but they also have My own path, such as "Fantasy Lisa Hair Salon" and "Good Evening, Miss Spring" are all good songs that you can't help but listen to for the first time. And he doesn't have the pretense of ordinary folk songs. Their songs and their shapes are just like the legendary Dongguan. They are the other side of "All the way to the West". mercy.
And "Night of Kabylia", which has been ranked as a classic in the history of film, is also such a story, and it is a biography of women on the edge of society. In 1957, the prostitute Kabylia sold her property for love and was deceived into nothing. Originally, she could have her own small house, and she could proudly tell her peers that my sister had never slept with the "chicken head" in the bridge hole. It's not that she hasn't fallen, and she almost drowned when she was pushed into the river by her concubine at the beginning. She was not lucky to have the rest of her life, but she just couldn't figure out why someone wanted to kill her for a little money. It's not that she hasn't seen the desolate evening scene of her down-and-out counterpart - living in a cave and living on the relief of others. However, such a person who has nothing and lives at the bottom has no choice but to dream. When she meets a big star, she does not have the rationality and self-knowledge of ordinary people. She imagines that such a person will fall in love with her, even if she has seen his glittering girlfriend, she does not The self-knowledge of inferiority, and the pragmatism of her own inferiority, although she received much higher than the daily remuneration, she was still lonely, and she was secretly sad because she could not get the same love as the proud daughter of that day. Later, she turned to religion, hoping that prayers could redeem herself. She couldn't understand the practice of picking up a concubine from the rubbish heap of her peers. After all, she fell into the trap of a liar. Lose all the money, all the security now, and bet on a joke - even if you are as cheap as a prostitute, you are still worthy of love. In the end, though tragedy ended. However, the director used a very literary approach. A group of strangers who sang and danced frolic around the lost Kabylia who had nothing. At the end of the film, there was a smiling face that was crying and wearing makeup, yes, Finally, Kabylia is smiling.
I understand this kind of smile. Maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, she is a fool who has been deceived again and again, but she has a good life, but the hard-earned house can't live, and she dreams of pursuing true love. Isn't that fucking right? However, if you put yourself in Kabylia's shoes, you will understand that she has no nostalgia for what she has from the beginning to the end. Her aggressiveness, her funnyness, and her fights with her peers are nothing more than the current life. Angry, she didn't care about this at first, maybe she wanted to leave it all forever. I even think she knew from the beginning that the other party was a liar, so she should lie to herself and try it, in case it works. So, she smiled at the end, she didn't necessarily have to get that extravagant true love, to be able to disregard it and bet all her worth to pursue her dream, this process is Kabylia's benevolence, I think, even if it is finally reduced to the wilderness Living in the cave, this girl will not regret it, at least she has been brave.
And Wutiaoren's "Fantasy Lisa Hair Salon" or "Good Evening, Miss Spring" also has such a kind of pity, not passing by that pink ambiguous shop, both contempt and curious prying, but simply being a person, Compassion for the same kind in this world, if you can make decent money, who is willing to go down this road? And in all the saliva spit on prostitutes, how many clients are wretched? It’s not like there’s a saying on the Internet, what some men want to do most is to pull Liang’s family into the sea and persuade prostitutes to obey. It’s just the chastity threshold. After thinking about it, it’s nothing more than satisfying men’s possessiveness. If female compatriots can calm down a little, will understand, why? Our bodies originally belonged only to us. In this industry that does not see the sun, it is not all the poor girls who sell their flesh and blood, but those idiots who constitute a demand.
And these songs full of plasticity, this old movie that is more depressing after watching it, may not be able to relieve stress, but when we are all kneeling and moving bricks, at least a moment of getting up and resting, looking weaker than me Miserable people, it's not the first reaction, don't be like him Yes, but when we really reach the end of our lives and look back, in this life, you have at least this moment to live like a person.
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