If we look at the red violin that runs through the five stories of the movie as a person, then these five stories correspond to the five stages of a person's birth, youth, youth, prime age, and old age. The subject of the story can be interpreted in a wide range, and only a small and shallow entry is selected here.
The 5 stories can be divided into 2 categories:
The first category is Nativity (violin making) and Twilight (auction), both of which have clues to three other stories. The clues of the story of Nativity (making a piano) are: divination of the 5 cards that appear in this plot. Whenever a story ends and the next story is entered, it will switch to the picture of turning over the cards; the clues of the story of Twilight (Auction) are: : Representatives of violin holders of teenagers, youths and adults participated in the auction. The teenagers corresponded to the monastery on the right side of the phone, the youths corresponded to the fans of the composer Pop who arrived late by taxi, and the adults corresponded to Chinese glasses man.
In the second category, except for the violin, there are few clues to other stories in the stories of teenagers, youth, and adults. The whole structure can be seen as a total-point-point-point-total structure.
The two types of stories also differ in their handling of time spans. Stories of birth and twilight take place over a perceived shorter period of time, on the order of weeks to months.
The stories of teenagers, youth, and adults have a much longer time span. When Qin arrived at the monastery, it was obvious in the first episode that the owner of the piano changed a lot. This time span may be several generations; The gypsies dug out the violin, but also went to many people and different places, and finally got to the composer Pope. After a long time, it was bought by Zhang Aijia's mother, passed on to Zhang Aijia, and finally the death of the Tibetan qin teacher, which was at least a generation. The 5 stories on the feeling of time are: short-long-long-long-short.
Total-point-point-point-total, the time allocated is short-long-long-long-short. This design makes the story of birth and twilight more compact, and makes the structure more solid; the shorter occurrence time and fixed scene make the two stories of the birth and twilight of the edited special fragments, more than the other three stories. It is easier to understand, and it also makes the twilight drama where multiple forces meet at the end especially exciting.
Then look at the life of the red violin. 5 time spaces.
Birth: The first episode is that the master violin maker Nicholas is teaching his apprentice, and then he smashes the violin in anger. Here is a key line, the craftsman said, 'You have created a masterpiece, the most suitable for a courtesan, or a master. Practice after Mass, in other words, this violin will not have my name', which is obviously to say that his apprentice's violin building is just a matter of appearance, and there are not many qualities that Nicholas fancy, and these qualities are in the back story One by one appeared.
This is not only the origin of Qin's character from the side, but also the first dialogue between master and apprentice in the play. It can be said that it is some kind of discussion about the nature of Qin, which is metaphysical.
Then Nicola's wife died in childbirth, and there is no scene of Nicola's child in the whole story. So in a sense, the red violin was made of bones by the father, painted with the blood of the mother, and completed after the mother gave birth. This violin is actually Nikolai's child. The dystocia of the master's father and mother added a legend to the child.
Teenager: Both parents died, and the violin was sent to the monastery. The orphans in the monastery have the same life experience as the violin. With an extraordinary background and a good talent, the violin soon jumped out of the environment of the monastery. Like all teenage geniuses, the red violin is a little weird, some casual, some eager for quick success, arrogant, and wants to quickly become famous. In this story, the structure of master and apprentice appears again. They talk more and discuss a wide range of content, from prodigies everywhere in Vienna, to eating, to pioneers and classics, to making decisions for themselves, it can be said that this master Closer to the role of a father in growing up.
When it came to the earl's audition, the earl first had a very heavy concept of hierarchy, and he mocked the origin of the violin from the very beginning. It can be seen from this that although this era is interested in talent, it is not eclectic. . The violin dies before it can be played, and here is the practice of leading the audience, implying that art must die under the powerful.
In the eyes of the powerful, what is more important is the "thing" of the violin, rather than the talent itself. The earl probably understands music, but he doesn't care. Like the young master, he cares about who taught the apprentice, and cares about the violin. How much gold can you put on yourself. And the discussion of 'things' and talent itself here also corresponds to the discussion about the nature of the piano in the episode of Nicholas smashing the piano in the birth. Not being a powerful person can be the first character trait of the violin.
The story of youth, in youth, what cannot escape is the love story, the violin is in love with the composer Pop, the reason for the love, in addition to Pop's talent and unruly character, there is another very important point. After the composer Pop got the violin from the gypsies, he invited the gypsies to his concerts. Judging from the attitude of the ticket inspector at the gate, gypsies are generally not welcome in such high-class occasions. In Pope's eyes, there is obviously no concept of these secular grades. This is very different from the performance of the earl in the previous story. This point is very violinist. His personalities are in harmony with the same hobbies. He is handsome, talented and famous. It's impossible not to fall in love with a violin.
Like all people who are hurt in love, the first wound often comes from discovering that they are not irreplaceable. Composer Pop's lover thought that Pop lost his inspiration and could not create if he left him, but later found out that the woman beside Pop could be anyone except the piano, so he was reluctant to shoot Pop. , I don't play the junior three, I play the piano. But so what, even if everything is restored as before, both of them understand in their hearts that the person beside the pillow is a piece of furniture that can be replaced at any time. Love is disillusioned, it dies without thinking about it.
The life of the violin is long, and any creation cannot be supported by passion alone, just like the popular love that turns into a family. This kind of opium-like passion (there is a scene in which Pop smokes a cigarette) is not rational, and rationality can be used as a second character trait of the violin.
The story of the prime of life is another sigh that slaps Lang Gan all over the place. The violin of the righteous and middle-aged should have played the most beautiful movements in the hands of the best musicians, but she has come to a powerful environment with a single value that does not agree with her value. In the words of the movie, this is a trial , the judgment of one's own value is also the judgment of one's own temperament.
The owner of the violin, Zhang Aijia, was swaying in her heart here. Judging from the fact that he let Teacher Zhou teach only the huqin, she knew how to delay the trial a little longer. But when Xiao Ming asked her, is the violin a bad thing? She couldn't go against her heart. Here, as a teacher, she did not lie to her students. She insisted on passing on the correct information to the next generation. This information is not about Western music or violin, but justice, the dignity and backbone of a teacher as a teacher, Inherit positive values.
This is the first time that the identity of the violin has changed from a student to a teacher, and another teacher-apprentice structure, where the identity of the teacher is standing, and the discussion is persistence, inheritance, and justice.
When the violin hid in Teacher Zhou's house, Zhang Aijia asked Teacher Zhou whether you wanted it or not. Teacher Zhou also said yes. Zhang Aijia also said that I believe in this revolution. Her mature identity as a teacher is reflected here. This trial comes from passion. Reason tells her that this trial, like the previous love, cannot become the norm.
The twilight drama has the most influences, except for what was mentioned at the beginning: the juvenile drama corresponds to the monastery on the right side of the phone, the youth drama corresponds to the fans of the composer Pop who arrived late by taxi, and the prime-age drama corresponds to China glasses man. In addition to the auction house, appraisers, and repair technicians, these six have the momentum of six sects to encircle and suppress Guangmingding.
But Mr. Jin Yong's approach is to develop several lines independently, and finally solve it in one scene. Each family has opera singing, Heartless Valley, Bright Summit, Lion Slaughtering Conference and so on. The story of the violin revolves around the auction house and the appraiser.
The violin is auctioned at the auction house. The auction house first identifies her ancestry, examines her history, and even the technicians want to repaint him. The auction house here is equivalent to the role of the count in the juvenile drama, and it still emphasizes her 'thing' Attributes.
The appraiser is the role of an interpreter. He goes to understand the past of the violin and tries to understand her.
Repair technician, technology neutral, science not thinking, the ridicule of science students here has already been ridden on the face.
The modern society is like the last one who takes the bait. It only needs one symbol, one fake is enough. As for music, no one cares, let alone understands it (even the earl is not as good as this).
Even in prime-age dramas, the violin has its own musical value and musical cultural symbols preserved. In contemporary times, no one cares about the 'essence', and when the 'essence' is forgotten by everyone, the violin becomes A dead thing, what is really dead?
Poppy·Listening to the Rain
【Song】 Jiang Jie
The boy listened to the rain song upstairs. The red candle is dimmed. The middle-aged listens to the rain in the passenger boat. The river is broad, the clouds are low, and the geese are called the west wind.
Now I listen to the rain under the monk's house. The temples have stars. Ups and downs are always ruthless. Before the first step, bit by bit until dawn.
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