This play involves the issue of dreams and reality. The heroine Shaman, a refugee from the Czech Republic, brought her son to the United States, and lives in poverty and contentment. She has two dreams, which are also hers. One of the spiritual pillars is to perform surgery for her son who is about to insomnia when he is 13 years old, and to obtain eternal light. The second is her heart full of musicals, dancing and singing with heart. Every night she puts the money she earned in the day in a cardboard box. She is so satisfied. Every day she insists on going to the community to rehearse the musical after finishing the heavy and dangerous physical labor. It is her happiest and happiest time.
The beginning of everything is for the final ending, and the final ending is another beginning. When Shaman almost fulfilled her dream, she paid 2056.1 yuan for the operation fee for her son, which is all she has. All that was paid for, including life, and in court, he kept his word, she answered Bill who helped her and hurt her later, and kept their secrets, "Silence is golden. ". She gave up her defense. In order to prevent her son's operation fee from being collected by the police, she lied to her father who was far away in the Czech Republic, and this lie was quickly seen through. The person she called her father was actually her The idol of her childhood is the person she has regarded as a god in her life, and represents her other ideal about musical theatre.
Destiny is a bohemian teenager who always doesn't know where is his only right path. It's ridiculous and sad that when these two ideals are all realized, none of us or the people around her are for her. Happy and sighed at her success. For the dream and everything from her heart, she chose to "only listen to her own heart" and completed them stubbornly and irrationally.
In the dark and complex society, she chose to remain silent, choose to keep her little innocence, choose to keep the promise that made her unjust death, and as a woman, she gave up the possibility of getting love, She said, "I don't think about love now, and now my son's surgery is her only goal." For this, she gave up her life as a mother, but she didn't know how to communicate with her child. She suffered so much pain by herself. She didn't tell her son even though she died, she believed that "it is better for a son to look at his children and grandchildren after he has eyes than to have a mother without eyes."
A sad and great motherhood, such a stubborn character is still not understood by people today. In this film, the image of this mother, Shaman, feels complaining and incomprehensible, and thinks, why can't she be more tactful, why can't she ask others for help, why not let herself finish the lawsuit first, and then find a way to cure her son. , why didn't she tell her sincerity, why didn't the good-hearted person in all such movies appear, why did she die so peacefully, and everything was attributed to Shaman's personal character, no, no, This is not the case. As long as everyone listens to their own hearts, there will be no more mistakes. It was Mrs. Bill and his wife who made such a tragedy happen. They represented most of the social phenomena of that era in the United States. After wanton squandering, It is an insatiable desire, and poor Shaman, a victim of such a society, a great mother who condemned the society with silence.
In the play, in addition to the impeccable plot, there is also her unique way of expression. Whenever Shaman is struggling in pain and despair, when she is depressed, she always imagines that she is on a stage constructed with musicals. The center, in her fantasy, everyone can sing and dance, full of joy and purity of mind, everyone has their own reasons, she can forgive them, can forget the heavy work and her own fears, the director uses this A peculiar way of expressing in musicals depicts Shaman's psychological activities. These fragments are the remains of her psychological struggles.
The first musical was when Shaman was doing heavy labor day and night because she couldn't see anything, so she began to imagine that this noisy factory was a musical theater, and all the workers were actors, singing and dancing. She also pulled her friend Casey and danced together. As a result, these were just hallucinations, and her hands were cut due to distraction.
In the second musical, she was on the train track, and she met Shef, who loved her deeply. Shef asked her if you couldn't see it, so she became nervous. In her fantasy, her heart was clearly visible. , "I've seen everything, I've seen trees. I've seen willows dancing in the breeze, I've seen a man killed by his best friend, I've seen a life that's gone before it's lived, I've seen it, I am Who, knows what I'll be like, I've seen everything, I don't need to see it again... If I see it too much, I'm just greedy..." As a result, Shef left, she loved her, and she loved him.
The third musical is the most complicated and the most surprising one. After she had to kill Bill, who wanted to commit suicide, in a hallucination, she sang "The night falls, the sun falls asleep, and countless people are dreaming, just like You should be like this, sleepy... Silly Shaman, it's you who should be blamed, you are just forced to do that...", and then she imagined that the mistress told her to run away for the sake of the child, she thought in her heart Begging for forgiveness over and over again, shouting, "I did that, but I was forced to...". As a result, she was arrested.
The fourth part of the musical was when she returned to the community where she rehearsed the musical. She had already given up and was waiting to be caught. The
fifth part was in court, when he met his childhood idol, a musical actor. , so she fantasized about playing a musical with her, but she was sentenced to death.
The sixth musical is when she was afraid and weak and went to death. It was the fantasy of music that made her finish this last musical. 107 steps. In the wonderful music, after singing these 107 steps, music has become her soul and spiritual support. Bravely walks to the gallows.
The last part is when the execution of the gallows, she refuses to cover her eyes with a hood, she wants to see, see the light, a new beginning after death, she is afraid of death, afraid, when she After learning that his son Xiaojun's surgery was successful, he regained his great courage and sang the last second song, "Wrap the bread, do this, do that, and fold the bed..." As a result, he died.
All The voice stopped abruptly, nothing is quieter than death...
All illusions have been shattered, and no promises will be fulfilled...
This is a perfect film, without the slightest flaws, perhaps those minor flaws are covered up by Shaman's greatness and irrational love.
Forget everything, everything, everything I've seen, I know what the last song is, it's the never-ending light, the hope passed on from generation to generation.
Pray for Shaman, pray for Xiaojun, death sleeps so peacefully, and hope shines so bright...
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