If you know such old friends who have fallen and fallen, please take a look at what I have written, and even watch these four excellent films. I believe you will also have some precious thoughts.
I don’t know what mysterious power drove me to write this. This week I have been watching Coppola’s "Betta Fish" and "Little Godfather" continuously by coincidence, and then added Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu" and "Little Godfather". Wanma Caidan’s "Taluo", in the half-dream and half-waking between three to five o'clock today, has been thinking a lot about the degeneration and loss of the parents of the young people in China or the United States in the 1980s. One of them, their past, when the campus band outside the window played "Goodbye Jack", I couldn't sleep, then I turned on the mobile phone and popped up the QQ group message and saw a friend shared with me an old friend's activity , I was in a trance, and posted a close-up photo of a "Xiao Wu" character in the group. He immediately said: He and that person look alike. The moment I saw the news, I suddenly felt a little shocked in a trance, thinking about it. Like something, while muttering something in his mouth, he climbed out of bed and wrote these.
He is our former high school friend. I used to admire him very much. His spirit, loyalty, courage, and arrogance. He led a group of people in the school to "fight and kill", sharing him with us every day. Scars of glory. Later, he gave up the college entrance examination because he owed a huge amount of money to his classmates, relatives, and loan sharks because of gambling. He borrowed a friend’s ID card loan. After his parents paid off the debt many times, the old addiction relapsed. We no longer interact with him. He even became a joke before and after our meals and drinks.
It turns out that there are such people in every era. They are Dallas in "Little Godfather", Rasti in "Betta", Xiao Wu in "Xiao Wu", and tower in "Taluo". Luo, I saw all the characters here in that person, and I also saw their mirrors of each other in all the characters here.
In the "Little Godfather", the Southern Gang composed of rich second-generation youths and the Northern Gang composed of poor second-generation youths are two different factions. They fought each other and hurt each other. The way of coping with the contradictions and the reasons for the formation of the social solidification structure are shown to the audience in a hormonal and male image style. Dallas played by Matt Dillon plays a South Gang gangster in this very dramatic conflict. He and the cowardly and cowardly actor Bernie are very good friends. Bernie and his gang stabbed to death several wealthy second generations of the North Gang in self-defense. When Dallas went to visit Bernie, he looked like a brother, and also like a great brother. A gang leader told them: Your murder is glorious, you don’t need to feel guilty, your gang is proud of you, and our family is proud of you.
Bernie accepted the so-called approval from his brother who was only a few years older than him. But in the dialogue between Bernie and his girlfriend, Bernie said his true thoughts. I don't think the people in the North Gang are so bad, they are just as confused and scared as we are. But later, Bernie’s friend passed away because he went to the church to fight the fire with them on the way back from the escape. His gang insisted that the death of this friend was attributed to the North Gang’s persecution of the South Gang. He established himself as a hero of the Southern Gang and cheered for the coming "covenant" between the two sides. Bernie was also brainwashed by these gang members headed by his eldest brother (not Dallas). In his vision Suddenly full of hatred.
The final battle ended with the victory of the Southern Gang, but if the film ends here, "Little Godfather" will not become a classic in film history. Later, when Dallas learned of the death of his friend, he robbed a bookstore in a rage and was shot and killed by policemen who followed him in a green lawn. Bernie and other members of the South Gang felt distressed. Bernie's brother (The real Southern gang leader in the film, Dallas counts as the second in command) He put his arms around Bernie and said: I don't know why, but you must not be like us anymore. Listen to me. Go and study. At this moment, my eyes were as full of tears as my brothers, and I felt thorough sorrow for the unexplained death of Dallas, and happy for these poor second generations to finally realize the way out of the plight.
In the middle of the film, there is a very finishing touch. The members of the North Gang intercepted Bernie at the interface, and instead of conflicting with him, they chose to sit in a sports car and chat peacefully with him, saying that he knew Bernie was killing himself in self-defense. Appreciating the heroic behavior of Bernie's group of people in fighting the fire, he said to Bernie something that impressed me: "Do you know that kid? No matter which side we win in that duel, you will lose in the end, because Our rich second generation, and you are just rascals, this result does not matter to us."
Yes, such a simple truth, why can't so many former friends around me understand? This old friend of mine is the same as Dallas and most of the Southern Gang members he represents in the film. They can defeat the Northern Gang through violence, but they don’t understand that the social class has not changed as a result of violence. They don’t. They don’t get the right way to deal with conflicts and change classes, so they can only live in the shadow of the North Gang for their entire lives. Work, did they really win? Did this old friend of mine really win again? Is this just a kind of self-comfort, or is it the most helpless way to reconcile yourself who has been unable to leave the lower class?
When I saw Coppola’s other film "Betta Fish", it is very interesting that this film was filmed immediately after "Little Godfather". This time Coppola tells of a local American gang leader Lars Mention James, still played by Matt Dillon, this time their opponent has moved from the rich second generation to the BIFF gang, which is also a gangster, but this time the gang struggle did not go through the whole story like a "little godfather", only before the film. Twenty minutes played a role in fueling the flames. In the heads-up between Rasty and Biff, Rasty won by an overwhelming advantage, but when he was cheering, he was stabbed and stabbed by Biff with a knife. The long-missing brother rode a locomotive to the Quartet and rescued Rasti. Rasti’s elder brother was called a "motorcycle rider" by the gang. He was a former gang figure, but he quit the gang for unknown reasons a few years later, and his younger brother was able to accept his elder brother’s "career" and returned to him again. Later, he became color-blind and hearing-impaired. The only object he could see in color was the domesticated "Betta fish" in the pet shop (this film is a black and white film deliberately shot by Coppola, and the entire film is the only three objects. Is rendered in color).
Rasty described his brother like this: He was only 21 years old, but he looked like an old man, but he was only 25 years old.
Later, because of Rasti’s violent character, immature behavior and overly obsessed with female sex, the cohesion of the gangs was no longer alienated from each other. After many years of goodbye, the brother who once admired Rasti (played by Nicolas Cage) soaked up Rasti’s horse. , Dismissed Rasti, and the little spectacle attendant who had been afraid of Rasti also said to Rasti: Actually you are nothing, you are deceiving yourself and others, no one will respect you anymore.
At this moment, Rasti is confused and helpless. Everything that I once owned is now all scattered like smoke. At this time, my brother stood up and patted Rasti on the shoulder and said, "We never had anything?" Talk about losing again? I have seen the world clearly since I was five years old, and you still don’t understand. I will give you my motorcycle. You can leave the city on a motorcycle and never come back.
My brother took Lasti to visit the "Betta Fish" in the pet shop. Look at these creatures being compressed here. They have a narrow vision. Even if they see their own mirror images, they will come forward to fight with them. I want to let them be free. That night, my brother rode a locomotive and robbed the pet shop and left with the fighting fish. On the way to escape, he was shot and killed by a policeman who had been ambushing him a long time ago. The onlookers looked at this legendary "motorcyclist" and sighed to the sky: Do you know who he is? Only Rasti was angry and lonely, but he saw himself in the mirror of the police car (this is the second object rendered in color in the entire movie), he broke the glass, grabbed the fighting fish and put it into the sea , Riding his brother’s motorcycle away from this black and white city, he rode to the sea, and the movie ended with the colorful sea as the final scene.
Rasti’s and brother’s fathers were also former gang “persons”. Brother and Rasti have inherited each other’s mantle from generation to generation, but his father failed to understand his plight in the end. I spent my whole life intoxicated by alcohol. The betta fish locked in a glass box symbolizes my father, the betta fish that flows freely in the sea symbolizes my brother, and the group of betta fish that were released from the glass box into the sea symbolizes the father. Symbolizes Rasti.
I think that my friend and the group of people he symbolizes may be betta fish that are locked in a glass box and still can’t escape, while those of us once combative partners jumped unknowingly. Entering the sea, because there is such a group of once-beautiful "motorcyclists" around us, they told us that people should not fall into the restricted struggle, fighting in a glass box, fighting fish should fight in the sea, and those people Without such an opportunity, I feel sorry for them, they have lost the opportunity to watch the sea.
Let me finally talk about Jia Zhangke’s famous work "Xiao Wu". Xiao Wu is a thief, but Jia Zhangke did not give him any professional characteristics of "thief". Xiao Wu is just an ordinary and ordinary among all living beings. Just one person.
Xiaowu’s best childhood friend was Xiaoyong. Xiaoyong was named an outstanding township entrepreneur because of his success in starting a business in another place, so he appeared on the local TV station, while Xiaowu was caught for stealing a pager and watched it in the police station. After the local TV station's report on his dirty deeds, it is even more ironic that the interviewer Xiaoyong Xiaowu turned out to be the same host.
Xiaoyong is getting married. Xiaowu gave Xiaoyong six jin of RMB as a red envelope according to his previous promise. When he met Xiaoyong, he found out that he and no longer the former playmate, he became the best known to him. The most hated and the most eager capitalist, Xiaoyong does not want to have anything to do with Xiaowu, the habitual thieves in the well-known towns and towns. Xiaowu drank alone in the old tavern.
In karaoke, the two mutual friends played by Jia Zhangke personally handed over the red envelope to Xiaowu for Xiaoyong, saying that Xiaoyong was afraid that Xiaowu would involve him, Xiaowu furiously countered and said: Isn't he doing smuggling? Where is smuggling more noble than stealing? And Jia Zhangke, who was kicked out of the room, said when he turned back: Xiaowu, let me explain to you first that what Xiaoyong did was not smuggling, it was trade.
In their eyes, smuggling can be transformed into trade, but stealing can only be theft. Everyone understands this truth, but Xiao Wu does not understand why smuggling can be trade, but stealing can only be stealing. He did not realize the class. The difference is the colored flag that the two people cast. In his eyes, the dirty is dirty. Regardless of the class, he did dirty things to make a living, and Xiaoyong also did dirty things to make a living, he Did not see how snobbish this society is.
My old friend, he once jokingly reprimanded those who were officials in business, but he didn't see who was in business and who was in gambling? He may think that both are making money, what is the difference? This social phenomenon makes everyone afraid, but we realized that we accepted it, but he did not. So, maybe we will eventually become their Xiaoyong, and they will eventually become our Xiaowu.
I think my friends in the circle know who I’m talking about, but today I’m not only talking about him, but also people like him. The self-righteous "little godfather" does not understand that his parish is just a small glass box. Slowly became Xiaowu, watching those Xiaoyong swimming towards the sea. I hope that he and these people can meet their own "motorcyclists" as soon as possible.
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