4.5, from Burning, who started paying attention to Li Guangdong, to Burning Paper and Beautiful Youth, his stance is still quite clear, one is left, the other is literary, and the other is the protagonist (slightly more) symbolic.
The literary quality of this book is still there, whether it is raining like this, drenched in the same rain, or with kind-hearted hands, it is very powerful. To paraphrase Beauvoir in terms of content, men are not born, they are made (gradually). Through flashbacks, it tells how the indifference, cruelty, and brutality of an ordinary man are constructed by society, others, and himself. The form is relatively sophisticated, using the retrospective that South Korean Zuo Zuo movies prefer to use, standing in the 1990s and looking back to the 1970s, as the train goes retrograde, pick out a few more critical time points in the twenty years and put them on the Under the social background, but from the individual level, the background suspense of military discipline and social movements is finally revealed. From an operational point of view, this way of using personal history to integrate social history is very exciting. Drama and typicality will come out at once, and individuality will not be lost because of literature, clue-based details, and small props.
I still have a little deep love for Li Guangdong, so I have a little bit to blame. One more question, does this attribution method have the suspicion of reducing and absolving the individual's guilt? The protagonist in it still has a vague symbolic meaning. He can see the individual, but not the subject. Facing the changes of the times, this person is more like a passive bearer, and the noise and symbols of the entire social environment are constantly imposed on him. body, constantly penetrating his body. The only places where subjectivity is even slightly seen are restaurants going mad and crying at night.
Due to the duality between the individual and the society, the exploration of the inner psychology of the individual is insufficient, and the presentation of external social problems is also a little vague, and it is more of a display and suggestion of some images, which is a bit embarrassing on both sides. What if it is to break this binary opposition and resort to emotional reality? It is also a bit far-fetched and lacking in strength. From some of his interviews, it is clear that there is a relatively clear binary opposition between the individual and the society at the beginning of the creation. Of course, I'm just nitpicking. Whether it's individual, typical, or literary, the completion of this work is very high.
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