"The Three Gorges Good Man" started, and the "Three Gorges Good Man" ended. During this time, the fate of people, the fate of the city, all appeared, and all dissipated. Surprisingly flat, heartbroken. In the following quite a long time, I tossed and thought, trying to use the most emotional and fullest words to describe the inner touch. However, my feelings are beyond words. At the same time, the sentimentality it brings seems so extravagant and hypocritical. Treating life in any serious way is biased, and life is full of small sentimentality and silence.
The reason why any statement about this movie is frivolous
is: I don't know how to tell my folks, I spent dozens of dollars, and in a modern digital cinema, what I saw was their fate. Han Sanming, a coal miner, came to Fengjie from Fenyang to find his ex-wife whom he hadn't seen in 16 years. The two met by the Yangtze River, looked at each other, and decided to remarry. Female nurse Shen Hong traveled from Taiyuan to Fengjie to find her husband, who had not returned for two years. They were silent at the Three Gorges Dam, broke up sadly, and decided to divorce. These two ordinary men and women appeared, then walked away, and plunged back into their own destiny respectively.
Dignity
Those innocent hearts who are accustomed to seeing romantic love and wonderful encounters and compiling good wishes in literary and artistic works may have always hoped for the director, arranging for these two people from the world to meet on a festival and rewrite their destiny. but none. Silent, black and sturdy man, decided to go back to Shanxi, to the coal mine, to pay off the debt of 30,000 yuan for others in a year, in exchange for the woman who ran away more than ten years ago. The woman who has been drinking from the same mineral water bottle for several days is trying hard not to let her sadness become visible. Her excuses and her choices are all done in a dignified way.
It was decided that
Han Sanming would bid farewell to the men of the Three Gorges. They drank the wine in their bowls and said nothing. After a long silence, they set off in great strides, before tearing down their city with their own hands to fill their soon hungry bellies. But they would be hungry again soon. They didn't even have time to take a look at the last city, so they followed Han Sanming to Shanxi. Han Sanming told them that the coal mines there can earn dozens of dollars a day, and a dozen people can die in a year.
A city is about to be submerged by the mist-shrouded river. Holding a sledgehammer, Han Sanming announced to a woman, "We're here to demolish your building." She replied casually, "Demolish it!" She told Han Sanming that she would leave Fengjie and head south to Guangdong. "There 's always a decision to be made," the woman said.
They, we, all of a sudden, were faced with such an urgent decision. Behind the glitz, it is said that the times are changing. The fate of ordinary people is so limited. In this limited destiny, everyone is the same, because we can't wait to die, we always have to make a decision. In order to survive, everyone has learned to choose realistically, but they never expect miracles. The flying saucers that crossed the horizon, the huge buildings that suddenly vacated the sky, meant nothing to them.
Jia Zhangke said: "(In the play) everyone has to face their own life and make a responsible decision for their own life", "They all use a decision to give themselves a kind of freedom and dignity." Behind the decision, each has its own Suffering, inevitably heartache. However, life will continue, like a surging river, it will never end.
The last cup of nostalgia for
romance flashed in Han Sanming's drinking with Xiao Ma, but the romance soon died of collapse and was buried in the rivers and lakes. Before that, this young guy who was "hanging on the dock", who used the newspaper to imitate Chow Yun-fat to light a cigarette, declared passionately that he was responsible for settling everything. He distributed white rabbits to his subordinates, and in the small restaurant at Dusk Station, he solemnly announced to the honest Han Sanming: You know, we are no longer suitable for this society, because we are too nostalgic.
Poetic
This thousand-year-old city that is about to sink to the bottom of the water, what is the final scene? People put on rough music and danced lame steps to the song "Damp Heart". As night fell, the local official brought in his comrades to show off his 250 million masterpiece—a bridge squatting over an abyss covered with countless lights. In front of them, behind them, and around them, ancient cities were being torn down, exploding, collapsing. Suddenly there is an absurd and sad poetry.
There are no great sacrifices, no heroic devotion, no dramatic heroes, no hypocritical tears, only indifferent expressions, opening your mouth and starting to laugh. Different from the sad spring and sad autumn in the grand narrative, the director gives each person his feelings and pays attention to their personal choices that seem to be more important than life. These people of the Three Gorges are powerless and indifferent to the changes of the great era.
But hope is still everywhere. The city that was about to disappear, to see demolished, exploded, collapsed, in the clamor of noise and flying dust. "Even in such a desperate place, life itself will bloom with brilliant colors." The little girl who yearned to be a nanny in the city. And, everyone, all the efforts to survive, how can it not be hope. Although the steps are so heavy and the road so difficult.
The Three Gorges, the last river and lake, the people who used to come and go, the wandering pier, there is only one word left: demolish. In the land of demolition, people, silently, play supporting roles in reality, and I don't know whether there will be their backs in the great era written by others a few years later. into the memory of the times.
What is a good
person? Even when deceived or treated rudely, he is gentle and slow, but he is unwavering in the goal he has identified, his eyes are innocent but firm, and he has a special ability to act. attitude of life. What is the most dignified and hopeful gesture? Jia Zhangke said: "In front of the camera, groups of laborers come and go. Their still-life-like expressions of silence and silence make me awestruck." The
pop
culture underlay appeared several times, which seemed to have special meaning. Heroes, saliva songs. It is conceivable that after a few years, the mouse loves rice, and the vulgar melodies such as two butterflies have become the labels of the times. Among them, some must be absurd, and some are not. Criticism about reality is gentle and hidden, and there is no trace of language. I only remember that during a demolition dispute, Jia Zhangke asked the person in charge of the demolition office to say one sentence: There is no problem. Remove it, is there any problem? This should be the most frank expression of reality.
Big Love
Jia Zhangke's compassion and generosity are seen in the overall grasp and individual shaping of the group portraits of sentient beings in another destiny and reality. Someone said: "What you can see in his films is not the lives of the suffering people at all, but the director's immense love for these people and the unforgivable (or one day becomes finally forgiveness) of the world. "Love, deep and simple, thick to silence, no high or low.
A Hong Kong reporter asked: Will the protagonist in your movie go to see your movie? Jia Zhangke said: "The protagonists in my movies have to work and earn 30 yuan all day long. What do you want them to do with 50 yuan to go to the cinema? I can't let them spend 50 yuan to watch movies and see his life. "..."
Why
do I always have tears in my eyes? As Liang Ning said: "I don't think about whether the country is the land where I live, or the group of people who have a common cultural understanding with me, or the order of life that we have become accustomed to, or... just this feeling. , Here, I, my family and friends live like this.
"The Three Gorges", the English title "STILL LIFE". My translation is, still alive.
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