The dog is still like this, a real wolf is even more, no matter how small it is, it has a wolf nature that is difficult to tame. "Wolf Totem" author Jiang Rong's original title is "Little Wolf Little Wolf". Jiang Rong was very concerned about the causal opportunity of raising the little wolf, and also found a completely different understanding from the little prince from the process of being unable to tame it. Because he domesticated a wolf, not a fox.
As a child who lived under the roots of the imperial city and witnessed the oppression of the totalitarian society's strict hierarchy and the inability of individuals to counterattack in the big era, Jiang Rong, 21, volunteered to settle in the grassland and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia in 1967. He returned to Beijing in 1978 and was admitted to the university. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, majoring in Political Economy. As a marginal person and an alien creature, Jiang Rong squatted in the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia for 11 years. The most youthful time of his life was left in the grasslands. The grasslands also deeply penetrated into his soul, destroying his three views. The denial of the old knowledge system, the reconsideration of society and human nature.
"Wolf Totem" was written in six years. In fact, the needle has been sharpened for more than 30 years. In the movie, the old man Bilig said to Chen Zhen, you can write a book! The seed fell into the soil. Of all the educated youths who came out of the grassland and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia, only he has become "a writer who has only written one book" so far. The obsession with wolves and grassland is the reason why "Wolf Totem" became "Wolf Totem".
In 2004, the World Environmental Protection Conference had not yet opened, the Chinese had not been brainwashed by the concept of low-carbon environmental protection, cycling had not yet become a cycling culture, and politicians were still struggling with the GDP that was catching up every year. "Wolf Totem" in China A hole was blown up, allowing people to grow up in a farming civilization, who only knew how to burn mountains to open up wasteland and cultivate precious land. The Han people saw the true unity of nature and man, coexistence and co-prosperity of the nomads Lao Tzu, who never returns, has long told us the truth, and we need Jiang Rong to remind him again with the story of the pack of wolves and the little wolves.
In 2004, we have witnessed the final appearance of the slogan of realizing the four modernizations. We have heard many Chinese people say that the 21st century is the century of the Chinese people, and many foreigners say that the Chinese wolf is coming, but we feel that we are still a group of people. sheep. "Wolf Totem" tells us what a real wolf is like in this world of the jungle. Some Mongolian friends I know disapprove of the author's use of the wolf as a totem. The Mongolian totem is only the Longevity Tiantengri, and the wolf is the same as the four evils. This is definitely a misunderstanding of Mongolian culture. It seems that what Jiang Rong wrote is similar to Wu Si, who discovered the "Unspoken Rules" and "The Law of Blood Reward". He single-handedly unearthed the food chain law that sneaked into human society and was blinded by universal harmonious values. German sinologist Ku Bin believes that , "Wolf Totem" is advocating fascism, director Jean Jacques Arnault's answer makes people laugh, Germans will think of fascism when they see everything, because they suffer from it.
Jiang Rong's original title is "Little Wolf Little Wolf", and "Wolf Totem" can be seen as the BIG IDEA of booksellers. At that time, the Chinese still only remembered the Qin (Qing) "wolf" from Baodao, who was grief-stricken and clenched his teeth, only for the legendary beautiful grassland. The name of the wolf totem instantly reverses the theme of the work. The strong prey in the animal world has become the main theme. The wolf's discipline, patience, and retribution make the males who admire Nietzsche's strongman philosophy excited. In 2004, when small books became popular, "Wolf Totem" had a dazzling male hormone charm, and won the headlines of corporate training and inspiration in one fell swoop. After that, "Wolf Road" and "Wolf Soul" were rotten on the street, and business owners were keen Yu led the wolf into the house and danced with the wolf, wishing he could become the wolf of Wall Street and grab money quickly.
Jiang Rong made a group of sheep at least have the urge to be a wolf, but this wolf is not another wolf. The wolf's ambition of the wolf of Wall Street is not in the self-growth and cultivation of the national character, but in the gobbling of money. This deviation may be unintentional, but it is the current value of wolf totem sales. This deviation becomes the most paradoxical paradox of Wolf Totem. The result of the application of the wolf totem spirit in business is that business is more prosperous. People use the knowledge learned from wolves to do everything they can, and they are invincible to pursue the maximization of commercial value, encourage excessive consumption, and encourage fetishism. Chinese businessmen have fallen into a frenzy of competition that has no bottom line... The former grasslands have become golf courses and open-pit coal mines, and the overdraft of groundwater has caused the grasslands to collapse, so people are backfilling them with domestic waste and water and chemical waste... Beijing's smog and sandstorms are changing Become the norm, Chairman Ma makes a Nostradamus-esque prophecy, we will become a cancer power, and every family will have cancer patients in ten years...
The deviated values brought by the little wolf behind the totem are just like our bad reality , We need to live in harmony with all things on the earth in order to obtain the right to long-term survival, but human desires and ambitions always drive human beings to compete with each other, plunder and kill, fight against different parties, and do not be like wolves. High-end animals at the top of the food chain , will be reduced to the yellow sheep driven by the wolves, and the horses hunted by the wolves. In the world of male thinking, human society has never changed the nature of its animal world. Jean-Jacques Arnold is like the old Bliger in the movie. He talks about the road of immortality and boils the wolf into a pot of chicken soup. Everyone who walks into the movie theater can feel this man from his 60s to his 70s. The sincerity of many-year-olds, perhaps this sincerity will slow down our pace in the battle... The Chinese finally understand what carbon emissions are and what is emission reduction, but our population base is too large, is it more important to eat or not? Does emission reduction matter? Our politicians have too many things to worry about, and they can't think about things other than political achievements; the lives of Chinese people are too worthless, cancer is cancer, life, if you lose it, you lose it...
Jean-Jacques Arnold, who has filmed "Free Run", "Tale of the Bear" and "Tiger Brother and Tiger Brother", clearly understands what he wants to express in this film. As the crystallization of collective wisdom, Arnold wisely returns the focus of the story to the relationship between humans, animals and nature, bringing a paradox misunderstood by contemporary Chinese back to its normal position. The result of setting things right is that we see a grassland comparable to the sea in "Perfect Storm" and the space in "Gravity", and the Mongolians who have left Europeans with psychological shadows. They only fear the longevity of Tengri, Arnold's Wolf Totem shows us where their awe comes from.
As a citizen of Tengger, the most important thing for both wolves and people is to keep each other in awe and keep a distance from each other. The so-called missing is a thousand miles. A cowardly and greedy clansman leaked the secret of Huangyang, allowing more greedy people to take away the wolf's rations. This is the cause of the subsequent human-wolf war. , In a special historical period when people and wolves were in short supply of living materials, the contradictions and conflicts over the competition for living resources continued to escalate. The wolf used the method of dealing with the yellow sheep to drive away the horse herd, and attacked the sheep pen at night to retaliate against the people to dig out the wolf's den. The confrontation between the wolves is under control. Humans who have acquired cold weapons and hot weapons are doomed to fail. The little wolf raised by Chen Zhen has become a kind of redemption at this time, just like the free-range animals we encircle in the name of Forest Park Nature Reserve, United Nations Natural Heritage, etc. That's just the animal version of "Truman's World", so that the animals can continue to stage the "Hunger Games"... It is not easy to adapt "Wolf Totem" with a weak story like non-fiction literature. Arnold's "Wolf Totem" Wolf Totem gave me a sigh of relief, at least it was rounded up, and the dramatic conflict was clear. The fly in the ointment is that the original criticism of the Cultural Revolution has been simplified into the words and deeds of a certain masked cadre. The current film censorship system of the Celestial Dynasty may have contributed; There are only a few weak strokes, a few houses and tractors by the beautiful Swan Lake have brought over the devastating damage caused by the Mongolians who came from the east who can cultivate the land; the final speech attributed Jiang Rong's glory to Jiang Rong, but the entire current The vast grasslands were forgotten; the regret is that the she-wolf who was taken out of the wolf's den by Chen Zhen did not have any interaction with the cubs, which was the most touching part of the whole film. The whole film faithfully restores the documentary sense of the original work. The actors' performances are real and calm. As the soul character of the whole film, Arnold's wolf is very convincing. The tacit understanding of the ghost team, the decision to kill, is creepy.
With Arnold's sophistication and wisdom, he will not take the initiative to replace the name of "Wolf Totem", although the content of the whole film has nothing to do with whether the wolf is a human totem, and even if it is, it is only Chen Zhen's personal totem. . This big hat is like a headline party in the WeChat era. After all, this is a well-known term in China, and it is used as an advertisement! But this time the title party's masterpiece has caused a strong backlash in public opinion, about the discussion about the real totem of the Mongolians, about the misunderstanding of Mongolian culture by the Han people, about whether the creative team wants people to learn from the wolf, about whether the wolf is totemized or not. Justification for acknowledging the existence of the black flag of ISIS? When it was published ten years ago, no one seemed to pay attention to what was wrong with the wolf being totemized. People across the country unanimously found chicken soup for the soul, inspirational chicken blood, and new idols... I can only say that ten years ago, we were better than now. More concerned about money; ten years ago, there was no mobile Internet and self-media; ten years ago, we did not have so many cultural elites and public knowledge; ten years ago, Mongolian culture was not brought to the world-class big screen by world-class directors; Ten years ago, some people who were proficient in Mongolian culture didn't read the book "Wolf Totem" carefully, and ten years later, they didn't have the patience to watch this movie...
On February 19, 2015, "Wolf Totem" was painted nationwide , On March 1, Chai Jing released the smog report "Under the Dome". All the coincidences imply inevitability. In my eyes, these two things mean the same thing. Tengri thing. In all the films with grassland as the background, Arnold's "Wolf Totem" is definitely a highlight, and the charm of Changsheng Tian Tengger makes the souls of all Mongolians and non-Mongols tremble. In the age of excess images, this is already a miracle.
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