"Mountains and Rivers"

Luigi 2022-04-23 07:05:06

When I was in school in Beijing in 2003
, there was a class called "Appreciation of Film and Television Works", which consisted of showing films for the first two hours, and the teacher commenting for the next two hours. Those few years coincided with the emergence of Section Chief Jia, and this lesson is basically "Appreciation of Jia Zhangke's Film and Television Works". Three things stand out. 1. "Platform" was played once, a long platform, a long wait, I heard the sound of the train, but I couldn't see the train coming, I fell asleep in a while, I don't know how long it took, I woke up, I asked a buddy next to me "The train is coming." Are you here?" He looked into the distance and said, "Not here." 2. Put a few minutes of a documentary called "The Condition of the Dog". It is a group of people selling dogs. The puppy keeps struggling, biting through the sack and sticking its head out. The teacher asked everyone to share their thoughts and feelings. The last student was finally "forced to be helpless" and said, "I think...I'm like that dog..." Of course, the hall burst into laughter at the time, but it's quite philosophical when I think about it now. 3. "The Good Man in the Three Gorges" won the Golden Lion Award. Once my sister said that their teacher forced them to ask Zhao Tao the meaning of drinking water. My sister had a big temper and said, what the hell is the meaning of drinking water, I am thirsty.

In 2009
, the North Drift transitioned to the Hong Kong Drift before drifting. In all, these two big cities have stayed for almost six years. Compared with the vastness of Beijing, Hong Kong is really small, and it is not uncommon to encounter Chief Jia. After that, the section chief made a bunch of documentaries, and the feelings and expressions of the society and the times became my initial impression of the section chief. I remember a discussion where the section chief talked about dialects and said that he liked "non-existent" and "I like you" very much. Later, these two sentences appeared in "Tian Destined". At that time, the eyes lit up. This kind of capture and transformation required skill, but at least the section chief was still full of poetry.

2015+
The loneliness of "The Old Man of the Mountains and Rivers" reminds me of "Nie Yinniang", but the section chief is not Yinniang after all. If he wants to adapt to the times and is kicked out of the game, naturally he can't breathe. Freedom is always relative. Either there is an enemy without a gun, or there is a gun without an enemy. If one day you see an enemy with a gun, don't be like Yin Niang who can't do anything.


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Mountains May Depart quotes

  • Mia: The hardest thing about love is caring.

  • Mia: Time doesn't change all things, that is what it has taught me.