This book makes me want to read "The City of Sadness", which I have heard before but I have never had the patience to read. It is too silent. It silently borrows all the ups and downs and sorrows in the distant mountains and clouds of Jiufen. It seemed like he didn't say anything, but he seemed to have said everything. What this movie made me realize again is that since the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court ceded it, Taiwanese natives have always lived in a state outside the mainland. For Japan, the mainland, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, there is a lot more A deeper complexity that I recognize and imagine.
In fact, at the beginning, I was alone for a long time, the Lin family mansion, the woman who was sweating profusely under the dim light, Jingzi went to the hospital to say goodbye to Kuan Mei, a group of chatting friends talked about the hard times, Kuan Mei played a song for Wen Qing to listen to, chatting about the mercenary The story of the fisherman who collided with the boat. Until they were talking around the hot pot, listening to "On the Songhua River" on the small road, and stood up and sang one of the "Trilogy in Exile" together out the window. No, not necessarily. At first glance, the characters were not clearly distinguished. They were all wearing suits with eyes and looking weak. Later, when I read the film review, I realized that the people sitting at this table were Zhan Hongzhi, Wu Nianzhen, Xie Caijun (Tang Nuo) and Zhang Dachun. . Film and literature were so closely intertwined at the time that it was fitting that the literati of that time played the intellectuals of earlier times.
Then there was the separation of a family. The second child was a soldier in Nanyang, and there was no news. The third child laundered money, but was beaten. Then he was accused of becoming dementia. , but Wenqing is the observer and recorder of other people's and his own destiny. The conversation between him and Kuan Mei on the paper was silent, linking the cause and effect of the incident. The blue subtitles were like a silent film in the early years, and every sentence was the belief that those young people insisted on. Whether it was the words of the unknown girl, "Sakura of the same luck/Let's fly away/I will come later/Everyone is the same", or the last words he brought to his relatives for his roommate in prison: "Leave the motherland/Death to the motherland/Destiny to live and die. /No thoughts, no thoughts”. Kuanrong married a village woman in the mountains, and only told his family not to tell his family, "When I am dead, I belong to the beautiful future of the motherland." These are not grand and bloody slogans. After they are shouted, it is inevitable that they will leave empty falsehoods. However, these short words left to loved ones have already been integrated into the blood, and they have the power of a rock. But Kuanmei and the others knew nothing, so despite tears and reluctance, they didn't say anything.
The influence of Japan can also be seen everywhere in the film. Under the early colonization, the Japanese brought the initial development of medicine, commerce, and Western learning. People in this province must be fluent in Japanese if they want to develop in key positions. Maybe there is an overlap of wishes in some places, maybe this is the reason why Shizuko's brother and Kanmei's brother are close. After bringing about these developments, the influence of Japanese culture on Taiwanese culture cannot be easily erased. But this does not mean that Taiwan has been completely tamed by Japan. The older generation insists that these clan relations continue to be passed down to the gods and the clans whose Hokkien language comes from the other side of the strait.
During this period, most of the people who went to Taiwan were unsatisfactory due to the political situation in the mainland. They hoped to have a new world, such as the Shanghai gangsters involved in the film. The conflict reflects the disability caused by the old San Wenliang. In terms of politics, after Chen Yi took over Taiwan, the soaring prices caused by the control of rice, sugar, tobacco and other materials, as well as the control of public opinion, and the corruption in the appointment of officials have all caused a great burden on Taiwan. After the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, the insecurities and ambitions of the Kuomintang were manifested through submissive authoritarianism and violence. How did these young people who finally broke away from colonization and returned to the motherland feel? Don't you feel chills in the motherland that you want to return to with all your heart, and the motherland that you work hard for?
Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, people from other provinces and people from the province, family and country, times and individuals, too many questions and entanglements become a dead knot that cannot be solved. If I, as a native of the province, have gone through these kinds of changes, as Lin Wenxiong said, "Only Taiwan is a child who has no mother's pain, and I can't help but feel cold and sad." And even the fugitives from other provinces after World War II have long since changed their hometowns beyond recognition for another political struggle they experienced on the mainland they could not return to. The only thing that seemed to be grasped was the ground beneath his feet. I hope that it can make changes little by little according to what we hoped, and then there will be a step-by-step democratic struggle, from darkness to light, as long as there is a little gap, it will grow recklessly. So I understand more and more why Zhang Tiezhi said that in the history of democratic development in Taiwan, localization is an important driving factor (to the effect).
Compared with the always cold and cruel reality, Xin Shufen's narration is the only warm color. For the first time, I feel that the dubbing of Hokkien is so moving. She represents the attitude of ordinary people, the world is turbulent, the situation is turbulent, and the individual can't resist, just silence, just accept. "A-Qian has changed his teeth. The reeds on the other side of the mountain are blooming, and the whiteness is like snow. He has time to come and walk around often." The passing of time is life, and life has its own hope.
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