The plot tells the story of what happened in the mountains of Sichuan in southwestern China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, with the life of educated youth as the background. Back then, Brother Xun, Changhua, and the president were all still young. The dialogue in the whole film was in Sichuan dialect. It sounds like it has nothing to do with French films that have always been literary and artistic, but this is indeed a pure French film. The investor and the main shooter are all from France. The director Dai Sijie graduated from the History Department of Sichuan University and later went to France for further study. In 2000, his French novel "Balzac and the Little Tailor" was published. this movie. So, this is both a literary film and a literary film.
Perhaps it is because the subjects filmed by foreigners involve such sensitive topics as the Cultural Revolution. Even though it represented France in the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received unanimous praise overseas, the film was not released in mainland China. Compared with most films about the Cultural Revolution, the film does not have the kind of scary sentiment in it at all, and the representative film that expresses this sentiment is "Farewell My Concubine". On the contrary, it is full of youthful passion and vitality, warm and And romantic, this is indeed very similar to Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days". To embezzle someone else's words: "But it is deeper than the latter, not only has the restlessness of adolescence, but also the pursuit of knowledge, love and beauty."
The beginning of the film is the socialist songs full of characteristics of the times, The French subtitles introduced by the prologue and the beautiful scenery of Zhangjiajie make people feel very special. When I heard the first sentence of the president's narration, I started to get excited. I actually spoke the Sichuan dialect that I like! As for the dialogue, I just want to say, except that Chen Kun, who is a native of Chongqing, speaks the authentic Sichuan dialect. In addition, Liu Ye and Zhou Xun's accents that imitate Sichuan dialect are often trance-like, but they sound quite nice and distinctive.
Two teenage friends and educated youths: Luo Ming and Ma Jianling, because their family backgrounds belong to reactionaries, they were sent to Phoenix Mountain in the remote mountainous area for re-education. "If you settle down in the mountains, you may live in this small house for the rest of your life. When I think about it, my spine is chilled." When he said this, Ma Jianling was thinking about the vast mountains outside the old wooden window. of.
He didn't know that he and Luo Ming would meet the little tailor. Such a little tailor.
The same is the youth, the difference is the youth experience. An ignorant and backward mountain girl, and two urban intellectuals with an outside perspective. New and old, male and female, knowledge and ignorance, when all these collide, what kind of sparks will be produced?
Ma Jianling and Luo Ming went to Yitiantian to peek at the girls in the mountains taking a bath. They fell into the lava pit and were discovered by the girls. The little tailor really felt very simple and cute. In a humiliating manner, he naughtyly told him that it was thanks to them that he met these unpleasant girls. This is not like the book about the old society that a widow's arm was accidentally touched by a man, and she sawed off her own arm. What a relaxing atmosphere!
Peeking at a girl taking a bath can handle such a trivial matter with such purity. Before, I always thought that it would be a shameful thing to peek at a girl taking a bath no matter what the circumstances. Although I am not a gentleman, I would not do such a thing. This reminds me of when I was in high school, because of the terrain, the male and female dormitories were next to each other, and the male dormitory was slightly set back five or six meters from the female dormitory. From a distance, their fronts looked like two steps upright. We slept on the far right of the 7th floor. Although they were next to each other, they were not connected together. There was a gap about two people's width in the middle. So in summer, when the wind blows from the long river, looking to the right from the window of the men's bedroom, the scenery on the back of the women's bedroom is unobstructed. That's enough! The wind at that time was really green and sultry. In summer, regardless of whether boys or girls have to take a bath every night, one night, a buddy was so idle that he was bored lying on the window and counting the stars. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but when I looked towards the girl’s bedroom, I saw the girl’s bedroom 6 The vague figure of the girl in the building was looming in the diffuse mist. It turned out that the window on the top of the bathroom on their balcony had never been closed. The guy came back and grabbed his eyes and slammed it there. I guess, you can imagine how exciting this is for the hazy boys in their second year of high school. Since then, every night after self-study and get out of class, my sleepers take turns watching. I am the only one who doesn't care. I don't know if they saw anything. I didn't go to see it. There were two main reasons. First, the floor was too high. The Yangtze River was under the corner of our bed. I was afraid that I would accidentally fall down and feed the Chinese sturgeon inside. If I had seen this movie earlier, maybe...
The little tailor is illiterate, but she is lively and cheerful, with big clear eyes, as simple as a piece of uncut jade. She loves to see the planes flying in the sky, and she has made models of planes by herself. She yearns for the world outside the mountains. Through the movie, you will find that the educated youth of that era seem to have an tolerant and high-spirited attitude towards life. Luo Ming and Ma Jianling not only did not look down on the ignorance and rusticity of the little tailor, but were infected by her simplicity, and their stagnant life gradually became brighter. They taught the little tailor to read, and told her the books they stole from Four Eyes. The Little Tailor had a selective crush on Balzac in those books. "Civilized people are, savages only have emotions, but civilized people have thoughts in addition to emotions" "A woman's beauty is invaluable" They opened a new door and window for the little tailor, which made the world in the little tailor's fantasy suddenly open, gradually becoming smaller The tailor's mind has changed, her soul is awakening. However, whether this change is within a controllable range, whether one day it will burst out of the pressure like magma that has accumulated huge energy, tearing everything apart, they have not thought about this issue; the little tailor himself does not know. The only person who understood was the little tailor's grandfather, the old tailor. When he saw the change of the little tailor, he said, "I'm really scared for her, and my hands are shaking." That must be his heartfelt words. , he wanted his granddaughter to take detours and live a peaceful life. He was a respected tailor in that place. He also knew Violin, and he was sure that he was also the most far-reaching and knowledgeable person in that place. But he felt a chill down his spine at his granddaughter's remarks about ideas, and he was scared. Maybe he has been suppressed, he may have been "rebellious", he knows the possible results of this change, and now with an all-white beard, he thinks it's better not to wake up. He said: "Sometimes, a book can change a person's life." From a certain point of view, time is still, and your new look is actually the old face of your predecessors. Having said that, he still listened to "The Count of Monte Cristo" with relish, and he also sighed: "Champs-Elysees is such a beautiful name!" He wanted his granddaughter to jump out, but in the end he put himself Ride in. "Under the influence of Alexandre Dumas' works, he added some small new tricks to his clothes, some small French decorations, with a sailor's style, this year, Phoenix Mountain blew a wave of Mediterranean Warm wind. Sailor collars with wide front and narrow back and sailor trousers with wide trousers are popular. If Alexandre Dumas sees these dresses of girls in the mountains, he will be surprised." From monkey to thinking person, it is actually very easy, give time It's okay to evolve, but it's difficult to change from a human to a monkey.
The heavy labor and empty spiritual life, such external pressures, strengthened the two young people's desire for knowledge and civilization. They go to steal the book of Four Eyes, which is just a yearning for knowledge and ideals. I always like Ma Jianling's feeling after reading Balzac's novel: "I feel that the whole world has changed, the sky, stars, sounds, light, and even the taste of the pigsty has changed." The spirit of the protagonist in the book supports these young people to face the cruel reality, supports them to endure the complicated and boring labor and despair day after day, at least their spirit is full. Here, books are the embodiment of spirit and thought, as if for a book, no matter how much sacrifice is worth it. And now we have books that are not uncommon, not only books, but also computers, but are we full? Just stay in the bedroom and complain about the boredom of the whole world. It's like the whole society is forbidding high school students to fall in love, but they all want to steal the forbidden fruit. When they graduate from college, they are liberated, and they can do whatever they want, but they have to become older singles. This is called revenge on society at all costs.
The whole film is a little sentimental, warm, humorous, and sentimental, and the video style has a strong sense of literature and art. The director skillfully uses simplicity and ignorance to avoid the bitterness and the political nature of scars in the original description of educated youth. The director tried to keep his nostalgia for his youth on the film, and there is no doubt that the film has a strong subjective perspective and retrospective nostalgia. In order to prevent people from leaving the image of the ignorant thoughts of peasants in the liberation mountains of Western culture, the director also added Lu Xun's novels to the books they read. In addition, in order to add a sense of modernity and substitution to the novel and film, the director added the plot of the Three Gorges immigrants, and everything about there is only left in the dusty memory.
In the movie, Luo Ming and Ma Jianling both love little tailors, but in different ways. But the young love between them is not the main line of the film. I think what the director wants to emphasize should be the self-awakening of the soul of a girl in the mountains.
"I seem to have become someone else, not me anymore."
Damn Balzac! The little tailor went away and never came back.
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