After watching this movie, my mood is really complicated. After thinking about it, the core of this movie is to create a hero image that is completely different from Western civilization.
About heroes.
The heroism at the origin of ancient Greece and Rome is either the courage to challenge the powerful, or the tragedy of the powerful being succumbed to the weakness of human nature. In the face of the One Child Policy stripping away the freedom of personal choice, the damage to the body (Liyun suffered massive bleeding during surgery, and Xingxing could no longer be pregnant after his death), and the irreversible pain brought to the parents who lost their only child, Yaojun and Liyun did After a very short-lived resistance like a Western hero, he took the initiative to choose self-exile, which saved the collective of the Shen family, Meiyu and others. one.
The self-imposed exile and return of Liyun and Yaojun is hard not to think of Odysseus in Homer's epic, but the two are very different: Odysseus went through challenges and killed his wife's proposal The person, reunited with his wife and son, is based on the victory of a personal hero; while facing the policy, Liyun and Yaojun made no statement during the whole process of exile and return. It seems that the only two people have criticism and challenge to the policy. , Jasmine and Haiyan, the fate is sad. Jasmine went to the West and broke away from the collective, while Haiyan was severely punished, her mind was disturbed, and she was terminally ill. The sentence she said to Liyun before her death, "Now that you have money, don't be afraid, you can give birth" seems to be the reason for her. His life-long vision of policy challenges, that is, to force policies with capital, was eventually strangled and strangled on the sickbed. In the whole movie, except for Haiyan and Jasmine, all the characters seem to be collectively at home. When you look at each person concretely, it is very vague. You can't exactly know each person's dreams and desires, and ultimately what everyone thinks. Yes, it seems to be the last sentence Meiyu said: Everyone is getting old, so we need to move around more. The hero of collectivism presents a kind of harmony, a kind of forbearance, a kind of non-challenge, a kind of quiet time, and after a long time, it is a new look, a development, and a reunion.
In addition, another feature of depersonalization in the film is the depiction of sex. Sex is always personal. At the beginning, Xinjian was disciplined for participating in the Black Lantern Ball. The derailment line between Jasmine and Yaojun seemed to be the pursuit and satisfaction of personal desires, but the result after that was surprising: Jasmine just wanted to have a child of Yaojun, To make atonement, let Yaojun and Liyun form a "family" again, and return to the collective again. Such affair is completely a moral behavior, which is completely different from the western concept of affair.
Towards the end, Shen Hao's child was born, Jasmine also had a child, Yaojun and Liyun's adopted son returned and brought back his girlfriend, it seemed that he was going to live for a long time, which also heralded the birth of offspring. At this point, Liyun and Yaojun's self-imposed exile finally came to an end, they returned to the family collective, and their personal sufferings were condensed into a work of art for collective viewing.
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