Nineteen Forty Two: A Forgotten History

Nels 2022-04-19 09:03:04

Before watching "1942", I had prepared all my emotions, but the surprise was that there were no tears in the whole film. Although the cold despair of natural and man-made disasters runs through the whole film, Director Feng did not set the tone of the film. So serious, on the contrary, in the process of escaping the famine, he arranged a lot of witty but sad scenes to suppress the tears, and the helplessness of the pain in the smile made the audience feel more deeply, so that in the past few days after watching the movie, it frequently appeared in the brain. In the scenes, the accumulation of this sad emotion is not like the wanton sensationalism in "Tangshan Earthquake", it comes and goes quickly, this kind of heart-wrenching pain when I think about it later, makes the audience have a sense of this forgotten history. A new understanding of the meaning of "1942" is not just a movie.

There are three characters in this play that impress me the most. The most lovable is Huazhi, the most humane is Bai Xiude, and the most tragic is Shuanzhu. In the film, the only female characters who play a lot of roles are Huazhi played by Xu Fan and the star played by Wang Ziwen, and Xu Fan basically bears all the "funny" scenes in the film, borrowing Xiaomi to be molested by the young master, fleeing the desert and wearing a red jacket in order to bring joy, her appearance It's basically the point of laughter, especially the phrase "give me a cookie and I'll sleep with you" made the audience laugh out loud, but after laughing, you will find that it is also the saddest. The film repeatedly shows the weakness of women in this great escape. For the survival of the rest of the family, they can sell their daughters and wives. The daughter-in-law played by Li Qian was starved to death after giving birth, but the mother-in-law's first reaction was "Hurry up and give your grandson a drink while you're still hot." At the beginning, Huazhi struggled not to be insulted by the young master's family, and later he was able to sell his body for two biscuits, which all reflected the era's patriarchal preference and disasters. Changes in human values.

In this great famine, the reporter Bai Xiude played by Adrien Brody is a pivotal figure. But it is a pity that there are not many plots about Bai Xiude in the movie. If I hadn't checked the character information before watching the film, this character would definitely be skipped by the audience and turned into a simple transitional character, but this character came to Oscar. The actor who came to play must be used to open up foreign markets like "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling".

The Shuanzhu played by Zhang Mo is a growing character. In the beginning, he was just a reckless and impulsive young man. He worked hard to be a servile role as a long-term worker. After combining with Huazhi, he was no longer the bodyguard of the young lady or the driver of the boss. He became a husband and a father overnight, and a man's sense of responsibility gradually emerged. He slapped his life-saving steamed buns and chose his daughter's windmill, which angered the Japanese and was stabbed to death by a bayonet. Before he died, he finally stopped. A bachelor, he is a man and a father at the same time.

The film is divided into two clues: the victims' escape from the famine and the Kuomintang government. However, the distribution of the two sides is not very good, and some of the plot switches are somewhat inexplicable, which makes people emotional, and there are many clues in the supporting roles. And Pastor Zhang Hanyu both made people play a bit. However, the movie is better than these small flaws. On the way to escape from the desert, the good and evil of human nature are displayed and the government ignores and covers up. The victims are looking forward to winning the battle, but the government is busy throwing the burden. All these make people feel the slightest chill, which may be hindered by censorship. , There is no tragedy of cannibalism in the film, but the army and the disaster victims compete for food in horse-drawn carriages. The government puts the death toll from 3 million to 1600. This is more disgusting and cruel than cannibalism! This time, Director Feng's "1942" is not just a movie, he recounts the history through the mouth of the movie, and also enjoys the present!

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