Usually when we talk about suffering, most of them are only "suffering", and a few include "difficulties". What is suffering? This is actually a relative concept, and "suffering" cannot be said independently. It must have a reference, which is a result of mutual comparison. For example, when others wear cotton shoes in winter and you wear slippers, you are more miserable than others; when others go to school and have a car to pick you up and you can only walk home, you are more miserable than others; when others live in an apartment with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, you live in a basement with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan. harder than others.
What is "difficult" (pronounce the fourth tone)? It has an irresistible and helpless meaning in it, which may be natural disasters or man-made disasters. But no matter what the reason is, it is always accompanied by a certain contingency and suddenness. You can't predict it in advance. Once it happens, most people are helpless, and they must gradually recover the pain through long-term slow efforts.
Whether it is relative "hardship" or sudden "difficulty", they are things that people often talk about. Although "difficulty" is more profound than "suffering", it is always It's just a superficial event. "Complaining" is something we do every day, and its root cause lies in our dissatisfaction with the status quo in our hearts. "Bitterness" can be big or small, it is the reason for most complaints in life, and it is a pure form of venting. Without any thought.
The "difficulty" is a relatively major event, and its unusualness is destined to bring greater pain, such as fire, earthquake, famine, and tsunami. "Difficulty" is a great suffering, which will prompt some people to reflect. Only by thinking back to the source of such an event can "difficulty" rise to "suffering".
That is to say, "difficulty" is a social event, and "suffering" is a peaceful narrative based on reflection on this event. Only in the "difficult" event to see the undisappeared humanity, to see the undisappeared smile, and to hear the undisappeared singing, can this devastating disaster have new power. Therefore, the real suffering is hidden deep in the heart. If it must be said, the narrator must reproduce the scene of suffering in a peaceful state, and he can see the benevolence and light of the scene, not just with Ku Daqiu Shen mood to restore an accident scene.
"1942" is to restore such an accident scene, which is understandable, but because the film adopts a third-person perspective, which weakens the power of the whole story. From a domestic point of view, Comrade Xiaogang is regarded as the first director who has a good ability to control disaster themes. .
The choice of actors was also unsatisfactory. Huayi Brothers wants to put their own artists in their works as much as possible, but it also depends on whether the roles are suitable. Zhang Hanyu's image of a preacher has always made people unable to play. On the other hand, many characters come and go without a trace, making them become monks.
The whole story starts with Zhang Guoli, a rich man who escaped from the famine. He originally thought that he would be able to escape for a few days. Unexpectedly, he was bombed by the Japanese army and robbed by the national army along the way. In the end, his wife and son were separated from the family. The escape process is a process of broken belief. When he went to Shaanxi from Luoyang, he also mentioned to Shuan Zhu his ambition to make a comeback: After ten years in Shaanxi, I can still be an owner, and I know how to change from a farmer to an owner. However, ever since he separated from Shuan Zhu on the train, his grandson was held in his arms, and the train was refused entry into Shaanxi, he was despairing and went the opposite way. "What he wants is death." , death is far away from you, Zhang Guoli picked up a little girl on the side of the road and successfully raised him.
Compared with "Tangshan Earthquake", the commercial strength of "1942" is at least three layers lower. Although the two still rely on the strength of the strings in their provocative way, the former at least made me cry many times in the theater, while the latter only had a sore nose once. The successful release of the latter, the greatest significance lies in the successful breakthrough of the censorship system: "Tangshan Earthquake" is a natural disaster, "1942" is a man-made disaster, this is a dangerous move.
There is such a joke on the Internet: Chinese people like to shout: Twenty years later, he will be a hero again. Those who starved to death in 1942 starved to death again in 1962 twenty years later. This is a joke. If you know that both times were man-made disasters and that tens of millions of compatriots died on both occasions, would you still laugh?
One day Zhizhang asked me: Why are people starving to death, why did Feng Xiaogang not film the famine in 1962? Why? I don't want to say that everyone knows that the man-made disaster in 1942 was caused by the Japanese invaders and Chiang Kai-shek, and there was only one perpetrator in 1962. When can we photograph him, the motherland will be truly democratic and powerful.
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