Dark Light is a very touching name. All along, there has always been a special emotion for Zhang Zuoyi's films, and perhaps the source of this special emotion is the tension expressed in Zhang's films, which is strong but attractive. I love the gray and gloomy in his films, although I have not seen many of his films, the one that impressed me the most was his "Butterfly", which was his "Butterfly", which was full of rich gray and strong tension, which took root in my heart.
Although the movie "Dark Light" is named Dark Light, most people can see that this movie is about a group of people who have lost themselves, and this movie reflects the reality of this society through some typical types of people who have lost themselves, that is, there are too many people in this society who have lost themselves and cannot find themselves. This film with strong tension cleverly uses realism to tell a touching story. The summer vacation of the protagonist Kang Yi has led out a series of characters, these characters are people who have lost themselves on the road, Whether it is Ah Ping, Kang Yi's father, and so on, are all people who have lost themselves. We are all people on the road and have always been on the road, but whether we can correctly recognize ourselves on the road and whether we have embarked on the right path is worth pondering. The film actually keeps saying one thing: each of us has lost ourselves, just to different degrees and in different directions.
Kang Yi, a young girl in her youth, is full of longing for love. I wanted to talk about a vigorous romantic love this summer vacation, so the character of Ah Ping appeared. Ah Ping, who does not speak Taiwanese from other places, is precisely because he cannot speak Taiwanese and speaks Mandarin, but he is blinded and ridiculed by others everywhere. Ah Ping came to Taiwan with a so-called underworld boss, Ah Ping became a member of the underworld, naturally, the love between Ah Ping and Kang Yi was mixed with black, mixed with violent elements. Intricate love is pale and powerless in this mixed black and white environment. The brief love between Kang Yi and Ah Ping in this mixed black and white society is the title of the film, Dark Light. Dotted with this environment full of black, full of violence.
Kang Yi, Ah Ping, Kang Yi's father, and so on, these characters are actually just the tip of the iceberg among all sentient beings, and they are only some insignificant small people, but it is this kind of small and big way to write the reality of this society, and use that strong tension to write the meaning of the dark light, so that the audience is moved. Most of these little people live a difficult life like ants. After watching it, the audience will always have an awkward unhappiness in their hearts, and the mood will become depressed, and the feeling that they are obviously very depressed and sad but cannot be released by calligraphy, in fact, this is the strong tension of "Dark Light" to the audience. Just like life, you can't do anything to him, but we are still living all the time, more and more trivial things in life and slowly accumulating melancholy things, but we still have to live in this society, living with the little hope that remains, just to survive. Kangyi is such an example, a summer vacation experienced a beautiful but short love, experienced the wind and snow in the world, but also experienced the life and death that must be experienced in the world, and even almost raped, and so on, which made Kangyi can only watch but can't do anything. But after all this, KangYi still smiled, smiled and continued to live, holding the only remaining hope to continue to survive, in Kangyi's world, there is still hope, there is still joy. A colorful fireworks event will always make people feel happy and let go of their unhappiness.
Life always comes vigorously, and from the moment you fall to the ground, you become a member of society, but life always leaves quietly. At the moment when life is gone, what else can you do, quietly wait for death to come. Ah Ping's life went, forever gone, but stopped an eternal shadow in the heart of a flower girl. A peaceful and happy family in a blind massage parlor will finally catch a glimpse of the dark light.
In fact, life, old age, illness and death are a process of life in themselves, and "Dark Light" is a journey. Dead loved ones just travel a long way and don't come back, and when you want them to come back, they come back. For people at the bottom, when there are no other wishes and pursuits, the greatest hope is to hope that those around them will be safe in the world. This is also the beautiful hope of Kangyi when watching fireworks at the window. The layer of people represented by Kang Yi is exactly such a middle person, who is always full of expectations for life, but most of the time they have no choice. The people at the bottom are concerned not only about the livelihood itself but also about the livelihood itself, always expecting that there will be a night rain to help the infinite sorrow in the protagonist's heart. But only in cloudy weather, heavy rain during the day and low sky at night extinguished such hopes, which gradually faded into a complex.
In this film, it seems that everywhere is full of a color - melancholy black, dilapidated neighborhoods, living buildings that are not common in this society, dirty and messy corridors full of "garbage", and dilapidated rooms that make the audience dare not believe it. A small movie with a strong tension and a lot of life. When Kang Yi put on the wig again, his brother with some intellectual problems once again picked up the phone toy and talked to Ah Ping on the phone, "Brother Ah Ping, you are in Canada", when Ah Ping escaped from the middle of the crowd of beatings, walking alone in the sunset, walking slowly for a long time, I saw that there was a knife on his back, which had penetrated deep into his body...
A good movie, like a good textbook, always teaches us how to live, how to love, although we live in this society there are too many unsatisfactory, although we have all kinds of helplessness, but we still have to live, to smile, still have a vision for the future. Dark Light is one such film that tells us that there are some things we always have to go through, but after we have experienced them, we still have to live well with a smile on our faces.
At the end of the film, when Ah Ping and Kang Yi's father returned, the joyful atmosphere of the whole family really touched me, and I was happy to leave tears, watching them eat together in a lively and lively way, my heart was like overturning a five-flavor bottle, very unpleasant. I wondered how nice it would be if they hadn't died. But the reality was harsh, and in the end only a light was seen in that skim.
This article was published by "Ru Bao'er", February 19, 2017