On the evening of November 19, the latest issue of "Director Please Advise" was released. This episode aired the works of three directors, namely Wang Wenye, Wu Zhongtian and Guan Jinpeng. The works of the first two directors, let me briefly talk about my views. Director Guan Jinpeng's works, I would like to focus on talking about it, especially about Li Bihua.
First of all, Wang Wenye directed "My Alien Daughter". Professor Meng Zhong of the Film Academy has made it very clear that this is the level of the first year of the children of the drama major. On stage, several producers touted "My Alien Daughter" very high. The reason is also simple, it belongs to the work of correct emotional value, and if you criticize it, it is easy to fall into the incorrect emotional value. Several of the producers on the stage are all human spirits. The one who does the movie, there are no fools, one monkey spirit racing against the other. Because it was so shrewd, several producers did not ask questions.
Meng Zhong belongs to a relatively simple, direct criticism, this thing, that is, the level of freshman year. What level is freshman? It is to shoot a single, irresponsible emotion. "My Alien Daughter" makes this emotion between father and daughter clear. In sophomore and junior year, you can't ask for that. Not only to shoot clearly, but also to shoot really. Once so requested, this work, it is false. In the program, there is a film critic who is also relatively simple, directly criticizing this work as false, like a family. "My Alien Daughter" is a work that does not need much discussion, and is indeed a childlike work.
Let's talk about Wu Zhongtian's "Sale". Producer Fang Li said that for more than a year, he had seen similar stories. The story of this old man catching the real murderer by buying a house is not a year or two ago. My impression should be that around the new millennium, there were many micro-novel publications at that time, two dollars a book, two issues per month. I read this story in those years. Later, I learned some English and was able to read European and American novels, only to find that this story, in European and American literature, has been nearly a hundred years old, and it is also written by unknown writers of popular novels.
European and American genre novels, with the help of the power of print media and publishing, have made some money. Like the story "Sell", they can basically be mass-produced. Whether a story like "Selling" has ever been published in the popular tabloids of the Republic of China, I don't know. This needs to be examined by researchers of the Mandarin Duck Butterfly Sect. To sum up, from the beginning of "Sale", I knew its foundation. So, not good-looking, not creative.
Finally, let's talk about Li Bihua, Guan Jinpeng and "Rouge Buckle". First of all, I don't like the style of Li Bihua, Guan Jinpeng and "Rouge Buckle", but I can't talk about hate, when the music is just watched. I have read all the novels that Li Bihua can publish on the mainland. My personal feeling about Li Bihua's novels is that popular novels are suitable for girls, especially young girls who don't like to watch Qiong Yao. To put it bluntly, Li Bihua is a little more advanced than Qiong Yao.
Talking about Li Bihua, you can also say a few words along the way. Qiong Yao, Yi Shu and Li Bihua, in the end, are all romance novels. Yishu is a little more advanced than Qiong Yao, and Li Bihua is a little more advanced than Yishu. They all have a common feature, that is, the dew drops on the flower buds and the trembling of the tip of the heart. The way of romance novels is this state of trembling on the top of the heart, and if the trembling is good, it is easy to make some ordinary literary and artistic young women addicted. Of course, how to make their writing and stories achieve the fineness and fragrance of the flower buds is the level of these female writers themselves.
Li Bihua walks the gloomy wind on the road of romance, especially likes to create some cold and cold things, of course, her works, in the end, are still sexual emotions. Female writers often have a common disease, that is, in creation, they can only focus on emotional content, and they cannot open a new situation. Some female writers in Wuhan have some novels that can open up the situation outside the sexes. Therefore, we can't say that we can only write about the sexes, which is a common problem among female writers.
Such a gloomy and cold novel content as Li Bihua is easy to get the likes of some readers. Because of this gloomy and cold inside, there are thoughts about life and the two sexes, especially some more negative thinking. In the creation of novels, some seemingly negative thinking also has positive value. We think negatively in fiction, and in real life, it is easier to be positive, after all, the negativity has run out. Of course, some young readers of Li Bihua's novels can't get out, and they need to read more advanced works along the way.
What is more advanced? It is a novel that is to "open the situation". For example, this novel is no longer limited to the enmity between men and women, no longer limited to the story of one city and one place, no longer limited to a point in time, but marching towards a broader time and historical span. For example, novel works such as "White Deer Plain" and "Plump Fat Buttocks" have opened up the situation, which is a typical Central Plains temperament. The narrative style of mo yan, Chen Zhongzhong and other old writers is not to tremble at the top of their hearts, but to re-examine the problems of the survival dilemma faced by our ethnic group in the large span of history, and these measurements are beyond the individual.
I have a personal statement that may need to be discussed, this kind of novel that opens up the situation should be called the Central Plains narrative, and the hearts of writers such as Li Bihua and other writers tremble three times, which belongs to the island narrative. Like Mo Yan's Shandong Gaomi and Chen Zhongzhong's Shaanxi Bailuyuan, its narrative territory seems to be in Gaomi and Bailuyuan, but in the Central Plains, they have become a vast territory without territory. Therefore, in many of Mo Yan's works, Gaomi has big rivers and mountains. Even in the opening of the time span, the high density in the novel text, the white deer plain, open the span of a hundred years, there is no problem. Yanjin in Liu Zhenyun's novels can play a time span of thousands of years, such as the "Hometown" series of novels.
However, in Li Bihua's novel, within the island domain, how does Li Bihua open it? The territory cannot be opened, nor can it be opened in the span of time and history, and can only be drilled into a smaller part around the male and female love on the tip of the heart. If the drill is broken, it is a small family's temperament, that is, to give new words to say strongly. If the drill is not bad, it is Li Bihua who is like this. Before Hong Kong's return to the motherland, many novels were prone to this kind of young daughter narrative temperament. This temperament also produces more readable works. But it's not much of a classic.
The biggest achievement of Hong Kong films is also to play the narrative of children to the extreme. Most of the works of outstanding directors such as Guan Jinpeng and Xu Anhua focus on the emotional narrative of children. Small, sometimes able to dissolve the large. Sometimes, you can only look at it as a Western scenery. Under the state of the island, it is easy to produce artistic styles such as Li Bihua and Guan Jinpeng. "Rouge Buckle" is a work under this artistic style.
At present, why do many people read Li Bihua and see Guan Jinpeng, and still feel very prickly to the tip of their hearts? Because in the "closed space of the big city", our aesthetic is also easy to fall into the state of the island. In China, there will be more and more cities that will become as big as Hong Kong. And this kind of big, on the contrary, closes our psychological space, causing us to be more and more tightly wrapped. Cities become islands. In the big city, the more lonely we are, the more we feel that Li Bihua, Guan Jinpeng and "Rouge Buckle" have a taste.
Now that I read novels and plays written by many young people who grew up in big cities, I always feel that they have entered a state of loneliness and island in a big city, and have taken the path of Li Bihua and Guan Jinpeng. Of course, many children's level has not yet reached there, and they will take a walk of Qiong Yaofeng. For example, Yu Zheng, Guo Jingming and others. Personally, I think it is good to be able to write and shoot well the things on the top of my heart. However, as a truly excellent work, it is still necessary to open up the horizon of the territory and open the vision of history. (Text/Ma Qingyun)