Introduction: The man chasing the sun, Achilles racing against the tortoise and the rabbit.
The film "Xiao Wei" was originally named "Curtain Ling Yi Ming Wei Ming" respectively, the names of mothers, sons and fathers, forming an ordinary family in life. It is also a three-act clip of the film. In the three-act play, different means of expression are used to express the personality characteristics of each family member. Mu Ling - Uses realism to express the female figure in the family. Yiming - Using the interweaving of realism and surrealism to show Yiming struggling with ideals and reality. Wei Ming - Surrealism as the main means to represent the countdown to the life of patients with end-stage liver cancer. The first half of the film tells the life of individuals and families in an almost documentary way, and after Wei Ming realizes that his life will end, the film uses a surreal approach to express his thinking about life and death.
Mu Ling
Two women appear in the film, the first is Mu Ling, the film begins with Mu Ling dyeing Wei Ming's hair, followed by her conversation with the teacher at Yiming's school, and she, like most Chinese women, is a housewife who is working for her husband and children. In the film, Mu Ling has been busy, taking care of her sick husband, worrying about her son's studies, bearing the mental pressure of losing Wei Ming, and uniting with Yiming and medical staff to hide her illness. She is silent because of busyness, humble because of silence, Yiming has lost her temper many times, and she has a tough attitude of not going to cram school and not eating noodles. Women's innate maternal consciousness makes women have more awareness of home, and the use of realistic expression techniques makes Mu Ling's image originate from life, with the group portrait characteristics of thousands of women - attachment to home, which has both the care of the curtain for the home, and a side plot, that is, the demented old lady who always sneaks away from the neighbor's family. Because she knew that home should not be her final destination, she wanted to return to her dream home when she was older. Women as a family relationship bond, and the image of Mu Ling in the film is an important family relationship, ethical affection of the cultural theme of conveying, the use of popular realism can be used to present and express daily ethical dilemmas and interpersonal conflicts
A bang
Yiming is a senior in high school, not only a rebellion of adolescence, yearning for ideals and freedom. Director Huang Zi gave a part of his youth to Yiming, and the Yiming clip is semi-autobiographical. YiMing is a superimposed character image of the director, the director's classmate, and the friend. Yiming wants to go to the University of California, where there are poems and distant places. When he got his acceptance letter from the University of California, he gleefully went to his dad to share his joy. Dad chasing the sun listens on the balcony to a reader of English he doesn't understand. YiMing's excitement and his father did not understand the bitter contrast. As the truth of his father's illness is known to Yiming, Yiming knows that he may never see his father again when he goes abroad, and going to the University of California is completely abandoned. Dreams and reality are intertwined, and this choice is too unbearable for young people, so this part combines surreal expression techniques to show yiming who wants to choose to escape, but can't let go of the struggle of reality.
When he was with his friends, he was free and dashing, so he wanted to run farther, out of school, to a high platform away from all the hustle and bustle of the world. During the run, one of his friends' shoes was pulled down by the security guards, and his friend threw away one of his shoes. It can be said that there is always a constraint that has to stay in place, and there is always a realistic lack of freedom that makes a person unable to take care of his ideals. And the shoe that was thrown away can be said to be a yearning for freedom and dissatisfaction with reality. However, YiMing went down the mountain again and threw his shoes back. This is Yiming's compromise with reality, that shoe is like Yiming, writing the road traveled is his own choice, and this choice, or go to the United States, or stay with the sick father to spend the last time, growth becomes not in the final choice, but in the middle of this choice must go through the ideological rift. Adding the shadow of himself and his peers to Yiming is the director's relief and regret. In the clip of Yiming, the pain, pain and confusion of growing up are shown with plain content.
Wei Ming
At the age of Yiming, his father Wei Ming left his hometown for Guangzhou, and at the end of his life, he used a surreal way to express his "return" to his hometown, which is related to a calm death temperament and the return of dreams. In this scene of Wei Ming, a lot of surrealism is used, Wei Ming goes to the foam factory to find his brother, and the bubble factory is a depressed scene. The mother who steps on the sewing machine to make clothes in the abandoned house is a woman wrapped in a turban in the village in the sun, and a childhood picture of her brother going up the mountain to visit her father's grave, and so on. Surrealism is committed to exploring the subconscious psychology of human beings, believing that the control of the acceptance of the real world, many of people's instincts and desires are suppressed, can truly show the reality of the real and original purpose of human psychology is the absolute and transcendent other shore is the surreal world, people's deep psychology or dreams will break the barrier between reason and consciousness, the pursuit of primitive impulses and the free release of ideas, Wei Ming gets the diagnosis of the end of cancer, and his subconscious has left the last days of life to the subconscious mind that is suppressed by himself. In the face of life and death, there is no reason, no pressure, only the impulse to do what you want to do. He wanted to go home, to his hometown in his memory. After going around searching, the home he finally returned to was like a dream, like a world away, and he could not even find his father's grave on his own. This is empathetic to many people who have been floating in a foreign land for a long time. Our people talk about "falling leaves back to the roots" the most, it seems that returning to the homeland is complete, it is the hometown that has been beautified in memory, that is, when a wanderer indulges in a silent call, the heart will emerge as a place where you can escape, a sheltered harbor, a lost spiritual home, but when you really set foot on your homeland, you will find that it is not so, trance, the changed hometown is no longer so kind and eager, even strange.
The teacher was always talking about whether Achilles could catch up with the turtle. With regard to the Achilles paradox, we can never catch up with the established fate, even if our steps are already very fast, and fate is just dragging a heavy step and walking calmly. Father's sudden change is like Achilles even if he tries to get rid of all this, but the dead turtle is waiting in front of you, even if you try to complete the set goal, but to catch up with it, forever a little. Gaps and impending losses are often inevitable to cause regrets. Hug your loved ones more, go home and have a meal with your mother, he sleeps in a bed with his children, and invites his wife to lie down together, in the last moments of his life, he just wants to complete many things that he did not do well, and the people closest to him, a little closer, hug each other without any gaps.
epilogue:
There were only stacks of newspapers, balcony chairs, and the clothes my father wore had traces of my father's life.
My father liked to bask in the sun and was a man who chased the sun. Every person or every family may be Achilles racing against the tortoise and the rabbit, constituting a life of hard work, and this look of effort constitutes love and tolerance for the family, whether it is Mu Ling, Yi Ming, or Wei Ming.