In the past two days, the biggest melon in the entertainment industry is the Zhang Zhehan incident, and the causes and consequences will not be repeated here.
I observed a very interesting phenomenon, the Zhang Zhehan incident triggered netizens to recall Jiang Wen's movie "The Devil is Coming".
In fact, Jiang Wen's directing works are not many, and there are only 6 full of them, but this does not prevent him from becoming a top director in China.
It is undeniable that Jiang Wen's films have a very unique personal style, romantic and wild, subversive and rebellious, ridiculing "orthodoxy", etc., can be found in his films, such as "The Devil Is Coming".
"The Devil is Coming" is Jiang Wen's second directorial work, released in May 2000, with a Douban score of 9.3.
Set during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the film tells the story of Ma Dasan (Jiang Wen), a farmer in the village of Hangjiatai in Hebei Province, who lives a peaceful life under Japanese rule.
One night, the guerrillas kidnapped the Japanese army soldier Hanaya Kosaburo (Teruyuki Kagawa) and the translator Dong Hanchen, bundled them up in sacks and put them in Ma Dasan's house, and instructed Ma to take good care of them, and a few days later Chinese New Year's Eve to bring people.
As a result, Ma Dasan (Jiang Wen) and the villagers trembled and ate and drank well for the two.
Hanaya Kosaburo and Dong Hanchen sent several distress signals, all of which were defused by the villagers. However, on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, no one came to ask For Hanaya Kosaburo and Dong Hanchen.
Half a year has passed, and the villagers are worried that the matter will be exposed and bring bad luck to the villagers, but they do not dare to put the flower house away, after all, the tiger will return to the mountain, and the consequences will be endless.
However, under the influence of Dong Hanchen and in order to make a living, Ma Dasan and the villagers eventually sent Huawu and Dong Hanchen to the Japanese military police station in exchange for food.
The Japanese gendarmerie officer, Inoyoshi Sazuka, a compatriot of Hanaya Kosaburo, appeared to be polite to Ma Dasan and the others, but turned around and accused Hanaya of humiliating the imperial army and beating him.
Sazuka brainwashed Hanaya like this:
Your name has been engraved at the Yasukuni Shrine, and I have told your father that now you are coming back alive, and you have humiliated our village and disgraced the imperial army.
It is worth noting that by this time, Inoyoshi Sazuka had received a telegram of Japan's defeat and surrender.
However, Inoyoshi Sazuka ordered the gendarmerie to send food to the whole team of the villagers of Hangkatai Village, and when the wine was drunk, Sazuka ordered all the villagers in the village of Hangkatai to be slaughtered.
Saizuka's cunning and viciousness are a microcosm of the Japanese invaders.
When the surviving Ma Dasan rushed into the prisoner camp to avenge the snow and hatred, the person who arrested him was the National Army, and it was also the National Army who convicted him.
And the one who cut off his head was Hanaya, who he once couldn't bear to kill with his bare thoughts.
In "Here Comes the Devil", we see mr. Lu Xun's withered countryside, the ignorance, kindness and bravery of the villagers; we also see the real Japanese soldiers, who are greedy and afraid of death, treacherous, selfish and cruel.
Ma Dasan and the villagers of Hangjiatai Village are ignorant and ignorant, and the film does not shy away from this.
At that time, one of the reasons why Jiang Wen's "Here Comes the Devil" was banned was that the film was set in the context of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but the film did not praise the tenacious resistance of the Chinese people to the invaders, but instead highlighted the ignorant, numb, and even servile side of the rural people.
However, do not forget that under Mr. Lu Xun's pen, we have seen the ignorant and insensitive people, and we have also seen Lu Xun denouncing the servility of the people and shouting to awaken the people, and Jiang Wen's film only restores this fact.
Ma Dasan and the villagers did not dare to kill the Japanese soldiers, which was caused by their fear of the servility of the Japanese soldiers, but also indirectly showed their goodness.
The ignorance of Ma Dasan and the villagers lies in the fact that they naively believe that the Japanese are keeping their promises, so they team up with Hanaya and the translator Dong Hanchen to make up a story about the "kidnapping" of Hanaya as their inadvertent rescue of the injured Hanaya.
In the concept of Chinese, people pay attention to the zhi'en tu, and Ma Hansan and the villagers naturally think that the Japanese are the same.
They optimistically thought that a human life should be worth a cart of grain, and a cart of grain can save many hungry villagers!
What they did not expect, however, was that the Japanese army did not know how to be grateful, and they would not keep their promises, and Saizuka Inoyoshi pretended to promise to deliver grain, but after the villagers took them to the village of Kyakadai, they brutally slaughtered all the villagers.
Ma Dasan escaped a disaster by sending the fish back to his mother's house, and when he returned to Hangjiatai Village, he saw the corpses of the villagers and the burned villages.
The innocent and tragic death of the villagers inspired Ma Dasan's blood, and we saw that he was alone, carrying a knife, and killed into the base camp of the Japanese army...
Ignorant and ignorant is Ma Dasan, and kindness and bravery are also his Ma Dasan!
But what's wrong with the juniors? They loved their homeland, lived in peace and security, plundered their grain, destroyed their homes, slaughtered their countrymen...
And the executioners who started the war are being placed in a place called the Yasukuni Ghost Society, which is worshipped for generations to come.
Sadly, in this land of suffering, there are still people who defend the ghost society.
I couldn't understand it, but I was blown away! I can only borrow Foreign Minister Wang Yi's GIF to express my mood at this moment: