To speak is to speak blindly. The points are blind. Irresponsible. No respect.
"Shadow"
"The Lion Boy"
"Director" Sun Haipeng
"Screenwriter" Li Zelin
"Daoshan Liangzai" begins, "Mo deceives the young and poor" ends, countless Zhou Xingchi elements, nonsense heads, five people, nine real people, salted fish terriers, hero terriers, nonsense heads, small town teenagers, men afraid of wives, Li Bai, archery theme song... Each one pressed precisely on my emotional trigger switch, and I could only have bursts of orgasms, tears one after another.
On the evening country lane in the sunset, Ah Juan shouted out Li Bai's poems to her master and her companions, sentence by sentence, and then he asked in a hoarse voice: Are these fakes? If it is false, why can't I stop gushing hot blood in my chest when I read it out?!
From the beginning to the end of this scene, my eyes have been trapped in the fog.
Everyone is prey trapped in the web of their own memories. Fortunately for me, the generation of filmmakers with whom I share my memories is now becoming the main force, burning their passions and talents to tell the stories and memories of our generation – and tell them so well. I could only shed tears to show my support.
9 points
"Don't Look Up"
"Director" Adam McKay
"Starring" Leonardo DiCaprio
The feelings at that time were not recorded, and now they cannot be found in my mind. Only the conclusion: very good. Quite good.
Oh yes, the editing rhythm is handsome, and it feels like breaking through a lot of traditional/classic norms - although I don't understand traditional/classical norms.
8 points
"Thirteen Invitations to He Duoling"
Xu Zhiyuan He Duoling
This issue was unexpectedly good, and only its name was known before, but its person was unknown.
I liked it very much.
Loved his attitude towards life, loved his interesting observations, loved his paintings.
I have heard a literati say that a good painter will have a strong ability to describe language at the same time, or spoken or written or both, because his observation of things is extremely keen and unique.
In ancient times, it goes without saying that literati calligraphy and painting articles were also practiced. In front of me, Mu Xin and Chen Danqing, how good.
To explain, although I use a 10-point scale for both books and movies, I should not mix them: a book with a score of 7 and a movie with an 8 point, which is better? Unable to compare.
I can only say roughly that I have a higher standard of judging books than movies.
"Book"
Kingdom on Earth
"Cuba" Alejo Carpentier
Translation / ShengLi
Carpentier is hailed as the founder of Latin American magic realism, although many Latin American writers are reluctant to accept the term "magic realism"—masters say that every story and every sentence they write is reality.
However, the name "magic" is a clear proof of the lack of perception of the Latin American continent in the rest of the world.
The more I read Latin American literature, the more I was shocked by the suffering in this land.
Literature, on the other hand, has become a possibility for Latin America's suffering to be remembered and reflected in the "magic".
And the writers who wrote these memories—(again) forced to call them "Latin American literary bombers"—also hid their fate and the past and future of their bloodlines in this literal redemption.
7 points
"Vulgar Land"
Author/ "Malaysia" Lai Zi Book
This should be the first novel I read written by a Nanyang Chinese, and a question that I had never thought of before was answered: how chinese born and raised overseas would write about their country and how to view China as an identity background.
The author is a Chinese Malaysian, who based on her hometown of Ipoh (a declining mining city on the West Malaysia Peninsula) to create a "Xidu", with a time span of nearly half a century of two or three generations, unfolding a long scroll full of market atmosphere and slang, telling the ups and downs of several families in a low-cost apartment in Xidu and the life flow of Malaysian Chinese society.
It is a land of multi-ethnic and multicultural fusion, Malays, Chinese, Indians, as well as many laborers from Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh... They formed a pluralistic society, living together in the same land, the same city, and even the same building, but each retaining traditions, from hair ornaments to food to religious beliefs. In the novel, the heroine's father, a vulgar taxi driver, also understands, "There has always been a tradition in this land, the Malays keep cats, and the Chinese keep dogs." Just like they go back to church to pray, we go to the temple to worship the Buddha, and the barriers are clear. ”
Among the 2 boys who grew up in the young plum bamboo horse, one is Indian, talented, going to school in a Chinese primary school, the exam can be taken first, the sports meeting running is also the first, what will be learned, the graduation examination because of the excellent results, even got the Malaysian Prime Minister's reception, just such a two small unsuspecting and people in the dragon phoenix of the dead party, when the heroine hopes to invite her to her sister's wedding, she was refuted by her mother: "Our family banquet came to a black skin, how to introduce to people?" ”
Identity crisis (or ambiguity) is not only within the country, but also between the country and his home country, the author talks about the hardships of insisting on Chinese writing in Malaysia in the afterword: Chinese the mainstream stage of writing is on the mainland, and the Nanyang Chinese authors are facing the edge of not being valued or even ignored, whether it is the subject matter, readers, or the environment, the author Li Zishu finally went to a symposium in Taipei and received funding from a foundation to complete the novel.
But the author Li Zishu is also sober and confident to realize that "marginality" is also an advantage, "I have always believed that when I write a long novel, I will have more resources and greater flexibility than mainland and Taiwanese authors, and it is more likely to write 'borderless', so that the entire Chinese world can appreciate, and even after translation, it can impress non-Chinese readers." I know that this kind of 'belief' is very vain, but it is necessary, otherwise a frontier author like me, who has rare support from side to side, is like a wild grass flower growing on the edge of a cliff in the Chinese literary world; the wind is high and precarious, if you don't hold the belief that you can thrive into a tree, how can you insist? ”
Well said. Because of this passage, I also hope to read more overseas Chinese writings.
Also because of this book, I learned a number of MCA writers: Li Yongping, Zhang Guixing, Huang Jinshu, they can all be regarded as the predecessors of Li Zishu, but also from their different experiences and concerns, writing the MCA world, and the writing style is very different, especially Zhang Guixing, I turned over his latest work "Wild Boar Crossing the River", quite fierce, it is said that the uncut Taiwanese version, is even more turbulent and strange. The story is set in the painful history of the Nanyang Chinese being tortured and killed by the Japanese army during World War II. I'll talk about this later.
On Writing: Bukowski's Collected Letters
Editor: Abel Debritto
Translation: Riso
As I said the other day,
He said he had no interest in poetry—but was hailed as a legendary American poet;
Complaining all the time about his own embarrassment — even having to rely on a prostitute (which is his own word) to help;
Scolding the great literati for writing shit—from Hemingway, Faulkner, Henry Miller, all the way to Shakespeare;
Don't shy away from showing your erotic life – full of sex and alcohol;
But he has always been honest about his love of writing: "Nothing is more magical and beautiful than writing a line of sentences on paper." All the beauty is here. ”
Supplement,
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most influential avant-garde poets of contemporary America, essayist, novelist, and notoriously drunk womanizer. He is well known in the Chinese literary and youth circles/rock and roll circles/drunkard circles.
Bukowski is a man of pungent, sincere, brave, cowardly, shameless, frenzied, and incomparably honest. The first few points can be easily seen in his poems, compositions, or the book's letters, and after reading it, you will come to the only conclusion--what an incomparably honest man, how to think and do what you want, how to do it, like eighteen riots.
In addition to repeatedly belittling some great writers, he will also write stories of fraud to others, no money to buy alcohol but must drink, go to the commissary to try to pay off the credit, the specific process is almost acting + robbery.
He said he wrote his poems because they were short and effortless. He said that real poetry was dead poetry, but it just looked like that. During World War II, he was arrested on suspicion of evading military service, and was judged unsuitable for joining the military for failing to pass physical and psychological examinations.
But in his cynical life, he treated writing with great devotion,
Still in poverty at the age of 49, he wrote: "I have two choices – stay at the post office until I go crazy... Or get out of here and be a hungry writer. I chose to starve. ”
When a well-known magazine that wanted to publish his novel called and asked him to make a little revision (he had money as soon as it was published), he hung up immediately.
Until later in life, all the way to his old age, he emphasized: "I can't understand the writers who stop writing, it's like taking your heart off and throwing it into the sewers and washing it away." I would write until I swallowed my damn last breath, whether others thought I was writing well or badly. ”
He said he would never stop writing unless he had his hands chopped off. After thinking about it, he said, "Then I will write with my feet."
6 points
Reading.
The Biography of David Hume
Author/"Beauty" Ernest Mossner, translated by Zhou Baowei
"I Confess That I Have Gone Through Vicissitudes"
Author/"Chile" Pablo Neruda, trans. / Lin Guang