Li Cangdong's new work "Burning", there is a detail that makes the audience wonder: Which writer do you like? The male protagonist Zhong Xiu blurted out: William Faulkner. The film is based on Haruki Murakami's "Burning Barn", why do you have a special love for Faulkner?
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Blood kinship is the basis of social relations: for the crime of concealing relatives, from The seclusion of relatives in China to the right of tolerance and concealment in Europe and the United States, both the East and the West have a certain "sympathetic understanding" in judicial practice to varying degrees.
In 1939, Faulkner's short story "Burning The Horse Shed" did the opposite, describing a boy struggling between family affection and morality, distinguishing right from wrong at key moments, and destroying relatives with great righteousness: as a symbol of civilization and order, the horse shed has a magic force, even if the tyrannical father tries his best, "the large and small horse sheds here will never burn a single hair." American scholars believe that this boy embodies precisely the glory of humanity that Faulkner mentioned in his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech: courage, honor, compassion and sacrifice.
"Burning Barn" draws on the burning imagery of "Burning Horse Shed", adding suspenseful colors, the theme is blurred, the missing girl and the Schrödinger-style barn, with a kind of ambiguity and obscurity unique to Japan.
Director Li Cangdong believes that Haruki Murakami uses the same title to describe a man who burns a barn, while Faulkner's story focuses on anger; "Burning", although based on Haruki Murakami's short story, is closely connected to Faulkner's world.
Li Cangdong, who admired Lu Xun, each work contained religious elements, and every time he had to stomp on religion.
Girlfriend Emi returns from North Africa with a companion named Ben. Bendolgin, idle, as mysterious as Gatsby, and a family of Christians; he liked to cook, and regarded eating the food he had made as a sacrificial process: "I made a sacrifice for myself, and then ate it." ”
Sometimes, Ben would run to burn other people's useless and blinding plastic sheds—
Zhong Xiu was curious: How do you judge whether it is useful or useless?
Ben explains kindly and easily: "I don't judge, I just accept." Just like when it rains, the river overflows and people are swept away by the flood, so what judgment does the rain make? Natural morality can coexist at the same time, and there is no right or wrong. "Such a guy who believes in nature's survival of the fittest and at the same time a devout Christian. The hypocrisy of religion is self-evident.
"Burning" is not so much a reference to "Burning Barn" as it is a tribute to "Burning Horse Shed": Murakami's disease-free moaning gives way to strong moral criticism. Li Cangdong's ashes and diamonds, the details are very textured.
Zhong Xiu and Ben are in stark contrast: one has no work, one plays is work; one entertainment basically relies on hands, one has sexual encounters continuously; one is a rotten pickup truck, one drives a sports car, lives in a mansion, and is full of friends...
It is hard to have a girlfriend who is right and agreeable: from the same region, in the same social bottom, however, the girlfriend owes a card debt, has long been swept out of the house by the family, and the world of the two is a weight that Zhong Xiu cannot bear.
The choreographer retained the necessary restraint in sympathy for the bottom —in fact, each class has its own problems—and used the village chief to express the dissatisfaction of the villagers: what a human touch, Zhong Xiu's father has no human touch at all.
At Ben's house, Zhong Xiu first finds his missing girlfriend's cat, and then the prize female watch that has concluded a relationship between the two:
Ben's lies and true faces are presented step by step.
At the explosive ending, Li Cangdong still carefully outlines every detail:
Ben is good at time management, before there was a girl who was late for a date, which made him very unhappy, seeing Zhong Xiu's pickup truck look over, he subconsciously looked at the watch;
It was still a big grin and a tone of indifference: "There are really a lot of plastic sheds here." What about Emi? Aren't you going to meet emi? ”
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The passing trucks and the cover of Zhong Xiu fully show Li Cangdong's master level: life is like lightning full of accidents.
The burning memories of childhood are intense:
And the burning at the end is only as a background, this is temperance, this is the so-called art, the weight is light, extraordinary—
Unforgettable, bayonet red, thrilling love, hate fire, anger, at that time only the Tao was commonplace: