Entering the rapidly developing 21st century, people have gradually begun to pursue and miss the local life, whether it is watching stars on variety shows to farm land, or watching parents in TV dramas, it is an experience. How traditional villages and hereditary villagers cope with the new era of rapid change and rapid transformation, and how people who are tired of fast-paced life and tired of the hustle and bustle of the city pursue the taste of nature and simple and beautiful character from the modern countryside are important topics for contemporary filmmakers.
The film of the new period also established a fresh and natural realist style for rural films.
The film "Lovers in Heaven" is based on the novella "Life Without Language" by Guangxi writer Dongxi, which won the first "Lu Xun Literature Award", and won the "Best Artistic Contribution Award" at the 15th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2002, and was praised by Japanese audiences as "the most beautiful love story". The reason why this film can win the favor of the audience in an impetuous era is also because the mirror image in the film is full of fresh green, and it is also full of warm and sincere human feelings.
The film is like a window to give people a window from the hustle and bustle of the city to look at the natural color of the countryside, which makes people fascinated, and the elements of the film reveal the style of "the unity of heaven and man", which is also the "perfection" of the Chinese national tradition. The movie picture is beautiful, the people are beautiful, the actors are in the style, the plot and story are also very beautiful... It seems to be an ethereal fairy tale deep in the mountains.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > adapted from East-West's Life Without Language</h1>
In fact, the adaptation of novels into film and television is a relatively common phenomenon, and literary adaptations account for 85% of the Hollywood films that have won Oscars, including classic films such as "Gone with the Wind" and "Pride and Prejudice". Not only abroad, but also in domestic novel adaptations are also very common, and the data shows that adapted film and television works account for about 33% of the annual works.
The novel "Life Without Words" depicts a broken and mutilated life.
A story between the blind, deaf and mute living a vulnerable group, from novel to film, adapted just right, the film "Lovers in Heaven" tells the story of the love triangle that occurred in a small village on the cliff according to the novel, and the three characters were played by young actors Dong Jie, Liu Ye and Tao Hong.
The background focuses on a mountain village in Guangxi, the male protagonist Wang Jiakuan (played by Liu Ye) was deafened by the explosion of cannons and ears when he was nine years old, his father was blinded by the shotgun misfire, and the mute woman Cai Yuzhen (played by Dong Jie) in the film came to the village to find her brother to temporarily live in the home of the male protagonist Wang Jiakuan, and three people with disabilities with different parts of the body formed a special family.
In the movie, Wang Jiakuan falls in love with the most beautiful girl in the village, Zhu Ling (played by Tao Hong), and launches a crazy pursuit of her, but Zhu Ling falls in love with Zhang Station Manager in the village and is pregnant with his child, but Zhang Station Master is attracted by the modern life under the mountain and abandons Zhu Ling, on the other hand, Cai Yuzhen, who has a crush on Wang Jiakuan, has been silently supporting him, and has changed his room into a new house, and left a message to Zhu Ling: "Jia Kuan recognizes your child." ”
It is such a kind girl, but also touched Zhu Ling, Zhu Ling believes that Wang Jiakuan and Cai Yuzhen are a natural pair, and finally she resolutely and resolutely carried the red balloon and disappeared into the mountains, the film ended with Cai Yuzhen's narration as the end, she firmly believed that the red balloon brought Zhu Ling to a place where she could be happy...
The film went on here, but also let the audience open their eyes, originally thought it was a rural love small fresh, did not expect the end to become a "surreal magic wind", the final ending of the movie is staggering, so that the pregnant Zhu Ling was taken away by a huge red balloon, life hanging in the air. Almost in a too light way, the execution of a beautiful woman and the unethically sanctioned child in her belly was very cruel.
But all the problems have not been solved. Jiakuan is still in love with Zhu Ling. Yuzhen originally wanted to use her own departure to become a family of Kuan and Zhu Ling, and now her "perfection" of generosity has lost its meaning, and her love is still not settled... Station Master Zhang had already left the small mountain village, and there was no news. As soon as the balloon floated, the lives of the characters in the movie floated up.
If the original novel is to face the mutilation of human nature and criticize the ugliness of human nature, then the movie "Lovers in Heaven" is to show the best and beauty of human nature with lens language. Wang Jiakuan, Zhu Ling, Cai Yuzhen, Zhang Station Manager these four people between the love and hate, strict should be said to be "love triangle", in the performance of entanglement at the same time, if the use of great joy and great compassion to highlight the character temperament, it will appear too noisy, rude, so the director uses natural and harmonious techniques, in the daily life of the bit by bit to reflect the character's character, the scene of the three people sitting on the field to eat, can make people feel a little happiness.
The reason why "Lovers in Heaven" is called the most beautiful love story in Japan is also the Japanese people's affirmation of the warm and pure elements of love contained in this movie. Whether it is Zhu Ling to Zhang Station Master, Wang Jiakuan to Zhu Ling, Cai Yuzhen to Wang Jiakuan, these loves are all persistent.
The external style and expression of any work of art will be invisibly dominated by the artist's inner creative consciousness and outlook on life, the director of this film, Jiang Qinmin, has been living in Japan in his early years and has been influenced by Japanese culture and art, so the film will also integrate the aesthetic style of Japanese literature and film and television, and the ethereal and unspeakable are expressed in the image style.
In order to show the kindness and inner beauty of people, the film does not want to show "ugly things", and strives to let the audience have the existence of warm beauty in their hearts, so some characters and plots in the novel have been changed, and the biggest change is Zhang Station Manager.
It should be known that the setting of Zhang Station Manager in the novel is Zhang Fubao, a primary school teacher, and he is married, and in the film he changed to Zhang Station Manager of the Veterinary Station, which is an unmarried setting, from the change of career to marital status, which is an interpretation of the bottom line of the characters, and the film also avoids the performance of character conflicts and life dilemmas, showing a beautiful life in the idyllic scenery.
In this way, Zhu Ling's being taken away by the red balloon is very poetic, and it is also in line with the director's style and film atmosphere, because the ending of the novel Zhu Ling is to throw himself into the well to death, and the film makes the cruel death into a fairy-like wind is the final tenderness. In general, the cruel life shown in the novel, as well as the hardships of life, have been interpreted in the movie, although sad, but still make people long for true feelings.
As Plato said, "Love is the desire to have good forever." ”
The spirit of sincerity and fraternity is embodied in the film, which transcends the selfishness, paranoia and hatred of love.
In short, although the protagonists in the film are mostly disabled, they let the audience see their optimistic attitude to life and the purest and most beautiful love story, and the film uses montage techniques in handling the plot of the ancient temple, diluting the dramatic conflict and sensory stimulation, showing the beauty of human nature, and also allowing the audience to see a quiet and far-reaching idyllic picture.
The most outstanding film should be the photography, the scenery is very beautiful, all become unreal, so detached from reality, out of society style, is exactly the author's characteristics of the east and west novel, the distant mountains, the same background as the ink painting, a few silly people, no regrets to pay, such a love although a little "weightless", but this is the difference between the film and life.
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