Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Wang Jiajia
"Dedicated to my son Zhou Ning, who died young. Dedicated to all parents in the world who have lost their children due to illness and unexpected disasters. ”
This is the original intention of the famous writer Zhou Daxin to create the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning work "Requiem".
On March 25, on the eve of the Qingming Dynasty, a rainy day, the movie "Requiem" based on the novel "Requiem" was officially released. The movie "Requiem" starred Wei Zi, Chen Jin, Qiang Yu and Luan Leiying.
I opened The Cat's Eye, and the data showed that the box office of "Requiem" on the first day of release was only 0.45 million. The release in Hangzhou was when two screenings of "Requiem" were arranged throughout the city. The same was true for the next two days of the weekend.
It doesn't seem like too many people are paying attention to and expecting this movie. However, it is a work that should not be missed.
In 2009, Zhou Daxin began to create "Requiem".
"August 3rd, the darkest day in our family.
From this day on, you are completely separated from us. Mom and Dad can no longer see you playing on the basketball court in your vest, you can no longer see you surfing the Internet in front of a computer in a sweater, you can no longer see you frolicking in the snow in a down jacket, you can no longer see you reading bare-chested on the head of the bed..."
"August 3rd, this is the day when my heart and lungs ache with your mother.
From this day on, we will never hear your voice again. Never hear you shouting at the kitchen door again: Dad, let's eat! I can't hear you complaining to me in the study anymore: Dad is stupid and can only type on the computer. I can no longer hear the jokes you often make with us: Dad, Mommy will support me with some money again..."
He wrote very slowly, sometimes writing only a few hundred words a day. "It was so uncomfortable that sometimes I had to interrupt and take a walk."
When walking, he always passes by a bush of moons. The pink-white flowers swayed slightly, and the fragrance of the flowers was not mellow, but it brought him a brief comfort. For a few seconds, it seemed, he briefly withdrew from the pain of losing his independence. The next second, however, the pain re-engulfed, and the pain lasted for an indefinite period of time, with no end in sight.
Three years later, Requiem was published.
"Requiem" is a book of spiritual self-help for the lost, full of sorrow but also soothing.
"Dad, calm down and accept the facts. I have left the world, I will never be able to return to you and my mother, and the facts cannot be changed. ”
"Dad, don't be so desperate. Despair is usually created by the desperate person himself. I will not meet you in the present world, and even if I go to see you, you will not perceive it. But the space where we meet will not be this one. Hasn't science already discovered that the universe has 11 dimensions? In addition to the time dimension and the 3 spatial dimensions, there are seven dimensions. I remember a famous theoretical physicist who said that when we create a place that rotates much faster than the speed of light, we can go back in time, and the time tunnel can exist. If such a place is really going to be built in the future, we can't see each other again..."
In the novel, Zhou Daxin talks to his deceased son in a fantasy. Speaking in the dual tone of his own and his son, he expressed the thoughts, despair and hope of crying blood in the most plain words.
Zhou Daxin said that creating "Requiem" was a kind of self-redemption for him. "I also hope to comfort parents around the world who have lost their children." The world is because of disease, car accidents, wars... There are many parents who have lost their children, and these people actually need comfort. May this work give them hope and allow them to face life again. The book was translated into English, Spanish, Arabic... Many readers feel that this book brings them comfort. At a symposium, a German friend said it was an oriental copy of the Divine Comedy. ”
Today, when the sadness brought by MU5735 still hangs over everyone, perhaps we need to read such a book, watch such a movie, quietly settle down, hold the sadness, and then continue to move forward.
Zhou Daxin
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