How great do you think your love is, how much do you love that him? Even if you write him a hundred love letters, even if each one belongs to him alone? Although you find that in the letters you wrote at that time, each one was not mixed with the slightest tiredness and repetition.
But when you write for a long time, you will slowly find that this love is just entertaining yourself.
Children in Beijing, young men and women in the compound... These elements can shield the haze of the period of suffering, the whole world is a paradise for young men and women, the pain of the Cultural Revolution is invisible in their world, and what can make them toss and turn and collapse is only the pain of adolescence.
Milan's deadly charm reminds me of Yuan, a woman who is extremely provocative and charming, better than a pure but thin girl. I can more and more appreciate the irrationality of the people in the movie, because I have had similar impulses to them, and I have been entangled in similar contradictory experiences.
I originally did not like to be mixed with voiceovers in the movie, he filled the blank space of the movie without leaving room, but the voiceover of the adult Ma Xiaojun gave this juvenile experience a sense of dreaminess, thinking of the little A made up in junior high school, what is the difference between true and false juvenile history?
Presented in Sunny Days is a kind of film semi-theme established with self-contradictory rebellion. The rebellion against the patriarchal repression (twisting hands and touching the head) during the WG period and the rebellion of the adolescent itself together constitute the rebellion in the film. The lack of a father's image brought about by the special social background of the WG period, and the privileged class in which the protagonist lives, creates a vacuum of freedom, and the restless youth naturally vents their desires on love fights.
Jiang Wen's monologue in the restaurant reveals that the other half of the film's hidden themes are nothingness and dazedness. The subjective perspective of self-illusion is punctured, revealing the truth about that era and generation - the "father" in the grand narrative cannot replace the real father, and the value vacuum brought by a system that destroys the normal connection of people cannot be filled.
I think that Jiang Wen is not simply a film with the idea of remembering the Belle Époque. Is it really the modern skyscrapers and cars that have caused the collapse of the liturgy? Not really. From the very beginning, Jiang Wen knew that the Belle Epoque was neither beautiful nor free, but after realizing that everything was just self-imagination, he still chose to float in the pool and deceive himself.
Since she had rejected him, why did she give him a hug on a rainy night? It may stop at friendship, it may be his rudeness and taboo. On the flight to Beijing, it seems that it will land in the capital city within the second ring road, which can be called the old Beijing, with young people wandering in the alleys, unspoiled and demolished walls, and the corner of the look back can faintly see women like Milan.
Making such a bold film in the 90s is really in line with the director, portraying the changes in the minds of the youth of that era for the things that appeared in their growth. The whole movie is immersed in the sunshine of harmony, not so much a youth film, but rather That Jiang Wen gave us a collective memory of an era, although I was not born in that era, but after watching the movie, it seems that I have also experienced that era, because everyone has experienced the competitiveness, aggressiveness, good face, and crush of adolescence, and the memories cannot be truly presented.
Because emotions always beautify it, and it is not clear whether the memory is summer or spring. At the beginning of the film, a school bag is thrown into the sky, and then it does not fall, the next shot crosses time and space to the middle school, the shot of paying tribute to Kubrick is integrated into Jiang Wen's black humor, and the teacher played by Feng Xiaogang uses things to suppress his flying hat, and the image of the teacher who has a good face and does not want to offend the students seems to be the memory of the teacher in that era.
The tone of the whole film is dim and sunny, hazy like a dream, creating a clear memory for us, whether it is real or not. When watching this film, there is always a feeling of heat wave coming to the face. The skin that was exposed by the fierce sunlight, the inexplicable ambiguity in the hot air, the emotion wrapped in sticky sweat, like a beast tied up in the dark.
The hormonal restless adolescence is a continuous repression, an indirect outburst, a cowardly reality that wild delusions alternate, so that years later, it is difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality.
I have not experienced that era, I have not seen any deep meaning, no touch, no sadness, plain and plain, but it is good-looking! Whose youth is this, and whose life is this? It is envy, envy of the life of the children of the courtyard, envy of the harmonious relationship of the neighborhood, envy of the clear water of the pool.
To this day, when I think of this movie, my memory is also broken, and there is even a glorification. What I remember clearly is the brilliant sun during the Cultural Revolution, shining people red. Ma Xiaojun climbed up the high steel-making stove for the heroine and fell unscathed; the heroine's sweet smile and good body lines.
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