If one day you see me crazy, it's actually you who are crazy. - Gao Ming
This is a sentence in the famous book "Genius on the Left, Madman on the Right" that Xiao Xi has always liked, and after reading "A Spoon", it flashed in his mind.
Absurdity, irony, reality, preaching, and doubt, these are all the impressions expressed by "A Spoon", and in the end, we don't even know, how to understand the "spoon" in the name of the movie, who should it be? Does it exist?
"A Spoon", adapted from Hu Xuewen's "Running Moonlight", douban score is only 7.7 points, in terms of the rating of domestic films, it is not high, but it can win the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor and Best New Director, and I have to say that this film does have its own uniqueness.
Set in the countryside of the northwest, "A Spoon" tells the story of a northwest shepherd who was wrapped in a "spoon" when he was asking for a debt in the town, and after he and his wife Jin Zhizi tried to get rid of it several times without success, they began to find his family, and were blackmailed by several groups of people, resulting in a difficult situation.
Originally thought it would be a story of "The Farmer and the Snake", but who would have thought that this story would be more absurd and bizarre than it.
Almost all of the bullet screens are "bullying honest people" and "people are good at being bullied", Chen Jianbin opened with an allegorical film, leaving not only the pouring out of the distorted values of the world, but also many things waiting for us to excavate.
So, how to interpret Chen Jianbin's "A Spoon"?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > too many scammers and not enough spoons</h1>
The most brilliant place in "A Spoon" is probably the use of a lot of big scenes to set off the smallness of people in the environment, and the pulling strip is the inconspicuous one in this big environment, he does not have the cunning of the big head brother, there is no selfishness of the village chief, and there is no indifference of the policeman.
The spoon wrapped around him as if it were predestined.
Many years ago, because of his kindness and honesty, he picked up the golden branch back home and achieved his marriage and family, and many years later, he picked up the spoon back home, and the arrival of the spoon allowed him to get back the money to reduce his son's sentence, and at the same time, he also peeled off his honesty, kindness and a trace of sanity layer by layer.
Originally, picking up the spoon home was against his life wishes, but he couldn't help it, leaving the spoon, and the "sense of independence" between the husband and wife because of their son's imprisonment was slowly filled. But the spoon confessed to kissing this matter, completely broke their peaceful little days.
Too late to think, too late to verify, the spoon was hurriedly taken away by the "family", and the little money that could not be dismissed became the reason for the blackmail of the second and third groups of people, as if invisibly dragging the couple into an involuntary "pile of traffickers", and they did not have the slightest ability to fight back against this "misunderstanding".
They tried to prove themselves, from lost and found, to looking for people, but in the end they could not get out of the predicament, at the beginning, the pull-out of the strip also deceived themselves, thinking that maybe one of the three groups of people was really a spoon's relative, but the people who threatened them left one by one, and never came back, when the police, neighbors, and big brothers all advised him not to wait any longer, this matter was over, and the pull-out was probably also under their intentional or unintentional reminders, believing the fact that those people were liars.
On the douban, there is a comment that hits the nail on the head: there are too many scammers, and there are not enough spoons.
The subtext of this sentence is obvious: there are too many scammers, too few spoons, so when a spoon appears, the scammers all stare at the spoon.
Seeing this, in fact, many people are vaguely worried about the spoon that disappeared inexplicably, expecting that the spoon will really go to him, or the spoon will recognize the way to escape back to the home of the stick, and even many netizens in the barrage think that the spoon is their son, and eventually they will recognize each other, so he calls Jin Zhizi a mother.
But such a plot, it is inevitable to fall into the cliché, and even, the absurdity and irony of the story itself are diluted, not to mention that the pull strips that have been ground into a second spoon by life and cheaters have already taken care of themselves, how can they still think of finding a spoon?
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > life is a huge misunderstanding</h1>
As a realistic absurd allegorical comedy film, with some suspense attributes, is it quite strange?
Even, in a complicated direction, there may be no spoon played by "Jin Shijia", from beginning to end, only the spoon of pulling strips. The spoon is like a second personality schizophrenic by pulling a strip, or a deep fantasy in his heart.
Of course, the speculation here is somewhat nonsensical, but from the time when Ratizi was wearing spoon clothes, sleeping in the sheepfold, and being stabbed to death by another waking but cruel raven in his dream, ignoring his tragic cries of "babbling" like sheep, this thought has been haunting Xiao Xi's mind.
Is this dream really a dream?
At that moment, it was as if it were not the strips, but the sheep that he had also killed, and the reason why he would speculate that this was the self-conjecture of the strips was because of the illusion that the sheep were "lost and regained" by the spoons.
Many times, we always see a small sheep with us, and even sleep in the house at night, for the shepherds, the sheep are like their children, and the spoon is like those sheep, the importance of which is evident.
But when he put his situation on the lamb to be slaughtered, the survival instinct that had been hidden in his heart for a long time was awakening, and no one wanted to become the lamb to be slaughtered, so he completely discarded the kind and deceitful old herdsman in his heart.
Even, Xiao Xi suspected that it was precisely because of this stubbornness of the spoon that he could not shake off the illusion that he could not shake it off, giving the puller the courage and strength to discard some of his own nature.
He picked up a spoon, lost it, turned himself into a spoon, and lost it again
So there was a follow-up, he used the spoon-like persistence, entangled the big head brother, in exchange for the process of returning the money that should have belonged to them.
However, such a process is tragic after all, "behind the seeming comedy, there is always a tragic core" This is not false at all, the pulling strip is only a thousand small people, but in the end can only rely on their own strength to change their own predicament, there is no one around to help him, he can believe, only himself.
There are stones falling into the well, but there are few charcoal in the snow, not that the world has no goodwill, but that it is good and evil, and it is difficult to distinguish many times.
Chen Jianbin once lamented the news of "a child lifting up and falling down on the old man and being falsely accused": Will this child still believe in the world when he grows up? "A person who lives to be 40 years old suddenly realizes that life is a huge misunderstanding."
Who says it's not?
The life of pulling the strip did not begin to clarify until he himself became a spoon, but at least it could begin, compared to the spoon played by Jin Shijia, it seems, is still lucky?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the world is old</h1>
Chen Jianbin has always had a director's dream, as early as 1999, he began to conceive his own script, but until he saw Hu Xuewen's "Running Moonlight", he deeply felt that only this story can express what he wants. In particular, too many topics about "farmers and snakes" on the news over the years have impacted his dazedness and the saturation of his thinking, and he has begun to think about some "meaningless" problems.
For example: What is the nature of life? Why do people live? In reality, Chen Jianbin believes that he is also a spoon.
When we watched the movie, we all said that pulling a sliver made himself like a spoon.
The life of the spoon is very pure, the belief that "there is milk is the mother" is satisfied, so that when the stomach is filled, he can smile and shout "Mom" to the golden branch, who gives him a meal, he will be like a drowning child, clinging to this driftwood, and he can't shake it off.
This kind of attachment, as if it is contagious, transitions to pulling the strip.
He wore clothes worn by spoons, slept in the sheepfold where spoons had slept, and chased some answers like a sticky candy that were not "practical". In the end, the big head brother did not want to be entangled by "a spoon", blindly dodging, but did not think that for the answer to such some questions, the pulling stick would climb into his car regardless of safety, so the big head brother forced the money into the pulling strip, pulled him into the snow and beat him like a spoon.
Dazed, he put on the hat that the spoon often wore and walked forward, until he met a group of children, and he looked at the world from the mutilated red hat and saw not only the harm they had done to themselves, but also to a spoon.
The essence of life eventually forced him into a spoon, or rather, the essence of his always being too kind turned him into a spoon.
In the movie, the most ironic thing is actually the several times to get on and off, looking at almost the same picture, but in the movie it is repeated several times, and each time, the point where the pulling strip is intentional is different, it can be said that each time is his "into a spoon" progressive process.
He originally insisted on recovering the money for his son's commutation of sentence, and then find another way, that is to say, his ability and trust in the big head brother was actually not strong, but later the spoon came to his side, and his attention changed to the matter of throwing off the spoon, finding a family for the spoon, proving that he did not sell the spoon, and finally trying not to understand "what is the value of a spoon, why everyone snatched him up."
Man is always strange, slightly bizarre ideas will always be regarded as outliers, and the puller can not find a fulcrum of balance in his original worldview, so he turns to new perspectives, such as the perspective of the spoon to find balance.
As an old farmer, an old herdsman, in addition to "living for the big", the others are not they will think, should think, but the strip was pulled to such a height of thinking by the "spoon", but I don't know this argumentation process, he found the answer in the end.
The pulling strip and the spoon coincided, Chen Jianbin and the pulling strip also coincided, and the question that Chen Jianbin had not understood was answered by his 6-year-old son: it was the world that used the old.
In this world, spoons are everywhere, we look at others as spoons, others look at us as not spoons?