For this niche high-scoring movie, many people will think that the theme of the movie is about war, but it is not. I think that more than the elements of war, we should see the struggle and growth of ordinary people in special circumstances. @Small talk is productivity
The film was co-directed by Chinese director Duan Jishun and Japanese director Junya Sato. The film premiered on September 15, 1982, in Chinese mainland and Japan at the same time. The film won best film at the 6th Japan Academy Awards and the American Grand Prix at the 7th Montreal International Film Festival.
The film is mainly set in the Sino-Japanese war that began in 1937, telling the story of the "Jiangnan Chess King" Kang Yishan and the Japanese Go master Songba, the two Go family ups and downs for thirty years, and the sincere friendship between the two that has not changed due to the war.
In the film, the "Jiangnan Chess King" Guan Yishan, hearing the news that the Japanese Go master Matsuba has come to China, took his son Aming to Beiping to participate in the warlord's birthday banquet. At the chess meeting, two masters obsessed with Go, they cherish each other and see each other as they always have.
A few years later, due to the turmoil in the domestic environment, Guan Yishan sold his property for the sake of his son Amin's future, and sent him to Japan to learn chess from Matsuba. Before leaving, he gave his son a folding fan with the word "Fenfei" written on it, encouraging him to study chess hard and come back to revitalize the cause of Go in the motherland.
After Amin received the title of "Chess Saint" in Japan, he wanted to return to China, but he did not expect that the Japanese military department, in order to obstruct this matter, killed Amin on the way back to China on the way to smuggle him back. At this point, Yi Shan's family was destroyed and he became a lonely man. Song Bo was also implicated in Amin's affair and was sent to China as a soldier. Two otherwise happy families were torn apart by the war.
I believe that in today's peaceful environment, some people feel that personal speech and behavior should not be "kidnapped" by the state, and there is no necessary connection between the state and the individual. But through this film, you will find that there is a fundamental relationship between the good and bad fate of the individual and the good and bad of the country, and the two are positively related.
Today, I will interpret the meaning of this film from two aspects: personal fate and family fate changes. In the third part of the article, I will talk about what this film brings to me about how ordinary individuals should survive and develop in the face of bad circumstances.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01, personal destiny: In fact, no matter what era, personal destiny and the general environment of the times are closely related</h1>
The film "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Played" begins with a picture of a beautiful countryside. The small bridge flows, the blue sky and white clouds, and on the lake in front of the door, the black canopy boat carries all kinds of characters, going in and out, a busy and peaceful atmosphere.
Guan Yishan lives in such a quiet and peaceful Jiangnan water town. He was obsessed with Go, and his home was full of Go chess scores and books. Every day, he studied various techniques of Go at home and improved his level. On this side of Jiangnan, his superb chess artists are well known, known as the "King of Jiangnan Chess"
On the other side of Japan, Matsuba is a master of Japanese Go and enjoys a high prestige in Japan. In addition to his own study of chess, his most important task was to train his own disciples.
Don't worry about your livelihood, you can immerse yourself in the things you love, such a state is the envy of everyone even today. If it weren't for the war, the lives of these two people would have gone on like this forever.
Will war spare them because of their superb chess skills? Will they be able to escape the invasion of this beast that devours everything? I will analyze the similar fates of Both Kan Yishan and Matsuha.
(1) The Chinese "chess king" Yi Shan went from living a rich life, single-mindedly studying Go to running around, losing his relatives, and the chaotic world was equally cruel to anyone
In the movie, Guan Yishan is a "chess idiot". This obsession is not only reflected in the aspect of Go, but also in his way of dealing with the world.
At that time, it was learned that the Japanese Go master Matsuha was going to the home of a warlord in Peiping to celebrate the warlord's birthday. He immediately decided to take his son Amin with him to Peiping to meet this "Japanese Go eight-dan master". After arriving in Beiping, before attending the banquet, his friends knew that Guan Yishan was a "chess idiot", and he was worried that After seeing Songbo, he would grab the other party to play chess regardless of his disregard, offending the warlord who held the banquet and bringing misfortune to himself. Specially reminding Guan Yishan not to neglect the warlord and add trouble to himself, Guan Yishan agreed.
The warlord invites him to play a game against him, and in the middle of the game, Matsuba arrives just in time. In order to end the boring match with the warlord as soon as possible, it is good to have a game with Songbo, a real master, who is no longer humble and impatient to win the warlord. The warlord was furious, and the good banquet was also stirred up.
Later, back at his friend's house, he tried his best to persuade Yi Shan to leave Beiping overnight. Unexpectedly, at this time, Song bo came to the door to ask for advice, and Yi Shan insisted on making a game with Song Bo despite the advice of his friend. Unexpectedly, the warlord was a character who would be rewarded, and found the police to arrest him, and finally it was through Songbo that the matter was resolved.
Later, living in the Japanese occupation zone, he strongly refused the invitation of the Japanese military commander to give him a chess club and mercilessly threw the other party's gifts back to the other party.
Guan Yishan is a well-known local "chess king", but the war will not let you go because you are a chess king, but may make the risk of injury greater because of your reputation.
In my opinion, The character of Kang Yishan is like the black and white children in Go, and there is a clear distinction between right and wrong. What he didn't agree with, even if he pretended, couldn't pretend. Such a personality would not have exposed any major problems in peacetime, but in the chaotic environment of domestic warlords, Japanese aggression against China, and social turmoil, his stubborn personality made him suffer from the devastation and blows of war and once had a mental breakdown.
(2) From the respected Go Hachidan to the second class soldier who raises horses for his commander, the war has made a country irrational and fallen into fanaticism, and no one who has been wrapped up in it is immune
Although Song Bo is also a "chess fanatic", unlike The "Fool" of Guan Yishan, his obsession is not only for Go itself, but also for personally cultivating "Go" masters.
In the film, during a game against Kang Yishan, he stumbles upon that Kang Yishan's son, Amin, has a high talent for Go. Song Bo loved Cai cai, and in order to take Amin as an apprentice, he did not hesitate to kneel down and prostrate himself to Guan Yishan in public.
After that, Amin arrived in Japan, and he personally taught Amin. He had many students, but the other students were playing chess in pairs with each other, and Songbo pointed out at most one or two next to him, and never played chess with him personally as he did with Amin, acting as Amin's sparring partner.
In my opinion, Matsuba's love of talent is related to the atmosphere of the Japanese chess world at that time. In Japan, the training of Go talents is based on a "master-apprentice system" system. The teacher himself is not strong enough, he must be able to cultivate one or two young players with a higher level of Go or even more than himself, in order to be a real "master" level figure.
Matsuba sees Amin's talent for Go, and his goal is to train Amin to become a new generation of "chess saints" in the Japanese chess world. He turned a blind eye to any obstacle that did not correspond to this goal. When Amin tells Matsuha about his desire to return home, Matsuha understands that the environment in Japan at that time was not good for Amin. But he was not willing to let his ten years of efforts be wasted. Angry, he angrily rebuked Amin and wanted him to change his mind and consider returning to Japan after he had won the title of "Chess Saint".
In a sense, This obsession of Songbo indirectly led to Amin's death. When Amin successfully obtained the title of "Chess Saint". The Japanese military department asked Amin to make a statement at the press conference to break away from Chinese nationality and join Japanese nationality. At that time, China and Japan were enemies in the war, and Japan would not allow a Chinese to obtain the highest title of Japanese Go, to increase the morale of others and destroy their own prestige.
When Amin said out loud, "I will not renounce my Chinese nationality, in order not to cause trouble for my teacher, I decided to give up the title of chess saint", Amin became the target of everyone. After the Amin incident, Song Bo himself was implicated and sent to China, becoming a second-class soldier who was called to drink.
In my opinion, although Matsuba felt the frenzy in Japan at that time, he still underestimated the terrible nature of this sentiment. In fact, "Chess Saint" Amin has no way but to give up his Chinese nationality and join the Japanese nationality. When the environment of the whole society has lost its rationality, no one can be left alone.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02, family fate: although the mountains and rivers are still the same, there is no end to the eggs under the nest, and the small family has long been fragmented</h1>
For most people, with a family and children, they have bondage in this world and have the motivation to work harder.
In "An Unfinished Chess Game", two families are highlighted, the Songbo family and the Kang Yishan family. Both families had similar perfections: well-behaved children, virtuous and kind women, and men addicted to Go combined to form a whole.
After the war, the two families experienced similar pain and despair.
(1) Originally, both children and daughters, wives and children were filial piety, but they all died in war, and how much happiness they once had, how devastating the sadness after breaking was
In the movie, Kang Yishan has a wife who supports him at all times and shares his happiness and hardships, silently supporting the whole family.
The first time, Guan Yishan went to Beiping to take his son with him. The wife is worried that the mountains and rivers are far away on this road, the road is far away, the soldiers outside are in chaos, afraid that the children and husband will have something to lose, and do not agree to go. But after seeing Guan Yishan's insistence, she did not pester, silently made a good shape for the father and son, loaded the items needed on the road, and sent the two out of the door with a few words.
The second time, Guan Yishan went to Japan to learn chess for his son and sold his property. The last wife who knew rushed to the place where the house was sold, crying and making trouble, but the husband did not waver, helplessly she turned her head and left. After selling their ancestral property, the two had no shelter and had to move to a small thatched hut with much worse conditions than before. Although angry, the wife did not lose any of her husband's books because she was angry with her husband in the process of moving, and still arranged and arranged the new home step by step.
Faced with a son who is about to go to Japan and has no news, as a mother, he is both worried and afraid. Worried about the wind and dust servants of his son along the way, afraid that when he arrives in Japan, his son will not be well cared for, and no one can rescue him when he encounters danger. When her son said reluctantly before leaving, "Mother, I don't want you", even though she was unwilling, she still stood with her husband and watched her son leave.
In my opinion, as the saying goes, husband and wife are the same forest bird, and they fly separately when the big trouble is imminent. A wife who understands the difficulties of the world could have taken her daughter to fly high and find a relatively safe place to live before her husband chose to return to the guns of the Japanese army. But she was worried that without herself, her husband's life would become worse, and she stayed without hesitation.
Because he refused to cooperate with the Japanese army, Guan Yishan fled with his wife and daughter overnight. Unexpectedly, they encountered the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, and the wife and daughter fell under the gun muzzle of the Japanese army because of the protection of Yishan.
I think that at this time, the spiritual world of Yi Shan collapsed. A person who faces the people he loves the most in the world and who cares about him the most must be extremely painful and tormented in his heart. His pain came from his relatives falling in front of him one by one, but he could not save them.
(2) "Chess Saint" Amin and Miss Ba, the daughter of Songbo, are connected, but the original peak of life is due to war and death and madness, the love in peacetime is touching, and the love in wartime is lamentable
At any time, love is something crazy, but if this madness ends in tragedy, it can't help but make people choke.
In the movie, just when Amin is about to return to China alone despite the advice of his teacher, Miss Ba, who grew up with him, tells him that she has fallen in love with him. Amin chose to escape at that time, he said: "The current situation, we can't be together", and disappeared after saying it.
Later, Miss Ba traveled for days in order to find the missing Amin, and she found the Japanese Chinese Union. One of the Japanese waiters inside told her to figure out what it would mean if she married a Chinese. Under the circumstances at that time, marrying Amin would be called a traitor in Japan, and returning to China would also be considered an aggressor, and the mental pressure caused by such a dilemma was not something that anyone could bear. But Miss Ba is determined to marry Amin, and he is not afraid of these gossip and malicious slander. The kind Japanese waiter eventually reveals where Amin is.
Touched by Miss Ba, Amin is determined to follow her heart, marries Miss Ba, has a child, and eventually receives the title of "Chess Saint" in Japan.
However, in the face of the demand to "break away from the motherland", Amin finally chose to give up the title of "chess saint" and wanted to smuggle back to China. Miss Ba was reluctant to leave Amin and decided to return to China with him. On their way to the ferry, the two were chased by Japanese gendarmes, and Amin was shot to protect Miss Ba. Miss Ba also went insane because of the huge blow to her spirit and became mentally ill.
In my opinion, in peacetime, the love between Amin and Miss Ba will undoubtedly be passed on as a good story. But everyone in the war can't help themselves, and the love between Amin and Miss Ba is also not spared. One death, one madness, such an ending makes people can't help but cry after watching it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03, based on my understanding of movies, talk about how ordinary individuals should survive and develop in the special context of some large rings</h1>
Although the background of the war in the movie "An Unfinished Chess Game" is now far away from us. However, this film realistically depicts the two chess kings and the great changes in the two families, and at the same time, it also makes me sigh: the fate of the individual can never leave the fate of the country, and the environmental changes of the whole society.
Therefore, I will combine my own understanding of the film and the plot in the film to talk about some thoughts that this movie brings me:
(1) It is a person's wisdom to change yourself appropriately according to changes in the environment and know how to adapt appropriately
Witnessing the bombing of Japanese aircraft, Yi Shan knew that the living environment had undergone tremendous changes, but he was unwilling to abandon his nostalgia for his homeland in his heart, and still chose to return to the enemy-occupied area to live.
Similarly, Matsuha clearly felt the overall fanatical mood in Japan, and everyone was war-oriented and serving the war. When Amin decided to return home, he still naively thought that by reasoning with his friends in the military department, he would still get help and get good results, but in the end he indirectly killed Amin.
In contrast, in the face of the Japanese occupation of China, the friend who entertained him in Beiping chose to flee and move to a place that was not occupied by the Japanese army. The environment is not static, and when people in it are unable to change the environment, in order to survive, they can only change themselves to adapt to the environment or escape from the original environment.
In my opinion, as an individual, we must have the awareness of "what mountain to go to and what song to sing." When the environment is not good, the only goal is to survive. At this time, living in the past is not the embodiment of a person's great wisdom, but may eventually be abandoned because it is incompatible with the environment.
(2) When encountering the wicked and the villain gaining power, it is not shameful to protect oneself, and temporarily retreat and compromise
When He encountered the warlord, he knew that the warlord had great power, but he had no strength, and he was an evil person who would repay him with a blind eye, he was still unwilling to compromise, and after winning the warlord, he annoyed the other party and brought trouble to himself.
When the Japanese officer sent a traitor to visit and made a "chess" invitation, he knew that the other party was a villain who would add oil and vinegar and frame himself, but he still scolded the other party and threw back the gifts sent by the other party.
I don't think it's a sign of cowardice to be in danger, to face the wicked, the villain, to compromise and paralyze the other person's correct countermeasures. For example, before the Internet is very popular video teaching people how to protect themselves. In the face of robbery, or in the case of personal danger, the best way is to find a way to escape while shouting for help to attract attention. If you think that it is humiliating to run away and want to confront the other party head-on, the final result can only be scaled all over your body, or even lose your life.
(3) Listen to the suggestions of those around you, and adopt reasonable opinions according to your own situation
Despite his wife's objections, Yi Shan wanted to send his son to Japan and let his son die elsewhere. Despite the persuasion of friends, he stayed in the enemy-occupied area and eventually let his wife and daughter die at the gunpoint of the Japanese.
In fact, not only in the movies, but also in life, we also have the times when the authorities are fans. In this state, it is easy for people to make regrettable decisions. After I graduated from college, I had the opportunity to re-enter the undergraduate degree directly, and my family around me also advised me to take one, but I think that academic qualifications are not the most important, ability is important, and I did not choose to take the exam. It wasn't until after two years of work that I encountered the job I wanted, but the other party required a bachelor's degree, that I regretted it.
Due to the limitations of our personal experience, our decisions are often limited by the constraints of the environment and often do not take into account all aspects of risk. It would be wise to introduce other opinions at this point, to think carefully and to adopt reasonable suggestions.
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In today's era of overall peace, we will most likely not encounter such a tortuous and miserable fate as That of Yishan and Songbo. However, the progress of science and technology and the change of the environment are indeed accelerating, and the overall national environment will have a greater impact on the fate of individuals.
Each of us is risk-averse and expects a better life. But the key is to use methods to steer yourself away from risks that could prey to environmental change. Make a choice that has a high probability of getting better results. That's what I got some thoughts after watching the movie "A Game of Unfinished Chess", and I hope it will help you. @Small talk is productivity