The film recommended by Madame today is called "The First Woman in the Mountain Forest", a rare film about the theme of breaking into the Kanto Region.
Released in 1986, it is directed by Wang Junzheng and starring Li Xiuming, Li Wei and Ding Jiali.
Let's first understand the situation of the next three actors.
Li Xiuming was a beautiful actress who was commonly seen in film magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, and Liu Xiaoqing and Zhang Jinling were the famous "Three Flowers of The Northern Shadow" at that time.
She plays two roles in the film, which is not only the narrator of the story, Lin Nan, but also one of the protagonists of the story, "Little White Shoes".
One is a female college student at the Drama Academy, lively and cute, bold and atmospheric, and the other is a prostitute in the forest area, gentle and beautiful, and physically ill.
Li Xiuming accurately grasped the characteristics of the characters, well interpreted the two different characters, and left a deep impression on the audience.
For Ding Jiali, this is her first work after her debut, with which she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 7th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema.
At that time, she was in her first marriage, because her husband was working outside, she could not bear the loneliness and had an extramarital affair, and just after the abortion, she went to the cold northeast Xiaoxing'anling to shoot.
At that time, it coincided with the cold current in Siberia, the weather was more than thirty degrees below zero, the shooting conditions were quite difficult, and people were frozen to the point that their brains did not turn.
In one scene, Ding Jiali has been kneeling in the snow, and the snow water has seeped into her cotton pants, causing her to urinate incontinence for a while.
The town's health center could not see it, so I had to go to the big hospital after the shooting, only to find that I had pelvic inflammatory disease.
This movie not only brought her honor, but also left a sick root, which can only be said to have a sacrifice.
Since the beginning of "The First Woman in the Mountain Forest", Ding Jiali began her dream road in the show business circle, and now she has long been an old drama bone that has achieved fame.
Simply put, the veteran actor Li Wei, who played the role of Yang Jinshan in Zhang Yimou's "Ju Dou", was awarded a special honorary award by the China Film Performing Arts Society in 1993 and died of illness in 2005.
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The story begins with a trip to the countryside by lin nan, a female college student.
The lively and cheerful Lin Nan (Li Xiuming) collects creative materials and collects style, and goes to the Daxinganling forest area alone to experience life.
She is received by an old lumberjack named "Old Ni Tou" (Li Wei).
The audience's eyes follow the climbing plough he piloted in the snowy fields of the forest sea, the larch that covers the sky, the endless birch forest, and the legendary experience of a group of lumberjacks who broke into the Kanto slowly unfolds on the screen.
It was a period of suffering, and it was even more sad and vicissitudes to tell the old Ni Tou, who had suffered from wind and frost.
It is said that before the liberation, the hometown was in drought for ten years and nine years, and seeing that if they stayed any longer, they would be starved to death, and out of the need for survival instincts, Old Ni Tou and his partners left their hometown and joined the vast historical torrent of the Guandong.
The TV series "Breaking into the Guandong", starring Li Youbin, Zhu Yawen, Song Jia and others, reflects that difficult period.
But no one expected that after years of running around, Old Ni Tou would become the only survivor among the seven brothers...
There is no doubt that the lumberjacks eat entirely by physical strength, they eat and sleep, they bleed and sweat, but they are only for food to eat, so that they can save some money to go home in the future, although they dare not imagine the glorious ancestors after returning to their hometowns, but at least they can complete the simple wish of building a house and marrying a wife.
It's just such a simple long-cherished wish, but it is not easy to really realize it.
Every year on the ninth of September, the people worship the mountain god and then go up the mountain, and throughout the harsh winter, they fight in the mountain forest.
During the day, he was in the company of tigers and leopards, engaged with the death soldiers, and sat around the fire in the low earthen house at night, and could be roasted until the back of the back sweated.
The work of the lumberjack is extremely boring, which is not the focus of the film, and the director pays the most attention to his feelings.
The film mainly revolves around the deeds of Old Ni Tou and Xiao Bo Dai (played by Lei Han).
Autumn and winter are busy harvesting, but once it is time for spring when everything is revived, their extremely depressed souls that seem to have been sleeping for a long time awaken.
A group of people descended the mountain to Aniton, a group of men with well-developed limbs, going in and out of taverns, casinos, and brothels, wantonly spending money and venting their feelings, as if they were years of hard work, just to be able to enjoy a few days of free pain and happiness here in the year.
It's just that these coolies, what can they find outside the mountains and forests?
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Old Ni Tou and "Little White Shoes" are in love.
The little white shoes are gentle and kind, but unfortunately she is plagued by illness, and Old Ni Tou vows to save enough money to redeem herself, promising to take her out of Anitun in the spring of the following year.
We are also impressed by the simple love between an honest middle-aged man and a prostitute who easily makes people pity.
Who wouldn't want them to break free from the shackles of fate and run to a new life?
But the "head" also hit the small white shoes, and things took a sharp turn for the worse.
Maybe he thought that the relationship between her and Old Ni Tou was just a dewy love affair that was a scene, or that he was determined to compete with Old Ni Tou and deliberately wanted to destroy people's good deeds.
In short, taking advantage of the convenience of Old Ni Tou's absence and the encouragement of alcohol, the little white shoes were trampled by the "head", and she died quickly after being unbearable, with great resentment and regret, and people, as the name implied, the beautiful little white shoes withered in vain prematurely.
The bloody masculine old Ni Tou killed the head in a fit of rage, and he proved his promise of loyalty to the little white shoe with blood sprinkled on the snow.
Burying the beloved woman, Old Ni Tou left the sad land of Anitun...
Compared with the sad and bitter feelings of Old Ni Tou and Little White Shoes, the Kanto "love history" of another lumberjack is a different flavor.
In the ranks of lumberjacks whose physical strength represents dignity and authority, the thin and timid "little belt" is often the object of bullying.
However, Li Shao is cowardly and lacks hormones, but he wins the heart of "Hercules" (Ding Jiali), a handmaiden who works in a brothel.
When Xiao Bo Belt carried the wood up to the bracket and was viciously oppressed by the head, Hercules dared to come forward to break the siege for Xiao Bo Belt and sweep the head to the ground.
Helplessly, the falling flowers are deliberately merciless.
Hercules' affection did not come in exchange for Xiao Bo's eyebrows, and he couldn't look at her at all.
To Xiao Bo, who came from a poor background and was a lumberjack, it is the most important thing to marry a girl with a beautiful face and a clean "bottom".
After all, who wouldn't want to add some sparkle to their lives through marriage? Hercules was working rough jobs in brothels, and her appearance and style were clearly not so "feminine".
The so-called concubine has no intention of heart, and the love that Hercules is hot is useless at all.
The young Boyu spent a lot of money to marry a rural girl.
Originally thinking that the rural girl was industrious and simple and reliable, clinker he was often stationed in the mountains and forests to cut wood and rarely had the opportunity to go home, so staying in that sparsely populated place often had wolves infested, and the show girl who guarded the empty house alone was afraid and lonely, and she was not used to life in the forest!
In the end, when Xiao Bo took her up the mountain, Xiu Nu was abducted by the car owner...
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Xiao Bo was blue in the face and ran straight to the direction of the rut.
After learning the news, Hercules escaped from the brothel to catch up with Xiao Bo, and immediately vowed to have children for him, and she would become the first woman in the mountain forest.
The story is basically over at this point.
Female college student Lin Nan was greatly touched by the legendary experience of Lao Ni Tou, because in them condensed too many difficulties and heartaches of the pioneers who broke into the Kanto Region.
And the audience will wonder, can Hercules do this? Why do you want to have children for Xiao Bo? Does that have to be the case to be a woman?
As Dai Jinhua said in "Scenery in the Mist", the women in this film still have not gotten rid of the aphasia of being watched and told.
In their view, the value of women is still reflected in the childbearing for men, and being a mother who can help her husband to start a family is the ultimate goal of women's lifelong efforts.
Obviously, such women are actually only vassals of the male class, and the so-called female independence has naturally become a state of absenteeism.
How can a woman be seen for her qualities?
We will wonder whether the little white shoes and Hercules are painstakingly pursuing love, or whether they can have the identity of being a real "woman".
"The First Woman in the Mountain Forest" shows us the living conditions of people in the barbaric world, which is both bloody and romantic.
This is a place where law and morality are close to a vacuum, far from the dawn of modern civilization, if not dense forests, the whole is the visual sense of a western town.
The code of conduct for all is almost nothing more than the assertion of the primordial vitality.
They are full of reverence for nature, squandering their physical strength to obtain living materials, while venting their instincts in taverns, casinos, and brothels, releasing repressed emotions and spirits.
The men in the film can only survive by selling their coolies, while the women can only survive by consuming the body, for them, emotions are sustenance, spirit is nowhere to be placed, and everything can only be written by the volatilization of the original energy of life.
In this extremely cruel environment, men and women can only depend on each other.
The strong men used their strength and blood and sweat to develop the forest, and the weak women used their physical bodies to keep the men firmly in the forest. Women get money and hope, men get warmth and pampering.
Yes, in the "inhuman" world, they live humblely and strongly, living a bitter and peaceful life, and together they guard a piece of "quiet years".
The life of the lumberjacks who broke into the Kanto was very simple and rough, which was very consistent with the rough natural environment of the Daxing'an Mountains, but it was difficult to escape the tragedy.
If the tragedy of the little white shoe is caused by the accident of the evil man causing the bad, then Hercules's effort to realize the right to be a woman by giving birth to children is the sadness of consciousness that is difficult to emancipate ideological concepts, and it is the inevitable of the deep tragedy limited to the national cultural tradition.
So, Hercules repeatedly shouted "Why don't we count women?" Let's warm their hearts and bodies. There is no reason! ”。
This is both an indictment of the absurdity of the times and a silent struggle of the little people against fate.
She is honest and bold, fierce, and would rather fight for her own happiness without fear.
However, in the end, she still can't get rid of the fate of becoming a man's dependence, she still regards childbearing as a woman's highest vocation, and still longs to proudly proclaim the establishment of her "woman" identity through the way of having children.
However, when women pin their hopes on men, their independence and happiness are already very passive.
Imagine, apart from their physical identity, do they still have a social identity?
What is the meaning behind the word "woman"?
Cold hair straight up, careful thinking is extremely frightening...
Watching Ding Jiali's debut film 35 years later is indeed very uncomfortable.