Understand these details to live up to this masterpiece

Let's talk about "Huan Yan".

There are so many things I like, so many that I really don't know where to start.

Let's start talking about the fourth episode of the Yu family Sanzhai Li brand.

One, peach blossom source and black gloves

A shocking detail at the beginning of the fourth episode is that the group of people in the village set up torture tools that were about to be hanged, and a group of villagers there continued to dry and work as if nothing happened.

On one side is the blood-colored act of the warlord's powerful black gloves;

On the other side is a peach blossom source-style, "ploughing back and forth, enjoying yourself" scene.

It should be clear and incompatible, but it is combined in a strange and appropriate way.

This may also be the intuitive presentation of the ultimate contrast between the Yu family's thoughts and the current situation, prayers and quagmire.

All kinds of arhats went online, some were carried on a palanquin, and some were working on the guillotine.

The latter is the sixth master who was finally appointed by Yu Yixiu as the next headman.

From this point of view, the details of the work of the sixth master when he appeared must not be useless posing, right?

Compared with Wu Da, he is obviously closer to Yu Yixiu's concept of maintaining the traditional "indisputable peach blossom source".

And the knife he worked to raise people, and Wu Da's murderous knife (gallows), between the name and the weapon, in addition to the shape and the reality, may also be another silent contrast.

The contradiction between Yu Yixiu and Wu Da is ostensibly "I am a useless person, you are a brainless dog", and the deep root contradiction is the contradiction between "the appeal of being born to build a peach blossom source" and "the ambition to become a lackey to seek wealth when joining the WTO / Huge pressure from many forces".

The original idea passed down from generation to generation is probably the luxury of building a paradise.

It is not necessary to have the heavenly world of peach blossoms flowing water and mandarin fish fat, but at least cloth and rough food can get by.

Poetry and book cultivation read heirlooms.

With the shelter of the fortress and the watchful people of the tribe, there is no need to be displaced and die in troubled times.

In fact?

Seventh Master Wu Da took the brothers in the clan, under all kinds of pressure and out of various ambitions, and embarked on another road.

Fight for the tiger and take advantage of it.

Hurt nature and reason, bully and dominate the market.

Yu Yixiu, who hardly leaves home, hardly asks about mundane trivialities, and still cherishes the ancient and naïve, outdated and fragile "Qingping ideal" (or fantasy).

Wu Da, who lived a life of licking blood with a knife and actively acted as a black glove for warlords, vainly tried to get ahead in the most practical, unbearable, utilitarian and bloody road, and vainly hoped to lead his clansmen to live another bloody and fire battle road of "I can also be Wang Zuo in troubled times".

are all unwanted, Yu Yixiu and Wu Da, in a sense, are very opposite characters.

One good and one evil, one far and one near, one retreat and one pragmatic;

One is indifferent and one covetous, one pursues the spirit and the other is procrastinating in the world;

One advance and one retreat, one text and one martial arts, after all, it is all a mirror flower.

Yu Yixiu and Wu Da, the legitimate heirs and illegal usurpers of the ancient clan system, actually inherited different parts of the tradition.

Yu Yixiu inherits the core concept of "ren", and at the same time enjoys his own poetry and book popularity;

Although he is also bound to the erroneous tradition of clan lynching, unable to resist, or even lacking the subjective will to resist, in the final analysis, his inheritance of tradition has more advantages than disadvantages;

Wu Da, on the contrary, he doesn't care about the old peach blossom source in the traditional demands of the ancestors of the three villages, but he likes the old dregs of "you can kill people by setting up a brand".

The reason is simple, that works for him.

Yu Yixiu walked out of the village and saw that the Yu family helped the warlord bully his father and fellow villagers, trying to burn the title deed of the account books and return them justice, but after he, the mud bodhisattva, left the offering platform and went to the ocean of truth, he was doomed to be unsafe.

Wu Da, who is ambitious and unscrupulous, can this road go through when it goes to the black? Not necessarily, I'm afraid.

The horizontal and vertical are dead ends, and the real way of life is here in Xu Tian.

(Or, in other words, on the side of faith represented by Xu Tian)

Wu Da didn't want to go, Yu Yixiu wanted to go but couldn't, and died after liberation and before dawn.

It's tragic.

Second, it is better to answer than to answer

This scene of standing up a sign is particularly interesting.

The contradictions between Yu Yixiu, Xu Tian, and Lao Sun, the original contradictions in the village, the contradictions between Wu Da and Xu Tian, and many kinds of contradictions are intertwined at multiple levels.

Complex, but not messy.

It's also punchy.

Yu Yixiu couldn't understand Xu Tian at first: Your family is good, you can send gold bars again, and it is not worth dying for three gold bars.

Xu Tianqing burst into tendons and emotions: whoever moves the gold bar will move whomever it is.

It wasn't just a gold bar, Yu Yixiu asked what it was.

Xu Tian was furious and excited, and "Answer the Question" told the story of Wang Xuance.

"People come from the Great Tang, and soldiers are borrowed by the Great Tang."

The words are sonorous and powerful.

Passionate feelings and isms are content that is easy to "lofty" and not easy to have a sense of modernity, but this paragraph is very moving.

The details before and after are very dramatic.

Dong Zijian was excited, angry and anxious, almost hysterical.

The urgency of human life at stake, the lives of loved ones hanging by a thread, the despair and anger of isolation;

Corresponding to a group of people slowly talking about the rules and standing up the "Sven", soothing.

One rush and one slow, one movement and one quiet, one "Sven" and one "barbaric", the contrast is particularly tense.

At first glance, only Xu Tian is barbaric, crazy and violent, circling, calling signs, and out of control;

At first glance, the heads and arhats of the three villages of the Yu family are all Sven and decent, and they have a sense of ritual scooping out a spoonful of water and sprinkling it on the cloth, and the front and back sides are cleaned and wiped in turn.

But the appearance and interior of "barbarism" and "Sven" just form a very sharp contrast and irony.

Xu Tian's side is a hundred thousand people whose lives are in a hurry, which is absolutely valuable and correct.

On the side of the Arhats of the Three Villages is the old clan lynching dregs.

A (good) rule is a rule, and the source is probably related to the value order of good and evil.

Over time, only the empty shell of cumbersome ritual sense remains, gradually losing its intrinsic value.

Right and wrong, life and death, decay and civilization, multi-layered and diverse forms a long volume of tension.

On the other side, the layering of Xu Tian's state is also accurate.

A few details that I like very much are the subtle pauses in the processing of Dong Zijian's lines.

The first is the scope of the business run by the father.

At that time, he did not know that Lao Sun was in danger, and he still answered Yu Yixiu's curious chatter decently.

Answer that his own father ran a plantation, and so on.

The first few items are said very smoothly, and the follow-up "silver mine" and so on, there is a slight pause to think about it.

I don't think this is actor Dong Zijian's "can't remember words, think about it", I think this is a detail that fits the role.

Xu Tian is a young man with a superior family background, and he admires his father but does not do anything.

You will not be unaware of the family business, and the main business such as plantation can speak smoothly.

But the rest of the rest, he may not always keep in mind, to retrieve the memory and think about it;

This small action of "thinking about it" is very much in line with the identity of "a young master who is not qualified enough to manage affairs".

Another example is when he said that "your shop is robbing", which was so angry that "you" said very bumpy.

Too angry, too angry.

I don't know if it is intentional design, or the natural expression of emotions after they arrive, especially vivid and sincere.

After this "thousands of miles back to Chang'an to regain their lives", Xu Tian and Yu Yixiu, who had different paths, had a sense of initial acquaintance in a certain sense.

One is that the chicks have to travel thousands of rivers and mountains, and the other is that the caged bird has carried thousands of shackles.

A little different but connected small flame faintly burned.

A lot of life-and-death grudges, right and wrong, are very dramatic.

Third, idle writing is not idle, nonsense is not wasted

Yu Yixiu likes to talk "nonsense" that is out of place.

For example, Xu Tiandu was about to die of anger, and he eagerly said that Wang Xuance sent an envoy to Tianzhu, and he also interjected "Tianzhu I know, India."

This unimportant geographical place name, ancient and modern, appears in such an urgent and heated conversation, at first glance it is very silly, very nerdy, very uncannibalistic, and it is very "wrong".

But it's this "wrong" that is an apt and in-depth description of the character's characteristics and the environment in which it is located.

Idle writing is not idle, nonsense is not wasted.

Another example is "spring camelina filling is the best, autumn almost meaning", the same words, Yu Yixiu twitter and people who don't want to listen, said it twice one after the other.

The previous time was the owner of a wonton shop, suffering from livelihood and pressure, and had no intention of taking care of his elegant snacks.

The last time was Xu Tian, who hated him deeply because of Lao Sun's affairs, and couldn't sleep peacefully because of the gold bar matter, and it was completely different from the previous questions and answers with him.

Previously, in the three villages of the Yu family, Yu Yixiu asked Tianyi Pavilion and asked Xu Tian what your father did, Xu Tian replied politely, sweeping forward and retreating.

Both of them are some kind of children under the education of the past and the present, and their life trajectories are different, but they can always share a little common interest.

And the two who went on the road also had unworldly naivety.

Xu Tian is young and does not know the world;

Yu Yixiu is a disjointed muddy bodhisattva trapped in his study.

Yu Yixiu was humiliated by the crotch, but he was very happy after climbing over.

In the few steps of walking out of Sanzhai, he really walked out of the dashing pleasure of the Heavenly Sect to divide payments and loosen the madness.

He wants to be a scholar and an idle purgator, and he wants to get out of the tangible walled city and invisible shackles that have trapped him for many years;

While putting aside clan privileges, they are also willing to pay the price (intuitively manifested as a crotch humiliation).

Live very exquisitely.

The same is exquisite, Lao Sun is more quacky and chivalrous, and Yu Yixiu is more bookish and literate.

A bite of camelina and Yu Yixiu are associated with spring and autumn.

It is a broad extension of the grand concepts of the unity of heaven and man, the induction of things and self, etc., in the ancient humanistic tradition, and it is the reflection of poetry and music and elegant romance in small details.

Many seemingly unimportant small details, tightly stitched, inside, textured and boneless, constitute a vivid and unique character.

No shriveling, no routine.

For another example, Yu Yixiu introduced himself as "free of your surname Yu, Yixiu", and the surname and first name are said separately.

When he first went online, I thought that this introduction was just a joke and a meme.

As his story unfolds, we realize that Yu is his surname, a inherited privilege and a shackle bound to it; (Although he may not covet privilege, he actually enjoys it to some extent.)

And "Yixiu", the flying naivety is himself.

From the character recognition, to the cute memory points, to the deep fateful tragic attributes of the characters, a "Yu, Yixiu" interrupted cut, rich in details and full of tension.

Yu, Yixiu, want to divide He Zeng.

Yixiu, the sky and the earth are big, and there is no need to be trapped in a "Yu" character again.

Fourth, yearning for tomorrow's tragic "old age"

In the 8 episodes of "Huan Yan", two important characters, Lao Sun and Yu Yixiu, have been taken offline one after another.

Lao Sun died in the three villages of the Yu family.

The three villages of the Yu family are not so monolithic "local tyrants", traditional clans try to settle in a corner but cannot, and their own shortcomings and current affairs are more cruel and bloody;

Yu Yixiu died of "looking for death";

Yu Zhou promised to give Xu Tian three gold bars, and from the intuitive logical level, Yu Yixiu did not have to gamble with his life.

But he insisted on fighting, and he had promised his grandson.

Lao Sun exchanged his life for a word, a promise, life and death.

Yu Yixiu's death is not so much a "life to repay oneself", but rather a despair after disillusionment and breaking the shackles.

He smashed the old cage through the humiliation of his crotch, but he did not have time to become Xu Tian's new "comrade".

Yu Yixiu is a "widow" in the ancient village of western Fujian, who speaks English, yearns for far away, and looks forward to a better tomorrow, but still belongs to the old era.

From the perspective of age, Yu Yixiu is forty-one years old, and the "widow" is not physically old enough and psychologically not old-fashioned enough.

But the attributes are really "old".

(It is not said that he is a Manchu widow, and it is used here to refer to ancient traditions and anachronistic textures)

He refused to be a widow and desperately tried to break the bondage.

But after traveling a hundred miles, there is still blood and gold and silver buildings.

The past is empty, and the glory and disgrace are humiliated.

Such a person who loves decency, with his own elegant romantic and innocent texture, fights with people in the urinal to the extreme, falls to the extreme, and falls to the extreme.

But on the other hand, the wind is clear and the moon is like a cloud.

I especially like the passage where Xu Tian, Yu Yixiu and unknown villagers and old farmers ride on the road in an ox cart and say "it will be fine in the future".

The rice is golden, and the four fields are shining.

Xu Tian said his ideals, and his eyes were full of deep nostalgia for Lao Sun, all of them were the young man who did not know how to worry, the faint bleakness after the first walk through blood and fire, the dull and desolate, the iron bones, and the burning blood.

Yu Yixiu looked at the sun, raised his hand to cover the light and wiped his tears, it was a "widow" who did not understand the Soviet region, was really moved by the Soviet area, and was warmed by the beautiful ideal from the inside out.

The old peasants, who did not understand the difficult vocabulary, happily drove the ox cart with "swindlers and accomplices who tried to pretend to calculate the fare", and the group was very happy.

So brilliant.

Yu Yixiu, who died in Jinyinhui, died tragically, and the splendid life of having partners and dreams and longings at that time, the wordless comparison is particularly embarrassing.

Early in the morning, I knew that Yu Yixiu would definitely get a box lunch, even if he was not spoiled by the title, according to the common technique of the play, he was also a person who marked the "box lunch" flag everywhere.

But it's still sad.

(Let me think that Yu Yixiu has become Xu Tian in "Red" in a parallel world, and has another life that is not empty, anyway, it is the face of teacher Zhang Luyi)

At first, Lao Sun explained the three chapters of Xu Tian's covenant, and I had no waves in my heart: Oh.

Later, Xu Tian pretended to be old Chen with a youthful appearance, and repeated Yu Yixiu exactly the same to explain that "there are three points", and I was in my heart: woo-woo-woo.

Foreshadowing and foreshadowing, inheritance and emotion, the water is natural and turbulent.

I think the biggest cruelty is that Yu Yixiu didn't hear Xu Tian say "comrade" until he died.

At the beginning of the fourth episode, Yu Yixiu asked Xu Tian who Lao Sun was, and Xu Tian said "comrade".

In the eighth episode, Yu Zhou asked Yu Yixiu and Xu Tian who they are, and Yu Yixiu said "friends, brothers".

After Yu Yixiu's death, Xu Tian, shown in the camera, was bound under the rain of flowers, unaware that another loved one had also died for him.

The camera didn't even shoot Yu Yixiu's tragic death head-on, just a glimpse of it.

But the romance of the flowers, the youth of the girl, and the strong contrast between the two situations are particularly cruel.

There is not a word of blood, no cruelty, but there is a heart-breaking tragic impact.

Comforting conclusion

It's hard to define what genre "Huan Yan" is.

The form has the face of a road movie, but the core bearing is very different from ordinary road movies.

To some extent, the test of type is mostly left to the later keepers;

For pioneer explorers, "no simple categorization" may mean a new era.

No matter whether you label "Huan Yan" or not, "Huan Yan" is moving and has a very real appeal.

Xu Tian left Guangdong, passed through Fujian, passed through Jiangxi, went north to Zhejiang, and finally arrived in Shanghai, parting with life and death all the way.

Lao Sun and Yu Yixiu, who remained on the road, became Xu Tian's blood and faith, tears and backbone.

It will turn into a breeze and turn into a ganlin, and be with the mountains and rivers and the earth.

When the breeze rises and the rain falls, they will see the joy of everyone in the future.