When I decided to write Guo Keyu, I was a little hesitant.
We wrote a review about "Goodbye Lover" before, and the response was good (watching them divorce actually appeased my marital phobia).
The more the show aired, the more many viewers may be like me, the more they found out that Guo Keyu was a treasure guest.
Coupled with the fact that Guo Keyu's interview came out during this time, a gentle, strong, sensitive and appropriate middle-aged woman appeared in front of the public.
She is definitely a pearl in the entertainment industry, and in daily life, such a woman who has been deeply rooted in life but is still clean is also doomed to be an outlier.
So decided to write her.
But writing About Guo is not an easy task.
The reasons will be explained in more detail later.
I just feel that in today's environment, when the voice of "independent women" is very loud, such a woman is really rare.
She is neither Mulan, who has broken her hair and joined the army, nor is she a good wife and mother in the conventional sense.
Guo Keyu this person, her story, her life, for many viewers is a kind of comfort.
As an actress who became famous at a young age and then "wasted" fame and fortune, she provided us ordinary people with an imagination of the middle ground.
A woman who is not as successful as people expect her can live well.
01
If you have not seen the variety show "Goodbye Lover", I am afraid that most people do not know who Guo Keyu is.
After watching "Goodbye Lover", many people will be fans of this "non-famous" actress -
Her temperament, conversation, and state are particularly fresh and decent in a divorce show.
Especially in the current entertainment industry, a "feminist" wind has blown, and female stars must establish an "independent female" personality as soon as they debut.
Once you are over 30 years old, you must brush up on money, fame, and profit, and call it "engaging in a career.", once you lose your foot and indulge in small love and do not care about chasing fame and profit, you will suffer from the yin and yang strange atmosphere of public opinion and white eyes.
At this time, a Guo Keyu appeared, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is really like a spring breeze.
What is Guo Keyu like?
At the beginning of the show, the subtitles explained that she was an actress.
Guo Keyu appeared wearing a pig liver-colored down vest and wrapped in a big red scarf.
At night, the wind in Xinjiang blew, blowing Guo Keyu's face red, his mouth peeling, and the wrinkles and ravines on his face all appeared.
It is not at all the appearance of the exquisite female star in our impression, like the mother around us who worries about trivial matters all day, or all kinds of middle-aged women who look down in life and do not look up.
So ordinary that it's hard not to be surprised when we learn that she's the aura-filled Chuchu from Red Cherry twenty years ago:
What has she experienced over the years?
Of course, soon, when she opens her mouth, you will understand that Sister Guo is still your Sister Guo.
Although he speaks softly, sometimes a single sentence can hit people's hearts every minute.
For example, when expressing the helplessness and loss of love, she only said with tears:
What's wrong without love? What about love?
Can you say goodbye if you have love?
Instantly elevates her love affair with Zhanghe to the level of BE aesthetics (short for bad ending, meaning the broken beauty brought about by the end of tragedy).
For example, she never made it clear that she loved music.
But when Zhang He shouted on the roof, "You must live like you," which brought her to tears, her own song sounded, "Until the Right Man Comes."
At this time, we will be surprised that Guo Keyu's singing voice is so good.
Dig deeper, you will find that Guo Keyu is still the lead singer of the band, the band is called "Star Chaser", which sounds unreliable, but in fact, the team members are well-known musicians in the industry.
Let's go to see the theme song written by Sister Guo for "Goodbye Lover", the lyrics are full of rich imagery, rhetoric, but not pretentious at all.
especially:
You made me bring back the color of love
I ask you the direction of the color
You made me bring back the sound of love
I ask you the duration of the voice
Isn't this about the love that she and Zhang He have always misplaced?
The content is abstract, but the expression is extremely vivid and accurate.
Finally, I asked myself:
Go ask the time.
One chant and three sighs, singing heartbreakingly.
Once, in the face of Zhang He's shouting to break the ice, Guo Keyu's emotions surged. In the evening, she wrote on her daily record:
I don't have the strength to write about today now, and I plan to remember today tomorrow, just like everyone is remembering yesterday today. Good night.
The list goes on and on.
According to the theory, the six guests of the "Goodbye Lover" program group are almost all literary and art practitioners.
But the only person who really exudes poetry is Guo Keyu.
She likes to read poetry and share verses with people, but she is by no means a vassal.
As soon as she speaks and moves, you know that her spiritual world resonates with those innocent, fiery, deep poems.
The words that describe Zhanghe's ears are cute and vivid
As a divorced couple, she almost did not talk about Zhanghe's shortcomings, mentioning Zhanghe's goodness, the care for her during pregnancy, and respect for her values (taking care of her sick ex, never looking at her mobile phone) and so on.
In the face of unbearable, or illness, she basically skipped lightly, did not complain, and was grateful.
When you are happy, like a girl, you will tell a little lie to make your ex-husband jealous and spank your lover's ass.
It is no wonder that Brother Zhang has been following him for ten years, not only "drumming out a child", but also asking bitterly "Have you ever loved me" (ten seconds of heartache for Brother Zhang).
Sister's cute smile
Not to mention the entertainment industry where everyone wears a mask.
Such a woman with goods in her stomach and not ostentatious, playful and not distorted, even in ordinary life is very rare to meet.
02
But why do I say that Guo Keyu is difficult to write?
It is also very simple, because she is not red enough, not "successful" enough, and the weight of the work is not heavy enough.
Audiences familiar with us also know that as a film and television number, the people we write about are generally accomplished in the literary and artistic circles.
This achievement, that is, in the secular sense, has award recognition, audience reputation, or has a legendary experience.
But Guo Keyu is not a "successful" actress in the secular sense.
She used to "break the earth".
At the age of seventeen, he starred in "Red Cherry", and at such an age, in the 1990s, it was revolution, nude drama and tattoo, leaving a glimpse of Chinese films.
But judging from the results, her later development was not good.
Although it has been stable for the next decade, there are few classics that have been passed down.
When collecting information in the early stage, I watched the film and television drama she acted in before getting married, and I felt that it was a pity that her talent was indeed wasted.
Most of those films preached true feelings in the world, or revolutionary love and the like.
She is often the wife of a hero, emotionally sincere, but not deep enough.
Guo Keyu's performance has always been very agile and sincere, but it does not help the thinness of the whole character.
Many directors bluntly said that the reason for choosing her was to see her innocence and firmness in "Red Cherry".
But the real her is far richer and more three-dimensional than ChuChu in "Red Cherry".
Some people say that when he was young, Guo Keyu acted like Zhou Xun; sang like Faye Wong; and his temperament after middle age was like Yongmei.
The three female artists who are compared are all "literary and artistic goddesses" who are praised in the entertainment industry.
But the difference is that Zhou Xun, Faye Wong and Yong Mei all have success in the secular sense.
However, Guo Keyu sank all the way after becoming famous at a young age, giving up his career for marriage, and eventually his marriage failed and his career was interrupted.
Green onion years
And the frailty and illness not only made her miss such a big production as "Red River Valley" (the heroine of the film originally meant Guo Keyu, but was resigned by Guo Mama for physical reasons, and finally Tranquility became a hit with this film), but also let her go to the ghost gate when she reached middle age.
In this sense, it is difficult for us to regard Guo Keyu as an example of success.
But from another point of view, her "failure" is another kind of appeasement that is more meaningful to ordinary people.
She is the back of those "literary goddesses", doing things with intuition and love, and in the end, whether it is fame or profit, nothing is gained.
But what's the "big deal"?
There is something else in life worth pursuing.
In "Goodbye Lover", Guo Keyu read a poem by Yu Xiuhua "Face to Face" to Zhu Yaqiong:
At the moment when everyone's emotional line gradually became clear halfway through the journey, Guo Keyu seemed to inadvertently say a lot of unspoken meanings for the program group.
She is the one who has experienced hardship and darkness, and only wants to settle down and express herself, but inadvertently tells the truth of life.
In a recent interview, Guo Keyu mentioned his illness, suddenly fainted at home, and went everywhere to seek medical advice and did not see any improvement.
When she went everywhere for medical treatment, she did not forget to observe others.
Seeing the migrant workers with blood on their faces and seeing the little baby with a strange disease, it seems that every time you seek medical advice has become an opportunity to understand life.
She was in pain, but there was always someone else in her eyes, and she could draw the strength to survive from the lives of others.
Isn't this kind of courage something more solid and useful than the "independence" of female stars who are piled up with money?
Moreover, when she talked about this experience in the interview, I admired her very much, she was already so sleepy, but she was still involuntarily empathizing with others, involuntarily feeling compassion for life other than herself.
This innate goodness and understanding cannot be learned, and there is existence, and there is no such thing as nothing.
And Sister Guo is so natural.
03
Guo Keyu actually has a particularly girly side.
The more she got to the back of the show, the more open she became, and the more girlish it became.
It is a feeling of innocence and sincerity, often talking about seeing something you like, your eyes will light up, and the smile you will show is four points of joy and seven points of curiosity.
Just like when she sang "Wear festive clothes and swing freely" in her twenties, her body has sunk, but her eyes have not changed.
I also particularly liked the look in her first episode when she and Zhang he met for the first time.
The emotions on the face and in the eyes are too rich, although there are not many words, but looking back at this look, it is very complicated, there is embarrassment, there is doubt, and even a little bit of pampering.
But the breadth and level of this emotion is probably beyond the scope that Zhang He can understand (sorry Brother Zhang, the words are not good, but the facts).
In Yu Xiuhua's "Face to Face", there is a sentence that inexplicably fits with Guo Keyu:
You say I kidnapped you, I didn't think about it when you were thirsty
Sacrifice me with my blood?
Guo Keyu is a typical highly sensitive artist personality, and the intensity of emotion is self-evident.
At the age of 13, she had a year-old love affair with Zhang Jiarui, the talented director (also her Bole) at the time, so that the family was so angry that they forced them to separate in a lawsuit.
At that time, I was not admitted to Nortel, was covered by the media, couldn't think straight, ran out to crash the car, and was pulled back by my mother.
The original intention of marrying Zhanghe was also because it was dark at that time, and he felt too lonely and wanted to be a mother.
Sentient, it is nothing here in Guo Keyu.
What is admirable about her is righteousness.
She told Zhang He that there was an ex who was not in good health before, and if the other party needed her, she wanted to take care of her. This passage has been sprayed by many people on the Internet, but when placed on Guo Keyu, I think it is not strange at all, but I feel that she is more open-minded and open-minded, like a chivalrous woman.
Before she fell ill, she played a play in a theater troupe, and then her body collapsed and she couldn't act in a play. The creator took care of her feelings, and every rehearsal had to call her to come and give advice.
She felt that she could not live up to others, but she could not help much, so she cooked a meal for the troupe for a year under the background.
She described her state at that time, that is, she was shooting garlic underneath, and watching the people above acting.
This scene reminds me of her suddenly making up a Uighur guy on the show to "sour" Zhanghe, and the program team asked her why she did it.
She smiled and frowned, her eyes shining:
"I don't know." (Actually, there are numbers in mind)
It was as if she herself felt strange at that moment, as she might have wondered when she was patting garlic below:
What am I doing here? Doesn't seem to make sense. But it has to be done.
It's so cute and cute.
Because she has experienced life and death, she is also particularly free in the show.
Others have more or less all kinds of difficulties, and she has crossed those ditches and bumps into the next stage of life.
Only she was truly enjoying the trip.
The magnificent landscape of Xinjiang really entered her heart and inspired her to further think about interpersonal relationships and human feelings.
That's why she said in the interview:
"The two of us are destined to share this scene, and when we reach such a magnificent place as nature, the love between heaven and earth is too insignificant. Love is too small, or rather her level is a little thin. You warm me, and I want to warm you, and we want to be sentient and righteous. ”
Incidentally, in 2002, she starred in a movie called True Love Threesome. In the film, she plays a teacher who helps a student who has lost his mother pretend to be his mother, falls in love with the parents of a student who is older than himself, and adopts the child after his death.
Today, this story may be criticized as "politically incorrect."
Now I can think of a thousand reasons to criticize the character.
But more than a decade later, in 2014, Guo Keyu, who was in his thirties, gave the 1,011st interpretation:
I think love is thin, and in that life and death situation, she just wants to do something for him, that's all.
At that time, Guo Keyu was not divorced, but the marriage was probably not happy enough;
I wasn't sick yet, but my face was showing fatigue.
In the era of increasing self-esteem, Guo Keyu, who has always been self-reliant, does not care about personal gains and losses.
What she cares about is that it's always four words—
"There is love and righteousness".
So, why do we like Guo Keyu?
It's like someone who loves rolling mountains, distant stars and fluttering winds.
They are here, because nature is like this, and the beauty of nature makes no sense and has no purpose.
Guo Keyu is the same.
She said everything, did everything, just to make herself comfortable.
And she stretched, and the others followed Shu.
Such a person will always have charm, once fascinated Byo Zhang (and a number of literary directors), and now also fascinated the audience.
What will happen to Guo Keyu's future development?
No one knows.
"Goodbye Lover" has ended, people's eyes are rising and falling, and Guo Keyu will continue his life trek.
If everyone must have expectations of her, it probably does not have to fall on such specific things as career and marriage.
Like she said, love is thin, and so is career and marriage.
What I'm looking forward to is that she can continue to live her life round and full.