"Christ of Nanjing" is a plot / love type film directed by Ou Dingping and starring Liang Jiahui / Yasuko Tomita / Yu Zonghua, which is carefully compiled from the Internet by some audience reviews, hoping to help everyone.
"Christ of Nanjing" Film Review (1): What is love in the end
Sometimes it is confusing to hear statements like "love is not directly related to marriage."
Doesn't it matter? So this is the tragedy of the golden flower.
The world does need unity, but is it common to be moral to everyone or to be united to be free? It's uncomfortable to watch.
"Christ of Nanjing" Film Review (II): Full of paper dialogue is glued with desolate and desperate love.
"I can no longer write it down, and in such a situation, it is indescribable pain to continue to survive." I don't know if anyone can secretly hang me while I'm asleep. ”
"Christ of Nanjing" Film Review (III): The Christ of Nanjing has been absent for a long time
The movies I watched on TV as a child leave memories and vaguely remember only a few images — the Qinhuai River in the early 20th century, brothels, foreign missionaries, venereal diseases and poignant love. There is still a discrepancy between memory and reality, I have been thinking about it for many years, I have never known the name of the movie, and today I found this old movie from 1995 by coincidence.
When I was young, my tentacles were always very sharp, and I could better appreciate delicate emotions and was easy to be moved. As I get older, I am more inclined to look at things with a critical rational eye, no longer believe in simplicity, no longer believe in dreams, no longer believe in unrequited efforts and unrepentant love in this world. Ryunosuke Wasagawa's original book, I will go to see.
Japanese literature is cruel and poignant, intense on the surface and deeply disappointed in and rejected by human nature and the world. Death dissolves all imperfections in this world and takes away all suffering and desire. If death is the end of all life, then suicide may be the most dignified and beautiful way to say goodbye to the world.
That was Leung Ka Fai's best age, and it was also Ou Dingping's best age, a director with an art background, who saw skill and thought in the details. This play, half to see Tomita Yasuko, half to see the small town of Jiangnan, the winding narrow streets and alleys, the meandering white walls and black tiles, Wu Nong's warm comments, the fine Ming and Qing furniture, every frame is like a painting. The downloaded film is not very clear, and some of it is yellowed and smudged, adding a layer of alienation and dreaminess. The movie experience is also like the film itself, the beauty of regret.
"Christ of Nanjing" Film Review (4): God and Love
If faith in God can help people survive despair, then why bother even if God doesn't exist?
In the same way, if faith in love can help people survive despair, then why bother even if the lover is not there?
The son knows, the sacrifice is as present, and the sacrifice is as the god is. Belief is existence, typical idealism.
Japanese literature seems to like to portray women as "trusted geniuses" (Osamu Dazai's "human disqualification"). Yu Yan in "The Tale of Genji", the lady in "I Am a Cat", and even the Golden Flower in this work are all convinced of the male protagonist.
A friend is out of love, Cloud, I don't believe in love anymore. However, remembering that she had told me tenderly about her lover, I told her not to deceive herself for too long.
Another friend, a devout Christian, survived unimaginable hardships with faith in God—divorced parents, drunk mothers, and even once poor enough to live in a garage. I can also understand why she is passionate about religion, because that is almost the only spiritual pillar in her predicament.
However, even if she is strong and optimistic, she still has the heel of Achilles — there is a love song that she can't hear at all, because it will evoke painful memories for her. You see, God did everything for her, but he couldn't help her get through the emotional barrier.
The same goes for the golden flower. God could help her endure the hardships of her livelihood, but she lost her mind in the face of love. At the end of the film, Jinhua breaks free from Okagawa's embrace because of the Divine Comedy, but chooses to die chasing his hat under Okgawa's question of "Love me or love God". The movie's answer is obviously that love trumps God.
However, the love is not long-lived. Even if you die for love, you still have to see God after all.
"Christ of Nanjing" Film Review (5): Death makes love reborn
The fireworks woman, who had suffered from an STD, chased with all her life on the long railroad tracks the hat that had been blown away by the wind, which was the hat of the man she loved.
Her face was haggard, but her smile was incomparably happy, because he did not dislike her illness, and he vowed to take her to Japan to cure her illness, but her smile was also sad. Because she knew that his wife and children were in Japan, what if she was well? Will she be with him for the rest of her life?
She smiled brightly, like the sunset at that time, the instant glory of the sunset.
She staggered, but insisted on chasing the hat that was fleeting near and far, the only happiness she had received in seventeen years.
If her blindfolded chase in the Green Building was an unfortunate beginning, now she looked at the hat and followed closely as the beginning of her quest for happiness, though such a beginning was doomed to be a sad end.
The hat finally stopped, not far ahead of her. Step by step, she ran over, closer, closer. That happiness seemed within reach. However, she was too tired, too tired, and the first second she was still struggling to catch up, but this moment she fell down, heavy, completely without the light spirit she had when she ran in the rape field before her death, and the moment she died was not beautiful at all, let alone romantic.
She collapsed on the sleeper, one hand reaching forward, the hat at her fingers, just a little bit. At this moment, a small wind blew the hat away...
The man ran over and hugged her tightly in his arms, tightly...
Later, the man returned to Japan, often waking up at night and then unable to sleep again. Finally, after seeing his wife for the last time, he slowly walked up the small attic from the Yongdao to the small attic in the steps of a simple Japanese dance, and his wife woke up and quietly wept behind her.
He died – taking plenty of sleeping pills. Because he loved the dead woman, for her, he didn't want to live alone...
I have watched this film twice, each time with different feelings, only the end of the film is something I have been unable to let go, happiness is at my fingertips, but it is beyond reach.
To this day, the plot of the film is still vividly remembered, and once touched, it covers me like a flood.
Yellow film-like shots, exquisite details, beautiful music, sad stories.
Watching the movie, I love and hate this kind of love.
"Christ of Nanjing" Film Review (6): God's Love, Human Feelings - Redemption
Just like the two ends of the most divergent, but always the closest side, accompanied by light and shadow. I have always wanted to see Tanizaki's "pure love" end up in "carnal desire", and I have never been able to understand that Mishima, who was so "beautiful" in the beginning, died so "violently". The Great United Nation, this mournful nation. It has its own distinctive and unified aesthetic consciousness, that is, "material mourning" and "mysterious".
In his literature, he has always greatly beautified and rendered "death", exaggerating its aesthetic consciousness to the extreme! It is as if all existence is suffering, and the practice is only to meet the brilliance and dazzling of the moment of "death". The mood of death always seems detached and secluded in their pens, and the gorgeous words and phrases that depict the scene of death have left a very deep impression on people for many years. Wasagawa, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima... As is the "custom", they can end their lives in the form of suicide, bidding farewell to this earthly world that is "transparent as ice". Truly, life is like the splendor of summer flowers, and death is like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves.
I would like to talk about the work, which was originally the novel of the same name by Ryunosuke Wasagawa, and the film builds on it and draws on part of the plot of its "Orange". Wasagawa was a favorite at the Japan Literature Awards, and the film also won the Best Actress Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan. The influence should have been extraordinary, but it has always been unknown and the response is mediocre. I paid special attention to it because Hong Kong actor Leung Ka-fai starred as the Japanese male writer Okagawa, and Japanese actor Haruko Tomita starred as Jinhua, a qinglou woman in Qinhuai, Jiangnan, China. A very interesting role swap ~
A prostitute who believes in Christ and falls in love with a Japanese writer. The golden flower of the virgin night was blessed by Okagawa. But she thought that this was a cave flower candle, and even the life of being raised after that, she also thought it was a honeymoon. Finally " after being beaten back to her original form " , she was infected with incurable syphilis. One night after Jinhua fell ill, she mistook a rogue foreigner for Christ and made him a white prostitute.
The difference between the original book and the movie is the ending. I was just thinking about this...
In the original work, the prostitute's illness after being a white prostitute was cured, and the scoundrel was infected and died. The final redemption in the novel shows the power of the prostitute's simple good faith. Although prostitutes mistook the scoundrel for Christ, the prostitute's faith was to Christ, not to the scoundrel foreigner. The prostitute is saved by her own faith, not by someone's magic; faith has its own rewards and is not changed by external conditions (e.g., the rogue is not the true Christ)—this is the essence of Christian faith. What Wasagawa thus shows us is his despair of manpower. Since the human heart is no longer worth looking forward to. It is better to love god than to love others. Man's efforts are better than waiting for God's redemption. This is the beauty of nihilistic ideals!
In the movie, Jinhua is still dead, but the rogue is still alive. After Okgawa left, Jinhua lived with a sincere faith in Christ; in the end, what she chased away before she died was not the hymn of "Jesus loves me", but Okagawa's top hat that was blown away by the wind. Jinhua survived strongly because she knew that "Jesus loved the world"; later, Okagawa "loved her more than Christ" and died happily.
So I can't help but reflect on the "love of God's power" and "the private love of men and women", on the surface one is born of the heavens, one is shallow and selfish, but who really has a deeper sense of salvation? The cruelty of reality makes people yearn for the beauty of the divine world, so can God be more redeeming? ~ And the meager manpower is difficult to pay, so it shows its depth?! Divine faith can be the fulcrum that keeps us alive; but we are only willing to give our lives for the pursuit of our personal desires. We look for liberation and a way out from God, but we are still grieved and moved by the helplessness of the human heart. Many times, God makes us have to face the objectivity of death, but the human heart can make us smile and be relieved. Reality, because it is cruel, is real; the human heart, because of helplessness, is moved by it. This is the love of reality, cruel and touching it!
In the end, the story's poignant atmosphere can't hide the dazzling beauty of love. The love that comes out of your bones can sometimes rival a religious force. Faith in Christ is like faithfulness to love to the death. From joy to sorrow, from birth to death, the burial of love is accompanied by the end of life. Life is like an upward step, at the end, the ink-colored steps are fixed, and death is the end