In the play, Zheng Yaoxian turned his back on his brother, failed his lover, abandoned his daughter for the sake of faith and organization, and almost lost the people of the world. Switching to reality, "Zheng Yaoxian" spent five years of bitter self-knowledge in order to leave one more scene, a shot, and even a line for his brothers.
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The beginning of the movie "Infernal Affairs" quotes a sentence from the Nirvana Sutra: The best of the eight hells, called the endless hell, is the meaning of uninterrupted suffering, hence the name.
"Infernal Affairs" cleverly borrows the Buddhist extreme description of suffering, and tells the extreme torture of "undercover", which has existed since ancient times, which must be endured by the "time and space", which is unending and unending.
The recent hit TV series "Kite" staged a historical version of "Infernal Affairs" - Zheng Yao, played by Liu Yunlong, was first one of the "Eight King Kongs" of the Kuomintang military command, and also an agent of the Communist Party lurking in the upper echelons of the Kuomintang, code-named "Kite". Different from the previous spy war theme, "Kite" does not focus more on the usual routine of fighting and killing, becoming a king and losing a Kou, but returns to the position of human nature, showing a national tragedy, this side and the other side are subject to identity and fate, and each experiences endless suffering.
Within the military command, Zheng Yaoxian was a high-powered "sixth brother", and after the sacrifice of a single-line contact, how to prove his identity after the founding of the country became the biggest problem that Zheng Yaoxian faced.
In "Infernal Affairs", Chen Yongren said, "Obviously it is three years, but after three years and three years, after three years and three years, it is almost ten years old!" In the fate of Zheng Yaoxian in "Kite", it is "I endured for ten years, I don't know how many more decades I will endure in the next few decades." How many decades can I live in this lifetime? When will I be able to live like a person? ”
In "Infernal Affairs", Silly Qiang was bent on defending Chen Yongren, and before he died, he said meaningfully, "I didn't, I didn't say you went to massage, let Brother Chen know that you went to massage, you must be unlucky... Brother Ren, I would like to ask you, is that massage girl beautiful today? ”
Zheng Yaoxian in "Kite" also has a group of brothers who are willing to be born and die for themselves, one commits suicide by hitting the wall for him, one who obviously has the opportunity to escape but chooses to give up at the last moment, and what he said at the end of his life is, "God treats me not thin, let me see the sixth brother before I die... This life is worth it. ”
What is said by the endless suffering is that out of faith and duty, Chen Yongren and Zheng Yaoxian had to use the purest morality and emotions in the world to endure the endless tearing of faith and reality, morality and mission for a long time in the two worlds that could not cross the boundary.
The difference is that Chen Yongren's suffering is a dramatic overhead, while "Kite" throws Zheng Yaoxian into the era of more than half a century from the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China to the reform and opening up, and their suffering, casually turning a page of history, can easily find a sad echo from it.
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The most valuable thing about "Kite" is that it gives the losers the dignity they deserve. The Kuomintang did not appear as an unforgivable reactionary, but in the midst of a vigorous era, a group of ordinary people who chose another faith. When all the dust settled, Zheng Yaoxian told his inner struggle, "There are also many benevolent people among them, who could have been good husbands and fathers. ”
The play also sets up a lot of "low-level reflection" plots, the power within the Kuomintang is tilted, the people in power turn their backs on their faith, and they are separated from the 40,000 million people. Near the end, the Kuomintang found a "shadow" that had been lurking on the mainland for 40 years and said, "The party-state is sorry for you." "Shadow" replied, the party-state is not sorry for me, the party-state is sorry for the forty million people who once were.
Since it is faith, it is difficult to judge it by simple right and wrong, the Three People's Principles are all good sentences, and the problem is never faith, but people who use faith to seize power.
Jump out of the binary logic of becoming a king and losing, look back at the history of decades ago, everyone is their own master, different positions, and then consider the love and hatred in it, there is not so much obedience and prejudice, history is not a tool to create hatred, history will only create a heavy sigh after another.
Truly advanced literary and artistic works will cross the ideological barriers and explore the universal humanity behind them. The reason why the character of "Zheng Yaoxian" can stand is not because he is charming, intolerant, and determined, but precisely because of the "secret agent" identity In the process of exercising his mission every time, he still has the ability to perceive pain.
That was the enemy he wanted to destroy, it was also his brother and lover, and every moment of short contact, Zheng Yaoxian would say to his brother who had fallen into his trap with great pain, "Why are you coming", "Why are you so stupid?" He asked the organization to send his former brother on his last journey, giving himself the dignity of the "shadow" of his confidant. Faith obliges him to do it, and human nature obliges him to endure all the pain that goes with it.
The perception of these sufferings is the most precious part of human beings. In his destiny, "living like a person" has always been a luxury, and it is very regrettable that it is precisely these painful and tragic moments that can give him a moment of "living like a person".
The hit "Kite" also brought fire to the villain Gong Shu, who, from the standpoint of class struggle, was a big agent of the Kuomintang, who had more than enough to die and deserved. But from a person's point of view, he resisted the Japanese army and was loyal to the country; inserted a knife for his brother's two ribs, which has the righteousness of a man; for his partner to commit a single crime, after eight years of separation, he was not close to a woman, and there was the most scarce singleness of men.
Actor Sun Bin played Gong Shu in "Kite"
Under the rolling wheels of the times, people are often powerless to resist anything, more than ten years after Gong Shu and Zheng Yao first went through the disaster wave and reunited, waiting for the other party who was looked up to him for half a life to point his gun from behind, Gong Shu's faith collapsed, the benevolence and righteousness advocated by Zheng Yao in the previous half of his life also collapsed, in a tragedy, there is no real victor, think about who is not a poor person?
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As an extremely rare spy drama that extends the timeline to anti-rightism, cultural revolution, and reform and opening up, "Kite" was filmed in 2013, during which it went through the process of fixing, withdrawing, and then fixing and withdrawing the file, until the end of 2017, it was finally broadcast on satellite TV.
There are many behind-the-scenes stories surrounding Kite. When the file was withdrawn for the first time, Pei Xinglei, a young actor who played Gao Junbao, was in Lhasa and cried when he heard the news. When he first received the script, he also cried once, that is, he saw a line in the play, in front of the grave of his adoptive mother, as a descendant of the Central Government, he said a paragraph to his sister who was a Red Guard, which was a reflection on history, which made Pei Xinglei cry on the spot. In order to pray for "Kite", he went to the Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple to pray for the scriptures, not wanting to wait for four years, in four years, every time he went to Tibet, he would turn the mountains and lakes to pray for "Kite", hoping that this work would live up to everyone's 209 days of efforts.
"Kite" was broadcast after experiencing various twists and turns, and Pei Xinglei specially wrote an article to communicate with the audience with the innocence and honesty of a young actor: Our current film and television works cannot only stay in entertainment, we must have works that express the truth, express our lives, express the emotions of the world, express different beliefs of different positions, express the unfathomable unpredictability of human nature, express the lofty value of faith, and walk slowly under lofty ideals.
And Sun Bin, the actor of Gong Shu, almost continued the righteousness and determination of the characters in the play, "The kite does not broadcast, I do not take the play." As a result, when the TV series was broadcast in 2017, Liu Yunlong had to work with the crew to find people on the network, and finally "blew" Sun Bin out.
The most bitter is still the starring and directing Liu Yunlong, a young actor posted a Weibo on the day of the end of the TV series, "Five years! You see us now five years ago. How many five years of life? Brother Long's five years were stolen for this child!! For an actor of his level, how many plays can he shoot in five years, how much money can he make, how many variety shows... But every time I saw him in the past five years, he was busy in the post-production room!! ......”
The day before the release of "Kite", Liu Yunlong sent a message to many actors in the play, saying " I'm sorry, brother tried his best." On the day of the broadcast, he sent a Weibo post, a photo of his companion secretly taking a break when he was tired in the editing room, accompanied by a sentence, "There are no years to look back."
Photo / Liu Yunlong Weibo
It is true that there are no years to look back, in five years, in 2014, the fire "No War in Peiping", in 2015 was "The Pretender", and in 2016, the hegemonic screens have become traffic dramas, and spy dramas have completely bid farewell to their golden age.
In the play, Zheng Yaoxian turned his back on his brothers, failed his lover, abandoned his daughter, and almost lost the world for the sake of faith and organization. Switching to reality, the final broadcast of "Kite" from the original 51 episodes, into the final 46 episodes, some of the line changes make the drama has a lot of sound and picture misalignment of the scene, the line that made Pei Xinglei cry, filmed the brotherhood of many people, did not meet more audiences. "Zheng Yaoxian" spent five years of bitterness and self-knowledge in order to leave one more scene, a shot, and even a line for the brothers.
Decades have passed, time will make people have a more fair examination of the past history, the moment of national peril, there will always be someone to stand up for the faith, and when the country is calm, someone should always record their story. For those who are drowned in the long river of history and can no longer speak out, those who have had noble beliefs in the past, the sacrifices that have not been reversed, and the grievances that can never be said, the emergence of "Kite" can be regarded as a comfort to a greater or lesser extent.
After the broadcast of "Kite", the crew members gathered to celebrate Photo / Liu Mingyang Weibo
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