Are there any meaningful and good-looking movies? Yes, today I will talk to you about Feng Xiaogang's "Fanghua", which is adapted from Yan Geling's novel of the same name.
Starting from Xiao Suizi's perspective, the film tells the story of Liu Feng and He Xiaoping in the literary troupe.
In a heavy rain, Liu Feng picked up he Xiaoping, a new recruit of the dance team, Xiaoping's father was still in labor reform, her family background was incorrect, which was despised at the time, Xiaoping's life became very humble because of "laogai father", so her mother eagerly expected to receive her military uniform photos, Xiaoping also eagerly wanted to get the respect of others, Liu Feng knew Xiaoping's concerns, helped her change to Gegan in the birth column, Xiaoping was very grateful to him, and gave Liu Feng a non-standard military salute.
Then the story begins, the fate of the two is as unstable as this heavy rain, first of all, the film shows the audience the dance of the cultural troupe "Prairie Female Militia", which shows the female soldiers' whiplash and heroic posture to the fullest.
He Xiaoping followed Liu Feng in, she was also fascinated by this dance, the squad leader let He Xiaoping come out to show her hands, He Xiaoping was too busy to show, the female soldier Hao Shuwen took Xiaoping's clothes and held them up in front of Liu Feng, there was a smell of steam on the clothes, Xiaoping saw, distracted, fell down, but she stood up, and then said, I can also do air flips, which made everyone laugh.
Spike took Xiaoping to get clothes, but the military uniform was temporarily gone, to be sent after two weeks, Xiaoping was in a bit of a hurry, she was anxious to take a photo to send home, Spike took her to know the dormitory members, Hao Shuwen was not friendly to Xiaoping, she felt that Xiaoping's body smelled big, Xiaoping did not love to be clean, but their family was too poor, the family bathed once to a dime, she could not afford to pay, here you can take a bath every day, Xiaoping feels very happy.
He Xiaoping entered the group in this way, and she thought that she could be respected by the family that regarded her as a burden and despised her, but she did not know that from the day she entered the group, she had become a joke of the group.
Liu Feng is an ideal model representative, his ideological consciousness is high, willing to dedicate the collective, consciously eat broken dumplings, go out to carry things for teammates, everyone calls him "living Lei Feng", even the pigs of the literary troupe run away to find Liu Feng, he likes the soloist Lin Dingding in the group, Lin Dingding's family is well-off, her famous watch is broken, Liu Feng will try to help her fix it, she does not like to eat dumplings, Liu Feng will cook noodles for her alone.
Lin Dingding went back to the dormitory to get medicine, but found that her military uniform was missing, and it was He Xiaoping who secretly took a picture, she was too anxious.
In the collective of the literary troupe, Spike likes Chen Can the most, he is upright and handsome, standing with Spike is very suitable, a fresh tomato makes Spike feel very happy, and this tomato eating method is also the most tempting way I have ever seen.
Lin Dingding went around a few times to find the military uniform, and then returned to the dormitory, the clothes came back, she suspected that it was He Xiaoping, but He Xiaoping denied it, but it did not take long for the matter to be revealed, the cultural troupe accepted the order to go to the troops to comfort the performance, on the truck, they found He Xiaoping's military uniform photo in the photo studio.
The road is very far, Lin Dingding's feet are blistering, Liu Feng intimately helps her deal with it, Suizi fell behind, and met Chen Can, who is directly subordinate to the troops, here is a foreshadowing of Chen Can's identity.
The condolence performance began, and Lin Dingding was about to play, but she was still in the corner to have a private meeting with others, and finally was bumped into by He Xiaoping.
After their performance returned, He Xiaoping quickly sent the photo out, back Hao Shuwen took the lead in questioning Xiaoping, and forcibly searched out the photo, Hao Shuwen wanted to report to the political commissar, but Lin Dingding was vain, she was afraid that He Xiaoping would report her private meeting to the political commissar, and the matter of military uniforms would be over.
But Xiao Ping had one more knot in her heart, the range practiced the gun, Chen Can taught Sui Zi to end the gun, Hao Shuwen ran over to have to compete with Chen Can, when counting the targets, Hao Shuwen hit a hundred and three rings, Chen Can felt that it was not right, after seeing He Xiaoping's target, he knew that He Xiaoping had been crooked, and actually hit the gun on Hao Shuwen's target, and everyone laughed wildly.
Sui zi and Chen Can's feelings take an ambiguous route, Sui Zi likes Chen Can but does not say clearly, it is cold, in the marching car Sui Zi gave Chen Can a candy, Chen Can held Sui Zi's hand to warm her, taking advantage of the teammates to hold each other's hands, this is the pure and beautiful love of that era.
Another day, a few girls in the cultural troupe were swimming, after swimming they found a piece of underwear sewn with chest pads, they speculated about the owner of the underwear, He Xiaoping finished practicing, very late to return to the bedroom, so they collectively thought that the underwear was He Xiaoping's, He Xiaoping said no, they were going to pick her clothes, fortunately the squad leader appeared in time to stop this farce, but He Xiaoping's self-esteem was hurt again.
In 1976, many major events occurred, Chairman Mao, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and Premier Zhou all left us one after another, a major earthquake occurred in Tangshan, and the Gang of Four was smashed in the same year, and their lives also underwent earth-shaking changes.
Liu Feng smashed his waist in the disaster relief and could no longer dance, he still carried a package for his teammates every time he came back, Spike received her father's package for the first time, she jumped up happily, her father was rehabilitated, and when it came to the light, it turned out that she had endured such misfortune all these years.
He Xiaoping got the news, at night with a flashlight tears to write to her father, she thought that other people's fathers are liberated, her father should also come back, from the letter to learn that when her father left, she was only 6 years old, after her mother remarried, she only hugged her to sleep once, that is still she deliberately frostbite, three days of high fever in exchange for her, she changed her surname to someone else's surname, I don't know if my father can forgive her.
During a practice, Xiaoping's accompaniment felt that she was sweaty and unwilling to cooperate, and everyone froze there, at this time Liu Feng stood up and said, I and Xiaoping danced this section, the political commissar came over, saw this scene, lost his temper, he called Liu Feng to the office, told him a good news, the chief gave him a chance to enter the University of Political Science, this opportunity is very rare, a year out of the graduate is a level of Zhenglian, but Liu Feng gave this precious opportunity to others.
Before leaving, the political commissar handed him a package, which was the last relic of He Xiaoping's father in labor reform, a letter written to Xiaoping by her father before his death, recounting her heart over the years, Xiaoping looked at her father's letter and could not shed a single tear, probably when she thought of him in normal times, she had already dried up her tears.
The times are changing, their attitude towards Liu Feng is also changing, now they only regard Liu Feng as a logistics person who does dirty work, they laugh outside, Liu Feng is inside to accompany Xiaoping to practice "Yi Meng Song", comrades-in-arms want to get married, Liu Feng personally made a pair of sofas for his comrades-in-arms, he only thinks about others, he never thinks about himself?
Times have changed, the personality that has been put in uniform clothing for many years is being liberated, white shirts and jeans have become a new trend, and Spike wears this set of Hong Kong goods, which looks particularly attractive.
Chen Can took a strange thing, it was a tape recorder, and then put a song of Teresa Teng Lijun's "Ten Thousand Strands of Intense Love", under the red cloth, the song was also particularly affectionate and beautiful, Lin Dingding could not help but sigh, it turned out that he could still sing like this.
She put this song to Liu Feng, Liu Feng was deeply moved after listening to it, the love that was originally buried in his heart suddenly became warm and unrestrained, Lin Dingding went to see the sofa made by Liu Feng, the two chatted and chatted, Liu Feng said his selfish heart.
He said that the reason why he gave up the opportunity of the Military and Political University was because he did not want to leave the cultural and industrial troupe, did not want to leave Lin Dingding, Liu Feng boldly confessed to Lin Dingding, saying that he had been waiting for her all these years, Lin Dingding got up and left, and came back to take away the woolen regiment in Liu Feng's hand, Liu Feng thought that Lin Dingding agreed, and hugged her impulsively, and was bumped into by two teammates, saying that she corroded the living Lei Feng, and Lin Dingding went down the well to report him for playing hooligans.
She was ambiguous with so many people, and the result was that Liu Feng couldn't do it, just because Liu Feng was a living Lei Feng? A person who has done all the good deeds and taken full advantage of the virtues, a person who does not eat fireworks in the world, suddenly confesses, makes her feel shocked, disgusted and disappointed.
Overnight, Liu Feng changed from a model to a rogue, Liu Feng was punished, to be sent to the sichuan-Yunnan border field company, the day before the departure, He Xiaoping came to him, Liu Feng wanted to throw away his awards and honors, He Xiaoping could not bear it, he took things away, and said that tomorrow he would definitely send Liu Feng off, Liu Feng's reputation was already bad, so only He Xiaoping came to send him off.
As said in the movie, only people who have never been treated well can best recognize kindness and cherish kindness the most, and in the song of "Farewell", He Xiaoping saluted Liu Feng with a standard military salute.
Liu Feng was driven away, He Xiaoping was disappointed in this collective, in a frontier condolence performance, the actor who originally played the A corner was injured, the squad leader let He Xiaoping play, He Xiaoping did not want to play, pretending to be sick, at this time she had given up the collective that hurt her and Liu Feng, but the doctor told the political commissar that Xiaoping was not sick, the political commissar would plan, pulled Xiaoping on the stage and said something to learn, Xiaoping was deeply moved, and finally went on the field, but in the end she was still punished by the literary troupe and was sent to the field hospital.
In 1979, China's counterattack against Vietnam, at this time the tone of the film suddenly changed, He Xiaoping became a field nurse, everything here is tense and orderly, can not tolerate Xiaoping has a little distraction, the film does not show the positive scene of the battle, only in this hospital, we can imagine the tragedy of the war.
Xiaoping in the hospital to rescue the wounded, Liu Feng outside to lead the team to fight, the two are only a few steps apart, but did not have the opportunity to meet, Liu Feng was ordered to protect the camel team, but encountered enemy attacks in the middle, here there is a six-minute long shot to show the cruelty of the war, just good comrades-in-arms, blink of an eye into an unconscious corpse, Liu Feng led the team to break through, and finally was hit in the right arm when rescuing teammates.
After the war, Liu Feng ordered the remaining troops to continue to advance, he stayed here to guard the corpses of his comrades-in-arms, he wanted to bring back the remains of his comrades-in-arms, perhaps at this moment, Liu Feng did not want to live, he longed for sacrifice, only by sacrificing his ordinary life could it be written as a heroic story, it could be written into a song, composed into a song, and finally sung by the female singer named Lin Dingding, who finally had to think of him every time she sang.
Then Xiao Suizi temporarily transferred away from the cultural and labor corps and became a war correspondent, Xiao Ping tried her best to rescue the wounded soldiers in the hospital, and another car of wounded soldiers came, and only one of them was alive, she couldn't help but vomit, she didn't hate them, she just didn't close her eyes for several days.
Suizi came to the hospital and met He Xiaoping, Suizi came to interview the wounded, but when she saw the wounded soldiers on the bed, she could not say a word, He Xiaoping always wanted to find Liu Feng, she knew that Suizi went to many battlefields, so she entrusted this task to Suizi, in addition, she would never forgive Lin Dingding for the rest of her life.
After returning, Xiaoping continued to take care of the wounded soldiers, the little soldier was only 16 years old, hiding the age of the soldier, Xiaoping listened to the last words of the soldier, could not help but cry, the two poured out their hearts at night, Xiaoping admitted that she had a favorite person, suddenly a bomb exploded, the house was blown up, Xiaoping desperately protected the wounded soldiers.
The camera turned, came to the military hospital, Xiaoping protected the wounded as a hero, bullied for decades, and saw so many cruel things on the battlefield, suddenly became a hero, the contrast was too great, Xiaoping's spirit collapsed. Liu Feng saw Xiao Ping and took her hand and told her that the war was over.
A year after the end of the war, the news came that the cultural and labor corps was about to be disbanded, and Chen Can's father was the deputy commander, and the news was basically wrong.
Chen Can rode away, but someone would come to report that Chen Can had a car accident, Suizi rushed to find him, and when he went to the infirmary, he knew that the person was fine but the front teeth were missing, and he had to find him a real gold as a tooth base to continue to blow the trumpet, otherwise he would have to leave the literary troupe.
Spike did not want him to leave, rushed back to the bedroom to take out the gold chain given to her by her mother, Lin Ding Ding saw it, posted her wedding ring, she told Spike that she was about to marry an overseas Chinese, and then go abroad, Spike was a little lost after learning about it, why do you all have to leave? Sui Zi gave the gold chain to Chen Can and told him not to change his profession, not to change careers, and not to leave here.
In the evening, the last condolence performance of the cultural troupe, He Xiaoping sat under the stage as a wounded person, the teammates were surprised, why Did He Xiaoping become like this, the program on the stage has been performed for so many years, she does not seem to remember at all, but when the stage performed "Yi Meng Song", He Xiaoping suddenly remembered something, her hands slowly danced with the song, and then she walked out of the door, dancing alone on the grass, why did she feel this song alone? Because this was the only song with Liu Feng dancing, she remembered Liu Feng and remembered the past.
At the end of the performance, Suizi finally plucked up the courage to write a love letter to Chen Can, but Hao Shuwen said that she and Chen Can were fine, just a few days ago, they also had the right door, Suizi was very lost, secretly took out the letter, tore it to pieces, in the last cocktail party of the literary troupe, everyone was singing "Send Comrades", there was no He Xiaoping and Liu Feng in this cocktail party, everyone sang and drank and cried, and the sky was different.
After the people are gone, Liu Feng once again returns to the cultural troupe, under the billboard of Coca-Cola, the horn of reform and opening up is blowing, a new era has arrived, and Liu Feng is still wearing old clothes in such a background, suggesting that he is unchanged in the torrent of the times, he is the most deeply influenced by that era, Liu Feng carried the bag back to the practice room where the cultural and labor troupe was located, people went to the empty building, and the past is vividly remembered.
Then Liu Feng went to He Xiaoping's bedroom again, just here he met the spikes who were admitted to college, and Liu Feng found He Xiaoping's shredded military uniform photos in a cracked wooden board.
Fast forward to 1991, Spike became a writer, hao Shuwen and Chen Can's children attended Spike's new book meeting, the two have not seen each other warmly for many years.
Hao Shuwen went outside to wait for Suizi, just saw Liu Feng passing by, Liu Feng came to ask for his car, life is not easy, he used the car to pull goods for people to make a living, but the captain here had to fine 1,000 yuan, the two sides quarreled but did not move their hands, but also threw Liu Feng's fake hand outside.
Hao Shuwen came over to help Liu Feng, come up is afraid, do you dare to fight soldiers, combat heroes? Liu Feng did not want to make a big deal out of it, and finally Hao Shuwen helped him pay a fine to settle the end, the group friends met, several people talked about the past few years of life, Liu Feng insisted on giving Hao Shuwen an IOU, and when he came back, he was torn up by Hao.
In 1995, Mengzi, Xiaoping and Liu Feng came to the cemetery together to visit their comrades-in-arms, and the two did not have a good life, but compared with the comrades-in-arms in the cemetery, how could they say that they were not good.
Before the parting station, the two sat on a bench and talked, Liu Feng handed the military uniform photo to Xiao Ping, Xiao Ping asked about Liu Feng's lover, Liu Feng said to run, but he did not blame others, He Xiaoping talked about the previous matter, said that he had always had a sentence to say to him, this sentence has been in her mouth for more than ten years, she hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Can you hug me?" Liu Feng understood Xiao Ping's intentions, and on the bench at the station, Liu Feng wrapped his arms around her with one hand.
Ten years later, Liu Feng had a serious illness, thanks to Xiaoping's careful care, Liu Feng picked up a life, the two did not marry, no children, they regard each other as the only relatives, compared to others, they live enough, although not much, but treat people gently, since the end of the movie.
A song instantly brought us into that year, is Han Hong's cover of "Velvet Flower", the screen shows: I would like to dedicate this film to you and our Fanghua, I see a lot of analysis of the characters in the Internet, there are a lot of dark and ironic meanings, but in my opinion, this movie does not blame anyone, nor does it blame anyone, their lives are also the norm of our current life, we quietly listened to a story of that year, no matter what the ending, those are their Fanghua, well, today's program is here, Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time, bye bye!