"Fanghua" is a long novel of a reminiscence nature created by contemporary writer Yan Geling, which is the story of the military cultural and industrial troupe in the 1970s. The novel revolves around the fact that Liu Feng, a male soldier of the Literary and Labor Troupe, was sent down for the "touch incident", and unfolds the retracement of the common youth memories of a generation, and uses this to dissect the relationship between the collective and the self in a specific era, and explores the changes in the fate of a generation.
The novel "Fanghua" was officially published in 2017, and in the same year, Feng Xiaogang put it on the silver screen, recreating the "Fanghua" years of literary and artistic soldiers in the 70s. In the film "Fanghua", the male protagonist Liu Feng is a "labor model" and "pacesetter" image in the army, and he is also a "good old man" who is so kind that he has almost no principles.
In the cultural and labor troupe, Liu Feng has always taken care of the female soldiers in the army as a "big brother" and helped them grow and progress. What is even more precious is that in the era of political high pressure, in the face of sensitive female soldiers such as Xiao Suizi, Liu Feng not only tolerated her, but also took good care of her; in the face of He Xiaoping, a new recruit who was discriminated against everywhere and fell into disarray, Liu Feng was the only person in the army who treated her with an indiscriminate heart.
Always treat others with a spirit of selfless dedication, regardless of the object, this is Liu Feng. At the same time, in the army, in the face of the dirty work that comrades could not avoid, Liu Feng was also willing to take it upon himself. He gave up his personal rest time to do something that others saw as thankless: repairing the floor, mending the wall, carrying the package, and taking the initiative to take on the "hard work" of "copying the head" and so on.
Because of this "no complaint" effort, the comrades-in-arms gradually became accustomed to Liu Feng's enthusiasm and dedication, so there was an extremely funny scene in the film, the pigs in the army pigsty ran away, and the hook in the female soldier's bath room broke... No matter how big or small things are absurd, everyone's knee-jerk reaction is to find Liu Feng.
In a few years, Liu Feng's outstanding performance of hard work and resentment has earned him a mountain of awards and prizes. However, these honors that seem to envy others have also become his shackles, Yan Geling wrote:
All the prizes are condolences to "castration", to the reward of hard work, are repeated reminders and confirmations, you are so "Lei Feng", so good, not allowed to be as ordinary as us, and we are polluted by the same passions and desires.
Liu Feng did not expect that while the people unanimously gave him glory and moral appreciation, they also pushed him onto an invisible "altar" and deprived him of the right to become a mortal. Finally, in the "touch incident", Liu Feng, who has been ignoring the real human nature for a long time, can't help but touch the crush Lin Dingding.
In those days when the relationship between men and women was secretive, this kind of touch was taboo. What is even more frightening is that this taboo happened to Liu Feng. He is a hero, he is a living Lei Feng, how can he have such a dirty "selfish desire"? In response, the first reaction of the protagonist of the incident, Lin Dingding, was to shout for help, she said, "How dare he love me?" Anyone is entitled to love her, but Liu Feng can't.
Lin Ding Ding cried and said, "Who made him a living Lei Feng?" "Just because he did all the good deeds and occupied all the virtues, there was no smell of fireworks in the world." As a result, he suddenly tells you that he has been thinking about you for many years, and this disillusionment has broken Lin Dingding. So Lin Dingding, who had silently enjoyed the endless benefits and "privileges" brought by Liu Feng, still denounced him.
The "touch incident" triggered by Liu Feng has been maliciously guided and willfully convicted, and has also evolved from a courtship into a drama of seducing female soldiers. "Hero" Liu Feng was nailed to the pillar of shame and beaten in the collective public opinion of your glance and my words, and the comrades-in-arms who got along day and night completely forgot the former Liu Feng, who had feelings and righteousness, and worked hard and complained. They uniformly acted as judges, criticizing Liu Feng and glorifying such acts.
After the "touch incident", Liu Feng finally fell off the "altar" that he did not want to go to, was sent to the company, and later went to the Sino-Vietnamese battlefield, and the arm that touched Lin Dingding was finally lost in the rain of bullets. With the end of the war, a new era has finally arrived, but Liu Feng's era has passed, and in the real society, the good people of the "Liu Feng style" no longer have a place to stand.
Regarding Liu Feng's experience in the second half of his life, Feng Xiaogang played it down with a few understated shots in the film, which is probably also out of compassion for the audience. However, in the original work, Liu Feng's ending gave people a heavy blow to the heart, teaching people to always be uneasy.
Years later, when former comrades-in-arms Xiao Suizi and Hao Shuwen met Liu Feng again, the hero who had returned from the battlefield had become a poor and destitute low-level figure, and could only make ends meet by doing some pirated book business. Liu Feng, who has no honor aura, does not live a noble life anymore, but the principle of his adherence to things makes people have to sigh, what is the power that teaches him to be on the edge, but still insists on sowing kindness?
It turned out that Liu Feng had come to Hainan to support his mother and daughter. Liu Feng had earlier married in his hometown and had given birth to a daughter with his wife. Unfortunately, At that time, Liu Feng was not only disabled, but also poor and frustrated, and his wife could not bear this kind of life, so she cruelly abandoned her daughter and left the same long-distance bus driver. In this regard, Liu Feng said: "At least the other party's limbs are sound..."
In the days of doing business in Hainan, Liu Feng met Xiaohui, a hair salon girl who was engaged in the skin and meat business. From Liu Feng's point of view, Xiao Hui's sale of flesh is essentially no different from his sale of pirated books, and it is a helpless act forced by life. Probably out of pity for the same disease, Liu Feng has always advised Xiao Hui to read more books, and also educated her to learn knowledge and craftsmanship, hoping that she will embark on the right path as soon as possible.
Liu Feng obviously does not love Xiao Hui, but he insists on his own set of "good people" rules of doing things, eager to save Xiao Hui. He was almost confident that he could transform Xiao Hui. Therefore, Liu Feng stubbornly used a small amount of money to send Xiaohui to learn nail art and illustration, hoping that she could support herself with a skill, but Xiaohui could not eat the pain of learning, and every time it ended up halfway.
But even so, Liu Feng also promised Xiao Hui: "I have a bite of you when I eat chaff and throat dishes!" But what Xiao Hui thought in her heart was that the old woman came from her hometown and didn't want to eat chaff vegetables. After Xiao Hui did not go through the road of freelance women, she began to wear heavy makeup, go in and out of the hotel, trying to return to her old business, and the contradiction between her and Liu Feng also broke out.
Liu Feng actually hoped that she would get rid of her unbearable past than Xiao Hui, but he did not expect that this kind of wishful thinking and kindness would not be understood by everyone. Until Liu Feng's business went bankrupt, Xiao Hui took the initiative to leave him. But who would have thought that Liu Feng, who was completely discouraged, once again believed in the principle of "good people do it to the end".
After Hao Shuwen lent Liu Feng 10,000 yuan, Liu Feng almost did not hesitate to give the money to Xiao Hui. In ten years, he has repaid his debts little by little, and he has not seen that Xiao Hui has used this money to make a big nose and double eyelids, and has won the "high-end business" in the star-rated hotel, and this is not a great irony of kindness?
At a time when it is difficult for him to survive, he can still think of a share of the soup to the people around him, which is the unswerving belief of ordinary people Liu Feng until death. At the end of the novel, Liu Feng in his later years suffers from incurable bowel cancer. In the last moments of his life, in order not to trouble others, he secretly hid and endured the torment of illness. Yan Geling borrowed xiao Suizi's mouth and said:
"Liu Feng is such a healthy person who troubles him with you, and without health he will never trouble you."
In the life of an ordinary person, Liu Feng is undoubtedly an ordinary hero. And Yan Geling, through the character of Liu Feng, is actually inspiring our discussion of "good people".
In the novel "Fanghua", Liu Feng has always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as a "good man" and "hero", and the honor brought by those good people and good deeds seems to declare all the value of Liu Feng's life. However, as Liu Feng was sent to participate in the war, and even went out to break out, he repeatedly ran into a wall.
Once, when Hao Shuwen saw Liu Feng falling, she specifically told her husband that Liu Feng was a good person and intended to let him seek a job for Liu Feng in his own unit, but her husband said with contempt: "Who is a good person?" He didn't have any spare time for good people. In fact, so far, I believe many people can feel: in the new era, when good people have no "hero" coat, it has become a sign of "uselessness", so that Liu Feng fell into an embarrassing position of not being needed and disrespected.
"Good people do not have good rewards", if this sentence is applied to Liu Feng, many people will mistakenly think that it is a problem of the times. In fact, what really caused Liu Feng's fate tragedy was that he mistakenly believed that good people should be bent on safeguarding the public interest and abandoning personal interests.
Therefore, when the choice of self-prospect is in conflict with others, Liu Feng's habitual choice to back down, this inertial thinking leads to his self-interest continues to be infringed. Because of this, Liu Feng lost the space and possibility of self-development.
In the film, Feng Xiaogang added a detail to deepen this psychology of Liu Feng. When the organizational unit intended to do it for Liu Feng, Liu Feng generously gave up this quota. The leader asked him, "Don't you want to study?" Liu Feng replied, "I dream of it." But he still prevaricated that he would prefer to stay in his current position and participate in the behind-the-scenes work of the cultural and labor troupe.
This dedication personality of Liu Feng is actually a product of the collectivist ideology of the 70s. Liu Feng believes that as long as it plays a good role as a "screw" in the collective, it can help the normal operation of the collective. However, under the pain of change in the new era, the development of society increasingly needs to be promoted through the development of individuals. And Liu Feng's essence of abiding by virtue made him miss many good opportunities.
Why do "good old people" always live badly? In fact, this is a "double tragedy" under the influence of social and environmental factors and personal ideology.
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