Director Dai Sijie is an elusive person, he is very willful, literary works usually deal with sensitive topics, so he has to find another way, using his own way of writing and directing, in order to present.
And that's how he was, not only in 2013, along with the poet Kitajima, as a Chinese writer, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. At the same time, the films he directed have won world-class awards many times, making people have to pay attention to such a unique director in the film industry.
His first novel, "Balzac and the Little Tailor of China", depicts a fragment of the life of Zhiqing in the countryside in the 70s, which is inseparable from Dai Sijie's own life of Zhiqing, because he once went to the mountains of Sichuan in 1971 to join the family and settle down, and the life of Zhiqing here impressed this young man with rich literary cells, and he still can't forget it many years later.
Not only did he write the novel himself, but he also decided to make it into a movie. However, the novel involved many sensitive themes, which were difficult to distribute in that era, so he took a roundabout way, although the producers were all Chinese, but the film was invested by the French side.
In the end, this female independent film that showed a special period was presented to everyone in the way of returning the origin, and this film was only shined in China after the French film was selected for the Golden Globe Award, which shows that Dai Sijie understands the rules of internal entertainment very well.
If it weren't for Desjet's operation, the Balzac and the Little Tailor we see would probably not be what it is now.
In addition to such a personality director, the film's lineup is also "immortal level" in today's words, 28-year-old Zhou Xun, 26-year-old Chen Kun, 24-year-old Liu Ye, three top internal entertainment actors, at the peak of their youth, dedicated themselves to this movie, doomed to this movie extraordinary.
Perhaps because of Dai Sijie's experience of studying in France, the soul is contaminated with a kind of Latin national indifference, calmness and enthusiasm, the seventies of China in the movie, in addition to young desire, hot love, but also used a lot of lenses to depict the scenery and style of Phoenix Village, just in this green mountain village, receiving re-education from poor and lower middle peasants, the Zhiqing Brigade came.
Later in life, they were transformed by this small mountain village and became accustomed to the life of resting at sunset and working at sunrise. But this small, silent mountain village has also been transformed by these young people.
They brought "Mozart", "Madame Bovary" and "Violin", which were rich in capitalist tones, but these items that were taboo in those years gave the most beautiful girl and little tailor in this mountain village a new life.
In this mountain village, there is a line of heavenly hot springs, and the beautiful girls often go there to take a bath, Liu Ye and Chen Kun played by Zhiqing, can't help but be curious about hormones, secretly go to see, are attracted by the little tailor wearing a belly pocket.
The two fell in love with the little tailor at the same time, and often took the little tailor with them to the hillside to bask in the sun. In particular, they knew that the Four-Eyed Family in the village had many forbidden book rooms. They often stole these books out and went to a cave where no one was there. Go read. And these books were given to the little tailors. Another door opened.
In the emotional entanglement of the three people, Liu Ye is the one who turned his back, he does not look at the fierce kissing and entanglement of the little tailor and Chen Kun, and always maintains spiritual watch and love.
At the end of the film, Chen Kun says to Liu Ye, "I know you are also in love with her"; Liu Ye says " I just love her in another way " !
Throughout the movie, the formation of the independent female consciousness of the small tailor is actually cultivated by Liu Ye. Out, the little tailor is pregnant and sick, mentally weak, he has been accompanying her, so that the little tailor has become strong and independent, can abandon his family and hometown without hesitation, go to the town, to pursue her dreams.
At the end of the film, in the image of the violinist who stayed in France, he was best released. In that melodious melody, with self-compassion and sorrow, let you who have watched the movie be embarrassed.