Datang, it is also right to say that he is a country, and it is also right to be a dynasty, but more people feel that he is a symbol, a symbol that makes people forget life and death, and throw their heads and spill blood. From "The Legend of the Demon Cat" to "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", they all praise how prosperous the Tang Dynasty was, and all the countries came to the dynasty.
There are those who sing the praises of prosperity, and there are those who sing the praises of loneliness.
And "The Last Transfer of Datang Mobei" is praised by this kind of "lonely courage".
The film itself is not difficult to understand, it is a small soldier who has become a displaced person, collecting goods in the pile of dead people, being found by the awakened veteran and being escorted to transport military expenses, and later after the veteran's death, he completed the task in place of the veteran.
The narrative of the film is so, but the historical background is worth pondering.
After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, most of the border guards in Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, and Longyou were transferred to the interior to suppress the rebellion, and the western region was empty, and Tubo took the opportunity to occupy a large amount of land and cut off the connection between the western region and the Tang.
In 781, the Tang army in the Western Regions finally made contact with the Central Plains Dynasty through secret envoys, and people learned that tens of thousands of soldiers and soldiers in Hexi at that time were still holding out under the leadership of Guo Xin. After listening to the secret envoy's report, Manchu Wenwu couldn't hide his face and weep bitterly.
The story of the film takes place nine years later, in 790 AD, when Khotan, one of the four towns of Anxi, was breached. At this time, only Guizi and Xizhou were left in the western region, and the transportation of military expenses was to and from these two cities. Only one year later, Xizhou fell, and the historical meaning of "The Last Transfer of the Great Tang Desert North" is like this.
In 808, the last stronghold of Guizi was finally breached, and the Tang Dynasty completely lost the Western Regions. What is more interesting is the details in the film, which make people feel the slow sincerity of the director and earn enough tears from the audience.
At the beginning of the film, after being discovered by the veteran, the little soldier explains that he has come to pick up stuttering, concealing his identity as a soldier, in fact, he wants the veteran to spare his life.
At the same time, when the creep took the money to the veteran, he secretly left a piece of money. This point paves the way for the image of the rich creeps in the future.
After leaving the inn, he met a group of people who said that they were merchants of data at the time and gave them water and food.
He also asked whether Datang's army was coming back soon, and said that this road was getting more and more difficult to walk, and then he rode away.
This road is becoming more and more difficult to walk, of course, referring to the Silk Road, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, not only in politics and military, but also strongly reflected in commercial trade, before the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty's trade center was in the northwest.
On the road, the Silk Road is the most prosperous area, and the northwest trade is one of the foreign exchange centers of the Tang Dynasty, but after the Anshi Rebellion, the country fell, most of the northwest land fell, and Tubo controlled the Silk Road on the road at this time, and the trade route on the road was cut off by Tubo, and it was difficult for caravans to trade.
The state also has no ability to protect its own caravans, so these merchants are so excited after seeing the veterans, because they hope that the state can provide them with a safe and stable trading environment. This sentence Tang Jun is not coming back soon, quite "endure the tears and lose your voice to ask the messenger, when will there really be six armies coming?" "The smell.
From our current point of view, that sentence that dares to ask the military master, is it that our Tang Dynasty people and horses will come back immediately, and this sentence "immediately" is a thousand years, which is really lamentable.
In the play, the veteran said that it has been eleven years since jianzhong, but in fact, the era name of Jianzhong only existed for four years, and then the Jingyuan mutiny, Dezong changed yuan xingyuan, and a year later changed yuan zhenyuan.
According to the time calculation in the play, the actual year should be the seventh year of Zhenyuan. The "mistake" here vividly and exquisitely reflects the news blockage of the lonely overseas soldiers, as well as their attachment to Datang, because their location still uses Datang coins, still uses Datang's era name, and they believe that as long as they are there, Datang is there.
When he had been exhorting veterans to take money and run away, the veterans directly took out military orders and said:
Military orders are like mountains, and nothing can be less!
At the time of the veteran's sacrifice, he handed him his military order for transporting military expenses, although he did not say a word, but the small soldier understood the meaning of this military order, he was also a soldier, a soldier had to obey the order, he had to complete the mission for the veteran!
The veteran had said before that climbing would also climb to Guizi, and that climbing would also send military expenses there.
Sure enough, he really climbed to Guizi City.
In the barracks, he said the name of the veteran's unit, because it was this unit that was responsible for escorting.
When he said that the military money had been delivered, his face was still tired.
When he finished saying "military money arrived" and was about to say "no difference", he hesitated, and he suddenly realized that he had also secretly hidden a piece of money.
Although the money he had hidden was small, it was related to the faith of the entire army. Since then, the image of the creep has become full, three-dimensional and more flesh and blood.
At the same time, this film is very realistic, after the small soldiers walked out and handed over the money to General Guo, they found that the soldiers with white hair in front of them took off their helmets to greet him. Overall, this film is still a superior work, but if the veterans' armor at the end is a little older, either rusty or incomplete, then the vicissitudes of war and the thickness of history will be more perfectly presented.
Thousands of miles and a lonely city are all white-haired soldiers.
The film begins to enter the Highest Dynasty here, when Lu XIV completes the task of sending military expenses and sings military songs to send family letters, the picture suddenly switches from a group of lonely old soldiers to a group of young soldiers singing loud songs.
When they first came here to serve as soldiers, they did not expect that it would be fifty years, as if in an instant they would change from teenagers to old people. They are in their youth, they are fighting with high morale, they are marching vigorously to the frontier of the motherland, but they do not expect to come back.
The artistic conception of this film is lofty, and it is vividly and exquisitely reflected at the end, the country that once came to the dynasty of all countries, but helplessly turned to weakness, because the country was weak, the government was unable to build weapons and equipment, there was no equipment, the soldiers failed in the bloody battle, they began to despair, and the desperate was not only that they would die, but that they were slaves to the country.
This film shows this sense of despair, powerlessness, and the use of military expenses to be blown up, but I also believe that the success of this film and "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" is an opportunity, an opportunity for the revival of classical Chinese culture.