When life has ravaged a person enough, fate will give you the art thing.
In the 1890s, in a small county town in the north, there was a group of dreamers who were regarded as "abnormal" by the world, some of them wanted to become painters, some wanted to become singers, some wanted to become dancers, but their ultimate goal in life was to become famous, painting wanted to become Van Gogh, singing wanted to board the Paris Opera, dancing wanted to train more students, they all looked like a group of mavericks, obsessed with art.
In 2008, Gu Changwei's film "Li Chun" was released, and Jiang Wenli used a "clown" to interpret the survival of an elderly single female music teacher in a small county that is not willing to be mediocre, and the life of five small people with different talents but no luck in her life.
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Sooner or later I will leave here, and I am envious when I see someone leaving the city with a bag, regardless of where he goes.
Wang Cailing, who lives in a small county, does not look as beautiful as her name and singing voice, and looks ugly, but because she was born with a good voice, she gave her hope for a better life.
Wang Cailing, who is in her thirties, works as a music teacher at a normal school in the county, often goes to Beijing under the pretext of further study, takes money to entrust people to transfer her hukou to Beijing, and returns to the small county town with a qinggao appearance, often telling people that she is going to Beijing to develop, and she also knows many people in Beijing.
Huang Sibao, a steel worker who also lives in this small county, relies on his talent to teach himself to paint, and after countless times of examination at the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, he still fails, and every time he gets off the train, he gets drunk, but he firmly believes that sooner or later he will walk out of this small city without development.
Zhou Yu, a worker in his thirties, suddenly wanted to learn to sing with Wang Cailing one day, because he felt that his voice was very talented, and those who broadcast on TV stations were just luckier than him.
Huang Sibao let Wang Cailing be his mannequin, he said that he had painted his own human body, but he had never painted a woman's body, and Wang Cailing agreed.
This Wang Cailing, who said that she did not want to have love in the city, fell in love with Huang Sibao through this painting, and when Huang Sibao failed to pass another exam and got drunk, she took the initiative to have a relationship with him, allowing herself to end her identity as a girl for more than thirty years and become a real woman.
Huang Sibao once said: Listening to her songs, I suddenly thought of her, and when I saw her in person, I had no evil thoughts. He just wanted to paint a woman once, Wang Cailing thought she understood him, both of them were engaged in art will resonate, but she misunderstood, the next day huang Sibao woke up but felt that he had been humiliated, angrily blamed Wang Cailing, and went to Shenzhen in a huff.
Huang Sibao's cousin Zhou Yu came to court Wang Cailing, but Wang Cailing said to him dismissively, "I'd rather bite a fresh peach than a basket of rotten apricots." "Reject him thousands of miles away.
These three people all think that they are gifted and talented, and they always feel that they are unlucky and trapped in this small county town and cannot fly out, so Huang Sibao only wants to jump out of this city through examinations, Wang Cailing wants to go to Beijing to develop through money transfer and work transfer, and Zhou Yu is content with the status quo but struggles to live in reality.
However, the upward passage is not only by talent, but also by luck and hard work, Huang Sibao who went to Shenzhen is considered to be in the sea, and many years later he returned to the county town to open a marriage agency, cheating people were chased, the dream of that year was not realized, and the real life was still a chicken feather.
Zhou Yu, who lives in reality, lives the life of an ordinary person, gets married and has children, life is still plain, dreams are still so far away, and the talent he thinks has not helped his life, but he feels the happiness of ordinary people's ordinary life in the plain.
What about Wang Cailing? Life goes on, the chase of dreams never stops...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > how much to pay for "normal"</h1>
Wang Cailing met the ballet teacher Hu Jinquan during a performance, the two performing arts can not be accepted by ordinary people, the audience at the performance site is left, the two have the same fate, and together they lament how difficult it is to realize their dreams.
Hu Jinquan said that he was a "suspenseful case" that everyone in the city avoided, people suspected that his sexual orientation and incompetence were a thorn in everyone's throat, in order to pull it out, he proposed to Wang Cailing to fake marriage to eliminate the prejudice of the world against them, but Wang Cailing's soberness still chose to refuse, because when the cannon fodder was her, she was a woman.
In order to eliminate the prejudice of the world against him, Hu Jinquan took a desperate risk, designed himself to go to prison, and in full view of everyone, took a student to the men's toilet and deliberately forcibly removed his clothes to prove his "normality".
Wang Cailing understood him, and when he went to visit Hu Jinquan in prison, he said that the thorn was finally pulled out, and he was very happy, he finally confirmed to everyone that he was a real man, and in this way he shattered the rumors, and in prison he could continue to dance ballet and live a "normal" life that was no longer misunderstood by others.
However, this kind of "proof" seems so bitter, why is it so difficult to be yourself in this world, people have to prove something to others in order to be regarded as "normal", so how much gossip do this "abnormal" have to carry in order to live their own lives? In order to cater to the world's views, to remove the prejudices of irrelevant people against themselves, but to make sacrifices to pretend to be "normal", then where should this "normal" and "abnormal" go? How exactly do you want to be yourself?
As an elderly unmarried daughter, how can Wang Cailing be counted as "normal" in the eyes of ordinary people? Teacher Zhang, who is full of happiness next door, often advises Wang Cailing to become a family to live a normal life, saying that there are women who do not want to get married, and telling about the benefits of marriage, but Wang Cailing always said that it is good to be single. Until one day, Teacher Xiao Zhang cried and cried to complain to Wang Cailing, her savings were all swept away by her husband, and not a single point was left for her, she only chose Wang Cailing, who was more unfortunate than her in her eyes, to talk about the contrast.
Wang Cailing from Xiao Zhang persuaded her to start a family, went to the marriage agency to decide to find a marriage partner, to see the misfortune and unreliability of Teacher Xiao Zhang's marriage, and decided not to marry without meeting a good person in this life, instead of finding a good one, it is better to adopt a child single to be more practical and at ease.
After seeing Hu Jinquan's pandering to the world, Xiao Zhang's teacher regarded marriage as a dependency but was pickpocketed even more miserably, Wang Cailing went to the orphanage, but adopted a rabbit-lip girl who was regarded as "abnormal" by everyone, she took her, loved her, went to sell mutton to earn money to treat the child's lips, took her to Beijing to see Tiananmen Square, and went to see her dreams.
Wang Cailing escaped from the world, she never catered to, although she also wavered, but in the end she still made what she thought was the most sincere and most suitable choice. Not getting married does not mean unhappiness, and marriage does not prove that it is a happy destination. Everyone has their own way of living.
Wang Cailing chose a path she likes to take in her life, what about the dream of insisting on going to Beijing and singing to the Paris Opera?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > need "means" to realize your dreams</h1>?
Wang Cailing gave more than 20,000 yuan to let people help move their Beijing hukou, and every time she returned from Beijing, she vainly announced that she would be transferred to Beijing.
After going to the Beijing Literary and Labor Troupe again and again to find a job and encountering a wall, she still firmly believes that she will have a day when she will emerge and believes that she is extraordinary, but Wang Cailing, who is arrogant on the surface and kind in heart, has to give up the dream that she has insisted on for a long time in the dream of fulfilling others.
A girl who claimed to have a shaved head from cancer, Gao Beibei, approached Wang Cailing and said that she was going to Beijing to participate in the singer competition and complete her dream at the end of her life, but the talent and singing ability she showed were not as she herself said she had never learned. In order to help her realize her last dream in life, Wang Cailing had to find someone to retire from the Beijing hukou and scrap the remaining 12,000, and take money to let her go to the trust relationship to participate in the competition.
Gao Beibei participated in the competition as she wished and got the second place, and was hugging Wang Cailing, who was crying with joy, but heard her confess like a thunderbolt that she did not have cancer, but her boyfriend, who was also her high school teacher, was terminally ill and wanted to see her become famous at the end of her life.
Wang Cailing could not accept this reality, she had to scrape together some money to entrust someone to open a Beijing hukou, but she was suddenly broken by a "poor person" at the door, and she was pushed into hell when she thought she was a savior, and this contrast made her wonder, what is the meaning of fame? Does the fame obtained through means really belong to oneself?
All this in Gao Beibei's confession, in fact, has been answered, Gao Beibei said, ordinary people to become famous is too difficult, if there is no means, it is really difficult to have a day out, she knows that one day she will be punished and repulsed, but between fame and conscience, is it to choose the means to take shortcuts, or through a long wait and effort to achieve?
Wang Cailing and Gao Beibei is the contrast under these two answers, Gao Beibei got the rank by publicizing to the public that he had cancer, but he could only justify himself by withdrawing from the public's vision later, and he could not continue to go higher, Wang Cailing in order to complete others, lived soberly, insisted on not giving up, and finally walked to the palace of the Paris Opera.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > background</h1> introduction
The screenwriter of this film is Li Fan, his works also have "Peacock", "To Youth", etc., Gu Changwei actually cut off the cruelty in the script when filming the movie "Li Chun".
Wang Cailing was hurt in Huang Sibao's feelings, and in Xiao Zhang's marriage, she saw through the weakness of the marriage, as well as Hu Jinquan's pandering to the world and Gao Beibei's deception, she chose to adopt a girl in a state of not marrying, named Wang Xiaofan.
Wang Cailing cured Wang Xiaofan's rabbit lips, but Wang Xiaofan was lost in the back, Wang Cailing still resumed her single life, and the past emotional sustenance for Huang Sibao and Wang Xiaofan still became her dream life alone, singing all the way to Paris.
Some people say that Wang Cailing in "Li Chun" is actually Li Fan writing about himself, writing about his unambitious life in the north drift, and also writing about his early dream-chasing life, but all of this, one day, when he persisted, became the feedback of life to you, your efforts really did not go in vain, everything was recorded on the life plate of the years, and when the fire arrived, it was realized.
Jiang Wenli is considered to be the most sacrificed in this movie, not only to ugly herself, but also to be a nude model, but her acting skills have really infected countless audiences, truly interpreting how difficult it is for an ordinary little person to pursue his dreams, and when he is regarded as an "abnormal" alternative, how sober he needs to be to insist on being in order not to be overwhelmed by the world.
The movie "Li Chun" shows how many helpless small people are, and also plays countless ordinary people who have dreams in their hearts, not willing to be mediocre, but it is difficult for several people to take the right path and persevere, and Wang Cailing is among many talented but unlucky people, and there are few people who have reached the end with their own persistence and sobriety.
The film is named "Li Chun", just to tell everyone that after li chun, spring will come, and the cold winter will eventually pass. However, when everyone spends the winter, they need to prepare your winter grain for each winter in order to usher in your own spring. And your winter grain must be your kindness, persistence, dreams, hard work, sobriety and the right way.