Recently, many Japanese movies have been maliciously swiped on Douban.
Miyazaki's anime "The Wind Rises" was spray-painted as a "tribute to the designer of a World War II fighter."
His other animation, "Porco Rosso", was also attacked by one-star bad reviews such as "Whitewashing War" and "Glorifying War Criminals".
In the Japanese documentary "Fruits of Life", the Douban score dropped from 9.3 to 8.7.
The reason is that someone pulled out the uncoded version of "The Fruits of Life" in which the protagonist raised the military flag and sang military songs.
"Fruits of Life" is the fuse of this "vigorous" one-star movement, and many Douban users have played fierce slogans such as "Japanese war criminals only deserve one star" and "Who wants to watch the films of Japanese devils".
Over-politicized interpretations of works of art, speaking and acting in a black-and-white binary mindset, have long been a symptom.
If it is a disease, it must be cured. The first manifestation of this disease is heavy emotional bombardment and less factual analysis.
Looking at the bad reviews of one star, most of them are rude words within one sentence.
The emotions are intense. However, when netizens posted a large paragraph of the explanation that "the old man in the film is not a war criminal", he did not see any bad comments on the user's discussion around the factual level of "The Fruits of Life".
The one-star mobile cannon is fierce, but is the old man in the film a war criminal? This basic question has not yet been sorted out.
As Qian Liqun, a professor at Peking University, said: "We are in an era without truth, consensus, and certainty. ”
It is not true that there is no truth, but for users who criticize badly, it is easy to get emotional and slogan, and it is difficult to discuss facts, especially to understand complexity.
"The Fruits of Life" was originally a documentary. What happens in life, what the documentary shoots, the recording is the gaze of reality.
Since the characters in the film live their old age in such a calm way, how can we say that "The Fruits of Life" is a glorification of war criminals? Do you have to have some blurred flesh and blood and tear the devil's tricks to make it patriotic and ugly to the Japanese army?
As for the audience's interaction with the documentary, it should not be arbitrarily hatted.
There are many people in the bad reviews who attack the users who hit the five stars as traitors and traitors.
According to this logic, when Hitler hired the famous female director Riefenstahl to shoot the documentary "Triumph of the Will" for him - the Douban score of this film was as high as 8.5, was it true that the users who played five stars for the film were all Nazis or pro-Nazis?
Most of the users who give "Fruits of Life" a five-star rating are only touched by the film's elderly couples' friendship and the calm beauty of old age.
Watching a documentary, how did it become an ideological stand?
After the young generals set off a one-star movement, they also hit the pond fish and could not distinguish between friend and foe.
This is also the characteristic of such movements: all the way up, the scope of the attack is expanded.
Miyazaki's animation "Porco Rosso" and "The Wind Rises", as well as films such as "Happy Christmas on the Battlefield" directed by Nagisa Oshima, have been implicated this time.
Unexpectedly, Miyazaki, who has always been known for his anti-war campaign, was also "encircled and suppressed" by Ichistar.
No wonder there is also a division within the One Star Wars generals. Someone exclaimed: "You can rush "The Fruit of Life", not my Miyazaki Hayao!" ”
This split reminds Poison Jun of the left-right mutual combat technique of a Certain Entertainment Group in Douban:
Isn't this fear of militarism restored on the one hand, and the hope that japanese devils and Americans will die?
Interestingly, the one-star movement of "Fruits of Life" also originated from an entertainment group in Douban.
This is also the phenomenon of "political entertainment and entertainment politicization" that Professor Xu Zidong once criticized.
In the face of strange phenomena, some senior users of Douban have called for the entertainment group to be removed from Douban.
Originally, douban's scoring system was a simple aesthetic scoring mechanism, but once it was ideologized, it was easy to become the soil of binary opposition of netizens. You hit a star pull pedal, I hit a five star back, there is no room for discussion.
On an aesthetic level, can you give "Fruits of Life" a star? Of course.
Luo Fuxing, the godfather of Killing Matt, once said: "Aesthetic freedom is the starting point of all freedom." ”
This is also one of the reasons why Douban can gather a group of users of relatively high quality and certain aesthetic experience.
But when the ideological stick is picked up at will and the artwork is maliciously hit by a star, the aesthetic freedom of Douban users is in jeopardy.
Writer Wang Xiaobo once said in the article "The Silent Majority": "Whether in the business, industry or technology circles, people compete with ingenuity and hard work. The only thing that is gambled in the cultural circles is character, patriotism, and shame. In my opinion, this is a bit like gambling on life, and even more serious than gambling on life. ”
Writer Wang Xiaobo
The one-star young generals gamble on small things, but the hearts of the people in the world are big.
Behind the one-star movement stands a broader, distorted cyber nationalism.
At the end of the last century, the patriotic enthusiasm of netizens was stimulated in this way: After the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was bombed by the United States missiles in 1999, many netizens expressed their patriotic enthusiasm through the Internet for the first time.
At that time, the netizens' online actions were clear in logic and clear in demand: because our country has been violated, we must act to express our patriotism. [1]
To put it bluntly, this is a normal person who is patriotic.
In contrast, today's one-star movement, the logical chain is unclear, the appeal is confused, so that you do not know when they will raise the stick, and who will point the stick to.
It's hard to say whether this is patriotism or hysteria.
It can be imagined that behind the one-star movement, it is just a group of rabble-rousers, moving their fingers, using a star and brushing bad reviews to obtain an instant sense of coolness, satisfying their illusory sense of justice, and obtaining a sense of group identity that belongs to the rabble.
The carnival that has always been a ragtag crowd just seems to be huge.
As soon as the heat passed, all that was left on the Internet was their twisted backs and chicken feathers after the carnival.
Reference: "The New Face of Cybernationalism: The Logic, Organization, and Mode of Action of the "Emperor's Expedition", Li Lan, 2016