Night reading | why say forty years old, life has just begun

2021-10-31 19:39:13

Han Haoyue

On July 5, the famous Russian director and actor Vladimir Mensov died of the new crown virus at the age of 81. More than 30 years ago, Menshov's "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" is a classic of the world film industry, and the film has also been released in China and has caused a huge sensation.

In my memory, Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears is such a magical movie: according to it, people can be divided into two categories - those who have seen it, and those who have not seen it but have heard of it. This is enough to explain the fame of the film.

As a former Soviet film, "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" is the second work to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film after "War and Peace". Its plot is simple: a seventeen-year-old female worker Katerina, posing as the daughter of a professor, falls in love with tv photographer Rachkov and becomes pregnant, after which she is abandoned and becomes a single mother, bravely facing setbacks and pursuing a new life again.

The film has had a huge impact, in large part because it shows the growth of women, the struggles of young people between enjoyment and struggle, love and career, and the influence of gender and education on a person's destiny, etc., which still exude humanism to this day.

"I didn't think life had just begun until I was forty", a classic line in the movie, which is a sentence that Katerina said to Rachkov after she grew up as a factory manager and fell in love again. This phrase also became the second buzzword contributed by the film – the first being the title of the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears". In addition to being written into the line countless times in many film and television works, it is also constantly quoted and used by people in real life, especially by many middle-aged people as a life motto.

Looking back at "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears", the protagonist's mental journey and life perception also have many overlaps with me. When I was seventeen years old, I also had a Katerina mentality, a sense of vanity and powerlessness that belonged to young people, full of yearning for the future, but lacked a way to go my own way. I believe that this is also an experience that countless young people have had in their lives. Can we transform this experience into an upward driving force and become a "watershed" that leads different people in different directions.

From seventeen to forty years old, it was a difficult time for everyone. In addition to coping with the responsibilities and obligations that society continues to impose on an adult, it is also necessary to face up to inner weakness, wavering, decadence, etc. It can be said that this period of time is an indispensable and crucial process for forging a person. Becoming strong after a constant beating, or "falling down wherever you fall," forces everyone to make a choice—whether to be above life or to succumb to life.

When I was younger, I didn't believe in "forty not confused." There is neither expectation nor fear for the arrival of forty years of age. But when I was forty years old, I still found that I was very different from when I was in my twenties:

Because I have experienced many things, it is not strange to see it; because I have known many people, I know where my true friends are; if I perceive the impetuosity in my heart, I will soon follow a clear clue to find the root cause and extinguish it like a firefighter; I also have the emotion of sorrow when I encounter trivial matters, but I have already been a martial art, and I can take this sad hand up and down; when I encounter happy things, on the contrary, try to expand and spread it as much as possible without exaggeration...

At the age of forty, Katerina was steady and dignified, honest and simple, and she changed from a flower in a greenhouse to a tree in the wild. The tree does not have the fragrance and color of flowers, but it has the solidity of taking root in the earth and the desire to grow constantly to the sky. This is the reason why Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears will be liked and remembered, both then and now.

"Everything will not appear in an instant, Moscow is not built in a day / Moscow does not believe in tears, only believes in love / In the silver-white field, there are green trees everywhere / Pedestrians get warmth from Moscow, the earth gives the little trees affection..." The theme song of the film, "Alexandra", which was popular at the time, is still liked by many people on the Internet.

Today, its director is gone, but the influence of the work will always be there. May today's young people, who can correspond to the current mood, revisit this movie with a smile and get some inspiration.

Night reading | why say forty years old, life has just begun

Editor-in-Charge: Gan Qiongfang

Proofreader: Luan Meng

Night reading | why say forty years old, life has just begun

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