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Buddha: "One flower and one world, one leaf and one bodhi", for the film "Farewell to the Overlord" directed by Chen Kaige, I just want to say that "one drama in life, one love and one love" People's life is like a drama, and Zhang Guorong played the role of the butterfly dress very well, and the "Cheng Butterfly Dress that is not crazy and does not live will be vividly displayed from the end of the Cheng Butterfly Dress, playing the role, achieving himself, and creating a classic in the history of Chinese cinema".
The beginning of the film is the meeting between Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi after eleven years, the music sounded "Singing the Motherland", at this time, Dieyi and Xiaolou are no longer the same as they were then, things are not people, everything is different, Brother Shi is no longer his brother, they stand on the stage, the staff said, "You 2 have not sung together for more than 20 years, right? Duan Xiaolou said: Twenty-one years. Cheng Dieyi said, "Twenty-two years" Xiao Lou said, "Our brothers haven't seen each other for ten years," and Dieyi said, "Eleven years, eleven years." These few lines impressed me very deeply, Butterfly has always remembered how long they have not met, and even how many years have not sung together, it can be seen that in Butterfly's heart, Xiao lou is still very important. Maybe Duan Xiaolou didn't remember these "small things", but for Cheng Dieyi, it was not a small thing.
The film tells the life of Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, divided into six periods in chronological order.
The first period was in 1924 in Beiping, the era of the Beiyang government. During this period, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou were still in their juvenile years, and they were small beans and small stones, respectively. Xiao Douzi and his mother entered Xifucheng (theater) for the first time, and there was a sound outside "grind the scissors, the kitchen knife", the first appearance of this sentence was to pave the way for Xiao Douzi to be cut off by his mother, the second appearance was to imply that Xiao Douzi was going to be cut off, the third time Xiao Douzi's mother was gone, leaving him alone, the broken finger for Xiao Douzi was the beginning of his entry into the drama team, and it was also the beginning of his dream life. When Xiao Douzi walked into the hut with his mother's robe, everyone was laughing at Xiao Douzi, and Xiao Douzi burned the robe that his mother had left for him in front of everyone, as if to prove that he did not come from the kiln, and that his mother's robe was his only connection with the mortal world, and Xiao Douzi burned the robe and cut off his connection with the real world. And Xiao Shi was the first person in Xifu Chengli to care about him, the first person to bring him warmth, which also fulfilled his bond with Xiao Shi. After XiaoShi and Xiao Douzi grew into a youthful appearance, Xiao Douzi sang "Si Fan", "I was originally a boy lang, not a female Jiao'e", "Sing the wrong" lyrics, in fact, Xiao Douzi did not know the words of "Si Fan", but he did not want to, this is his cognition of his own gender, when Xiao Douzi sang the right words for the first time, then the gender characteristics of Xiao Douzi were not so obvious, he really regarded himself as a "female Jiao'e", and also achieved the later "True Yu Ji", which is the beginning of his own art world or ideal world, Detached from the mundane.
When Xiao Shi said to Xiao Douzi, "If the overlord had this sword, he would have slaughtered Liu Bang long ago, and when he became the emperor, then you are the lady of the palace", this is a sentence that Xiao Shi had no heart, but he was taken seriously by Xiao Douzi, remembered for a lifetime, the sword was the bond between Xiao Shi and Xiao Douzi, it was Xiao Shi's promise to Xiao Douzi, when they grew into adults, Xiao Douzi became Cheng Butterfly, Xiao Shi became Duan Xiao Lou, And Di Yi still remembered the promise, but Xiao Lou had long forgotten. Things are human, and you don't remember the past for a long time, but I still remember it in my heart. Xiao Douzi was defiled by Zhang Gonggong for the first time, when Xiao Douzi came out of Zhang Gonggong to pick up Xiao Si who was still a baby, Guan Ye said" Xiao Douzi, a person has a life, you still put him back", this is saying Xiao Si, but also saying Xiao Douzi, everyone has everyone's life, but when Xiao Douzi saw Xiao Si, this made him feel empathy, as if thinking of when he was a child, he was abandoned by his mother, they are all poor people, he saw his own shadow in Xiao Si's body, He wants to change the fate of Xiao Si, in fact, he also wants to change his own fate, he is fighting with himself, but the fate of Xiao Si is saved by Xiao Douzi, the fate of Xiao Dou zi is not saved, Xiao Si is lucky to meet Xiao Douzi, but Xiao Douzi is not as lucky as Xiao Si.
The second time period: on the eve of the July 7 Incident in 1937, the Japanese imperialism was overthrown. At this time, the small beans and small stones had grown into adult appearances, namely Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou. Duan Xiaolou and Ju Xian met in Hua Man Lou, when Duan Xiao Lou just said out of the need to relieve ju Xian from the siege, "Isn't it a good day for us to be betrothed?" Ju Xian was serious, and therefore loved Xiao Lou for a lifetime, to some extent, Ju Xian and Di Yi were poor people, both loved Duan Xiao Lou, and they all paid for Duan Xiao Lou, and they were all tragic fates. There is a line in the film that I remember very deeply, when Xiao Lou invited Dieyi to drink flower wine, Dieyi was angry, because Dieyi had a different kind of love for Xiaolou, Dieyi said to Xiaolou, "You forgot how we sang red, don't you rely on the master's words, from one to the end", Butterfly has always been from one to the end for Xiao Lou, just like Yu Ji for the overlord, he is a fake overlord, he is the real Yu Ji, Butterfly wants to be with Xiao Lou, singing a lifetime of drama, just like when they were young, but reality is reality after all, Butterfly said to Xiao Lou
"No, it's a lifetime, a year, a month, a day, an hour... Not a lifetime! Butterfly yi thinks so beautiful, but the reality is too heavy for him, throughout modern society, there are a few people who will say such things, for a promise, remember a lifetime, read a lifetime, but in the end it is an empty, butterfly clothes live in their own world, that is an art world, is a world that belongs only to him, not stained with dust, he is destined to create his tragic fate in such an era, so poignant, and so determined, it is most appropriate to use "magnificent generation" to describe The life of Cheng Dieyi.
Dieyi found the sword, in order to get the sword, he and Yuan Siye became the "Confidant of Red Dust", on the rainy night, Dieyi was ready to draw the sword and kill himself, but when he found that standing in front of him was Yuan Siye, not his brother, not his overlord, he woke up from the "beautiful dream", from the dream he had woven, and entered the mortal world, he was sad and desperate, Yuan Siye was not his overlord, he was not Yuan Siye's Yu Ji, he was not worth drawing his sword for him, only the overlord could make Yu Ji kill himself So he shed tears, on this rainy night, only his lonely person, his brother, his overlord was spending the floor with Ju Xian at this time, and his brother had someone else in his heart.
Fourth Master Yuan is the person who knows Cheng Dieyi the most, and he appreciates Cheng Dieyi's talent, as he said, "A smile of ancient spring, a cry of eternal sorrow, this realm, not you, this appearance, not you." "After all, Overlord Bieji is only Cheng Dieyi alone." When Dieyi took the sword to find Duan Xiaolou, Duan Xiaolou forgot the sword and forgot his promise to him, which made Dieyi disheartened with him and said, "Xiao lou, from now on, you sing yours, I sing mine!" This sentence. Cheng Dieyi left, but Duan Xiaolou did not chase after him.
The third time period: In 1945, Japan surrendered. Cheng Dieyi wrote to his mother, burning the letter, in fact, he was writing to the world of his own dreams, he did not want to come out, but continued in this way.
The fourth and fifth time periods: in 1948, before the Nationalist government left the mainland; in 1949, the People's Liberation Army entered Beiping. When Cheng Dieyi quit smoking, he said, "I'm cold, mother, the water is frozen." I'm cold, mother, the water is frozen. This line appears twice in the film, the first time is at the beginning of the film when Xiao Douzi was cut off by the mother, the second time it appeared here, it appeared again, Ju Xian hugged the butterfly clothes, wrapped the butterfly clothes with a quilt, just like when xiao Douzi and Niang were young, at this time Ju Xian was distressed and sympathetic to the butterfly clothes, maybe it was at this moment, Ju Xian was no longer so annoying for the butterfly clothes, they were the same, they were all bitter people, the butterfly clothes were abandoned by the mother from childhood, the chrysanthemums were in the flower full building since childhood, no one really cared about the chrysanthemums, In addition to Duan Xiaolou, and Dieyi has had his brother care about him since childhood, but the adult Duan Xiaolou married Ju Xian, which made Cheng Dieyi feel that Ju Xian had robbed his brother, and therefore DieYi hated Ju Xian and said things like "she is Pan Jinlian", but they all loved the same man, so they were all poor people.
Cheng Dieyi is a drama fan, he lives in his own art world, he pursues real art, otherwise he would not say "If Aoki is still there, Beijing opera will spread to Japan", but his character is destined to be incompatible with this era, his character is noble, just as his pursuit of art is out of the mud without staining, Mao Qing lian and not demon, so he does not understand the world, is not swayed by the world, nor does he agree with the world. And Duan Xiaolou and Na Ye and the rest of the drama team are ordinary people, in such a turbulent era, they are destined to be affected, and they have also become a tragic existence in the background of the times, and Xiao Lou's exposure of Butterfly Yi is like this.
Sixth time period: 1966, Beijing, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. On a rainy night, Ju Xian told Duan Xiaolou that she was afraid, and she had a dream, in fact, this dream foreshadowed Duan Xiaolou's betrayal of Ju Xian later. When Duan Xiaolou exposed Cheng Dieyi and Ju Xian in front of everyone, the evil of human nature was revealed, he was forced by the times to do such an act, but he was also for himself, and the fate of the three of them was like a raging fire in the camera, burning out his whole life and turning into ashes. Whether it is Duan Xiaolou's fault, it can only be said that it was the influence of society and the times at that time, no one was right, everyone was wrong, and the fault was that they interpreted their lives too hard.
Eleven years later, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou met again, singing "Farewell to the Overlord" again, when Dieyi sang "I was originally a boy, not a female Jiao'e", Xiao Lou said "Wrong, wrong again" At this time, Dieyi woke up like a dream, he was wrong, he was wrong all his life, at this time his gender characteristics were clearly expressed, he returned to reality from his world, the world of art, everything turned out to be wrong, but he could not go back, he chose to draw his sword and kill himself, he has always been the true Yu Ji, and the master brother is not the real overlord.
From the beginning to the end, the film uses low saturation tones and relatively low voices to create an atmosphere, bringing a strong sense of the times to the film, in that turbulent era, everyone is unfortunate, there are countless people like Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou who were sacrificed by the times, the times created them, but also affected their destiny. The times create people, the times affect people, in such an era has created a brilliant life of Cheng Dieyi, Cheng Dieyi used his life to interpret a sentence "a drama in a lifetime, a love and a love for a lifetime".