The Beauty of Women in War (Review)

The beauty of women in war

——Appreciation of the movie "The Six Sisters of Yimeng"

Author: Morning Dawn

Linyi Mengyin Xintai, Lu Turning Peak back to the stone monster, a good scenery, seventy-two Gu Kan Ai; Kan Ai, Kan Ai, Jiang Thief attack will be defeated. This is a popular poem written by Comrade Chen Yi during the Liberation War, "Like a Dream Ling, Linyi Meng's Vagina.". Time flies, the battle of Menglianggu 62 years ago is still difficult to erase in people's memories, twice from the death line to save the scout Guo Wushi's Zu Xiulian; Wang Burong, who sent 5 daughters to the front line; actively participated in the anti-Japanese literary and artistic propaganda, at the village mobilization and participation in the army, issued a "Whoever signs up first, I will marry whom!" Liang Huaiyu, the head of the literacy class; Yin Demei, a female party member who gave up her flesh and bones, was born into death, and carefully raised the descendants of the revolution. The images of women heroes who threw themselves into that war to defend peace and interpreted countless ordinary and great Yimeng spirits with their own practical actions are still often in front of their eyes today. As early as 1987, I spent nearly a month in the old district because of a special edition of the people's armed forces alarm reflecting the deeds of supporting the army and loving the people in Yimeng Mountain, and interviewed Ming Deying, the first yimeng red sister-in-law who was still alive at the time, and Wang Changyu, the "yimeng mother" who covered the chief and soldiers, ran an underground nursery, and protected the party's top-secret documents; the "Yimeng Six Sisters" who stood in the cold river and shouldered the door board to build a man's bridge; and more than a dozen other Yimeng red sisters-in-law. Decades have passed, and whenever I think of it, I still can't help but be immersed in an inexplicable feeling.

The film "The Six Sisters of Yimeng" is a patriotic feast, a microcosm and portrayal of the Yimeng Mountains before they supported the army during the war years, and she is not only the pride of the Yimeng people, but also the pride of the Chinese nation and the spiritual wealth of contemporary youth. The story narrated by the film takes place in the Yimeng area of Shandong Province in May 1947, with the famous Battle of Menglianggu as the background, vividly showing the touching deeds of the six sisters of Yimeng who led the people of the whole village to support the front; especially the real story of "Yuefen and the Rooster Worship Hall" depicted in the film, never seeing the husband's side in his life, I think it is more moving than the classic love film "Titanic" that swept the world. The ordinary six sisters in the film not only convey the fearlessness and bravery of the six sisters, but also reflect a great Yimeng spirit.

The background focuses on the Battle of Menglianggu during the Liberation War, but the description of the frontal battlefield of the decisive battle of Menglianggu and the capture of Zhang Lingpu alive cannot be seen, but from its rear and side, it reflects the cruelty of the war and the selfless and fearless feats of the Yimeng people. The main creator took the familiar Yimeng Hongjie as the prototype through artistic integration, and responded to the big theme of the people's war with the ordinary stories of ordinary women in the old areas of the war, which played a shocking effect of listening to the thunder in the silent place. The beginning of the film begins with the eldest daughter-in-law holding a rooster and the second daughter-in-law to visit the church to release the confusion, and to the second son Nancheng passing by the door of the house with the troops, and the daughter-in-law just happened to borrow grain to return to her mother's house, and the younger two lost their arms until they received the certificate of the martyr's husband after the war and regretted it for life. Let the real people and real events that happened 62 years ago have an unprecedented shocking effect in the touching story of the beautiful little daughter-in-law who endured the grief and continued to support herself and never remarried for the rest of her life. The narrative rendering of the extreme film language, the restraint and suppression of complex emotions, the similar modern version of Mu Guiying hanging commander, and the entanglement of several groups of characters make a seemingly ordinary story sublimate into a climactic drama with a swinging intestine and a tragic fall.

Another climax of the film is that on the flank of the main battlefield, the vivid Yimeng sisters and countless red sisters-in-law formed a stretcher team, and when the bridge was blown up and the troops were in urgent need of a strong crossing, the red sister-in-law moved from the door panel of the house to form a human bridge with the weak body of a woman, reproducing the true story of the beautiful and kind Yimeng women in that war.

In a work of only 90 minutes, as the plot of the film unfolds, one by one Yimeng women who are willing to sacrifice and dedicate themselves to the liberation war, one after another touching and tear-inducing zhiqian stories, and a picture showing the beautiful scenery of Yimeng is slowly presented, and a group of ordinary women in Yimeng Mountain use their weak shoulders to provoke the burden of the comprehensive victory of the Menglianggu Battle and even the entire liberation war, and the tragic and even tragic pictures hit the audience's line of sight all the time. In war, we often pay attention to the army, soldiers, soldiers, men, and how they throw their heads and spill their blood in the bloody war, and make sacrifices and dedications for our nation and country. War should have let women go, because women are weak, the most unfortunate group in war. In the midst of the gunfire, I don't know how many women have been bullied and killed. In the face of brutal war, they are truly weak. However, the Yimeng women, represented by the six Sisters of Yimeng, became the absolute protagonists of this war and became the closest group to the Communist Party. They turned their love, which was originally confined to a small family, into a love for the party and its children and soldiers, as well as for the land that nurtured them. In the face of the enemy, they either took up arms to fight in the battlefield of killing the enemy, or actively mobilized production and joined the army to support the front line, and supported the victory of the liberation war with their weak shoulders and men, making unique contributions to national liberation and the birth of new China. This is the spirit of Yimeng, represented by the six sisters of Yimeng, who has the infinite strength forged by the blood and tears. It is a true portrayal of the spirit of loving the party and the country, arduous pioneering, reform and innovation, daring to be the first, unremitting struggle, and selfless dedication. No wonder Chen Yi once sighed emotionally: "When I entered the coffin, I can't forget the Yimengshan people, who used millet to feed the revolution and pushed the revolution across the Yangtze River with a cart." ”

According to incomplete statistics, the villagers of Yanzhuang Village, driven by the organization of the "Yimeng Six Sisters", made a total of 150,000 catties of pancakes for the troops, raised 30,000 catties of military horse and hay, washed more than 8,500 pieces of military clothes, and made more than 500 pairs of military shoes, laying a solid guarantee for the victory of the war. It is precisely because of this spirit that the sons and daughters of Yimeng have the feat of shedding their blood before supporting the army in the glory years; it is precisely with this spirit that the people of Yimeng have integrated their families and love into the tragic splendor of the blood and fire of the liberation war against the enemy. In the era of peace, they have not stopped supporting the army, and with their dedicated lives, they have composed a song of great love for Yimeng women.

The movie "The Six Sisters of Yimeng", as a masterpiece launched to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, is a condensation of the infinite love of Shandong filmmakers for the people in the old area, and it condenses a microcosm of the Yimeng Mountains before supporting the army in the revolutionary war years. It also provides a patriotic textbook for contemporary people. A successful film is inseparable from the shaping of excellent character images. The theme of the work is very important, but its expression method, its capture angle, its tension and relaxation are very important, "Yimeng Six Sisters" this movie because of its unique path, through the small and highlight the great, through the picture and details to show the character and inner world, break through the traditional creative methods and concepts, make up for the shortcomings in the theme image genealogy in China's war films, so that people can be educated in watching, appreciate the connotation in watching, so its vitality is timeless. The film has created a group of women living in the war years, the poorest, the most backward, the lowest mountain women, the screenwriter and director in portraying these images, avoiding the empty preaching and formulaic, conceptual things used in some previous films, but only capturing some of the small stories in their lives, with a personalized and humanized perspective one by one, to achieve the main theme of praise, enhance the artistic expression of the high realm. Especially in today's unprecedented boom in the film market, commercial blockbusters compete with each other at the box office, and as a realistic and reflective traditional war theme can rise all the way in the film market, this can not but say the unique artistic charm of his films.

Truth is the life of art, life is the source of art, and excellent works of art all come from profound accumulation of life. This work restores the historical truth with artistic truth, and in an artistic way of expression, let people truly feel the origin and connotation of the great Yimeng spirit in the enjoyment of art, so it has both strong ideological value and aesthetic function. The six sisters were the six Yimeng women who led the villagers to support the front line during the Battle of Menglianggu, and four of them are still alive today. The prototype of Yuefen in the story is the old man Li Fenglan, who died in 2008, she was holding a big rooster to become a parent, her husband had never seen him before he died, and she never remarried in her life.

The role of music in the film is very important, in this film, the director's unique performance of the erhu is carried through it, achieving a special effect. When Yue Fen knew that her husband, whom she had never met, had died on the battlefield, she returned home to realize that this was the third person to dedicate herself to the battlefield in her home, in the snow-white tie- and in the kneeling of many villagers, the low erhu sound played, sad and desolate, and the tears of the audience could not help but burst out. If the humid climate and curved cobblestone streets in the south have cultivated the peace and softness of southern women, then the wind, frost, snow and rain in the north and the vast ruggedness have shaped the unique strength and enthusiasm of northern women. Northern women are women who help men fight in the blue wisps of the road. Turbulent days will stir up their hatred and clear feelings. They would clean the men of their blood at any cost, heal them with their warm hands, and then help them on their way. Yimeng women are so kind and simple, strong and enthusiastic, and they understand the great righteousness. General Chi Haotian once said affectionately: "The great victory won in the Battle of Menglianggu is inseparable from the full support of the Yimeng people.

The story of Yimeng Mountain should be said to be quite familiar since childhood. Today, when we once again step into the red land that once carried countless heroic and bloody battles, the years with tears and smoke and capital letters have gone through more than 70 years of glory, but still let people from the depths of their hearts that are broad, that thick, that kind of sadness, and every time they think of it, they still make people's eyes wet.

Author: Chen Xi, military writer, poet, editor. He joined the army in 1981 and graduated from the Literature Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and has published more than 2 million words of literature and film and television works in the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Publishing House, the Economic Publishing House, and the China Culture Publishing House. His poems have appeared in People's Daily, People's Liberation Army Literature and Art, People's Liberation Army Daily, Literature and Art Daily, Youth Literature, Contemporary, Harvest, Shandong Literature, Beijing Literature, Stars, Poetry Journal, People's Armed Forces Alert, Chinese Writers and other newspapers and periodicals, and his works have won the "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" and "Youth Literature" awards. The China Writers Association (Rizhao) China Prose Season Excellent Works Award and other national, provincial and municipal excellent work awards have been awarded more than 30 times.

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