By chance, I brushed a documentary by Jia Zhangke from my mobile phone, "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue", which is very literary and artistic when I see the name, and I still have a little expectation for this film.
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The first contact with Jia Zhangke's film was in high school, in fact, many people around him at that time, after watching his films, more or less would spit out a sentence of "a little soil!" "
To be honest, it is indeed "earthy" compared to other showmanship, excitement, and trendy movies.
But in fact, when you really look into it, you will feel that there is always an inexplicable attraction hidden in his films.
Jia Zhangke presents us with a single and colorful "social sentient beings" through the lens. "
"Swim All the Way to the Blue Water" mainly takes the writers Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua and Liang Hong as the main narrators and the daughter of the late writer Ma Feng and the audience to watch the individual and family, the countryside and literature in the social changes.
However, for the film "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue", there are two voices, one is that this is a soft guang, and the other is that I feel that from Jia's film, I can still see a pursuit and hope that he wants to express.
After all, the benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise, and it is normal for everyone to have different understandings.
The reason why some people think that this is a soft wide, the most direct evidence is that when the old man in Shanxi is reminiscing bitterly, the background music that sounds is Intel, and this advertisement is indeed a bit obvious.
In addition, another screenwriter in the film, in addition to Jia Zhangke, Wan Jiahuan, is a reporter for China News Weekly, which is affiliated with the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.
Combined with Wan Jiahuan's background and the group characteristics of the magazine's audience (mostly elite groups), it is inferred that this film may be a propositional composition, that is, different from Jia Zhangke's previous films.
The film is not a film in which he has complete final say.
Others believe that the four writers mainly involved in the film do not construct the context of rural literature and have nothing to do with literature.
I think this view is still too absolute.
On the contrary, I thought they could, so when I introduced them, the information used was a little old, but it was really something they had personally experienced.
And sometimes it's a good thing to get nostalgic for the old.
Of course, for these writers to say well can not all agree, such as the film Jia Pingwo old Mr. Jia Qianqian said to his daughter Jia Qianqian, "First do a good wife, mother and then write poetry, do not confuse poetry with life, you must be a good woman." "
To be honest, this sentence will inevitably cause a lot of people to discuss in modern times, why must you be a good woman and then write poetry? Why can't you bring poetry to life?
For Jia Pingwa, this should be the definition of the traditional perspective of women in their generation.
But if you put it today, it will... You know.
In fact, whether it is from Mr. Jia Pingwa or the other two important characters in this film, Yu Hua and Liang Hong, you can clearly feel the influence of the environment they lived in when they were young on their literature.
Because Jia Pingwa liked to read, he quietly took his relatives' books home to read.
Although Yu Hua has been rejected many times, he still continues to go to various places to submit articles.
Although Liang Hong has completed his doctorate and is fully capable of getting rid of his previous life, he still chooses to return to his hometown.
Just like a definition of "hometown" written by Jia Pingwo in the collection of essays "With Lights":
Half of you were born there is actually half of you already dead there, so your hometown is also called blood land.
Therefore, no matter where you are, there are still seeds planted in your hometown in your blood.
When this seed begins to sprout and summon you, no matter where you are, you will stop and embrace the memory that is carved into your bones, and you will eventually usher in your own inspiration after recuperating.
Finally, the name of the film comes from a sentence by the writer Yu Hua in the film.
When Yu Hua was a child, he lived in Haiyan, Zhejiang, a small city near the sea, and swimming in the sea was a common thing for him.
It's just that the sea water was yellow at that time, and when I was in school, the sea water written in the books was blue, and he often thought: Why haven't I seen the blue sea?
So one day, he swam for a long time because he wanted to swim until the water turned blue.
In fact, this also means that Yu Hua's inner desire for the outside world and his determination to pursue a higher realm, the "blue sea" is a hope, which should also be the reason why he has always inspired himself to go down the road of literature.
The above is a personal opinion about Jia Zhangke's film "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue".
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