"Alyosha, don't be afraid, the train stopped on it, and he smiled and the sky lit up."
- "The Sun Also Rises"
"The Sun Also Rises" is the third film directed by "Ghost Talent" director Jiang Wen after "The Devil Is Coming". The film has long been called a perfect art film in the industry, but it only grossed 16 million.
Jiang Wen's picture in the film uses a lot of stream-of-consciousness processing, the plot has also made a certain degree of blank space, and the timeline of Jiang Wen's entire film is not obvious, so that many viewers can't understand it.
However, this still does not prevent Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", which is still an epic god work! For 14 years, no one has surpassed.
The surface of the film tells a simple story, a man dumps a woman who is pregnant with his own son with a lie, and on the same day the man marries another woman. Years later, the man killed his own son because his son had an affair with his current wife, but the man did not know that the person he had killed with his own hands was his own son.
The narrative method of Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" disrupts the chronological order, and the plot of the four bars is interspersed with narration, achieving a great dramatic effect. He used the first and second verses to narrate the stories of the mad mother and son, Teacher Liang and Teacher Tang respectively, and then let them converge in the third section, and finally used the fourth section to uncover the mystery and explain the connection of all the characters. The circular narrative structure is intriguing, and after watching it, people can't help but shoot the case.
In terms of timeline, the story is easy to understand. In 1958, Zhou Yun's "crazy mother" was pregnant with Liujia, and she met a woman in the desert, and the two rode the same camel on the Gobi side by side.
This woman is Kong Yishan, an overseas Chinese from Nanyang who returned to China to build the motherland, the purpose of her trip is to find her fiancé, her face is full of happiness, her mouth is full of admiration for her fiancé, she mentioned that her fiancé only wrote a dozen words in the letter to him: "Come, marry me, September 10th, I am waiting for you at the end of the road." ”
Zhou Yun just listened from the side, and without saying a word, the purpose of her trip was much heavier, she heard the news of her husband's death.
As they spoke, a sign suddenly appeared in front of the two women, with "End" on one side and "Non-End" on the other. Kong Yongshan smiled and said that she was going to the "end" of the road, while Zhou Yun went to the other side of the "non-end". Just like the encounter of these two women, one is for happy love, one is for sad love.
Kong Yishan followed the direction of the road sign, and sure enough, he saw the "end" of the road, where there was a large hand with the word "end". And her fiancé was holding a gun, standing behind the "end", waiting for her with a smile, in the middle of the yellow sand and blue sky, he said the most beautiful love words: "Your belly is like velvet." ”
Then fired two shots in a row. It was like telling the love between the two of them to heaven and earth, and it was also like showing his courage as a man.
Zhou Yun met a Soviet aunt who told him that Alyosha had been buried on the border with Natasha. Zhou Yun's husband, Li Bukong, used Alyosha as his name in the Soviet Union. The aunt led her to a morgue where there were no dead people, and what she saw was her husband's relics, a military uniform with three holes, three braids of a Russian woman, and a pack of love letters written by his husband and foreign women. Her husband died, but because of the problem of life style, he could not become a martyr.
In the evening, the newlyweds and the people of Xinjiang sang and danced, the folk customs here are simple, and the people are free and happy. In the dim light of the fire, they reveled by the campfire, snatched the bride, and many men touched the women's buttocks.
A train came from afar, passing by the crowd that was reveling, and the red cloth lit at the bonfire party fluttered with the wind near the train.
Zhou Yun was on that train. Although she resented her husband's betrayal of her, she still thought of him. She didn't believe that her man was dead, because of the relics she had only seen, she preferred to believe that her husband had just gone to find other women, and she still had the desire to see this man.
While he was losing his mind in the toilet, his child was suddenly born and fell down the train. She hurried off the train. As she ran, the flowers on the railroad tracks went all the way, and finally, among the flowers, she found her child.
The sun broke through the night, or rose as usual, Zhou Yun stood on the train looking at the newly born red sun in the east, excitedly shouting: "Alyosha, don't be afraid, the train stopped on it, he smiled and the sky will light up." The high-pitched female voice crossed the desolate Gobi, as if it could travel through time and space. The sun still rises steadily at its own pace.
Zhou Yun took her husband's widow to the small mountain village where her husband once stayed, and they settled here.
As she thought, her husband did not really die, he used fake death to deceive his wife, and married his lover, her husband is Tang Yulin, the woman she met in the desert is Tang Yulin's lover.
In 1967, Zhou Yun was "crazy" because of a dream and a pair of flower cloth shoes embroidered with fish. She kept climbing the tree, looking into the distance, repeating what her dead husband had said to him. Seeing the parrot that would say "I know I know", she let the sheep go up to the tree and talk to the cat.
Doing many "crazy" things, his mother dug white stones under trees and secretly built a "white house" for her son. She wanted to protect her son, and she smashed everything in the house, but she carefully put it together one by one in the "White House".
Her son, Li Dongfang, has a very high talent in arithmetic, but he is forced by his "crazy mother" not to go to school, not to go out, not to work, and to guard against his mother's crazy moves at home at any time and anywhere. One night, Zhou Yun pulled out the love letters that her husband had written to Soviet women, burned them all, and told her son about his father's origins—his father was the cutest man, named Alyosha, but not a Soviet.
One day, when Li Dongfang was out playing, he accidentally found the "White House" left by his mother. Everything inside is pieced together. But he sneezed, and the things crackled and shattered, like a dream of nothingness.
Li Dongfang ran away in panic and returned home, but saw his mother, who had a mild face and neat hair. Mom said she was fine, and she wore the flower cloth shoes embroidered with fish on her feet. She instructed her son to pick up the people who had been put over, and told him to wait here for him to return.
In the summer of 1976, Tang Yulin retired from the army and worked as a teacher in a school, he and his wife were separated, and he still could not change his temperament. Hooked up with Dr. Lin from the school infirmary.
Tang Yulin has a colleague named Xiao Liang, he is a clean and self-respecting, elegant person, many female colleagues in the school are very admiring of Xiao Liang.
One night in the open air, he secretly touched the buttocks of a school cafeteria worker, who had admired him, but turned around to hug him, he turned around and wanted to run, but at this time someone shouted "Catch the hooligan." ”
Xiao Liang ran around in a panic, but accidentally broke the adulterous affair between Tang Yulin and Dr. Lin. In order to avoid the leakage of adultery, Dr. Lin tricked Xiao Liang into breaking her leg. Xiao Liang immediately became the target of public criticism, he was treated as a rogue, illuminated by 42 flashlights, lost face, and was not decent.
In the end, Xiao Liang cleared his grievances, but on the 2nd day he died. The cause of his death is unknown, some people say that he committed suicide, and some people say that it was because he broke Tang Yulin's adulterous affair and was killed by Tang Yulin.
In the autumn of 1976, Tang Yulin's adulterous affair was still broken. He and his wife were sent to the countryside where Zhou Yun and his son stayed. The person who came to pick them up was Li Dongfang, the son of the "crazy mother", and when the tractor was halfway through, Li Dongfang learned that his mother who was waiting for him at home had disappeared, and her clothes and the flower cloth shoes drifted down the river to the distance.
Tang Yusheng, who was sent to the mountain village, took his children up the mountain to hunt and use the prey to earn centimeters, and he taught the children: "Bow does not shoot, fishing is not gang." "Even animals can't fight when they're mating, and animals that raise children can't hit either."
However, one night, tang Yulin was on the way to hunt, and accidentally saw Li Dongfang and his wife rolling together in the "White House" of crazy mothers. Kong Yishan told Li Dongfang that Tang Yulin had said that his stomach was like velvet.
The next day, Tang Yulin pointed a gun at Li Dongfang's head, but Li Dongfang, who had no fear of death, asked what was velvet? Tang Yulin divorced and decided to find a piece of velvet for Li Dongfang, but when Li Dongfang saw the velvet, it was the date of his death.
Tang Yulin, who left the mountain village, did not bring back velvet, because his rock singer friend enlightened him, not Li Dongfang's fault, but Tang Yulin has occupied the pit and not for so many years, only caring for his own pleasure, putting his wife at home and staying alone in an empty house.
However, when he saw Li Dongfang again, Li Dongfang found the velvet himself and told Tang Yulin that Kong's belly did not look like velvet at all. Tang Yulin shot and killed Li Dongfang for his ridiculous dignity.
The story is over.
Jiang Wen did not take the usual narrative method, which is also the reason why many people did not understand, the first part of the film between the crazy mother and the son seems absurd and abnormal, but also in the whole seems harmonious, everyone knows what kind of year 1976 is, Jiang Wen arranged the story of "The Sun Also Rises" in this year, but also to write an elegy to the past era.
"A generation comes, a generation goes, the earth lives on, the sun rises, the sun sets, the sun rises as usual." This sentence in the Bible is the origin of the title. After filming, Jiang Wen said that "The Sun" is a gift from God to me.