"The tracks are clear and ready."
"Outbound closed... Pit Stop Open... The signal is normal. ”
"Set off ... Rear normal... The signal is normal. ”
This is the main job of a small station manager, only a few times a day, and may even only enter and exit the station once. Sato Otoisatsu idolized his father who drove trains since childhood, and aspired to and succeeded in becoming a train driver, driving steam locomotives to transport coal from the coal mine to the outside world. Later, when resources were depleted and the mines closed, he was appointed as a railroadman. In this way, in a small snow country town called Homai in northern Japan, he worked for decades at this station with only one staff member, until he fell on the platform, and recorded that "everything is normal this day."
The famous movie "RailroadMan" starring Ken Takakura tells the sad and poignant beauty of life. The film begins with a more magnificent mountain covered in snow, when the awesome locomotive whistles and smokes billowing smoke to crash into the camera, the intention of the main creative staff is revealed, and the protagonist whistles to the sky at the station under the first cover of night, and the loneliness and sorrow are shocking. However, this feeling is only a flash, and then replaced by warm and melodious and passionate music, bringing the audience into the fiery inner world under the cold shell of a man, and finally completing the journey of self-redemption.
In a remote town that is almost forgotten, when his daughter is seriously ill and goes to the hospital, Yi Song still insists on staying at work, and welcomes his wife to hold her already cold daughter, in his wife's words: "Your daughter is dead, but you wave the flag to see her." "His wife was terminally ill and dying in the hospital, and he wasn't around, which caused the anger of his friend's wife.
There are more people in our country who are fighting in all positions. From the snowy fields of the forest sea to the tropical islands, from the humid southeast coast to the bitter cold plateau checkpoints, countless people work in obscurity, bleeding and sweating. Many people choose geology, civil engineering and other majors after watching "The Straits" (another famous movie starring Ken Takakura), and once they plunge into it, it is decades, it is a lifetime. In the play, Ken Takakura plays Akuzu who introduced himself when he talked to the leaders of the National Railways before going to explore the Tsugaru Strait.
"When I was a kid, I was swimming in the sea, and I wanted to be a pirate!"
"So Shangjiang Tiandao Naval School?"
"However, I only studied there for four months, and after the war I went to Kyoto University to study geology."
"Well, you railway worker served in the navy, and the dormitory of the military university is really nostalgic!" What about after the National Railways? ”
"When I interned at Shinjuku Station and Hachio Station, I worked as a conductor and drove a train."
"What about road keepers?"
"I did it too."
"Ah!" (Gently)
"I learned a lot, and then Shinjuku worked for another year, checking the tickets, you see..." he said holding out his finger.
The senior encouraged him: "In the future, these calluses will make the stones grind thicker, and the place where Dragon Fei is really fatal, from here to the south is the northernmost part of Honshu, where the wind is strong!" ”
In China's primary and secondary education, according to the standard answer, the above dialogue is basically not given points, only the sentence "learn a lot" is still appropriate. He should say that he loves geology, and the military university especially wants to be a pirate. It should be persuaded to arrange from the leadership, start from the grassroots, and how to do it later. It should be said that when the conductor insists on learning during the period, there is no waste of professional knowledge, and so on.
This bachelor of Kyoto University (please note that it is not a graduate student, it can be seen that undergraduate education is important), the protagonist of the Main Theme Movie of Japan, is even more inedible than China's Gao Daquan. Working outside the home for many years, he married in his thirties, left his wife and son, the elderly father, and handed over his father and son to his wife to take care of, from the south to the far north, for more than twenty years. Although he also came back to visit his relatives during the period, he did not know that his son was in high school, and his father was critically ill and he fought at the scene of the engineering accident and could not return. The film was shot in 1982 and caused a sensation in Japan, and was subsequently introduced by the Shanghai Translation Studio. Audiences throughout the 80s were very lucky to see foreign high-quality film and television dramas, such as Japan's "Life and Death Love" and "Blood Doubt" in the same period, especially the latter once made thousands of people empty alleys, and Yamaguchi Baihui fascinated hundreds of millions of people. Then there was the lengthy "Legend of the Archery Hero". Different from dubbing Western films, the film and television works of Neighboring Asian countries imported by China generally do not take the tone, basically do not destroy the artistic conception of the work, and the translation of this "Strait" has been unanimously praised. Ken Takakura, the "big man" of Japan, is Chinese household name, and his dedication to the country at the expense of individuals and families is called the Japanese spirit, and then Made in Japan is highly recognized and accepted. Today's worldwide presence of Japanese cars is proof of this, although the Toyota is no longer the Toyota of the past (evidence suggests that greed for profits under capital control puts quality on the edge of a dangerous cliff). Although now Japan has long learned from the West to emphasize individuality and advocate individualism, although Kimura Takuya, Takeshi Kanejo is also well known to Young Chinese people, but not as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as Takakura Ken, as for actresses, almost no successors, whether it is image temperament, or for commercial considerations, Gong Li is more representative of Oriental women, more accepted and even dumped by the international community, especially Westerners, Zhang Ziyi is more popular with Hollywood, not to mention Li Na, who directly uses her strength to rank among the world's top three hot-tempered Li Na. Isn't a man's "selflessness" (giving up one's relatives in disregard of the pursuit of personal career success? "Devotion, almost unconditional obedience of women, traditional gentleness and virtuousness, there is no longer a market.
So at the end of the century, in 1999, to be precise, at the turn of the century, there was this "return," the return of humanity, in a way that paid homage to the distant Japanese spirit. “... I believe my father's words and have verified it, he said, 'The steam engine will rebuild our country after the war, and work with him', and I did the same, I became a train driver, and now I will retire as a railway officer, I have tried my best, and I have no regrets..." (People who are far away in foreign countries, especially those who have been sent abroad to study abroad and have not returned from their studies, do not know how to feel when they hear this?). ）
Our railway workers and their families should be more lovely, respectable, singable, and weeping than their neighbors, but we do not have Ken Takakura, and our national-level directors are not here. We even have a lot of cities born because of railways, because of the rapid development of railways, the early famous Harbin, Mudanjiang and many small towns along the line built by the Middle East Railway, Manzhouli on the Eastern Qing Railway, followed by Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Zhuzhou and a large number of cities, and now the high-speed rail is far away from the old city, and a wave of city-building movements has arisen. How many stories and how many tragedies and joys are there in the middle? With the vastness of China's territory, its long history, its large population, and the vicissitudes of more than a hundred years of vicissitudes, no matter how vigorous and how tragic and sad things are, it seems that they have never happened, no matter how heroic and great people, no matter how despicable the warlords and rogues, as if they had never come. The murderous old hair, the sinister and despicable little devil, now a grain of dust can be seen? For Japan, the first meiji minister, the first patriarch of constitutional government, the first prime minister, the first political strongman in Asia, the culprit of the Sino-Japanese War for China, and the evil colonizer for Korea, Ito Hirobumi, was not shot at the Harbin railway station? (He said to himself, "Assassinated, Ben Yu wangye.") Less than three and a half years later, one of the main founders of the Republic of China and the most important promoter of the cabinet system, Song Jiaoren, also fell at the Shanghai Railway Station. And the North Korean righteous soldier Ahn Jung-geun, who assassinated Ito, the remains are nowhere to be found. (On January 19, 2014, the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall opened in Harbin.) ）
I once met a guy on the train who drove a train, and he said that when the road conditions were unknown, they would drive a truck (or locomotive) to explore the way for the bus, called "stepping on the mine". One might question this: the life of a train driver is also a life. But empathy, put yourself in the shoes of the people, China is a mountainous country, the rainy season geological disasters are frequent, dense passenger flow, relatively backward technology, what better way? Many times the choice is that there is no way back, and we have to choose the choice that has no choice.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, China's railway accidents were frequent, with many casualties, natural disasters, technical factors, and man-made factors, but most of them boiled down to management problems: internal control was not in place, it was a problem of the operation mechanism of the railway system, and it was a concentrated reflection of various problems in the whole society at that time. The vast number of railway workers are among the ordinary and sympathetic working people, who are serious about their work and love for life. There have also been several major accidents in recent years, but the frequency of accidents has decreased significantly. The sadness of Chinese is not that they are misunderstood, that they are not held accountable, that they are not acting as scapegoats, but that more people seek a simple job that they cannot get.
Many of the roads crossing the railway are now either bridged or tunneled, and the crossings that have existed for decades or even hundreds of years have been abolished, but they are still guarded in some suburban junctions, especially some non-main freight lines. Every time I passed, the signal lights flashed, the alarm bells sounded, and the fearsome iron guy crossed in front of me, pressing the ground and the buildings, and I always felt that time and space were intertwined. Since watching "The RailroadMan", I have been in awe of the railroadmen.
