"Beautiful Sister": Sing the beauty of the surge of life and the desolation of fate

I sat alone in the movie hall that was "snubbed", and the rough and original images in the movie "Beautiful Sister" rushed with the high-pitched and simple folk songs of the two people in Taichung, such a vivid expression of life, I couldn't help but be touched. Previously, I didn't know hao jie, a young director who had been committed to artistic exploration in personal experience encounters. Born in Gujia Village, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, this young man has undergone a bumpy transformation and become a film artist who looks back on the original state of life. He took "Beautiful Sister", which was also filmed in the original state, and walked alone on the road of trying to face the public, perhaps all this is still difficult to change the cold situation of literary and art films in theaters, but at least he dedicated himself to this sincere film with a sincere gesture, and let future independent filmmakers see a sincere creative direction. Therefore, I want to speak as sincerely as this film about the beauty of the mirror image contained in it.

There is no doubt that this film tells the whole story in the flow of time. The protagonist Iron Egg has experienced the growth process from childhood to adulthood, and in his life, there are countless large and small partings and reunions. These partings and reunions became director Hao Jie's main film narrative strategy. For example, for the first time, Mei Jie originally lived in the Iron Egg family, but the return of her husband and the historical fate of the Cultural Revolution forced her to leave with a family of four, which left an indelible painful memory in the young Iron Egg's heart (the emotional touch of sexual enlightenment).

Then when Iron Egg grew up, the reunion with Mei Jie's family made him face a new choice, so that the deep feelings for Mei Jie were automatically transferred to Mei Jie's eldest daughter, and the two had feelings in the so-called green plum bamboo horse situation, but this feeling could not withstand the impact of reality, the eldest daughter was forced to marry the Mongolian who came to propose in sorrow, in thisnother parting, Tie Egg completely disintegrated the long-suppressed desire in another way, giving birth to his own cry for the injustice of fate. In the first alternation between reunion and parting, the ups and downs of the little people's forced choice in fate are reflected.

After that, after the drunken Iron Egg, in a tragic song of the duo, resolutely decided to make an active choice in life - to join the troupe. The active parting made him a "ronin" who went with the flow and sang and sang geographically. Walking on the grasslands of Saibei, integrating the folk art handed down by his father into the experience of his own life, expressing himself in the crowd to get applause, became an outlet for his life expression.

Mei Jie's third daughter, due to the worship of iron eggs when she was young, she decided to join his troupe, and the iron eggs that had experienced the wind and rain in the world encountered this somewhat strange reunion. The appearance of the third daughter once again reminded him of the youthful lust of his youth, which made him confused. The third daughter's infatuation with him made him stumble in the barriers of memory and reality, but he was accustomed to fate, and finally like us ordinary people, he chose to compromise his impulses in a stable and stable life.

In these intentional or deliberate partings and reunions, the film camera calmly displays these people who are full of vitality and desire, and extends them into their lives. Different interpretations will see different historical meanings in it, which may be used as a chronicle of lust, or as a modern history of the triumph and decline of duotai art. But everything will return to people, and they sing the song of their own lives.

If you must make a genre definition for "Beautiful Sister", then in addition to literary films, it is actually an absurd comedy. The setting of the movie is actually very exaggerated and bizarre, the iron egg from childhood infatuation with the beautiful sister, to later fall in love with the beautiful sister's empathetic object - the eldest daughter, this feeling was "castrated" by fate, and then forced to marry the beautiful sister's deaf and dumb second daughter, after the ups and downs, the third daughter of the beautiful sister inexplicably re-infatuated with him with the image of "the beautiful sister in memory". The strange emotional entanglement is very imaginative and absurd, but in the middle of the expression of the film, you will not feel a sense of violation, but there will be a sense of magic realism. I have to say that this is where Hao Jie's skill lies.

The absurd setting, combined with the witty insertion plot of the movie, will indeed make people laugh. It is said that at the 60th San Basstian Film Festival in Spain, "Beautiful Sister" was an exhibiting film, and during the screening, the Spanish audience broke out into laughter many times, which showed the artistic tension of the film's witty humor.

Rough, raw, original, local image temperament, mixed into the director's understanding of the group's life attitude, living conditions, the real exaggeration of their original life absurd and humorous presentation, a primitive life interest that is different from modern civilization is integrated into the film itself, and then because he is not telling a happy story, this forms a unique viewing experience: you may feel teasing and humorous one minute, and the next minute you may feel desolate and indifferent.

After this feeling is pulled by the long and distant tune of folk songs, a kind of living poetry overflows from it.

"The mountains can't stop the wind, the snow can't stop the spring, and the mountain gods can't stop people from thinking about people." Mountains of wet soil, with ten kinds of grass, people inside the number of sister hello, the first one to meet the sister, the second to welcome love, little sister, can you and brother I am -" This simple and intuitive, straight-to-the-chest folk love song is sung by the high-pitched voice of the iron egg, and the voice is melodious in the valley.

In "Beautiful Sister", the folk song of "Duorentai" occupies a pivotal position, and even in the movie, this kind of singing has almost become a unique narrative composition. For example, when the Mongols were preparing to come to Meijie's house to propose to the eldest daughter, the iron egg sang his sincere feelings for the eldest daughter of the Meijia with a sharp and melodious improvised folk song. Even after this, he drunkenly staged the troupe, sang the sad tune of his own voice, and used the "two-person stage" song as an emotional outlet for his life expression.

In addition, the film's mirror language and music are very flexible, and even vivid. Moreover, whenever the emotions are expressed, the tune of the "two-person platform" folk song will sound appropriately. It can be seen that whether it is the film itself or the people in the movie, their feelings for the folk song of "Duorentai" are undoubtedly very deep, and this folk art is a carnival expression tool in their blood, and it is a window for individual life to experience and want to express.

I think it's the embodiment of their regional, pristine Dionysian spirit. Nietzsche said that the Dionysian spirit symbolizes the venting of emotions, the experience of survival that abandons the shackles of tradition and returns to a primitive state, the great pleasure of human beings in the desperate and painful cries of the disappearance of the unity of the individual and the world. This metaphor seems to fit in with their state of existence.