"I don't care if he is a teacher or not, in my eyes he is still Xu Lingjun, he is not rare for me to be an official, even if he feeds horses for another twenty years, I will not abandon him." Anyway, from the day I got married, I corrected him, not now. "
The heart of a child, the feeling of home and country, pingshui husband and wife, and finally cast great love. This is the salvation of life and death of the soul and the body, the perfect blend of spirit and life, the precious spiritual wealth of the Chinese people, and the most lacking thing in this society!
"Wrangler" is a film with no special effects and so old that many people have forgotten, but I was shocked by the rustic pictures and clean soul in the film.
At the end of the 1970s, Xu Lingjun, a primary school teacher who had been a wrangler for half a lifetime in the Northwest Shulechuan Ranch, came all the way to the Beijing Hotel to meet his father, Xu Jingyou, an overseas Chinese entrepreneur who had not met in 30 years. At that time, Xu Jingyu, who pursued personal freedom, could not bear the wrong marriage with his wife and left his wife and children to go to the United States. On this return, he had the heart to take Xu Lingjun back to the United States to inherit the cause. During the conversation, Xu Lingjun did not think that the act of integrating himself into the collective and putting the national interest first at all times was a manifestation of outdated thinking, and he was not envious of his father's comfortable life. Looking back on the path he has taken for decades, although he has the tragic experience of becoming an outcast at an early age and being beaten into a rightist and sent to the pasture, he has also felt the warmth of the world several times from the simple and kind villagers in the pastoral area, and after marrying Li Xiuzhi, a bitter woman in Sichuan, in the difficult years, Xu Lingjun has tasted the bitterness and sweetness of the heart. He believes that after the country has passed the big hurdle of the "Cultural Revolution", individuals should work with relatives and friends to follow her to a new life.
The film is based on Zhang Xianliang's novel Spirit and Flesh. Personally, I think "Spirit and Flesh" seems to be more relevant to the plot.
In this film, Xu Lingjun's life for nearly forty years is unfolded in the form of memories, and what impresses me most is the bits and pieces of her and her wife Li Xiuzhi's life.
At that time, there was no rich bride price, no pompous wedding, Xu Lingjun met Li Xiuzhi who was sent to the door as a daughter-in-law in the situation of only one bowl and a pair of chopsticks at home. In his words, "We got married first and fell in love later." ”
I have always believed that two people with the same breath will eventually meet and eventually come together, as Xu Lingjun said: "In my life, I suddenly broke into such a kind person, and it seems that the day I have been waiting for many years has finally arrived." She trusted me so much that she didn't feel any strange to me, as if she had been waiting for me for years. "
Shortly after the well-meaning friend forced the marriage certificate they had received, they held a simple wedding banquet, Xiuzhi put on a red wedding dress, the broken earthen house surrounded by disciples was plastered with various window flowers, and the neighbor sent a pot that was enough to cook for two people. In this way, the two bitter people began to live in a mutually exclusive way.
Ben is two people who have no intersection, one is a literate intellectual, the other is a semi-illiterate who has only read the fourth grade, why can they support each other in life, encourage each other spiritually, and become a pair of gods and immortals that many people yearn for.
The driving force for the rapid and stable development of mankind is the simultaneous development of spiritual civilization and material civilization, and the two-way development.
I think that the reason why Lingjun and Xiuzhi have been able to stay together for a long time is because one of them is the guarantor of chai rice oil and salt, and the other is the guide of the spiritual world.
Yes, Lingjun went out to herd horses for ten days, and Xiuzhi kept the house in order, planting trees and building soil in the yard, and did not forget to write these trivial things into a diary. After Lingjun returned, he said, "I'm not here, you work during the day, and you just read and study at night." It can be seen that the life of this ordinary little couple has never been just the love and affection of you and me.
Remembering that their son wanted his grandfather's money to buy a toy car, Xiuzhi taught him: "Money, only we earned it ourselves, it is interesting to spend, and only then can we feel at ease." Like I buy salt, I know that I sold eggs in exchange for it! Right? I bought spicy seeds, and I knew it was the money I earned by cutting rice. I'll buy you a villain book, and I know it's the money I got from working overtime. Not our own money, not a single one. This is called ambition. "
Xu Lingjun, who had returned from seeing his father, deliberately said to Xiuzhi, "I will take you two to the United States together." Xiuzhi said: "Don't go, such a big China, you still can't live in people?" ”
Lingjun said, "Then only I went first." Xiuzhi said: "You can't go, I know, you can't bear the children in the school, you can't bear the villagers, you can't bear this family, and you can't bear her." You can put her in your pocket and take her away, but it's empty, you can't carry her back in Qilian Mountain, and you can't carry it on the prairie. There is an old saying in our hometown, the son is not ugly, the dog is not poor. "
"People, after all, do not live simply for material life."
In this film, I see not only the love of children, but more of a family and country.
Perhaps, this is also the common sentiment of hundreds of millions of Chinese compatriots, only when there is a country, there is a home. Therefore, in the new China, which has just experienced a harsh and long winter, and in the new era when all things are waiting for recovery, how can an intellectual with feelings, responsibility, and a sense of historical mission leave?
Therefore, Xu Lingjun did not leave!
I think this is probably the most beautiful "Spirit and Flesh"!
