Platform shows not only the stations that the characters in the film have passed, but also the destination of personal history. Instead, movies show respect for ordinary people and understanding of life, and describe some ordinary people as important history. On the contrary, those histories became the background of ordinary people. In the historical quotations that have not disappeared, those young people began to touch the changes of life. This makes a historical background play the role of fate in the film. However, it is this power that makes the fate of some people history. History no longer belongs to great men, but to little people who rush about for their dreams and lives. Only in this way can they truly understand the changes of history, which constitutes the true annotation of history. It can be said that this film is an epic of those little people.
Searching for the Memory Code of the Past Years —— Comment on Platform
Memories are easily lost in fleeting time. The youth, dreams, agitation and passion that once existed are dormant at the bottom of consciousness, cordial and far away. Unconsciously, we have left the once kind and distant platform with the long train and embarked on a fascinating drifting journey. Looking back suddenly, I have come so far!
I don't know where I got my interest and strength. I really want to see those old discs that have been put on hold for a long time. In the dead of night, I have nothing to do physically and mentally. I dig out CDs such as "Platform" and "Living" that I collected a few years ago but have never seen before, and continue to pick up the dusty memories.
But creatures always have dreams consciously, so does Garfield, not to mention human beings, the soul of all things! Sour, throbbing, manic, youthful memories, guarding the survival code of a generation for ten years. Many people don't have the time and courage to solve it, but Jia cruelly restored the truth of memory with his unique decoder-movie. "Platform" opens the valve of memory, allowing us to go back to the past and see "we" with distinctive characteristics of the times. Those familiar scenes, characters, and old songs that have been echoing inadvertently. Very kind, I can't bear to look back and look forward to it! It seems that the secret of survival that has been hidden for 20 years has been seen through, and it still smells awkward.
1979- 1989, a decade of radical transformation. People who have experienced this era are lucky. The experience of this short decade may be richer than that of a person aged 100, but it is also unfortunate. There are too many ups and downs and differences in fate, too many people are quiet and mediocre, and their dreams are crushed by ruthless wheels, and there is nowhere to pick them up. Decades of ideological, cultural and economic faults have been repaired and bonded by this decade, how can it not be heavy!
Shanxi has preserved more than 70% of the national wooden cultural relics. Closed conservatism is always associated with backwardness, but it well preserves the memory code and the imprint of the times. The film takes the mobile performance of the art troupe in Fenyang County, Shanxi Province as the plot stage, takes the emotional experience of Cui, Yi Ruijuan, Zhang Jun as the clue, and tells the story of ten years' changes with a calm, realistic and trivial narrative way and a unique audio-visual scene of that era. The mental journey of two couples almost condensed all the memory elements of that era.
Simple plot and some not simple memory information. Especially the ubiquitous music in movies, whether sung by the characters in the play or played by broken trucks, televisions and radios, all the songs have the unique symptoms of that era. The train rushed to Shaoshan, young friends came to meet, the night at the military port, wine and coffee, whether or not, longing, the little girl under the street lamp, Genghis Khan, my heart waiting, and even the soft posture thunderbolt space dance, all easily touched the nerves in my memory. It is impossible to be indifferent to young people who have experienced those ten years. For this generation, this may be the mark of growth and the secret of the heart. Incredibly, those familiar things have now become fossils and cultural relics to prove that we once lived, loved, hated, quarreled, enjoyed and suffered in that era.
This film immersed us in the past years, full of too many scars and reflections. When girls wearing fashionable red skirts danced with Spanish bullfighting music under the portrait of Chairman Mao, when actresses of art ensemble wearing tights danced happily on cracked trucks, when they bumped on dusty trucks, when wearing bell bottoms, perming their hair, thrush, smoking and holding guitars became the avant-garde of that era, I always felt an unforgettable pain.
Little people have had too many helpless sighs in the drastic changes of the times. Should we love or hate this era, or should love and hate be mixed, bittersweet? People are easy to forget. The longer time goes by, I'm afraid love will surpass hate, sweetness will surpass bitterness, and even all memories will become history. All history is contemporary history, and when it becomes history, there will be too many puzzles and fallacies, especially when the generation that has experienced it is getting old. People born in 1980s may think this movie is funny, but people born before 1970s may not laugh, because they know it is true. It has been lurking in their hearts, and they dare not say that it is worth cherishing, but it is hard to forget.
Break through the shackles of thoughts and feelings and seek the return of nature; Preserve the film of memory and keep the traces of years. This time, I burst into tears for the truth of the film and the passing years.
Forward, forward, forward, let's take the road. I hope that in another 20 years, I will still be in this state of mind. I don't know what it will be like to watch this movie again. Liang said to him, China, I have lost my key. Jia said: Never mind, this is the password, which may unlock your memory?
Jia's platform talk
The script Platform was probably written by 1995 or 1996. At that time, I just started making short films. In fact, Platform should be my debut.
The interesting thing about the "platform" should be that it allows me to really work in an industrial system. We used to be good friends when we filmed Xiaowu, 15 people. When you sleep, you sleep when you are tired. There is no pressure and the film crew is flexible. At most, there are 100 people on the group shooting platform. Suddenly, many departments, many people, many things. How can you ensure that you concentrate on your creation? How can you trust your producer? These things are the first time for me, and they are all challenges.
I used to be very afraid of industry. I think the change of industry to you and their aesthetics, including the recognition of movies, are all a kind of fear. After the platform, as long as you believe in your own movies, people in the industry have their own benefits. Because you can't work in your spare time forever, a competent director should learn these things instead of being afraid of them and avoiding them.
The song "Platform" was very popular among young people in the mid-1980s. It describes a person waiting for the arrival of his lover on the platform, which is a feeling of expectation. For me, it is the key to my memory of the 1980s. The platform is where I start and come back. Related to the journey, there is a feeling of fatigue and sadness about life.