In the movie My People My Motherland, last year was a companion piece of My People My Motherland. Click on the profile to see the chief producer, the familiar name-Zhang Yimou.
In recent years, the word-of-mouth of Zhang Yimou films has fluctuated greatly, including The Great Wall, which didn't even get a score of 5 in Douban, and Shadow, which was a fair work with a score of 7.7 in Douban.
However, compared with Zhang Yimou's peak works, Shadow is just a younger brother.
Unfortunately, there are so many good works in the peak period, such as Red Sorghum, Red Lantern Hanging High, The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum and so on. , are really the highest level in Zhang Yimou, but this film is forbidden.
It is the ceiling of China movies, and people can't avoid discussing the best in the history of China movies.
Some people say that Chen Kaige 1993 filmed Farewell My Concubine and Zhang Yimou 1994 filmed Alive. After so many years, these two films still represent the limits of China's films.
Yes, the film to be introduced today is called Alive, a work that can still touch people's hearts after being banned for 26 years.
0 1.
It was 1992, and 42-year-old Zhang Yimou fell in love with a novella called Errors by the River. He wanted to make this absurd and violent story into a movie, so he contacted the screenwriter named Yu Hua.
1 Many years later, that is, 1994, the mistake by the river that was originally planned to be filmed disappeared, and there was a new work called "Living" in the history of China movies.
At the beginning, Zhang Yimou's original intention of filming "Mistakes by the River" was true. In order to create better, he asked to see all Yu Hua's previous works and wanted to move the charm of novels to the screen.
At that time, "Living" had just been printed before it was published, and Yu Hua showed it to Zhang Yimou first. At this glance, Zhang Yimou was stunned by the world in which Fu Gui lived! In that black and white world, Fu Gui's fate drifted with the tide, tasted all the pain that fate could give him, and went on living.
He immediately decided to present the world on the screen. The mistake by the river was abandoned, and all his efforts were put into life.
He worked really hard for this movie. Ge You, Gong Li, Wujiang, Guo Tao and Niu Ben, the winner of Yishui, took the lead.
Add powerful actors like Liu Tianchi and Dahong Ni.
But in the end, the film was banned in China. It is said that I was banned because I attended the Cannes Film Festival without permission, but I always thought: No.
Maybe it's because the movie is too realistic.
But that's the way the world was then.
1994, that year, was the best Zhang Yimou. That year, the best Zhang Yimou produced the best works.
02.
Ge You plays Fu Gui, a playboy who will only lose his family. At the beginning of the film, he lost in gambling. One detail is very striking:
After Fu Gui and Dragon lost the bet, Fu Gui was still keeping accounts. At this time, he signed the account book with money and said two words: "I owe a lot of money these days, and my words have improved greatly."
This can only mean two things. First of all, he is a compulsive gambler. Second, he has little knowledge and skills, and even only practices calligraphy when he keeps accounts.
This film is slowly spread out in this real performance full of details.
Fu Gui, who can't afford to lose, mortgaged the property, which made dad very angry. The pregnant wife tried several times to persuade him to quit gambling, but she also left home with her daughter.
With nothing, he finally lost the idea of gambling.
A year later, she finally got rid of drugs successfully. His wife Jia Zhen turned against her family and came back to live with him without hesitation. Jia Zhen is a kind-hearted woman with only one sentence in her heart: I want to live a quiet life with you and want nothing.
But Fu Gui is the protagonist, and the protagonist must be bumpy.
After a few days of stability, he was arrested by the army and went to the army with Chunsheng in the same village.
After the war, I finally got home, my mother died, and my daughter had a high fever for seven days and seven nights, and she could no longer speak. The whole family relies on Jia Zhen to get up early every day and send water in the dark to make ends meet.
But times have changed, and now this day is different from before. Long Er, who won a big house by gambling, was shot by the local owner because he was too rich.
Fu Gui was so scared that his pants were wet that he thought, "Thanks to the exit of this house."
Since then, Fu Gui has lived in fear.
He didn't think about how rich and expensive he was. He used to live a rich life and didn't complain about his fate. His good daughter became mute.
That's it. As long as you can maintain your current stability and joy and then live, it's better than anything.
But something unexpected happened, and my son died in an accident.
The misfortune of the Fu Gui family did not stop. ...
03.
It can be said that whether it is a novel or a movie, "Living" is overwhelming after reading it.
Man, a creature, has really met the tide of the times and is too small to be a wave. Fate is impermanent, I will torture you as I want.
Fu Gui Jia Zhen, who has gone through a rough life, still believes that "life will get better", but fate always wants to give them a little warmth and tear their last hope for life to pieces with more cruel experiences.
But you can still feel an upward force.
Yes, although suffocating and boring, there is still upward power.
Because they live, because they still want to live, not for anything, but as life itself, stubbornly live.
Living is the most important thing.
Compared with the novel, Fu Gui lost his family treasure, son-in-law and grandson one after another, and the ending after the film adaptation at least retained a trace of warmth.
This is what Zhang Yimou finally wants to show in the film.
Hope, we still have hope.
On Douban, the film scored as high as 9.2 points. In fact, there are many simple but helpless plots in the film worth discussing. However, compared with hope, other features of the film seem less important.
Live, there is hope. After you have hope, you should live well.
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Author: chopping wood to entertain Mr. Bai