The movie "Alive", after watching Fugui's life, what reason do we have to live badly?

文|婉君

It was 1993. The 43-year-old Zhang Yimou saw a novel called "Screaming in the Drizzle". He wanted to understand the fate and human nature in the novel deeply. Profound analysis was made into a movie, so he found a young writer named Yu Hua. Yu Hua showed him the manuscript of "Alive", and after reading it, Zhang Yimou changed his mind.

More than a year later, there will be a movie called 《生活着》 in the world.

The film began in a casino in the 1940s. The first shot was Fugui gambling in the casino. The first line of the film It’s : "Master Fugui, you have lost again."

At that time, Fugui was the anointed hakama of the landlord’s house. He ignored the opposition of his wife Jiazhen and his parents, and spent the whole day walking around casinos and shadow puppet classes. The host, Long Er, gambled. When someone told him that he "lost again", not only did he not feel guilty to his family or take responsibility for the family at all, but he smiled and said: "Recently, I have lost a lot of money, and my signature is good .”

The film paints a vivid image of a "prodigal son" through such a shot in a casino. Fugui lost the Xu family house to Long Er. Father Xu died in a hurry after signing and drawing. The Fugui family moved out of the Xu family mansion and the tragedy kicked off.

The Fugui family moved out of the Xu family mansion, Jiazhen returned with his son Youqing, Fugui borrowed the shadow puppets from Long Er and set up a shadow puppet team. The family is about to lead a peaceful life.

But at this time Fugui was arrested and made a strong man. He was taken away from the shadow puppet theater. The sharp knife that pierced the shadow puppet curtain was also a sharp knife that pierced Fugui's life. The peaceful life was like a wind. After stopping, he was about to return to the peaceful lake, and the sharp knife turned it upside down again.

The peaceful life of that era was the greatest luxury. During his military career, Fugui heard the wailing of wounded soldiers throughout the night, saw Lao Quan who fell by his side, and experienced the rebirth of climbing out of the dead. At that time, he said "Be alive".

"Live" seems to be a very lucky thing, but in that era, it was also another kind of misfortune. "Living" means experiencing more misfortune.

In the 1950s, the camera returned to the familiar archway in the village, and Fugui came back as a soldier. The news of the mother's death and the dumbness of his daughter were experienced by Fugui one by one, but he still said: "I have seen so many dead people, I am very satisfied to be back alive".

The misfortune of life makes him caught off guard , but he has not lost hope. After watching Rong Er's death sentence, Fu Gui was frightened. After returning home, he immediately found out the "evidence" and mounted it into the frame for fear that one day he would end up with Rong Er.

Here, I feel fortunate for Fugui. If he didn't lose the Xu Family Mansion, he would become the second dragon who was shot.

In the 1960s, the camera started again in the archway in that village. Time moved forward a little bit, the location of the story is still this village.

At this time, every household responded to the country’s call for large-scale steel smelting and took all the iron products in their homes to "steel making", with the purpose of surpassing Britain and France and even Fugui The nails on the shadow puppet box at home and the iron wire that fixed the shadow puppet were almost spared.

"Use steamed buns to make flour" , this is the most true description of that era by the old people who have experienced that era.

Lu Xun once said: "Tragedy is to destroy good things for others to see.”

The Fugui family relied on the work of delivering water, and their lives gradually improved. Fengxia and One Day grew up every day, and they could also help with the work. Life seems to be finally becoming the "an birthday child" Jiazhen has been yearning for.

At this time, when the district chief Chunsheng came to inspect the steel making, he knocked down the wall and smashed to rest under the wall. Youqing, Fugui’s only son. He is Fugui’s hope, but unfortunately he became a victim of this tragedy.

An birthday child was torn to pieces, Fugui fell into the abyss again, but he There is no choice.

When the haze of Youqing's death gradually dissipated, Fugui and Jiazhen began to seek a good home for Fengxia. The mayor acted as a matchmaker, and one was called Wan Wan. The young people of Erxi walked into the family and said in the words of the mayor: "Erxi is a resounding working class, obeyed, active and capable. "

The emergence of Erxi gave this family a happiness that has not been experienced since the beginning of the film. The family thought that they could be happy for a lifetime. But bad luck came again.

Erxi and Fengxia’s The child Mantou was born, and the family had not had time to recover from the joy of Tianding, but the postpartum hemorrhage took Fengxia's life.

The doctor who was able to save Fengxia was locked in because he stood in the wrong team. He went to the cowshed. He hadn’t eaten for a few days, and he ate seven steamed buns bought by Fugui. There was no way to heal Feng Xia. Seeing that Feng Xia’s face turned pale with the loss of blood, he watched her Struggling to survive, the family is helpless, and can only bear the misfortune brought to them by fate in the endless panic.

In front of Fengxia and Youqing’s grave, Fugui, Jiazhen, and Erxi talked with smiles seemingly relaxed, "If I didn’t buy seven steamed buns for that doctor back then, he would be able to save Fengxia . "The doctor, still eat rice instead of steamed buns?" " This conversation is full of black humor, but it makes people sad.

Perhaps Fugui, who has experienced so many tragedies, has become accustomed to this kind of life. He has no choice but to live strong when he experiences When his suffering penetrated deep into his bones, he understood the meaning of life better than anyone else.

After suffering many misfortunes, he was no longer surrounded by painful struggles, but a calm mind and strength in his bones.

After being labelled as a counter-revolutionary Chunsheng was hit by his wife’s suicide, he thought of committing suicide. Fugui and Jiazhen also used the phrase at this time, "You still owe my family" One life, you have to live well" to give him the greatest forgiveness.

When everything is calm, my grandson asks what Fugui's chicken will be like when he grows up, Fugui is still like the original celebration It said: "The chick grows up and becomes a goose, the goose grows up to become a sheep, and the sheep grows up to become a cow..." It's just that Fugui did not say that the cow grows up We will have a good life, but say, cattle grow up, steamed buns will grow up.

At the end of the movie, the remaining empty shadow box was used by Fugui for the chicken We make nests. At this time, the shadow puppetry, as a witness of the fate of Fugui’s destiny, continues the hope of living in the life of the Fugui family in another way.