From the interaction of novels to movies, the life of the disgusted Ye Zang from "Disqualification in the World"

Because of the movie, I re-read Dazai Osamu's "Disqualification in the World". To be honest, I feel very emotional.

While opening the preface, I suddenly thought of those three classic photos! The feeling of reading this book for the first time in an instant slowly emerged. It turned out to be that way. Regarding the qualifications of being a person, what I was concerned about at the time was: whether to become a great writer or artist, whether Do you really have to repeatedly question, doubt, and dig into the rotten truth in your heart?

At this time, the external world gradually weathered and eroded you, and in the end people became three condensed photos, and some trivial texts that were not enough to hang on, spread farther and farther.

In fact, compared with the movie, the novel uses two parts to present more delicate.

The first part of the novel is mainly about the analysis, description and the real scenes of the film, the control of the atmosphere and rhythm between the two, and the different excitement it brings to readers and audiences.

In the second part, I want to explore the "self-awareness" that constantly appears in the novel. When things happen, the novel is reviewed repeatedly or disclosed in truth; compared with the perspective and attitude presented by the movie, the film is closer to the traditional narrative approach. What is the actual difference between the two? What echoes each other?

And what is the charm of the interaction between text and movie in "Disqualification on Earth"? This is an important discussion.

Alive and desperate is the center of expression of novels

"The importance of novels is not that they let readers see the characters in the story in an enlightening way Destiny, but the fate of the characters in the story will release to the readers a heat energy that they cannot get from their own destiny after the flame burns... it can warm their cold and shivering life."

This passage comes from a small chapter in Ban Yaming's "The Storyteller", although it is about the Russian writer Nicholas. Leskov, but perhaps this commentary on the novel is more suitable to talk about Dazai Osamu's literary works.

Especially his almost desperate and surviving monologue in "Disqualification in the World", after reading it, makes people more determined to face the future anxiety and loneliness.

"Disqualification in the World" under the gray atmosphere created by Osamu Dazai, this work has a gloomy taste and seems dull on the surface. If you read it carefully, you will find that it portrays "human nature" extremely wonderfully.

is compared with the same work by Osamu Dazai, "The Setting Sun", under the same color atmosphere, the difference is that "The Setting Sun" is presented in letters and mail. But both are the characters of Osamu Dazai who transformed himself into a story. The strong words and sentences seem to be talking to people, telling the world that he once existed like a meteor.

Although the author committed suicide after completing the human disqualification. However, the protagonist of the story is not the case. Osamu Dazai seems to be immortal in the book, living in the disqualification of the world and in the world.

The center of this book is Otama Yezang. The story is all described in his three manuscripts, so what we feel is the protagonist’s perspective and the protagonist’s position, to look at his living world , As if reading a living "human being", nakedly revealing all the realities of life, and the whole body of criticism. There is a saying:

"The coward is afraid of happiness, and he will get hurt when he touches cotton, and sometimes he will be hurt by happiness. I want to part ways as soon as I am not hurt. The usual funny smoke bomb was released.”

But it seems that Disqualification in the World is more like a confession-style suicide note left by Dazai before his death. Write all his life's doubts about the world, as well as the despair of living.

Despair, helplessness towards being alive and seemingly common themes in Dazai’s novels.

However, why do people feel desperate about being alive?

Osamu Dazai gave us the answer in the book, mainly due to the feeling of emptiness. Although Dazai Osamu, Sakaguchi Yasuo and others are often classified as Japanese so-called "rogue" writers because their themes of writing are related to the degeneration of human nature. But I think that if you want to enter the world of these writers' novels, perhaps you should not focus on the theme of the depravity of human nature, but change from the emptiness and loneliness of living to get to know the rascals' works more closely.

I don't want to talk about the big reason, but the way of writing directly and openly, I think, is one of the reasons why Dazai Osamu's novel will be moving.

Although the structure of "Disqualification in the World" is not rigorous, the narrative of thinking is often halfway through, and then it is taken with a frivolous joke, which makes people sometimes feel like reading a babbled article.

But this style is a portrayal of self-defeating soul, and it can make people feel the pain of being deliberately hidden and directly expressed without a face.

Perhaps behind every cowardly, self-defeating person, he once had a wish to live a serious life. I only wish to be able to give support in the same way, or at least not to increase the harm.

Da Ting Ye Zang: Am I happy at all?

The literal meaning of "human disqualification" means "losing the qualifications to be humans." However, in the end, they are more like giving up life than losing their qualifications, whether it is Osamu Dazai who committed suicide with his mistress, or become The protagonist of the story of the waste man, Da Ting Ye Zang.

Can’t be an ordinary person. It may be the common dilemma of Osamu Dazai and Ye Zang in his writings. Many articles are analyzing such personality disorders, from psychiatric comments to human nature discussions between lines.

What is "qualification to be a person"? I don't think you will know the answer after reading this book.

"The eyes of others are your own hell" This sentence comes from the existentialist French philosopher Saudi Arabia. At the same time, this also echoes the plot in "Disqualification on Earth".

As Osamu Dazai wrote in it:

"Am I happy at all? Many people have said that I am very happy since I was a child, but I always feel that I am living in hell, but those who think I am very happy It seems that all people have no pain and live a very happy life.”

Sometimes I am happy because I believe in a person, and sometimes I am hurt and sad by my own belief.

People's life has ups and downs, and no one can guarantee where the next step will be. Avoid happiness because you are too afraid of injury. Perhaps the higher you climb, the more pain you will fall.

The ugly Ye Zang who has seen everything from a young age, a young master with a strong smile, like a life of walking dead. In order not to be hurt by the cruelty that followed, he played the role of a clown throughout his life.

is the same for Osamu Dazai, he didn't want to take away a burden even at the last moment, even if it was happiness. Because he finally discovered that the human species is too fragile, and even the words and deeds of others may be hurt by it.

Happiness, perhaps allows people to live comfortably and pursue the life they yearn for.

However, the image of "happiness", from a certain perspective, prevents people from being themselves.

Because image is a burden formed through vision and imagination, once people are unable to respond to the requirements of the picture, it will lead to a lack of identity. In addition, Ye Zang is also very afraid of trusting others, which makes him often fall into a life that is worse than death.

is incomprehensible to human behavior and seems very different from the world’s view of happiness. This is Ye Zang’s description of himself.

Ever since I was young, even my family members can’t guess how painful they are or what they’re thinking about. They just feel scared and can’t stand the embarrassing atmosphere.

However, Ye Zang gradually discovered that tobacco, alcohol and prostitutes are all good ways to temporarily eliminate the fear of humans. He also started from this time, squandering the capital of his schooling talent and wealthy family.

is always concealed because of fear, has been escaping from human life, and finally is helpless.

In fact, many people are like Ye Zang, wearing the same mask, being seen through by the same people, and then falling apart. The past that I used to be untouchable, even I don't want to take medicine for the scar, because I am afraid to think about it again, I would rather pretend that it does not exist.

deceive my heart, everything is fine. Lies will become true over time.

But that is only on the surface. The knot in my heart will not disappear because of this, but I cover the wound with a lie, and sometimes make a dull pain. Only I know the depression. A lie has become a blind spot, and I don't feel sad from it, and I wonder why others look so terrible. Even, forget what is innocence, what is kindness.

thinks everyone has to hurt themselves, but in fact the person who stabbed himself is himself at the beginning! The beauty on the surface, the heart has actually rotted, making others wonder why the tragedy happened by your side.

The implicit and profound kiss of death

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The scenes before and after the movie are all in the cafe, which seems to echo The preface and postscript in the book make another reality at first glance, isolating time and space outside the story itself.

Director Genjiro Arado did not emphasize that the third person picked up the handwriting to explain the story in the book, but used a linear timeline, starting from the character’s childhood , the child laughs and does not laugh. His appearance buried a gloomy tone, and at the beginning I saw that the protagonist was born in a wealthy family, and he wandered among the women. In middle school, Takeichi was the first person to see him through, and he did not change the Japanese spirit. The color, Takeichi's appearance was abrupt and gimmicky, and the later yelling about monsters was also laughable.

Take the first half as an example. In the novel, the description is plain and truthful, and the picture and rhythm control in the movie are quite appropriate and fascinating. People suddenly think of Murakami's "Norwegian Forest".

The movie version of "Disqualification on Earth" makes me feel that the overall style is the same.

The picture is very comfortable, although it is still inevitable that the editing of some clips is too jumpy or direct, on the contrary, it lacks the tedious and emotional memorable touch of every hand in the book. It is too montage and isolated, and the actors are also very It's difficult to show the original character's struggle or inner emotional reaction, but on the whole, this movie can still immerse me in the world created by Osamu Dazai.

is probably because the image is more memorable than the text. I think the film seems to focus more on the protagonist "me" and the scenes of different women, of course, the book I'm almost writing this part for a long time.

Just like Zhuyi said: "You are definitely a person who will make women infatuated!"

Such a vulgar word, but like a prophecy, entangled the protagonist Ye Zang lifetime.

However, there are a lot of entrances and exits between the tea room and Yinchuan restaurant in the movie, which makes me feel that the plot is a bit straightforward and unmodified. What impresses me most is the affair of the drugstore proprietress, with a little sickness and mutual affection. The love I need, the other part keeps me awayWhat resonance.

In addition, it was a bit tickling to tell me that my wife who had a virgin heart was violated.

The simplicity and simplicity of the text can make us think, but movies or stage plays will make us look forward to his theatrical techniques, which is not exaggerated or adapted. , But looking forward to whether the director’s unique approach will bring me more feelings.

Some scholars once said:

"A classic text that has been reproduced so many times, why would anyone want to read it again from ancient times to the present? That is because the audience expects the director to have new Stimulus, any artistic creation must contain the creator's urge to say "what", and that "what" is emphasized, or it conveys what he feels in the work in another unexpected form. ”

For me, "Disqualification in the World" gave me the right impression, no more, no less, appropriate. The space and atmosphere are well mastered. The key points are summarized and the last one is The protagonist's haggard photos from young to pale head echo the original mention-the grotesque death, the quiet ending draws an end.

The nationality of Japan has made them. The writings and movies always have implicit and implied emotions, seemingly plain, such as "death" is mentioned as light as a feather in the novel, but the words can be described in this way.

It is precisely because the author has established such a world view in a book, so readers can believe in the unrealistic content. But the movie is presented with realistic pictures, especially in the face of the text itself, the plot line is not ups and downs. Compared to me, I expect the director to be more stylized.

may be able to freeze the frame with a close-up of the character, like a photo, to leave the character’s heartbeat; compared with the movie "Norwegian Forest", I am not sure that the protagonist’s narration continues to explain the foreword. Does it make people feel like listening to novels? How to deal with the background of a foreign country and how to grasp the refined and casual and overall atmosphere are points worthy of discussion.

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In fact, any artistic creation must contain the impulse of the creator to say "unintelligible".

In "Disqualification in the World", it is the self-examination of Osamu Dazai who constantly appeared and described.

Although the preface and postscript appear in the novel itself, which creates the illusion that it is not the author himself, the form of the "handwriting" is originally cumbersome and spoken, which is easy for readers to agree with, and it has almost no life experience with Dazai Osamu Consensus, so I take it for granted as an autobiographical novel of Osamu Dazai's repeated examination of life.

is the most different place from the movie. Director Genjiro Arado’s shooting point of view is from the third-person point of view. The idea of ​​"I" in the novel is gone. He pulls out and observes with the audience. However, the details are not detailed enough. It is a pity that many "I" mention interesting points in the novel.

seems to constantly appear "fun" factors in the text. It can be inferred that the protagonist's apparent personality traits are often embarrassing and pleasing. The pretending laughter pretends to make people like him form Contradictory adjectives, the sharp eyes that are sometimes seen through will sting him, making him tremble, But the world always likes his appearance, and then he rejected the concept of "worldly people" and repeatedly set up 地挞伐 .

In the movie, the protagonist can only "act" his inner mental state, that is, a depressed, melancholic teenager. This is a bit of a pity. The role is reduced. It doesn’t seem to be that “human”. The interesting form of the handwriting is that we can see the thought context from the text, and as he communicates with Horemu, Mingming despises and disapproves so much in his mind, and regards it as Mortals generally don't have in their hearts.

However, in the end it became his subordinates. Such interesting "disintegration of human self-worth" is also difficult to see in the movie.

Taiwan screenwriter Ji Weiran once mentioned: "Now you have to suppress the urge to live in the metaphysical script, because you are not qualified enough. The real metaphysical is to thoroughly understand, review and counterattack. It’s not just fight and run.”

Dazaizhi constantly mentioned in his works the reason why people are humans, the so-called truth of life in the world, and so on. Through this process of repeated argumentation and deliberation, he wanted to rationalize life. The meaning, the reason for my existence, exposes my fragility even more, and there is no alternative to facing those hellish worlds. Calmly analyze the reasons for doing everything.

"I met a married woman who was older than me and died. This incident completely changed my destiny."

starts from The remote cause expanded to the immediate cause, and I was very conscious of self-examination. Facing my own unbearableness without concealing it, it seemed that I was about to jump out and say: "Look! How I am disqualified as a human being!" And such a grandstanding clamor was revealed. He said: The so-called "waste man" is a comedic term. He has been pleasing others all his life, including the readers of this book of course.

Or, furthermore, being aware of vagueness is actually a metaphor for life.

But far away from the present, people will be uneasy when they are in a state of not being defensive. We can't postulate, because people need a meaning to survive. It may be pessimistic to think this way, just like Osamu Dazai always teases that he is in hell. However, when we think about it this way, may find that the so-called language and text are also our simulation and cross-examination of the present, and those are also unreliable beliefs. , Suddenly you find that there is nothing to be trusted .

So we convinced ourselves that all this simulation is meaningful, maybe the tools we rely on are unreliable, but believe that we are struggling to invest in something, and then we are indeed investing; we believe in a certain vagueness, and then keep it This emptiness continues to walk.

Where does the tragedy come from?

"Mutual deception, but magically does not suffer any harm, as if unaware that each other is deceiving. This kind of obvious, clear-minded and open-minded example of mutual distrust is in human life China abounds.”

What Dazaiji wants to ask here is: Why can’t people always be themselves?

Of course, this is what readers and audiences want to ask.

Ye Zang’s tragedy is that he was aware of the stale and hypocritical aspects of society and people’s minds from a very young age.

And this situation, even if he is very cute, can't change it.

As an adult, when he needed help and went to ask a friend for help, he found out that his friends who often went out to play with him didn't put himself in the eyes at all, but just wanted to take the opportunity to use his money to ask him to spend his time.

But even if his friend was seen through by him, he didn't have the courage to scold him, because Ye Zang felt very frustrated that even if he exposed the true face of his friend, his friend would probably only express his contempt for him without guilt.

The saddest thing about Disqualification in the World is that Osamu Dazai never directly described the despair of the protagonist.

He just kept describing Ye Zang’s innocent and innocent doubts, as well as constantly denying his ideas, trying to please people and avoiding people, and finally his thoughts on people’s behavior (usually very negative ) And acknowledge the negative evaluation of others.

This kind of feeling is like you watching a person holding a knife in front of you and constantly self-mutilating yourself. The blood is bleeding all over the floor, but he keeps laughing and talking.He has all kinds of unthinkable crimes that can't even be called a prank, and then said, "It's nothing!" And tears that are not easy to be seen drip from the corner of his eyes.

I often think this way, this person is really a neurotic. Just like many people think about the protagonist in "Disqualification on Earth".

Then leave the novel aside and look for more useful books. But you can also think in another direction. How terrible is it to be tortured by one's own despair? A talent can behave like this? From this, you will better understand the state of "Disqualification on Earth"!

At the end of the story, people who have known and liked Ye Zang said after reading these manuscripts:

"I don’t Know the madman who wrote this manuscript", "If people become like that, they won’t be saved."

In fact, it is very intriguing that Dazai Osamu's other novel "The Flower of the Clown" To some extent, it is quite different from "Disqualification on Earth".

The protagonists of the two works have the same name, and they are both called Da Ting Ye Zang. Therefore, some people say that this novel is the embryonic form of "Disqualification in the World" or the origin of writing. But what is surprising is that "Joker's Flower" does not have such a heavy and negative atmosphere as "Disqualification". On the contrary, the whole novel often reveals a relaxed, natural and happy atmosphere.

But in these smooth, natural and even funny descriptions, we can still feel a variety of hidden and hidden shadows, wandering in the details of the hearts and movements of these characters.

Suffering love has always had a special place in Osamu Dazai’s literature.

Here, the novel expresses a deep loneliness through hints and hesitations of love, and people's desire to obtain salvation through love.

Milan Kundera once said:

"Knowledge is the only morality of the novel... and the spirit of the novel is the complex spirit. Every novel is telling its readers-- Things are more complicated than you think.”

In other words, the spirit of the novel is to make people understand a kind of complexity. Although Dazai's writing is very straightforward and even tacky, it is full of delicate thoughts. "Disqualification in the World" is not so much about describing the budding of a tragedy, but it is more like leading us to a sense of rebirth that wants to abandon the world and the phoenix's nirvana.

"Disqualification in the World" is really a work worth reading and rereading. Highly recommend