The 80s and 90s of the last century was the boom period of reform and opening up. Under the dual pressure from the changing times and economic reforms, countless joys and sorrows, love-hate twists and turns occur in every corner of our country every moment, and the tragic colors of society and the times are extremely strong.
谢飞, who had been teaching for a long time at the Beijing Film Academy at the time, came into contact with 悲剧理论 when he went to the United States to study film theory in the 1980s. After witnessing the current situation of society, his heart began to show desire. The idea of shooting a tragic movie.
However, the prevailing traditional view at that time was "There is no tragedy in Chinese society" . The fundamental crux of the problem is that since ancient times, our focus on tragedy has always been on the "transcendence" of "heroism", but failed to face the emotional resonance that tragedy should have, which led to tragedy Too much absolute greatness, not sadness.
In such a situation, because of an extremely accidental opportunity, Xie Fei met the realist writer 刘恒's "Black Snow" who is concerned about the fate of small and medium-sized people in this era. The novel, and invited him to act as the screenwriter. Together with 姜文, who was only 25 years old at the time, he filmed the movie "Between the Year" in 1989 and won the Best Feature Film Award and No. The 14th West Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear Award .
Jiang Wen used this movie to tell us that in the rapid development of the times, we are the most difficult to express the loss.
He turned a corner in a Beijing hutong, groping his way home alone in the torrent of times.
At the beginning of the film, it is a gray winter in Beijing.
the youth played by 姜文李慧泉, carrying luggage from the dark subway station step by step up the stairs. The gloomy sky above his head became more and more drooping. Among the crowds, his back looked so lonely and stubborn.
In the zigzag alleys, he turned one turn after another, his back disappeared from the sheltered buildings from time to time and reappeared. The cold camera pointed at the direction where he lived, watching him indifferently. Fumble forward on the way home.
With the gentle lens, we slowly learned the identity of Li Huiquan. It turned out that three years ago, he was loyal and promised his childhood friend, Fork, to retaliate against Fork's love rival. However, because Fork accidentally killed someone, he was injured and sentenced to three years of forced labor in prison.
Three years, enough time for a society to become unrecognizable in the eyes of the isolated people. When Li Huiquan finally came out of prison, his mother had passed away, Luo Xiaofen, a childhood sweetheart, was already married, and another crippled man was hit and killed by a car while the fork was still in prison.
When he wanted to take over at the factory where his mother worked, he was told by the old man in the factory that the factory had already closed down.
"It's not time for you to come back." The words of the old man may be a true portrayal of many people in that era.
With no relatives or friends, and no job, he will suddenly become irrelevant to this society. This era when the wave of reform and opening up is fast moving forward, has become at a loss for him.
With the encouragement of the warm-hearted Aunt Luo and the help of the community police, he started selling clothes, cheered up, and worked hard to integrate into the society step by step.
In the most impetuous eighties, everyone’s face was filled with excitement, but he was desperate in the changing times.
In the process of setting up a stall, he met Brush, a partner who had played with him many years ago.
The brush clothes and leather shoes now look like a successful person. At the same time, it also carries a unique image of a petty citizen, loves small and cheap, lacks pursuit, and doesn't do any big bad things. It always feels like a little bastard.
But Li Huiquan doesn't care about all this.
In this society and age where there is nowhere to put it, he needs something that can hold him too much, such as Aunt Luo's care, or the brush approach, at least these can make him feel I exist in this society.
Then, he met his father Cui Yongli, and the singer Zhao Yaqiu who made him feel throb for the first time.
Zhao Yaqiu is often harassed by punks because of her outstanding appearance. Li Huiquan volunteered to take her home every night. On a softly lit night, the two were walking and talking, Li Huiquan frankly told the truth about the fact that he had been in prison.
Since then, Zhao Yaqiu has gradually alienated him. And with the increasing fame and more feasting and feasting, Zhao Yaqiu has changed from the shy little girl to a boldly dressed and coveted friendship flower. When Li Huiqiu finally plucked up the courage and used all his savings to buy her a gold chain and gave it to her, Zhao Yaqiu smiled inexplicably under the dim light.
"Why are you like my father!"
Her face became more and more beautiful. Li Huiquan squeezed the golden chain on her hand, knowing in her heart that she was really farther and farther away from herself. No, I am getting farther and farther away from this era.
This kind of loneliness abandoned by society is always tracking him. He wrote in a letter to the fork in prison, "You have to work more and talk less Make more friends, people like us must make more friends", but only then did he know that he really couldn't keep up with this era.
Brush made friends with him, just trying to lie to him; Cui Yongli made friends with him, just wanted to use him; Zhao Yaqiu didn't use him, but personally cut off his only thoughts about this society .
Everyone around me is living well in this era. Everyone’s face is filled with the excitement of fast-pacing fast-forwarding with the times, but he is truly alone in this world.
So when he got into the taxi and the driver asked him where to go, he said, "Where is the fun?" Then he took out his sunglasses, hiding all the emotions in his eyes.
The line of tears that slipped under the sunglasses is the unbearable fragility of all adults when they collapse silently.
The tragedy of Li Huiquan is that, on the road abandoned by the times, he never found the value of his life.
When you have nowhere to go in this world, then, "Where to go where the bustle" .
The driver took him to a temple fair. People laughed from time to time in the audience. He looked at the scene on the stage that couldn't be said to be a good scene. After a long silence, he suddenly laughed out loud.
The untimely laughter made everyone around him look at him. People looked at the alien with their gazes like sharp knives. They were not bloody, but they left him riddled with holes. He quietly withdrew from the crowd, but met two young robbed young men under a tree outside the court.
In the winter of Li Huiquan’s 24 years old, it seemed that fate had already been done in advance. The past scenes where he and the fork accidentally killed people were reincarnated again, but this The victim once became him.
TempleThe meeting just ended, the audience rushed out, Li Huiquan covered the wound on his body and walked slowly among the crowd walking with his back.
Until the crowd dispersed, he finally staggered and fell to the ground, and the bleak evening breeze blew a piece of confetti, hit him, and floated past him, like all the inexpressible tragedies of this era, scribbled. .
The movie "Ben Ming Year", from the perspective of a young man like Li Huiquan, objectively and indifferently reflects the mentality of young individual workers in a period of social change.
They were used to growing up and living in a difficult but comfortable environment, but they were carried forward by the rapid development of the times and rapid changes in society, and their faces gradually began to be filled with hope full of excitement, or a blank void .
All the iconic symbols of the 80s and 90s can be found in the film. Literary youth, secretly in love with high school students, opportunistic businessmen, idle scumbags, the world staggering with the times and looking excited.
Screenwriter and original author Liu Heng once said that once literature loses its aggressiveness, it will also lose its temptation. The most admirable thing about "Between the Year" is that it always maintains objectivity and reason, without any exaggeration or exaggeration, but it makes people feel the aggressiveness of the knife.
In the original book "Black Snow", Liu Heng wrote, "The destiny of man is like snowflakes falling in the sky. They are originally white and flawless, but they cannot choose where they fall. Yes. Some fell in a secluded place and kept the original purity. Some were trampled on and stained with filth."
Whether it is society, the age, or everyone, they need to grow up. The only difference is that people who are carried forward by the torrent of society and the age are like snowflakes that rush to fall, where and how Everyone decides that every fate will have a completely different ending.
At the end of the film, someone asked who he was, and someone replied, "A viewer, he is gone. It's not a drunk or a lunatic".
In the era of being carried forward, those who retired are not the audiences who "failed to keep up with the times". How to find one's value in the great wheel of the times has also become a topic that has always been hovering in the movie, and today, after more than two decades have passed, it is still worth our thoughts.
