"Little Beni" is an Albanian film released in 1976, and it is also the last batch of Albanian films to be fully released in China.
Basically, Albanian films have not been screened in China after 1976. The release time of
"Little Beni" was roughly in November 1976. This is also the time when most Albanian films entered Chinese cinemas, because Albania’s Liberation Day falls on November 29 each year. To celebrate this festival, China chooses this time for the screening of Albanian films.
"Little Beni" was released in China, I checked, the mainstream newspapers at the time did not publish any movie reviews, which is relatively rare. The "Anthem of Petroleum" released in the same year before, "People's Daily" published a comment on July 25, 1976.
once introduced "Little Beni" in "The History of Chinese Translated Films": "In the film, the protagonist Beni is asked to say'good morning' when he meets a stranger. For many Chinese, the first Once I heard the phrase'good morning' came from this movie."
This statement is questionable. Wouldn't the Chinese people say "good morning" when they met in the past?
But when "Little Beni" was released at the time, the images shown in the movie still gave the Chinese people a different perspective.
Judging from the real life in Albanian movies, the life of the people in that country at that time was obviously more western than the Chinese society of the same period, and closer to the reality of our China today. Many household appliances that are commonplace today have entered the homes of ordinary people in movies, and the Chinese at that time could only look at the screen, hopefully sighing.
We briefly mention some fashion items that have been integrated into the ordinary life of Albanians in the movie:
1, TV sets.
"Little Beni" was filmed in 1975. At that time, it was difficult for ordinary Chinese people to see the TV at home. However, the little protagonist in "Little Beni" came to the uncle’s house in the countryside. There is a TV that should be black and white, because the movie is black and white, so we can't determine whether the TV screen has color.
I asked my parents. My mother said that her uncle used to be a seaman. He lived in Shanghai around 1973. When he arrived at his house, he had a black-and-white TV set that could watch news programs broadcast by Shanghai TV. It should be said that only a few people in Shanghai can own a TV.
It is hard to say that the TV in "Little Beni" is not made in China.
2, radio.
The three major pieces of the Chinese in the 1970s include: watches, radios, and bicycles. It can be imagined that it was not easy for ordinary Chinese at that time to have a radio.
In "Little Beni", there is a radio in the protagonist's house, which is placed on the table. Judging from the familiar shape, it should be a Chinese product.
3, refrigerator.
A single-door refrigerator in Little Beni’s home is quite eye-catching. Little Beni opened the door of the cabinet and tried to find delicious things from it. At that time, civilian refrigerators had not yet entered the homes of ordinary people in China.
In Shanghai in 1974, you can see a freezer selling popsicles in the lane. At that time, there was no electricity in many parts of China, and electricity control was very strict. The life of ordinary Albanian people in "Little Beni" is indeed more nourishing than ordinary Chinese in the same period.
4, sofa.
The long sofa and the single sofa in Beni’s home were far from what the Chinese could enjoy at that time.
5. Building.
Although the structure of the buildings in the film is like a matchbox, in the years when most Chinese still lived in bungalows, Albanian residents were able to live in such high-rise buildings, which really gave people a very western and modern feeling.
6, curtains.
Little Beni’s house and his uncle’s house in the countryside, there are curtains hanging in the house, which are as white as light gauze and have good light transmission performance., So that the feeling in the whole room immediately galloped away, and the curtains of our Chinese at that time, it is estimated that a thick cloth was used to cover the light outside the house.
7, phone.
Little Beni is in the countryside and can contact his mother in the city by phone. It can be seen that the communication level in Albania was quite good at that time. Think about us, when did we have a personal phone?
8, football.
In the 1980s, the price of a domestic football was more than 20 yuan. At that time, the average worker’s salary was 30 or 40 yuan. The children couldn’t afford to play with the ball. It was the age when the children were content to play. First choice for ball willingness.
In "Little Beni", whether it is children in the city or friends in the countryside, they can have a ball and satisfy their interest in coiling and plucking.
9, a doll.
The doll that the little girl holds in her hands is the dream of Chinese children in that era.
10, fruit box.
In Little Beni’s house, there is an inconspicuous fruit box on the table. At least it can be seen that it is apples, oranges and other fruits. It is estimated that the contemporary Chinese have no spending plan to eat fruit.
11, rural electric lights.
Little Beni’s rural uncle’s house had incandescent lamps that were rare in rural China at the time. The lights were bright at night, which was completely urban.
12, rural mechanization operations.
In the village where Little Beni came in the movie, he could see tractor plowing, harvesting, and threshing, showing a highly mechanized rural scene. At the same time, China has gradually begun to march towards mechanized agriculture, but the depth and degree of intervention is far from comparable to the Albanian countryside in the movie.
13, fashion outfit. The dress and attire of the protagonist’s mother in the movie
is not outdated even today. Therefore, after the introduction of Albanian films to China, the costumes and costumes of the characters in the film will cause a wave of follow-up in China, such as the popularity of "Vera Head" triggered by "Trauma".
14, chocolate, milk and other nutritional products. In the movie
, Beni’s mother said that the child was fed with the best things like oranges and chocolate, which shows that the living conditions of the Albanian people are quite good.
When "Little Beni" shows a prosperous, peaceful and happy Albanian real life, it is obviously not the purpose of the movie to simply praise it. The
movie shows how a spoiled little Beni overcomes his arrogance and spoils to show how to reset the will and quality of people when an era enters a happy life.
The paradox of human alienation is that when people create their own happy life, they will dissolve themselves in this comfort and satisfaction, thereby annihilating and weakening their vitality.
This is a kind of life's dilemma that human beings can never solve. The purpose of hard work is to change your life, but if your life changes, you will lose your true self and the motivation to struggle.
"Little Beni", a simple movie that shows children, actually contains the common destiny thinking of mankind. At the same time, China is also thinking about how to temper the life will of the next generation and stay strong. With strong vitality to counter the side effects of arrogance and lust after life improvement.
The father in "Little Beni" is from the countryside, which reflects that Little Beni has a difficult life source. After his father entered the city, he started a family and took care of the mother of Little Beni. Take care to prevent him from going outside, for fear of blowing wind, for cold, for fear of breaking his stomach, making Beni boring, without friends, and independent of his friends.
This is actually the common distress of modern children. How to solve the weak cultivation of the future masters of the country? The method proposed by the
film is to inherit the revolutionary tradition and let the spiritual power of the old guerrillas be transmitted to the flowers in the greenhouse like Beni.Flowers. The representative of the revolutionary tradition of
is Beni’s uncle. He came to the city to contact the machine parts needed in the countryside. Seeing that Beni was scolded by his mother and turned into a bean sprouts to blame, he forcibly Take Beni to the countryside and use the harsh environment of guerrillas in the mountains and forests to strengthen Beni's spiritual time and space.
It can be seen why the guerrilla theme in Albanian movies takes up a large proportion, so that the generation who grew up in a peaceful environment can remember the hardship and struggle of the previous generation.
Little Beni came to the country. Whenever he encountered difficulties, felt timid, and weakened his will, his uncle encouraged him with the courage of the guerrillas, and even the law of behavior respected by the guerrillas became Beckham. The spiritual benchmark of Neil's face.
For example, when Beni sued the behavior of his friends, his uncle mentioned the moral code of guerrillas: "True guerrillas never inform."
It can be said that the little protagonist has been tempered in all aspects. Including spirit and body. In a summer life in the country, little Beni can get along with his friends in the country and live in harmony with the animals, abandoning his weakness of being fearful in the city; his bravery index rises sharply, and he can sit on a horse boldly. On the back, like walking on the ground; with the encouragement of his friends, he walked into the stream and received the baptism of the natural breath of the wild wind; the worry that he was always intimidated by imaginary monsters in the past is also challenging himself again and again He was wiped out; he felt the faith of unity brought to the people by the cooperative in the village, and he built a friendship of mutual assistance with his friends in labor, and he was in a ball without distinguishing each other in play. He was no longer one. A lonely family standing alone in the city. Since
is close to the earth, no child will think that he "only talks stupid" and will be excluded.
The whole film of "Little Beni" is very rambling. This is a common style of Albanian movies that abandons the conflict of drama, but it does not mean that the country’s movies are so low-level that they don’t understand the ups and downs of the drama structure. In fact, in Albanian movies There are also art works with meticulous logic and interlocking character creation. For example, the drama adapted from "Coastal Wind and Thunder" is quite dramatic and has very strong logical clues. However, films like "Little Beni" can only be called It is a prose film. The dramatic conflict of
in the entire movie has been reduced to a negligible level. It seems that there is almost no opposition in the movie. However, looking at the whole movie, we can see that a real opponent in the movie has actually changed in that movie. And the transformed "self". It is embodied in the movie as the pampered child Beni at the beginning of the movie. The previous little Beni was the target of the dramatic conflict in the entire movie.
After some scattered country training, Beni eliminated the inferior selves from the past that could not match the tradition, cannot adapt to the times, and could not contribute to growth, and gave up a brand new self. The film thus constructed its main front of the dramatic conflict.
From today's perspective, no matter where the main spirit of the country of Albania is heading, the tempering of this spirit of Beni will never lose its due role. Even if the country has undergone tremendous changes later, the kind of mental temperament and tempering edification given to the child in the movie will give him enough time to cope with any changes.
In this sense, "Little Beni" is more like a final farewell message from an Albanian film, and also a preliminary admonition to the children of the country in the face of greater storms in the future.
saw this movie, and thought of a novel in the former Soviet Union, "Then War broke out." It is precisely because of the unpredictable future that we can never give up struggle and hard work. "Little Beni" seems to be a metaphor for this kind of future-oriented choice warning.
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