Where the teacher is, there are thorns. After the army, there must be a fierce year (Lao Tzu)
war, which has been a disaster for the people throughout the ages. As Lao Tzu said, after the army, there must be a fierce year. Wars are often accompanied by natural and man-made disasters. For all Chinese people, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has always been deeply remembered by , and this pain is a pain in the bones.
In those war-torn years, the history will hide the painful past, but there will always be people who will touch that memory, and Feng Xiaogang is one of them. It seems that although a person is out of tune, he has the temperament of old Beijing, but in this matter, 's persistence lets us know that period of history, "1942"'s all-round exposure of human nature.
Unpleasant historical film
The movie "1942" is destined to be an unpleasant movie. The audience likes the grand war scenes and the heart-wrenching love, but the little people in the background of poverty are the ones the truest side. The audience will ignore this, and the director will also ignore it, resulting in fewer and fewer realistic movies. Feng Xiaogang was able to make this masterpiece and release it, we are really lucky.
There are many kinds of people's emotions. We can divide them into four kinds of emotions: joy, anger, sadness and joy. From the perspective of human nature, people like things that they like, and hate things that cause sadness, so from the beginning It is destined that this movie is not so outstanding, and will only be constantly "discovered" in the long river of movies in the future.
I am a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi. Why do I say this because my grandfathers came from Henan to escape from famine.. When I was young, I didn’t understand the bitterness of the elderly, but I just persuaded me blindly. If you can’t eat it, don’t eat it. Because I don't know the feeling of being hungry, and I don't know that for a little millet , there will be a matter of replacing people with rice, and it's ridiculous to think about it now.
I don't understand how hard time is, so don't jump to conclusions, because all words will become the "thorn" in your heart in the future.
What cannot be ignored is that the film was released in 2012. During that time, " Mission: Impossible 4" and "Ruffian Hero" became the focus of the audience. Secondly, Huang Bo 's " Killing " just triggered The audience pondered for a short time, and did not make much waves. In addition, more comedy films emerged one after another. In the happy atmosphere, the appearance of "1942" seemed so dazzling, but it still did not attract the attention of the audience. It's a disaster movie.
was unpleasant from the beginning, and the final box office failure was also expected, Huayi lost hundreds of millions for this, and it was also a blow to Feng Xiaogang. This kind of drama without too much sensation, just used calm The plot to express the story, there is really no way to watch this way, at least people who have patience can.
The unpleasant thing about this movie is that Feng Xiaogang made too much and real . The whole movie is a tragic tragedy. The 30 million disaster victims in Henan fled and encountered exile, disease, and cold along the way. However, they were told that this place no longer accepts victims, so the audience could not watch it any longer.
Although what he describes is a true story, the story is too cold. In addition to
, another unpleasant thing about this book is that the characters are too flat and lack richness, trapping the characters in a fixed template. But people are complex, and it is impossible to have only this side.
The plot of the whole movie is also too chaotic. There are too many things the movie wants to express, and there are too many levels to explain, and every level is not explained clearly.In the Henan disaster, what needs to be told clearly is what happened in Henan and what the outcome was.
1942, the unforgettable history
Grab-grabbing became plundering , and then became a disaster , a wealthy family, just because during the disaster years, had more food than others, it became a sin, In this plunder, is there anything wrong with landlord ? Is it wrong for people who rob food? Or is this era wrong?
are all for living . This sentence has different feelings in different scenes. The poor peasants went to rob the landlords for food in order to live, and the landlords had to go to other places to seek life in order to live, but after that, on the little characters in the movie, It took a lot of time, but it highlighted the difficulties of those years.
For a cookie, you can lose your personality, for a pound of millet, you can sell yourself, for a bite of rice, for a little grain, you can sell your family.
Human nature is glorious, and the self presented at each stage is different, there are good radiance and evil radiance. In "1942", missionaries are always looking forward to many bright futures in order to save people in the world. , but in the end, when I no longer believe in the god , this kind of irony is very characteristic. saves others first, and when I am still chasing the truth in the confusion, saving people all the way will only allow myself become more confused.
In addition, there is the daughter of the landlord's family, who has appeared as a "princess" from the very beginning. She has read books and has knowledge, and even when she was fleeing from the famine, she was holding a kitten in her arms, and this cat has a special The dark meaning, why not a dog? Dogs are usually described as loyal ministers, while cats are traitors.
As the saying goes, a dog is not a poor family, but a cat is never fed . When your conditions cannot meet its needs, it is only a matter of time before the cat leaves, and the cat in the arms of the landlord's daughter is just right So, when you are on the run, even your pets will leave you.
This young woman with knowledge also lost herself in the face of starvation. At this time, she is not thinking that knowledge can change her destiny, but that living is the only idea. Isn't this irony saying: " is useless It is scholar ".
When the solitary rich man went to his hometown, he said that it would be better to die at home anyway. In fact, this kind of thinking has two meanings. One is that you don't have any illusions about life. The family has left one after another, leaving only your own . There is not much meaning in life; secondly, there is more beauty in the outside world. It is not as good as his own home. Perhaps in the heart of the landlord, there is still a feeling that if he does not come out to escape from the famine, his wife and children may not be separated.
First of all, they are people.
The background of this film by Feng Xiaogang is the period of the Anti-Japanese War. In history, the image of the Japanese army was mostly cruel, but in the movie, a Japanese officer on the plane said a sentence, They were seeing Henan When the catastrophe brought tragedy, human nature defeated their original intention of aggression, and at this time the goodness of human nature was reflected in them. He said that they could send food to civilians, and then use civilians to attack the Chinese army. The emergence of this idea, many people find it ridiculous.
But the Japanese army had two identities at that time, , one was a human being, and the other was an aggressor.
No matter what their purpose is, they are human at this moment, and the brilliance of human nature is revealed at this moment.
It does not mean to use this to whitewash the fact of Japan's aggression, but to express a reality. In the face of war, when the two countries are at war, human nature still exists, and the goodness in human nature exists. Although they can do this , for other purposes , but they do this to keep these people alive.
This is the good of human nature in the war, just like in the previous plot. In the face of the blind deer's mother dying of starvation, the rich man lent him the food without hesitation even though he knew that the food would not be returned.
When the rich man was forced into poverty and turned into a refugee, the villagers who were oppressed on weekdays lent him their only car, because there was a pregnant woman in his home, and the rich man was on the road behind and saw A girl whose whole family died, even if she knew that she might not survive, still took the girl and walked all the way home. This is human nature in war.
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