Concise and fluent narration, classic plot hints and indifferent colors in life all seem to express the heavy life sentiment in the hero's heart. This film is a milestone of China films, and won the highest honor of China films at that time-the Best Film Award. No matter before or after, I have never seen other domestic films reach this level. It's a pity that no one in China today will think about such profound content.
Zhou Lijing's performance in this film has completely reached the level of a world-class movie star. But maybe foreigners don't understand China's national conditions, so they can't understand this film. I always thought that only Zhou Lijing and Chow Yun Fat could help the world on behalf of China actors (Tony Leung Chiu Wai is also a first-class actor, but he is short). Unfortunately, there are no excellent products in Chinese mainland, which makes it impossible for Zhou Lijing to be more brilliant.
If you don't know life, you don't know your own misfortune.
After reading life, I know that I am unfortunate.
To know the choice of life, one must read life.
Close your eyes, Gao Jialin hurried past with a bun basket. When I opened my eyes, Liu Qiaozhen, riding a donkey and wrapped in red gauze, looked back frequently and burst into tears.
Tears always flow so silently. After 20 years, life has come back to people's eyes in such an unforgettable way, with some heavy memories of wood grain. Perhaps not many people know that a life has triggered a national discussion on morality and values; Perhaps no one knows better, this is the first domestic film selected for the Oscar.
The story is not complicated. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, a rural youth struggled, struggled to enter the city, struggled against the wall, and finally woke up-life seems to be more like China's version of Red and Black, the personal struggle history and blood and tears history of thousands of rural youths in Qian Qian, China, and Qian Qian.
But The Value of Life is far more than a true record of China's specific national conditions in the 1980s. It has a touching power beyond the plot itself. When the camera is opened in the vast yellow land, winding mountain road and a barren mountain village, let's go back to the movie to find the answer.
Lu Yao's novella Life was officially published in 1982, the third issue of Harvest. The birth of this newborn immediately became a remarkable work in the literary world of China, and was regarded as a pioneering masterpiece of contemporary literature.
At that time, there were many works exploring life in China literary world. When some novels lead life to the competition of religion, nothingness, ego and existence, the novel "Life" does the opposite, leads the meaning of life to the fiery real life in China, and solemnly and seriously puts forward a serious proposition about the outlook on life.
As a result, the feeling of life has moved from the literary world to the world, university campuses, factories and rural areas. With the great success of the adaptation and filming of the film of the same name, the love tragedy of Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen is like a whirlwind in the whole society, and it has set off a great discussion on right and wrong in Hong Kong and Taiwan and even across national borders, in countries with different colors and languages such as Japan, France, the Soviet Union and Britain. Hundreds of newspapers, radio stations and TV stations in China are scrambling to open up various columns or special programs to provide discussion places for people with different cultural levels, different life experiences and different life fields. For a time, it was not until Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen had more people than those who knew Lu Yao that people quarreled about it. Especially in the dormitory of college students, men and women are flushed and even punched and kicked. The author himself is also praised as a "life consultant" by young people. He kept Lu Yao busy by writing letters, visiting, discussing and giving speeches. While some well-intentioned people scold Gao Jialin, they also aim angry bullets at Zhou Lijing, the actor of Gao Jialin. An old lady who sells vegetables in Beijing once chased Zhou Lijing and scolded "This is the heartless Gao Jialin boy", which made Zhou Lijing, who was expected to be the best actor, suffer a lot of dumb losses in the movies "Hundred Flowers Award" and "Golden Rooster Award".
When Zhou Lijing was wronged and abused on many occasions, Wu Yufang, the actor of "Liu Qiaozhen", was sympathized and welcomed everywhere. When she started, she didn't have to be on tenterhooks like Zhou Lijing. Even some sympathetic young people dared to send a courtship signal to Wu Yufang ... When it comes to "life", we must not ignore the distance. Life, written in 1982, is a novella with only130,000 words. At the beginning of publication, it has caused great repercussions in society. When it arrived at 1984, Wu put it on the screen and set off a heated discussion about the value of life among young people, which was spectacular for a while.
Life is a book written by Lu Yao based on himself. Lu Yao is the son of a farmer, and the protagonist in the book is a farmer. Gao Jialin's life is not only a part of Lu Yao's life, but also the life of most rural youths in 1980s.
To be fair, Lu Yao is not a genius writer, but his advantage lies in sincerity. Writing about the suffering and cruelty of life is not the characteristic of Lu Yao. What makes him outstanding is that he can write the poverty and embarrassment of young people so naive, pure, even lovely and respectable. Poverty is not a crime, poverty is not humble, and poverty is still pure. This is a poem in Gao Jialin's heart, and it also contains the truth of life-such people are like nobles and should be respected.
Over the years, Lu Yao has lived the life of an ascetic monk, working hard, and doing his duty with self-denial. It's extraordinary that you have worked hard for ten years. Therefore, it is not so much the film life that moves people as the life of Lu Yao who looks up to his ideals like a saint and persists in his faith. 1992165438+1October 17 It began to snow on the Loess Plateau, with a long journey, at the age of 42. Behind him, people who grew up with "life" burst into tears, and "life" has thus become an inexhaustible brand in the hearts of countless people. It has no place in the history of orthodox literature, but it has been quietly popular among young people for twenty years. Perhaps the reason is that the survival dilemma faced by Gao Jialin at that time was still the dilemma faced by rural youth. For many scholars and migrant workers who are eager to climb up on their own, they are even facing more cruel pressure to survive. The indomitable belief in life can bring warmth and comfort to the struggling lower class youth at any time.
Life belongs to the past, and life is far from stagnant. Rereading Lu Yao, I found that he was making sad footnotes for another world of time and space, and his eyes were pure and tired.
1984, life has set off a big discussion about right and wrong in the whole society like a whirlwind. Newspapers, radio, television, factories, rural areas, university campuses ... gossip about life has spread all over the corner. As a work that triggered a great discussion on "life" in the 1980s, Life undoubtedly has a profound imprint of the times. Its tragedy is based on a wide range of social systems, and "urban-rural differences", "household registration system", "official culture", "relationship research" and "matching families" are the key words of this debate.
Therefore, "Life" not only reflects the tragedy of Gao Jialin, but also the tragedy of all rural youth in that era-they were born in a small social atmosphere, grew up in a small clan, received an incomplete primary and secondary education, and went to university and work in big cities with a sense of dissatisfaction, pride, vision and fearless self-confidence. The cultural differences between urban and rural areas have brought them deep harm. Just like Gao Jialin, he doesn't want to walk a long way and finally take a luggage roll back to the starting point: what he can't break through is the deep gap between urban and rural areas.
This is a true portrayal of the 1980s. An ordinary child of a farmer has no way out of the countryside for a long time. Since 1977, the college entrance examination has become a single-plank bridge for them to enter the city. In the late 1980s, individual well-to-do farmers could buy the identity of an urban resident for about 1 10,000 yuan, which seemed more like a kind of redemption. Even though the household registration system of separating prisons by land was broken and the ban on farmers entering cities was lifted, the tragedies of Gao Jialin and Qiaozhen were still being staged in life. Until today, the household registration system at the urban and rural levels has been loosened, and the national mentality of being ashamed of the word "agriculture" has not changed, and the discrimination of actual interests is even more numerous. The sorrow of the binary opposition between urban and rural areas is no less than that in the 1980s when life existed.
Yes, the situation that a movie caused the whole society to contend is gone forever, but the scar of life is not fade away.
The description of love is extremely touching. The truth of love is cruel. Snowflakes are falling on the Damahe Bridge. Qiaozhen choked up and said, "Brother Lin, although I love you very much, I know I don't deserve you. I can't read, I can't help you, and it will drag down your work ... "She staggered on her bike and left, and the dog skin plate fell on the snow. ...
The love tragedy between Gao Jialin and Qiaozhen may have been doomed. Educated Gao Jialin always thinks about how to get out of the barren mountains and rivers. He didn't say "I love you" to illiterate Qiao Zhen. Gao Jialin's acceptance of Qiaozhen may be due to his hardships in the countryside. Love in trouble is often only formal, and cultural and spiritual differences are the biggest obstacles between them. Looking back on life, I realize that a heart that flies farther and farther can never be related to such a dull life as giving birth to a few piglets. Sauvignon Blanc, in Chang 'an, who said that the beautiful Joe really didn't make a spoony mistake?
Love is impermanent, but happiness is real. For Qiao Zhen, Ma Shuan said, "I have been a cow and a horse all my life, and I can't wronged you." How many blessings people in our village can enjoy, I will ask you to enjoy ... "Isn't this true happiness?" Happiness lies in the heart, not in the form. For Gao Jialin, he had a good dream and had a bad fall. He should not regret losing his love. His love is not here.
Life may be cruel, love may be fruitless, things may change, but the belief in heaven is immortal. Without those painful faithfulness, the charm of "life" will lose at least half.
In the moonlight, on the carriage, Mr. Shunde recalled the lover he gave up when he was young. "I can't die, she will live!" She has been in my heart all her life ... "Gao Jialin and Qiaozhen shed tears. The old man's old voice sang "Go West", "Brother, you go west, little sister, I have something to say, take my brother's hand and send my brother to the gate", which made people cry. After a lifetime of sensation, such touching "faithfulness" as "Going West", "Lanhuahua" and "Call Brother, Come Back" are also sung all over the country. Their original song is Feng Jianxue, who is called "Nightingale on the Yellow Land".
People say that "believing in heaven" can "get drunk" the dead, which is generally true. Even if I have been away from life for 20 years, I always feel like crying when I hear those worrying wanderings. How many times in the dream, we went back to the ancient and westerly loess plateau again and again, and heard beautiful and kind Qiaozhen singing a sad letter tour:
"The eggshell is bright and the kang is bright.
My brother is never bad at cooking a small wine cup and measuring rice ... "
Ducks and geese in the river,
A pair of furry eyes looked at my brother,
Cooked Qian Qian, took the rice,
I picked up firewood on the road and killed you.
The clear water glass shines through the window,
Smiling at my brother with white teeth,
Double doors come from a single door,
Call brother, you come back, you come back ...
A young man in the northwest, a pair of eager eyes, to be precise, should be a restless soul-Gao Jialin, which is an image that everyone who has seen movies in the 1980s knows. Huang Yaping, his admirer and city girl, thinks that this young man, like Pavel Colta King and Julian Sohall, has dual personalities: sober and reckless, hero and coward, strong and weak.
In the big discussion of that year, most people scoffed at China's "honesty" and were called "villains who used women to climb up". In fact, he is just a very complicated and real young man, unwilling to be arranged by fate, running around and trying to find a way out of life. The tragic fate is not his fault, nor is awakening and struggle, but the social reality that he is unable to change.
Some well-intentioned people pointed angry bullets at actor Zhou Lijing while scolding Gao Jialin. At that time, Zhou Lijing was at the peak of his performance. He is handsome and aggressive. In the film, he is dressed in a tattered leather-blue uniform, holding his hands and pursed his handle. The expression on his face can't tell whether he is desperate, decadent, unwilling or thinking-he vividly interprets a rural youth teased by life, which makes people extremely sad.
In the film, when Qiaozhen squatted by the river to brush her teeth, the villagers gesticulated and talked about it, as if surprised to see aliens. I always think that this movie is actually saying that if a person wants to be detached from reality, he has to pay the price, just like Gao Jialin, just like Qiao Zhen. She is vulgar, but sensible without book knowledge, and she feels inferior but not inferior; She loved Gao Jialin, madly in love, but never begged for love. She never lost her dignity from beginning to end. She hates Gao Jialin, but she hates it without anger; She once said to her sister, "Second sister has never studied, but she likes people with culture in her heart." Ideals are like soap bubbles, like distant white clouds in the sky. Qiaozhen didn't have wings to pursue her ideal, but she married someone else with tears in her arms, holding the new shoes for Gao Jialin.
Wu Yufang, a Shanghai girl, played this role euphemistically and moved, and once became the standard of "perfect object" in the eyes of many young people. 1985, Liu Qiaozhen, born with a broad mass base, made Wu Yufang, who was only 20 years old, ascend the throne of "Best Actress in Hundred Flowers Award". At that time, Wu Yufang was charming, handsome and promising. Take a closer look, she has married Jiang Jialiang, the "table tennis prince" in the 1980s, and retired from the torrent. Drama is just like her. Wu Yufang in life is also a good wife and mother. In order to support Jiang Jialiang's career, she is willing to retreat behind the scenes and contribute silently to her family. 1997, after her husband's repeated suggestions, Wu Yufang returned to the screen and began to take TV series.
However, "Qiaozhen" gave her best youth to her family, and now Wu Yufang is not that heartbreaking little woman. But none of this matters. What is more gratifying than holding true happiness in your hand?