After reading Han Han's Ideal City, I may have been hesitant to choose this book at first, but I finally decided to read it. Ideal City inherits Han Han's black humor writing style in the past, but this work seems to be slightly different from his other works. With its humorous, satirical, exaggerated and absurd rhetoric, this work reveals various social conditions and figures at that time becoming the mainstream.
The author of this work is Han Han, a representative writer born in 1980s. He is not only a writer, but also a racing driver and singer. His masterpieces are Triple Gate, Poison and One Degree below zero. Ideal City is his most satisfactory work so far, and it is a landmark work representing the highest level of his literary creation.
Ideal City describes the days when we live. A group of unruly youths, such as Uncle Jian and Wang Chao, are in college. Uncle Jian and I fled from Shanghai to a small town because of a fight. We stayed in a hotel and wandered around the town all day. Later, I met a college student, Wang Chao. Since then, Wang Chao and his Santana have been mixed with us. "Me" and Uncle Jian followed Wang Chao to his school to see girls, and inadvertently participated in a performance art, which reminded me of the past. We still wander around this small town all day, and we encounter many strange and confusing things. "I" will dream of "I" from time to time and think about my ex-girlfriend.
In Ideal City, humorous language seems to contain thought-provoking truth. The beginning of the writing is "I". As soon as I stepped into the town, I met the black-hearted boss of the telephone booth. Then "I" and Uncle Jian met hundreds of people on the road and rushed to the scene of the fire to watch; Then, the electrical appliances that "I", Uncle Jian and Wang Chao bought from the fence were seized by the police and needed to be detained or fined. However, the detained fees can be discounted, including the payment of accommodation fees, management fees and education fees. Then, due to the slippery road surface in snowy days, the front of the car collapsed, and the car rushed over the bridge roof and fell into a big ditch dug for laying unknown pipes. However, many people cheered and counted how many vehicles fell into the ditch; Finally, because of the explosion, there was a robbery panic in this town. People robbed bridal shops, supermarkets and banks, and even unconscious middle-aged people were deprived of everything. As can be seen from the above example, the traffic order in this small town is chaotic and people are worried. In such an ideal city, social reality and helplessness are naked. "I" and my friends have experienced all kinds of life situations in this small town and seen the darkness of this city. "The opposite of beauty is not ugliness but indifference, the opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference, and the opposite of life is not death but indifference." When one car after another fell into the ditch, what people did was not to know what happened in time, but to have evil thoughts and carry out crazy robbery. The author shows the distortion of the real society with exaggerated and absurd methods.
Compared with other works, the novel Ideal City is not gorgeous in appearance, but describes the life in this city in the simplest and most popular language. The distortion of the real society, people's blind conformity psychology, the imbalance of social property, bureaucratic corruption and judicial injustice. The ending of this article is beyond my expectation. I thought the article would end with "I left town". However, the end of the article seems a little warm. Perhaps, everyone's ideal will be different, so that everyone has an ideal city that really belongs to them.
I took a long breath after watching Han Han's Ideal City. However, the heart cannot relax. The ugliness of human nature, the imbalance of China's real society, the blindness of some young people, the corruption of some officials, and the morbidness of some societies are all revealed in his ideal city.
Two "fugitives" who mistakenly thought they had committed a crime and killed people came to a strange city, started their lives, and then experienced the life of this city and saw the darkness of this city.
This is the plot of the story, although it is very simple, but it is like a huge trash can, which contains all kinds of garbage, gray life, gray life. There is no hope, but people often dream about this world. Full, always unspeakable under humor, makes people laugh and meditate more.
Especially at the end, although it seems a bit hasty, the description of anarchism is also somewhat profound. People can't exist without rules, and the world will be in a mess without constraints. Perhaps what Han Han wants to express is that there is no absolute freedom, and absolute freedom cannot exist, especially for China, who is born with the gene of adapting to freedom. If they are given absolute freedom, the consequences of what they do are unpredictable.
An ideal city and a microcosm of a deformed society, Han Han strongly criticized the low quality of ordinary citizens who constitute the social theme. This book describes the mentality of onlookers after a series of accidents. What impressed me the most was the fire in the grocery store downstairs of Rong Da apartment. People are concerned about how fire engines put out the fire, not whether the fire will burn people. In the initial small fire, an old woman poured a basin of water and ended the fire. And the masses actually came up with the idea of disturbing the peace of the old woman to stop her from continuing to put out the fire. After the fire was put out, the fire truck opened the fire hydrant in order not to disappoint the audience watching how to put out the fire. What did the crowd disperse after ten seconds? This series of wonderful descriptions made me shake my head and think about everything in front of me.
Han Han's Republic depicts a heavy and sad social microcosm in humorous language, just like the preface written by Han Han himself: this fast-paced and slow-paced novel is humorous and sad, and the superfluous preface is needless to say.
After reading Han Han's Ideal City, I have always liked Han Han's rebellious and unconstrained thoughts since her debut. From his writing, it is not difficult to find that he is a very clever man and he has his unique understanding of the world.
He has been growing all these years. His writing is not gorgeous, but it can hurt people. He satirized the darkness of the world and the absurdity of the world with humorous brushstrokes.
Continue to do what he wants to do, so that those of us who have the same rebellion as him, but have no courage to betray life, parents, and adhere to principles envy him.
But Han Han doesn't stop there. He has been pursuing, pursuing his dreams, pursuing his lifestyle. As he wrote in Go with the Flow, one must do what one likes.
He writes, he races cars, and he always does what he likes.
In his new book "The Ideal City", seeing this topic, the first thing that comes to mind is the Fortress Besieged by Mr. Qian Zhongshu, whom Han Han has always admired. Sometimes we can see some old money in his articles. Qian Lao claims to have a photographic memory and is an agile writer. Han Han's thinking is also very agile.
The ideal city saw what Han Han wanted to express. I don't think he is personally aware of this. He just wrote, wrote his feelings over the years. These feelings can't be described in words, but can only be interspersed in this somewhat heavy story. The ugliness of human nature, the imbalance of China's real society, the blindness of some young people, the corruption of some officials and some social pathologies are all revealed in his new book.
Yes, I saw it, very heavy, very heavy, like the thing I have been holding collapsed, and the castle collapsed, like the last huge explosion in his book. Release all the ugly explosions in human nature, leaving only aimless running, trying to escape, escape from life and escape from this morbid society.
According to the propaganda, this is a milestone in his writing, and I think it is probably the same. Please keep this mark. Over the years, he has matured a lot and won't criticize what is bad and what is good in that way. After all, he is 23 years old, not a small age, but also an understanding of life.
Most of the love described in his book is linked to money, but he doesn't think all love is impure.
In the story of the hero and C in the book, he described a simple little girl and a somewhat silly boy. The story is simple and touching to read.
There is also the love between his deskmate "men's volleyball" and "intervertebral disc cavity inflammation", which is also a pure love.
Han Han's characters are mostly sad, such as Lin Yuxiang, Tie Niu, the young monk, Uncle Jian, "I" and Wang Chao in this book. It can be said that the characters in the whole book are tragic.
The sorrow of people is that you are in sorrow and you know nothing.
Most of Han Han's handwriting is in this style. In fact, there are many such people in our life and society. The world he wrote can be said to be a microcosm.
An ideal city is probably a small society.
Two "fugitives" who mistakenly thought they had committed a crime and killed people came to a strange city, started their lives, and then experienced the life of this city and saw the darkness of this city.
The whole story is probably such a simple plot.
However, what is implied in it cannot be expressed in words. The heaviness of humor makes people laugh, and more is meditation.
Especially at the end, although it seems a bit hasty, the description of anarchism is also somewhat profound. People can't exist without rules, and the world will be in a mess without constraints. Perhaps what Han wants to express is that there is no absolute freedom, and absolute freedom cannot exist, especially in China, who are born with the gene to adapt to freedom. If they are given absolute freedom, the consequences of what they do are unpredictable.
If we just laugh it off after reading it, the significance of literature and the construction of spiritual civilization are unnecessary. `
We should think more about our own problems and the disadvantages of our society.
As young people, what should we do, what should we do, and how can we prevent this social disorder.
Han has been exposing our society, our education, our pursuit of life, and the ugliness of some selfish people in our society, which has been vividly presented to us.