movie "Walk and See" is adapted from "The Tale of Two Donkeys" by writer Wang Song. It tells the story of an educated youth who went to the countryside fighting with two donkeys. The introduction of the original work of
is as follows: It took place in the era of "class struggle as the key link". Humanity was written with donkey nature. Through a legendary battle between man and donkey, the world of human nature in a particular era was wonderfully excavated. The distortion and distortion of the situation. Therefore, this film will naturally not be a fantasy film about the struggle between a man and a donkey. The film also did not endow the donkey with a fantasy supernatural person, but gave the donkey a "human" character through an absurd plot.
Whether it is Hei Liu's arrogance who thinks he is a donkey without having to work, or Hei Qi's series of retaliatory actions after witnessing his brother's death, it is their humanity that is beyond the donkey. This is a typical Chinese style film. The reason for saying this is that the film’s absurdism style, delicate emotional expression and irony techniques are more suitable for Chinese people’s ability to express and understand, and the film’s choice of Cultural Revolution background is more It is a specific environment unique to China.
Of course, the story of the film is a story that can only be born from the background of the Cultural Revolution. The original work is positioned as magic realism, and it is called absurd realism after being adapted into a movie. Whether it is magical or absurd, they are always based on reality. As a donkey, Hei Liu is treated with dignity every day and is better than human treatment. It seems absurd to us now, but people at that time took it for granted, and even felt that Hei Liu’s contribution was greater than that of supporting rural construction. Ma Jie.
Similarly, as an educated youth, he was supposed to use his knowledge to make greater contributions to the new China, but he was sent to the countryside to do manual labor that he was not good at. This is also absurd in this specific environment.
The absurd comedy has never lacked irony. In the film, Hei Liu, as a donkey, has made many contributions to the production team. Team leader Da Lian has also repeatedly stated that Hei Liu’s contribution is greater than Ma Jie as a human, so Ma Jie must Treat it well. But when the black six can no longer reproduce or work, its meaning becomes to add meat to everyone. The praise once given to Hei Liu was still in my ears, and soon became a real fragrant meal. When killing Hei Liu, Da Lian asked Ma Jie to do it, not only because he was a breeder, but also because they were farmers who could not kill animals. However, when the camera turned around, those who were once unwilling to kill Hei Liu lined up to wait to eat donkey meat... In the movie
, Ma Jie not only recites the meaning of life in "How Steel is Made" answer. Obviously, the life in the film did not reach the meaning of life he wanted. The same is true for the Black Seven. The donkey should not survive and be valued just because it is a collective means of production, and as a thoughtful human, Ma Jie’s existence should not only be through trivial hands. Labor supports rural construction.
Therefore, the black seven in the film is a reflection of Ma Jie, and Ma Jie is the epitome of many intellectual youths who go to the countryside. What makes this film absurd is not that the donkey has humanity, nor is it the fantasy struggle between the donkey and people, but Absurd stories born under an absurd system.
