"Durian Fluttering": Chen Guo's bottom narrative and Qin Hailu's film road
01 Opportunities are always fleeting, and one step determines a lifetime.
In 2000, a film came out. It was "Durian Gone with the Wind" produced by Hong Kong director Chen Guo. As a native Hong Kong director, he always likes to focus on the bottom of society and the changes of the times. He used to return to the trilogy "Made in Hong Kong" and "Last year "There are so many fireworks" and "Xianluxiang" is famous.
If you look at it again, there are the post 97 trilogy, also known as the "Trilogy of Prostitutes", "Durian Gone with the Wind", "There is a Hollywood in Hong Kong" and "Three Husbands". Of course, it is impossible to watch these films in public screenings. Even if they win numerous awards, they can only be regarded as "underground films."
Today, let’s take a look at the movie "Durian Fluttering", and with this movie, Qin Hailu won the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award for Best New Actor and Best Actress. Of course, this is Qin Hailu’s debut. graduation.
Qin Hailu was hesitant when she was in this movie, because the role in it was not very sunny, so the final decision to play her was the first step in her life, and it was this film that made Qin Hailu The road to performing arts became literary and smooth.
Of course, the movie itself does not have such a good fate.
"Durian Fluttering" is an illegal film that was secretly filmed in China. In this regard, the Film Bureau issued a warning to Hong Kong director Chen Guo, and wrote to the Hong Kong Directors’ Union, hoping to attract enough attention. The people and things in the
02 movie were not only staged at that time, but have not ceased.
In the movie "Durian Fluttering", Qin Yan, played by Qin Hailu, is a prostitute who goes to Hong Kong for a short period of time. That is, he needs to make more money in a short period of time before returning to the mainland. The people above her hometown, especially the neighbors in her hometown, also felt that she was destined to be promising if she could go to Hong Kong, and that was manifested in money.
is just that, in Qin Yan's body and mind, there is also hesitation. She keeps walking in apartments, short-term rental houses and various private places, relying on selling her body in exchange for the pleasure of guests, so as to win money.
She was in Hong Kong and met a girl named A Fen. They have similar identities, one is smuggling and the other is short-term visa. A Fen goes to school there, but Qin Yan needs to leave for a short time. The similarity of identities and the birth of friendship have even made the two people feel in a state of sympathy. At the end of
, they all returned to the mainland again. The difference is that Afen wants to go to school and Qin Yan wants to make money. In this division, it seems that it is also the director's questioning whether people who are marching in the world have different pursuits whether they are high or low. And how is the sense of original guilt of money and the sense of supremacy brought about by money cultivated?
People who did this like Qin Yan not only existed at that time, but they also exist today. According to the logic of "existence is reasonable", rather than cast a contemptuous look, it is better to analyze the social reasons behind it. Why did
choose this? It's just the idea of money supremacy, and it's also the result of "laughing at the poor but not the prostitution", and how money supremacy comes from is nothing more than the reform and opening up. This is true in itself, but it is often too much to overcorrect.
Today's Chinese society has not become such a status quo? The means by which people obtain money is no longer important. Under the principle of utilitarianism, the result is important.
is also like this. When Qin Yan returned to her hometown in "Durian Floating", she was filled with emotion when she saw those classmates who were walking in the same place again. The closer
03 is to the bottom narrative, the more it reveals its genes of reality, and the less it is accepted by the mainstream.
is not only a bitch, but also a torii. There doesn't seem to be much right and wrong in human choice. Qin Yan, who settled down in "Durian Fluttering", made such a choice. The film did not give an answer to where she would be after returning to her hometown. Perhaps the audience can imagine it. If
goes out, there is no survival skill. When I go back, I have lost sight of everything in my hometown. Go forward, not blend in. Go back, can't go back. What a helpless situation?
In the film language of director Chen Guo, Qin Yan’s way of living is realistic, but this reality is hidden, And it's gray, it's shameless, and it is precisely because this narrative mode is saturated with realistic factors and is incompatible with mainstream society.
This is also where the strangeness and paradox lies. It is clearly a reality, but it pretends to be invisible. The director’s shooting became a movie, and immediately declared that such shooting was illegal. This "eye-opening" posture is undoubtedly self-deception.
But letting go of these factors, just from the perspective of the movie itself, "Durian Fluttering" is still a masterpiece of realism, but it takes a lot of effort to watch it.
