is the most war movie like war. Its protagonist is called "Yai Hundred."
may not be worth the wait without any twists and turns. On the day of its premiere, I watched "Ya Hundred" on the IMAX big screen. The first thing that made me awe-inspiring was the level of production it reached as a movie and a war movie. The cluttered four-row warehouse, the running back and forth of officers and soldiers, the dialogue of the Southern Tone-North Dialogue, the shaking and tense camera movement, the complex and changeable scene scheduling, the dark and dark light and shadow composition, put me on the scene of the story from the beginning, 80 The historical scenes many years ago are vivid and empathetic. This high-energy audiovisual intensity has not slackened from beginning to end. It is no exaggeration to say that it represents the highest level of current Chinese film production, and it is not inferior to world-class films. Performance, photography, lighting, art, props, costumes, make-up, foley, recording, editing, under the supervision of Director Guan Hu, from the hustle and bustle and rush, it reflects the free order and rhythm of retraction. In more than 20 minutes, the audience not only entered the suffocating pre-war atmosphere, but also Huang Zhizhong, Zhang Junyi, Ou Hao, Zhang Cheng, Wang Qianyuan, Jiang Wu, Zhang Yi, Du Chun, Zhang Youhao, Wei Chen, Li Chen, Yu Ailei, Yu Haoming, Zheng Kai and other twenty or thirty actors clearly presented the outlines of a group of disgruntled soldiers with different personalities. In addition, many characters such as professors and casino owners on the south bank of the Suzhou River also had a few strokes of both physical and spiritual. The start of simple, vertical and horizontal strokes has basically established the pattern and quality of the whole film. Only when
has this kind of viewing quality, can we concentrate on understanding the narrative. I soon realized that it was very different from the traditional melodrama. This was not a movie with a certain protagonist and concentrated drama conflict. It revolved around the battle of "Four Lines Warehouse" and gave dozens of portraits of characters on both sides of the Suzhou River. , Some come and go in a hurry, some run through, some are brilliant in the first half, and some are vivid in the second half. The real protagonist is the group of "Eight Hundreds" composed of more than 400 people, as well as the South Bank and the airship in the sky. The "Yabai" spectator. These characters are all kinds of people, including old slickers in the rain of guns and bullets, and baby soldiers who do not know the life and death; there are cold-blooded killers, and there are also hot-blooded young people...Many characters are vivid and lifelike in the knife and axe, so that their fate will make us worry about it. , Sorrow and joy. If we say that at the beginning, we were still trying to distinguish who is the protagonist of the story in the constant appearance and departure of the characters, then we completely entered the "Yai Hundred" group and fought to the death with them in the rain of bullets. Although there may be a small number of viewers who will still persevere in constructing a traditional protagonist story, most viewers should say that they have entered the "scene" constructed by the film. When Chen Shusheng wrote a blood book on the white undershirt: Whatever you want!", with soldiers reporting their hometowns and names in different dialects, as human bombs stepped forward and then jumped out of the window, the audience, like the South Bank spectators in the film, would not go again in tears. Distinguish who is the real hero...
live with flesh and blood while watching the feasting
If only the story of the Yao warrior guarding the warehouse, this movie is just a traditional "war" sheet". But in fact, from the very beginning, Guan Hu was not satisfied with presenting a battle. He was more concerned about the meaning behind the battle for the Chinese nation. The design on both sides of the Suzhou River provides an imaginative space for the grand theme of this movie. The South Bank is a concession area, where high-ranking officials, celebrity professors, business owners, Mrs. Kuo and foreigners live, while on the other side are hundreds of lonely fighting soldiers facing tens of thousands of Japanese Marines. As the lines in the play say, the south bank of the four-line warehouse is heaven, and the north is hell. The men and women of the South Bank, old and young, Chinese and foreigners, have all become the four-line warehouse fighting.The spectators have become the "audience" of this war. The battle of the eight hundred heroes, just like its original historical significance, has a certain "performance": the officers and soldiers used their blood and lives to stage a show that they would rather die than surrender and never forget the national humiliation. The life and death drama of the South Bank. Some of the characters in the South Bank are full of blood, some are wretched and timid; some are righteous, and some are surly, but in front of the "eight hundred" warriors, most of them eventually become chorus of the main theme of the war. They follow Among the white horses galloping in the smoke of war, you can see the immortal dragon horse spirit of the Chinese nation. Both sides of the Suzhou River are not only the epitome of China's war of resistance, but also a mirror of the Chinese nation. If there are not so many people "watching fire across the bank", the Chinese nation Why is the suffering so severe? If it weren't for the "Chinese backbone" like the "eight hundred" warriors, how could the Chinese nation finally win the war of resistance.
From the narrative, when soldiers bound bombs and went to death generously The audience has burst into tears, and the climax of "Eight Hundred" seems to have arrived a bit early. The symbolic and freehand rendering in the second half is too intensive, which affects the strength and intensity of the last third of the film to some extent. But these can't hide this. The brilliance of the film. It presents the images of battle scenes, it vividly portrays the portraits of the characters, it restores the cruel reality while pursuing poetry, its multi-dimensional reflection on national psychology, and its influence on the spirit of dragon horse The passionate eulogy can be said to have embodied the production quality, artistic level and spiritual strength that Chinese films are proud of. The story of the "eight hundred heroes" was widely extolled at the time, and its significance is that it is the Chinese nation's indomitable and bloody A symbol of the spirit of fighting. At the time of the national crisis, it was adapted into movies and other art forms and spread widely, becoming a banner that inspired the determination of the Chinese nation to resist the Japanese War. This is also after the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front, the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party jointly National heroic feat praised. Therefore, the value of this film is not to re-verify historical facts, but to use this symbolic historical event to make today's audiences remember the shame of history, let alone the sacrifice of the martyrs.
What you look at and what you see depends on what you think and what
Literature and art have never been a simple restoration of historical facts, just as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" are not just history textbooks. Obviously, neither is "Yabai" It is only to restore a piece of "history", but to use this piece of history to observe a larger history and a deeper nationality, and add aesthetic choices and moral judgments on the basis of historical historical data. As we all know, Shanghai broke out in Shanghai in August 1937. The battle lasted for three months. The Chinese soldiers paid a heavy price of 300,000 casualties. Although they were defeated, Japan’s ambition to "subdue China in March" was frustrated. "Eight Hundred" is about the "Four Line Warehouse" in the late period of the Songhu Battle. Defensive battle". The film has no obvious deviation in basic historical judgment. Of course, The real theme of the film is not to reproduce historical documents, but to try to use "Yai Bai" as a mirror to give today's audience more emotional touches and spiritual warnings.
has a long history, rolling forward. The officers and soldiers who are "famous" or "unknown" in the literature have already disappeared in the dust of time. Today, we are all just "watchers" of the history of "Eight Hundreds", and also watchers of the movie "Eight Hundreds". All kinds of different readings, in turn, show that this movie has a variety of interpretation and analysis space. In a sense, what we look at and what we see often depends on what we think, but also what we are. (Author: Yin Hong , Tsinghua University professor, literary critic vice chairman of China Association, vice chairman of China Film Association, China Film Critics Society vice president)
