mentions the fifth generation of directors in China, people usually think of Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong, etc.
However, there is such a person in the "fifth generation", and "photography" is his specialty. The photography of "Farewell My Concubine", "Red Sorghum", "Sunny Life" and other works are all made by him.
He is Jiang Wenli's husband-Gu Changwei. After
became a director, Gu Changwei focused more on film story scripts. Art films are his genre. "Beginning of Spring" and "Favorites" were all produced by Gu Changwei.
Gu Changwei likes to turn the camera to those little people who are constantly struggling in their destiny. After all, his debut work follows this route-"Peacock".
As Gu Changwei’s debut work, "Peacock" achieved very good results. It was shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival that year, nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture, won the Silver Bear Jury Award, and received 8.0 praise on Douban. The story of
took place in a small northern city in the 1970s.
At the beginning, a family of five appeared in front of the camera. They were eating at the door of the house. They were: a strong mother, a meek father, a sick brother, a weaker sister, and an inferior brother. The story of
can be divided into three paragraphs. The first paragraph is the story of my sister. Sister
is the most special existence in this family. Although she lives in a remote town, she has lofty ideals and pursuits in her heart. In reality, she can only swallow her breath and feel depressed every day. Sister
often lay on the roof. It seems that this place after the whole town can calm her restless heart. She looks at the sky and feels temporary freedom.
In order to let her know the truth, her parents got her a job as a nurse.
is not difficult to work. It is to take care of the children in the house every day, but my sister messed up on the first day at work. When
was coaxing the children, she accidentally broke the child’s head due to inexperience. The job is so gone. The depressed sister of
rode a bicycle out to relax, accidentally saw the process of the paratrooper landing, and fortunately met a handsome paratrooper.
At this time, my sister had another wish to become a paratrooper and soar freely in the sky. Sister
kept the money from her family and went to sign up as a paratrooper secretly. On the way, she met the handsome male paratrooper again.
She thought about going through the back door with a male paratrooper, even secretly dating him, but the reality is cruel, she was mercilessly rejected, and her desire to be a paratrooper fell through.
's two frustrations made her depressed. She locked herself in the room and went on a hunger strike for several days and nights. Finally, the family opened the door of the room and pulled her sister out. Sister
also wanted to go on this hunger strike. Since she cannot be a paratrooper, she can experience the life of a paratrooper in another way.
So she had a whim, and spontaneously made a parachute similar to a paratrooper, and then tied it to the back of her bicycle, really experiencing a paratrooper addiction.
She was galloping on the street, the parachute in the back seat was dancing with the wind, and she knew at this moment that flying in the air was so free and unrestrained.
However, just a little while ago, the mother who was watching from behind chased up. She grabbed the parachute with all her strength, and her sister fell heavily to the ground. They fell together, as well as the ideal in her heart. After
was arrested and returned home, the mother thought that her daughter was stunned because she could not be a paratrooper. She and her husband used compulsory injections to treat her daughter's illness, and then found her a job of cleaning bottles, and she was picked up by her mother every day. .
She held her daughter tightly in her hands, by the way, completely stifled her daughter's ideals. Sister
is just like a puppet, letting her mother play with her without any complaints.
originally thought that her life would end in this way, until by chance, she met an uncle who played the organ. Uncle
's situation is similar to that of his sister, who loves art but is not understood by the family. Therefore, the two met and felt sorry for each other. The depressed sister simply recognized the uncle as a "god father". They got together almost every day, returned to art, and escaped. reality.
However, in that era, this relationship was not recognized by others,There were more and more gossiping people. Hearing the news, the godfather's family directly treated his sister as a "fox spirit" and gave him a serious fix.
The friendship between her and her godfather just broke up.
's four-time frustrated sister is completely desperate. She no longer pursues any shit ideals, but returns to the cold reality.
In the end, she married the local Xiao Wang who drove the leader and led a quiet and stable life. This concludes the story of sister
. The second story is about brother silly.
He watched his sister's process from triumph to frustration. Everyone thought he was stupid. In fact, he was not stupid at all, but rather shrewd.
However, due to intellectual defects, he is indeed not as smart as ordinary people, so he has suffered a lot. For example, he works in a flour factory and other workers play cards nearby. He alone has done several people's work.
is white and fat, like a child who has not been involved in the world.
He likes a girl in the factory, but also suffers from not daring to confess to the face, so he is like a child and asks his mother to inquire about him. The mother of
knew that her son would definitely not be able to meet each other, so she arranged a blind date with a relatively rough-looking woman.
But the eldest brother knew in his heart that he wanted female workers in the factory, so he never gave a good face during the blind date.
After knowing that the female worker he liked had gone with someone else, he was sad for a while, but soon forgot about it.
The person who bullied him at the beginning came to him to borrow money. He had no money, but he returned all the cigarettes that the other party had given him over the years. In this way, the cigarettes were exchanged for money, which not only saved the other party's face, but did he have the slightest loss.
"Big Wisdom Ruo Yu" is the most suitable for Big Brother, he is the most unrestrained and free person in the family.
Although he finally married the country girl with whom he had a blind date, he started a small business that he liked, and his life was very moist.
The third story is about an inferior brother. The younger brother
is the youngest and has no say in the family. His parents don't care about him. He doesn't have any friends in school. He has a low self-esteem to his bones and looks like a shadow in the eyes of others, dispensable. The elder brother
gave him an umbrella in the rain, and his inferiority brother was ashamed to admit that he was his brother. The eldest brother
peeked at the women's toilet in the school and was regarded as a hooligan. When everyone was chasing him, his brother stepped forward to persuade him to fight, but still refused to admit that it was his brother.
In order to get rid of the jokes made by his brother, he asked his sister's friend to pretend to be his brother as a policeman. He thought he would be envied by his classmates, but in return he was teased and ridiculed by his classmates.
The girl at the same table cleaned him kindly, and he had a good impression of the girl. However, the rush to confess was the rejection of the other party. The girl just sympathized with him and looked down on his inferiority and cowardice.
's discouraged brother escaped. He escaped from school, from family, and from this desperate town. When
returned home again, he was already married. His wife was a single mother with children, but his younger brother had matured. He spoke with a straight waist. The family could see that the youngest brother had grown up.
Just like that, going around, my sister and brother have gone home, the desperate town can't accommodate them, but it's not what they thought outside the town, it is better to go back to the town, at least there are family members here.
The story of "Peacock" is cruel. Gu Changwei uses an ordinary but extraordinary family to expose the cruel reality of the world. Everyone is like his sister, has dreams and dreams, and everyone is like his younger brother. , I used to have nowhere to hide.
Forced by reality, most people obeyed the fate's arrangements like the big brother, but there is no loss in this way. Isn't life like the big brother unhappy?
Ideals are rooted in reality, and a brain plunges into the whirlpool of ideals. It is better to scoop a small bowl from the whirlpool and live well in reality.
