Taste the classics
Starting from "Life", China's "Western Movies" has a specific image that refers to the people on the high slopes of the loess. Before this, this heavy piece of land has existed for a long time, even with a history longer than that of the nation, but it has been forgotten or obscured by the screen. The “yellow land” with too rich connotations is destined to not be silent forever. When the children born and raised are full of scars and sadness, touching it becomes the most effective treatment.
Wu Tianming said: "Life" is like a country man covered in loess, walking into the hall of art in a humble manner." This rustic "full of loess" is the most basic appearance characteristic of western movies. The vast Loess Plateau in the northwest and the mighty Yellow River passing by mysteriously became the origins of all kinds of history, and the sparks of the Chinese revolution were also drawn here and set on a prairie fire. Therefore, when these unique geographical features remain on the screen for a long time, the minds of the creators and audiences are more than just appreciation and admiration.
If the director in "Life" pays more attention to the magic of this land with the eyes of outsiders, from the beginning of "Yellow Land", he walked out of the "yellow land" of the landscape and went directly into the story and dialogue with the audience. This kind of existence is no longer a static objective object and reference, but is surging with thoughts and dispositions; it is not only the object examined and analyzed by the creator, as far as the recipient is concerned, in addition to shock, it can also be seen from the smart "yellow" Read the philosophy of history and culture on the land. This is also the difference between the "fourth generation" and the "fifth generation". The "fourth generation" obtains expression by silently watching the life on the yellow earth, while the "fifth generation" digs meaning directly from the images of the "yellow earth". So the land in "Western Movies" is a big character with a vivid soul. In this sense, "Red Sorghum" may not be regarded as a real "Western Film". The long yellow sand in the film retreats to Beijing. The extremely public life and desires in the whole story have nothing to do with this soft land, but more from the worship of the sun.
In "Life", Gao Jialin, which is in the alternate era of the old and the new, shows that young farmers on the "yellow land" have greatly changed their concept of land and the resulting complex mentality. At the end of the film, Gao Jialin’s solid back to the village did not give a clear meaning, revealing the director’s sway between modern civilization and traditional civilization. Of course, it is not difficult to find that the focus of the film’s narrative is still both criticizing and criticizing traditional civilization. The contradictory sentiment of nostalgia.
in front and behind the scenes
This movie is based on the novel "Life" of the same name by the famous writer Lu Yao. After Lu Yao graduated from University and went to work in Xi’an, he was busy with his work and did not go home many times. When he went back to northern Shaanxi to go deep into life, he pulled out and took a look at home. It was also a hurry. Lu Yao stayed at home for the longest time, with Wu Tianming. One piece when filming the movie "Life" in Yanchuan. He stayed at home for more than 20 days that time. Those 20 days were the happiest and happiest time in the hearts of Lu Yao's parents. The last time Lu Yao went home during his lifetime was half a year before his death. His mother didn't see anything wrong with him. He ate a lot of his mother's meals at home. The excited mother did not know that this was her farewell to her son. When
adapted this novel into a screenplay, Lu Yao mentioned that he tried his best to express the most important things in the novel. Through the tragic fate of Gao Jialin and others, he urges the audience to make a deep examination of society and life in many aspects; he hopes that people can understand many unreasonable phenomena in life through this story, and try to involve the novel. Life can also make people feel authentic and believable through vision. The complexity of the character reflects the truth of life; and truth is the foundation of all art. "Life" shows the fate of a group of ordinary people, and their experience is not completely determined by them. Gao Jialin didn't want to go through a big circle and finally pick up a baggage bag and return to the starting point. He could not break through the constraints of various social contradictions on individuals.
Lu Yao doesn't just stop at the performance of customs and customs for this film. What he wants to show through this film is not only the human sentiments, folklore and nature of northern Shaanxi, but also the historical, aesthetic and even philosophical connotations of the society embedded in it. This is a deeper thing. With these, not only illiterate people can understand or get infected, but also people with higher education level can start thinking more deeply. This requires more space behind the screen; not only to complete a story, complete the plot in a specific situation, but also to complete the plot and plot, scene andThe "blank" is left between the scene, the characters and the characters, the dialogue and the dialogue, and the picture and the picture, allowing the audience to imagine, supplement and think. The
film strives to create a kind of momentum through the screen. When using the camera to describe life and describe nature, it strives to pursue a vigorous, broad and deep style. It is not what art seeks to express the folk customs and customs on the surface of life and the folk customs that have nothing to do with the subject in isolation. Therefore, the movie "Life" must not only have a "earth flavor" but also a "foreign flavor", so that "foreigners" can accept and invest in it without obstacles. In any case, only by presenting the things that are familiar to the nation in a true, artistic, and colorful manner, can the work reveals that more people in the world can understand and feel it.
