Author of this article: Carrot
Let’s read Wong Kar-wai’s “Flowers” first, and then Jin Yucheng’s “Flowers”.
was very pleasantly surprised.
These are two completely different flowers, running in different directions and blooming with different fragrances.
Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" is the main theme, with dense, high-spirited and enthusiastic drum beats. The flaws of human nature are shining in the times, wrapped in the tears of the audience, and continue to run on the field, rushing towards the ascending heaven.
Jin Yucheng's "Flowers" is a memorial.
opens in the present, flashing back to the past. The whole novel is so overlapping.
Two eras, two intertwined rivers of time, seem to follow each other, but also seem to be separated. They are all connected with those blank years.
By the way, those teenagers who were still in the 1960s. The whole world is a blur of smells, tastes, colors and comings and goings. The novel records their daily whereabouts, and the information is as accurate and fresh as their age. They also record the people around them, all of whom have traveled from the old time and are groping in this new world.
There are teenagers Po, Beidi, Hu Sheng and Xiao Mao, there is Shaoxing grandma who is meticulous about gods and ghosts, there are also piano, movie stamps, blessings from everyone and birthday parties.
Beidi and Abao spoke in a serious and youthful way, but in fact it was not important, and their words filled the sky with beauty.
walked hand in hand and sat in the warm and soothing sunlight.
The days are actually very short, but the novel is written slowly and long.
This is the soft light and poetry of memory.
Because what followed was a truly lengthy and unimaginable period of brutality and destruction.
was turned upside down, and everything could no longer be restored.
Shaoxing Grandma and Beidi disappeared in the mess. Shuhua insisted that they turn into goldfish and swim to the Huangpu River.
When Husheng was cheering for the humiliation that could be seen everywhere in the market and ransacking his home on the spur of the moment, his parents were already behind bars and instantly homeless.
Three generations of Abao's grandparents "went out" and moved to the suburban workers' village for renovation.
's novel lays out the "street scenes" of that time, including alley activities and various urban wonders.
The largest thrift store in the Far East was the scene of mourning.
Comparing the two, the dreamy feeling of that short teenage time is clearly visible.
From then on, the teenagers began to fall, start to grow, drift with the tide, and see the truth of all kinds of life.
Jin Yucheng confessed that Abao has his shadow, and also confessed that the 1960s and his career as an educated youth had a profound impact on him. He did not take the college entrance examination because he was used to everything having nothing to do with him and he had no hope.
He also said that the original intention of creating "Flowers" was to "be a storyteller with a very low position" and "rather complicated than brief, prefer low to high". The advantage of
is that it is recorded, and it is more silent when it is silent. The advantage of
is that it is complex and all-encompassing.
"Flowers" becomes more and more complicated as time goes by.
The complexity of the writing at the beginning lies in the reciprocation of children's words, grandma's nagging, the afternoon rooftop scenery, encounters and meticulousness;
The complexity of the 1960s and 1970s is in various street scenes and scenes, unexpected shocks, and various wonders;
goes all the way down and cannot be reversed. The 1980s were ignored in this context, and the 1990s became another river of time as a stage achievement.
has experienced the 1960s and 1970s, and there are no wonders at this time. But it is not a return to the past either.
In this era, there is a lot of intensive reinvention, along new tracks.
People come and go, things happen at any time. It is not as permanent as the old era, but it does not get rid of the influence of the old era.
At this time, Yongbi Fan collided with others. The pace quickens and everything changes rapidly.
Dinners were going on one after another, with liveliness in front of the stage and calculations off the stage. Real and fake relationships, back and forth trials. Continuous endings and reckonings, continuing to start and hit the road again.
This is an era when people can have and pursue desires openly again.
Here, Wong Kar-wai and Jin Yucheng overlap.
But the former has not lived in this era.His "Flowers" pays homage to the light of hope in dreams, focusing on Jiaozi on the big stage;
and the latter stumbles into this era from the past unable to control itself. His "Flowers" is a reflection of life full of longing with compassion. Under the influence of the pen, the rich and powerful doormen are everywhere.
It's just that his past is deeply imprinted:
A Bao and Hu Sheng are just bystanders, and are weirdos in other people's mouths;
The only person who touched A Bao finally broke through the world of mortals.
sees everything and saves everything.
As for myself, affection has long been given to the past.
Quietly, we embrace the world that
can illuminate with words,
and the unformed darkness is terrifying,
the possible and impossible make us addicted.
—— Jin Yucheng quotes Mu Dan poems
(picture from the Internet)
