" one second " is certainly not Zhang Yimou 's best work, but perhaps Zhang Yimou's bravest work. The
film did not give the specific time of the story, but some details can roughly locate the time of the story. For this "special period", the film does not do any specific description, but through the friction between the characters, the film shows the underlying logic of the "special period" very naked, which is actually better than telling the "special period" through weakened means. The story of the period" is even more dramatic.
The Truck Driver
The first major supporting character in the film is the truck driver. After the prisoner played by Zhang Yi got into the car, the driver first asked him about his identity. After
, daughter Liu got into the car and told her life experience. The driver who mistakenly thought the prisoner was daughter Liu's father began to point fingers at the "father and daughter". This plot is a sharp representation of the type of person the driver character represents - self-righteousness under a single value.
Fan Movie
Fan Wei, played by , is the second major supporting role to appear. As soon as he appeared on the stage, everyone's compliments to Fan Movie and Fan Movie's villain's dominant style highlighted the ridiculousness and sadness of the villain who held power in "special times".
Yang He, who sent the film, entrusted the film to Fan Film's silly son to transport the film so that the film was damaged, which is a very scary plot. As an acquaintance, Yang He must have known that Fan Film's son was stupid, but when the motorcycle failed to complete the film transportation and lost a box of film, Yang He chose to give the film to Fan Film's younger son. Suspected of framing the blame.
On the one hand, the lost film can be blamed on the stupid son. On the other hand, if the film delivery is late, as the father of the stupid son, Fan Film has nothing to say. After
, Fan Film organized the masses to repair the film, changed its attitude towards the prisoner, and finally gave the film of the prisoner's daughter to the prisoner. , and the touching expressions of a kind person and the respectable and progressive display of a craftsman who is proud of his craftsmanship, also make Fan Movie's character far more complex than the hero and heroine.
Prisoner
As the protagonist of the film, Zhang Yi interprets it very sharply, but the characters themselves are not complicated. The prisoner is the epitome of the "special period" intellectual. Has amazing determination and willpower, but lacks the basic ability to survive during this period, and even fights can't match a group of "children". The role of
Liu's daughter
Liu's daughter will represent the highest level of Liu Haocun for a long time. The fit between the character and herself is very high, and her actual performance is also quite good, which can be regarded as a surprise in this film.
violence
films are very direct about violence. The prisoner met Liu's daughter for the first time, but because she didn't know her girl's identity, she beat and kicked her. Children outside the cinema bullied Liu's daughter, punching and kicking. The security department theater smeared and arrested people, mistook Liu girl as a prisoner, and beat and kicked again.
or misunderstanding, or pure bullying, or indiscriminate ignorance, Liu girl is always beaten for various reasons in the film, the reason is very simple, she is the weakest. This is in line with the characteristics of social pressure flow. The pressure is always transmitted from the upper class or the strong to the lower class weak, and the weak to the weaker. Therefore, the bottom girl Liu faced the pressure from all directions and could only choose to keep running away.
and pressure is embodied in human behavior, which is violence. What gives hope in despair is that daughter Liu did not choose to pass the pressure on to the weaker brother Liu. She relieved the pressure by herself, so that brother Liu had the opportunity to choose to be a normal child who could be afraid and cry.
"special period"
There is an evaluation criterion for whether the film expression of "special period" is true, that is, whether the value of people in the film is consistent with the value of people in "special period", that is, people, as individuals, have no value, yes Social structures give people value. From this perspective, One Second is very real. None of the main characters in
's films have names, but their positions in the social structure. The significance of Yang He being the only individual with a distinct name is that Yang He does not belong to any position in the social structure, he is just a film feeder.
"..."
At the end of the film, the prisoner is escorted away, and the film with his daughter is gradually buried in the sand. Looking back on the story, this is such a desperate world. The prisoner escaped desperately just to get a glimpse of his deceased daughter. And the last seed of hope planted by Fan Movie was also destroyed by the indifference of the security department. They were not evil, but ignorant. And witnessing the "film" that Liu's daughter picked up was just a false "hope".
In the end, falsehood turned into hope, and truth was buried in silence.
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