"Life is precious, love is more expensive. If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away." This poem "Freedom and Love" comes from the great Hungarian poet Petofi, the author of this world-famous poem It clearly describes the relationship between life, love and freedom. If a person values the basic needs of "life" too much, it is difficult for him to pursue the spiritual level of "love". If a person is tied to love, it is difficult for him to touch the ultimate state of individual life value "freedom".
Petofi's so-called "freedom" here is not an unconstrained, purposeless freedom, but a pure spiritual detachment. When people can disregard their own physical and spiritual subconscious, and can make rational choices and practice of their current life goals according to their ideals, this is what Petofi calls freedom. This kind of freedom transcends the individual's subconscious preferences, as well as the shackles of external public opinion and social fictional values, and is an expression of pure self.
A few days ago, when director Jiang Wen's "The Evil Doesn't Suppress Righteousness" was released, Jiang Wen praised the film's starring Peng Yuyan. The main reason was that he thought Peng Yuyan was the kind of person who could control his body with his soul. Peng Yuyan’s realm is certainly one level, but when compared with Petuofei’s so-called “freedom”, there is still a big gap in this state. Petuofei’s “freedom” not only emphasizes the conformity of the body to ideals, but also More emphasis on the unity of knowledge and action of thought and action.
Regarding the relationship between freedom and life, freedom and love, Zhang Yimou had a film 29 years ago, which analyzed it more thoroughly. This film is "Ju Dou" starring Gong Li, Li Baotian, and Li Wei. The story of this film takes place in a closed village in southern China in the 1920s. Yang Jinshan, played by Li Wei, is a dyer in this small village. He is already quite young, but he has never had a child to inherit the family business. In order to be able to have a son, he did not hesitate to buy his own first. Three wives. According to the employee's account at the beginning of the film, his two previous wives were tortured to death by him.
Yang Jinshan wanted a son to pass on the incense of his ancestors. From the perspective of traditional Chinese values, the so-called “unfilial piety has three, and no one is the greatest”. Under the influence of this kind of thinking, and because of his status as a tyrant, it is Yang Jinshan's current life pursuit to have a son. There is a very interesting segment in the film. In order for Yang Jinshan to pass down the line as soon as possible, he asked a doctor to prescribe medicine for his newly married wife Judou (played by Gong Li). Tian Qing (played by Li Baotian) is a real husband and wife, and does everything possible to find a formula, trying to make herself lose fertility.
And these two people's different attitudes about giving birth are entirely due to the restraint of their current environment, not from their original heart, and from their spiritual pursuit. Therefore, when Yang Jinshan heard Tian Bai calling himself father, he didn't care whether Tian Bai was his own. In contrast, even if Tian Bai knew that Tian Qing was his biological father, he was always reluctant to admit his father. And finally because of a humiliating feeling from the outside world, he threw Azure into the big dyeing pond on the premise that he knew that Azure was his biological father, and personally ended Azure's life.
Everyone in this film, from Yang Jinshan to Yang Tianbai, from Judou to Tianqing, they all live in the secular values of others. Perhaps among all the people in the film, only Judou tried to break through the cage of fate, and it was she who finally turned this unreasonable and extinct big dye shop into ashes.
But in the whole film, there is no moment, the joy of breaking away from human desire and human relations. When Tian Qing first peeped at Judou, she always existed in a state of trembling. At the beginning, Tian Qing was worried about being discovered by Ju Dou about her voyeurism. Later, Tian Qing and Ju Dou were worried about being discovered by Yang Jinshan about their affair. Later, they worried that Tian Bai would know the truth of their life experience. Until they were about to take the truth frankly and end their lives, they were defeated by even more unfeeling facts. Tianbai found two people who were about to die in the cellar. He rescued his biological mother, but killed his biological father with his own hands. The cruel thing about the story of
is that after Tianqing and Judou have gone through many difficulties, they still cannot get their love, and the love between Tianqing and Judou is the so-called "freedom" in Petofi's poems. . This freedom is for everyoneThe words are different. Some people's freedom is loyalty, some people's freedom is filial piety, some people's freedom is dedicated to art, and some people's freedom is dedicated to love. And Tianqing and Judou are to fix their ultimate pursuit of life in their love with each other.
However, Tianqing and Judou have faced too many resistances. Part of these resistances is social, part of which is real ethical difficulties, and more importantly, it comes from their deep fear of the unknown. This kind of fear has far exceeded the heart of awe. Azure cannot surpass Yang Jinshan’s nurturing grace. Even if Yang Jinshan only regards him as a cheap labor, Azure cannot surpass the eyes of the world, even Azure cannot surpass it. This piece of land that has been living for a long time cannot be surpassed as if it was a large dyeing workshop that was cursed by a power.
In the process of self-realization, Tianqing and Judou, who seem to have achieved staged victory, are forced to retreat step by step by reality. Facing this unfaithful love in the eyes of the world, they can only forbear, hide, and fear. At the beginning of the film, the biggest obstacle to love between two people seemed to be Yang Jinshan. But with Yang Jinshan paralyzed, he was further controlled, and even finally died. Audiences have increasingly discovered that the resistance between Tianqing and Judou's love is increasing.
has a special scene in the film, when Yang Jinshan is holding a funeral. According to the traditional Chinese funeral customs, Tianqing and Judou have to stop the coffin 49 times. Generally on the road to the funeral of Yang Jinshan's coffin, Tianqing and Judou pounced on Yang Jinshan's coffin time and time again, crying hoarsely to stop Yang Jinshan from leaving. But after the seemingly tragic coffin was over, Tian Qing and Ju Dou wept more miserably. The director tried to use the cry of two people to convey another kind of sadness to the audience. According to traditional rules, after Yang Jinshan's death, Tianqing was kicked out of Daranfang. After that, Tianqing could no longer live with Judou under the same roof. The same emotion of
also happened at Tian Bai’s 3rd birthday party. When the tribe in the village made Tian Qing toast to Tian Bai, when Tian Qing heard everyone calling Tian Bai his younger brother, he was naturally sad. Rushed to my heart. This kind of depression has always existed in the film, but until the big dyeing workshop was burned, the audience's emotions were not released at all.
Judou is the first domestic film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This is mainly due to the fact that Zhang Yimou used his artistic film language to truly reproduce the helplessness of human nature on the screen. The big dyeing workshop of
in the film is in fact impossible for the audience in front of the screen to escape. Each of us has a big dye shop in our heart that we hate, but we can't escape. In this big dyeing workshop, there may be people you care about, and there may be responsibilities and memories that you can't let go, but you can't find the true self and "freedom" you need. But none of us have the courage to destroy this big dyeing workshop in our hearts. In the film, the seemingly strong Judou, if it were not for the cruel reality, she would not burn the big dyeing workshop anyway. In the end, what Judou burned was only the resentment in his heart towards the ruthless world and the fear of the unknown. So she finally found the "freedom" in her heart in a cruel and destructive way. This "freedom" came from the destruction of her love and life.
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