? "Once the spring has passed, there is actually no sign of spring in the city, but the wind is really different, the wind seems to have become warm and moist overnight. When such a wind blows, I can want to cry, and I know I am touched by myself." This is the voice-over at the beginning of the movie, and Wang Cailing is full of hope and deep emotion.
The music "Mu Chun", the melodious tune expresses the thirst for spring, the arrival of spring, the recovery of everything, a scene of vitality, which corresponds to the meaning of the title. In strong contrast to this is the picture of a large crowd of people indifferently riding bicycles in a hurry. At this time, "Mu Chun" obviously implies that in such a closed and backward small town, people can not appreciate the understanding of elegant art, laying the foundation for the following plot, but also explains the location of the film, the environment and the relationship between the characters unfolding.
? There is a strong contrast in the train scene, drowsy crowd, Wang Cailing is still immersed in the previous opera, she looked proudly humming, with the pursuit of art in mind, and those around the mediocre people is so different, at this time the first time the appearance of the "for art for love", so that the picture smoothly from the theater to the crowded carriages. And the second time is when Wang Cailing gives Zhou Yu a lesson, she is intoxicated by the music, forgetting to sing, singing her inner dissatisfaction and wistful anger against fate, at this time Zhou Yu no longer exists, this is the world of only her.
? "Why, why, God ah ......" lens through the mirror to Wang Cailin, "I will sing to the Paris Opera House", the mirror she said so firmly, but perhaps this Everything is a flower in the mirror, just like in the mirror painting their own Huang Sibao, immersed in their own ideal world.
02
Huang Sibao, like him, has no talent, and has a persistent pursuit of art, which makes two people in the spirit of **** sex, so Huang Wang as a person who understands himself, but did not know that Wang has fallen in love with him.
With a love, Wang Cailing agreed to model for Huang Sibao, and under the dim light, the hut is full of warm colors, which seems a bit ambiguous. With the camera panning, Wang Cailing gradually appeared in front of the audience from head to toe, her back to Huang Sibao, the director seems to want to use this way to imply that Huang Sibao in fact just need a female model, and do not want to see her face, but the king turned back again and again, chattering, her passionate adoration and the Huang Sibao awkward and helpless performance has produced a stark contrast, the music coming from the radio has reinforced the awkward and ambiguous atmosphere. The music from the radio adds to the awkwardness and ambiguity of the atmosphere.
On the train to Beijing, woman: you will always love me; man: I never thought, I take you as a buddy; woman: you are because I am ugly to take me as a buddy, right... A woman's deepest emotion to a man can only be love. This is undoubtedly a tragedy. Huang Sibao only treats Wang Cailing as a comrade-in-arms who fights against reality together, and perhaps all he needs is a kind of affirmation that no one else can give, a kind of female care, or even just a female body that can be used as a model. He can't accept her ugly appearance, which is buried in their first meeting, Huang Sibao's first impression of Wang Cailings is "We are not looking for the wrong person, how can such a beautiful voice come out of such an ugly person's mouth..."
? However, despite her ugly appearance, she also harbors a yearning for love. In the pursuit of art and love, reality gave her too big a blow. In the application for the song and dance troupe, the leadership firmly rejected her, y shocked Wang Cailing fell to his knees, could not help but sing "for the art of love", the third time the appearance of the plot and the music y fused together to complement each other, conveying Wang Cailing at this time the pain in the heart, she not only can not sing in the troupe, even in the college to do miscellaneous work can not be done, her fiery love was ruthlessly watered with cold water.
After the occurrence of love, Wang Cailing sang "Mu Chun" in class forgetfully, the song is gentle and sentimental, she just got the love, is full of hope and enthusiasm, the nourishment of feelings make her heart have a short belonging.
? The film has always been a dark tone, gray city, gray sky, gray streets, just at this time when encountered love, she tied a bright yellow silk scarf, the mirror she seems to become beautiful. Just as she was overflowing with happiness, Huang Sibao, who arrived at the school, grabbed Wang Cailin by the collar and roared, "You make me feel that you raped me," and slammed her to the ground in front of the crowd. At this time, the music cleverly sounded, bass cello such as grief into the audience's ears, the sad tune is interpreted Wang Cailings inner world of the collapse, set off by the beloved person disliked after the pain of the loss of the atmosphere.
03
In the art and love both suffered a blow, Wang Cailing in the bar to the waiter told the heart of the imagination, sang the "Ode to the Moon", emaciated, she borrowed alcohol to kill her sorrows, at this time the song reflects the bleakness of her heart and helplessness, she longed for peace, longing for a new start to get a new life.
How hard can it be to live, but still have to live, can only wrap up the wound to continue to rush. Wang Cailing still loves to sing, in the cultural performance she sang "on the wings of the song", but the audience did not buy it, compared to the elegant opera, they love the popular lively rice-planting songs, obviously Wang Cailing's singing is too far away from the audience's life. Even though the song is melodious can not stay in the audience, snowflakes have fallen, the audience one by one, leaving only immersed in the song of Wang Cailings. The song is full of hope, but in the snow is doubly bleak, rendering the atmosphere of frustration and helplessness, but also suggests that the dream and reality is too far away, the pain and helplessness of the dreamer.
04
Next, the movie shows the third character who pursues art - Hu Jinquan. His first appearance is accompanied by a round dance piece, "Song of Flowers", which is a joyful and beautiful piece of music, and his love for ballet makes him forget to dance. However, the residents of this small, closed town can't appreciate the beauty of the ballet, but instead laugh and mock the elegant dancers, blowing them off the stage. Perhaps because of the obsessive love of dance, his hands and feet are full of gentle and charming strength, even when riding a tricycle, will be up chest and head, like a swan, but this also makes people feel uncomfortable.
He himself understands that he is a scandal in the city, an unsolved case.
He thought the city would get used to him in time, but in fact he was like a fishbone in the throat of many people. He can't stand the people's gossip, and he wants to get married to Wang Cailin to block people's mouths, but she refuses to do so.
He carted away in the snow and couldn't help but cry. The bleak and melodious music rendered a sad and depressing atmosphere and shifted the scene to the dance classroom. In order to prove that he is a man, Hu Jinquan raped the female students, in the eyes of the people surprised surprised he walked into the classroom again jumped "Song of Flowers", he jumped to his heart's content, shaking off the baggage of his all of a sudden have the power to dance with a masculine spirit. Later, Wang Cailin saw Hu Jinquan in prison, he said, "I finally pulled out this fishbone, people are down to earth, I'm also down to earth", in the face of giving up the ideal, succumbed to the reality of Hu Jinquan, Wang Cailin cried. This is once as stubborn as her pursuit of art, together with the reality of the struggle of friends ah, now has been overwhelmed by the return to secular life, now only she is still insisting.
Hu Jinquan danced with a smile on his face in prison, telling Wang Cailin that he was doing well, but when he saw Wang Cailin running away, there were clearly tears in his eyes. Piano and flute collocation will push the emotion to the climax, portrayed Wang Cailin for Hu Jinquan give up the helplessness and regret, but also showed the heart of Hu on the ballet attachment, and the ideal of the baggage is too heavy, and now have to compromise the reality of the sadness, the faint bleakness of the sadness of the sinking, so that people can not help but fall into tears.
05
The sound of firecrackers woke up the sleeping Wang Cailin, she looked out of the house, snowflakes falling, music in the unconscious. New Year's is the end but also the beginning, spring is here, life seems to have hope, she expects with tears, the music grows louder and louder, will be this full of hopeful sadness baked to the fullest.
Gao Beibei's appearance made Wang Cailing completely lost hope in the arts, out of sympathy, she will buy the account of the money to finance the Gao Beibei, but in exchange for the deception, "no special means can not make a name for themselves," this sentence as a sword thoroughly stabbed Wang Cailing, the only remaining point of her ideals shattered to pieces.
She compromised, began to treat the black spots on her face, and began to choose to get married.
Huang Sibao also gave up the ideal of becoming a real con man, and now he no longer has the "big deal" of the next year to change the hukou.
Wang Cailin has adopted a child and is no longer singing, the ideal, persistence, rumors, everything is over.
At the end of the movie, the mother and child in Tiananmen Square listening to the song gives people some hope that Wang Cailin, though she has no more dreams, may be able to live a peaceful life. Wang Cailing's final performance at the opera house, "For Art, For Love," is both a tribute to her persistence in pursuing her dreams as well as a message of compassion and comfort. The music conveys a mood of bewilderment and yearning, combining Wang Cailing's destiny and music y together. Wang Cailing's life is just like the heroine of Tosca, and her dedication to art and love is a true reflection of her life.