-- Lone Dust (Mon)
This movie has deep symbolism, a bit like the Journey to the West, the Great Sage marries his wife, and it contemplates and silences parts of the movie far more than the funny itself. For example, the special commissioner, symbolizing the bandit leader, hooligans, deliberately bald is pointing to the ruling party at the time, which has a line, "I can still change the place as an errand", suggesting that the chaos of the warlords at the time of the weight of the deeper meaning (Taiwan), his secretary to make Zhang Yiman free from rape, here should be referred to the warlords in the collision between the good guys and the bad guys, Zhang Yiman, the good guys and the bad guys, and the bad guys. The collision between the good and the bad among the warlords, Zhang Yiman at the moment symbolizes the disaster-ridden China, and the former broken shoes incident should be the invasion of China by the Great Powers. Pei Kui Shan, the speculator, he also wanted to be an ordinary man and live happily, but Zhang Yi Man rejected him (Zhang Yi Man's self-loathing and inferiority complex made her unable to accept Kui Shan), and then he turned into a man who was crazy about seeking benefits for himself, and he had a deep loathing for Zhang Yi Man (note: after he found out that Zhang Yi Man had slept with the coppersmith), and his inner despair made him expose his nature, however, this kind of nature I don't However, I don't reject this kind of nature, on the contrary, it is the way of a desperate man, and the fact that he can still scold Zhang Yiman afterward shows that he still harbors fantasies. He symbolizes the petty bourgeoisie of his time. Zhou Tienan, originally a hot-blooded young man, can be said to be passionate about this society, convinced that he can solve problems, both social and personal, as if he were a marching student at that time. But after he had faced the gun of the Special Commissioner, he completely turned into a dog, understandably suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. As an example, the authorities signed an unequal treaty at that time, and there was a mass student petition, and the authorities gave two choices: one, to study hard to serve the motherland, and two, to ask to be recruited to become a soldier, and it turned out that of the vast number of several thousands of people, not a single one was recruited to join the army. He became a man who could only move his lips. Coppersmith, symbolizing the people who get benefits and swell, can be used as a person who sends the country's wealth, at first he was loyal to the motherland, to receive the country, and later found that he can even have a lot of power to control what he wants, so the temperament changed, see traitorous giant businessman. Sun Jia, who I think is the most sober person in the play, but also the most helpless, ends up compromising with her dad and marries the coppersmith, which is again a bit of Eileen Chang's Lust for Love. She wants to save the school her dad has worked so hard to run, and wants to idealistically expose the fakery and symbolize the people who are learning to save the country. Zhang Yiman, who constantly compromises and fills her inner disappointment with phantom dreams, symbolizes the constantly traded, devastated China. Principal Sun, a man with idealism and willingness to take the first step, symbolizing the ****productivist before there was an army, is tied up at the end of the play, representing being taught the lesson of hypocrisy by the warlords to understand that it is the beginning of the right path towards the right path, i.e., the barrel of a gun is the power.
The plot I will not say more, just pick the climax.
Zhang Yiman gets her hair cut. Coppersmith after experiencing being scolded by Zhang Yiman, completely dead, leaning on Lu Deshui as a signboard, to the principal, Tie Nan, Kui Shan ordered, scolded Yiman, this paragraph, making Kui Shan and Yiman completely over, making Tie Nan can not stand it, ready to showdown, but ended up being scared by the gun from now on cowardice. The appearance of the gun means that things are no longer a few people, but dragged into the society as a big background, and the society at this moment, is dark and depressing, which is this second, donkey get water this movie, turned into and Jiang Wen movie a class of existence, full of symbolism. When Yiman frantically punches himself in the ear, it also shows China's break with the previous patriotic businessman, now a giant traitor. One notable plot point is why is Zhang Yiman mad? It's because she's utterly desperate, she's doing nothing more than for this school, in other words the future, (as seen in the part where she wants to be photographed together in her school uniform) and she can sleep with anyone, and that's because there's something more important. But reality failed her, the hotheads fell to their knees, the ****ing proletarians cut off her hair themselves, the giant traitors called the shots, the warlords took control, the speculators whisked away, it was desperate.
The ridiculous wedding. This wedding is pure farce, and the contrast with the previous memorial service is even more nonsensical and absurd, with extreme emphasis on the chaos of society, which can be Baidu, in just a few decades, the regime changed forty times. Sun Jia marries the coppersmith, and the implication of sacrifice is simply palpable. The coppersmith's wife is like a fish, completely stirring up the muddy waters and bringing the plot to its peak. Yiman picks up the flowers in the chaotic crowd, symbolizing that her innocence has been trampled on, but she still wishes to redeem herself, and the air of tragedy is strong. Sun Jia turns away, symbolizing the sublimation of the idealist to turn into a practical person like her brother (who symbolizes the ****production party). And the American who gave them donations, said, Incredible China. This indicates that foreigners at that time could not understand the remaining ignorance of the Chinese people, implying that it is impossible for foreigners to save China, only save themselves.