No Questions Asked is a great movie, with an intention far higher than Tsinghua University's College Celebration film, which uses the stories of four generations to structure the legacy of the university's spirit.
The modern period Zhang Guoguo (Zhang Zhen) is the closest to us, having fallen victim to the struggle between the company's superiors and their superiors, losing his job, and facing a plea for help from the quadruplets that he promised to fund for the sake of the company's proposal at the time. To help, or not to help? To retaliate or not to retaliate with the blackmail of a superior in hand?
1962, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Peng (played by Huang Xiaoming), I have to say that the godfather finally chose the role of an honest and good man for himself, no longer greasy overbearing president. Chen Peng in the face of the heart of the girl Wang Minjia (Zhang Ziyi) because of writing an anonymous letter to teach the teacher's mother and was found to be criticized and disfigured, is to draw a line in the sand? Or do you stand behind her?
In 1938, during the war, Kunming, Shen Guangyao (played by Wang Leehom), as the son of a rich family, in the face of the national tragedy, is his own life fun or the country's brilliant tomorrow? Is it filial piety or loyalty?1923 Beiping, Wu Linglan (played by Chen Chusheng) English language and literature results in the first, physics at the bottom of the list, is it liberal arts or industry, is it true or from the crowd?
Everyone is faced with choices, as in the opening credits, Zhang Guoguo said, "If you know in advance the life you face, do you still have the courage to come?" Each generation influences the next with its own choices, so that sincerity, justice and compassion can be passed on. Among the most mesmerizing are the years at SWU, a few shots in the movie.
When the alarm was running, Shen Guangyao was using the boiler to cook lotus seeds, which is described in Wang Zengqi's prose, "There are also students at the United Nations University who don't run the alarm, and as far as I know, there are two of them. As far as I know, there are two of them. One is a female student, surnamed Luo. Whenever there was an alarm, she washed her hair. When everyone else left, the hot water in the boiler room was unused, so she could wash her hair with as much water as she wanted! The other is a Cantonese classmate, surnamed Zheng, who loves lotus seeds.
As soon as there was an alarm, he used a big gargling jar to go to the boiler fire mouth to cook lotus seeds. When the alarm was lifted, his lotus seeds rotted. Once Japanese planes bombed the United Nations University, Kunming, the north courtyard, the south courtyard, have fallen bombs, the Zheng man listening to the bombs banging in the place not far away from the explosion, is still in the new campus next to the big library boiler on the God did not move to stir and his icing sugar lotus seeds.
Running the alarm is, of course, also romantic, a chance to fall in love. UNCG students run the alarm in pairs a lot. The air raid siren sounded, the man waited at the curb of the new campus, sometimes carrying a bag of snacks and food, Baozhu pear, peanut rice ...... he waited for his female classmates to come, "Hi!" So gladly side by side out the back door of the new school building.
Running the alarm can't be said to be the same life and death,**** affliction, but there is a vague sense of so little danger, and watching movies, walking Cuihu when different." War strife, a scarcity of resources, the United Nations University dormitory are thatched roofs, classrooms with tin, when it rains, it will be clanking, so there is a movie sequence, sit and listen to the rain, this plot from the Southwest United Nations University Professor of Law and Business School Chen Daisun, how helpless and how romantic!
Because of the simplicity of the school building, students often go to the bubble teahouse to read and chat and play bridge, because you can rub the teahouse lights. Yang has talked about him and Huang Kun, and Zhang Shoulien has often mentioned the days when they debated loudly at the teahouse while the boss's wife refilled the tea. In the movie, the mother, played by Michelle, says to her son.
"When you left home thousands of miles, came to this place to study, your father and I have not objected, because, it is we want you, can enjoy the joys of life, such as reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, such as with the girl you like to get married and have children. Not to add to my children and grandchildren, but for you to be able to enjoy the joys of parenthood.
There is nothing that your ancestors haven't experienced in your life that you would like to pursue in your life, those are just the phantom light of life. I'm afraid, before you can figure out how to live this life, your life will be gone!" One of the few good educations that simply and clearly spells out the meaning of reading and the pursuit of life.
Why pursue a good education is because you can see the new world and get pleasure and fun in the pursuit of knowledge, not to cope with the college entrance exams, in order to realize the wishes of parents. At that time, the study conditions were hard and you needed to study in a bomb shelter, but its academic freedom, diversity of thought and compatibility were extremely rare.
Just like the movie with braided hair Wang Guowei turned around after his lecture and foreign teachers came in to ask about English revision. Teachers convene a symposium to debate an academic issue, and even if the argument gets heated, it does not jeopardize camaraderie. In order to ensure the freedom of academic thought, Southwest University advocates generalist education, heuristic pedagogy, opposed to indoctrination pedagogy; free to change departments, the first and second years of the basic non-departmental;
This period of the student teacher how its bones. Both "the rise and fall of the world, everyone has the responsibility", but also "independent personality, free spirit". Mei Yiqi has a famous saying: "the so-called great scholars, not that there is a building is also called, there is a master of the said also." Chen Yin Ke said: "The scholar's reading and study, the cover will be to get rid of the mind in the shackles of the common sense, the truth can be developed. Ideas and not free, rather than die."
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Synopsis of No Questions Asked
No Questions Asked tells the story of four young people from different eras, but from the same Tsinghua University, who are full of expectations for their youth.
"No Questions Asked" tells the story of four young people from Tsinghua University from different generations, who are full of youthful expectations, but also struggling to find their true selves because of the changes of the times.
Several young people, filled with many aspirations, traveled through four different time zones, and at the best of times, they were faced with the most brutal choices. Wu Linglan sets out in high spirits, but soon loses his way along the way.
Shen Guangyao voluntarily participates in the most brutal war; Wang Minjia lies because of her vanity and falls into the abyss of being reviled by everyone; Chen Peng puts love in front of his ideals, and Zhang Guoguo is in the workplace of deceit.