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At many moments, I seem to see at a glance the foreseeable future on the road of chasing dreams supported by young men and women around me.

Many people in life often use those frustrating examples to douse their keen artistic enthusiasm.

Later, I found a way of life in Gu Changwei's lens that I tried to explore but refused to face directly.

Watching the joys and sorrows have been staged in the movie for nearly two hours, maybe every soul who has been confused and struggled will gain courage and growth.

It was not until I saw beginning of spring that I suddenly remembered that there was such an ideal in my life.

When watching this movie, it is easy to think of Xu Anhua's My Aunt's Postmodern Life.

Beginning of spring continues the consistent theme of Li Yong's Peacock and My Aunt's Postmodern Life-the unwillingness of little people.

The writers of the two films are both Li Yong, so they have similar breath, but totally different styles.

Xu Anhua is the kind of graceful and restrained type, who likes tepid and meticulous;

Gu Changwei, on the other hand, showed incisively and vividly, with rough waves, and always made a sound, whether in pain or lamentation.

When I first went to college, I wrote in my diary, "I am determined to cultivate a young artist."

At that time, I thought it was a noble name, and it was a good attitude towards life that I could choose after climbing out of the analytic geometry of Terminator Row.

But a few years later, I was horrified to find that the word "literary youth" gradually changed its flavor.

Today, this is almost a stinking street word, and it will soon become "you are a literary youth!" " Your family are all young artists! "Here comes the point.

In the overwhelming film criticism of beginning of spring, Wang Cailing was bound up with the slogan of "young women in literature and art".

Almost equivalent to wearing a big hat of ghosts and gods. There seems to be nothing to say on the surface, but in fact, nails and felt have been laid, revealing deeper contempt and contempt.

I remember when I was reading Life, Gao Jialin looked down on the loess countryside in his bones, including the farmers who were facing the loess and facing the sky.

After the film made the young man walk around the city, he returned to the yellow land.

Qiao Zhen, a woman who loves him as a treasure, also married someone else's wife, and his own utopia swayed with the yellow sand and went to that Java country.

In a word, it interprets the essence of little people to the extreme.

Gu Changwei's "beginning of spring" naturally has no such height, and a group of quasi-artists in northern towns live in places where love and career have not gained anything.

If Wang Yu sees this movie, he will definitely shout, "I want to leave every day. I don't know when I can be born again. "

To tell the truth, in the cinema, I can still chat with those people in the movie who are crying and shouting to go to Beijing.

I have had countless dreams of going north to Guangzhou. But although I hate myself, it's hard for me to have a good impression on movies like beginning of spring.

Regardless of the external environment, it is not as calm and natural as those who adapt to the environment.

Beginning of spring is a TV series starring Jiang, Zhu, Zhu and Zhu in 2008.

The film tells the story of Wang Cailing and other young artists struggling in a small county in the 1980s.

Jiang won the Best Actress Award in the 27th Golden Rooster Award after winning the second Rome International Film Festival.

Douban scored 8. 1 and IDMb scored 8.6, which was not high at the box office but received rave reviews.

The image reveals a strong humanistic concern and the sacredness that will eventually fall into the secular narrative trend, giving people a painful helplessness.

But in fact, the film takes the folk solar terms of "being in a cold place and wishing for beginning of spring" as the main metaphor.

The so-called "artistic youth" who are unwilling to be mediocre in the social transformation period are just some people who can't tell themselves apart from being trapped and fleeing.

Or paranoid people think they are fighting for self-realization.

The ultimate disillusionment or imaginative continuation of their "persistent pursuit of ideals" is the most common and humble charm.

This may be one of the reasons why Gu Changwei called beginning of spring a cruel realistic work.

Gu Changwei said that beginning of spring is a story about dreams and inspiration.

In my opinion, beginning of spring is a story about the disillusionment of dreams.

As a result, proud as a peacock didn't succeed, which was unexpected.

I can't accept some people's criticism of beginning of spring. They don't believe that there will be an alien Rainbow Kelling in real life. They said it was another man-made "selling meat" movie, deliberately showing the dark side of China society to please foreign judges.

This movie is extremely ugly to the protagonist Wang Cailing, with buck teeth, acne and bowlegs. ...

On the one hand, it is elegant opera and holy mind, on the other hand, it is self-deception and vulgarity.

/kloc-the law of opposites between beauty and ugliness in romantic literature in the 0 th and 9 th centuries may have unexpected effects, because it is not directly used in literature. Once it is realized as an image, ugliness will be unbearable and hinder recognition.

The opposition between beauty and ugliness not only refers to the opposition between the appearance and the heart of the character, but also divides the heart of the character.

On the one hand, we feel the sublimity of Wang Cailing's pursuit of dreams, on the other hand, we pity their illusion of self-deception.

In Peacock, Wang Cailing has no perfect unity of appearance and heart of her sister Zhang Jingchu. Vulgarity and sublimity coexist, so the audience's feelings are vacillating.

Although the three brothers and sisters in Peacock are slightly different, they are generally normal and represent most ordinary people with dreams, so they are easily recognized by most audiences.

The protagonist and thoughts are far away from the public, so the minority has become an alternative. Most people have dreams, but few people are obsessed with dreams Rainbow Kelling.

Therefore, when the audience looks at them, they are afraid of sympathy, more pitiful and pathetic, and maybe disgusting.

And all this is caused by a woman named "Wang Cailing".

Who is Wang Cailing?

It is you and I who are unwilling to be mediocre in every ordinary life and walk alone on the road of chasing dreams.

She is out of tune with the environment, but like a soldier, she never gives in. She is the epitome of everyone who struggles between ideal and reality.

She is similar to a poet, with wings falling from the sky and no sky, but she never gave up the construction of her spiritual world.

The opening sentence seems to contain some kind of emotion. When beginning of spring arrives, can warmth be far behind?

The heroine Wang Cailing stood out at this time.

In this little-known Heyang city, Wang Cailing is definitely a cultural person.

She can correctly and completely explain the meaning of "silk is not as good as bamboo, and bamboo is not as good as meat": "silk is a string, and bamboo is a wind music. She means that strings are not as good as wind music, and wind music is not as good as human voice. "

Coincidentally, Wang Cailing correctly and completely verified this idiom with life (voice).

Such an ugly woman has arrogant ideals and ridiculous pride. She is out of place in this world. She is an anomaly in that city.

Luckily, she is still singing.

As a music teacher, Wang Cailing has a good voice and can sing very beautiful operas.

"I am poor and ugly, and God gave me a good voice. Besides, I am a waste. "

Wang Cailing likes to sing Late Spring. As the lyrics say, "life is so cruel to me" seems to be a cry for her unfair fate.

No matter day or night, Wang Cailing's crying drama reflects the despair and helplessness of disillusionment, but in reality, she deceives herself again and again with lies and deception.

As far as conditions are concerned, her life is thinner than paper, but her heart is higher than the sky: she wants to be admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music and become the chief soprano of the Central Opera House after graduation. Her only goal in life.

To this end, she studied Italian, made her own clothes, and studied Schumann's piano selections hard. These are actually "small things".

In the film, she spent more than 30 thousand yuan to entrust someone else to open a Beijing account, which shows her determination.

Wang Cailing's experience reminds me of Pan Xiahong in Jiang Yun's novel Secret Bloom.

An ordinary woman in a small city has a dream that she is unwilling to be mediocre and a love that she longs for herself.

In the depressed atmosphere of the town, her soul struggled with life and fate, but her dreams were always stored in their hearts and never forgotten.

Everyone knows that beautiful women are loved by everyone, while ugly women can only love themselves.

Beijing's art institutions are bloated, and the first impression of selection criteria only depends on looks, and she can't get in at all;

Beijing hukou can't be done, and the level can't reach the foreign score line. The Central Conservatory of Music has become out of reach for her;

As a foreigner, she is not even qualified to work as a temporary worker in the Central Conservatory of Music.

Wang Cailing's life reminds me of Yu Jie's master's thesis "Records of Weird People". Literary theory pays attention to a social alternative like Yu Dafu, but it is really sad.

In the early 1980s, in an inland county, steel worker Huang Bao Si dreamed of Van Gogh and was keen on painting human bodies. After repeated defeats and wars, he was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Wang Cailing is a music teacher in a normal school. She is obsessed with opera and dreams of singing in the Paris Opera House. She kept saying that the Central Opera House would transfer her, and she wanted to go to Beijing again and again to register.

Hu Jinquan, a dance teacher at the Group Art Museum, is called "Frontal Pancreas". She even danced ballet in the street performances in this town, which made the audience laugh.

They are out of place. They are a group of young ladies who have given birth to maids.

However, they don't give in to fate, knowing that they can't do it, and they tirelessly attack fate again and again.

In fact, they are just like Sisyphus who pushed stones up the mountain in ancient Greek mythology. Although every time he pushes it to the top of the mountain, the stone will fall, but the value of life lies not in obedience, but in a desperate struggle with fate.

Resist despair ...

While feeling the ruthlessness of fate, we can't help being moved by these weak individuals who are hopelessly affected.

This is also the theme that Lu Xun is keen on.

Standing in today's 2 1 century, looking back on the 1980s when we were born, it seems like a lifetime ago.

It is easy to be overlooked that if the key word in the 1990s was "economy", then the theme in the 1980s was "culture".

Think about the intellectuals in the 1980s, and I think of Wang Xiaobo's words in the Bronze Age:

Perhaps the extreme of cultural development is the proliferation of liberalism, and this result can be imagined in China, which is why this eventful autumn in the film came into being.

The first person who awakened Wang Cailing from the artist's dream was Hu Jinquan.

This "frontal pancreas" in the eyes of the world loves ballet. As a crane living in a flock of chickens, he is always accused by the world of "the art of tights" and always single.

As Hu Jinquan himself said, he is a fishbone stuck in people's throats in this city. On a snowy night, Hu Jinquan, who was on the verge of collapse, proposed a fake marriage to Wang Cailing.

Just get a marriage certificate, and nothing else will happen.

Wang Cailing refused to be "cannon fodder" and flatly refused.

Hu Jinquan was sent to prison after an attempted rape in broad daylight.

"My fishbone has finally been pulled out." When visiting the prison, Wang Cailing listened to Hu Jinquan and watched Hu Jinquan stand on tiptoe in prison shoes and shed tears of guilt-that snowy night, if she hadn't refused. ...

Hu Jinquan's imprisonment is like a sap, which makes Wang Cailing in the same situation dizzy.

There is no hope of going to Beijing. In this city, she may be the next fishbone. ...

We dare not say that at this time, Wang Cailing has completely despaired of her life goal as the chief soprano, but since Hu Jinquan was imprisoned, Wang Cailing has never sung an opera again, without a word.

Just as Wang Cailing's drama dream faded away, the second person who woke Wang Cailing up from her dream appeared "at the right time". She is Miss Zhang, Wang Cailing's female neighbor.

This female neighbor is an absolute beauty and naturally married a civil servant of the tax bureau.

Wang Cailing, who has unbearable stomachache, borrowed medicine from her neighbor's house. The love between the female neighbor and her husband made Wang Cailing envious.

Coupled with parents' expectations for Wang Cailing's early marriage, Wang Cailing finally no longer only has drama in her heart.

When Wang Cailing began to beautify herself with earthwork, the last and most powerful wakener appeared.

Beibei is a bald girl with excellent singing talent. Her cancer touched Wang Cailing, who seems to have a "Beijing romance".

Wang Cailing came to Beijing with Beibei and her dwarf mother, and spent all the remaining 65,438+2,000 yuan of Beijing hukou on Beibei's participation.

Finally, Beibei won the second place. Just when Wang Cailing and Beibei's mother and daughter were crying, Beibei's mother and daughter suddenly fell to the ground.

It turns out that Beibei's cancer is a lie. "It's too difficult to be famous. There are many people who sing well. Because we are a small place, we can't go out without some special means. "

Such an impure girl can sing. This completely shattered Wang Cailing's artistic dream.

The blow continues. Then, the husband of the female neighbor took all the savings at home and disappeared.

This made Wang Cailing lose confidence in marriage.

In fact, Wang Cailing still has self-knowledge. She is well aware of her situation, but she can't help thinking that she is a luminous material.

Until the sun hurt my eyes deeply, I sobbed in the middle of the night.

At the end of beginning of spring, Wang Cailing didn't get married, but adopted an orphan with cleft lip.

Perhaps after experiencing all kinds of circumstances brought about by the pursuit of ideals, she gave in to fate and began to live a quiet life.

Raised the child by selling pork and gave her plastic surgery.

After curing her daughter's illness, she taught her daughter to sing nursery rhymes and took her daughter to Beijing to play.

The ideal of young women in literature and art has come to an end.

At the end of the film, a female singer sang Puccini's famous song "Aria" in China Opera House. I was a little disappointed and watched it several times.

When I saw the scene where Mr. Hu deliberately committed hooliganism and indecency in order to prove that he was a normal person, he finally stood on tiptoe in prison uniform to comfort the sad Wang Cailing.

This man whom I spurned at first finally made me respect him.

Idealists are both respectable and pathetic. Their respectability lies in their persistence in the ideal world, while their sadness lies in their incompatibility with the real world.

Therefore, idealists have two endings, either to integrate into reality or to die in their own imaginary world.

Among the people Wang Cailing made friends with, first of all, there were two people who called themselves "artistic youths", Huang and Zhou Yu.

The pretentious Huang likes to paint his own oil paintings. He was bent on being admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but he failed again and again.

Zhou Yu, whose dream is still alive, always laments her fate. She is useless and wastes a good voice.

Two similar people are so small and humble in front of Wang Cailing.

That kind of hypocritical coat and advertised self can't compete with the test of time, but they can compete with the temper of life.

Zhou Yu's appearance is to prove that Wang Cailing, who is lofty because of art, will not condescend to marry a pseudo-literary lover;

Huang Bao Si appeared to prove that Wang Cailing is a normal woman who likes the same interests and the opposite sex.

In addition, Gu Changwei's "Farewell" shows the degeneration of literary youth in the wave of market economy, which is another way for Wang Cailing and Hu Jinquan.

In other words, if they are removed, the development track of Wang Cailing, a tragic figure, is still clear.

The appearance of Hu Jinquan, a ballerina, and Gao Beibei, who loves singing, once touched Wang Cailing's life, but this touch finally became cold.

Hu Jinquan can't stand the worldly vision and wants to fake marriage with Wang Cailing to cover up her sexual orientation. After being rejected, he was desperate. In the end, he can only prove himself by humiliating his students in public, even at the expense of wearing cold handcuffs.

Gao Beibei's deception is obviously an insult and blasphemy to art, which makes her almost collapse.

In her eyes, the nobility and purity of art should not be adulterated, and the blasphemy against art is far better than the blasphemy against herself.

Teacher Xiao Zhang who lives next door is my confidante. She is young and beautiful, and has her own family.

Because she has such an ugly and single neighbor, she is full of superiority. Even when she is told to sleep in the middle of the night, she will raise her voice for fear that the neighbors next door will not hear her.

A natural sense of superiority fills her with capital. She always talks about how good her husband is, pretends to be kind enough to cure Wang Cailing's black spots, and even buys her sex toys.

When her own husband took all the property and left, she began to know what it meant to have no capital to be associated with the same disease.

Therefore, they are all dwarfs in front of Wang Cailing.

Maybe you have to ask, what is art? What is the ideal?

"I must sing it to the Paris Opera House," Wang Cailing said over and over again, but she knew it was just a beautiful fantasy.

On the train to Beijing, she looked forward to art and love. "If only this were the train to Paris. “

The desire of the two people began to go too far, so when a refusal woke her up, it was still infinitely cruel to look around.

When Huang, who was drunk on the podium, looked at the scattered easel and Mazha, as the audience, we also lamented the world difference between ideal and reality.

When Gao Beibei was crying on TV with flowers and certificates, we lamented that the realization of this ideal was so shameful and even bleak.

When Hu Jinquan was still spinning around in prison wearing cloth shoes, we no longer lamented that the "ideal" was too heavy to crush our souls.

Therefore, the "art" in beginning of spring is more like some kind of psychoanesthetic.

As Gu Changwei's second work, it is inevitable to compare it with his masterpiece Peacock.

Peacock's writing about the Cultural Revolution led to the distortion of human nature. Beginning of spring shows people who are depressed and psychopathic.

To be fair, beginning of spring is not as thick as Peacock, and its characters are not as reasonable as Peacock, and its shocking power to the audience is not as strong as Peacock.

However, beginning of spring has one bright spot that Peacock doesn't have, and that is Jiang's behind-the-scenes performance.

When Wang Cailing turned around for the first time, my heart even tightened: it was the national goddess Jiang.

Once the actor is not handled well, the aesthetic expectation brought by modeling can only expose the shortcomings of the actor and make the role look terrible.

As far as details are concerned, Jiang's profound performance skills make Gu Changwei dare to use long shots.

Gu Changwei's long shot also made Jiang's performance more complete, and Wang Cailing's character became more real in the lens language closest to documentary.

From the beginning, Wang Cailing pretended to hold her head high. In the end, she was with her adopted daughter, and she exuded the brilliance of motherhood.

In Wang Cailing's eyes, persistence is less and less, peace is more and more, vulnerability is less and less, and strength is more and more.

Even if the expression changed from joy to sadness, she revealed a thousand words in Wang Cailing's heart.

In my opinion, this is what attracts me most about this film.

In the aspect of constructing the historical realism of movies through details, beginning of spring also maintains the level of Gu Changwei's previous works.

Beijing Asian Games, Huang's old jeans and Zhou Yu's "ancestor-level" cultural shirt were pasted on the bridge.

The 80-edition fence on Tiananmen Square and the retro police uniform of the armed police resounded through the "pink memory" of the karaoke room;

Camel brand ink of Wang Cailing's family, instant noodles in Beijing, desk lamp with dunk sticker, old logo of CCTV 2 on TV, Wahaha advertising calcium milk in adopted daughter's hand;

I even saw the poster of Red Sorghum, which was very popular at that time, and the Spring Festival gala of 1992.

The historical atmosphere and sense of the times of the whole movie are all emitted from these things.

This sentence implies the eternal gap between ideal and reality, and also reflects the distance between historical imagination and present expression in beginning of spring.

Many people think that it is an inner spirit of "my head is broken, but my dream is still there", but it can also be regarded as a pathological manifestation of relying on empty dreams to escape the helpless reality.

However, I always think that the real charm of beginning of spring lies not in how tortuous and sad its story is, but in its portrayal of a figure with Kafka-style absurd feelings, which is rare in China's films.

At the same time, it is covered by strange arrangements and common themes about dreams.

It is not because her practice of elegant art is not accepted, but because she is using a way of hitting the wall to express her unbearable loftiness and flying.

Perhaps the imaginary satisfaction of the film singing in the Grand Theatre at the end should be Wang Cailing, which is the greatest comfort that the audience can get.