None of us are Ah Q—— On the Text and Film of The True Story of Ah Q

The image of Ah Q is so special that its special absurdity is impressive. The movie version of The True Story of Ah Q highlights this point. Besides the method of spiritual victory, the most absurd trick of Ah Q is "sleeping". Let's talk about Ah Q's failed love first. The so-called failure of love is also because Ah Q really doesn't understand a set of secular rules of love and marriage. The film means "sleepy" to Ah Q and Wu Ma, adding a foreshadowing description. In the film, after Ah Q bullied the little nun, he began to think about the problem of "women", and then met Wu Ma at grandpa Zhao's door. Before closing the door, she smiled at Ah Q and shook her head. Oh, mom, probably just lamenting Q's pity. This kind of smile is similar to the helpless smile when women see other children being naughty, with a little pity. But Ah Q wants to go in the direction of "female". In addition, when Ah Q was lying in bed thinking about "female", Wu Ma came to Tugu Temple to ask Ah Q to go to rice paste. Ah Q jumped up, "It's a woman, a woman", and described Ah Q's dream about "women" in the color of "Libido". Wu Ma smiled at Ah Q at Tugu Temple and told him to go early. When Ah Q went to fry rice, Wu Ma asked Ah Q to eat. Ah Q saw the phone call from lamp oil and immediately went to fry rice. Wu Ma said that Ah Q was "the biggest fool in the world", and there was a reproach in her words. Ah Q responded with a tolerant smile full of male charm, but it was an ambiguous color, as if the man and the woman were very close, but the fact was that the two men were very close. There is also a scene where Wu Ma wants to stick needles in the soles of her shoes and Ah Q wants to light a cigarette. They both leaned together on the lamp at the same time. Ah Q looks at Wu Ma's face at close range. At the moment when Wu Ma found out, it was a little embarrassing, and Wu Ma laughed and skipped. These are all films that pave the way for Ah Q's absurd "courtship", trying to make his behavior have enough motivation or motivation, but Ah Q's move of saying "I want to sleep with you" is still hopelessly abrupt.

Ah Q's kneeling down to Wu Ma is obviously absurd and ignorant. In the eyes of Wu Ma and others, it is sinful. But for Ah Q, it is sincere. So this incident is another tragicomedy. The adaptation of the film makes the image of Oh Mom clearer. She is a little distressed by Ah Q and doesn't want to make him work hard. Besides, it's not a snob for Zhao's family. She never forgets the duty of a cultivator and treats Grandpa Zhao's family as an outsider. Wu Ma is a kind person, who knows right from wrong and knows how to be measured. In the novel, Wu Ma is almost a faceless person, but the novel confessed that Ah Q's tattered blouse was used as Wu Ma's sole, vaguely pointing out that Wu Ma might be in cahoots with Grandpa Zhao's family. What is more telling is that Ah Q "doesn't know the rules" is that after he "molested" Wu Ma, he didn't even understand that Wu Ma's crying was related to himself. "Ah Q thought,' Hum, interesting, this little widow doesn't know what's going on?' He wanted to inquire about the situation, so he approached Zhao. At this moment, he suddenly saw Uncle Zhao running towards him, holding a big rip-off in his hand. When he saw this rip-off, he suddenly realized that he had been beaten, which seemed to have something to do with this stimulus. Lu Xun's works are full of black humor, absurdity and sadness. After being beaten, Ah Q still thinks about food, which shows that Ah Q is honest and stupid, and his emotional intelligence is extremely low. His only advantage is that he can really do it, but he has no sense of the world. Therefore, Ah Q is an extremely special exaggerated image, which is usually regarded as a typical example. It is believed that Ah Q deeply embodies the national inferiority, and his spiritual victory method is the proof of this inferiority. But when we analyze the image of Ah Q, we may not be able to draw such a definite conclusion.

Ah Q is an extremely special character with tragicomedy. Ah Q doesn't know his last name, maybe Zhao, but he doesn't know it. He has no home, lives in Tugu Temple, has no family, almost nothing, and has only one strength to make a short-term livelihood for others. It can be said that Ah Q lives at the bottom of society. Even if they are all short-term workers, Wang Hu and Xiao D may all have families, at least with names. Ah Q can't fight even the weakest little D. For those who bullied him, from Grandpa Zhao to Di Bao to Wang Hu Xiaode, he was unable to fight back. He can't control anything. The only thing he can control is his own consciousness. Living in such a cruel society, it is inevitable that the spirit is so distorted in Ah Q's position.

What ah q lacks most is not what he lacks above, but the lack of love. In Wei Zhuang, where Ah Q is located, Grandpa Zhao and others only think that he is a temporary worker and an employment relationship. Di Bao often makes excuses to blackmail Ah Q for his drinks. The bartender, Wang Hu, Little D and so on are not friends of Ah Q, but the people who watch his jokes are the same as those blouses that Kong Yiji met in Xianheng Hotel. When ah q was in a difficult situation, they didn't feel pity, but alienated. When Ah Q was "rejuvenating", they kissed up. Paradoxically, just because Ah Q said he joined the revolutionary party, Grandpa Zhao and others "looked up" to Ah Q, who has no family and lives in a place where people around him are impersonal. It is understandable that Ah Q doesn't understand love. Ah Q's confession of Wu Ma's "sleepiness" is only an impulse to think of the important event of "no future", not even an impulse of sexual instinct. There is an old man in the novel who manages the Tugu Temple where Ah Q lives, but he has no face, has nothing in common with Ah Q and feels indifferent. In the film adaptation, this old man is a good old man for Ah Q, and his role is a bit like Ah Q's father. He cares about ah q everywhere. Wang Hu wanted to cheat Ah Q of his drinks, and Ah Q wanted to pawn his quilt, so the old man took it and gave him the drinks. People don't ask Ah Q to do short-term work. Ah Q has no income and stole it. The old man also advised Ah Q in time. Another person who showed kindness to Ah Q was Wu Ma. He oiled the lamp, but told Ah Q to rest and wouldn't let him go to rice milling right away. Only these two people in the movie still have some warmth to Ah Q, but there is no such warmth in the novel. Lu Xun wrote it too tragically. Ah Q's misery is one more layer than Wei Zhuang's. Living in such a heartless society, if Ah Q knows some rules of social survival like Wang Hu, a bartender, he won't be miserable at this point, and at most he will be a member of the numb crowd. But ah q doesn't even have such consciousness. Ah Q is a person abandoned by society and can only live in his own fantasy. The so-called spiritual victory method is only a part of Ah Q's fantasy world. Ah Q said that he had voted for the revolutionary party, but he regarded himself as a revolutionary party. Of course, this is an illusion. Scholars and fake foreign devils went to nuns for the "revolution". When Ah Q heard this, "He regretted falling asleep, but he also deeply blamed them for not coming to meet him. He took a step back and thought, "Don't they know that I have surrendered to the revolutionary party?" "Grandpa Zhao's house was robbed, and Ah Q also said," Why didn't they call me? "Until he was framed, this sentence became an excuse for conviction, but he didn't know it himself, and he didn't know why until he died. He also dreamed that he was beheaded with a bang and was shot.

The True Story of Ah Q is an absurd novel with black humor, which can't be regarded as a realistic work in a strict sense. However, because realism is very inclusive, we might as well call it an absurd realistic novel. The realistic part of the novel is more reflected in the spectator, and more reflected in depicting a ruthless social reality. To reflect the national inferiority, spectators are typical. Ah Q is an image that doesn't even realize the cruel social rules. Ah Q is so special. He was completely manipulated by society, but he was not accepted. Almost everyone can control Ah Q, but Ah Q can only control his own consciousness. Ah Q was beheaded. What he thinks is not why he was beheaded, but "there is always beheading between heaven and earth." Ah Q is for the public. He doesn't understand that there is always a parade between heaven and earth. When he shows it to the public, he has to sing when others ask him to sing.

Because he also knows that public processions and singing operas are necessary. He abides by these "rules" automatically, but he doesn't know why. Ah Q is almost a person without "ego". He can't cope with everything imposed on him by society. He was powerless to resist and passively accepted. To survive is not too painful, there is no other way but to comfort yourself.

At the end of the novel, Ah Q is not childless, and his descendants are endless. This sentence can make us regard Ah Q as a typical national figure. At the beginning of the novel's publication, many people thought that Lu Xun was cursing himself by writing Ah Q, adding some personality defects to himself. The final conclusion is that Ah Q has the personality or personality defects of most of us, so Ah Q has become a typical image that successfully summarizes the universal national character with particularity. But the question is, can we say that this literary image is a representative of universality because it has a fragment of a certain aspect of human universal weakness? The defect of typicalism is that it ignores the inherent particularity of literary images. On the contrary, this is the indelible focus of the success of literary image.

To say that the significance of the novel lies in awakening Chinese people, we can't just stare at Ah Q, who is an "involuntary victim" and most people are "conscious victims", just as Wang Hu in the hotel said, "Ah Q is a recruit, even if his surname is Zhao and his great-grandfather is here, you shouldn't say it." Ah Q has no such consciousness, which is the tragedy and absurdity that distinguishes Ah Q from most people. As an "unruly" existence incompatible with the undeveloped world everywhere, the significance of Ah Q is to take our readers to understand the absurdity of social coding by understanding the tension between a person who is not "reasonably coded" by society and a society that is "reasonably coded". Therefore, Ah Q's character is an important tool for novels to satirize the times and society. Ah Q is innocent. His only "mistake" is that he didn't accept social norms correctly. Ah Q also accepted some rules, such as hating fake foreign devils and "arguing between men and women", but Ah Q did not have a clear understanding of his social status, that is, he was described as an "involuntary victim" and seemed to know nothing about the world. Ah Q's "uncoded" eventually made him die in confusion, which can't be said to be not a tragedy, but the coded world outside Ah Q is obviously more important absurdity.

The reason why the film portrays the old man and Wu Ma in Tugu Temple as more emotional people and describes their care for Ah Q makes the originally cold village in Lu Xun's works warmer. Perhaps his original intention was to sympathize with Ah Q, or to restore the social warmth under the cover of Lu Xun's despair, but it deepened the absurdity of the world itself, and the warmth became a sign of irony. In the tension field of warmth and indifference, Ah Q is all blank. He didn't show much gratitude for the care of the elders of Tugu Temple, and he also misunderstood the kindness of Oh Mom. On the way to tie up the car and go to the noon gate, Ah Q caught a glimpse of Wu Ma's head with her neck stretched out in the crowd. Ah Q doesn't have time to say a word to Oh Ma, or say "I want to sleep with you" again. Oh mom will still cry. Who can tell that Wu Ma in the crowd is different from that in the crowd? She is just one of the numb spectators who came to "see the beheading", or she came to see the last journey of Ah Q, and wanted to have a last look at the man who had a short "story (accident)" with her. At least, she is one of the few people who care about him. In a hurry, the prison car took Ah Q away, and Wu Ma's camera flashed by without slowing down to take a close-up. Ah Q's death obviously has nothing to do with her, anyone and nothing to do with it. Providing a shooting entertainment feast is Ah Q's final contribution to the unfinished world.