Film Review: Spring in a Small Town contains implicit beauty and sad love.

There is a pity that love is not allowed.

There is a kind of letting go, which is called adult beauty.

There is a classic old film in China film history called Spring in a Small Town.

It is this kind of regret and enrichment that is described.

When watching this movie, I thought of the classic black-and-white movie Casablanca. They are all about choice and love.

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This movie is very old. For Zero Zero now, it's already a grandfather level. It was shot in 1948, or black and white film. The director is the famous Fei Mu.

A long time ago, director Fei Mu was also an all-powerful man.

Born in Shanghai, screenwriter and director. I like reading very much, and even learned many foreign languages. Due to overuse of eyes, the left eye is blind.

These great people all have a * * * nature, that is, they like reading. Such as Buffett, Charles Munger, Napoleon and Zeng Guofan.

Zeng Guofan, in particular, was hardly born because of his low qualifications. Read a lot of books. In his later years, Zeng Guofan could hardly see one eye.

Director Fei Mu, a short life like a meteor. Also left many classic masterpieces. For example, attacking the city at night, cutting the classroom, Confucius hates life and death.

God is jealous of talent! Is there a cinema in heaven? Does the director need to make a movie?

195 1 year 65438+1October 3 1 day, director Fei Mu died of a heart attack. It's a pity that he is only 45 years old.

However, watching this old film, I can see the wisdom and talent of the director. I don't think he left. He lives in his works.

Many of the actors who participated in the filming in those years died because of their age.

The four main actors, Shi Yu, Li Wei, Wei Wei and Hongmei Zhang, later became artists.

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The film begins with the monologue of the heroine Zhou Yuwen, which also runs through her monologue. A sad love story is told around the broken home and broken wall.

Although, it was a turbulent time. However, there is no fierce gun battle, no intrigue and no cool music in the movie. Just a faint story about the joys and sorrows of a small family in a small town.

Dai Liyan, the male owner of this family, is about thirty years old, but he is ill.

I used to live on my ancestral property. Later, their house was destroyed by the war, and broken walls were everywhere.

However, he has no ability to repair it. Muddle along, day by day, it seems that there is no hope and it is calm.

The hostess Zhou Yuwen, guarding her sick husband, seems to have only responsibilities and obligations. Passion has long been consumed by life. She buys food, medicine and embroidery, and waits on her husband to take medicine every day. Repeat every day, life tastes like chewing wax.

Just like her monologue: one has no courage to live and the other has no courage to die.

Except for the young couple. In this family, there is also a 16-year-old sister-in-law Dai Xiu studying. There is a footman in his fifties, Lao Huang, who takes care of his family.

The family, living like this, is still quiet. If there is no external force to break, it may last forever.

Whose day is magnificent? Aren't they all oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea? Aren't they all repetitive?

The film started for ten minutes and gave a general description of the family members.

At the eleventh minute, suddenly, a man came. The arrival of this man is like throwing a boulder into a calm lake and setting off a huge wave.

The story has its ups and downs since this time. The audience, from this time on, was led by the nose by the movie. Here we go.

You may ask, who's here? This person is Zhang. He is Dai Liyan's friend and Yuwen's first love.

He is a doctor by profession. He gives the impression that he is healthy, handsome and sunny.

It brought fresh information from the outside world and a breeze to this dilapidated home.

The best part of the film is that this woman and two men secretly love and hate each other, and they are in a dilemma, flirting with each other, pointing to the West and talking about the East.

Through character movements, language, light and shadow, it is vividly expressed.

Just like an ancient poem, it is concise and implicit, and it can only be understood but not expressed. Beauty lies in half covering the pipa and half covering the face.

Speaking of the emotional entanglements of three people, let's first look at why He Zhang missed it.

At that time, one was unmarried and the other was still in love. However, Yu's mother strongly opposed it.

Zhang had to leave. Under the arrangement of her parents, Yuwen married Dai Liyan, whom she didn't like.

Suppose Dai Liyan has a job and is in good health. There is a child between them, and this day is like a day.

In the classic movie Casablanca, the hero Rick. Sigh: "Of all the towns and pubs in the world, she walked into mine."

China is so big and there are so many cities, but Zhang is a friend and walks into their home.

Here I want to talk about the genius of the director. In movies, the relationship between characters is very particular. Why is there such a special person? It is to enhance the emotional tension between the characters in the movie.

Originally, my heart was like a jade pattern. Because of Zhang's arrival, there is light in my eyes. Seems to see a glimmer of hope.

At that time, there was no WeChat, and everyone didn't know each other's situation. If it were now, the story between these three people might be different.

It seems that Zhang also inadvertently broke into a friend's life. Like dew on the grass in the morning, it only stays for a short time.

He still keeps a little distance from his friends and former lovers. He knows that a friend's wife can't be bullied.

Although, lonely jade grain, a little initiative, he can just stop it without hurting jade grain's face.

For example, in the movie, there are several details.

One: In the evening, go into Zhang's room and light candles. Blow it out in one breath. Did he just blow out the candles in reality? No, there is a fire of love burning in Yuwen's heart.

Second: In the darkroom, Zhang suddenly picked up the jade design. However, after turning around, he put her down again. He is just a cowardly thief, or there is an invisible wall between them.

Third, the two of them went for a walk. There was a distance between two people. Walking, just in time to get together. It seems, subconsciously separated again. Two people, the in the mind is like a mirror, know somehow.

Life is bitter, one of which is to love without loving.

Yu Wen's husband Dai Liyan suffers from heart disease. However, he is not blind and deaf. When Zhang walked into his home, he keenly felt the change of his wife. Especially at his sister Dai Xiu's birthday party, he fully understood his situation.

He is not strong, even weak. He knows that between husband and wife, they only exist in name only.

Seeing the light in his wife's eyes, he is even willing to sacrifice himself to fulfill it. One night, he took sleeping pills and gave up on himself.

He forgot that he had a doctor with him. Finally, Zhang was rescued urgently.

Things have come to this, Yu Wen's heart has been deeply touched. Her husband, Dai Li, said he was not bad and it was not his fault.

So, how to solve it?

Everyone seems to have an answer.

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There was only one narrative line. Perhaps, the world is very complicated. There is also a love story between Zhang He's sister Dai Xiu. In this way, it becomes two triangular relationships, which are complicated and superimposed together. In the current words, it is to increase the difficulty and make the characters more three-dimensional.

At the beginning of the film, the heroine Yu Wen walks on the dilapidated city wall with a vegetable basket. This is the realistic background of this film's recurring appearance.

It shows the social reality at that time, and also indicates that the heroine's life is surrounded by city walls. She can't go out, the wall of reality, the wall of soul and the wall of morality.

Finally, echo before and after. Still on the wall, Xiaoyu and his wife sent Zhang away. Never come, never go.

Life is back in balance, just like the lake is calm. To use a two-part allegorical saying to describe it, it is: my nephew plays lanterns and everything remains the same.

The film was shot in 1948, and it has won many awards since it came out. It can be said that it is a landmark masterpiece in China's film history, and there is no one among the classics.