"We don't have anything in common, we just happened to be born here."
- This is a line from the movie "Outstanding Citizen".
In the movie, Daniel, a Nobel writer who returned home, was intercepted by a fanatical fan. He was an enthusiastic but self-righteous young fat man. He claimed to be a fan of Daniel and believed that the prototype of a character in Daniel's book was his father. He confided his heart to Daniel very enthusiastically, and wanted to invite Daniel to dinner at home, but he didn't care whether Daniel was willing or not. Daniel did not agree or go to the appointment, so he questioned Daniel with a hurt look. Faced with his unreasonable request, the impatient Daniel said this.
Obviously, this sentence shatters the self-willingness of the young fat man to seek some kind of solace or glory from Daniel's book, saying that we have nothing to do except that we were all born in this land.
But in fact, in the real life where everyone is the sum of all social relationships, most people don't realize individual independence, and they will always ramble about all kinds of things they can't fight. Connection point, to get closer to someone he wants to befriend. In this process, fellow villagers or folks derived from hometowns are words that appear frequently.
But is the relationship between the villagers really important? Is everything in my hometown really beautiful? In the movie "Outstanding Citizen", in the eyes of the homecoming writer Daniel, hometown can almost be equated with the word ferocious.
Daniel is a writer who stopped writing for five years after winning the Nobel Prize. He has the supreme honor, but he can no longer write a word. He is cold and reclusive, and he refuses countless invitations from the industry and society. However, he agreed to the invitation ceremony for the honoring of "outstanding citizens" from his hometown. He, who has not returned to his hometown for 40 years, said to his assistant that the proudest part of me is leaving there. After watching the whole film, we will know that the writer's choice to return to his hometown is also based on his selfish desire to find some kind of creative inspiration. After all, the stories of all his literary works came from that land.
Daniel's journey home is a doomed and absurd journey. At the beginning of the film, he had to spend the night on the road because his car broke down. In order to keep warm, he burned his book. The implication is that home is where all the writer's acquired code of conduct doesn't apply - it's raw and crude, and he's stuck in the beginning. During the week-long event in his hometown, the writer seemed out of place and was always in a state of collision and torment. He was dragged into a fire truck and marched around the city, complained by fans of Glassheart, and accused by so-called painters who were arrogant and arrogant. Abusive and threatened, kidnapped by morality and asking for donations. The writer kept the biggest concessions possible. He returned to his hometown alone, abandoned all the rules and regulations of the previous travel activities, gave lectures to literature lovers, reviewed articles and gave suggestions to the young man at the front desk of the hotel, but the writer also adhered to some principles. and bottom line.
The writer has encountered endless unreasonable requests that seem to be well-intentioned but not truly respected. Although it may be exaggerated, the embarrassment of returning home is almost gushing out, like a modern person traveling back to ancient times, Those self-satisfied ignorance and ignorance, violence and arrogance, make people almost breathless.
In many past works, the writer has keenly written about the various things in his hometown, barbarism and ignorance, absurdity and darkness. The climax of the film comes from the painting exhibition in the last days of returning home. When people take off their last disguise, When eggs are thrown at the writer, reality once again defeats fiction, all conflict erupts, and the writer is accused of being a literary liar who appeals to curious European readers by revealing the scars of his homeland. The great writers, directors, and artists whose tragedies reveal the truth have all been charged with such unwarranted charges.
At the end of the film, the writer almost left his hometown in a state of expulsion, and even nearly lost his life.
Of course, in this story, the writer has never existed in a perfect image, and even has some hypocrisy and flattery. But in the film, what is more touching is the absurdity and dark humor of this journey home.
There is a question on Zhihu that has attracted nearly 50,000 people's attention. The title is "Since when did you swear that you would never go back to your hometown?" Your life dictates and you have to accompany the smiling face." This sentence is perfectly suitable for Daniel, the writer of "Distinguished Citizen".
Yes, hometown is indeed an indispensable existence in a person's life, but it is also a fate that everyone can't help but choose. Before a person can really make his own choice, all social relations in his hometown are imposed by fate. Yes, there is indeed no way to strip it, but it does not mean that we should be permanently bound by this word.
Taking this topic to sigh with emotion, our generation of young people in small towns or young people born in rural areas is the most embarrassing existence at the moment. In the huge competition in the process of urbanization, it is difficult for us to truly gain a foothold and realize the status quo. But we also can't go back, so we are in a crack, we can't go back to our hometown, and we can't go far.
It is true that the topics involved in the movie "Distinguished Citizen" are far from being summed up by the phrase "Hometown is a passerby from now on", but in this article, I can only write about that.
Head image: Stills of Distinguished Citizen
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