Later when talking about music, I said that I like rock music. Xiao Meng said with earnest words that it is said that like rock music is a sign of immaturity. The more mature people are, the more they will like light music. Light music, blues or something.
Ten years later, I don’t know if I am mature, I still love to listen to rock and roll, and in my opinion, Xu Wei is the lightest music I have ever listened to.
When I was young, rock music smashed into my life like a flash of lightning. I haven't left until now. I still get excited when I hear Cui Jian's voice. The long prelude of "Let Me Sprinkle Some Wild in the Snow" still fascinates me. .
Therefore, in 2006, I almost finished reading the long essay about Woodstock by Yuan Yue on the trial issue of "Reading Library". The movie "Yesterday" made me awake all night. Those who love rock music will understand.
Every work of Ang Lee is surprising. After several years of filming "Lust Caution", Ang Lee directed a skit-style "Taking Woodstock". Ang Lee's movies are ever-changing, and the only constant is the exploration of depression and the release of depression. This is probably the strongest Eastern characteristic of him.
Unlike the Woodstock I have seen before, this movie starts from the story of the organizer. The life of the Elliot family and the Woodstock Music Festival are balanced. Even after watching the first impression, it is no longer how shocking Woodstock is. On the contrary, the family's affection and the experience of releasing depression are more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In the expression of Woodstock, family ethics overwhelmed rock music and hippies for the first time.
Elliot’s family is simply an Oriental family (the movie only refers to a Jewish family who fled from the Soviet Union to the United States). The son is filial and obedient, and works hard to keep the family calm. The father is taciturn, and the mother talks about greed and love. Cheap, but caring for the family.
The whole woodstock is full of flesh and carnival, LSD, hippies, do not fight for love, it is a major event for the United States, for the history of world music, and there are few people like Li Ang, who will focus on the specific aspects of this big movement. One family, one person (transgender, transvestite veteran). The film slowly came to pass. Under the influence of the Woodstock Music Festival, Elliot found himself. His parents also experienced an unprecedented journey of spiritual release. In this carnival, they met each other's family again. Although after the end of the carnival and the feast, everyone returned to their roles and continued to live a normal life, but this experience was enough to make their lives more meaningful. Finally, Elliot’s father quietly left, turning his head to answer his son’s question: How did you live with your mother (this grumpy, short-sighted and extremely greedy guy) for forty years, he slowly turned around and replied: Because I love she. This scene is almost exactly the same as the recovery of the taste after the father tasted the soup cooked by his daughter in "Diet and Men", which represents the collapse of the tense tension in the family relationship and the reconciliation of the two generations. It is touching.
Speaking of woodstock and hippies, I admire and envy them. In that era, their deeds can be seen in the biography of Clinton Jobs. You can also see it in Forrest Gump. Many of this group of young people who "have become more natural than they are taught" later put on their clothes, cut their long hair and beards, and became presidents, company CEOs, and pioneers of the times. This film is also more accurate for the performance of hippies. The innocent expressions of the actors, the utopian enthusiasm and indifferent look like a documentary. When no one wears clothes, the people who wear clothes become weird. In this situation, exposure is decent, and it doesn't feel dirty and insignificant at all. Art has become illusory and mysterious under the catalysis of LSD. This kind of experience is commendable. The crowds in the mountains and plains in the film undulate like waves after the high LSD, which can be called a classic.
As far as I know, during the same period, singing all the way, hitchhiking and wandering all the way happened in China on a small scale. As a result, I was arrested and sent to prison for labor reform. Zhang Guangtian is one of them.
Even if this group of hippies finally acted as leaders, it does not mean that they deny their youth. On the contrary, they have definitely benefited a lot from these experiences. Now people need more liberation, liberation of the spirit and body, so, it is best to be in harmony with the people at the right time and place, once again the hippie movement, and another woodstock.
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