The secret life of words

When I was a child, I had a small wish. If I could live in the middle of the dry lake in winter, I could face the vast world of white snow every day, watch the countless geese coming from the south to the north, and chase the hares. It would be nice to be able to go fishing in the river bay. But you didn't expect that if it goes on like this, if no one speaks, you will not be able to communicate with others, and you will even suffer from "aphasia".

In the German movie "Polar Rebirth", Givings, a German prisoner of war far away in Siberia, could not accept 25 years of forced labor. He was fleeing westward from the polar region. When he was parting, the doctor said to him: "You must talk to yourself every day, and keep talking to yourself." Think about it, the route he wants to escape is to cross the entire Siberia no-man's land, Even if there were people, he had to be careful. After a arduous journey of escape that lasted more than three years and spanned 14,000 kilometers, he finally entered Iran from Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Union. Most of the people who helped him along the way conveyed the "secret of words" from their kind eyes. Incredibly, this is a true story.

Coincidentally, in a recent French film "Selco", it is said that in the middle of the winter of 1889, a Cossack family far away in Siberia was persecuted when they saw the clashes between the people on the border of Heilongjiang and the local officials who built the railway. In particular, the horses of the border residents were killed, and the family was outraged. The young man Dimit told his family that he must rush to the Petersburg court to report the situation to the tsar and seek justice for the border residents, so the young man rode on the little gray horse. "Selko", embarking on his long journey, the wind blows the boundless snow, and he sees the vast expanse, which is similar to the "Polar Rebirth". It is this "Selko" who can talk to him. Ma Tong's humanity, Impressive.

Language, in the vast world of silence, can be continued with another form of thinking, thereby changing the meaning of life and the trajectory of life. The secret life of language attached to life is undoubtedly painful. In 1942, a group of "valiant and skilled" German troops came from the North African battlefield to the warm coast of Sicily, Italy. Bright and beautiful ballads, they got on the train heading north and passed through the long and dark tunnel of the Alps. What awaits them will be the most tragic slaughter in the world.

The severe winter is coming, and what is more terrifying than the battle is the freezing weather. At this time, language has become a powerless breathing in life. They keep mumbling, they don't know how to survive, they don't know How to speak, the powerless words turned into a catastrophe of defeat, the words turned into pale symbols of life on the frosted and frozen beard, the soldiers died stiffly one by one, and the last two people silently fantasized about returning to their hometowns the warm scene, but they still freeze to death on the white snow.

The German film "Battle of Stalingrad", which was filmed in 1993, has an admirable spirit of reflection. It is also a leader in similar films of World War II. Its reflective strength is relatively rare. More war-themed films are How to evolve the destructive victory seems to be to show off the "necessity" of war. The rigorous philosophical thinking of the Germans, although they have experienced the "Great Darkness" era, they can always wake up with integrity. This kind of spirit is not possessed by some ethnic groups. I remember when former West German Prime Minister Brandt visited Poland. , the scene of kneeling and begging for forgiveness at the Holocaust Monument in World War II makes you sigh that a nation that dares to reflect is always worthy of admiration.

And this face of life is always related to the secrets of words, to loneliness and greatness, and to endless pain and happiness. Have we really thought about it: behind this face, where is the inherent and true value of life?

An era has the language of an era, and a person also has a unique memory of speech history. The secret life of words bears witness to the imprint of life and vicissitudes of life. I remembered the scene in my hometown of Dahu in 1974. In those years, every summer in elementary school was in the "double rush" season of busy farming (early and middle rice harvested, and late rice harvested, so-called "three crops a year", mostly in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Farmers work very hard), when you are in your teens, you are about to work. At that time, most of the big lakes had been "encircled by huhu to create fields", and the boundless lakes and fields were boundless rice waves and valleys. Taking the production team as the unit, at noon, a group of people will gather around to eat "big pot rice". At this time, it is very common to joke and quarrel. There is a father and son who are as strong as bulls. Son, and my father in his forties, once scolded you, you were particularly impressed.

That day, a primary school teacher was reading "Reference News", and Manzi asked, "Is there a war?" Man's father heard: "Is there a war, mind your business?!" "Is it okay if I ask?" "Fuck. , you have the ability, you have the ability to fight Taiwan, where it has not been liberated." The barbarian put down the "Luhua Bowl" and rolled up his sleeves: "Fight if you fight, if Chairman Mao wants me to fight, I will fight a Kuomintang dog day. "It's awesome, it's almost as good as you go to reclaim the sea to feed the fish. You can't even beat the old man." Laughing loudly, the man's father pointed at his forehead: "You have a pig's brain, and you still want to fight Taiwan, you pig badger." The more he talked, the more amused he became.

"The Secret Life of Words" is actually a Spanish movie about a female nurse giving up a vacation to come to a drilling rig at sea to take care of a man with severe burns. She never said a word from beginning to end, and the relationship revolved around secret words that spawned humor, kindness, and lies, as well as emotion and pain. It turned out that this beautiful girl, who came from the Civil War in the former Yugoslavia, was branded with painful scars on her back. Rather than speaking, it became the secret life of the couple's hard-earned lovers. Powerful expression and charisma.

The little nurse played by Sarah Polly has few lines, but in her eyes and facial expressions, she conveys her feelings and makes her words practical. The male lead is played by Tim Robinson. This powerful actor who has become famous in "The Big Player Behind the Scenes" and "Stimulus 1995" has extraordinary acting skills. You must know that it is not easy to always perform in a hospital bed. of.

Everyone has a "secret life of speech", and life always contains the "secret of speech", which is the home of human thinking, the container for spiritual purification, and this is also the meaning of life.

2006, 12, 14