(Text/Yang Shiyang)
The look and feel of "Sunshine" is peculiar. It exerts force at the two poles of calm and violent at the same time, and pulls in opposite directions with the same force. It is this weird force that creates the smell of this story. It is short but full of drama. Wonder, it has always maintained a gentle, trivial, and whispering tone, but it always makes people feel vaguely uneasy, worrying that there will be a huge crack on the smooth road that has just walked for a short period of time, making people torn apart. It has a sudden reversal, extremely horse-catching setting, but the story goes all the way, only to find that the first reversals are just inevitable choices, and those horse-catching plots that look like a bloody drama are also ours. The neglected side is commonplace.
Awen and Sister Qin have two sons. The eldest son, Ahao, is a model of a sunny boy. He is sensible and excellent. The second son, Ahe, is a street gangster. He and his friend Caitou went to cut people and caused a catastrophe. All entered the correctional facility. Middle-aged Awen thought that the life he was facing was like this: the eldest son went to school, worked, married a wife and had children, and became his support. The younger son would one day die on the street. But life played tricks on him. The eldest son, who seemed to have nothing to worry about, jumped down from upstairs one night. forward. The day before him has become a super-examination question, and the answer is nowhere to be found.
Reversed from the result, everyone in "Sunshine" has been tampered with by fate and life. Almost all of them have been reset once. The eldest son Ahao decided to suicide, and the youngest son Ahe’s prodigal son turned back and did his duty honestly. Father Awen finally creates murderous intent, and the mother who just wants to live a peaceful life will be with huge secrets all day long... Did they go to their opposite side by mistake, or are they just inspired by this upturned life. The side? The answer may not even be known to them. It is the unspeakable sense of destiny in this life that made this movie. It's really hard to describe it. It squeezes daily life onto the most impossible orbit, and in the most extreme stories, it makes people believe that there are such unspeakable secrets in life.
Looking at "The Sunshine", it is inevitable to remind people of the "Big Buddha Plus", because of the genetic similarity, or because of the dark abyss and scorching light in daily life, or because of it Those deliberately placed golden phrases that are half chicken soup and half truth. In short, this movie has the unique charm of Taiwanese realism, the coldness hidden by the heat, the violence under the calm, the warmth of indifference, and the distance between the warmth. .
The eldest son, Ahao, appeared in this story for a short time. He originally thought he was a protagonist who will begin writing, but he didn’t realize it, but suddenly ended with death. His choice promoted and changed the story. , And more importantly, he used himself as a drop of reagent to reappear the negatives of this family life. Before he chose to die, he told a story with a girl he had made in his class. When Sima Guang hit the tank, he found that the kid hiding in the tank was Sima Guang himself. This story sounds strange and strange, like a failure of setting. Cold jokes or crappy ghost stories, but this story is always on the topic, the true self is hiding in the depths of the invisible container, waiting for one’s search, but when oneself and oneself finally meet, it is inevitable tragic and die. What kind of unspeakable tragedy is this? A Hao himself saw the moment he saw himself. He decided not to play the role of the sun messenger and family pillar, and hugged his dark projection. When his father Awen saw the real himself, he stomped the accelerator to death and harassed his little son. Caitou, this choice is about imprisonment and liberation. The former liberated himself and imprisoned the family, the latter imprisoned himself and liberated the children, but locked his wife in secret. Having been in the dark and damp for a long time, longing for the sun to shine, but the sun continues to shine, and they long for a shadow to shelter. Are these people lack of sheltering shadows or lack of general sunlight? Is there any successful escape in this story, who escaped from the long shadow or the scorching sun? no. But they have all gained relief to some extent, and have entered new shackles from another dimension.
(This article was first published in China News Weekly)
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