1] It seems that there are many such films, which are quite interesting at the beginning, but they are acting Acting, it becomes more and more boring. "Xia Wife Story" (Xia Wife is the place name) is such a movie. At the beginning, the interpretation of the Rococo life created a fantastic fun, and the appearance of the two heroines Peach and Strawberry (aka Miko) was also pretty cool. , And then, it became a vulgar plot like a girl comic. Finally, the main thrust of the film is nothing more than clichés such as friendship and the meaning of life. The story of the whole film is nothing more than two meaningless girls who conceal their lives in different ways, interacting in the process of communication, and finally discovering the meaning of life in their friendship. However, it seems that many people like this cliché with superficial and positive energy, and it is superficial with mixed sadness and joy.
["The Story of Xia Wife" and the color of literature and art]
2] What can save the interest of this film, in addition to the beautiful visuals, should probably be the color of Japanese literature and art that permeates the film. Japanese literature and art have a perverted honest attitude and contradictory exaggerated style, which naturally presents the concealed parts of life and unnaturally presents the straightforward parts of life. The mischievous comedy feeling constituted in this way is especially prominent in them. Sensitive to death and loneliness. Construct life and friendship in this atmosphere of death and loneliness: the more dead, the more vitality is; the more lonely, the more friendship is overflowing. There is a kind of black humorous pleasure in such a contradictory way. Only in such a black humor can we calmly face the evils of history and the evils of human nature.
3] In "The Story of the Second Wife", the more deadly, the more vigorous it is. This is manifested in the meaninglessness of their lives with their enthusiasm for peach and strawberry. Taozi finds value with her passion for the Rococo lifestyle, Strawberry gives herself meaning by participating in a motorcycle runaway group, and Rococo and runaway both appear to be alive, which is a kind of appearance. Taozi has been an almost indifferent to ruthless person since she was a child. It seems contradictory that people like her will be obsessed with Rococo clothes when they are young. However, the attitude represented by Rococo is basically indifferent. Just enthusiastic about the happiness of self. Taozi's values are indifferent hedonism, a kind of individualized pre-romanticism. As a girl, she would say, "It takes more courage to seize happiness than to endure pain." Such a case is a sophistry if you look at it from an objective point of view. This attitude is obviously rococo-style, separating the subjectivity of the self from the external objective, and regards the happiness of the self as the noble, and the external anxiety as the inferior.
4] "It's terrible to taste the ups and downs to accumulate life experience." In this attitude there is a soft and dead personality, and loneliness is its natural result. Taozi is also happy, she would say, "Man is a solitary animal, a person is born, a person thinks, and a person dies." What a comfortable rhetoric! But Taozi unconsciously has friendship with Strawberry. They have their own similarities. It can be said that the reason for their friendship is that they see themselves in each other. They also use vitality to conceal meaninglessness, they are also flexible, and they have similar loneliness in their hearts. In other words, their hearts fit together. When Strawberry encountered a trivial threat, Taozi went to rescue her with friendship. Such an event became an opportunity for them to rediscover meaning. What a gratifying ending. However, this shouldn't be a joke.
5] The Rococo lifestyle (Rococo) means flashy and superficial hedonism, but it is deeply embedded in the pursuit of human society. What Rococo has is a subjective ideal society model, immersed in the yearning for pleasure, ignoring the external or its existing or possible evils. Rococo life is the state of social health that people yearn for. On the other hand, in the sense that it is an incurable pursuit, it is actually a disease that people are trying to do, and a deep-rooted disease. Rococo may become a reality in some eras, such as the era when French Rococo art was popular or the so-called flourishing age in the history of the Chinese dynasty, but it will not be preserved as a stable and unchanging order of life. "Life is fundamentally imperfect and unbearable. It constantly tries to recreate the order of life in new forms" (in "The Mental State of the Times"). These refurbished forms can be classified as Rococo in type. From this point of view, "constantly trying to recreate" means that Rococo, as a deeply rooted and yearned life pattern, will occur periodically.
6] Rococo art is an art way that prevailed in France in the 18th century. The lifestyle it reflects is mainly that of the French aristocracy. Rococo art is characterized by flashy, coquettish, comfortable, gorgeous, erotic, and decadent. The soul of the Rococo lifestyle is to be immersed in a dreamlike state, to enjoy the happiness of the body, to be drunk with life and to dream of death. Such a vibrant and happy lifestyle should be what many people dream of. It is the result of pursuing pure happiness, free from the shackles of work, and free to enjoy. As an earl said at the time, "the attachment of people to the superiority of aristocratic society in the eighteenth century was intertwined with their love for the sweet free thought of the new philosophy." This affection not only applies to the eighteenth century, but also applies to many centuries now and in the future. However, it is this seemingly vibrant Rococo lifestyle that contains death deeply. The Rococo lifestyle is a purely consuming lifestyle. It doesn't care about moderation. The more dazzling it is, the faster it will die. Rococo art prevailed in France during the reign of Louis XV. Before him, Louis XIV left him a huge national debt, but he didn't care about repaying it, but only cared about the enjoyment of drunken life and death. After this period, France ushered in the Great Revolution, and thus ushered in the death of the noble class. The destructive power of the French Revolution was to some extent a response to the Rococo lifestyle.
7] Rococo, this name with the characteristics of European customs, actually contains a strong Chinese style of the celestial dynasty. Rococo is similar to the aristocratic lifestyle or royal lifestyle of the Celestial dynasty, which is not only reflected in the visual decoration, but also in the cultural content. Europe originally had a group of crude countries, even France, until their wanderers from the east heard of the prosperous civilization of the celestial dynasty, so they desperately opened up a route (in the so-called great voyage discovery) to approach the celestial dynasty, in honor of The grace of the celestial dynasty. In France in the era of enlightenment that allegedly advocated rationality, they worshipped the distant celestial dynasty as a social ideal. Europeans at that time ignored or could not understand the depression and sadness of the celestial dynasty, which was so far away from them, just like heaven. They can only view the celestial dynasty in accordance with the exaggeration and ideals in their hearts, and they can't imagine why the celestial dynasty is so rational and prosperous that they can only call it a kind of utensil: chine, porcelain. The exquisite porcelain not only represents the qualities admired by the celestial dynasty, but it is also Rococo in itself. Such delicate porcelain has an elegant curve. It is opaque and separates the content from the outside. Although it is presented with a delicate appearance, the content is indifferent; the delicate porcelain is carefully made, it is brittle and will impact Medium broken, with a Rococo texture.
8] In the history of human ideas so far, Rococo as a unique model is associated with France before the Revolution in the eighteenth century, and the interpretation of Rococo is also based on that era. This concept is related to the linear view of history, but Rococo as a type has already appeared in the celestial dynasty, and it appears in the form of periodic occurrences. In the 18th century Rococo era, Queen Marie of France (or so and so) said "why not eat cake" when the common people had no bread to eat (the people had no food). The 3rd century emperor Jin Hui had already said similarly. "Why not eat minced meat" words. In this matter, the Chinese dynasty is at least fifteen centuries ahead of France. Although the Heavenly Dynasty had never used the term "Rococo" before, almost every flourishing age of the Heavenly Dynasty was similar to Rococo, and a flourishing age of the Heavenly Dynasty was a Rococo outbreak.
9] The entire history of the celestial dynasty is a process of continuous and periodic Rococo attacks. The prosperous age of the celestial dynasty has Rococo attributes: it is glitzy, comfortable, gorgeous, and decadent; it is immersed in a dream of arrogance, thinking that the existence of the entire world serves its hedonism; it is socially divided and inter-classified. It is cold and indifferent; it is presented by excessive decoration, which is always whitewashed to cover up absurdity, depression and silence. This should also be the most rococo aspect of the prosperity of the sky. The flourishing age of the celestial dynasty has a Rococo texture. It is brittle and will always be broken, and the entropy of the society will increase. At this time, a flourishing age will end, that is, a Rococo will end, and it will move towards death. The prosperous age turned into troubled times, and thus began another cycle, a cycle of re-yearning for Rococo.
10] During the period of Rococo in France in the eighteenth century, the distant celestial dynasty was also undergoing a prosperous age almost at the same time, the so-called "Kang and Qian dynasty". When the French Rococo was killed by the French Revolution (1789), the Rococo prosperous age far away in the Celestial Dynasty was also very close to being killed by a peasant uprising (White Lotus Uprising, 1796). Although so similar, the meanings of the two are far apart. For European civilizations with a "linear view of history", the French Revolution was a "historical event" of great significance, and its result was "historical progress"; for the celestial dynasty, which had "periodical prosperous disease", A small peasant uprising is really nothing "historical event", and it doesn't matter what a "historical event". A victorious peasant uprising is only an opportunity to enter the next cycle, and a failed peasant uprising is just a clean-up activity. After the cleaning, the celestial dynasty is still beautiful, still immersed in the dream of arrogant hedonism again. No wonder Hegel said in the "Philosophy of History" that "China has no history in essence...no progress can be made from it." This is quite reasonable.
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