During the Taiyuan period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a fisherman in Wuling County. One day, he was sailing along the stream, forgetting the distance of the journey. Suddenly encountered a peach blossom forest, the fisherman was very surprised by this, and continued to sail, wanting to reach the end of the forest. So the winding path was so quiet, and I came to a place where there was traffic on the paddock, where the chickens and dogs heard each other, and the yellow hair was hanging down. After the fisherman left, even though he was marked, he couldn't find the circuit in the end. Soon, the fisherman died, and Taohuayuan no one cared about it anymore.
I believe that most people have read this story, and it is even a must-remember when going to school. In fact, this story with a few hundred words always made me feel very sad, but I can't say why, until I met Bi Gan's movie.
The first time I saw "Roadside Picnic" I was also at a loss, and a lot of question marks popped up in my mind: where did the little boy go, who was the woman who washed Chen Sheng's hair, and who was the young man carrying Chen Sheng? ? Until Bi Gan came out after the screening, he dialed a few words, as if he had opened the two channels of Ren Du, suddenly infinite grief. When you understand that the young man who is being bullied by Dangmai is Weiwei when he grows up, all this makes sense. The clock on the train and the "Little Jasmine" that the silent man sang to his lover instantly became meaningful. For Chen Sheng, Dangmai is his peach blossom source.
With this experience in watching movies, the context of "The Last Night on Earth" can be easily solved. When you understand that Kaizhen, Wan Qiwen, and Priscilla Chan are all the same person , there is no difficulty in understanding the frame story. Many people say that Bi Gan’s form is greater than content this time. Instead, I think that after you understand the form, you will find that the emotions in the core of Bi Gan’s movies are even more advanced and moving.
Luo Hongwu has always been trapped by three questions: Did the liar brother, White Cat, betrayed him, whether the mysterious lover Wan Qiwen was true or false to him, and why did the mother who abandoned her family leave her cruelly? These three human emotions surrounding friendship, love and family affection have tortured him all his life, making him like a ghost for 12 years or even half of his life, all emotions floating in the air with nowhere to attach.
In the half of the film before the long shot, the black-haired Luo Hongwu talked about love twelve years ago, and the white-haired Luo Hongwu searched for love twelve years later. The two clues run crosswise, each node has a hidden button, and they bite tightly. At the same time, he laid some foreshadowings for these three emotional deficiencies: the white cat ate the apple for a long few minutes in tears at the camera, and even swallowed the apple core. He used Luo Hongwu to trade with Zuo Hongyuan, explaining his inner guilt and guilt. Sad; when visiting the prison, Tai Zhaomei recalled the anecdote of stealing with Wan Qiwen, saying that at the most critical moment, she stole a green paper about a love story, and casually said that she wanted to keep this book for herself. The one I love, it turns out that she gave it to you; Luo Hongwu came to the white cat’s mother’s barbershop and leaned by the window and talked about one of the few memories he had with his mother when he was a child-when he was a child, his mother would go to the neighbor to steal honey, just for a little sweet.
Let's analyze one by one-why did Bi Gan have to take so long to eat apples in the first place? If you haven’t seen the "Bright Night" that takes about 5 minutes to drive, the heroine in "Floating Ghost" sits alone and eats pizza for nearly 6 minutes, and a man in "Timbuktu" takes nearly 2 minutes from Cross this side of the river to the other side. You have never watched "Horse of Turin", "Homesickness", "Quiet of the Cold Branch", and "The Past and the Present". Don't try to deny them first. In the long gaze, in the white cat's chewing, someone must see his sadness. This kind of sadness can only be expressed clearly by swallowing the apple core at the end, and can truly appreciate the emotional impact of the character's sadness when it is synchronized with the real time. The girlfriend's Call machine behind him turned on the TV indifferently, and the emotions of the two in the room were completely disconnected.
It turns out that she gave you this book, which means that you are her favorite person. Such a breezy sentence came out of a female prisoner who spoke with an accent, but it almost made Luo Hongwu unstable in holding the microphone. At this moment, there was even fine sweat from his forehead. This man who felt that he was being manipulated was so mixed at this moment. At the beginning, in a Burmese hotel, a woman turned his green paper and he would get angry. His behavior of caring for a token of this kind seemed to have meaning and value.
The white cat mother then asked Luo Hongwu, isn't your mother afraid of being stung? You need to wear a professional uniform to get honey. Luo Hongwu replied, his mother lit a torch to disperse the bees. Such a light that illuminates the way forward has emboldened the mother, a desperate soldier. She seems to have an obsessive obsession with honey. It was how much bitter she had eaten before she became a god when she moved in next door to the beekeeper. At this time, a spoonful of honey brewed by the mother white cat on the table has melted into the water, leaving only a shallow mark on the corner of the table.
Twelve years ago, Luo Hongwu searched for the murderer of his friend White Cat, but traced him to Wan Qiwen wearing a green dress and wearing makeup on the train. Because she would not lie during the meal, she invited her to dinner, and promised to look for green grapefruit in the tunnel during the summer solstice. Sometimes the two have an affair, sometimes watch a movie, sometimes a woman appears, and sometimes disappear. After knocking out a boy, they planned to elope with a desperate mandarin duck, but they were captured by the gang boss Zuo Hongyuan and heard him sing an out-of-tune "Reason for Strength." Under the water in the tryst room, he promised to kill Zuo Hongyuan for her in the movie theater in response to the gunshots in the film. And Wan Qiwen has disappeared from then on, and can only appear in her dreams.
Twelve years later, Luo Hongwu became an emotional detective with all doubts and scars, seeking sustenance for his unreliable emotion in flying into space. Start looking for clues from the green clock in his father's relics. A photo at the entrance of Xiaofeng Hotel, which was burnt by cigarette butts, with a bunch of numbers on the back that became empty and unanswered, and found the woman in the women's prison. After walking not far, the other party handed him a title page filled with spells through the prison guard, behind which was the name of the person who was not found, Chen Huixian. So I found a guest house where I could live for a long time by telling stories. It had a TV that wouldn't be repaired if it broke down, and a dog who liked to eat eggs. It was learned from the owner of the guest house that his ex-wife who had a short marriage would sing the same song in a karaoke hall in Dangmai, and Luo Hongwu found the entrance of the karaoke hall.
This karaoke hall has everything from Wan Qiwen to Yamaguchi Baihui, in both Chinese and Japanese. The only shortcoming was that it was about to be demolished. In the hour before the opening, Luo Hongwu listened to the suggestion to go to a dilapidated theater with worrying audience quality and put on 3D glasses.
The next magical hour may be an unwakeable dream, a wishful illusion, an obscure 3D movie, or a story that is happening in parallel in a parallel universe. And Luo Hongwu, just like Chen Sheng who came to Dangmai back then, came to the peach blossom source where he had been waiting for a long time.
He first ran into a 12-year-old masked boy in a mine. He was undressed and his origin was unknown. He had to compete with table tennis to send him out, but he was defeated by Luo Hongwu's not superb skills. Across the long cave, they bid farewell to each other by a ropeway. This boy was the white cat when he was a child, and he also projected his unborn son. In such a time and space, he fulfilled his wish to teach his son to play ping pong, and he also promised to "call you the little white cat next time I see you". The opponent gave him a racket with an eagle pattern and was endowed with lift-off magic. Finally, he turned on the motorcycle lights and let Luo Hongwu meet to teach him to spin the ball next time.
You see, this is how life is promised and fulfilled. After Luo Hongwu met the white cat in reality, maybe he really taught him to play table tennis, maybe not. But who knows that they have made such a promise in a previous life or another time and space.
Taking the ropeway to the Chunfeng Guest House at the foot of the mountain, a woman was tirelessly playing with a fruit machine, and a group of young people were playing billiards. The woman couldn't win the game, but when she was about to give up, she turned around and heard the sound of the game currency falling crazily. This was an opportunity that God gave her to leave here, and it was also a signal that Luo Hongwu had come . Kaizhen, who was a teenager at that time, had short hair, was jealous, had bright eyes, spoke non-standard Kaili, and was full of curiosity about the world. She is not yet Wan Qiwen, who will be amorous in the future, or Priscilla Chan who is exhausted. This is Wan Qiwen, whom Luo Hongwu has never seen before, and an age he has never had the privilege of knowing.
You see, this is how life meets and knows each other. Luo Hongwu met Wan Qiwen in the most inappropriate way at the most inappropriate moment. If he knew her at this age, would he take her away like this so that she would not have to experience the displacement in the future.
A red-haired woman held a torch, staggered all the way, and stopped in front of a honeycomb-like iron gate. She is like a rascal vixen, trying to keep her lover with the last bit of self-esteem. The lover had just repaired the car halfway up the mountain, and he was obviously reluctant, but he obediently gave up under the threat of Luo Hongwu who appeared at that time. This is Luo Hongwu's mother who has projected the image of a white cat mother. Because the mother's face is always missing, even in dreams, it is impossible to see her true appearance. She said that she was still worried about the young Luo Hongwu, but she had to go. "Because life is too bitter, he can give me a little bit of sweetness." This is how much bitterness I have tasted before I dared to sever his kindness, like a strong man breaking his wrist, and elope with a man who doesn't love him enough. Their emotional future is uncertain in the future, but the mad woman dared to desperately choose the little bit of diluted sweetness.
You see, life is like farewell and reconciliation. Luo Hongwu leaned on the iron gate, holding the deprived watch in tears. He never knew why his mother left, but he was willing to forgive her in this time and space. The pain of the family that could not be healed for half a lifetime can only swallow the fruit core and return to the sweetness.
In this time and space, Luo Hongwu took a spinning racket from the little white cat, and flew to the square with Wan Qiwen, who was not molested by life. How can there be such a singing competition all night, how can there be such a house that rotates after chanting a spell. Wan Qiwen stepped on the revolving house that she had stolen. It turned out to be the one between her mother and lover. There was a crystal chandelier hanging and talking sweet words, but it was cleaned by a fire. Only the stolen half of the love story is left. The love story in the book is repeated by Luo Hongwu and Wan Qiwen , and the lost part of the story seems to herald their end without a disease. This is probably the case for all love stories, with different endings in the same way.
The saddest thing about reading "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" is the last sentence, " Unsuccessful, I will end up looking for a disease, but there will be no one who cares about it. " Tao Yuanming imagined the most harmonious and beautiful sacred place, but it was in an era of turmoil and horror for the people. The fisherman had seen the most beautiful scenery, but could never find it again. The world has heard of this fascinating legend, but no one cares about it in the end.
Chen Sheng can only go to the future to meet people in the past in the Peach Blossom Spring of Dangmai, sing a song "Little Jasmine" to his missed wife, and read it over and over again, please don't forget me . Luo Hongwu can only go to see people in the past in the peach blossom field of the theater , teach children to play ball, bid farewell to his mother, and watch crystal chandeliers with his lover from the future . Like the song "Strong Reasons" that I didn't sing, I knew you were leaving me, but I couldn't stop it and let the tears fall .
As for the people in the story, who is not foolish and who is not foolish? How sweet and bitter is life? The mudslide is not terrible, it is terrible to live in memory. Luo Hongwu couldn't wake up in this "forgotten memory", he couldn't wake up to reality, and went to find Wan Qiwen on the last night when the karaoke bar was open. We met in dreams, but missed in reality. The fireworks that burned out in the last night can only bloom for a short time? Can the watch that Wan Qiwen wears all the time be retained forever?
A storytelling hotel can stay for a long time, a music karaoke hall will open, the house will revolve when you say spells, and all the places in your memory will have magical powers. You will be happy if you eat honey, you will be happy if you eat grapefruit, and you will be sad if you eat apples. All the food you have been worried about has emotions.
In Kaili’s Peach Blossom Spring, the story will not be finished, the karaoke hall will not be demolished, the house will not be burnt, and everyone will move towards the never-before ever in the most gorgeous short period of time.
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