Do you remember Jia Yueting from the Four Seasons Hotel?

Vivian 2022-03-08 08:01:24

Recently, when opening Ali Weibo every day, Jia Yueting, who is on the top, is basically swiping the screen. In the past six months, this "concept" company has been very strong in the stock market. After going through last year's trough, it looks like it is about to return to its peak. But thinking of Jia Yueting, who could only be "forced to stay" for "treatment" at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong for a long time last year, the political situation in the empire is unpredictable and unpredictable. But Jia Zhangke has his first-class keen sense of smell and ability to capture this, and has successfully transformed it into a video narrative within the self-expression system. Another version of Jia Yueting of the Four Seasons Hotel is also likely to be Zhang Jinsheng of "The Old Man of the Mountains and Rivers".

Zhou Yongkang, Xu Caihou, Ling Jihua, Su Rong and other big tigers were defeated one after another, causing a super earthquake in the officialdom of Shanxi. In 2014, this was one of the most heart-wrenching political events in the country. As a nation that talks about the recent situation of Zhongnanhai in taxis all the year round, although it does not seem to have a direct relationship with the public, it does not affect the circulation of various versions of the anecdotes among the people. In fact, "Mountains and Rivers" can also be regarded as one of the works of this series to some extent.

The traditional and classical tobacco, wine, tea, and sugar in "The Good Man in Three Gorges", and the four-stage news adaptation structure in "Tian Destiny" continue Jia Zhangke's previous fascination with structure. , 2025 three time points to carry out the sequential structure, that is, the past, the present, and the future. In addition to the structure, Jia Zhangke also followed the "international wave" in terms of form, and adopted three different frame ratios. Friends commented that the aspect ratio style has almost been played by Wes Anderson and Javier Dolan in recent years, but for domestic directors, this should be the first time. After "Ren Xiaoyao", the highly symbolic in "The World", the surreal fragments in "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", the combination of reality and reality in "Legend of the Sea" and "The Chronicles of Twenty-Four City", etc. "Old Man in Mountains and Rivers" is also full of various creative attempts. In addition to the frame, the appearance time of the film title, the futuristic story narrative, the first and last echoes of Go West, and the series of symbols of Guan Gong's sword wandering, etc., alone, the creative spirit has already thrown off the countless streets of mainland industries.

In 1999, that is, the period of "Platform", for this reason, Liang Jingdong, the second male lead of "Platform", once again played the leading role in this part. At the end of the last century, the narrative of the romance in the county town returned to the traditional proposition of Jia's films. In an era of flying, how the lost were knocked down and discarded, the direction of different professional classes, and the tragic fate that unfolded. For Liang Jingdong, whether in Shanxi or Inner Mongolia, they just changed the coal mines. Correspondingly, in keeping with the trend of the times, doing business by themselves, or perhaps the trend-setters who knocked down the lost, how will Zhang Jinsheng and their youth start? Zhang Jinsheng, who knocked down others, is actually the more central protagonist of the story of "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers".

In 2014, they naturally acquired wealth and perhaps fame and fortune in a big city in a foreign land. The second generation of the rich naturally received first-class Western education in aristocratic schools. The death of the grandfather forced the rich second generation to return to their unfamiliar hometown. Some of the details reflect the huge contrast between different regions in China today. Liang Jingdong's tragic fate at this stage has also been confirmed by many real news events. The pneumoconiosis brought about by the coal mine work eventually became the cannon fodder of this era; and Zhang Jinsheng's contemporary success model in this period is a kind of The bystander information of the hometown perspective is reflected, but at the same time there are many hidden hidden dangers. Zhang Jinsheng's hurried immigration is actually a collective description of a group of private entrepreneurs who were extremely insecure in the face of political changes in 2014 and had to travel to other places. Who would dare to say that just over a year has passed, that the waves and tendencies of immigration among this group have not exceeded those of twenty-five years ago? On the surface, the image uses the Depart as a clue, but its side information is actually more powerful. In the current context of Chinese films, it seems that it can only stop there.

In 2025, Jia Zhangke created a sci-fi attempt for the expression of contemporary Chinese realism. After immigrating to Australia in a hurry, the future life in a foreign land, the youthful rebellion of the "rich second generation" Dong Zijian extends all the worries of the moment, the forgetfulness of the next generation's mother tongue, and the extreme discomfort of the previous generation to a foreign country. They are indeed not fully prepared to face it in 2014. Unknown future life. Zhang Aijia has an excellent performance in this segment, which can be called a large-scale incestuous love that connects the emotions of the characters throughout the segment. As for herself, it also confirms the sense of wandering left behind in the post-97 era of Hong Kong. In addition, this paragraph reflects the details of the homage to the Malaysia Airlines 370 incident, just like the successful Olympic bid in "Ren Xiaoyao", and the Wenzhou train accident in "Tian Destiny", which proves that Jia Zhangke is still sophisticated in marking current events.

If you try to compare Jia Zhangke's previous works, all literary and artistic youths can find a familiar sense of loss in the meticulous youth of counties and towns in "Xiao Wu", "Platform" and "Ren Xiaoyao", so as to obtain a high degree of emotional resonance. But in "Old Man in Mountains and Rivers", the narrative of the story is extended to 26 years (you may find something else...), and the emotions of the characters are relatively worn away and cut off by time in stages, and they no longer have such a close integrity. "Mountains and Rivers Old Man" is not just to feel the loss of the old man's symptoms, to correct the name of the cannon fodder knocked down by the times. Even those trend-setters who knocked down others in the past, their current model of success, actually have no sense of security in the face of the huge political empire. It does not hold a simple moral judgment on the development process of this group, nor does it justify the name of the Go West they had to do, but he just gave a more pessimistic description of the current China from a different perspective: using a sentence that is the most popular In other words, even if you are successful now, no matter whether you are Zhang Jinsheng or Jia Yueting, you will be the same, because even if it is only a partial collapse, you will face a future where you have to go West at any time.

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  • Hillary 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    Jia Zhangke's film is quite unexpected. Although there are still many elements that excite readers (pictures, Fenyang, past, present, future, and people who resist knives), what he wraps is always a boring melodrama (especially the first one. part). Nostalgia and nostalgia for time. Zhao Tao's "Mother"-style dance at the end was not as good as expected, and there were no memorable moments or highlights. .

  • Donnell 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Liang Zi said that his goodbye had already been said in the disco, and his father was speechless and didn't even say goodbye, so Tao insisted on accompany his son to bump up and down half a mountain and river, just to say goodbye not in such a hurry. After all, in her son's memory, she became an old friend, and calling from the air was like a previous life. The poor communication between father and son is like the irony of time, and the long span of time is always very sad. The characters who appear for the first time are cherished in the interlaced light and shadow, and concern is the most painful part of love.

Mountains May Depart quotes

  • Mia: The hardest thing about love is caring.

  • Mia: Time doesn't change all things, that is what it has taught me.