Recently I saw a small article saying that the movie "Cold Mountain" should be translated as "Cold Mountain". The reason is that in the poetry collection of Hanshan and Shide, there is a poem "People Asking for the Road of Hanshan", in which the first couplet is: "People ask the road to Hanshan, but the road to Hanshan is blocked." It is said that Hanshan's poetry is very influential abroad. There are two poems on the title page of the novel: "People inquired about the road to Hanshan, but found nothing." This is the English translation of the first couplet, which shows the origin of the original novel and Chinese culture. This reminds me of the movie "Cold Mountain" again.
The rhythm of the film "Cold Mountain" is like an episode in the film, far and long. This is not a life that has been stretched, but an endless longing for the distant, long waiting for longing, that kind of longing It seems impossible, as if it is a kind of persistence integrated into the dream, and I am afraid of waking up, everything will become a dream of Nanke, and there is no possibility of looking forward to it, it is full of melancholy and helplessness! Watching this movie, my whole body and mind were shrouded in a heart-wrenching and anxious wait. I wanted to know the ending in a hurry, and at the same time I was afraid to know the final result.
American movies have a tradition of reflecting human nature in the context of war. The "Gone with the Wind" that I watched back then had the Civil War as its background, and so was "Cold Mountain". It reflects the changes of people in the war years, but there is one element that remains unchanged, that is love! Love does not care about politics, and love does not matter whether it is just or not. In "Cold Mountain", the hero and heroine's yearning for love transcends the shackles of concepts such as treason and deserters under the shadow of war. Of course, they cannot escape the real society's tricks on their fate. Everything is a tragedy.
The film recites an ideal, but the film also reflects reality. The origin of the Civil War was the resistance of the South. Lincoln's justice was not accepted by the South. At this time, democracy and rationality did not work. The film also reflects this enthusiasm for war at the beginning, but when it comes to the battlefield, everything is determined by winning or losing. Winning or losing does not necessarily determine the life and death of an individual, but definitely determines the future survival. At this time, philosophical theories have no effect, but Man's animal nature plays a decisive role.
Just like the waves of the sea always have their ups and downs, no one will be in a frenzy forever in any era. When he calms down, in the face of the reality of comparison, the protagonist returns to his heart, and he thinks of his own. sweetheart. So the story happened.
There are also some aspects of this film that are very interesting. For example, being a soldier from the north and the south in the war, including the militia, is not a good thing, and the people, even those who owe their personal morality, have merit in terms of human nature, and they are basically good people. All the people the hero meets on his way back to Lengshan are like this.
"Cold Mountain" is definitely worth watching.
2009-09-29
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