I miss the sunshine in my heart, but why always push you away

Griffin 2021-12-27 08:02:05

Yesterday, I finally watched Lao Li’s new work, the hit "Burning" that won the Fabisci Prize in the main competition unit of Cannes. Li Cangdong's "Burning" still has full stamina like his previous works. The part of the movie we saw is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the layout of the whole movie can be said to be a grass snake gray line, which stretches for thousands of miles. I always want to say something after reading it. I haven't read the original Murakami work. I just talk about my understanding in terms of the film text. I can't write a short review. I write it here. There is no logical impression. Forgive me.

It is still the class differences that Li Cangdong likes to express, the alienation of people's hearts, and the bad life of small people. Flying a few leaves on the bottom layer makes you happy, and the upper layer likes the pleasure of burning and destroying.

Huimei is a representative of a kind of girls. They seek a more quality life. They must travel abroad to save money and have a spirit and body on the road. They yearn for "a higher level of hunger", but they are clearly struggling with "a lower level of hunger", so they are eager to integrate into the upper-level life and feel different novelties.

The so-called high and low levels and hunger are physical hunger and spiritual hunger, and they are both reasons and motivations that support people to live. Huimei did not choose the same way of life as her mother and sister, and both of them did not understand each other's choices. This kind of estrangement between relatives is actually more intuitive than social estrangement.

Huimei's pursuit of this way of life, for the time being called "impractical", in fact, it is this pursuit that harmed her. The bad guys like Ben specialize in girls who yearn for this kind of "quality" life. Huimei is just one of the trophies that have fallen under the hands of the "ben" one after another. Li Cangdong used two awkward scenes to express this sense of distance between classes. In fact, there are not only the urgency of the girls who want to blend in, but also the difficulty of blending in, and the temptation to gradually progress. Two "embarrassing" and two yawns represent too much.

In fact, Huimei was selected not only because of her yearning for "the death of Jiangnan", there is another factor, she is not cared by others. At Zhong Xiu's house, when the two were talking about burning a greenhouse, Ben said that he would step on a spot every time he burned a greenhouse. This time he specifically came to step on a spot. In connection with the following text, in fact, the "greenhouse" that was "burnt" this time is actually Huimei, and the point he stepped on was where she came from, and whether anyone cared about her. The answer is no. I knew the answer at the time. After the disappearance of Huimei, Zhong Xiu learned about Huimei's situation when Zhongxiu went to Huimei's mother's shop. It was very cruel. Huimei is even more lonely than we saw.

Li Cangdong likes to use small events to influence the setting of the butterfly effect of life's trajectory. This is the same. In my opinion, Huimei's tragedy was also influenced by a few "small things". Huimei shouldn't be pretty when she was a child. From the beginning, Huimei said that she had plastic surgery. It is easy for family members and neighbors to ignore such a little girl, and even after falling into the well for a long time, no one noticed it until Zhong Xiu appeared to rescue her. However, after the entire middle school stage, only one sentence was said to Huimei, that is, "You are so ugly." This is the first time to zoom in and out. Huimei's subsequent plastic surgery and choosing another life should have something to do with the words of the person who cares. Later, when they met again, Zhong Xiu forgot whether it was a dry well or that sentence. When Huimei came back from Africa, I would send her off. Zhong Xiu took the initiative to take down Huimei's luggage. Although this kind of "cowardice" is also a kind of push far, but I think the second time in the true sense is after Huimei finished flying the leaves and dancing naked in the evening breeze in the sunset. After Huimei woke up, Zhong Xiu said, "How can you undress in front of a man? You look like a prostitute like this." It was also a word, so Huimei left without saying a word without looking back. Huimei may think that Zhong Xiu doesn't understand what she is after, the beauty and meaning of life, the higher level of "hunger". Although Huimei didn't know that her momentary release and her pursuit were actually illusory and unreal.

Ben's routine is the same as that of the pimp, so Huimei has stepped into the abyss step by step. The suspense created by Li Cangdong is very catching. Since Huimei's disappearance, tension has been lingering, worrying about Huimei's destiny. I have always thought that if it is a simple pimp, it might be a better result, but one detail makes me not optimistic. Zhong Xiu’s mother said “I’ll sell organs if I’m younger”, which made me feel even more frightened. When Lenovo Huimei called Zhong Xiu, I was even more worried about what happened to Huimei.

That was Hui Mei reaching out to Zhong Xiu again, and only Zhong Xiu cared about her in the vast world. This time, Zhong Xiu didn't push her far away, but he exhausted all his energy, but he could only exchange memories for half a lifetime. Even if you kill Ben and take off your clothes and set him on fire with Ben, you can't get back your permanent loss. For him, burning does not bring the pleasure of destruction. I disagree, Ben evoked the burning desire in Zhong Xiu's heart, and Zhong Xiu was the next Ben to say that. Zhong Xiu once tried to light a greenhouse, and when he got up, he put out the flames, which shows that Li Cangdong still has a spectrum in his heart.

Huimei's room faces north, it is cloudy and cold, and only the sunlight reflected from the viewing platform can be seen in a day, which is fleeting.

Zhong Xiu saw the rare sunshine here, it may be a rare warm moment in their lives, enough to reminisce for a lifetime.

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Burning quotes

  • Shin Hae-mi: Do you know Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert, Africa It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people. Hungry English is hunger, Little hungry and great hungry. Little hungry people are physically hungry, The great hungry is a person who is hungry for survival. Why do we live, What is the significance of living? People who are always looking for these answers. This kind of person is really hungry, They called the great hungry.