Movies with a strong sense of the times can always make people feel the insignificance of little people in front of the wheel of history. They are either dragged around by their necks or whipped away with whips, like "Alive" and "Farewell My Concubine"; The person is on the tide of the times and drifts with the flow, either to seek pleasure in the cracks of stealing and slipping, or to let the wind and rain hit me and stand still, just like "Sunny Days", "Blind Well", "East Palace West Palace" ; And "Balzac and the Little Tailor", like children who fell into the trap of history, the changes of the times are just the embellishment of their lives, they are the masters of fate, and any changes are just uninvited guests.
The film tells the story of the movement of educated youth to go to the mountains and the countryside in the 1970s. Luo Ming played by Chen Kun and Ma Jianling played by Liu Ye came to a remote mountain village in western Hunan. The little tailor played by Zhou Xun attracted the attention of the two educated youths with her beautiful appearance and lively and lovely personality, and the three soon became friends. Luo Ming and Ma Jianling both fell in love with this generous and naive girl who had a thirst for knowledge, and more and more stories made the little tailor's spiritual life undergo earth-shaking changes...
In contrast, the love of a man that is always moving and still is always difficult to choose: Luo Ming is clever with a good plan, peeking at a girl taking a bath, stealing a book, repairing her teeth with a sewing machine, stealing the forbidden fruit, and making up movie plots for the villagers. With the arrogance that I can do what I want as long as I don't get caught, I create my own paradise in a small mountain village; Ma Jianling's steady and down-to-earth approach is overshadowed by the outgoing and enthusiastic Luo Ming, who silently transcribes his favorite abstracts, using The sound of the violin appeases the little tailor who had an abortion, sells his beloved violin just to make the newly recovered little tailor happy, and jumps into the river after 27 years just to see if the paper boat in the river will have the name of the little tailor , his love is deep and far-reaching, making people remember longer, but regrets are often born from such people.
Under the lingering clouds and mists of the Phoenix Mountain in western Hunan, the love of young men and women is also natural and innocent. Chen Kun and Zhou Xun in the water are like two free fish chasing, entwining and combining, with the hidden wildness in the mountains. The circle of water grass skirt around Zhou Xun's waist is the answer to the riddle folk song. Many years ago, Ma Jianling was embarrassed when she heard it, but when she talked to Luo Ming many years later, she laughed tacitly. Under the immersion and enlightenment of foreign novels, under the enlightenment of "Madame Bovary", "Aunt Belle", "Red and Black", "Old Man Gao" and other materialistic misery, a wider, unfamiliar and more dangerous life The world unfolded in the minds of the three mountain village children, which also changed the life trajectory of the little tailor.
The little tailor, a beautiful girl without a name, could be any girl, with innate simplicity and a beautiful fantasy of the future, walked into the dark forest of the city, from Luo Ming's narration 27 years later, she From the mountain village to the county seat, from the county seat to Shenzhen, and from Shenzhen to Hong Kong, there has been no news since then. It is unknown what the beautiful but illiterate girl survived by leaving the mountain for the first time, but fortunately she really went to a richer and more civilized city every step of the way, making the little tailor just one of the mountain villages from now on. The code name is the silent memory submerged by the torrent of history, and every girl with desire has her face.
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