Haizi wrote "Sister, I don't care about human beings tonight, I just want you" in his poem "Diary Delingha". After watching Yang Dechang's movie "Terrorist", I just think that Haizi is too young after all.
Some people seem to be forever young, such as Lin Zhiying, such as Hai Zi, who has always been dressed in fresh clothes, angry horses, and pure heart; and some people seem to have never been young, such as Zhao Benshan, such as Li Lizhong, the hero of this movie, when you meet him, he That's it. Simple and dutiful, slow and cowardly, if such a person married a young literary woman, where would their marriage go? This is the story that "The Terrorist" wants to tell.
Talking about Yang Dechang, first talking about Haizi, watching a movie, and then thinking of poetry, to be precise, this should be the usual way of imitating Yang Dechang's movies. It is obviously about the fission of marriage, but the title of the film is called "Terrorist". It is clear that the siren is blaring for five minutes at the beginning, and the battle of wits and courage is waiting for you. The grass-snake gray line, multi-line narrative, create a seemingly unrelated cold atmosphere bit by bit, and then stab it down suddenly at the end, and stop abruptly. This is the inherent style and unique charm of Yang Dechang's films.
At the beginning of the film, the troubled girl Shu'an narrowly escaped from the police's strict search. She broke her leg and fell into a coma on the road. She was taken to the hospital by Xiaoqiang, a photographer who followed her all the way. The opening of the movie will make people misunderstand that this is a clichéd romance drama for young men and women, but these two handsome men and beautiful women with clear faces and distinct personalities are used by Yang Dechang as a needle and thread to connect the plot, and the other is just using him. His hobby of photography made him a pointless spectator.
In Yang Dechang's films, the protagonists are often amateurs, unremarkable, born and raised in this country, which gives people a sense of real life. Slowness is also the way he tells his story. The multi-line narrative that went hand in hand in the previous hour makes you unable to figure out the real protagonist of the story, but in the seemingly everyday life, undercurrents can't help surging.
Compared with the thrilling appearance of the rebellious girl, the appearances of Zhou Yufang and Li Lizhong were much more boring, even dull and depressing. A middle-aged couple with little in common, the wife is a writer, and she is thinking wildly because she can't submit the manuscript before the deadline. The husband is a hospital clerk. After seven years of marriage, the husband's career has not improved, and the wife's talent has also dried up under the vulgar repetition of marriage. Husband Li Lizhong is simple and honest, and he is compromising to his wife, but his wife Zhou Yufang regards the daily life, monotony and silence as the pain of his creation, "I stayed in that small room and thought about those poetic sentences, because it can Let me forget the pain, you still don't understand it, you will never understand it," she said about her marriage relationship with her husband.
But the appearance of the wife's old lover makes the relationship between the man and woman more dangerous. Originally, it was because of the departure of the old lover. In addition to the pain and despair, he hurriedly chose to marry the current husband Li Lizhong, and the husband did not know about it, so the next story seemed logical. Yang Dechang once again stripped the process of a woman's derailment. To be more specific, he used his straight man's thinking to arouse every vulnerable nerve of the audience, but he was calm and emotionless, which made the audience experience emotional indignation, but the color of the camera persisted. Indifferent, the narrative rhythm is still slow, and even background music is not given.
Li Lizhong, who has been kept in the dark, still strives hard. It seems that God takes pity on him. Li Lizhong, who has always followed the rules, finally waited for his promotion opportunity. He mustered up the courage to frame his friends and colleagues to the director. You need to pay more attention to the things in here." It seems that the team leader is already in the bag. Just when the audience thought that the so-called "frustrated in love and proud in officialdom", Shu'an, who was confined at home, followed the Yellow Pages to make prank calls and called Li Lizhong's house, falsely claiming that she was Li's lover and was pregnant. While Zhou Yufang was surprised, Shu'an hung up unexpectedly, completely disrupting the writer's hesitant change of heart.
Li Lizhong once again became the object of being played with by life. Zhou Yufang waved his sleeves and did not take away a cloud, leaving Li Lizhong alone to overturn the river. "What did I do wrong again? I didn't listen to you about what I did. Look at the things in the house that I didn't follow your will...". In this way, he finally had the joy of being promoted, and he became not only to endure the pain of breaking up with his wife, but also to face the conscience condemnation of his good friend for leaving because of his false accusation, and also to bear the criticism of his teammates for his report on hacking. It was rumored that the director, who had originally hoped to take refuge in the director who served the dishes, was eventually played by the director, and the position of the team leader that seemed to be in the bag was finally lost. On the other side of the moral scale, Zhou Yufang, who ran away from home, got inspiration from that phone call and wrote a dark novel exposing the relationship between husband and wife, which won an award and became famous. The extremely useless Li Lizhong went to the company to persuade his wife to go home.
The suppression arranged by Yang Dechang finally drove the cowardly Li Lizhong to a dead end. The only climax of the film comes at the end of the film with a Magas-style revenge. The sad and forbearing Li Lizhong tricked a police classmate into drunk, stole his gun, and killed the director who got up early in the morning. Hair; kill the wife's lover, destroy the dry and pull the rotten, in one go. To Zhou Yufang, who was paralyzed beside the bed, she didn't even give a single look of contempt, and walked away. In this way, under the constant tricks of life, the honest man finally transformed into a cold-blooded killer, a terrorist, who killed one person in ten steps, and never stayed behind.
Unfortunately, the sudden sound of gunfire awakened the cruel nightmare and shattered the ending of the movie that we expected or took for granted. All of this revenge is just for Yang Dechang to push the moral pleasure imagination to the heights and then fall to pieces. In fact, the desperate Li Lizhong just went to an old friend for a drink and told him that he was promoted and everything was fine. The next morning, he killed himself in the bathroom with a friend's gun, spraying blood on the curtains behind him.
In the end, the sad weakling had nothing, and he could only save himself in a helpless way.
Li Lizhong shot himself to death and broke the heartstrings of the audience. Cai Qin's soothing and warm voice sounded at the right time, "Please pretend that you will be reluctant to bear me, please put away your indifference for the time being..." The mood of the movie was also continued, and the meaning was still unfinished. This is the end of the movie that makes people feel emotional and haunted for a long time.
"My hands are empty at the end of the grassland, and I can't hold a teardrop when I grieve." Great movies, like great literature, have that indescribable desolation. Yang Dechang, like Haizi, looks cold on the surface. Compared with Hou Hsiao-hsien's attention to the times and the pursuit of rich local films, Yang Dechang seems to only focus on those little people in Taipei, such as firewood, rice, oil and salt, and mediocrity. Similarly, in contrast to Chen Zhongshi's large-scale critical literature such as rafters and Yue Linyuan, Haizi has always only expressed himself and fed the horses and chopping wood, but this did not hinder their ardent desire for human nature and society, so the ruthless Yang Dechang finally shot In the warm "Yi Yi", Hai Zi, who is independent from the world, finally chooses to face the sea, and the spring flowers are blooming.
Please pretend you'll miss me, who doesn't want to embrace life.
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