1942 cinematography

Waiting for 18, two bans and three trials, Xiaogang Feng said: "We were all drunk on the day of the trial!" What kind of film has gone through so many hardships before it finally moved to the screen, which made Feng Director insist on filming for so many years?

-It was released on 20 12 1942.

There is no overly emotional scene in the whole film, but it makes you feel desperate. When a person is homeless, helpless and unable to find hope, the original despair will also appear ordinary.

Let's first look at human nature from the aspect of character design, and then analyze the film in depth to find out the truth and ugliness of human nature under the catastrophe.

0 1, old club

He is a gentle and kind ordinary landlord who works hard just to keep a little family business.

After experiencing the reduction of food, the Japanese bombing, the departure of relatives one by one, the once stubbornness was worn away a little, and the so-called self-esteem turned into the hope of a simple life.

On New Year's Eve, my daughter was willing to sell herself for a few liters of millet, which made him completely abandon his self-esteem and vanity.

However, at this time, the master did not give up all hope. The real despair is that when he arrived in Shaanxi, the only place where he could escape was shot at random, and the last incense was not retained. He was desperate.

Desperate, he only walked to Henan with the idea of being closer to home when he died. However, the little girl finally returned to live with him in Henan. How do they survive without food? What do they eat?

At the end of the film, the girl said that she had never eaten a bite of meat since then.

02, blind deer

Perhaps not many viewers will remember the role of blind deer. His existence is too short. However, in the face of famine, there are so many short-lived little people like him.

The blind deer contrasts with the old club. They are all representatives of the whole film. One was rich and the other was poor. One survived, was fanned into the boiling pot, and never got up again.

Although Hua Zhi waited for him for three days, his death was only one of the "blind deer" in Qian Qian. No one will remember him or even shed too many tears for him. After all, it takes effort to shed tears before starving to death. Before you die, you may die.

03, pegs and cuttlefish

Bolt Zhu and cuttlefish are the two spiritual forces in the film, but the spirit and belief of cuttlefish are constantly being consumed, and Bolt Zhu's spiritual belief is sublimated at the last minute (of course, it may also be to over-judge and highlight the goodness of human nature and the cruelty of the Japanese, otherwise the Japanese will really be a charity to distribute food to the victims).

From a few employers raping her, Hua Zhi resisted desperately, and she was willing to sleep with the bolt as long as two biscuits were needed. In the film, Xunzi and Huahua finally worship the bride with fireworks on New Year's Eve in the city (how ironic the contrast between family happiness in the city and selling women outside the city to beg for rice. )

Hua Zhi said that she hoped that Shuanzhu would have a wife before she died, but she just wanted Shuanzhu to have a wife to sell the next day so that they could all live.

At this time, selling one person can be worth four liters of millet. What is spirit and faith?

04, the owner's daughter

Educated, able to read and write, born in a wealthy family, she is a cultural person with self-esteem, self-cultivation and moral bottom line. However, after experiencing hunger, people around her died one after another. When the owner killed the cat to make soup, she simply said, "I want to drink cat soup, too." Her spiritual world collapsed at this moment.

Tearing up all the books and burning the fire proves that she has completely abandoned her pride as a proud intellectual and admitted that she is just a refugee facing death at any time.

The change of the master's daughter is reasonable, but it is extremely cruel. In order to survive the New Year's Eve, she sold herself for a few liters of millet. /kloc-when she was 0/7 years old, she sold it into a brothel to serve her uncle. She said with tears, "I'm too full to sit down." How sad the listener is.

From the master's daughter, we can see a typical process of human physical and mental degradation. This change is neither evolution nor degradation, but only adapts to the law of existence and abandons its "dross".

But through the plot, we should see the human side and the national side hidden in the darkness, as well as the core ideas that the whole film wants to reflect.

05, the undercurrent, all beings are unequal.

What is "bright" and what is "dark"? Light is placed on the table, and darkness is always obscure.

From this perspective, the "Ming" in the eyes of politicians is diplomacy, the "Ming" in the eyes of generals is war, and the "Ming" in the eyes of rulers is deliberately forged and false. The real "dark" is hidden in death and disappears in the most inconspicuous corner.

Famine will certainly make people starve to death, but what really causes three million people to starve to death is not the corruption and corruption of some people.

Before the catastrophe, all beings were unequal, and only the people at the bottom had equality, which was equality in death. As long as leaders and speculators have the heart, they can still sing and dance at night.

What is morality? Morality is nothing in the face of survival, at least in the eyes of 99.99% people, because we are just people, not gods.

Morality has a strong binding force in China. As China's orthodoxy for thousands of years, Confucius and Mencius have bound the thoughts of countless generations. However, in the face of satiety, neither morality nor sexual shame can restrain anything.

06, the truth of history

History happened in the past, but we live in the present. What is history like? Who recorded it? Bai Xiude in the movie? Is it the real Xiaogang Feng or Liu Zhenyun? Is it? Neither.

The recorder of history is the dead, not the living. At the end of the film, grandma said, "I forgot all these bad things." Why do you mention them? "

Those who survived that generation chose to forget history, but like our generation, we can't forget history from time to time, which is a wake-up call and introspection to our history.

The truth of history is that the deceased is indeed gone, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Only respect for the victims is worth living forever.

1942, the dead are gone, the living can only be forced to be strong, and future generations should remember history and avoid the recurrence of tragedies. (Author: fish-belly white)