How to evaluate the film "Golden Age"

I watched the Golden Age directed by Xu Anhua yesterday. It's very objective, without too much emotion and judgment, just as she said: try to get close to the truth and present Xiao Hong's life.

But I'm still disappointed because I pretend. During the whole process of watching this film, you can almost feel the old face of Xu Anhua. Somewhere outside the camera, the truth is telling: this is an artistic attempt to abandon the glitz of commercial films and reflect more real human nature. ......

However, goals and works are two different things, just as eye height and hand height are two different things.

This is a film that only young people can enjoy. The reason for saying this is aimed at the audience. If you are not a fan of Xiao Hong, and you don't have the gossip of Xiao Hong's 7788, it's easy to find the direction in the chaotic film language, giving birth to an inexplicable sense of being played.

Of course, if the otaku goes to the cinema to pick up girls, it's really wonderful. A few feet were opened under the screen, and they expressed their loyalty wholeheartedly: alas, bitch is melodramatic, but you don't even fart, which has a long-lost freshness.

The person I went with was also illiterate and didn't know Xiao Hong, so I spent three hours in a fog. Keep asking me, why is it so sudden here, who is this and how did this come back?

Things ... He was almost mad at Aunt Xu. So I became a volunteer for this film, doing the aftermath for the unfinished business of this film-with enough power to fascinate Obama, bring down Altman and melt Oreo.

Voice, in the rough plot, paved the way for him, guessed those twists and turns, and hit what.

Golden Age has created a new way of expression, which combines direct narration, flashback and interpolation, and combines dialogue, narration and monologue. The main line is Xiao Hong's life, but time and space change from time to time, and a plot is inserted for a while, and a flashback begins decades later, and a person's mouth supplements the present.

This is an artificial imitation of this documentary.

Like documentaries, mockumentary's Golden Age also uses a lot of documentary photography techniques, such as interviewing relatives and friends, historical footage, letter retelling, self-narration, etc., to construct events and try to confuse the false with the true. But both the witness and the recollection are actors, and the creative method is drama. Moving around, copying and imitating, and even making up are not pleasing to the eye.

Often a relationship is going on, and suddenly it gets stuck, and then a person comes out of nowhere, rushes into the camera and starts to comment on that woman in Na Yue that year, abruptly pulling you out of the play. Damn it, this is a typical situation where you can't say a good word. It has nothing to do with your ability, but is ambiguous with your heart.

Moreover, it only has a documentary structure, but it is unnatural, objective and unfair. Its control of the overall situation-times, people and literature-has become a modeled background. In the final analysis, it is Xiao Hong's sex.

This is Xiao Hong's sorrow. She has been actively choosing bad luck all her life and exiled herself to the ill-fated unknown. She just wants to be the master of her own life, so as not to be framed and become the consumption of a patriarchal society.

Products. Unexpectedly, today, her figure, communication and private life are still more attractive to the public and more representative of her value than her talent. Even Xu Anwar, who has great sympathy for women, has not been spared.

"Golden Age" was originally my most anticipated movie on 20 14, because of Xiao Hong, Tang Wei and Xu Anhua. I didn't expect this. There were few people in the cinema that day. Someone opened it in the first half hour.

Initial exit. After more than an hour, the cinema was completely empty, leaving only the two of us, stubbornly nailed to the red leather chair, resisting Aunt Xu's verbosity and illogicality, and resisting the cinema staff who expected us to leave early.

Be a staff member.

I understand the departure of the audience. The film is not good-looking, coupled with obvious cross-talk and untimely monologues, making it a complacent long speech. Finally, I can't help but think bitterly:

Xu Anhua and Li Yong are too narcissistic. In a sense, "Golden Age" only satisfied their artistic original ambition, but I don't know where they forgot their initial intention of telling stories to the audience.

Perhaps, some people will say that this is not a low-level feature film, and people are playing biographies. But does biography have to be so upside down? Richard linklater also made a documentary, and he invited one.

Actor, 12 years, filmed an era and touched countless people. Compared with the flashy Golden Age, Youth is naturally like the jade of time.

In the early years, I was scared when I saw Xiao Hong's life and death field. Purulent blood and tears flooded, lunatics and lame people ran rampant, and shit and urine were flying everywhere, which fiercely pushed "the strength of the people in the north fighting for life and their struggle for death" to me, making me unable to play for several days.

There is an important reason why I can't play: those heavy and dirty realities are all the villages I have experienced. Yue Ying has the mirror image of Yue Ying, and the golden branch has the corresponding golden branch, which is the twin brother of success. Wang Po has the reference of Wang Po, and even there is a crooked-neck tree at the entrance of the village, which grows in front of the adobe house where I was born.

Although in the second half of Life and Death, the dog's tail continues to be marten in an attempt to attach to some social trend of thought, I still like her very much and look for her books and biographies.

Of course, Xiao Hong is talented. At the age of 23, she already knows the cruelty of the world. Her description of the countryside is full of suffocating wildness. Writing about life is difficult, accurate and demanding.

With the penetrating power of steel needle, scabs and pustules can be picked up with a slight poke. Even writing about love in March in a small town is self-destructive stubbornness, such as the flame in cotton wool, which burns in the dark and will be suppressed and burned to death until it is released.

At present, it has become ashes, leaving only a sigh, stuck in people's throat, and spent half his life fainting and vomiting.

Then, I learned about her life, including her mother's early death, her father's cruelty, abandonment, elopement, pregnancy, abandonment, gossip and supercilious look in the city, hunger and cold, poverty and illness, giving away newborns, leaving home and love.

People are deceived, abused, remarried with their ex-children, war, infant death, escape, terminal illness, premature death ... There are many sufferings in the world, all of which are spread out in front of her life, waiting for her to appreciate them one by one.

Taste.

3 1 year-old, she died young, and when she was on the verge of death, her favorite person was not around.

"I have suffered a lot of supercilious look and cold reception in my life, so I will die first, unwilling, unwilling ..." These are her last words when she died alone in a foreign land. Among them, it is sad and frightening. One of them is unwilling and makes people sad.

Xiao Hong is so pitiful that young artists can easily regard her as their suffering sister. She loves because of love, hates because of hate, laments that she can't shelter her from the wind and rain when she is hungry, and gives her a music circle.

But in Xiao Hong's life materials, we can easily find her unlovable in her sadness. Xu Guangping blamed her, saying that she always came uninvited, so she sat for half a day, disturbing Lu Xun's rest, and even Lu Xun was seriously ill. She thinks it has something to do with Xiaohong.

After the baby was born, the nurse hugged her and said, she shook her hand and said, "No! No ... no ... I don't want it! "

Xiao Jun, many years after Xiao Hong's death, recalled her: "As a literary partner and comrade-in-arms for six years, I miss her;" As a talented, accomplished and influential writer, I feel sorry for her unfortunate death. If measured by the meaning of a wife, I don't regret her leaving me at all. "

Come to think of it carefully, there are many reasons for Xiao Hong's tragedy. Of course, there are also unavoidable reasons, such as troubled times, war, indifference to the world, ignorant tradition, thin possibility of survival, authoritarian patriarchy and male chauvinism. However, it is undeniable that it is more due to her own reasons: her fragile heart, morbid temperament and self-esteem lead to her self-mutilation and self-degradation.

Why do you meet uncomfortable people?

Why have you never had a job?

Why do you always want a man, Lu Zhenshun, Wang Enjia, Xiao Jun, Duanmu Hongliang, Lu Xun, Sikkim and Luo, to accompany you on the road of freedom and independence?

Why do you get pregnant with another man's child every time you get married?

Why do you feel sorry for the people, but you have repeatedly abandoned your children and even been suspected of killing babies, but you have never expressed regret?

All these make me feel that Xiao Hong is a collection of paradoxes. She pursues independence, but she has never been able to stand on her own feet; She yearns for freedom, but always sets limits for herself; She is extremely affectionate and selfish; she

Resisting patriarchy and autocracy has become another victim of male chauvinism; She said, "Thousands of children are starving to death. Why can't we see them?" But she let her newborn baby cry with cold under the bite of mosquitoes.

For five whole days.

Xiao Hong's biggest problem is her lack of self-adjustment will. The saddest thing about lack of self-discipline is that you take what you are forced to do as what you want to do; You take the life you hate as the life you want. This made her call for self-liberation all her life, but she landed in the same place. Give up and look again and again, look again and give up.

No matter in the past or now, women's liberation is based on self-independence.

On Tianya and Douban, there are always some literate women who send long articles saying that they quit their jobs and went on a trip. They spent hundreds of dollars, strolling from the seaside to the castle, flying from the snow-capped mountains to the desert, and leaving stories all the way. But we all know that if you don't open your wallet, you have to open your thighs. If you don't swipe your card, you must swipe it

So is Xiao Hong. She slept with Xiaojun the first day she met him. At that time, Xiaojun was married and became pregnant in July. Once women are not independent in economy and personality, they are easy to panic and eat. Any man who comes near her will hold on to him like an octopus with eight claws. Even, for the sake of unimpeded dependence, she abandoned her own daughter.

This liberation is just a slogan of male correction. In the final analysis, it is still a slave, a plaything of male power, a lack of self-esteem and self-reliance, or making a living by sex, which has nothing to do with women's liberation.

Because she was not independent and later lived with Duanmu, Xiao Hong didn't get the care and respect she deserved.

I remember that Jin Yi went back to see her. She was writing Lu Xun's memoirs. Duanmu is sleeping. When he heard the voice, he rubbed his eyes and began to get up. At the same time, he said in a slightly contemptuous tone: "If you write such an article again, I'll read it, I'll read it …" He did read a little, and then smiled contemptuously: "It's also worth writing. What is there to write about? ......"

Of course, three obedience and four virtues are annoying, and it is also disgusting to set up a marriage. Everyone wants to escape from a mediocre and boring life. However, when you are carried away by big words such as freedom, independence and liberation, please think calmly about one question: If you leave, can you really support yourself?

There is no self-reliance ability and self-improvement responsibility. Then, you are probably another Nora. After leaving, there are only two ways in front of you: fall or come back.

Xiaohong fell when she didn't come back. From one person to another, from one person to another, from one abandoned person to another abandoned person.

In other words, she actually came back, starting from the male-dominated world and returning to the male-dominated world to maintain her short life as a long or short sex slave.