After all, people are not vegetation photographs.

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This book is Sanmao's first original screenplay in China. It describes a story of joys and sorrows of all China people in the turbulent background of modern China history. In fact, inadvertently revealed a sad and endless love story, but also a confession of Sanmao's own soul. A person's first work often inadvertently reveals a confession of his soul.

Author: San Mao

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Shao Hua was kept at home because her father refused to let her marry her lover, Xiao Jian, and attempted suicide. After his father died, Shao Hua ran away from home to write novels for a living. Before long, Shao Hua, who only cared about feelings but not politics, fell in love with Zhang Nengcai, a cultural official who worked for the Japanese. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Neng disappeared. After many twists and turns, Shao Hua found him in a farmhouse, only to find that he lived with a widowed woman. Shao Hua returned to his girlfriend Yue Feng in despair. Soon, Yue Feng was also killed for attending an anti-government rally with her boyfriend Xiao Yong, who was enthusiastic about the student movement. After Shao Hua met Zhang Nengcai, who was poor and hiding everywhere, Zhang Nengcai happened to be falsely accused by the Kuomintang of revenging his old neighbor's "little wife" for killing her husband. Shao Hua was hit by a car while running away. On the eve of liberation, businessman Yu Boss exchanged gold bars for two passes to take the last boat to Taiwan Province. He wanted to leave the mainland with Shao Hua, but Shao Hua put Zhang Nengcai on the boat. Forty years later, Zhang can go back to the mainland to find a lover, and only get a novel Magnolia written by Shao Hua.

Behind the scenes production

This is based on a work by writer San Mao. The film describes the emotional hardships experienced by a pair of young intellectuals from acquaintance to parting in the social environment at that time. In shooting and the use of lens, music and images, it is very different from previous films, and many experimental techniques are used. With the heroine's mental hysteria to the appearance of the later chapters, the rhythm of the film gradually becomes light, and when she enters Where Are You Going, she immediately turns to deep. The film won eight awards in the 27th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards: best drama, best director, best actress, best styling design, best photography and best music.

The film depicts the affair of children in troubled times, and the picture is quite beautiful. Brigitte Lin plays Shao Hua's innuendo to Zhang Ailing, a female writer. She grew up in a feudal family without father's love. When I was a girl, I was imprisoned by my father and became a writer in anger. She won the admiration of readers and they soon fell in love. Zhang Neng, on the other hand, is a civil servant who works for the Japanese and fled to the countryside because of the exposure of his "traitor" identity. Their love road is this rugged road, until the fall of the mainland finally faces where you will go. Director Yim Ho attached great importance to this, and the location shot in Chinese mainland also increased the attraction of the story. The match between Qin and Han Dynasties and Brigitte Lin is a typical perfect match, and Maggie Cheung, who plays a good friend, also steals the camera.

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It is difficult to help yourself in troubled times.

In the dead of night, when we suddenly look back, we can easily find that in our dusty memory, there are always some people who we have been vaguely thinking about; There are always some things that we always want to forget but can't forget; There are always some movies, but once we think of them, we can't help but sigh ... For me, Rolling Red Dust is such a movie.

The main background of the film is the middle and late 1940s, when the situation in modern China was turbulent. In such a special environment, it is not easy for people to live. If you want to talk about any feelings, it seems to be a very extravagant thing. However, people are not vegetation, who can be ruthless? Once you move your heart and your feelings, you often can't control yourself.

They say that there is no way to be affectionate in troubled times. In fact, blood debt is more affectionate. And "Rolling in the World of Red Dust" is such a story of troubled times.

The heroine's name is Shen. She has a good family, is talented and has no concept of money. All her life, she was born to love. If she loved an ordinary man, she might not have to bear that tragic fate. However, I don't know if this is luck or misfortune. She finally fell in love with the man named Zhang Nengcai, and her life became ups and downs.

She is very lucky, because it is difficult to find a bosom friend in the vast sea of people, and the talent happens to be the one who understands her. Although Shao Hua was a good girl before, she lost her mother when she was a teenager, and her father was extremely indifferent to her, so in her heart, she was very eager to love and be loved. Zhang Nengcai is gentle, mature and steady, polite and considerate, and takes care of her in every way. She knows what she loves and needs without saying too much, so she buys it quietly and surprises her. Spiritually, he is her loyal reader, and a few words have resonated ... how can such a person who knows the cold and the hot not let her move?

However, it is also her misfortune to meet talents. First, because the identity of the former is too sensitive and special: he is a "traitor"; Secondly, because he is calm and cowardly, he lacks sense of responsibility. For him, Shao Hua was accused and bullied by thousands of people. For him, Shao Hua resolutely left everything behind, and Wan Li fell in love ... She wanted nothing but that he loved her! But who would have thought that he failed her after all. Like a dream, life is heartbreaking, and empty tears fall on the fallen flowers. If physical trauma can be cured with drugs and time, then mental trauma can't be easily healed with a few words of "I'm sorry".

However, the more serious the injury, the more unforgettable this relationship will be. For such love, Shao Hua's love is warm and pure, just like a moth to a fire, even if it is burned black and blue, it will not regret it; As for talent, it's not that he doesn't love Shao Hua, but that he is far more realistic than Shao Hua. The vicissitudes he encountered in the process of growing up and the particularity of his identity made him confused and even afraid of the future-after all, he was just an ordinary person who drifted with the tide in troubled times. How can he stand Shao Hua's affection? So in that love battle, Shao Hua tried his best to go forward, but he was losing ground and finally lost.

In sharp contrast to this talent is the boss Yu. He looks vulgar, vulgar and narrow-minded ... from a distance, it's disgusting. However, when Shao Hua was bullied, he waved a saber to protect her; When Shao Hua was down and out, he took good care of her; When Shao Hua was injured, he often came to visit her; When Shao Hua failed to board the passenger ship, he jumped ashore and vowed to share life and death with her!

On the other hand, what did he do for Shao Hua? ! -What a wonderful irony! Don't let such a man go!

In fact, Shao Hua didn't make up her mind to make a clean break with the past, but years later, in that chaotic street, she collapsed because of her sign language "I love you". She still loves him anyway. For the sake of love, she resolutely left the chance of life to a cowardly man.

Letting go in the sea of people at the dock is a parting of life and death for Nengcai and Hua Shao. For the next forty years, energy was spent in endless memories and regrets; And Shao Hua, in what mood did she face that long and lonely life alone? We don't know.