aッq胜gnaizezmㄘq胜gnaize zoaッgā│ryingce33188420822011-09-15 11:30:11bn┳z亍wkà颔〖p thick?tz亍kà颔〖lтlonely "Peacock", a lonely life. After watching the preview screening of "Peacock" in Beijing on January 15th this year, I ranked this movie as the best domestic movie I have seen in 2005. I don’t think there will be a domestic movie this year that will impress me as much as "Peacock". At that time, I really wanted my mother to watch this movie on the big screen in the cinema. As a peer of the protagonist in the movie, she would have a special feeling when watching this movie. This wish came true today at the Oscar Hall in the Star Film City. The same era background from the 1970s to the 1980s, the same typical small town in northern China, the same cruel youth and growth, and even the same use of medium shots and long shots, made me unconsciously compare Gu Changwei's "Peacock" "Compared with "Platform", Jia Zhangke's work that once shocked me, although compared with "Platform", Gu Changwei's investment of 15 million in this film can be called an astronomical figure, while "Platform" is slightly The apparently rough image quality is more like a courageous experimental work, but what makes me admire and excited is that in this noisy and impetuous era, there are still filmmakers like Jia Zhangke and Gu Changwei who are persistently adhering to their own artistic concepts. , to shoot this kind of film that captures the development of Chinese society and the life and growth experience of ordinary people with a sincere attitude, and makes a record for myself, for that era, and for the people who lived in that era. Everyone's life is like a peacock in a cage. While being watched, one is also watching others. However, the real prosperity, liveliness, beauty and sadness are often inadvertently missed in the process. Looking back suddenly, all the experiences, whether they were flashy or lonely, have become smoke and clouds of the past, and I can't bear to look back. Just like Zhang Ailing wrote about the feeling when looking at old photos in her novel - "Photographs are just broken shells of life; the years have passed, and the melon seeds have been swallowed one by one. Everyone knows the taste, and it is left to them." What everyone saw was the black and white melon seed shells scattered all over the ground. ’ I won’t introduce the plot, so as not to offend those who have never seen this film, I will talk about a few scenes that particularly moved me. 1. On the streets of Anyang on a quiet and lazy summer afternoon, housewives carrying vegetable baskets were walking in twos and threes. Suddenly, the music gradually started playing. My sister, a puritan-like idealist, who dreamed of being a paratrooper, played a song. A 28-year-old car appeared on the street, with a homemade parachute tied to the back of the car. The parachute flying in the wind looked so dazzling on the monotonous and simple streets of Anyang. This surreal move of the sister gave this plain and restrained film The film brought a small climax, but the music and bright parachutes were heartbreakingly beautiful; 2. A family was making briquettes in the yard, and suddenly a heavy rain came unexpectedly, and the whole family watched the briquettes being made. The cakes and coal noodles that had not yet been processed were washed away by the rain. The desolation and helplessness of life were vividly reflected at that moment, just like the heavy rain in the film; 3. The mother bought the brother in front of the whole family. Put the poisonous rat poison into the water cup, and then caught the goose raised by his brother for testing, to show that he knew that his brother tried to poison his brother because he disliked his mentally retarded brother and was jealous of his parents' love for him. The poisoned goose twitched violently. Along with it, the mother also cried out in pain and twitched her face, as well as the frightened eyes of the whole family, which were shown in almost stagnant slow motion and sad and sad music, allowing people to experience the cruelty and cruelty beneath the surface of a peaceful life. Undercurrent; 4. My sister saw the once high-spirited and heroic young soldier on the street. At that time, he had become a hero and had been tempered by life into an ordinary middle-aged man. My sister stepped forward and said to him, "I just talked to him." My brother said that you will love me forever for the rest of your life.

’ The man was stunned by his sister’s words. He swallowed the bun in his mouth and asked in surprise: ‘What’s your surname? 'My sister left with a smile, and soon she covered her face and cried bitterly at the tomato and vegetable stall. Zhang Jingchu's performance was so wonderful. The crying expression was so beautiful and cruel, which deeply moved me; 5. Cold winter, deserted zoo In the film, the peacock unfolds its beautiful bird screen alone in the deserted zoo after the three families of the Gao family passed by each other. What the audience saw for a long time was the peacock's buttocks, and they did not turn around until the end. Let people see its beautiful feathers. Wang Shuo, known as a literary scoundrel, once said: 'A peacock is very beautiful when its tail is open, but when you turn it around, it's its butthole! ’ The same is true in life. -------------------------------------------------- -- The brilliant moment after the screen crash of "Peacock". If you think that all the memories of your youth are "Sunny Days", then please don't watch "Peacock" - because there is no sweaty smell of newborn calves fighting and making trouble here. , there is no ambiguity of boys playing with condoms, and no laughter and curses without knowing the taste of sorrow. There are just childhood dreams hidden in the heart that no longer dare to mention, and the first love. So, when you see your sister (played by Zhang Jingchu) in the movie riding a bicycle and holding a rotten parachute and laughing wantonly, you know that what is flying in the sky is our love and dreams. Maybe it will not land or even crash, but when it flies above our heads, it is so beautiful and beautiful enough to miss it for a lifetime. I don't want to use the words "shattered dream" to describe this movie. Even though my sister lost her unforgettable first love, her brother (played by Feng Huan) married a lame man, and my brother (played by Lu Yulai) became a softie. He is a ruffian, but the scene of the peacock opening its tail at the end of the film seems to tell us that maybe life is getting further and further away from the ideals of childhood, but there is an ever-present color behind it. Just as we all know that a peacock will open its tail, it does not mean that we will see the splendid opening moment of it every time. Only when we suddenly look back, we will find a rainbow flashing on the way. The three-part narrative slowly tells the story of three brothers and sisters living in Heyang City in the late 1970s. The story of the sister, who is a female representative, takes up almost half of the film, and is also the most lonely part. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that women are born to be unrealistic dreamers, and my sister's loneliness is closely related to her persistence. Zhang Jingchu, who was wearing a white shirt and black skirt, looked simple and spotless, with a stubbornness that never stopped on her face. The girl who slept on the rooftop dreaming about becoming a paratrooper and dedicating her first love to a man in military uniform was so simple that she seemed a little far away from the world. How could she have given the love of her life to an unknown person just because of the parachute she flew down and the military uniform she wore? Or how could she have almost given up her life because she failed to realize her dream of becoming a paratrooper. Different from the arrogance of "Sunny Days" ten years ago, my sister is as quiet as a glass of water. Her thoughts are buried under the glass and only the shadow of the water can be seen but no movement. Every ups and downs in her heart can only be glimpsed in her silent resistance. . For the sake of dreams, even the calmest people can go crazy sometimes. We saw the scene of my sister riding a bicycle and flying her homemade parachute. This was the happiest moment in her life - a small northern city in the late 1970s. The girl was driving down the street like crazy, with an unbridled smile on her face and a huge parachute behind her. In the end, her dream failed to come true, and she could only protect it with her remaining persistence. When she took off her pants to regain her parachute, and when she met her first love again many years later, her persistence shocked everyone. At this moment, we began to suspect that the dream has never left us, but we are not that persistent. The story of my brother seems to be the happiest, because he is a fool with incomplete intelligence. As the saying goes, fools are lucky, it is probably not a lie. The parents feel guilty all their lives because of their son's shortcomings, and they just want to give him the best. My mother performs acupuncture on the top of my brother's head every night. Every year during the Spring Festival, I leave the most candies to my brother. When my brother rides his bicycle and takes a shower, his younger brother must wait around.

When the brother who was just in love fell in love with a plump and beautiful girl, the virtuous and conservative mother found the girl without hesitation, forced her to give her money and begged her to see her stupid son. The girl broke her promise and broke the appointment, so her brother's first love and only love slipped away in a hurry. However, just because he never "grows up", his brother's "foolish things" make people even more speechless. These "foolish things" have become his only persistence in life. Idiots are always the targets of teasing and humiliation in movies, and my brother is no exception. Although he is protected by his parents at home, society is not as kind as his parents. A group of bullies always took pleasure in taking advantage of their elder brother and playing with him. They gave him the heaviest work and rewarded him with a box of cigarettes after he was done. The elder brother, however, didn't think he was at a disadvantage. He was satisfied with just earning a pack of cigarettes after a hard day's work, and he even regarded the bully as a friend with a smile. With his elder brother's intelligence stuck in childhood, he couldn't understand what kind of disadvantage he had suffered, so when he proudly gave his father the "reward" he earned, he couldn't understand the reason for his father's anger, so he had to secretly give his father The discarded cigarette box was hidden in a cardboard box and stuffed under the bed for preservation - because it was his reward and wealth. Many years later, my brother married a cripple and opened a restaurant. His life was so "normal" that he was almost happy. At this time, the former bully came to him with his pregnant wife and asked him to borrow money to live in a humble manner. The elder brother agreed with a silly smile. He couldn't hide his joy in order to help his former friend, and decided to give his most precious wealth to his brother. He asked the bully to come and get the "money" the next day. That night, my brother dug out the dusty cardboard box from under the bed, which contained all the rewards for his work when he was young. He always believed that these cigarette boxes were the most valuable wealth. The next day, he gave the box to the little overlord. When the box was opened, the brother's face was full of pride, but the little overlord's face suddenly lost color. At this time, a strong sour smell rushed into my nose at the same time. Brother, he is the youngest child. Are the youngest children the most vulnerable? We cannot decide this answer haphazardly. The younger brother once gave all the money he had to his sister so that she could realize her dream of becoming a paratrooper; the younger brother once shamelessly helped his sister buy the "Sexual Knowledge Manual" which was not available on the market at the time; the younger brother also once refused because he was a fool. He acknowledged him, and when everyone was beating his brother, he rushed forward and gave him the hardest blow. Finally, the younger brother was forced to drop out of school by his father because of a nude painting and ran away from home. After returning to his hometown, he became a man who made a living by his wife's singing and had nothing to do. But I believe that all my younger brother's youth and dreams have completely collapsed in the attack on my brother. How many times we will encounter collapse in life is unknown until the last moment, but the opening screen of "Peacock" is the brilliance after the collapse. Maybe it’s because we never imagined that we were so strong and could walk through those sad days safely. After walking through, just like the three brothers and sisters, they didn't even see the peacock opening its wings at the end of the film, but the peacock did spread its feathers for them. -------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "Peacock": A civilian epic full of humanistic care obtained in "Peacock" On the second day after winning the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 55th Berlin Film Festival, I watched this long-awaited film at the Sindongan Cinema. The film slowly unfolds in the life of a civilian family of five in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It uses a three-part structure to describe the life conditions of the older sister, older brother, and younger brother as well as their emotional conflicts with their parents and society. The film is like a pot of strong tea with profound charm, showing the civilian life of that era so completely and profoundly. The camera calmly and implicitly organizes the emotions, ideals, growth and conflicts of an ordinary family into a timeless, real and humanistic epic, which makes the film People who have experienced that era can easily recall and examine themselves through movies. As expected, this film uses a lot of long still shots, which is a great test of the actors' acting skills. Fortunately, all the actors did not disappoint, especially the sister played by Zhang Jingchu, the mother played by Huang Meiying, and the mother played by Feng Su. Brother, their performances all have restrained tension, which is impressive.

There are several long shots that I still have endless memories to this day: my sister went to the grove to get her parachute back, the family watched their mother poison a goose with rat poison, they rescued a pile of coal that was about to be flooded in the heavy rain, and the last one waiting for the peacock In the long shot of the screen, Gu Changwei shows the power of the long shot in such ordinary scenes, which is very enjoyable to watch. The emotional power in the film is also very touching. Especially the two scenes of my sister at the beginning and end of the film moved me to tears. One is my sister riding a bicycle hard against the wind, and the parachute she is pulling is fluttering in the wind, just like Zhang Yang. Secondly, many years later, my sister saw that the People’s Liberation Army she had a crush on was as ordinary as any passerby passing by, squatting in front of a vegetable stall and crying bitterly. This was also the moment when her ideals were completely disillusioned. The silent cry was really shocking. In this era where movies are becoming more and more eager for quick success and instant profit, when Zhang Yimou and others are making so-called martial arts commercial blockbusters, Gu Changwei's "Peacock" undoubtedly brought a high-level art blockbuster to Chinese movies. It is said that nearly an hour of plot was deleted from the film before and during the review, including the younger brother's homosexuality and violent plot. In fact, in the current film, the younger brother's violent tendencies have already led to him wanting to poison his elder brother and assassinate him with an umbrella. The character of the younger brother is completely highlighted, but I still feel that the character of the younger brother can be explored more fully. Gu Changwei said that the director's extended version will be released on DVD. While looking forward to it, I just hope that the producers of the Region 6 DVD will not disappoint us too much. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- "Peacock": The truth of life. At the end of the movie, the peacock in the zoo moves its huge ugly butt and shakes it. Staggering and slowly turning towards the camera, I suddenly realized what a bizarre and ridiculous creature this was. The huge and brightly spread feathers made me a little scared. What is so beautiful about such a fancy butt? ? I sat on the chair in the movie theater and thought in a daze. Gu Changwei's movie "Peacock" ended with this dazzling opening. Although there were no actors or actresses present, there was still a brief round of applause in the auditorium. The packed theater also gave the public a warm welcome to outstanding domestic literary and artistic films. The level of hunger and thirst is the best explanation. The tone of the entire film is calm and depressing. The camera takes the audience from the perspective of a bystander and observes the life changes of an ordinary family with a cruel touch. After watching it, people feel heavy and breathless for a long time. However, the film can always maintain rationality in controlling emotions. There is no cheap tear-jerking plot, nor does it forcefully arrange the point of view. The color tone is cold, simple and natural, just like the sunshine in the suburbs in the cold winter. It makes people look very comfortable. The composition is very particular. Almost all embellishments are abandoned in the picture, and the emotions are deeply buried at the bottom. Although the story has a historical background (probably the late 1970s and early 1980s), the content does not have obvious characteristics of the times. It mainly shows how young people's ideals are gradually crushed by real life. It's strange that the movie tells the story of the three siblings in three parts. I can't see any special benefits of this arrangement. Moreover, the beginning of each part shows the whole family sitting around the corridor of the apartment having a meal. At the beginning of the scene, accompanied by the younger brother's voice-over, it went back and forth three times, which seemed a bit complicated and nagging. This is a very ordinary and typical Chinese family. The relationship is complicated and chaotic. There is a lack of communication between parents and children. Probably out of guilt, they simply allocate all their love to their stupid son. The stupid brother will naturally He regards himself as the center of the family. Although he is discriminated against and insulted outside, he can do whatever he wants at home and enjoy the tolerance of his elder sister and younger brother and the doting of his parents. My sister is a typical idealist with an extreme personality and is incompatible with real life. Until the fantasy is peeled off layer by layer in the end, she can only be shot down into the dust of real life again, repeating the routine of her parents. The younger brother is an old child who has not yet experienced youth. The few years he went out were like a dream, and when he woke up, he was already bored and old.

The emotions between them are not simple love or hate, and their attitudes towards life are not simple enjoyment or despair. All the opposition and care, pain and disappointment, warmth and hurt are so complicated and intertwined in the heart that it is unbearable. The heaviness of life. There are some seemingly chaotic plots in this movie. For example, the parachute sewn by my sister was snatched away by the gangster young man Guozi. In order to get the parachute back, my sister took off her pants and exposed her dazzling white thighs. Guozi was so surprised that he didn't know what to do and hurriedly He turned around and shot himself in the foot with the shotgun, and the howl of pain echoed through the woods. Such a plot seems incredible, but it shows a very real chaotic and pure mentality. An equally impressive passage is that the younger brother wanted to poison his elder brother with rat poison, but his sister found out and stopped him. During dinner the next day, his mother suddenly poisoned his brother's favorite goose with rat poison in front of everyone. The goose twists its neck convulsively. This is probably the most violent and cruel scene in the film. The director used this mischievous sequence to stimulate the audience's nerves. The most touching passage of the movie comes at the end. The stories of the three siblings are intertwined again. The elder sister finally falls into a normal life, hoping to get married and have children, but the last fantasy in her heart is that there is someone who can To truly love yourself, it doesn't matter even if he doesn't live next to you. But when she met Guozi on the street, and Guozi didn't recognize her at all, her sister's last fantasy was cruelly shattered. When she and her brother were squatting on the ground picking tomatoes, my sister suddenly turned her face away, and her expression of pain was really touching. Regarding the actor's performance, Zhang Jing's first role as the sister was a little tight, especially when she started to have a crush on the male paratrooper, and many of her expressions seemed a bit exaggerated. Lu Yulai played the silent and repressed character of his younger brother very well, but his plot jumps a lot. I don't know if it is because of deletions, but I feel that his story can be smoother. The elder brother is a character between a fool and a fool. He can be understood as a spiritual escapist or outsider. He avoids all complex and messy emotions, relies on instinct to act, and eventually becomes the most successful character in the family. Perhaps he can be seen as the director's mockery of the times. It's a little regrettable that the last plot of digging out a box of cigarettes to help others is a bit deliberately sensational. Finally, let me mention the nostalgia complex in it. The director deliberately added a lot of symbols that represent the 1970s and 1980s. You will be dazzled by seeing tomatoes stored in drip bottles, making your own preserved eggs, making briquettes, and seeing bright red paintings. The woman holds the tractor driver's ten-yuan note and sees the White Rabbit toffee. Although these endless nostalgic fetishes can directly touch the hearts of those who grew up in that era, what's more is that sometimes the purpose of nostalgia is too obvious. . But I must say that the costumes in this film are particularly beautiful. Basically, this is a movie that is self-aware of warmth and coldness. The director's objective stance allows everyone to find what they need in the movie, whether it is warmth or cruelty. In fact, the truth of life is that there is no truth.