xinmin art review｜beibei: the whirlpool of life - after watching the movie "the hedgehog"
2024-10-01
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"i know that from now on i will never be stuck in anything."
zheng zhi wrote at the end of the 19,000-word short story "the fairy disease".
this inner monologue of the protagonist is presented as it is in the adapted film "the hedgehog". the 103-minute running time is well filled with a rich script, and the inner world of the two main characters is stretched out. the warm interaction between the two adds color to the original work. the film deservedly won the golden goblet award for best screenplay at the 26th shanghai international film festival. return.
the film uses a first-person perspective to show two people who have been stuck in life: "i" have stuttered since i was a child, and i have been repeating the third grade of junior high school for two years. this made my father feel very embarrassed. because i was taciturn, my mother took me to the hospital to see a psychiatrist... my uncle wang zhantuan he was considered mentally ill because he acted irrationally. his wife gave him sleeping pills and fell asleep at home all day long. later, he chose to go to a mental hospital to make room for his son who was about to start a family. two similar souls understand each other and help each other. they always believe that the other is normal.
although the journey was bumpy, the ending was very warm: "i" was admitted to college, had a job and a fiancée; wang zhantuan escaped from the mental hospital. the film rewrote the ending of wang zhantuan. in the book, he died in a mental hospital. the rewriting of artistic blanks leaves unlimited room for imagination for the audience.
when showing this ending, director gu changwei's camera language is thought-provoking: wang zhantuan pulled himself out of the family photo and watched the small photo head swirling with the whirlpool of the water in the sink until it disappeared. his dream has always been to swim in the sea, and now he has realized it in this way. after watching the movie for a long time, this scene still lingers in my mind. it makes me feel two things:
firstly, from the moment he took himself out of the family portrait, he no longer had to play the role of father, husband, or even son-in-law or uncle, he was just him, the king of war; secondly, who had not been swirling in the whirlpool of life? ? for the general public, the whirlpool for young people is further education and employment; for middle-aged people, the whirlpool is workplace and childcare; and for the elderly, the whirlpool is loneliness and health. no one knows what whirlpool is waiting for him. he is small, his family is big, and his destiny is unpredictable.
it is common in novels to place individual destiny in family narratives, and the film's full emotional presentation turns the ordinary into the magical. the support of the two main characters to each other is like the trunk of a tree, and the support of the subordinate characters is lush and leafy. the main and subordinate characters are intertwined and complement each other, forming a stable tree-shaped structure. "my" mother, no matter how bad "my" grades were, always blocked her husband's harsh protection. "my" father always beat and scolded "me", but after "i" was admitted to college, he secretly stuffed money into his suitcase. . they are typical traditional parents who don't know how to love their children but love them deeply. wang zhantuan's wife has never left him. she refused to listen to his mother's advice to get a divorce. she would rather feed him sleeping pills than send him to a mental hospital. this kind of wife's love for her husband is also traditional and deep.
it turns out that in the end, what matters is love. what's wrong with "me" is that i stuttered and didn't study well when i was young. is this embarrassing? when you grow up, your stuttering will be cured, you will be able to get into college, and you will be able to find a job and a wife. there is nothing wrong with wang zhantuan, but he is just a normal person with dreams, who still has excessive imagination and poetry in his middle age, who has seen through the world and was deeply moved by "twenty thousand leagues under the sea". it is precisely by being loved and loving the world that two stuck people can get out of the whirlpool of life and rush to the other side of their dreams. (north north)
