According to the autobiographical novel of the famous woman writer Lin, the film Old Things in the South of the City is full of nostalgia. Slow flowing water, slow camel team, slowly passing crowd, slowly passing years ... just like an elegant and implicit poem. ?

The whole film can be divided into three parts: Crazy Woman; "thief"; Dad's death and Ma Song's departure. Beaded connections are used to connect the front and back. At the beginning of each part, men from Ma Song come to ask for money. At the end of each part, different protagonists leave Xiaoying and die. This lesson extracts most of the contents of the second part. ?

When talking about the music of the past in the south of the city, Zhu Tianwei said:

A pair of innocent and childish eyes are observing the world and thinking about life. ?

A song "Farewell", that song "Outside Changting, by the ancient road, the grass is blue, the sky is blue", the faint sadness and the heavy acacia need not be said. These two sentences can be used as the key for us to appreciate the ideological content of this film literary script. ?

First, children's perspective, childlike innocence. ?

There are always some things in life that make us dream. In the later years of her life, Bing Xin always dreamed of returning to the childhood hat alley, because there was her purest childhood and the most carefree time she spent with her parents. She has traveled all over the world, and she is clamoring to go home, to her childhood home. Why? Because there is a hometown of innocence and soul. The same is true of Taiwan Province woman writer Lin, who will never forget her second hometown where she spent her childhood. ?

In the real world, people are separated, and there is an insurmountable gap between people, just like the gap between the adult "I" in my hometown and the leap soil. Naivety is the opposite. Innocence is the feeling of innocence in childhood, and "purity" has a kind of "childlike innocence", a really beautiful "childlike innocence"! Communication with people is barrier-free, free from any secular interference, and the world is viewed with human nature and nature. ?

The film chooses Eiko as a special observation angle, feels everything around her with a little girl's innocent heart, looks at adult society with non-adult eyes and thinking, looks on coldly as an outsider and thinks about various problems of adult society. Although immature, I have made a true record of my life and society. ?

When Eiko plays in an alley, she always sees Xiuzhen, a "crazy woman", standing in front of the hall. Gradually, they got to know each other. Xiuzhen likes eiko very much, and eiko likes her very much. From Xiuzhen's mouth, Xiaoying knows that her lover is a student of Peking University. Because he participated in the student movement, he was taken away by the reactionary military police and his whereabouts were unknown. And their daughter "little devil" was also thrown at the gate of Qihuamen, and her life and death were uncertain. So Xiuzhen has become this crazy appearance. Xiaoying sympathized with Xiuzhen and promised to help her find Xiaoguizi. In the eyes of the world, Xiuzhen's tragic experience is not only without the slightest sympathy, but also regarded as immoral. In adult society, Xiuzhen is just a crazy woman, and everyone avoids her. However, Eiko doesn't know this secular thing. She understands Xiuzhen's sincerity under abnormal behavior with a pure and kind childlike heart, understands her expectation for her lover, misses her flesh and blood, and sympathizes with her experience. Later, Eiko found out that her partner who was often abused by her adoptive father was a Japanese devil, and finally helped them recognize each other. ? Xiaoying met a kind and honest thief in the wild grass garden. They often chat together, and Eiko learns that he has a younger brother who studies well. Soon he was taken away by the police. However, Eiko doesn't think he is a bad person, because he once said that he would go to Wowotou to help his younger brother go to school. Eiko has no secular prejudice and discrimination against him, and their communication is sincere and equal. In this scene, the script uses a lot of conversations between Eiko and the thief, as well as comments from family and neighbors on the thief to illustrate the story and contradictions. There is a dialogue:

Thief: Little Sister, do you think I am a good person or a bad person?

Eiko: There are so many people that I can't tell them apart. We have a text called Let's See the Sea. But I have never seen the sea. I can't tell big sea and the sky apart, and I can't tell good people from bad people. Can you distinguish the sky from the sea?

What naive and true words! Eiko influenced the thief with her innocence and tolerance. ?

As the story goes on, Eiko meets a thief at the graduation ceremony, which makes the audience understand the good side of the thief and forgive him for what he did. From several conversations between Xiaoying and the thief, we know that the thief is kind in nature, but social reality forces him to become a thief. The traditional cultural upbringing and unbearable pressure of life led to the double division of his spirit and behavior, which made him suffer great mental remorse while stealing money from others. The last time Eiko and the thief met, it was a warm friendship between two worlds that were not commensurate-the children's world and the adult world, which made people feel sad. ?

Eiko's eyes are pure and beautiful. She saw the goodness and beauty in people's hearts. Crazy people and thieves in the eyes of the world are her friends. Her kindness and sincerity enabled her to break the barrier between people, enter the spiritual world of lunatics and thieves, see the madman's persistence in love, and see the thief's support responsibility and moral condemnation of his brothers and mothers. What she doesn't understand is why the world deprives her of friendship one by one.

Eiko showed her innocent and pollution-free mind's torture of society and life with innocent and confused eyes. She doesn't understand why the fate of adult friends is so difficult, including those students who have been beheaded. In this way, the film exposes and excavates the ugly side of the adult world with the help of children's perspective. Children may not understand the worries and hardships in adults' hearts, but it is of special significance to look at them with children's eyes. ?

Second, life grows in constant "parting"?

The world of naive Xiaoying. It should be as colorful as sea and the sky. The two scenes of chanting "Let's watch the sea" in the film are obviously the subjective wishes of the director. ?

With the trace of Xiaoying's innocent eyes, the sad mood of "everything has left me" is particularly real, and it is even more sad and painful. Xiuzhen and the girl died, and the "thick-lipped man" was also taken away. ?

Carefree Xiaoying began to grow up. Autumn came, and she shed tears when she sang "Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue and the sky is blue". She has grown taller. ?

If Xiaoying was a carefree child in the first half of the film, and the cruel reality she felt was only novelty, then in the second half, from Xiaoying's awakening in the hospital bed, she began to mature and gradually understood the complexity and suffering in the world. ?

At the same time, as the kind Xiaoying's heart is gradually filled with the pain and sadness of life, her family has also suffered one misfortune after another. First, Xiaoying's father died peacefully and became a stone tablet in the cemetery of Taiwan Province Province. The scene of six red leaves overlapping in her father's cemetery and the reappearance of the theme song of Farewell undoubtedly pushed the theme of parting throughout the film to a climax. Then, Ma Song said goodbye to Xiaoying's family and rode home on the donkey brought by her husband. This kind woman has only the loneliness and loneliness of losing her child. ?

At this time, Xiaoying sat in the back seat of the carriage and said goodbye to her childhood home and spiritual nest with tears. Xiaoying grew up in constant parting. ?

"Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green; The evening breeze blows the flute, and the sunset is beyond the mountain. The horizon, the horizon, intimate friends are half scattered, and a bottle of turbid wine is enjoyable. Don't go to Meng Han tonight. ...... "This song named" Farewell "slowly flows with the beauty, helplessness and sadness of life. The song flows with" light sadness and heavy acacia ",telling that" life is rare to get together once, but only many times to separate. " I think this song also explains the theme of the old things in the south of the city. Every appearance of music is the end of a story, the departure of a character, and the experience and growth of Eiko's life parting. ?

However, when we follow the characters in the film and unconsciously finish the story of our own destiny, you will be surprised to find that with the passing of the theme of "Everything has left me", that "little story of the big era" left us with a kind of sadness, not a kind of sinking; It's an attachment, not drowning. Nostalgia is more of a faint sorrow for social life, and a heavy yearning for the homeland. Everything that used to be so real, so kind, so beautiful has been deposited in the depths of the soul, which makes people have long memories forever, just like school bells, children's songs, pulley wells, waterwheels, dogs sticking out their tongues in the hot sun, quiet cicada-singing alleys ... full of nostalgia for vicissitudes of life, but also retaining a rare warmth. ?

Author Lin wrote in the postscript to the publication of Old Things in South Beijing: "How I miss the scenery and people who lived in South Beijing when I was a child! I said to myself, write them down, let the actual childhood pass, and let the childhood of the soul last forever. " Childhood is short. I hope that the innocence and poetry of childhood can let us put aside the suffering of reality and keep a happy mood forever.