Farewell My Concubine, the best domestic movie in my heart, is not one of them.
When I saw it for the first time, I believe that no one can resist the magic of Cheng Dieyi who is "not crazy and not alive" and the amazing of his brother Leslie Cheung.
But after two brushes and three brushes, you will find that this is not the only reason why it has become a classic, or even the most important reason.
What is the most important thing?
It is its "broken beauty".
This fragmentation is not only the life of Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou shattered by the times, but also a sigh when you think of it even after watching it for a long time.
0 1 Cheng Dieyi is the soul of the whole movie and the most dazzling broken glass.
From the time he appeared, he was not "normal".
He is the son of a prostitute, embarrassed, looked down upon, and born abnormally.
He has one more little finger than others, which is abnormal.
Later, his mother cut off his extra fingers, and his "breaking" began.
This "fragmentation" begins with the body, spreads to gender cognition, and ends with the madness of the soul.
When it comes to the change of gender cognition, we can't help but mention the scene of Thinking of Fan.
When reading "Thinking of Fan", at first he insisted that "I am Nv Jiao's moths, not a man's lang" as "I am a man's lang, not Nv Jiao's moths".
No matter how much master asked him to repeat and type, he always mispronounced.
Is he unable to remember? Of course not.
He rejected himself as "Nv Jiao E" from the bottom of his heart.
Later, the senior brother stabbed him in the mouth with a tobacco pot, which smoothed his tongue and helped him "castrate".
From then on, he began to identify himself as "Nv Jiao E".
What really made him have a subversive effect on gender cognition was Zhang Gonggong's violation.
After that, he was no longer a "man".
Later, accompanied by the overlord, the senior brother, he slowly entered the concubine's realm, and both men and women were in the same place.
Cheng Dieyi pinned all her feelings on Duan Xiaolou and wanted to be with him all her life.
Unfortunately, the concubine became a real concubine, but the overlord was a fake overlord.
After getting off the stage and taking off her makeup, Duan Xiaolou is a normal man who wants to drink sanhua, marry a wife and have children.
It is also doomed that Cheng Dieyi's self-constructed world will slowly collapse.
Because of the intervention of Juxian, Cheng Dieyi lost Duan Xiaolou step by step, and their relationship deteriorated step by step.
On the night when Xiaolou was engaged to Juxian, Cheng Dieyi and Grandpa Yuan became "confidants in the world of mortals", and in exchange for the sword of Zhang Gonggong.
When I first saw this sword in Zhang's father-in-law's house, Duan Xiaolou's admiration was beyond words.
At that time, Cheng Dieyi, who was still a small bean, promised that he would give this sword to the disciples in the future.
Since then, giving the sword has become a worry for him.
But when he did get the sword, Duan Xiaolou had forgotten all about it.
Looking at the brother who is newly married and has a wedding, Cheng Dieyi's inner desolation can be imagined.
Disappointed, he said to Duan Xiaolou, "From now on, you sing yours and I sing mine."
But just like others, he is equally hard to get away from his feelings for Duan Xiaolou.
Therefore, after I arrested Duan Xiaolou that day, in order to save people, he went to sing for the Japanese, thus leaving a stain of "traitor".
However, his painstaking building was unwilling to accept it. When Cheng Dieyi was happy for his safety, he spat in his face.
After that, Duan Xiaolou listened to Juxian's advice and stopped singing opera.
Cheng Dieyi, on the other hand, became addicted to cigarettes and drowned alone.
Neither farewell my concubine nor farewell my concubine can be complete without either of them.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Cheng Dieyi was arrested for singing for the Japanese.
When Master Yuan arranged everything for him, as long as Cheng Dieyi admitted in court that the Japanese had hit him, he was forced and everything could be passed safely.
However, he refused to lie, not only stating that the Japanese didn't hit him, but also saying, "If Aoki were alive, Peking Opera would have spread to Japan." At this time, he has entered the life of drama, which can no longer be explained by one person regardless of drama.
He integrated the fate of Peking Opera with himself.
Duan Xiaolou once said to Cheng Dieyi:
"Butterfly garment, you are really not crazy not survival! It is true that singing is crazy, but if we are alive, we are crazy. How can we live in this world and in this mortal pile? "
But in this case, Die Yi can't understand, so he continues to be crazy in this world.
In the movement after the founding of New China, when Duan Xiaolou had learned and reformed wisely, Dieyi didn't feel the changes of the outside world at all.
Or even if he felt it, he refused to accept it and refused to compromise.
In the process of being pressured again and again, he burned his costume, and even went into a state of madness to expose Duan Xiaolou and Juxian, which indirectly led to Juxian's death.
However, Cheng Dieyi's exposure of Duan Xiaolou cannot be equated with Duan Xiaolou's exposure of Cheng Dieyi.
Duan Xiaolou's exposure was conscious even if it was forced, while Cheng Dieyi's exposure was more like a revenge, a revenge for Juxian's stealing Duan Xiaolou.
Under the stimulus of Duan Xiaolou, he poured out all his resentment against Juxian, completely unaware of what his words would lead to.
As a result, Juxian died.
When the storm passed, the world had changed, and the era of overlord and concubine was over.
The new world, not Cheng Dieyi's world.
If he can't live with the times, his fate can only be destruction.
Like a piece of glass, it is either complete or broken, with no middle zone.
So, in the end, he chose to commit suicide, died on the stage and died in the play.
This is his destiny takes a hand's destination.
Cheng Dieyi was broken because he was deeply involved in the play, while Duan Xiaolou was broken because he was not involved in the play and was not complete.
Compared with Cheng Dieyi, Duan Xiaolou is much more flexible and sensible.
He cares about Cheng Dieyi, and it is also the greatest warmth that Cheng Dieyi got when he was excluded.
But this concern is the friendship between teachers and brothers, and nothing else.
It is for this reason that Cheng Dieyi's sorrow is even more obvious.
He drinks sanhua, marries a wife and lives a normal life as a man.
He has his own bottom line.
When the Japanese called in, he refused to sing for the Japanese.
When Cheng Dieyi was embarrassed by Kuomintang soldiers, he stepped forward.
At the same time, he also has his own compromise.
In order to live a stable life, he once gave up singing opera and lived a life of fighting cricket and selling watermelons.
In order to save Cheng Dieyi, he can also lie in court.
In the political movement, he even succumbed to the majority.
These are the choices that Cheng Dieyi would never make.
But do you blame him?
If you look closely, you will find that at the initial trial, he insisted to some extent.
However, in the torture day after day, all his defense lines collapsed, and finally it turned into an almost crazy disclosure of Cheng Dieyi and Juxian in the trial court.
At this time, he was completely trapped by the times and could not help himself.
When Cheng Dieyi was first exposed, he was obviously embarrassed.
But when the first sentence was spoken, under the pressure of fear and group, his accusation blurted out like a flood that burst its banks, and it was impossible to press the pause button.
Looking back on the growth process of Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, if Cheng Dieyi is the embodiment of idealism, then Duan Xiaolou is the embodiment of realism.
Cheng Dieyi stuck to himself and stuck to it.
Duan Xiaolou's body has laid the brand of each era.
As for Juxian, and Xiao Si, who was adopted by Cheng Dieyi and bitten by him, they are also small people who are trapped in the times.
They are the other side of Duan Xiaolou's character.
Whether it's wrong or not, it's not your own fault.
When a person lives as Duan Xiaolou, he is already broken, because he can't be a complete self.
This fragmentation is not only the subjective will of the individual, but also the birth of the times
Just like Xiao Si, he joined the "revolutionary tide" and at the same time showed greedy eyes at the clothes that Grandpa Yuan gave Cheng Dieyi.
His choice is not pure.
Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi are different choices in life: it is better to die than to die, or to change with the times.
In reality, I don't know that many people want to make jade together. Unfortunately, few people can stand the hardships of reality and the fire burns us.
That's why when we talk about Cheng Dieyi, we can't help but sigh, besides stunning his appearance and marveling at his madness.
Because we all know that some people are doomed to be rejected by the world and doomed to destruction.
Even if his life is admirable and admirable, we dare not follow suit.
Therefore, time and "love" are not the core of Farewell My Concubine, and Cheng Dieyi, who is "not mad and not alive", is just the shell it uses to express.
It is not only the history of a certain era, but also an unspeakable gay love, and it is life.
We can get our own interpretation from it, and we can also see the world.
This is its lasting charm.