The play tells the story of a quadrangle named "Wotou Guild Hall" in Cheng Nan, Beijing in 1948. Listen, there are many artistic styles. Blessed are the audiences who like Beijing flavor. There are so many Beijing films in the audience that you can watch them with relish. Of course, if you don't know much about Beijing, you'd better bring an interpreter, otherwise you may not understand what everyone is happy about. Structurally, the play is closer to Teahouse, and it uses several fragments to tell the changes of the world. No wonder Liu Heng said he would pay tribute to Lao She. The time is 1948, which is divided into summer, autumn and winter. This is an era when the situation will change rapidly. Wotou Guild Hall is the epitome of an era. Watching them struggle there, bragging and talking about mountains, these little people are like mud trapped by big waves and forced to move forward.
The characters in Liu Heng's works are brilliant. Everyone is complex and lively, full of water and energy, and then angry. Disgruntled "Yuan Datou" played cricket, sold off his fortune, Tian Cuilan, a duplicitous sycophant Xiao Qishan, and Jin Murong, a declining aristocrat, gathered together, and the dramatic effect can be imagined. Yuan Datou, played by He Bing, is the soul of the play. He bought the Wotou Guild Hall with the money of the Red Party and became a landlord. He always shouts Qian Qian for money all day, and looks like a miser. But he is also a sad figure, living alone with his son who has boy tuberculosis, seeking medical advice everywhere and spending all his money on medical treatment. He knows he can't see clearly, but he still lives like this. At first, he kept making fun of himself, people around him and current events as seasoning. Living in such a bitter day, who knows that things are not going well? He may be really tired of living in such a hopeless day, but he wants to die. He Bing performed the struggle and despair of an ordinary character.
Besides, Song Dandan, the number one female, is a well-deserved person. I have seen several people's dramas before, and I generally feel that the actress's performance is not so good. I was completely shocked when I remembered the last sentence of the Queen in Hamlet a while ago, "I was poisoned". Fortunately, Fan told us that there are still good actresses. The national audience is familiar with Song Dandan because of her sketches, and a few people know that she is actually a serious dramatist with a well-trained background. Maybe the audience can't help laughing when they see Song Dandan. They think that this person is full of joy and is born to be a sketch actor. That's Zhao Benshan, not Song Dandan. You should really go to the theater to see other people's stage skills when you have the opportunity. I remember when I first went to college, an admirable teacher told me about the scene when Song Dandan came back to light a lamp in Thousand Lights-the old lady who was about to drive a crane to the west, listening to the funeral of her children, closed her eyes and said: Those cloth shoes should be lined up ... It was really a brilliant death. Look at Tian Cuilan in Wotou Guild Hall, a woman who buys fried liver, and the character setting is not unusual. Let Song Dandan play, it is simply the aunt next door possessed, unspeakable apt and accurate. Just saying that she quarreled with the declining princess has the demeanor of hutong women cursing each other in the street. Both of them refused to accept each other and moved out their idols to the door. Song Dandan's vivid brushwork and cynicism made Gege humiliating. In her eyes, Jesus became a sparerib shelf, or Maitreya looked rich.
Other main actors performed well and were full of stock market sentiment. The lines are brilliant and the gas field is bursting.
Of course, this is also because of the screenwriter's lines. If you are not so familiar with the language of life, how can you write so short and full of joy?
The audience laughed several times in the process of watching the play. From the point of view of watching the excitement, it was definitely a wonderful play. But the author is by no means trying to amuse everyone. There is irony and innuendo, and the audience gets the message. In the words of the screenwriter, Liu Heng's theme is "money", but I don't think it is as simple as money. So many people are secular and indifferent, but he just won't say anything. Sitting on the second floor of the theater, watching them live in a closed environment on three sides is like overlooking the struggle and confusion of all sentient beings. The Sound and the Fury said: They are suffering.