This is a dynamic released by Deng Chao on his social platform, describing his two roles.
In 20 18, a very special film was released in China. Although it has no good reputation, it is an unprecedented great creation in China's film history.
The film is called Shadow, directed by Zhang Yimou. Douban scored 7.2, which is quite satisfactory compared with previous works.
This is Zhang Yimou's ink creation, which has been brewing for many years and is "all China". It not only gives us a refreshing feeling, but also has a very strong cultural consciousness roaring in our minds. With the maturity of Zhang Yimou's film creation, he knows more and more how to hint at the theme of the story in the existing things in the film.
This movie is no exception.
Throughout the film, the color of ink and wash films, the philosophy of Yin and Yang, Zen martial arts and the adaptation of the story of the Three Kingdoms all add a lot of mystery and height to the film.
Of course, many netizens joked in the barrage: "When I have money, I must buy a color mobile phone." "I feel that my mobile phone is broken and there is no color barrage."
However, despite the film style praised by everyone and the suspense painting style of the story characters, this film actually softens the gloom and desolation of the whole film with the simplest but warm word, which is "going home".
The word home, here, has many meanings, so what are the meanings?
0 1, the first meaning of going home
In the story, Guo Pei's territory was borrowed by the powerful Guo Yan for a long time, and it was easy to defend but difficult to attack, relying on natural hazards. Always guarded by Yang Cang and his son, Guo Pei Governor Yu Zi (played by Deng Chao) is eager to recover his territory and establish a higher reputation.
When fighting with Yang Cang a year ago, he was seriously injured and his appearance gradually declined, so he used the shadow "Jingzhou" (played by Deng Chao) that looked exactly like himself to act on his behalf, and used it as bait to set up a trap to recapture Jingzhou's territory.
When the word "home" first appeared, it was the time when Yu Zi made fake wounds for the country.
"It was Yang Cang who killed him. I want you to come home alive ... I found your mother, who is homeless on the street. I redeemed your old house, settled down, and she stayed ... so this war is about you, and you can get together. "
Twenty years of Jizhou's viceroy. The viceroy house is like a cage. When I was a child, Jizhou always wanted to escape. After growing up, although I didn't run away, I always had a strong sense of struggle and resistance. Yu Zi himself knows that Jizhou's mind is different from the general shadow, and even he may have a strong hatred for himself. As a shadow, he can't tame him.
As a shadow that exists against the light, these individuals' minds and self-consciousness should not exist, but no matter how the governor's office controls it, it still cannot extinguish his inner pursuit of family, mother and nature.
So, do or die, who threw the news with ulterior motives in this decisive battle.
He knew that Jizhou, although grateful to Dudufu for saving his life, would not really die for himself. In order to strengthen Jizhou's loyalty and gratitude, and also to strengthen Jizhou's belief in getting rid of the governor's office and returning to his mother's side, he must make Jizhou understand or reverse Jizhou's understanding of this battle.
This war is not for others, but for myself and my mother.
In other words, the meaning of "going home" here is to reunite with my mother with the control and prohibition of the governor's office, and it also means to let the country have something to trust and not give up easily.
Combined with what Yu Zi said later, "I only need half an hour", it is obvious that his actions in the border states only want to ensure that the territory can last longer, at least, half an hour.
02. The second meaning of going home
The second meaning of going home is the deepest and closest to the theme.
Jingzhou was renamed when he was brought into the viceroy's mansion at the age of eight. The name Jingzhou may have two meanings, one is the birthplace of Jingzhou, and the other is the viceroy's obsession with recovering lost territory. From the moment he entered the government and became the shadow of Yu Zi, he was forced to give up his nature and become a substitute tool without emotion. Even, the Governor's government forced him to erase the trace of being a person.
But the stubbornness and self-awareness in his bones have not disappeared, but have become stronger.
Therefore, seeing the true self, the scrawny son who has no control over himself, Jingzhou also began to try to find himself, which can be seen from the second appearance of "Going Home" in his conversation with Xiao Ai.
"Your husband is the most outstanding, resourceful and respected person in Guo Pei. What about me? But I am just a servant, and I am just his shadow. "
"You are not his shadow, you are you."
"Who am I?"
"You were born in a border state, and you are the one waiting to go home. Your mother may be sitting in the corner, watching every stranger passing by, waiting for you to go home. "
As for the question of "Who am I?", it seems like a question of the country to Xiao Ai, but in essence, it is more like a question of the country to itself.
Jingzhou was imprisoned since he was a child, and his body was in the prison of Doudufu, but he struggled badly and didn't want to be imprisoned together. In particular, he talked about his fear of the dark.
"Do you know what I am most afraid of? There was darkness, no one, no light, no sound. I was alone in the dark. I touched everywhere, touched everywhere, touched every crack in the wall, in order not to let myself go crazy, in order to prove that I am still alive. "
Why try to prove that you are still alive?
Because once you lose yourself, what's the difference between it and the dead?
He doesn't want to be imprisoned. He is eager to be himself, to be an independent individual, not attached to anyone and not obeying anyone. He is him. He can have his own free will, his own secular desires and his own pursuits.
Especially after meeting little moxa, this consciousness becomes more intense.
When he was a child, he managed to escape and grow up even though he was whipped all over. Especially after Yu Zi was seriously injured and acted on his behalf, he had the absolute ability and excellent opportunity to completely untie the government house ban.
But he chose to "repay the kindness" and chose to stay and complete his revenge plan for Yu Zi. What's the secret inside, Xiao Ai is not clear, but the country and YuZi are clear.
Therefore, Yu Zi is always standing behind the closet, spying on the country's activities in order to confirm the country's loyalty and the possibility of using it for himself.
Xiao Ai's sentence "You are you" and "You are the one waiting to go home" gave Jingzhou a positive answer, which made Jingzhou's self-awareness and its own human rights awareness truly and thoroughly awakened.
Therefore, going home here has an additional meaning of returning to the ID and awakening self-awareness.
This is also the reason why the country dared to openly engage in war with Xiao Ai the night before the war.
To him, he is just bait, and no one cares about his own life and death. After a narrow escape from this war, if he is born, he will return to the state capital and his mother's life, not to the viceroy's house, not to be the shadow of the viceroy, and listen to him; If you die, then you die, and you will forget your wishes and obsessions.
03, the third meaning of going home.
In this third meaning, the meaning of "going home" is not limited to individuals, but the national system and majestic kingship.
Pei Guo's national strength is weak, the master does not have much real power, and the viceroy is powerful and ambitious, trying to achieve his goal by recovering his homeland.
What's the purpose? In other words, Yuzi wants to oust his master from the throne and replace him.
Perhaps it was the struggle between kingship that made Yu Zi's father die directly in the dynasty of Guo Pei, which made Yu Zi's obsession and arrogance towards kingship.
The day before Yang Cang left for the border, Yuzi and Xiao Ai were training in the border. He asked the border states if they remembered the way home.
In fact, this sentence may also be asking Yu Zi himself that he walked too long on his way home.
"Tomorrow, win, you leave home, remember the way home? ……"
"Actually, I am also waiting to go home."
"Isn't Guo Pei the home of the Governor?"
"Home is different from home"
At that time, not only were there doubts within the government, but even we didn't know what Yu Zi really wanted. He is indeed ambitious, but his body, obviously, will not live long. How long can he hold on to his majestic kingship? But if it wasn't for the kingship, why did he work so hard?
In fact, there is a clever but seemingly unrelated picture and lens application in the movie.
At the beginning of the film, we first explained what the shadow is and what its mission is, and then there was a scream and a burst of running footsteps, which we saw at the end of the film.
This is an echo in the story.
Another echo in this third story is a discussion about the meaning of "going home" in this third story. What the master said when he forced Jingzhou and Xiao Ai to play the piano was also corresponding to what the viceroy said later.
Xiao Ai and Yuzi are United, playing the harp and singing harmoniously. To this end, the film begins. When the master was furious because of the frontier fortress, he even doubted the identity of the frontier fortress, so he forced the frontier fortress and Xiao Ai to play the piano to test the identity of the frontier fortress.
In order to avoid this defect, Xiao Ai lied to the master that she had sworn a poison oath to the sky.
At this moment, the master said this: "I swear to God, I am a paradise in Guo Pei. Now God wants you to play the piano. Do you listen? "
Finally, Yu Zi also said this sentence: "About one thing that everyone knows in Guo Pei, he just doesn't understand that I am Guo Pei's God."
Until this moment, we finally have a clear concept of "going home" in the movie.
Yuzi wants to be the master of Guo Pei and win Guo Pei all over the world. This is his obsession and his contempt and hatred for the family represented by his master.
Why is this third-level "going home" different? Because Guo Pei represents what he has been fighting for, and maybe his father.
Zhang Yimou's films have a strong symbolic and formal style. His films won by color from the beginning, hiding characters, stories and thoughts with color, which is what he is best at. But seeing his mixture of red, yellow and blue will often lead to aesthetic fatigue.
Shadow gives us a brand-new feeling. The only constant is probably that Zhang Yimou's narrative of the story is very detailed and interesting.