Chapter 675: Nineteen Forty-Two

As a fan of Feng Xiaogang, of course Song Zheng has seen this "1942", although he was very resistant before, because few people were willing to mention that period of history, even if it was just a little bit, after tearing it open, it was a bloody pain.

"1942" is such a movie that makes people feel cold and desperate, to put it bluntly, this movie is about how three million people starved to death at that point in history, which can't make people happy in any way, when watching it, it's like seeing Henan Nan, which has become a human purgatory, and the suffering of the people who have fallen into hell, in short, Feng Xiaogang's movie, it is extremely heavy to watch.

For some beginners in history, they probably only know that there was a drought in Henan in 1942, but this is just a sentence in the textbook.

There was no clear concept of what the specific disaster situation was and what China was like back then, and the same was true for Song Zheng, and it was only after reading some historical materials and Liu Zhenyun's "Reminiscences of 1942" that I had a gradually clear impression of that dusty history.

Most Chinese people who don't know much about this period of history re-examine this compassionate natural and man-made disaster through Feng Xiaogang's "1942".

The suffering of the Chinese people over the past hundred years is too much, and the inaction of those in power in this process has made the disaster even more solemn, and it is even more difficult to write about it.

Although "1942" describes the inaction of a certain party during the Anti-Japanese War, it is easy to recall the sensitivity of the three years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so it also makes this film very sensitive from the preparation of the 90s, and it has not been able to pass.

In his previous life, the script was changed one draft after another, and this movie could finally be seen by the general public, when Song Zheng learned that Feng Xiaogang finally started to make his ambitious work, he was first very looking forward to it, and then he was worried that the movie would appear fragmented and without spirit after a few drafts, but after watching it, he felt that he was too worried, it was better than he imagined.

In 1942, when there was a severe drought in Henan, the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang were too busy fighting the Japanese to take care of the tens of millions of victims.

The perspective of "1942" starts from a landlord in Henan, the landlord played by Zhang Guoli is not very bad, but he also has a lot of eyes, hiding food and confronting other ill-intentioned victims, but after all, he can't hide from the people who have lost their minds from hunger.

So, after the landlord was burned and looted, he also became poor and white, his son was stabbed to death, he took the family's long-term worker, daughter-in-law, daughter and mother, began to "hide from the disaster", he did not admit that this is called famine, because the poor only escape, at least, is a person with status.

Under the bombardment of hunger, disease, ice and snow, and the bombardment of the Japanese army, the people around him died one after another, which made the landlord played by Zhang Guoli fall into endless despair.

The disasters on his body were seen at a glance, representing the millions of people in Henan who were affected by disasters in that era.

With this disaster, the faces of all living beings in 1942 were slowly revealed, and there were American reporters from Time Magazine who went deep into the disaster areas for first-hand news materials and Pulitzer Prizes, priests in the disaster areas, who appeased the people in order to make the victims religious, and conscientious civil servants, although they were already in high positions as chairman of Henan Province, but still ran for the people's suffering, but had to face a country that was completely corrupt and bleed, and there were even more military rations to "provide disaster relief" The purpose of the Japanese high-ranking officials was to feed the victims and serve as cannon fodder, as well as the old Jiang who shed "crocodile tears" when he heard that three million people had died in Henan.

"1942" lives up to its name, and it lets people know that, apart from Churchill's cold, China in 1942 suffered such a heavy disaster.

What's even more rare is Feng Xiaogang's perspective, compared with the imbalance of the weight of "Tangshan Earthquake" and "Assembly Number", and the narrative problem of the second half of the degeneration into a bitter love drama, "1942" has done a lot of success, and several bombing scenes with IMAX specifications are extremely shocking and extremely important, not just for commercial reasons to attract the audience's attention, but more importantly, to highlight the helplessness of ordinary people under the brutal war massacre.

In these bombing scenes, there were not only the massacre of fleeing passers-by, but also the bombing of railway transportation lines, and a large-scale bombing in the city of Chongqing.

Among them, I have to praise the art director of this film, which restores the appearance of the old town of Chongqing in the 40s, and it is not common to show the wartime capital on the screen in such an atmospheric way.

Of course, Liu Zhenyun, as a screenwriter, should also take credit, there are not many dialogues in this movie, most of them are some dialogues that "can't be put on the stage".

People who can sell everything in order to eat, in order to live, it seems that it doesn't matter what they say.

But the more dialogues that sound like they make people laugh dumbly, the more heavy they feel after listening to them.

The most thought-provoking thing is probably the dialogues of Mr. Li Xuejian, who plays the chairman of Henan Province, this compassionate and conscientious civil servant, but helplessly watched the provinces under his jurisdiction die one after another, but he can't do anything.

It is really interesting to find this actor who once played the outstanding Communist Party member Jiao Yu Lu to play this role, especially when Li Peiji in the film also put on the iconic action of Jiao Yu Lu, this is almost very reminiscent of the story that happened in the three years before Jiao Yu Lu died.

Of course, this metaphor may not be deliberate, but isn't the key reason why "1942" has been difficult to give birth for so many years?

Song Zheng believes that Feng Xiaogang, as a filmmaker, has such a sense of responsibility, at least, he used "1942" to fill this blank history.

And when will anyone shoot "1960"?

Song Zheng didn't know, and he didn't want to know, because if the wound was torn open, it would only make people feel more painful.

"Brother Xiaogang!, have you really thought about it!?"

What Feng Xiaogang said just now was secretive, and what did he say suddenly had an idea, in fact, Song Zheng knew very well that his sudden idea had already come out a few years ago.

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