Chapter 673: Eastern Thought
The camera is cleverly interspersed, with Kobayashi playing the cello, contrasting with the action during the burial. [Full text reading]
When playing the violin, when sitting on the 13 area of the performance chair with a beautiful pattern, it is important to hold it with a gentle attitude, slightly bow, like hugging the intimate and soft curves of a lover, caressing the strings, and the sound slowly penetrates, flows, diffuses, and lingers from the hollow of the wood, like a whisper.
When entering the funeral, press the eye area, close the lip flap, smooth the jaw, wipe the body, change the mourning clothes, tidy up the makeup, the movement is like the music of the cello, calm, delicate, and with tender emotions, full of love.
In the end, there was no difference between Kobayashi's violin and his burial expression...... No...... People were surprised to find that Kobayashi's violin expression even added a bit of solemnity and gentleness that he didn't have before.
Lao Zhou was just the "beauty of God" when he was buried, and Gu Xiaofan not only did it, but even brought it into the cello......
Oh my God, what an amazing acting!
Zhou Yunfa is forgotten, after all, he is a long-famous actor, most of the actors have seen his wonderful performances in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and Gu Xiaofan, who is only 22 years old, has reached such a height, which is incredible......
Now only a few people, such as Spacey and Moji, have discovered that Gu Xiaofan has not actually reached the height of Zhou Yanfa, but has only skillfully used the technique of comparing before and after, which makes people have such an illusion.
But even so, whether it is Warner ace manager Moki or former Oscar-winning actor Spacey, the shock in his heart at the moment is better than others.
Because others only see Gu Xiaofan's acting skills, but they see Gu Xiaofan's strong directing ability.
Both of them are asking themselves at the same time, a person who has both top-level acting skills and top-level directing ability...... I'm afraid that the whole of Hollywood can't find it......
Although Mo Ji had been staring at Gu Xiaofan for a long time, he hadn't really attached much importance to him in his heart, and it wasn't until this moment that he realized how powerful the opponents they faced in the mainland were......
And the story on the screen is still continuing, the wife who can't get the answer goes back to her parents' house, lives alone in the house left by her mother, Kobayashi, who is the mortuary, devotes himself to work wholeheartedly, and does not cook well, nor has he cleaned up the house a few times, the only leisure is in the blue sky curtain against the background of the snow-capped mountains, sitting on the hill next to the road and playing the cello of his childhood, accompanied by the gradually melting river, the wild goose returning home from afar, playing the tactful and melodious "Reading the Heaven and Earth".
The differences in life separate the family, and the parting is helpless.
There were bursts of regret in the theater, and they seemed to be helpless about the departure of Xiaolin's wife.
And in the end, what resolved the differences, Gu Xiaofan gave the answer, it was death......
On the screen, the bathhouse aunt who has worked hard all her life, at this moment she is lying in a coffin full of flowers, wearing a yellow Yanyan neck scarf that lined her, and is pushed into the cremation furnace of the black hole, and the old fire by the stove is cremated and said: "Death may be a door, and passing away is not the end, but the time to go to the next journey." ”
Kobayashi's wife, who finally let go of her knot, her understanding husband, no longer forced Kobayashi to resign from her position as an undertaker.
And in the last shot, Xiao Lin's heart has always been vague, and his father, who has not been in contact for 30 years, received a message from him for the first time in the colorful sky, and it turned out to be the news of death. Facing the old curve, Xiao Lin muttered to himself, what is he in this life? ?
A box of worthless relics, a pair of mother and son, an unsuccessful extramarital affair, an ordinary job, a family with four walls, and an empty ...... Until he pulled away those stiff hands and missed his six-year-old mind.
Only then did he remember: a face looking at himself with a smile, a pair of eyes that supervised his cello playing, a pair of arms carrying his young self to the bath, a hand with a temperature, handed over to his heavy heart, and only with his own hands, as if he wanted to exhaust thirty years of love and hate, thoughts and complaints, to depict his face in detail - the face that has been blurred in memory has edges and corners, and I once did not want to recall, probably for fear that remembering would remind me of what I had lost.
The original frightening and desperate death brought such peace and warmth, full of infatuated family affection and love.
Reconciliation with all things, this is the trace left by this story flowing through people's hearts.
When the subtitles slowly rose to the sound of distant cellos, the American filmmakers who came with critical eyes were silent, and many fell into a burst of thought.
They've seen too many Chinese Oscar campaign films, and almost all of them are doing one thing, which is to bow down and curry favor with them from a Westerner's point of view, as you can see from the depiction of the film.
It's all American-style shots, American-style expressions, where sensationalism is made, where life is told, and many places are deliberate.
So when they, the American filmmakers, feel when they watch those Chinese Oscar competition films? It's all about looking at their own group of students, imitators, to replicate their success.
To put it bluntly, if this is the case, no matter how the movies in Chinese mainland are made, they will not be able to watch them.
But "The Undertaker" completely broke their inherent impression, Gu Xiaofan had a purely oriental thought, jumped out of the entanglement of success and failure in life, and stood at a higher angle.
Turn the most feared death into something as beautiful as poetry.
There is no failure, no success, only the gentle reconciliation between people in the face of death, showing the most beautiful and true appearance of human nature.
This film can already be said to be impeccable in terms of technique, but the most surprising thing is that the gentleness and tolerance conveyed by the film are faintly overwhelming everyone present in terms of the underlying culture and even the personality of the person who describes the story behind it.
Western culture is known as the center of world civilization in modern times, and it is the maker of film and television rules.
But when Oriental people raise their heads and pick up the culture they were most proud of, they begin to describe life from their own perspective.
Western filmmakers suddenly find that you are standing taller than him and seeing farther than him...... The deep shock was far stronger than the previous pity!