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"Every growth is a homicide."

This is a sentence printed on the poster of "Dog Thirteen".

Seeing this sentence, I am reminded of the 2015 domestic film "What's in the Black Place", which, like "Dog Thirteen", also tells the painful growth story of a girl.

Interestingly, "What's in the Black Place" juxtaposes the girl's coming-of-age story with a serial murder case, and uses the cruelty of murder to reflect the cruelty of growing up.

This juxtaposition is interesting in that the destruction of the flesh and the spirit mirror each other.

In "Dog Thirteen", director Cao Baoping chose another way of counterpoint mirroring, that is, "man and dog".

This kind of counterpoint has long been demonstrated by Ken Lodge in his famous card "The Child and the Eagle".

The child and the eagle in the film seem to have a nurturing relationship, but in fact the child is the eagle waiting to fly, and the eagle is the child who is not old and decrepit.

It's just that Ken Lodge focuses on the injustice of the social structure, while Cao Baoping explores the fact that the Chinese family harms children in the name of warmth.

In this sense, Dog Thirteen has another name, The Girl and the Dog.

The dog in the film is another doppelganger of the girl.

Faced with the loss of the "self" symbolized by the dog, the girl makes one last futile struggle. In the end, she failed completely. And for the grown-ups, she just grew up smoothly.

The girl in the film is named Li Play, and compared with Tang Tang and Gao Fang, she has a maturity that far exceeds that of her peers.

She loves to watch "Qiang Qiang Threesome", loves to listen to rock music, and loves to read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time......

When Tang Tang and Gao Fang said goodbye with drunkenness, and the other used tattoos to engrave their childish love, Li Play seemed to be involved in it, but in fact he was always an outsider.

Director Cao Baoping also used a large number of shallow focus lenses to create a sense of alienation between Li Play and the surrounding space.

It is impossible for this independent girl to be familiar with the human world of the adult world early on, and voluntarily become a tacit "accomplice". Instead, she is bound to experience resistance and eventually accept "growing up" at an even more tragic cost in order to fulfill her naïve tragedy.

In the film, Li is obsessed with physics, but under the coercion of his father, he changes to the English group. For this, the father and daughter had a very unpleasant quarrel, so the father gave him a dog as compensation.

Lee named the dog "Einstein" as a way to reaffirm his love for physics.

From this point on, we will see similar "vicarious compensation" occur one after another in the film.

First, Einstein accidentally got lost, and instead of looking for it, the adults tried to compensate for it with a pair of roller skates.

After discovering that it didn't work, they bought a similar dog and falsely claimed it to be Einstein.

In the end, persuasion was useless, and her father finally fought and ended Li Wan's "willfulness" with violence, and then promised to take her to an astronomy exhibition to show reconciliation.

Throughout the process, we can see that the real lack of children's hearts has been repeatedly ignored by adults. This long "compensation chain" has been stolen again and again and gradually turned into a bad debt that cannot be repaid.

The reason why this is so is because in the eyes of adults, children are never an independent person. They are like cats and puppies, just coax when they are wronged.

But in reality, the maturity of children is much higher than adults think. They understand everything, it's just that the adults choose to turn a blind eye.

In the film, after experiencing the desperation of finding a dog, Li Play gradually figured it out, and comforted himself with the truth in the book: "Outside of this universe, there must be countless same universes, containing a collection of all our possibilities." In this way, what is not done will be done in a certain universe, and wrong choices will be corrected in a certain universe. Thinking about it this way, I feel better. ”

But what awaits her?

The next scene in the film is the beating of Li by his father.

Obviously, a child has just crawled out of the abyss and sees a little light, but the adult destroys everything with his own hands without knowing or asking.

This is the most cruel thing brewed by the parent-child divide.

Seeing this, I believe that many viewers will be angry with the adults in the film.

But in fact, I think the movie "Dog Thirteen" has a good balance, that is, it does not treat "adults" as the opposite of evil.

On the contrary, the film gives them enough understanding.

After his parents divorced, his grandparents were the actual caregivers of Lee Play. And out of a compensatory mentality, they love Li Play very much, even to the point of doting.

And because his father was busy with work and had a new life with his lover, he neglected to take care of Li Play. But he was by no means a heartless man.

The film uses just two scenes to illustrate the invisible pressure on our father's back.

The first scene is that the daughter is finally back to normal, and she has taken the first place in her grade in English. On the way to the car, the overjoyed father sang to his daughter: "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, hey! That's it! That's it! That's it! ”

This scene is actually quite ruthless, it makes the ** haze hovering above the patriarchy nowhere to hide. Then my father said, "Somehow I suddenly remembered this song." ”

Understated, thrilling. At that moment, you will understand that for my father, who grew up in a time of turmoil, invisible violence has become a demon in his subconscious.

The second scene was the business banquet, where a table of people said flattering words to make Brother Zhang happy. My father smiled and said, "Without you, Brother Zhang, I wouldn't be where I am today." ”

It's a sycophant, but it's mostly good. You must know that if you want to do something in China, it is very difficult not to get people in key positions.

Together, these two scenes constitute pressure from both historical and realistic dimensions, which are all exerted on the father, making him unable and unable to give his daughter a healthy education.

Because of this, whether it is the transitional love of grandparents or the powerlessness of father, they all just put forward the same request to Li Play from different angles: you have to be obedient! Be obedient quickly! Be obedient without thinking!

In this way, your grandparents will not hurt you in vain; In this way, you learn not to let your dad worry about it.

Obedient, sensible, and grow up.

These three words form a strict chain of cause and effect in the minds of adults.

If a child is obedient, it means that he is sensible, and if he is sensible, it proves that he has grown up.

Obedient and sensible are all good words. But as soon as you peel off their warm and affectionate coats, you will find that their original intentions are really shocking.

What is obedience? Obedience is: you can shut up.

What is sensible? Sensible is: you have to learn to read words and colors and hide your true thoughts.

And what do these two words add up?

It's the word that is mentioned repeatedly in the film: hypocrisy.

Yes, this is an educational outcome that adults would never have imagined and would never want to see. It's a pity that all their practices are forcing children to go the only way to the adult world.

And all these educational achievements are reflected in the fact that when the father sings "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is Good", the daughter still smiles and says, "I think it's very good!" ”

It is embodied in the fact that the father and his lover gave birth to Zhaozhao but hid it from Li Play, and when the child's birthday banquet came, the father pulled Li Play directly to the scene to face the sudden truth, and faintly conveyed a message to her: Today is a good day for family fun, and no awkwardness is allowed. Well, you can start laughing.

And finally, Li won the physics prize and was escorted to a key high school, and his uncle, who didn't know about it, served a plate of dog meat at the celebration banquet. Smoked black, lifeless dog meat. Li Yu hesitated for a moment, ate it in one bite, and said with a smile, "Thank you, uncle." ”

At this point, an adult education has finally completed its entire process, and the celebration banquet is the so-called "coming-of-age ceremony". The last part of this coming-of-age ceremony is particularly cruel, which is to sacrifice the "dead" self to everyone, and exchange the admission of defeat in front of everyone's eyes for a ticket to the adult world.

Since then, in the eyes of adults, you have really grown up.

You can finally understand the weight of the words "I am all for your good", you can finally quickly collect your emotions and look forward after suffering grievances, and you can finally smile at all people and things that you are extremely disgusted with in your heart.

It's as if you once could say no to a glass of milk because of your likes and dislikes, and then you won't have the same courage to say no to a glass of wine from the dinner table.

You may ask, "Why did I grow up like this?" ”

And the grown-ups will say, "Because that's how we grew up." ”

You see, isn't Zhao Zhao on the ice rink also under the cold eyes of the coach, begging but not getting a hug?

Yes, he will grow up like this.

So there's no need to have illusions, that's how everyone grows up. You may not be happy to hear this, but do you find a little comfort in it?

If yes, then reluctantly accept it.

"Dog Thirteen" is the most courageous domestic film I have seen in recent years, but it does not blindly indulge in preaching or criticism, but expresses a certain helplessness in a more cautious attitude.

At the end of the film, Lee meets the lost Albert Einstein on the street, who already has a common name "Beibei" from his new owner. Li Yu didn't come forward to ask for it, but said, "It's good that it didn't recognize me." ”

She still believed that Einstein might have been treated better by another owner. It's like another self in a parallel universe, and has already lived another possible life.

After that, she walked to the corner alone, cried hard, and disappeared into the camera without looking back.

The screen turned, and it stopped on a wall. There was a dog search notice posted on the wall, which had been gnawed away by the wind and sand.

Then a voice came, listen closely, not the bird call learned by the madman upstairs, nor the angry roar of rock music, but a word spoken by an adult patting you on the shoulder.

The sentence was, "In the future, there will be many more such things." ”

"Every growth is a homicide."

This is a sentence printed on the poster of "Dog Thirteen".

Seeing this sentence, I am reminded of the 2015 domestic film "What's in the Black Place", which, like "Dog Thirteen", also tells the painful growth story of a girl.

Interestingly, "What's in the Black Place" juxtaposes the girl's coming-of-age story with a serial murder case, and uses the cruelty of murder to reflect the cruelty of growing up.

This juxtaposition is interesting in that the destruction of the flesh and the spirit mirror each other.

In "Dog Thirteen", director Cao Baoping chose another way of counterpoint mirroring, that is, "man and dog".

This kind of counterpoint has long been demonstrated by Ken Lodge in his famous card "The Child and the Eagle".

The child and the eagle in the film seem to have a nurturing relationship, but in fact the child is the eagle waiting to fly, and the eagle is the child who is not old and decrepit.

It's just that Ken Lodge focuses on the injustice of the social structure, while Cao Baoping explores the fact that the Chinese family harms children in the name of warmth.

In this sense, Dog Thirteen has another name, The Girl and the Dog.

The dog in the film is another doppelganger of the girl.

Faced with the loss of the "self" symbolized by the dog, the girl makes one last futile struggle. In the end, she failed completely. And for the grown-ups, she just grew up smoothly.

The girl in the film is named Li Play, and compared with Tang Tang and Gao Fang, she has a maturity that far exceeds that of her peers.

She loves to watch "Qiang Qiang Threesome", loves to listen to rock music, and loves to read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time......

When Tang Tang and Gao Fang said goodbye with drunkenness, and the other used tattoos to engrave their childish love, Li Play seemed to be involved in it, but in fact he was always an outsider.

Director Cao Baoping also used a large number of shallow focus lenses to create a sense of alienation between Li Play and the surrounding space.

It is impossible for this independent girl to be familiar with the human world of the adult world early on, and voluntarily become a tacit "accomplice". Instead, she is bound to experience resistance and eventually accept "growing up" at an even more tragic cost in order to fulfill her naïve tragedy.

In the film, Li is obsessed with physics, but under the coercion of his father, he changes to the English group. For this, the father and daughter had a very unpleasant quarrel, so the father gave him a dog as compensation.

Lee named the dog "Einstein" as a way to reaffirm his love for physics.

From this point on, we will see similar "vicarious compensation" occur one after another in the film.

First, Einstein accidentally got lost, and instead of looking for it, the adults tried to compensate for it with a pair of roller skates.

After discovering that it didn't work, they bought a similar dog and falsely claimed it to be Einstein.

In the end, persuasion was useless, and her father finally fought and ended Li Wan's "willfulness" with violence, and then promised to take her to an astronomy exhibition to show reconciliation.

Throughout the process, we can see that the real lack of children's hearts has been repeatedly ignored by adults. This long "compensation chain" has been stolen again and again and gradually turned into a bad debt that cannot be repaid.

The reason why this is so is because in the eyes of adults, children are never an independent person. They are like cats and puppies, just coax when they are wronged.

But in reality, the maturity of children is much higher than adults think. They understand everything, it's just that the adults choose to turn a blind eye.

In the film, after experiencing the desperation of finding a dog, Li Play gradually figured it out, and comforted himself with the truth in the book: "Outside of this universe, there must be countless same universes, containing a collection of all our possibilities." In this way, what is not done will be done in a certain universe, and wrong choices will be corrected in a certain universe. Thinking about it this way, I feel better. ”

But what awaits her?

The next scene in the film is the beating of Li by his father.

Obviously, a child has just crawled out of the abyss and sees a little light, but the adult destroys everything with his own hands without knowing or asking.

This is the most cruel thing brewed by the parent-child divide.

Seeing this, I believe that many viewers will be angry with the adults in the film.

But in fact, I think the movie "Dog Thirteen" has a good balance, that is, it does not treat "adults" as the opposite of evil.

On the contrary, the film gives them enough understanding.

After his parents divorced, his grandparents were the actual caregivers of Lee Play. And out of a compensatory mentality, they love Li Play very much, even to the point of doting.

And because his father was busy with work and had a new life with his lover, he neglected to take care of Li Play. But he was by no means a heartless man.

The film uses just two scenes to illustrate the invisible pressure on our father's back.

The first scene is that the daughter is finally back to normal, and she has taken the first place in her grade in English. On the way to the car, the overjoyed father sang to his daughter: "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, hey! That's it! That's it! That's it! ”

This scene is actually quite ruthless, it makes the ** haze hovering above the patriarchy nowhere to hide. Then my father said, "Somehow I suddenly remembered this song." ”

Understated, thrilling. At that moment, you will understand that for my father, who grew up in a time of turmoil, invisible violence has become a demon in his subconscious.

The second scene was the business banquet, where a table of people said flattering words to make Brother Zhang happy. My father smiled and said, "Without you, Brother Zhang, I wouldn't be where I am today." ”

It's a sycophant, but it's mostly good. You must know that if you want to do something in China, it is very difficult not to get people in key positions.

Together, these two scenes constitute pressure from both historical and realistic dimensions, which are all exerted on the father, making him unable and unable to give his daughter a healthy education.

Because of this, whether it is the transitional love of grandparents or the powerlessness of father, they all just put forward the same request to Li Play from different angles: you have to be obedient! Be obedient quickly! Be obedient without thinking!

In this way, your grandparents will not hurt you in vain; In this way, you learn not to let your dad worry about it.

Obedient, sensible, and grow up.

These three words form a strict chain of cause and effect in the minds of adults.

If a child is obedient, it means that he is sensible, and if he is sensible, it proves that he has grown up.

Obedient and sensible are all good words. But as soon as you peel off their warm and affectionate coats, you will find that their original intentions are really shocking.

What is obedience? Obedience is: you can shut up.

What is sensible? Sensible is: you have to learn to read words and colors and hide your true thoughts.

And what do these two words add up?

It's the word that is mentioned repeatedly in the film: hypocrisy.

Yes, this is an educational outcome that adults would never have imagined and would never want to see. It's a pity that all their practices are forcing children to go the only way to the adult world.

And all these educational achievements are reflected in the fact that when the father sings "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is Good", the daughter still smiles and says, "I think it's very good!" ”

It is embodied in the fact that the father and his lover gave birth to Zhaozhao but hid it from Li Play, and when the child's birthday banquet came, the father pulled Li Play directly to the scene to face the sudden truth, and faintly conveyed a message to her: Today is a good day for family fun, and no awkwardness is allowed. Well, you can start laughing.

And finally, Li won the physics prize and was escorted to a key high school, and his uncle, who didn't know about it, served a plate of dog meat at the celebration banquet. Smoked black, lifeless dog meat. Li Yu hesitated for a moment, ate it in one bite, and said with a smile, "Thank you, uncle." ”

At this point, an adult education has finally completed its entire process, and the celebration banquet is the so-called "coming-of-age ceremony". The last part of this coming-of-age ceremony is particularly cruel, which is to sacrifice the "dead" self to everyone, and exchange the admission of defeat in front of everyone's eyes for a ticket to the adult world.

Since then, in the eyes of adults, you have really grown up.

You can finally understand the weight of the words "I am all for your good", you can finally quickly collect your emotions and look forward after suffering grievances, and you can finally smile at all people and things that you are extremely disgusted with in your heart.

It's as if you once could say no to a glass of milk because of your likes and dislikes, and then you won't have the same courage to say no to a glass of wine from the dinner table.

You may ask, "Why did I grow up like this?" ”

And the grown-ups will say, "Because that's how we grew up." ”

You see, isn't Zhao Zhao on the ice rink also under the cold eyes of the coach, begging but not getting a hug?

Yes, he will grow up like this.

So there's no need to have illusions, that's how everyone grows up. You may not be happy to hear this, but do you find a little comfort in it?

If yes, then reluctantly accept it.

"Dog Thirteen" is the most courageous domestic film I have seen in recent years, but it does not blindly indulge in preaching or criticism, but expresses a certain helplessness in a more cautious attitude.

At the end of the film, Lee meets the lost Albert Einstein on the street, who already has a common name "Beibei" from his new owner. Li Yu didn't come forward to ask for it, but said, "It's good that it didn't recognize me." ”

She still believed that Einstein might have been treated better by another owner. It's like another self in a parallel universe, and has already lived another possible life.

After that, she walked to the corner alone, cried hard, and disappeared into the camera without looking back.

The screen turned, and it stopped on a wall. There was a dog search notice posted on the wall, which had been gnawed away by the wind and sand.

Then a voice came, listen closely, not the bird call learned by the madman upstairs, nor the angry roar of rock music, but a word spoken by an adult patting you on the shoulder.

The sentence was, "In the future, there will be many more such things." ”