Author: Li Li
We all come from the college entrance examination years when we only sleep four or five hours a day and don't know what happiness is, it seems that no generation of youth can be as nervous and depressed as now, parents are looking forward to the future success of teenagers, but they ignore whether they are still angry at the moment. According to a set of data from the Ministry of Health, "one-third of The tens of millions of people with mental illness in China develop the disease during adolescence." Youth unconsciously becomes morbid and cruel. Such a distorted special stage, such a complex and suffocating emotional interweaving, the troubles of the young Werther, the wildflowers that sprout in the heart, the flowers that are full of mountains, like the lips of spring, facing the sky. A teenager sings a song, who can hear the vague lyrics?
When crossing the dangerous rapids of youth, everyone has been ignorant and fiercely looking for feelings, but they do not know what they really want, we all stumble and feel the stones across the river, and there are stubborn teenagers who fall into the torrent, are swept away, and become teenagers in the river of youth forever. This teenager who did not come ashore, the teenager who was bound to youth, may have been full of gray hair, and he is still a teenager.
I know a white-haired teenager living in a time wormhole. Zhou Xingchi, an old boy who once won 3 billion box office with "The Mermaid", a person who has always refused to compromise, his original self stayed in young adolescence, so he chose the movie. Because television is responsible for reality, and movies are responsible for dreaming. When he was a child, his parents had different personalities, and often quarreled and even domestic violence. Zhou Xingchi, who grew up on the sidelines, later commented: "My parents are very artistic people, their every move is very entertaining, even the fight is very interesting." Unlike the average child who feels panicked, he changed his entertainment perspective to describe the parents fighting, changing himself to the mentality of "next to him" to make himself less painful. From a psychological point of view, this is a tendency to escape and divide. He was a man who stayed in his teenage years and refused to grow up. Over the years, you've seen him almost paranoid, at the expense of offending people, masochistic dreams, "You have to work very, very hard to be able to succeed a little bit." He used the film to build a huge fairy tale castle to fill all the missing things in his childhood, and this castle is safe: there is money, there is fatherly love, there is kung fu, there is happiness, and there is love, and the original intention of the actor who "no longer runs the dragon set, no longer stands behind people".
In the early days, Zhou Xingchi did not have the right to dominate the film, and the star girl at that time was completely in line with the market's desires, with plump breasts and fat buttocks, and the curves were exposed, which was Zhang Min and Qiu Shuzhen, and later after the real Zhou Xingchi directed, his film heroines, from Huang Shengyi to Cecilia Cheung, were all pure and dripping girly faces. Lin Yun, the heroine of the "Mermaid" selected by the sea, does not like people who say that she has a big chest and flat onions, nose, and green bean eyes, but I think she is quite beautiful, very in line with the personality of this silly white and sweet mermaid, which is a harmless and ascetic "virgin face" of people and animals, which is clearly the choice of Zhou Xingchi, who dreams of white-haired youth. Don't talk to me about Zhang Yuqi, she is a typical sexy image: white skin, big breasts, thin waist, long legs, so she can only play an active, evil, tough female villain. So, don't talk about whether platonic mermaid love is possible in the film? Because, you viewers whose imagination is too dirty, you don't know that in the heart of Xingye, there is still a clean and clear pure love teenager.
In the later Chow Sing Chi films, it is all Lin Yun, a young heroine who is ignorant and unopened, like an abstract angel, who exists to rescue and temper the male protagonist, and is a dessert prepared for the prodigal son who has passed through a thousand sails. The mermaid, who is not familiar with the world, makes the violent Deng Chao ashamed of herself in front of her pure innocence. The night before the marriage proposal, in the face of the mermaid with a vacuum in the upper body, Deng Chao did not show half lust - Lin Yun was indeed the most girlish star girl ever. At the end of the film, Deng Chao and the mermaid live as soul mates in a mansion adjacent to the ocean, but they do not live as husband and wife in the traditional sense, nor can they have children. This is the true love of the latest model in Zhou Xingchi's eyes - asexual and true. In the depths of zhou Xingchi, who is nearly 60 years old, he may have to admit that his ideal lover who only wants to give and does not ask for returns has never existed. The girl whose heart is pure and true, who saves the love of incompetent men, can only live in fairy tales. Before he has time to grow up, he is old, so Zhou Xingchi can only fall in love with a "mermaid", which is the real "mermaid love" behind the movie.
From a clear spring, life has flowed since then. In his youth, there was no worldly greed and desire, no city government, no conspiracy, just like the thousands of flowers swaying in the morning wind. The passion of youth, like clouds like xia, like the grandeur of a storm, like an endless stream of alcohol. However, teenagers are also fickle, and a heavy rain may change the course of the creek and change the flowing path. Teenagers are madly obsessed with freedom, new adventures in life are unfolding, and everything is fresh. Teenagers with their backs to reality, in the struggle with daily life, created all the festivals, all the triumphs, all the dramas. In the world of youth, they try to invent new flowers, new stars, new bodies, and new languages, confident that they have acquired supernatural powers.
On the path of a teenager growing up, no one has enough time to understand themselves. Some people feel that they have reached the state of adulthood and can afford marriage and responsibilities, but onlookers see that he only has a 13-year-old face. Someone feels true beauty, it looks like a dead end, and excessive thought makes beauty come to an end. Someone, after many years of youthful restlessness, is still stubbornly trying to stay in the Garden of Eden, allowing the pleasant and innocent time to come to an abrupt end, in reality he has long been white-haired and full of love debts, but he has returned to his youth again and again with the hardships of atonement, futilely looking for a spiritual exit.
The teenagers here are not the only enemies that seem to flow for years, and we are wrapped in fate and turning around, leaving only a touch of bright moonlight in front of the quiet window of the night people, and the cinnabar mole on the chest in the distance.