Introduction: Hong Kong is the place where Xiao Hong is getting closer and closer to death, and it is also the place where she is getting closer and closer to literature, literature, which is her golden age.
The film "Golden Age" is a biopic directed and released by director Xu Anhua in 2014, which tells the story of the writer Xiao Hong in the 1920s and 1940s, freely pursuing love and dreams, from Harbin all the way south, knowing many writers, encouraging each other all the way, and constantly finding her own "golden age" in writing. The film won many awards such as Best Director at the 51st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and Best Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards.
1. About monolingualism
In novels, characters often appear in opposition, such as Daiyu and Baochao in "Dream of the Red Chamber", red roses and white roses in Zhang Ailing's pen, and Shujuan and Yumo in "Jinling Thirteen Chao". Using this opposing technique can make the character image more distinct and prominent, which is absolutely applicable in both this movie and Xiao Hong's life. And this nearly three-hour biographical film, which uses the mood of the moment of monologue to tell Xiao Hong's own perspective, tells the short beauty and lengthy sadness of her life. She experienced the complete separation of Xiao Jun with Xiao Jun's child, married Duanmu, abandoned by Duanmu in the war-torn Wuhan, arrived in Chongqing with a big belly, gave birth, abandoned her son (also rumored to be strangled), went to Hong Kong with Duanmu, and experienced the Pacific War... In the three years of such turbulent changes, she actually wrote a book that allowed us to understand her life,"The Legend of Hulan River", and this movie was adapted from this book, allowing us to find the golden age that belonged to Xiao Hong.
She may just want to find a comfort and stability in this turbulent era to express it in this way. Works such as "Monolingualism" are mainly to force and express the contradictions, tensions, and anxieties in the depths of their souls, including indescribable feelings, emotions, consciousness and subconscious, and lead to philosophical thinking.
2, about love
At the beginning of the film, the scenery and humanities of the Hulan River are introduced, and there is a gray and dark in the brightness, and the simplicity also reflects people's numbness. The only warmth in Xiao Hong's childhood was the company of her grandfather, her father, mother and grandmother were harsh and harsh, and soon after escaping from Hulan City, she met a person she could not forget in her life, a man, Xiao Jun, and after leaving Xiao Jun, she met Duanmu again. Whether in novels or movies, characters often appear in opposition, such as Daiyu and Baochao in "Dream of the Red Chamber", zhang Ailing's red roses and white roses, And Shujuan and Yumo in "Jinling Thirteen Chao", all of which are typical images and sharp contrasts, and the contrast of characters in Xiao Hong's reality also exists. Xiao Jun and Duanmu are undoubtedly two completely different types of people, but Xiao Hong has lived with them for a few years, which seems to be Xiao Hong's choice, but in fact, she does not have to choose.
Before meeting Xiao Jun, she ran away from marriage, severed ties with her father, eloped with her cousin and was abandoned, and was aided by her ex-fiancé but abandoned again. And after meeting Xiao Jun. This seems to open another door to her world, she met a group of Northeastern writers, stimulated her unprecedented creative passion, and showed her extraordinary talents, which was undoubtedly a good encounter. However, how can a reckless husband bear that his own woman is higher than his own talent, this is a point that Xiao Jun is unwilling to face and unwilling to admit, so disagreements, quarrels, contradictions, and conflicts often begin to appear, including Xiao Jun's derailment later. Xiao Hong, who was already pregnant, had to make a choice again, leaving Xiao Jun and being with Duanmu.
Unlike Xiao Jun, Duanmu is very compatible with Xiao Hong in literature, and his personality is not so reckless and violent, but gentle and polite, which seems to be the two people who can raise eyebrows with each other, but in turbulent times, this cannot be so. Before following Duanmu, Xiao Hong must have known, known his weakness, and known that he was a coward. When others asked her why she didn't take her with her, she could only laugh at herself and say things like "why do I want him to bring it?"
Duanmu asked her, "How can you live with him (Xiao Jun) for so long?" She chose silence, but when the same question was asked to her by Robinki, it became like, "How can you live with him (Duanmu) for so long?" "When a person's flesh and bones are very painful, the pain of the skin is nothing." The difference between the two is obvious.
3. Relevant literature
It is not difficult to see from the film that as a woman, she almost bears all the humiliations of that turbulent era - the absolute righteousness of her father, the chaos of her fiancé, the treachery of her husband, the escape of her lover; all the suffering - the suffering of survival just for survival, the suffering of war to maintain national dignity, the suppression of women's rights by patriarchal society, the torture of the body by various diseases... She was wandering between Harbin, Shanghai, Japan, Beijing, Chongqing, and Hong Kong, fighting hunger, cold, disease, and war alone with a weak body, otherwise what could she do? Just like Xiao Hong herself has actually said that "the future vision is already in front of me, I will be lonely and sad for the rest of my life", she can only fill herself by constantly writing, even if she is plagued by illness, she can't stop writing, I think Tang Wei has very well interpreted the various things that Xiao Hong's role has experienced.
At the end of her life, she was still accompanied by only one person, and her life seemed lonely and lonely, but I didn't really want to say that. In that era, there were few people who had the same courage as her, the talent like her, the landlord family like her but dared to resist and dare to challenge, and like her, they could see the essence of human nature and write it out. Less, less, but that doesn't mean there isn't none. That group of northeastern writers, as well as Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Shu Qun, Luo Binji, Duanmu Hongliang, Luo Feng, and so on, they are all such people, full of vitality and positivity, likewise, they are not perfect, maybe abandoning their wives and children, abandoning their children, maybe running away in debt, and having a bad reputation, but when they get together, they will discuss reading and writing, discuss literature, rehearse dramas, and the previous reputation will not be noticed at this moment, and the pen is like a magic wand between them. Make their encounter bring a butterfly effect, set off a storm, and achieve a "golden age" that belongs to them.
epilogue:
Li Fan, the screenwriter of "Golden Age", said that "Hong Kong is the place where Xiao Hong is getting closer and closer to death, and it is also the place where she is getting closer and closer to literature" "All the roads in her life have come to an end, as if only the right to literary creation is left." This is Xiao Hong, and literature is her golden age.