Recently, the movie "I'm Small" released a promotional poster.
Yi Yang Qianxi has become the focus with black and white tones and a distorted back.
In this film, he will play a character with cerebral palsy, which is a big challenge and a lot of discussion.
Uncle Yu has always been very concerned about director Yang Lina.
Previously, the women's trilogy she wrote and directed herself was unique
Spring Dream", "Spring Tide", "Spring Song" (later renamed "Mom!".》）
With a focus on groups that are often overlooked, Yang's films are bold, straightforward and very personal.
These characteristics are particularly evident in her first feature film.
Using the camera as an eye, looking directly at the body of a middle-class woman to understand her inner desires.
Unfortunately, due to various problems, the film has not yet been released in the country.
After 10 years have passed, and although time has changed many things, the issues revealed in the story are still a matter of overall concern, and they are still worth pondering.
In today's column, we're going to talk about this topic
Spring Dream".
In mainland films, the theme of facing women** is rarely explored and represented.
In 2019, Yao Chen's "Send Me to Qingyun" can be described as a breakthrough.
The phrase I want to have sex with you expresses the need for desire in women and is openly displayed to the public.
The film also shows a ** scene after a cloud and rain to emphasize the autonomy of women.
In domestic films, this kind of expression has hardly been heard or seen.
"Spring Dream" came out six years earlier than "Send Me to the Green Clouds", showing a more daring style.
The same self-soothing performance.
It takes place in a dim atmosphere after the sun shines through the clouds and rain.
The former part belongs to the genre of daytime public, which can be said to be the continental version of "Female Addict".
Fang Lei is a full-time housewife.
In addition to taking care of my husband and daughter, I also enjoy doing housework at home and shopping with my sisters.
In this dull and routine life, there is an essential way: self-decompression.
When her husband and daughter leave the house, she opens a gift box, takes out a disc, and puts it in the *** machine.
Then, I lay in front of the spacious and bright window, the sun shone on my body, and I relaxed with the voice of the Japanese actress on the TV.
The pleasure comes quickly and directly, and the whole process is simple and straightforward.
There is no temptation, no others, relying on oneself to quickly get enjoyment.
Fang Lei gives people the impression of **.
Fang Lei always seeks happiness from her husband in the early morning, and sometimes his husband is still in a half-asleep state.
In addition, she has a unique preference.
One day, the couple was emotional.
As she was about to take the next step, Fang Lei said a word to her husband softly.
Upon hearing this, her husband laughed and teased her with a **, then got up and walked to the bathroom.
Fang Lei also walked out, she put a **, and then watched her husband solve the problem alone in the toilet with a face full of enjoyment.
Fang Lei likes to observe her husband's expression when he solves the problem alone.
Even if her body is not soothed, her spirit will feel very satisfied.
In addition to reality, Fang Lei couldn't help but indulge in beautiful fantasies.
In the dream, a strange and handsome man came into close contact with her passionately.
Rude, watery, wild......
All feelings are real and don't feel like you're dreaming.
When she woke up, she could still feel something and thought her husband had done something while she was asleep.
At first, she was a little scared of the dream.
I went to a so-called master with a friend before, and it is said that he can see the phenomenon of ghost possession.
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Eventually, she had to admit that she had fallen into a situation from which she could not extricate herself.
However, despite all the beautiful dreams, Fang Lei did not really feel satisfied.
Together with her sisters, she began to find more joy in reality.
In the case of a double pinch, the mental state also becomes blurred.
Fang Lei gradually became unable to distinguish between dreams and reality, as if she was really possessed by a ghost, and her life became chaotic.
When a family outing, Fang Lei didn't pay attention to it because she was addicted to dreams, causing her daughter to accidentally fall into the water.
Although the daughter's life is going well, the family is in a broken situation.
This kind of absurd and presumptuous story is rare in domestic films.
In particular, Yang Lina was deeply interested in the close-up of the naked body of the character in the film Sports.
Of course, the goal of all this is not to show how ** Fang Lei is.
On the contrary, to say this is to express that Fang Lei's life is very depressing, and her normal needs are difficult to meet.
The couple seemed very affectionate, and the husband kept calling the mantra "baby".
However, this kind of love is like an embroidered pillow, gorgeous on the surface but lacking substance.
Once you look closely, you will realize that all married life is led by Fang Lei.
And not every invitation will be accepted.
Many times, wives are not even as attractive to their husbands as the game Fruit Ninja.
After Fang Lei finished washing, she put on her pajamas, but her husband only focused on the game screen and didn't have any extra eyes on her.
The wife touches suggestively, but the husband doesn't care.
After a long time, you will also feel that the game is disturbed, and you can use the tongue to warn the other person to fall asleep peacefully.
At other times, the husband will feel more and more troubled.
For her husband, this matter is like dealing with work, and it will only be concluded in a hurry, completely ignoring Fang Lei's feelings and emotions.
After all, Fang Lei was a normal and healthy woman, not a cultivator.
Over a long period of time, those pent-up needs will eventually accumulate to a certain extent and inevitably explode.
Was it just her desire that Fang Lei was suppressing?
She was a middle-class housewife with a wealthy husband and a privileged life.
However, this does not mean that she is living happily.
Under the neglected physical needs, there is also the repressed self-existence.
She is a married woman.
I wake up very early every day to wrap my husband's favorite ravioli.
Her husband was full of praise for her wonton selling skills and expressed great satisfaction.
However, sometimes wanting to relax a little and make a simple bread omelette can be seen as a sign of laziness.
According to the husband, if the wife's behavior does not meet his expectations, it means that she has not fulfilled her responsibilities as a wife.
She's a mom.
It is a self-evident fact that Fang Lei is responsible for all the affairs of her daughter's life.
Therefore, when the daughter had a problem, she took full responsibility.
However, the husband never showed up.
From his point of view, it is the responsibility of the mother to take care of the child.
She is still a good granddaughter-in-law.
My husband's grandmother was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Before Fang Lei died, she was told that she dreamed that the other party wanted to leave in a pair of shoes that were placed in the cabinet.
Sure enough, the shoes were in that place.
The husband was amazed at why she had the prophesied dream
yes, why is this happening?
Perhaps it is precisely because of Fang Lei's careful care year after year that the old man truly trusts and loves her.
Regarding the husband, apart from showing up a little when the old man died, there was little to show up.
During the wake, the most we could do was sing my grandmother's favorite opera and weep.
How about Fang Lei herself?
Her image is not clear enough.
Through some words of others, we can know that Fang Lei loves to read and writes very well.
It was obvious that she could no longer suppress her desires.
There is nothing else, only these.
Fang Lei's life was like her dim and cramped room, and her whole body was trapped in it and couldn't extricate herself.
Bold themes, straightforward and crisp graphics.
What makes this movie unique.
As Yang Lina's first feature film, "Spring Dream" has been criticized by people for two things.
The first one is a shaky camera lens.
Some people think that this kind of unfocused camera movement is a bit difficult to understand.
Secondly, the second half of the movie suddenly incorporates elements of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods in mystery literature.
Buddhism and Taoism.
The Lord of Hades, the existence of the past.
These elements obscure the development of the story.
From my point of view, the sharpest thing about Yang Lina as a female independent filmmaker lies in this.
On the one hand, "Spring Dream" embodies the original intention of the director as the background of the documentary with its documentary style.
In the field of documentaries, Yang Lina is famous for directing works such as "Old Man", "Lao An" and "Wild Grass".
She in a very objective way, in a way"Inform"attitude to describe the objective dilemma faced by women.
When Fang Lei was cooking, an alarm bell rang outside the window.
When I went grocery shopping, I noticed that there was ** news on TV in the background: a girl who was repeatedly run over, and yet no one came to her rescue.
When I picked up my daughter, I saw a woman with a child begging outside the car window.
Everything reflects the problems that existed in the society of the time.
Each question deserves to be drilled into and amplified.
Using Yang Lina as the background** reflects women's pent-up needs to some extent.
This problem is widespread, but it has been overlooked.
On the other hand. In fact, all the concepts of grotesque ghosts and gods depicted in the film are expressions of questioning and irony.
Fang Lei's desire was supposed to be an ordinary need, but it was misunderstood as a ** thing that endangered human life.
Not only to take her own life, but also to hurt her daughter.
The culprit who caused all this to happen was her husband, who also insulted Fang Lei because of her baby dreams, calling her an adulteress and a lowly person.
Whether it was in a dream, Fang Lei also became impure.
Why?The director uses exaggeration, absurdity and banter to show how extremely depressed women can change.
She is helpless in the face of social reality and can only hope in the gods.
What is even more tragic about this situation is that such women are not an individual phenomenon, but a whole group.
In the movie, there is one scene that made a big impression on me.
Many women reverently lined up in front of a high monk, knelt down nine times, and poured out their pain to him, hoping to be saved by a cure.
The issues they talk about are the part of their lives that has been repressed for a long time.
However, there is no way to find any relief.
Overcome the heart"Evil", only through mental effort.
Does this thing really work?
One of the members was Fang Lei, who later seemed to have successfully restrained the ghost of desire in his heart and achieved inner sublimation with the help of the gods and Buddhas.
When the movie was nearing the end, Fang Lei walked to the window and merged with the sound of everyone frantically chanting **.
She stared intently at the young monk outside, and inadvertently stretched out her arm.
At the end of the day, the so-called salvation is really just a disguise to comfort oneself.
The dilemma remains, and nothing has changed.
Like the film itself, the metaphor is meant to say that the thing or situation has similar characteristics or properties to itself.
You can make it disappear quickly like Fang Lei's spring dream.
However, is the question gone?