We sat on the balcony as if we were sitting on the edge of a cliff with infinite views. On the opposite side is Chaotianmen, where the Yangtze River and Jialing River are cloaked in night and colorful lights, converging under our eyes.
We have eaten twice on this balcony and both with you. Rainbow Shadow turned to me. The river on the opposite side doesn't seem to come from their respective upstreams, but more like it flows from a complex of buildings that are light and dark. The time of countless ordinary people has come together to form this city and this era. Our past, such as the 70s, 80s and even earlier years of the 20th century, is also in it.
I sometimes think of the rainbow shadow in the 80s of the 20th century. At that time, she was not a famous writer who was well-known overseas, but an energetic secretary of the Youth League Committee of a state-owned enterprise, and the soul of our literary circle. Every time everyone gets together to talk about literature, Hongying will magically conjure up something delicious, sometimes peanuts, sometimes spicy chicken nuggets, literature and food are inseparable from her. But this time, we came together, not for food, not for literature, but to celebrate the release of the film "Moonlight Samurai," which she wrote and directed. Back indoors on the sofa and sat down, the opposite side turned into a large screen, and "Moonlight Samurai" began**. In the mind of Hongying, who is a director, what was that era like?Xiao Ming finally came out of our math problems and became the hero of the movie. At the age of 12, he rescued Su Yun from the fists and feet of a bad boy, but his head was broken, and he met Qin Jiahui, the "legendary" beauty on this street, in the hospital. Since then, in Xiao Ming's heart, there is a "goddess" who needs to be protected. At the end of the 70s of the 20th century, the market customs painting of Chongqing town, with the footsteps of an ignorant teenager, slowly unfolded on the screen, familiar and unfamiliar, cordial and embarrassing: Qin Lao, a university professor who had encountered an accident, repaired leather shoes in a corner of the old street;Brother Gang, a member of the society, has become a ...... with violenceCompared with the original, the narrative of the movie is more efficient and bright. Multiple clues advance at the same time, and the times are changing, with mottled light and shadow. The picture that shocked me deeply was the scene where Qin Lao gave shoes to Xiao Ming's mother when he was leaving. The persistence and forbearance of love in the previous generation is beautiful. That kind of tragic beauty is impossible to reproduce in Xiao Ming's generation and in us. And Xiao Ming's growth has just begun until the end of the play. It is touching to see the gap between life in different eras. "Even if the world doesn't treat me well, I still have to be kind. This is what Rainbow Shadow said in an interview after the publication of the long ** "Moonlight Samurai". The characters in the movie also use their own stories to continue to tell the redemption and tenacity of humanity in the past years. Su Yun, who dares to love and hate, has a little shadow of a rainbow shadow on his body, and even the image of the actor is a bit like the rainbow shadow back then. Su Yun does not appear much in the movie, but he is bright step by step, becoming a warm clue that can best represent the power of the times. I used the word "embarrassing" earlier because I was too familiar with that era, and those awkward dialogues and actions were one of the elements of that era. Xiao Ming's generation is eager to break free from the real life around him, and his speech and demeanor are involuntarily close to the romance in movies and **. When people reach middle age or even old age, how will Xiao Ming view himself?After the movie ended, everyone was still sitting motionless on the sofa, as if they were still stuck in a past era, and they were not very comfortable with the time and space around them. Not long after dinner, I suddenly became a little hungry, which was strange. I thought about it, and I must have been stimulated by the small noodles of Chongqing presented in the movie. I estimate that there will be viewers who follow the plot and are accidentally attracted by Chongqing noodles while running. The scene of Xiao Ming's mother cooking noodles, even decades later, is still widely present in the streets and alleys of Chongqing. Most people in Chongqing start their day with a bowl of noodles in the morning. Hongying made tea at the table, and we slowly got up and walked over, back to the opposite side of Chaotianmen, facing the endless confluence and rushing of the two rivers again. The figures of Xiao Ming played by Zuo Hang and Qin Jiahui played by Feng Jiamei seem to be superimposed in the vast smoke waves, making them look even more like a vast scene like a movie. Indeed, time is a huge movie that encompasses everyone, and no one can stay out of it. I've only been to this balcony twice, the last time Hongying was just a writer, and this time she has become a director. This is what happened to this ordinary and famous Chongqing woman, and this is also the surprise and change that the times continue to give us.