When it comes to the deletion of the film, the audience usually expresses dissatisfaction, and as the "father" of the work, that is, the director, he is even more hateful and helpless about it. But there is an exception for the director of one film, he not only did it himself, cut the film to as many as 50 minutes, but also expressed "joy" at the final result, applauding, isn't it incredible?
Don't be unbelievable, after listening to the director's explanation, you will understand that the purpose of the deletion is only to make the story compact and the rhythm more reasonable, and to make the emotions to be expressed in the film closer to the audience's feelings. Although the process of deletion is very difficult, the final work presented is more detailed and touching.
Indeed, this film has become one of the best films in Taiwan Province, and the delicate emotions expressed in it are incomparable. It has become a masterpiece of the era, and it is currently one of the top ten Chinese movies on Douban!
This film is directed by Wang Tong, a master director of Taiwan Province, and it is said that this film was filmed after ten years of preparation, which shows the director's intentions and meticulousness.
"Scarecrow", "Banana Paradise" and this film directed by Wang Tong"Silent Hill".Collectively known as the "Rural Trilogy", the biggest theme of these works is to start with the local cultural customs of Taiwan, and deeply understand the difficult survival of Taiwan's grass people, so as to reveal the real status quo of Taiwanese society in the era of Japanese occupation, that absurd and helpless history. The cynicism and compassion exuded in his works provoke deep thought.
"Silent Hills"δΈ¨1992
Director: Wang Tong.
Screenwriter: Wu Nianzhen.
Starring: Yang Guimei, Huang Pinyuan, Peng Chacha, Wen Ying, Chen Xianmei.
Genre: Drama History.
Country of Production: Taiwan.
Languages: Hokkien Japanese.
Release Date: 1992-12-05 (Taiwan).
Runtime: 176 minutes.
Names: Wuyande Shanqiu Hill of No Return
The film is divided into two story lines to narrate, one is about two brothers' "gold rush dream", and the other is a sad story that takes place in a brothel.
The two brothers, Asuke and Ao, are long-term workers, and they owe a huge debt to bury their parents. However, the two are not willing to work like this all the time, because if they continue to do this, they don't know if they can pay off their debts in the year of the monkey, let alone have a wife and children on the hot kang.
After hearing a story about the "golden toad" told by the village elders, the two did not hesitate to pack their bags and go to find the legendary toad that could spit out "gold".
Surprisingly, the two brothers did find a job related to gold, but it was to help the Japanese dig gold mines.
But is it so easy for Japanese people to make money?Not only is it not easy, but the gold that is shining has nothing to do with them, and the gold mine where they are located is just another hell on earth.
The money they earned was barely enough for them to live, so the two brothers had to rent a dilapidated house with a widow, a hard-working man known as Arou. She has to raise four children by herself, and her life is very poor, so she often sells her "soul" to help the family. This is the protagonist in the first narrative line, and the protagonist in the other line is two marginal people who consider themselves "Japanese".
Not far from the mining area, there is a "flower building", which is a place for miners and Japanese, and those miners, when they are paid, come here to spend some money, but strangely, they never pay, but pay some scraps of gold.
It turned out that the wages paid for mining were very small, so the miners often secretly hid the broken gold in their butts and smuggled it out, and traded with the waitresses in this courtyard.
In this courtyard, there is a miscellaneous woman named Fumiko, and the other, Hongme, is the illegitimate child of a waitress and a Japanese.
Hongme has always felt that he is a real Japanese, usually speaks fluent Japanese, wears kimonos secretly, and hopes to marry Fumiko, but the Japanese don't think so, just think of him as a mongrel. This is definitely the biggest irony of this film, and it is also the most wonderful stroke.
This paragraph strongly satirizes some people who have been colonized, and gradually forms a complex psychology of both worship and awe of Japan, and many Taiwanese who have been educated and educated by the "imperial people" even have the psychology of longing to become Japan's own people.
However, all this will eventually be shattered, will be pulled back by the cruel reality, and you must recognize yourself.
When the Japanese received information about the miners and women secretly carrying gold, they treated everyone roughly. And Fumiko, who was actually defiled by others, at this time, when the red eyes, the most beautiful things in his heart were shattered in an instant, he was no longer obsessed with his identity, he no longer admired the identity of the Japanese, he took the risk and killed Shibata to avenge Fumiko, is this an awakening?Personally, I think yes, this should also be the director's painstaking setting, but how many people can be awakened?
Nowadays, there are many people from Takushima who are very close to the Japanese.
Therefore, the film truly reflects the complex mentality of those people at that time, and it is that kind of reality that makes the cruelty and despair at the end of the film vividly reflected!
There is no deliberate sensationalism, nor is it interpreted with a lot of tears, just the real shots one after another, which makes people's hearts full of sadness. That absurd and helpless, painful and tragic history should be engraved in our hearts, and this movie is that carving knife!