《活着》便是最好的幸运，且惜且行？少为纨绔子弟

【英文介绍/For English】：

"Small is a playboy, loves prosperity, loves mansions, beautiful maids, child prostitutes, fresh clothes, gourmet food, horses, lanterns, fireworks, pear orchards, propaganda, antiques, flowers and birds. Tea obsessed with tangerines, bookworms and poets, toiled for half a life, all become dreams. At the age of fifty, the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, and they flee to the mountains. The survivors have broken beds, broken tripods, sick pianos, and countless books. It’s just a lack of inkstone. Clothes and vegetables, food, often without cooking. Looking back on twenty years, it’s like a lifetime.” A passage I accidentally saw on Douban was quoted from Zhang Dai’s "Self-Wei Epitaph", which reminded me of the one I read two days ago Zhang Yimou's movie "To Live" seems to be somewhat similar unconsciously.

"Alive" poster

From the vanity of being a landlord to being oppressed after being prodigal; from being forced by the Kuomintang to go to war to being reunited with the People's Liberation Army; experiencing the People's Commune Movement, the Great Steelmaking and the Cultural Revolution... Fugui's life is not as fulfilling as his name. Fortunately, the movie has changed a little compared to the original book, and there are more hopes. After all, Fugui has his wife, son-in-law and nephew by his side in the ending, which is not as bleak as the original book. He is only accompanied by an old scalper, and no one in the world is facing the sunset.

Stills of "Alive"

When I read the book "To Live" when I was young, I felt that the male protagonist was doing his own death. He gambled and gambled all his family property, and the poor female protagonist continued to live with him regardless of the past. Things also seemed like retribution for what he had done before. It wasn't until Youqing's death and Fengxia's dystocia that she felt the cruelty of the plot. The most painful thing in the world is to witness the relatives around her leave one by one, but there is nothing they can do. And Fugui seems to have become indifferent in the blows again and again, "This life has come quickly when I think about it, and my life is ordinary. My father expects me to honor my ancestors. He is wrong. I, This is the fate. When I was young, I relied on the money left by my ancestors for a while, and then I became more and more desolate. This is good. Look at the people around me, Long Er and Chunsheng, they only had a good time for a while , In the end, I lost my life. It is better to be a normal person, fighting over this and that, and fighting over and over again to lose my life. Like me, it is said that the more you get around, the less promising you are, but you can live a long life. Only one person I know One dies next to the other, and I am still alive." I seem to see the dark back of Fugui old man and Fugui old cow glowing in the afterglow, and I hear the old man's muddy voice sounding in the open field: The boy is going to wander, the middle school In the middle of the year, I want to dig Tibet, and in my old age, I want to be a monk.

Stills of "Alive"

It is difficult to express the real sadness, so he can only hide it in his heart and let him get depressed.

I stayed in the story for a long time and couldn't calm down. For a while, there is the domineering young master Fugui when he was young, for a while, Jiazhen who is unable to work because of rickets, and for a while, it is Youqing who lost his life after being pumped for donating blood. I seem to want to cry, but I feel that even Fugui himself has never cried, whose tears am I shedding here?

Stills of "Alive"

It turns out that "To Live" is the best luck, and also the greatest courage, so let's do it with regret.