Chapter 18 Watching Movies is also called Learning
Nowadays there is no such thing as a double-day weekend. All we have is Sunday, so the holidays are always very short, and we return to our normal pace of study and life the next day.
Starting from Wednesday, the class added a new course on European literary history. The lecturer invited was a returnee from Yenching University who had studied in France. His name is Jin Wenxuan. He is in his thirties, well-mannered and in the prime of his life.
Jin Wenxuan looks like a very easy-going person, and that is indeed the case.
"I am just a literature lover. I have read most of the novels written by you. The history of European literature is a ready-made textbook. You can just look it up on your own. If you have any questions, we can communicate with each other."
Jin Wenxuan's humble attitude instantly won everyone's favor.
Most of the lecturers these days are experienced seniors and experts. It is rare to see a young person with such a humble attitude.
The course, which should have been boring, turned into an exchange between teachers and students. Jin Wenxuan obtained his degree in France, and when communicating with everyone, he also interspersed some works and anecdotes of French writers. Everyone, including Lin Weimin, listened with great interest.
"Teacher Jin knows a lot and is also good-looking."
During lunch, Lin Weimin heard Liu Shuhua and Huang Anyi talking.
Huang Anyi nodded, "Teacher Jin is indeed very knowledgeable."
Lin Weimin felt unhappy when he heard this. It was really the case that the new generation was better than the old ones. I, a young guy, had only been working in the station for a few days and I was eliminated.
After the two finished their meal, they turned around and saw Lin Weimin queuing behind them. Liu Shuhua gently touched Huang Anyi's shoulder. She glanced at Lin Weimin, then quickly lowered her head and went to her seat.
Lin Weimin rubbed his nose. Didn't he just set a goal for you in front of the whole class? Is it really that serious? This is too vindictive.
On Friday afternoon, Teacher Tang Yuqiu notified everyone.
"The institute contacted the China Film Archive and borrowed a screening room and documentary films. In the evening, all the students in our class went outside to watch the documentary films and study."
The students cheered immediately and wanted to leave without even having dinner.
Previously, several resident teachers in the institute revealed to everyone that the institute was in contact with the film archive and was preparing to show some documentaries for everyone to study. We didn’t expect it to happen so soon.
Watching movies is one of the few popular entertainments in this era.
Today, the domestic film industry is still in the planned era, and there are not many films released publicly. Many of the films in the film archive are classic foreign films. In this day and age, movies cannot be discussed publicly. They have to be called documentary films or internal reference films. Ordinary people have no way of getting a glimpse of them.
We are all excited to think about the precious opportunity to watch the library's documentary while taking the opportunity of further studies.
The screening room was near Xiaoxitianer. A group of people packed into bus No. 18 and after changing trains, they arrived at the screening room and couldn't help but whisper to each other excitedly.
More than 30 students and two teachers were sitting in the small screening room. The projector was turning slowly and the screen was lit up, reflecting the shadows of people below and their excited faces.
The first movie shown today is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", an American movie released in 1975. It won five awards including the 48th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
Most of the people present were watching a foreign film for the first time, especially a Hollywood film, and they watched it without blinking an eye.
Lin Weimin had seen "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in later life, but when I watched it again today, I had some new feelings.
As the movie ended, a dim light came on in the originally quiet screening room, and the team leader, Teacher Tang Yuqiu, called out, "Take a ten-minute break. There will be another movie later."
After sitting for more than an hour, many people got up to go to the toilet. A few heavy smokers ran directly to the corridor to relieve their cravings and chat.
Lin Weimin stood next to them, facing a window, listening to them discussing the plot of the movie they had just watched. Most of them were shocked beyond words by the plot.
There is no shortage of contempt for the head nurse and others and praise for the protagonist.
Gu Hua looked at Lin Weimin standing alone in front of the window, deep in thought, and asked, "Weimin, what do you think of this movie?"
Lin Weimin looked over dully, "What?"
He was simply in a trance just now.
"What do you think of this movie?"
"OK!"
"What's the good solution?" Gu Hua asked.
this……
Lin Weimin hesitated for a moment and tried to recall the plot of the movie.
"The insane asylum is a special place. The director intentionally placed the entire film in this very limited space, which itself has a strong directionality, allowing the audience to peek into themselves through the madman, and instilling a belief in people living in that society: freedom and self, which is a very typical American ideology."
No one was surprised by the content of Lin Weimin's speech.
He paused for a few seconds and then continued, "I think that many viewers who have watched this movie will be moved to tears. They are kind by nature, pursue freedom, respect individuality, and oppose shackles. The enemy of Utopia seems to be just a small group of cold-blooded head nurses..."
At this point, Lin Weimin paused again, "But this is obviously not in line with the nature of this world. Do you think McMurphy exists in reality? Or is he the majority?
Of course he is not, on the contrary, he is an outlier.
The most fundamental reason why McMurphy was treated inhumanely was that his freedom arbitrarily destroyed the existing rules of the game, but what most people really need is not freedom but safety.
A kind of security in position leads to personal and personal security.
Then, when McMurphy was tortured to death in the mental hospital, everyone suddenly became his close comrades, calling him a hero, and longing for "freedom" with him, planning a perfect prison escape.
This is the deceitful part of human beings. We are always trying to find a reasonable foothold for ourselves, and we can swing wildly between the two ends of value judgment.
If I were writing it, I would probably add a poor ending to the movie.
That is, after the chief escaped from the mental hospital, he did not enjoy the fragrant taste of freedom.
Instead, with disheveled hair, covered in mud, panting and with a ferocious face, he knocked on the door of a kind family, begging for shelter.
However, that family who advocated freedom and pursued justice refused to let him in because they were afraid of a stranger who had escaped from a mental hospital and caused trouble, and they even called the mental hospital.
Chief, hospitalized again.
The movie is over. "
Lin Weimin thought as he spoke, and finally became able to talk fluently. Everyone around him was impressed by his sharp thinking and wild imagination.
Gu Hua stroked his chin, "Weimin's ending is brilliant, so ironic!"
"Yeah, I think this is a good ending."
"That's right. The reason why freedom becomes a tragedy is because you and I are the shackles." Jiang Zilong's summary was quite profound.
At this time, Tang Kangmei expressed the opposite view, "I think this ending is also very good, very bright!"
Lin Weimin smiled and said, "I was just talking nonsense. This is a work that won a big award."
"No, no, no." Jiang Zilong patted Lin Weimin on the shoulder, very much like a leader. "Weimin's idea is very good. It is definitely a novel idea comparable to the ending of a movie. I really didn't realize that you have the talent to be a screenwriter."
"Hey! I think so too."
"I just praised you twice and I'm out of breath."
(End of this chapter)
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