Chapter 2 Pink and Black Pool

I rushed to watch "Lust, Caution" at the second time (Hong Kong is the first time), because I wanted to know, after spending a whole month and knowing all aspects of a movie, can I still see something new? stuff, especially since I've seen it so often that it's too long and drowsy. Lust, Caution doesn't have hypnotic qualities unless you're going to be hypnotized by a good thriller. "Lust, Caution" is a subtle analysis of female psychology in the form of a thriller.What Li An completed was not the fill-in work for Zhang Ailing's original work, but the answer to the puzzle set by Zhang Ailing: "Why did Wang Jiazhi make such a choice?" Li An believed in one of the conditions for solving the problem given by Zhang Ailing, then It is the feeling that Wang Jiazhi is obsessed with acting.The country abandoned her, her father abandoned her, both the family and the country were unreliable, and in the end even her partners secretly regarded her as a foreign object.The first assassination failed because of Mr. Yi's departure. She held the phone and was out of breath. Depending on the success or failure of their actions, at that moment, her abandonment became complete and irreversible.

In addition to her abandoned, depressed, turbulent, and dependent life, only the moment of acting gives her honor and more possibilities, so there is a scene in the film where everyone else leaves the stage, only she loves Standing on the stage, they called her to go ashore under the stage: "Come on, come on." They couldn't yell.She was willing to accept the task of seduction for the first time, more or less because she didn't know the severity and was impulsive. After three years, she chose to appear again in a disheveled state, but it was calculated. I am afraid that she and Bai Liusu condescended to go to Hong Kong for the second time Fan Liuyuan's psychological state is similar, there is no snobbish aunt in the play, but there is glory and glory, there are ups and downs in the plot, and a man she will never get in touch with in her own life, and even has the opportunity to go to England, and there is an incidental In the apartment, the worst is the worst, and she can act as a young mistress for a few months, letting a female classmate whose family is better than her act as a maid to serve her.The first time she impulsively came to the stage, she didn’t really get into the show, but the second time she went on stage after weighing and calculating, she got into the show instead, so the first time she smoked was to use a posture to experience life, and she needed reminders and encouragement from her female classmates The second time the female classmate saw her smoking again, she was surprised at how natural she was.In addition to the process from entering the play to possessing the character, Jiaheguo is just a pretext for taking the stage, even if the pretext is changed, she is still willing to enter the play and act with passion.

She completely dramatized her own life, and only after being in the arms of two men, she thought that she was a "whore" in a decadent and beautiful way, not only a whore physically, but also a whore in life, but unfortunately Yes, the little whore met the old whore in her life—Mr. Yi thought she was an old whore (please refer to the description of the little whore and the old whore in Wang Xiaobo's novel).All of them are not his opponents, his men have already figured out their details, and he has also figured out her cards-even the cards are given by him, she thinks "I won You", but he doesn't want to win or lose in this love field at all. All the old whore in life wants is to survive better on the battlefield. , get out and leave.Setting up a trap for someone who is completely unwilling to enter the urn is equivalent to setting up a trap for yourself, and laying bait for someone who has mastered the bait spit skills is not just setting up a trap for yourself in the end.In the end, he denied having any relationship with her. In reality, Ding Mo did this. He denied that what Zheng Pingru had there belonged to him. Mr. Yi in the movie also did the same. He hastily denied that the diamond ring was his. ,"This is not mine".What he denied was not this shameful feeling, but that he almost fell for it. "Lust, Caution" is the same as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". It is a story about who controls the world. Man, Little Red Riding Hood meets the Dark Fairy.

So Ang Lee chose Zhang Ailing's "Lust, Caution" instead of Gao Yang's "Red Pink and Golden Ge". The same story has psychological content in Zhang Ailing's but not in Gao Yang's. A legend to relish.Although "Lust, Caution" is not Eileen Chang's best work. Ang Lee and the screenwriter Wang Huiling arranged everything skillfully, looking for clues to solve the problem in Zhang Ailing's world, and even found the section after the blockade from her prose and used it in the movie ("Seeing a doctor is okay, cooking is Impossible"), there is a scene that is completely Zhang Ailing's style, Mr. Yi is burning secret documents, and the firelight is reflected on the portrait of Sun Yat-sen on the wall, jumping and jumping, it seems that the portrait is on fire, Zhang Ailing finally It is this kind of metaphor that he is good at.Also, Wang Jiazhi, who let Mr. Yi go, sat on the rickshaw, the kind of calmness and relaxation and attention to the windmill on the rickshaw, which is also Zhang Ailing's style - Zhang Ailing wrote in her prose that her father beat her At that moment, everything in front of me suddenly became clear.

Ang Lee's meticulousness can be seen in other places. Tony Leung's character is very sophisticated. He is the kind of old prostitute in traditional Chinese culture. You can set up a card table anytime and anywhere, always walk with a little sideways vigilance, and when you want to enter the door, you can dodge in quickly.Tang Wei, on the other hand, has a stuffy, blunt, Shanghai-style delicacy, from the greenness at the beginning, to the turbidity and warmth after the body is enlightened, and the face is also dirty, step by step, with astonishing accuracy . What Ang Lee added the most was the direction of the relationship between the two.Mr. Yi, who is a traditional Chinese old prostitute, is probably most proud of this kind of relationship between men and women. He entered into this relationship with an attitude of appreciation.She is beautiful and intelligent, and has the identity of a female disciple. On the bed, she is also his female disciple. He trains her hand in hand, enlightens her, and lets her use it for himself. What she knows is nothing more than what he taught her. Those ones.She is a mistress, bosom friend, confidante, and the most rare thing is that she is so considerate of Shen Jing.She also has another function, which is to act as his psychiatrist, and she is willing to listen to his nonsense when he is too nervous as the spy chief.She knows so little about men and women, if you give her some sweetness, she will be obedient and give her some tasks. She is as happy as a child, and she has the pleasure of being valued. Her last compassion is cultivated in this way. At the critical moment, she said "Let's go", as if he belonged to her, she was in charge, she had the qualifications to release and dispatch, at that moment, she was merciful, tolerant, knew everything, and was willing to forgive everything , but it is impossible for him to forgive her, he is not hers at all.After she finally became his ghost, he was also willing to sit on the double bed that was so busy at the beginning. Some people think that it shows that he loves her and that Li An is more compassionate than Zhang Ailing, but I think , It was just his sentimentality for a moment, and the sentimentality was mixed with pride. A beautiful woman was so confused for him and died for him. Their relationship was considered complete. Consummation in traditional Chinese culture is nothing more than this, The old whores of traditional Chinese culture enjoy such bloody, light-hearted sentimentality.Mr. Yi's short stay on the bed is actually no different from the two complacent books written by Hu Lancheng many years later.They prefer appreciation rather than investment, including appreciation and playing with their own sentimentality, because sentimentality is the final completion and the aftertaste that legends must have.

None of this is surprising, but the most amazing thing is the black pool in the abandoned mine in the southern suburbs in the last scene. "Lust, Caution" became a thriller and even a horror film.Is that black pool heralding their fate?No, maybe it refers to the darkest, most irrational, dark pool of human nature, the unfathomable abyss where I don’t know where it comes from or when it will come into play.Li An analyzed for a long time, but still has no answer—and there will be no answer, so I can only leave everything to this black water pool that shocked me so much. The dirty, gloomy, and bleak atmosphere of "Lust, Caution" is achieved here.

The movie "Lust, Caution" also helped me solve a long-standing question (I borrowed a sentence from "The Last Whereabouts of the Female Artistic Troupe"), that is, why Zhang Ailing suddenly withered, no matter in terms of text output , or in terms of the temperament of the text, why is she suddenly so cold and desolate?Because of the movie "Lust, Caution", I know.In the past, Eileen Chang seemed to know the truth of life, but in fact she didn’t know, she was pretending to know, she was still a young man, she only had the potential to know, her knowing was preset and dramatized, so her novels No matter how cold and desperate, there is still love in her bones, and the text is so rich and full. After Hu Lancheng and the great age, she really knew the truth of life. Therefore, both of them can be read as horror novels, such as ruins, disappearance, slaughter, and desolation by the Yellow River. The monotonous female voice on the radio, the human skin in the jujube forest, she was terrified by what she saw and learned about the truth of life, she had to hide in a remote and desolate place like a witness in the witness protection plan , Try not to tell what you know, even if you say it, no one will believe it, she is ruined, she can no longer be plump, she only has "talent" left, no "brilliance" anymore . "Lust, Caution" is the same. "Lust, Caution" has talent but no talent. There is a potential black water pool in "Lust, Caution".And the former Eileen Chang was still a fan after all, she looked decadent and beautiful, she said cold jokes in despair, but she was still a fan, if she had something to look forward to, the moon in the dark night seemed to her like a shining phoenix breast, and later Eileen Chang , is a black water pool.