Chapter 34 Private Movie

In 2009, there was a list of 20 mainland movies with a box office of over 100 million. The seventh place was "The Choice of Life and Death" with a total box office of 250 million, after "Red Cliff (Part 2)" , The post-80s generation asked one after another, what kind of movie is this?Oh, junior boys and girls, listen up, it belongs to another type of film, called "private movie", which is a movie watched collectively by members of the unit or school organization. There are also categories of "private movies", the first one is outright welfare, such as Bao Qijing's version released in the Mainland in the early 1980s under the name of "internal reference movie", and "Red Sorghum", which won the Golden Bear Award, because It's too sensational, too topical, and everyone else has watched it. It's really unreasonable not to organize employees of your own unit to watch it. Besides, because it is hard to get a ticket, it also reflects the network and handling ability of the union chairman. It is absolutely necessary. At that time, the "reserved movie" was actually a competition for the strength of the unit and a labor skill competition for the chairman of the labor union. There was some kind of spark, for example, "The Flying Pirates of Emei" we were organized to watch when we were in elementary school, with nude scenes, flying over cornices and walls, and eerie music. After watching the movie, our vice principal's face was gloomy for a whole week. He is It was intentionally gloomy for the principal to watch—the principal was responsible, and he was the one who organized this movie that was not suitable for primary school students to watch.

The third type of "private movie" embodies the true spirit of private viewing: education and awe.Under the guidance of this spirit, we have watched "Youth Delinquent", "The Choice of Life and Death", "Jiao Yulu", "The Battle of Liaoshen" and "Yellow Ghost in the Night". Second place, once at the school gate, once at the gate of the movie theater, if you slip away halfway, you will be recorded as absent from class or work. Later, when I was promoted, I also had the opportunity to watch anti-corruption in the small screening hall of the municipal party committee. Movies-"private movies" can almost constitute the personal growth history of a Chinese.But among so many private films, the only one that scared me was "Black Sun 731" that I saw in my freshman year of high school. I didn't know until many years later that it was the first film after Hong Kong's "1988 Film Censorship Bill" came into force. "Tertiary film"!

Growing up in "private movies", I will naturally become the successor of this kind of education. Later, I happened to work in a labor union, and it is common to buy tickets and invoices to organize group viewing. Once, I happened to see the drama "Lanzhou Old Man" "Street", I watched it three times at my own expense and sighed, and immediately applied to the chairman of the labor union, asking to book the show for all the employees. For others, there is such an embarrassment, even if it is a self-conceived high-level interest. Private viewing of movies, and movies available for private viewing, are becoming less and less common now, but in the commercial society, "private movies" have appeared in a more hidden form. Those who confuse us with fierce advertising campaigns, And the movie that we have to watch by occupying the theater is actually another kind of "booked movie", another large-scale collective behavior. The difference between it and "booked movie" is that it seems to be active. , There is a choice, but in fact there is still no choice.At any time, ordinary people actually have no choice.