Chapter 36 Mysterious Binhai City

After revisiting the old movie "Black Triangle" in 1977 because of the TV series "Black Triangle", what I can't forget the most is the city called "Matsuhama" in it. Paradise is probably like this, the sky is always clear, the trees are always green, the whole city seems to stop in a long summer forever, there are few cars on the road, few pedestrians on the street, people only appear in In the park, their clothes are extremely clean and tidy, their skin color and body shape show a good nutritional status, their manners are always polite, with joyful smiles on their faces, their waists are straight when walking, and they are always in the house. The windows are clean and spotless, and a water cup is always placed exactly at the position of 0.618.The public security officers are handsome, the old lady is kind, and the graceful and charming beauty is just right, which not only shows the beauty of women, but also does not arouse unreasonable thoughts.There is no night market, no rubbish, no ruins, no noise, even the most diligent police chief has no stomach problems, and the relationship between people is horribly harmonious. When the heroine is sad, there is always a sister-in-law who hugs her in time , while others surrounded him with concern, forming a standard composition of classical oil paintings.

The most mysterious cities in China are probably these "Bin" cities that often appear in anti-specialist and detective movies, Binhai City, Binjiang City, Songbin City, Binx City..., from the 1970s and 1980s People who have passed through the ages have stared at the license plate of Binhai City and the nameplate of the Binhai Public Security Bureau on the screen, trying to figure out with great distress whether this Binhai City exists?where is it? "New Weekly" made a special issue of "Urban Accident" and mentioned this mysterious Binhai City: "Tianjin has Binhai District, Jiangsu has Binhai County, Qingdao has Binhai Avenue and Binhai College, but there is no city named Binhai in China. City.” And Binjiang City, which once existed, has now become the Daowai District of Harbin City.

But whether they exist geographically is not important, because those stories that happened in the "Bin" city, whether it is "Black Triangle" (1977), "Shark Fighting" (1978), "Wind Wave" (1979) , or "The Reef" (1977) and "The Tenth Bullet Hole" (1980). The credit units after the film are often located in Dalian, Qingdao, Guangzhou, and Xiamen. It can be seen that it is basically a film that only exists in A city that shows the social imagination of the masses (the imagination of heaven) in the territory of Chinese movies. But what makes this paradise-like city enter the movie is the destruction of order. The narrative flow of any movie related to this city is usually: a perfect world—the order is destroyed—the factors that destroy the order are cleared— Back to order.After a few shots of beautiful and harmonious city scenes, a female corpse, or a telegram from unknown sources, disturbed the order of this paradise, and the happy and clean life was about to be lost. So it was lifted, and everything returned to the perfect world.In contrast to the perfect world, it is the place where the vandals are. When they appear, there is usually no good light for them, and the light is shot from the chin, accompanied by a gloomy drum kit.

This imaginary perfect world is entirely based on eliminating all kinds of factors that make it unbeautiful and may lose its order. Its goal of continuous lifelong struggle is to maintain its beauty with all its strength.This kind of story of the perfect world regaining order disappeared from the screen after the 1990s, and when it reappeared, it was in TV series such as "Meritorious Service" and "Captain of Criminal Police", as well as the recently popular spy movies. among.Again and again, we have eliminated all elements that are not beautiful and may disrupt order in the film and television dramas, and created one after another flawless Binhai City.