Chapter 47 black box

Sanmao really has the power to popularize - most of the post-70s in the mainland know Zhang Ailing and Bai Xianyong through Sanmao's book, and the 1948 movie "Jenny's Portrait" is also known because Sanmao repeatedly mentioned it in, On Douban.com, one of the labels of "Portrait of Jenny" is "Sanmao". The down-and-out painter met a woman of unknown origin, and witnessed her growing from a little girl to a woman within a year. While his love was enlightened, his inspiration gradually recovered. However, people and ghosts went different ways and eventually led to a separation between life and death. He finally experienced it at the seaside. The catastrophe she encountered in the past.This gloomy, trance film was shot by MGM in 1948. The director, William Diatel, is a German. He participated in expressionist films in his early years. Movies are very different.

In the 14th Venice International Film Festival (1949), the best actor award was given to Joseph Cotton, the leading actor of this film, and the Oscar in 1949 gave it the best special effects award. The award is mostly because of the seaside storm scene at the end of the film. Sanmao will think of "Jenny's Portrait" when he sees the black reefs and turbid waves on the seashore in the film, and it is also because of this scene. "The Picture of Jenny" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Robert Nathan, who was born prominently, dropped out of Harvard in order to marry and write, and later became a novelist, poet and composer, and was the focus of the last prosperous period of Hollywood's golden age , however, the central figure, who is full of gloom, once said: "I try my best to be a comforter to the world, not through what I know, but through what I don't know and cannot know." Everything, trying to bring out the strangeness and mystery of this world."

He has thus become a representative of a certain gloomy culture. In the "Silent Hill" series of games, one of the thirteen streets on the south bank of the lake is called Nathan Road because of him, another famous writer Peter Biggle also regards him as a mentor. Many of his novels pay homage to Robert Nathan. Until his later years, there are still traces of "Jenny's Portrait" in his novels, and the protagonist is also named Jenny. Sanmao watched this movie not long after it came out. Ten years later, the news of the re-release of the movie awakened her memory. She was so caught up in it that she fell into madness in the famous theme song: "Where did I come from, no one knows, where I go, everyone wants to go, the wind blows, the sea roars Liu, wherever I go, everyone wants to go."

We have never experienced the atmosphere of the 1940s, the atmosphere of the times caused by wars and economic crises, the youth of the 1960s, and the youth of the miserable green teenagers, but "Portrait of Jenny" is like a black box, bringing all these together. Saved.The black box was opened, and everything we had never experienced came roaring in.Movies or songs sometimes have the responsibility of being realistic and must carefully preserve the details of the era, but sometimes they also take on a greater responsibility: keeping the atmosphere of the era intact in an invisible black box.