Chapter 89 love on the bridge

At 00:00 on March 1, 2008, the Waibaidu Bridge at the intersection of Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River was closed. During the closed period, the builders will demolish the bridge deck and send the bridge deck to Shanghai Shipyard for repair until March 2009. The Waibaidu Bridge restored to its original appearance will return to the Suzhou Creek, and the blockade will be lifted.Although it was a temporary farewell, Shanghainese went to take pictures one after another, because this bridge built in 1907 was their "Grandma Bridge". Regarding the "bridge", Duan Yucai's "Shuowen Jiezi Zhu" simply annotated it as: "The characters of beams, crossing the water with wood, are also today's bridges", which shows that the original "bridge" was just erected on the water surface with wood. The passage above, the explanation on Baidu Encyclopedia is also concise and concise: "a bridge, a building erected on a waterway or in the air to facilitate passage", but our feelings for a "bridge" are more complicated. It is a transition, a farewell, It is a connection, a split in space, a gap in the world, and an exciting moment in daily life. Passing a bridge not only means a physical displacement, but also a psychological displacement.

A city will always have such divisions and gaps, and there will always be an iconic bridge, whether it is Waterloo Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, or Waibaidu Bridge. If you want to completely occupy a city, you must occupy its bridges , Therefore, the bridge is always related to the flames of war, contention, victory and defeat, such as the movies "Cassandra Bridge", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Remagen Bridge", "The Distant Bridge", "Duguli Bridge" "Battle of the Battle" and "The Bloody Battle at the Bridge of Lost Souls" are stories of bridges and wars.But most of the time, the bridges in movies are related to human affairs-there is nothing more metaphorical than bridges for separation, encounter, estrangement and communication. It appeared again and again in "The Beach" and "Love in the Deep Rain". In the farewell and separation between him and her, it was the background, the witness, and the participant.Bridges, in movies, are associated with love.

A bridge is not a place to live forever or stay for a long time. A bridge is a place of turmoil. It is the background of a moment in our life, and it is a reef that is occasionally exposed on the sea level of life. Cai Mingliang's "The Overpass Is Missing" and "What Time Are You Over There" are both set on the urban overpass. In the turbulent life, young men and women occasionally stop and breathe on the bridge for a while, watching and paying respects to each other from a distance, but they The voice was too small, and was quickly overwhelmed by the huge hustle and bustle around it.

And in films about relationships and lives in peril, bridges are the gateway to a more turbulent world.At the end of "The Happier, the More Depraved" directed by Kwan Kam-peng, starring Zeng Zhiwei and Chen Jinhong, two men drove past the Tsing Ma Bridge. "Fallen" took care of it, and the two drove over from there again.Coming and going from the bridge seems to be equivalent to signing a life-and-death contract, and I can't help myself from then on. In "Once Upon a Time in America", the Brooklyn Bridge stands quietly behind several young people, which shows how restless the world they depend on is restless.

Bridge means decision, a decision that must be made, a farewell to the past, and even a farewell.Between yin and yang, life and death, there is a bridge called "Naihe Bridge". self-defeating". Those love stories related to people's difficult choices are always put on a bridge.Blue Bridge, starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor, begins and ends on Waterloo Bridge; Covered Bridges, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Meryl Streep Last Dream, always watched by Madison Bridge; directed by Liliana Cavani, starring Charlotte Rampling, "Midnight Gatekeeper", the hero and heroine who violated the iron law of the world, finally died on the bridge In "Last Tango in Paris" directed by Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando, the hero and heroine meet on a double-decker bridge over the Seine River; in "Natural Born Killers" directed by Oliver Stone, Mickey proposes to Maylie (if we dare to set aside our prejudices and admit that their love is love), also on the bridge.

The identity of the bridge in reality is also related to the decision.One of the most popular suicide sites in the United States is the Golden Gate Bridge. Someone drew a statistical chart based on the position where the suicide jumped off the bridge. It can be seen that the middle of the bridge is the place most people choose to commit suicide—— Go, the decision is on the verge of failure.Director Eric Steele and his team spent a year documenting the suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, and finally made a death-related documentary "Golden Gate Bridge". The bridge is not always so sad, the bridge is also a place of reunion, a place of regeneration.

In "Lovers on the New Bridge" starring Juliette Binoche, the rich girl and the tramp met, separated, and reunited on that bridge. For this movie and this bridge, director Leo Carax, Huge sums of money were even raised to build a new bridge over the Seine—why not another site?Because this story can only happen on the bridge, maybe Leo Carax never thought that it could happen in another place.The bridge is the best place for a reunion.In the black-and-white film "The Girl on the Bridge" directed by Patrice Lecomte in 1999, the hero and heroine also met on the bridge. The dust settles until the dares reunite.

And in 1979, in the "Love on the Sunset Bridge" starring the thirteen-year-old Diane Lane, boys and girls thought that they could be together forever if they kissed under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice. All their thoughts were, Go to the Bridge of Sighs and give yourself a real start.At least we will meet again in the future.Even in a sad and confusing movie like "Suzhou River" directed by Lou Ye and starring Zhou Xun, the bridge leads to separation and also to reunion. In Shunji Iwai's "Swallowtail Butterfly", the bridge blatantly heralds a new life. The swallowtail, who has experienced all the ups and downs, walks on the bridge at the end, without any burden or concern.

There is a bridge next to the school I used to study. Every summer, white flowers bloom under the bridge, but the white flowers have never been picked, because "under the bridge" and "by the bridge" are one of the corners of the world. Bridges are only used for people to pass by. "Under the bridge" and "beside the bridge" are the places that are most easily overlooked. The bridge does not only mean pure and romantic sadness or joy, but also means the mixed joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Neglected location. "The Warm Current Under the Red Bridge" directed by Shohei Imamura, starring Koji Yakusho and Misa Shimizu is a story about "by the bridge". The house was looking for a turning point, but met a woman with a magical physique, and regained her confidence in life."Under the Bridge", directed by Bai Shen, starring Gong Xue and Zhang Tielin, is a story of "under the bridge". Maintain the integrity of your love form and dignity.Among the mainland movies in the early 1980s, "Under the Bridge" is the most simple and fragrant one.

But whatever the meaning of the bridge.The moment when modern people place themselves on the bridge is indeed an exciting moment.The novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) completed by American writer Thornton Wilder in 1927 tells about the break of the San Luis Bridge in Peru, South America at noon on July 20, 1714, and the disaster. The life stories of five people who fell in.The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1928. In 1929, 1944, and 2004, it was made into a movie three times. It starred in the movie. The biography of the five victims obtained through six years of investigation, especially why they walked on that bridge at that moment.

There are many wonderful lines in the film, expounding the creator's thinking on "love" and "fate": "There is no such kind of island in the world, and there is no such kind of love", "He discovered a secret that is difficult to get back, even the most In a perfect love, the love between the two parties cannot be completely equal. Maybe there will not be two people who love each other in the same way.” “Do we live and die because of a certain plan, or just because of various coincidences? " And there is another paragraph, which can be used as a concluding conclusion of the significance of the "bridge": "The memory of those five people will also disappear on this earth, and the care we have received will also be temporary and will also be lost." Forgotten. But that love is enough; the power that is born of love feeds back to love. For love, too, memory is insignificant. For every inch of land that belongs to life, there is an inch of land that belongs to death. The bridge is love, it's the only survivor, it's the only meaning."