Chapter 7 Eileen Chang's lack makes me sad

It is said that Zheng Pingru, the prototype of Wang Jiazhi, "never wavered".Young, beautiful, well-off family, good at playing, playing well, playing beautifully, all these factors made her easily become a famous lady in Shanghai. In the 130th issue of "Good Friends" magazine in July 1937, she was the cover girl.From the photos that have been handed down to this day, one can still see her charm, not impeccable beauty, but plump, overflowing, and confident-only 50% of women's popularity is due to their looks. So she lacks everything, and a woman who lacks everything is probably not easy to be impressed, especially not by a short and wretched middle-aged man.Therefore, in reality, the reason why their assassination failed was because her comrades were not cautious enough, and Ding Mocun, the target of the assassination, was too cautious.Therefore, once they heard that "Lust, Caution" was being filmed, Zheng Pingru's sister held a press conference in Los Angeles, USA, and the facts she wanted to clarify were only these points: their family education is extremely strict, her sister is not a social butterfly, and, from the beginning to the end, she never touched the truth. Feelings—the meaning behind it is still that she lacks everything.All she lacks is a little excitement, a little imaginary honor from her home country. For an innocent and prudent female student like her, "beautiful woman" is obviously already a certainty, but "troubled times" is also needed. Perfect, and it is still the honorary title of "Gone with the Wind" for such a sonorous and everlasting reputation.This bit of excitement, this bit of honor, prompted her to be a chess piece, and prompted her to die generously.In other respects, she needed nothing - she didn't even offer to ask for something - not even her life.

In Zhang Ailing's works, in Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution", Wang Jiazhi was moved with true feelings.Her emotional world was a blank sheet of paper, so she completely accepted the first man who treated her well, treating him as the first person in the universe.What's more, this man has long been stipulated in her script as a secret service, and he is the one she must accept.She has reason, motivation, and drive to accept him.He also makes up for what she lacks, emotional, lustful (like taking a hot bath), material (a coat or a diamond ring or the feeling of being cared for by a few hundred dollars), and maybe a little bit of power. Honor. Wang Jiazhi in "Lust, Caution" lacks everything and needs everything. She may be just a pure white and chaotic girl, but she was inspired by that man to become a woman who needs everything, but she was inspired after all. .Zheng Pingru's family members were probably most annoyed by this.

So I thought of Eileen Chang.It can be seen that it took her thirty years to write the twenty-eight pages of "Lust, Caution", which is a modified version of her story.She wanted to explain how much she hated Hu Lancheng, who was well-educated by a big family and was good at hiding her feelings, how much she hated Hu Lancheng, hated Hu Lancheng for more than 30 years, hated him so calmly and nonchalantly, but still hated Hu Lancheng .She wanted to defend herself again, and wanted to explain that she was only because of feelings, not because of who he was, "Although she hated him, her feelings for him were so strong in the end that it didn't matter what kind of feelings they had, they just had feelings", And this relationship did not bring her any good results, and even made her willingly push her love to such an unbearable situation as "sex" to completely deny it.So He Caitou said: "The greatest tragedy of Zhang Ailing is not falling in love with a traitor, but falling in love with a man wholeheartedly."

Then I thought again of her lack.The world she described is so rich, and the utensils and clothing of the big family are so rich, but she is actually very poor. Even Hu Lancheng said that she "doesn't buy anything".When writing "Lust, Caution", she even had to live on relief in the United States, so Wang Jiazhi in her writing was finally moved by a ring.As for the emotional world, growing up in such an indifferent family, tossing and turning in displacement, in such a lack, Hu Lancheng is indeed the first person in her world.She really couldn't imagine that Zheng Pingru could keep her true feelings.