Chapter 58 a biological metaphor

One of the dreams of my friend Bonny, as a writer and screenwriter, is to make a movie like "The Blue Door".A clean, crisp film that reminds one of sixteen mornings. But I think it is very, very difficult. The most difficult thing is that among the more than one billion people in the mainland, I am afraid that you will not be able to find a pair of clean faces like Chen Bolin and Gui Lunmei.It’s not that the mainland has never made youth films, but the hero and heroine always have a feeling of being stuck in the throat, or the cheeks are too big, or the eyes are not clean, or the voice is hoarse, or the clothes are terrible, or the body language is not good enough. ——A certain popular youth idol who always walks with his shoulders slumped and his legs in an "X" shape.Or too fat - like the kind of fat that I still ate wild vegetables last month, and after eating meat for a few days this month, it looks greasy and dirty.In short, something is always wrong.It will take at least two generations to breed Brigitte Lin, Chen Bolin, and Gui Lunmei.

The young ones are all wrong, but the old ones are better?Walking around the writers' conference, I couldn't find a face like Faulkner, Paul Auster, McEwen or Oz, the kind of "cactus-like face" suitable for black and white photos that could be printed in a book. Faceless sits in the wasteland of time.If you want to win a Nobel Prize, you must first grow a face of a Nobel Prize winner, because "in the highest sense, a person's appearance is his person." The people on the stage are like this, so what about the people off the stage?Because I live by the sea, I can often go to the beach to watch people in summer. It is easy to separate us mainlanders from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korean, and Japanese.It's useless to wear expensive clothes.My friend Song Yi once denounced the appearance of someone who had deceived him, thinking that "an abnormal appearance is a biological metaphor", but in fact, all appearances are a biological metaphor.

Other things are also sufficient to constitute this metaphor.For example, during the Spring Festival, on the way home from New Year greetings, the car is driving on the highway, and the new album of a popular female folk singer is played on the radio.She has tried her best to be ethereal and clear, but something is still wrong—it is still "unclean".The tune and arrangement of the song are also lumpy.In the Taiwanese folk song movement in the last century, there were too many female singers with clean voices. Bao Meisheng, Chen Mingshao, Liu Lanxi, Wang Hailing, Zheng Yi, Yinxia, ​​Xu Xiaojing, and Yang Fangyi all had the cleanest, "crystal-like" singers. sound".The mainland campus folk songs in the 1990s imitated the era of folk songs everywhere, but they never came up with a convincing and clean female voice. The cold is not getting better, it seems that pharyngitis is attacking, and it seems to be choked somewhere.In short, there is always something wrong.

There are also architectural styles, book covers, and newspaper fonts—for a period of time, all newspapers used Shutong fonts, but what I longed for was the exquisite Song typeface used by Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. .In fact, it’s only a little bit worse, but it’s just a little bit worse, and you have to use all your strength to catch up for three to five years.There are also the color tone of the photos, the atmosphere of the scenery, and even the arrangement of the clouds in the sky-I can always easily see which landscape wallpapers are taken in China and which ones are not.There's always something wrong with everything.And a thing, a sign of real legitimacy, is that it has achieved aesthetic legitimacy.If it is not beautiful, it is not legal.

Beauty, or not beauty, or that kind of beauty that is not right, that kind of beauty that is not good enough, are all biological metaphors, and all these metaphors together are actually the appearance of our era.It is impossible for anyone to get out of the independent market.