Chapter 84 her importance

Sometimes I suspect that the actors of certain movies don't know what kind of movie they star in, how dangerous the image they create, and how advanced the consciousness contained in the story is.They just did their part, showed the director what he wanted, and then went for supper after work was over.For example, Lin Zhenqi, who starred in "The First Type of Danger". In the movie, she is a savage daughter of the last days, with dark skin, short hair, and angry eyes. She kidnaps three young people and throws explosives everywhere. .Behind the story, there is an entire tropical scene as a footnote: the sound of cicadas, the sound of water, dense mist, large and round flowers, spotted beasts and insects, red and purple fruits, and the scorching sun— ——If there is a moment of peace in the last days, it will be this kind of vicious silence.But Tsui Hark's almost perfect impression on me was destroyed when I learned about Lin Zhenqi's life experience. After joining Shaw Brothers in 1973, she swallowed sleeping pills twice and tried to commit suicide. Fortunately, her boyfriend Wang Yu found out and sent her to the hospital.In 2006, after many years of marriage, she had a dispute with her husband because of the "bus uncle" Chen Yidong hired by her husband, committed suicide again, and was rescued again.

She wasn't the only actress who committed suicide.In the 1960s and 1970s, the suicide of female stars almost became a trend, and all of them committed suicide more than twice. On July 17, 1964, Lin Dai, who was the queen of the four Asia-Pacific Film Festivals, committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills and inhaling gas in her apartment, and unfortunately succeeded. She was only 30 years old at the time.It was not the first time she committed suicide. As early as December 8, 1951, 17-year-old Lin Dai committed suicide by swallowing sleeping pills. Fortunately, Yan Jun sent her to the hospital in time to save her.

Leti also committed suicide later in 1968, and the female stars listed on the suicide list include Chen Sisi, Bai Xiaoman, Du Juan, Mo Chou, and Li Ting.They commit suicide when their career encounters a bottleneck; when their relationship encounters a crisis, they commit suicide, but they do not seek death entirely because of complete despair, but often for anger, for protest, or even - for gesture.For example, Lin Dai wrote in her suicide note to her husband Long Shengxun: "If you really want to save me, please don't send me to a public hospital, because all the newspapers in Hong Kong will treat it as a joke." It’s up! I can only find a private doctor, thank you.” In fact, she didn’t want to die, but she still had nostalgia, so she left a suicide note, ordered rescue matters, and carefully dressed up before committing suicide. They thought they would not die, and woke up. After coming, the problem has been solved.

Since suicide is regarded as a way to solve problems and refresh life, it is inevitable to use it again and again. Therefore, these women often commit suicide several times, such as Lin Dai and Lin Zhenqi.Why is it a woman who commits suicide?Why a woman of that era?Why after that, no matter how grotesquely difficult things were, how humiliating things were, and how many suicides were rising, no female stars flocked to commit suicide?Probably because, in that era, women were just given a little freedom, but not enough, and they were given some promises, but they were kept everywhere. They were like people from the Ming Dynasty, who were suddenly transported to the twentieth century, but they did not get the freedom of the twentieth century. spiritual support and political security, but still rely on the importance of women's status in traditional family relations and gender relations. This importance can only be tested with their lives. They don't want to die, they just want to confirm that they are important.

A woman who uses her life to test her own importance probably won't understand "The First Type of Danger". Lin Zhenqi just dutifully followed the director's instructions to present all the behaviors of the daughter of the last days.And Tsui Hark's advance is probably also here. He is at a point where the old and the new meet, in the era when women are still using suicide to stimulate their families and careers. Dynamite packs and make them die like feral cats. And when that threshold passed, female stars stopped swarming to commit suicide, and Tsui Hark gradually calmed down, "Everything in Chang'an City is inevitably moving towards mediocrity."