Chapter 86 Weeds and flowers

On March 8, 1935, Ruan Lingyu committed suicide by taking sleeping pills.At that time, she was twenty-five years old and had made twenty-nine films, including "Wild Grass and Idle Flowers", "Dream of the Old Capital", "New Women", and "Goddess".Even at that time, it was already foreseeable that this film history will remember her smiling face. The reasons for her suicide are well-known even today: ex-lover Zhang Damin failed to blackmail her and sued her with fabricated reasons; her second lover Tang Jishan had a new relationship, tabloid reporters were resentful because of her previous starring role in "New Women", Finally took the opportunity to splash the sewage.So she left a suicide note "people's words are terrible", and committed suicide by taking medicine.Documents that have been unearthed since then show that this is more due to the weakness of her character, and it is just the situation where wind, knife, frost and sword are threatening each other, which catalyzes this weakness into tragedy.But in any case, the reason for her suicide is somewhat unbelievable to us at this time today.This person who entered history committed suicide because of this "little thing".

Since then, female stars have continued to commit suicide. On December 27, 1968, 31-year-old Leti committed suicide; in the early morning of May 14, 1985, Weng Meiling, who had just passed her 26th birthday, committed suicide; on July 31, 2002, 29-year-old Chen Baolian committed suicide. Jump down from the fourteenth floor.But they are either because of love, or because of investment failure, or because of the end of their journey; but no one commits suicide because of the sea of ​​sorrow formed by people's words.But that was 70 years ago. It was the Shanghai written by the old Mr. Chen Cunren in his book "Life History of the Silver Dollar Era".In such a peaceful and pure atmosphere, to be accused of being an officer, to be framed, and to have one's life exposed is a shocking disgrace.A woman who grew up in a small family, even if she became a female star, would not be able to withstand such a cleansing.

The vicious relationship between the media and the stars has been laid in such a peaceful and pure way, and since then it has reached new heights again and again. The hype in the media and the fueling of the Internet in "Pornographic" are similar to the case of Ruan Lingyu, but "Pornographic" is far more cruel to the women involved than what happened to Ruan Lingyu.But no matter the stars or us as spectators, we have been baptized many times, and the threshold for accepting shocks is getting higher and higher, becoming less and less unmoved, and more and more ruthless.As Mu Xin said in the article "Dead": "The history of mankind has gradually become clear about its intentions: affectionate-ruthless. Looking at the past, each generation is becoming more affectionate; looking into the future, each generation is becoming more ruthless." "Yanzhaomen" It is the most ruthless known so far, but there will be more ruthless, and more ruthless.