Chapter 46 Mouth Gargle and Yusiying

20 years ago, when my son was in high school, he suddenly asked me: "What is nostalgia?" I think it was because there were often people in my family who liked to dance and write, and they would say these two words from time to time. He was curious about the word, so he asked this question.At that time, I tried to answer twice, but his eyes were still full of doubts, so I sighed and said, "When you grow up, you will naturally understand." In the blink of an eye, the son is over 30 years old, and he will marry another wife.When the young couple came to the house that day, the son said excitedly as soon as he entered the door: "

Dad, I bought a good plate!There is one for you. ’ I said, ‘I don’t like those high-tech American monster movies. He said: "I know."This time I bought nostalgic films. "First, they took out what they bought for themselves. It was "Walter Defends Sarajevo" from the former Yugoslavia. : "Actually, in the history of world cinema, this is something that cannot be considered at all. "The son took out the plate he bought for me, and before handing it into my hand, he said with a smile: "Is this in the list?But you must like it! "I took a look, my God, it's "The Beautiful Huaxi Lisa", which has been missing for half a century, a fairy tale film made in the former Soviet Union based on a long-standing Russian folk story, which I translated when I was in elementary school , was all the rage, and the title of the film was also called "Three-Headed Dragon". At the end of the film, the warrior fought with the fire-breathing ferocious dragon with three necks and three heads. That scene lingered in my childhood dreams for a long time. Horror, also fuels my imagination.

After dinner that day, the young couple accompanied me to watch "The Beautiful Huaxi Lisa", and laughed while watching: "How childish!" "Look at this stunt, how stupid!" Come down to watch, but sometimes come over and ask me: "Did the frog become a princess?" In the movie, Lisa Huaxi was transformed into a frog by a witch's magic. Before being rescued, she can only change back to a human form at night .My wife and I are of the same generation, so we have all experienced the baptism of this movie. For us, although some scenes are deposited in the depths of the pool of memory, once stirred, they will float to the top very vividly. As bright as a lotus blossom.

The CD was made based on an old movie copy. In the dubbing dialogue, some characters have a distinct northeast accent—because it was translated by Changchun Film Studio. At that time, apart from some main dubbing actors, some dubbing actors were still inaccurate. Mandarin sound.The young couple thought it was funny, but I felt that it was the dubbing of that flavor that brought out my deepest childhood memories.The copy is so old that the dialogue sometimes gargles and there are scratches raining across the screen.Yet I watched it with gusto.Later, the young couple watched half of "Walter". Although the sound and picture were much better, the color obviously faded a lot. But looking at the scene in front of him, he discussed excitedly and looked forward to the next scene where the scenes that were too familiar to him would appear and the characters would appear on the stage.

So I realized that cultural history, including literary history, film history, drama history, art history, music history... High standards, strict requirements, the elimination of the first, and the selection and retention are inevitable and awe-inspiring, but most of them are just The halls of academia and institutions of higher learning are enshrined; while the aesthetic experience of ordinary people, especially after puberty, mostly ignores the "conclusive conclusion of history". Although they will keep pace with the times, they tend to be more stubborn Those excitements and touches experienced in the time and space of life, the passage of time, and even the vicissitudes of life, have screened out many, and will also cherish some favorites in private, and never give up for life.The so-called nostalgia refers to regurgitating people and events, scenes and things that may have been eliminated by historians long ago, and are separated from the next generation, but can communicate with contemporaries, and include the most secret personal reasons, including people and things that are revisited now. There will be old movies with mouthwash and rainy shadows.

In addition to the high standards of cultural history based on the premise of eternity and universality, we also need to track the history of cultural feelings of a generation or a crop of people, and we should also advocate such a text, that is, starting from a personal perspective, Let's look back at my reading and appreciation history, what I liked, what I rejected, why I was moved, why I hated it, why I was confused, and why I realized it.Perhaps, in the latter two texts, we can obtain more and interpret the cultural genetic genes that a generation, a crop of people, and a person will have such a speech and behavior orientation and expression in the present.