Taking time off to catch up with the drama, not fast-forwarding for a minute, often pausing or even replaying it is a true portrayal of many people watching The Awakening Age, and I am one of them. I haven't done this for years!
Group portrait works are not easy to create, especially those with vivid characters. The awakening era did it. If nothing else, it took Lu Xun only a few minutes to create a fragment of A Madman's Diary. The fierce spirit of "looking at each other coldly", with a pen as the blade, was carefully crafted and carefully chosen, which really sealed the gods.
However, the protagonists of this drama are Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. These two people who don't know the detailed history have differences. Li Dazhao was killed at the end of the revolution for the country and the people. Compared with Chen Duxiu in his later years, he was much more brilliant and tall. As for Chen Duxiu, I thought it over. Only a few dry words are mentioned in the history textbook. Chen Duxiu of the New Culture Movement founded New Youth. Chen Duxiu didn't attend the "First National Congress" for some reason, and then criticized the right wing. After that, he didn't have his name.
Thanks to The Awakening Age, despite the argument between historical truth and artistic processing, it did let us know a real Chen Duxiu and the Chen family who are willing to go through fire and water and advance wave after wave. You know, never being the first actor is the hardest!
Maybe there are too few records about Chen Duxiu in my impression, so when I watched the previous episodes, I didn't like Chen Zhongfu very much, especially from the perspective of Chen Yannian. I always feel that every pore in Chen Zhongfu's body is full of arrogance, with his eyes on his head and looking up at the sky. But the more you look down, the more you hit your face-it smells good-
Someone on the video website specially edited the scene of Chen Duxiu crying. Let's put it this way, the details of Chen Duxiu's "deity" in my mind are: at that time, some students were detained in prison for attending a street rally. After many efforts, the authorities agreed to release them, and Cai Yuanpei personally picked them up, but the students expressed that they would rather sit through the prison and follow Tan Sitong's example to awaken the people. Cai Yuanpei is a very gentle person in the play. No matter how you treat people or things, everyone is willing to give Cai Gong face, especially his number one fan Gu Hongming. But at this time, Cai Gong could do nothing about this group of young people. The camera turned to Chen Zhongfu, and his tearful smile was really amazing!
Laughter means that his efforts have not been in vain. His students dare to be the first in the face of national justice and are willing to shed their blood. Crying is that revolution must be sacrificed and victory must be bloody. However, these people are the most promising and promising generation in this country at present. They left their importance to teachers and schools, forgot their importance to their families and parents, and abandoned their importance to the future of the country, people and nation. Not only do they not know, but they are also proud of it. This so-called obsession, in fact, is making unnecessary sacrifices, where there is Tan Sitong's "die a fair death honors the whole life, be quick and quick"!
As for that line, it's even worse-
"I tell you, you have no right to die now. Our troubled country needs you to live and struggle. " As for the final "thud-"action of the prison gate, it was really cool.
In another scene, when Chen Duxiu was arranged to write at home (in fact, he repeatedly touched the bottom line of the authorities and was on the arrest list), he really wanted to go out and have a look. So, he saw: Peking University, the highest institution in China, which is famous for its "scientific democracy and inclusiveness", has become a purgatory on earth, the teaching building has become a place where students are held, many prison guards are patrolling and patrolling the post with guns on their backs, and several relatives are handing food to the children through locked doors and windows ... Lu Xun later described it more bluntly in "In Memory of Liu Hezhen"-I just don't think the place where I live is where people live.
Chen Duxiu himself is not afraid of going to jail. He has a famous saying, "We young people should make up our minds to go to prison when we leave the laboratory, and go to the laboratory when we leave the prison. Prisons and research laboratories are the cradle of democracy. "
He can also persuade a dozen students who want to wear the bottom of the prison to leave the prison. However, under the pressure of the authorities and the government, students are often arrested and imprisoned, so that when the prison is overcrowded and has to be controlled by institutions of higher learning such as Peking University, Chen Duxiu's eyes, body and heart are stung and he huddles helplessly in a small corner of the Red Chamber. This is not the Peking University he wants to see, nor is it the China he wants to see.
Before the Awakening Era, I didn't know much about Chen Duxiu, especially his magnificent and ups and downs of struggle before and after the May 4th Movement. After The Awakening Age, I still don't know the complete Chen Duxiu, because there is still a certain gap between the film and television works and the historical truth. According to historical records, the night scene in Chen Duxiu is extremely bleak. After he was fired, he was suddenly as dim as a bright star, so that later people easily forgot his great achievements and only stared at his mistakes, not letting go, not forgiving. In the timeline involved in The Awakening Age, this is indeed a bright moment for Chen Duxiu. Even if it is subtle, chatting with editorial colleagues while eating peanuts is full of drama.
I have always been curious about how to write The Awakening Age as a film and television work. Above all, Chen Duxiu was the leader of the New Culture Movement and the commander-in-chief of the May 4th Movement. How can we end his story? Seeing the last scene, I have to praise the creative team!
Deng Zhongxia sent the news that Yan Nian and Qiao Nian went to study in France. Chen Duxiu learned that Chen Qiaonian had also translated The Internationale, and Deng Zhongxia said that father and son were finally teammates in the same trench. In this scene, Chen Duxiu burst into tears, but he couldn't help it after all. Then he took the manuscript of "The Internationale" and went to the depths of the forest alone, leaving only a handsome and lonely figure for the audience in front of the screen ... (The truth is that the father and son failed to reconcile and were beautified here)
The revolutionary situation is still going on vigorously and is about to enter a new era. The May 4th Movement and the New Culture Movement can be regarded as the carnival of intellectuals to some extent. They were the first to wake up, trying to wake up and save the sleeping China people. This popularity from elite to ordinary people is the gentlest way. It will take many years, and it will be possible to popularize one or two generations of education, but China at that time could not wait! In the episode of the Paris Peace Treaty, Lu Zhengxiang and Gu Weijun were fighting everywhere. How many years will the sorrow of "weak countries without diplomacy" last?
Furthermore, the identity of intellectuals is doomed to the majority of "Chen Duxiu", who are too idealistic and sometimes easily fall into the misunderstanding of scripted and divorced from their own reality. "Chen Duxiu people" have wild capital and dignity, and can be cultural innovators and ideological leaders, but do they really have enough ability to lead the people of China to find their own way of revolutionary subversion? There seems to be something missing, but this process of trial and error is precious in the future!
It is said that * * * invited him to Yan 'an more than once later, which was a recognition and affirmation of Chen Duxiu's existing contribution, but he declined. Chen Duxiu said: "The acquaintances have all gone or passed away, and now they are not familiar with this organization." Indeed, as a pioneer, Chen Duxiu, who was not understood, was burdened with too much controversy and sacrificed too much. When his child was killed, he asked his white-haired man to send it to the black-haired man; The intimate friends who once got together because of "New Youth" later fell apart one after another; Li Dazhao, who knows him best, has also been hanged ... The founder of the early revolution has long lost the passion of "South Chen Bei Lee can build a party", and years have given him too much tempering. Fortunately, the political party he worked hard to create is still developing in full swing in twists and turns, and has gradually become the mainstream of China's revolution. There are a group of new outstanding young people holding the baton well, and Chen Duxiu is very relieved about this.
As descendants, we know the historical process, and China has its own particularity. In the past, we were really hard on those people in Chen Duxiu because we were narrow-minded! Thanks to the awakening era, Chen Duxiu and others came into our field of vision, and Chen and his son were full of loyalty. Although the merits and demerits of history are left to future generations to comment on, those who have made contributions to the country and benefited the people will not be forgotten by history, nor will the people.
Ok, I'm going to read the complete biography of Chen Duxiu. If I don't know the truth, I have no right to speak. ...
Mr Guanzhong, I hope you are all right.