As the whole country celebrates, Chinese film dreamers gather again to describe the struggles of generations of fathers through the perspective of traditional Chinese family and country, taking the core era of revolution, construction, reform and opening up as the historical coordinates. Spirit tells the story of the blood connection and spiritual inheritance of the Chinese people, and reproduces the memory of the times when the Chinese people worked hard.
The film is divided into four short stories, directed by Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Xu Zheng, and Shen Teng respectively. The first two short stories earned enough tears, the last two short stories earned enough laughter, and the final use of technology Smile and look forward to the bright future of 2050.
The Douban score is 9.6. It was released for 12 days and the box office exceeded 1.2 billion. It is expected to have 2 to 3 billion. With such a good reputation and such a good box office, what is it really about? In addition to the history and facts we can see, what else stirs up people’s hearts behind the praise of New China?
This article uses this video to try to appreciate and reflect on paternal psychology based on Jungian psychoanalysis.
The prototype of the human father is an aggressive male animal in prehistory. The mature father is a complex image with two personality traits: impulsiveness and rationality, strength and gentleness. This image developed to its perfect peak in the classical and mythological times of Greece. In the war years, the myth of heroes was once again written.
The first part of the movie "My Fathers and Me" and "Riding the Wind" directed by Wu Jing is a portrayal of heroic fatherhood.
The film tells the story of a cavalry regiment with outstanding combat achievements during the Anti-Japanese War. In order to protect the evacuation of the masses, the film desperately resisted the Japanese army. The tall and mighty war horse, the rapid transformation of dropping the sickle and carrying the machine gun, the brave forward under the fire and smoke, and the blood-soaked physical battle, all promote the masculinity, bravery and bloody spirit of the father. This is a collective heroic complex, without exception, everyone devotes himself to the war. In the current war of that era, fatherhood seemed to be presented as a heroic prototype, and the individual gave way to the collective.
The young man Chengfeng, despite his mother's obstruction, went to the front line with his father. With a spirit of arrogance and unwillingness to admit defeat, he took the lead in everything. Although he contradicted his father, he still regarded him as his leader. example.
In the child's heart, he is both a heroic father and an individual father. Therefore, Chengfeng would be jealous of his father who put the common people's children to sleep at night: "I have never seen you treat me like this." But the father took out a moxa leaf strip from his pocket and asked his son to wipe the wound on his neck. Here the father revealed It is a maternal temperament, reserved and loving.
But at the critical moment, he only hesitated for a few seconds before sternly ordering the flare to be fired. In order to protect the safe evacuation of most soldiers and civilians, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his son's life. At that moment, this impersonal spirit of sacrifice could only come from the archetype.
Ruger Zhaojia once captured this typical image in Homer's epic poem, the father is always wearing armor, even when hugging his children. He calls it a "cold embrace" and thus elaborates on the "paradox of the father": "We thus find in the heart of the father an unbearable insecurity and an ambivalence. This is an external The corresponding reaction of the contradiction - the contradictory expectations held by his children." In the film, the regimental leader's father burst into tears when he returned from the war empty-handed, as he said: "I can't stand up to the people of the world, but I can't stand up to your mother. ! ”
The fatherhood of a hero is the spirit of caring for the greater self at the expense of the small self, and bravely dedicating himself to the birth of a new world.
The second part is "Poetry" directed by Zhang Ziyi. Based on the background of my country's development of the Long March 1 rocket and the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1969, it tells the story of an ordinary aerospace family, showing the fatherly spirit of hard work, selfless dedication, and sacrifice for science.
The father played by Huang Xuan is the epitome of thousands of scientific researchers. He does not have much time to spend with his family and children, and he devotes everything to scientific research. Under limited conditions, he risked observation with his naked eyes and sacrificed his life one after another. When the first satellite belonging to China shines in the universe, it is the rebirth of millions of lives. This fearless devotion is indescribable and almost divine.
Since humans moved from hunting to farming, to socialized mass production, and then to the reform and opening up in modern times, women’s social self-awareness has increased and they have begun to engage in the same intellectual activities as men. Like her father, the mother played by Zhang Ziyi is a selfless aerospace worker with superb skills and a fearless spirit of sacrifice, showing the paternal side of women.
After her father died, she assumed both the maternal function of nurturing and loving, and the paternal function of formulating rules and discipline. The moment the child lit up the Kongming Lantern, he cried loudly: "Mom, don't die, mom, don't die!" We can see that the poetry written with life is a eulogy of the paternal spirit of sacrificing his life for the cause.
In the end, the once timid and scared little girl became an astronaut, inherited and continued her parents' career, and ventured into the poetic universe. That is also an extension of the female fatherly spirit.
The third part is "Duck Prophet" directed by Xu Zheng, starring Xu Zheng and Han Haolin, based on the story behind the birth of China's first TV commercial.
An essay "My Dad" vividly portrays the ideal and successful father in a child's heart.
"Duck prophet" is a metaphor that refers to those people who are quick-witted, can keenly smell the changes of the times, have the courage to try, and finally occupy the forefront of the times and achieve success. For example, the first to speculate in stocks, the first to open a company, the first to buy a house in Pudong, the first to use mobile phone, etc.
This father is no longer a divine hero, he is just an individual with both advantages and disadvantages, a shrewd, snobbish, face-conscious, lively little man, but at the same time, he is in the wave of the times. Men who dare to be the first, dare to fight, and have keen intuition.
This is the paternal spirit given and promoted by the times. In the era of reform and opening up, we must have this pioneering paternal spirit of daring to imagine, innovate and break new ground.
The fourth part is "Youth" directed by Director Shen Teng.
High technology, robots, future time and space, and Shen Teng’s mechanical clothing and movements suddenly penetrate the years and extend the fatherly spirit into the distant future.
This is a family where the father died young and the mother is both father and mother. In order to survive, she socializes and drinks all day long. Before returning home, she has to do high-intensity exercise in the community playground to sober up and live like a man. My mother-in-law doesn’t support her son’s dream of science and technology, and she is always in a state of panic. But the son inherited his father's genes and made electronic technology models in secret. This is not only an identification with his father, but also a connection with his inner fatherhood in this way. At the same time, this wish also helped him summon the ideal robot father in the future world.
"The realization of a dream requires many experiments. How can you give up on your dream after one failure?" This is a gift left by the father to his children. Working hard for the technological dream and perseverance is the spirit of perseverance and never give up. of fatherly spirit.
The actors, directors, and even the audience all devoted themselves to creating beautiful father images one after another. But what is the reality?
More and more fathers are absent from the family; more and more women are leaving the family and following men, belittling and attacking men, and the divorce rate is increasing year by year; in the digitally intelligent generation, In the process of retaliation, the heroic image of the father has disappeared, and more and more children can only find their ideal father in fantasy.
This film was successful, earning enough tears and box office, but what is behind these data and facts?
Perhaps, it is our collective dream, a dream created with all our strength after the fatherhood gradually disappears. It is the voice surging in the subconscious, and it is the deep desire for fatherhood in each of us. call.
Beyond the tears and laughter, what remains are endless aftertaste and reflection.
This is not only the spirit left by our fathers in different eras, sacrifice, dedication, risk-taking, innovation, persistence, and hard work, it is the collective spirit given by the times, and it is also the spirit of the nation, which will be deposited in the hearts of each of us. ; But at the same time, this is also our projection of the paternal spirit today, our nostalgia for those lost spirits, and the fantasy of what we long for in our hearts.