1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 18 Watching movies is also called learning

Nowadays, there is no such thing as weekends and weekends, and they are all closed on Sundays, so the holidays are always extremely short, and the normal pace of study and life resumes the next day.

Starting on Wednesday, the course in the class added a section on the history of European literature, which was taught by a returnee from Yenching University in France, named Jin Wenxuan.

Jin Wenxuan seems to be a very easy-going person, which is indeed the case.

"I'm just a lover of literature. I've read most of the novels of the gentlemen in the audience. The history of European literature is a ready-made textbook. You can read it yourself. If there is anything you don't understand, we can communicate with each other."

Jin Wenxuan's low profile instantly won everyone's favor.

Most of the people who come to teach these days are old seniors and old experts with deep qualifications. It is rare for a young man to have such a humble attitude.

What should have been a boring course turned into an exchange between the teacher and the students. Jin Wenxuan got his degree in France. When communicating with everyone, he interspersed some works of French writers and anecdotes about characters. Everyone, including Lin Weimin, listened to it. Have relish.

"Ms. Jin knows a lot, and she is good-looking."

During lunch, Lin Weimin heard Liu Shuhua and Huang Anyi talking.

Huang Anyi nodded, "Teacher Jin's knowledge is indeed profound."

What Lin Weimin heard was not what it felt like. It really is true that the new generation is better than the old ones. My little fresh meat has only been galloping in the institute for a few days, so I was eliminated.

After the two finished their meal, they turned around and saw Lin Weimin lined up behind them. Liu Shuhua lightly touched Huang Anyi's shoulder. She glanced at Lin Weimin, then quickly lowered her head and went to her seat.

Lin Weimin touched his nose, didn't he just set a goal for you in front of the whole class?As for?This is too vindictive.

On Friday afternoon, teacher Tang Yuqiu informed everyone.

"The institute contacted the China Film Archive and borrowed the screening room and the expansion film. In the evening, all the students in our class went outside to watch the expansion film and study."

The students immediately cheered and wanted to leave without even caring about dinner.

A few resident teachers in the institute have revealed to everyone before that the institute is contacting the film archives and is going to release some expansion films for everyone to learn from. I didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Watching movies is one of the few popular entertainments in this era.

Nowadays, the domestic film industry is still in the planning era, and there are not many films released publicly. Many films in the film archives are foreign classic films. In this year, it is not allowed to publicly talk about movies, but to say that they are expansion films or internal reference films. That's right, ordinary people have no way of getting a glimpse of it.

Now that we can take advantage of the opportunity of advanced study to watch the precious opportunity to watch the collection of expansion films, everyone is excited to think about it.

The screening room was near Xiaoxi Tian'er. A group of people squeezed the 18th road to the screen room, and they couldn't help whispering excitedly in their hearts.

There are more than 30 students and two leading teachers sitting in the small projection room. The projector rotates slowly, and the screen lights up to reflect the faces of people and excited faces.

The first movie shown today is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", an American film released in 1975, which won five awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress at the 48th Oscars.

Most of the people present were watching foreign movies for the first time, especially Hollywood movies, and they couldn't wait to blink.

Lin Weimin has seen "Leaping Over the Crazy Asylum" in later generations, but when I re-watched it today, I have some new feelings.

As the movie ended, dim lights were turned on in the originally quiet screening room, and teacher Tang Yuqiu, who led the team, shouted, "Take a break for 10 minutes, and there will be another movie later."

After sitting for more than an hour, many people got up to go to the toilet, and a few heavy smokers went directly to the corridor to relieve their addiction and chat by the way.

Lin Weimin stood beside them, facing a window, listening to them discussing the plot of the movie they just watched, most of them were so shocked by the plot.

Among them, there is no lack of disdain for the head nurse and others and praise for the protagonist.

Gu Hua looked at Lin Weimin standing alone in front of the window thoughtfully, and asked, "Weimin, what do you think of this movie?"

Lin Weimin looked over dully, "What?"

He was just in a trance just now.

"What do you think of this movie?"

"Okay!"

"What's a good way?" Gu Hua asked.

This……

Lin Weimin hesitated for a moment, trying to recall the plot of the movie.

"The lunatic asylum is a special place. The director intentionally placed the whole film in this very limited space for shooting, which has a strong directivity in itself, allowing the audience to focus on peeping from the lunatic to themselves, giving life a sense of reality." People in that society inject a belief: freedom, self, which is very typical American ideology."

Everyone was not surprised by the content of Lin Weimin's speech.

He paused for a few seconds, and then said: "I think that many viewers who have watched this movie will probably have tears in their eyes. They are kind-hearted, pursue freedom, respect individuality, and oppose shackles. The enemy of Utopia seems to be just a small Just a cold-blooded head nurse..."

Speaking of this, Lin Weimin paused again, "But this is obviously not in line with the nature of this world. Do you think McMurphy exists in reality? Or is he the majority?

Of course he is not, on the contrary, he is an alternative.

The most fundamental reason why McMurphy was treated inhumanly was because his freedom broke the existing rules of the game at will, and what most people really need is not freedom, but safety.

A kind of positional security and then personal and personality security.

Instead, when McMurphy was tortured to the brink of death by the lunatic asylum, everyone suddenly became its close comrade-in-arms, called him a hero, hoped for "freedom" with him, and planned a perfect escape from prison.

This is where human beings are deceitful. We are always finding a reasonable foothold for ourselves, and we can swing wildly at both ends of our value judgments.

If I had to write, I would probably give this movie a sequel.

That is, after the chief escaped from the lunatic asylum, he did not enjoy the fragrant taste of freedom.

Instead, with disheveled hair, muddy body, panting, and grim face, he knocked on the door of a kind family, begging for shelter.

But the family that advocated freedom and pursued justice turned away a stranger because he was afraid of the trouble of escaping from a mental hospital, and called the mental hospital.

Chief, hospitalized again.

The movie ends. "

Lin Weimin talked while thinking, and at the end of the talk, everyone around was impressed by his sharp thinking and unconstrained imagination.

Gu Hua rubbed her chin, "Wei Min's ending is wonderful, it's so ironic!"

"Yeah, I think it's a good ending now."

"That's right. The reason why freedom becomes a tragedy is because you and I are the shackles." Jiang Zilong summed it up quite profoundly.

At this time, Tang Kangmei said the opposite point of view, "I think this ending is also very good, very bright!"

Lin Weimin smiled, "I'm just talking nonsense, it's an award-winning work."

"No, no, no." Jiang Zilong patted Lin Weimin on the shoulder, very leadership style, "Weimin's idea is very good, it is definitely a novel idea comparable to the end of the movie. I really didn't see it, you kid still has the talent to be a screenwriter .”

"Hey! I think so too."

"I was out of breath just after I praised you."

(End of this chapter)