Sample essay on Zhang Ailing's "Blockade":
Fortunately, I saw such a short article in a magazine, which is very suitable for interpreting "Blockade". I will record it first:
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? There are many blockades in real life, which give human nature a chance to escape, which is enough to trigger the restlessness in the hearts of secular men and women, giving people a reason to temporarily put aside their own identity and position, so the two people live in plain and poor life. Men and women in urban life, in this short and specific environment, showed an instant rebellion against their regular lives without causing consequences.
Love and love in the blockade are ultimately a show that has to come to an end. This shortness also means safety, giving men and women in the blockade a realistic escape route. If we look at life as a line segment in a vulgar way, then the best distance is a close parallel. It's not easy for two people to stay close to each other. Those intersecting lines, even though they were once intimate, can only go farther and farther after the intersection. It is a happy and wonderful thing for two people to suddenly fall in love with each other from being invisible to each other. If the meeting ends abruptly, it will be more heartbreaking than not seeing each other.
I like this sentence very much. The so-called love in the blockade is just a trick played when bored. Not only that, even the gesture of playing tricks is ironic. And we are just spectators. ?
?Zhang Suchun's "Love and Love in Blockade"
This passage coincides with what I want to express. Now, I want to comment on some touching sentences in the article. Analyze and express some of your own opinions.
(1) The Wu family is a new model family with a religious background. The family tried their best to encourage their daughter to study hard and climb up step by step. She climbed to the top. A girl in her twenties taught in a university! It broke a new record for women's careers. However, her parents gradually lost interest in her and preferred that she be more sloppy in her books and spend more time finding a rich son-in-law. ?
Thoughts: What a vulgar understanding! This is true for new-style families, not to mention those old-style families? It is precisely this that makes women sadly become the appendages of men in the old society, and they cannot escape the tragic fate. destiny. Treating love as a money transaction means devaluing oneself in marriage, making the other party superior, and trampling on one's own dignity wantonly. I think the happiest thing is to be with someone who has the same interests and can work together for the future. Being together between two people with very different statuses will often end in tragedy.
(2)? He looked at her and she blushed. She blushed, letting him see it, and he was obviously very happy. Her face became redder and redder. Zong Zhen did not expect that he could make a woman blush, make her smile, turn her face away, or turn her head around. Here he is a man. Usually, he is an accountant, he is the father of his children, he is a parent, he is a passenger in the car, he is a customer in the store, and he is a citizen. But to this woman who doesn't know his true identity, he is just a simple man. ?
Heartfelt words: It can be seen that Zongzhen’s feeling for Cuiyuan is not love. Perhaps, it is just the pride of being a man that rises in his heart when he realizes that he can attract a woman! He is just tired of it Instead of the monotonous and repetitive days and the unchanging role that I play, I just try to find some kind of passion to entertain myself. Zongzhen and Cuiyuan realized their own value and charm from each other's words and deeds, which inspired their respective passions. Such ambiguity is fruitless, and they are destined to become only passers-by in each other's lives.
Isn’t this the case for us in reality? In monotonous days, we who are sensitive will start to think about it from other people’s eyes and actions, thinking that we have caught the message of love, so our hearts are in turmoil. Ups and downs, moodiness, if we can realize how ignorant and ridiculous it all is, and focus on the career we like, our hearts will be truly enriched!
(3)? In love Men always like to say that a woman in love is an exception and does not like to talk much, because subconsciously she knows that after a man completely understands a woman, he will not love her. ?
Voice from the heart: This is the love that Zhang Ailing interprets for us from her female perspective. Suddenly I remembered an article like this: In love, boys use a points reduction system. When they are passionately in love, she is perfect, and any shortcomings do not matter. After the passionate love period, boys begin to pay attention to the girl's shortcomings, and their feelings for her are greatly reduced. ?Girls should never desire once and for all, but should constantly improve themselves and treat love rationally.
(4)? The lights were on in the tram, and when she opened her eyes, she saw him sitting in his original seat far away. She was shocked. It turned out that he had not gotten out of the car! She understood what he meant: nothing during the blockade had happened. The whole of Shanghai took a nap and had an unreasonable dream. ?
Heartfelt words: Suddenly I remembered what a teacher said: "Love is not just a feeling, but more importantly, a commitment and shouldering the responsibilities after the commitment." ?The ambiguity came to an end here silently, and life returned to normal. The tedium and monotony blocked passion again. When it comes to marriage, both people have to consider worldly interference. It can only bring everything to an abrupt end and end in the most beautiful state.
Finally, I would like to quote Zhang Ailing’s confession in "I Look at Su Qing":
I usually look at people, and it’s easy to look at them as flat, little paper figures. , it is more convenient to put it in a book. ?Looking flat? It doesn’t necessarily mean discovering other people’s shortcomings, but it just means turning three-dimensional into flat. Because I am a writer of novels, I think this is my duty, to see the ins and outs of life clearly. If there was hatred in the heart at first, after seeing clearly, there is only sadness and pity. From what I can see, some very talented people clearly made a wrong step somewhere, and later they failed because their whole attitude towards life was bad and sneaky. Some of them are not bad, they are just worthless, unclean, and unpleasant. There are many people like this in my books, because they can best represent the atmosphere of society, and they are also easier to write about. For those people I write about, I can forgive them for anything wrong, and sometimes I still like them, just because They exist, they are real. ?
In her novels, Zhang Ailing seems to be a detached spectator. She calmly tells ordinary stories and makes spicy satire on the people and things she sees, which makes people admire her. Extraordinary insight. She has no special likes or dislikes towards the characters she writes, and shows us a real world rationally." I think this is the reason why her works can endure for a long time and be passed down from generation to generation!
Zhang Ailing's sample essay after reading "Blockade":
Zhang Ailing is good at using metaphors and imitating objects and people. I've seen it before in her other novels. For example, in "Blockade", the metaphor of a tram track is lengthened and then shortened; it is lengthened and then shortened. Just reading the words makes people feel crazy, but the person driving the tram is not crazy. ?. He also said, "This huge city is dozing off in the sun. It places its head heavily on people's shoulders, and saliva slowly flows down people's clothes. The unimaginable huge weight suppresses everyone." "Life is like the Bible". Because it is translated back and forth, it creates a barrier between people. At least I can't think of such an exaggerated yet extremely appropriate sentence.
The first half of the novel seems to describe the state of the world, including the beggar who suddenly sang in the silence, the bored tram driver, and several people who came back from the office together, a pair who looked quite similar. The brother-sister couple (the wife is always worried that the smoked fish will stain her husband's trousers), the old man rubbing walnuts in his hands, the medical student diligently modifying the skeleton diagram?
The outside of the tram is dead quiet, There was a bit of noise inside the tram. Against this background of both dead silence and noise, the short-lived "love story" of Lu Zongzhen and Wu Cuiyuan slowly unfolded.
I believe that most men and women have fantasized about having an affair, in a moving train or car, with a stranger of the opposite sex in a closed space, almost close to each other. But in fact, even if you travel frequently, the chance of sitting with a person of the opposite sex who is similar in age and looks decent is almost zero. If you do encounter such an opportunity, you are likely to miss him/her because of timidity. Maybe you are just satisfied with the brief contact of your bare arms intentionally or unintentionally, or your head accidentally falling on your shoulder while pretending to sleep. You may have guessed various possibilities about his/her background in your mind, but you don’t even have the courage to look at him/her. A man over thirty years old once described his "love affair" to everyone like this: "She sat next to me, and we stayed together for six hours." I have never been so close to a beautiful woman in my life. We stayed together for 21,600 seconds with no more than ten centimeters apart. I had the illusion that this state would last forever. So when we got off the bus, she walked away without looking back, which really made me a little heartbroken. ?But I think this is the inevitable outcome of most ?love encounters.
Back to the topic. Zhang Ailing designed all the prerequisites for Lu Zongzhen and Wu Cuiyuan to lead to their "love affair", first "blocking", and then Lu Zongzhen's aunt and nephew (Lv had no choice but to sit next to Wu Cuiyuan in order to avoid talking to his aunt and nephew). We can call all these factors accidental, just like "Qingcheng" once contributed to a marriage, "blockade" why can't it "promote" an affair? Zhang Ailing is probably used to putting people in extreme situations to test them. human nature.
If the circumstances were changed, Wu Cuiyuan was obviously not Lu Zongzhen’s type, because in Lu’s view, her whole figure looked like squeezed toothpaste, without style. ?And Lu Zongzhen is not a handsome boy, let alone a family. No matter what, these two people will not get together. Looking for the reason at a close distance, of course it is because they are reluctantly squeezed together by more and more people. And the scene of suddenly being so close to a stranger can easily arouse different and subtle emotions between men and women. Looking further afield, it can be attributed to Lu Zongzhen’s hatred of his wife? She always asked him in a neat suit to buy buns at the noodle stall and go home, while her damn nephew had already started beating his thirteen-year-old daughter. idea. As for Cuiyuan, she has a rebellious mood. Her family always asks her to find a rich son-in-law, so this time she chose a man with no money and a wife to show off to the family.
Such romantic encounters do not have the beauty we expect. Not to mention that the male and female protagonists are not amazing in appearance, and even the methods used to flirt are extremely cliché?
? Cuiyuan secretly thought: ? Come on! His wife doesn’t sympathize with him at all! Men who have wives in the world seem to They all desperately need the sympathy of other women. ?Zongzhen hesitated for a while, and then he hesitated and said with great embarrassment: ?My wife? She doesn't sympathize with me at all. ?
But even such an extremely reluctant and disharmonious flirtation was forced to develop to the point where both parties were discussing marriage due to some unpredictable factors. Lu Zongzhen said the love words "I can't deceive you for the rest of my life" without hesitation, but Cuiyuan actually started to cry for real, but the crying was not very good-looking, and she almost spit her tears on his face. The ending was naturally even more disastrous. Lu Zongzhen slipped into the crowd and pretended that nothing had happened. Cuiyuan finally woke up, and the whole Shanghai took a nap and had an unreasonable dream.
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When I watched "Life Elsewhere", I felt that Kundera was cruel because he arranged an extremely ugly red-haired girl as his sexual partner for the romantic poet Jaromil. companion. Watching "Blockade" now, I feel that Zhang Ailing is even more cruel. She first makes people have a little hope and feels that there is still something interesting in this life, but then pops it like a soap bubble in the blink of an eye, leaving people with an embarrassing thought. think.