王小帥自傳三部曲第二部，背景放在七十年代的中國，西南山區三線建設的工廠小鎮。1975年，文革最後一年，毛死前一年，也是11歲的男孩王憨（劉文卿）最後一年的懵懂時光。同校女孩的哥哥殺了人，躲進樹林，碰巧就被他撞見。男孩洩露了秘密，也逐漸窺探到隱匿在那個年代裡的荒唐與暴力，壓抑與無助。身為知識份子的文藝父輩們理想零落殆盡，卻暗暗存續人性之光。藝術啓蒙的同時，性也暗自萌動，點滴在男孩心頭，卻仍是朦朦朧朧。片尾奔向山頭去看刑場前的回眸，彷如《四百擊》裡最後一幕：無憂無慮的童年就這樣突然失落，王小帥的個人記憶系列也在此完結。
Set in 1975, one year before Mao’s death, during the last stage of China’s Cultural Revolution, the story takes place in a rural village in southwest mountainous China, to which intellectuals are relocated from big cities to answer the call of Mao’s Third Front policy. In the very last year of Cultural Revolution, the eleven-year-old boy Wang Han (Liu Wenqing) experiences his last carefree innocence before becoming aware of it. Han accidentally encounters a fugitive hiding in the woods. The fugitive has killed the rapist of his little sister, who happens to be Han’s schoolmate, and asks Han not to let out the secret. Pockmarked by violence and repression, the socio-political atmosphere half-comprehended by Han becomes the backdrop for his sexual and sensory awakening. As the last one of Wang Xiaoshuai’s three autobiographical films, the film is shot through with nostalgic lyricism of Wang’s personal memories. |
