People speak fearfully
Ruan Lingyu, a Chinese silent film star, represents the highest level of Chinese silent film performance.
"When I die, people must think I'm guilty. It is (the truth) that I am not a terrible sin, because I do not have a single place for Zhang Damin to live with him, let alone anything else, I took him and I separated from living together, and also gave him 100 yuan a month.
This is not empty words, there are credentials and receipt. But he bite the hand that feeds him, repay him with injustice (resentment), and even more because the outside world is unclear, he still thinks that I do not care for him.
Well, what can I do? Think and think, only to die.
Well, my death is not a pity, but I am still afraid of men's words, and men's words are afraid."
- Ruan Lingyu Last writing 24, March 7
As for the reason of Ruan Lingyu's suicide, there are different opinions outside. Lu Xun once wrote "On the Awesome Words of Others," an article that said: "Her suicide, related to the news reporter, is also true."
A few days ago, I once again afterthought director Guan Jinpeng, Maggie Cheung starred in the movie "Ruan Lingyu", the movie "Ruan Lingyu" made Maggie Cheung, let her win the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival best actress, the 12th Hong Kong Film Award best actress, the 28th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award best actress three trophies.
The space transformation of the film and the ingenious conception of the play formed the unique Angle of entry of Ruan Lingyu, and Maggie Cheung contributed her excellent acting skills in this work, and the truth and magic between every move and gesture made Ruan Lingyu's demure and charming interpretation incised and vividly.
However, she is still not Ruan Lingyu. As she said, Ruan Lingyu has a kind of inner coquettish strength. No matter how tight the collar of the small cheongsam is buckled, it is difficult to cover Ruan Lingyu's charm in her bones. Ruan Lingyu is also a born actress, in that only silent film era, she used her powerful inner world to perform a worthy of our memorable classics. And it was not until later that we understood that this style needed to pay a heavy price, and it was because she was a woman with rich feelings that her final sadness was achieved. Her death is undoubtedly painful for those of us who love her, but what hurts us more is that she is too dependent on love and the character of men, and every man she meets is selfish and has no responsibility! This makes us feel great sadness and heartache. She was so beautiful, so good, so young, enough to have the best of everything on her own.
The 29 films she made during her lifetime were all silent films, and it was not until the last one, The New Woman, that she began to have several interlices in addition to the accompanying music, thus becoming an attempt to transition from silent films to sound films. It is a pity that Ruan Lingyu soon died under the great pressure of "people's fearsome words", which is an inestimable loss for Chinese films.
I remember reading Ruan Lingyu's biography when I was in college. She treated the performing arts with diligence, devoted all her enthusiasm and unremitting pursuit. In the performance, she can accurately appreciate the emotions of the characters, capture the feelings of the characters, and accurately express them with appropriate eyes, expressions and movements. The combination of accurate inner sensing and physical expression is very natural, showing her outstanding talent and extraordinary skills. She has successfully created various images of Chinese women who have suffered a lot. Most of these characters have lived a miserable life, experienced setbacks, and struggled through repeated hardships. Although they all ended in suicide, monastic life, imprisonment, and tragic death, they all maintained their kind and upright nature and pure and beautiful hearts.
The film "Ruan Lingyu" in the last phonograph out of the woman's sad long humming, she gradually passed away, the picture finally fixed in Ruan Lingyu sleeping delicate side face.
Ruan Lingyu's life, as the film's ending song "burial heart" sings: "People's words converge into the sea of sorrow, sad hard to endure...... Fanghua is afraid of loneliness."