流行文化的困境——《任逍遥》中的后现代性与现代性解读

Difficult Position of Pop Culture——An analysis of the postmodernism and modernity in the film Unknown Pleasures

贾樟柯电影《任逍遥》以中等工业城市中无业少年的生活为题材 ,触及到当前社会边缘群体的生存状态 ,在题材、叙事手法、声音运用等方面都在某种程度上符合后现代美学的一些特征 ,但是 ,电影所表现的生活内涵则表达了另一层意义 :既现实中的生存压力和对生活的意义的追寻并非可以被流行文化任意消解。影片以其对原生态生活的表现对中国如后现代论者张颐武等人的有关论断提出质疑 ,暗示了中国后现代话语的内在虚妄。

Unknown Pleasures , the film by Jia Zhangke, focuses on the unemployed teenagers in a midsize industrial city, and touches upon the thesis about the living situation of marginalized urban social groups. In terms of the thesis, narrative, use of sound effect, etc., the film embodies certain traits of postmodern filmic art. However, the content of the film also shows that the pressure for survival, poverty, and the search for meaning cannot be dissolved by popular culture, thus challenging the polemics of Chinese postmodernists such as Zhang Yiwu, and suggesting the intrinsic emptiness of China's postmodernist discourse.