人物形象·城乡空间·精神情感——纪录片《归途列车》对中国形象的构建

Image ·Urban-Rural Space ·Spiritual Emotion—— Construction of Chinese Image from Last Train Home

纪录片《归途列车》运用西方话语的叙事谱系,完成对中国形象的建构。该纪录片运用微观叙事从塑造丰满的人物形象入手,将想象中的农民工群体形象寄托于个体叙事中呈现,力图描摹底层个体在现实社会中的奋力抗争与无奈;运用交叉的空间叙事将压抑的城市空间与静美的乡村空间并置,呈现中国地域空间迥异的风格面貌和时代内涵,以理性思维审视城乡二元结构这一生态机制;以人类共通的精神情感为突破口,透过日常生活中的点滴与抽象的中国形象相联接,以期在国际传播中使受众获得心理认同和文化认知,完成对中国形象更深层次的架构。

The documentary Last Train Home completes the construction of Chinese image by way of narrative spectrum of western languages. This documentary uses micro-narrative mode to start from the shape of well-rounded portrayal of characters, putting the imaginary images of migrant worker groups into individual narrative, which attempts to depict the struggle and frustration of individuals living at the bottom of the society. It uses the special narrative of crossover to put the depressing urban space and elegant rural space together, presenting the entirely different styles and connotation of times in Chinese regional space, and uses rational thinking to inspect the ecological mechanism of urban-rural dual structure. This documentary makes use of the common spiritual emotion of human beings as the breakthrough point, and connects the everyday life and abstract Chinese image, hoping to make the receiver get psychological identification and cultural cognition in the international communication and complete the deeper construction of the Chinese image.