以影载道:《百鸟朝凤》的民族寓言与时代焦虑

Rural imagination:Anxiety of age and national fable in the movie Song of the Phoenix

《百鸟朝凤》既是导演吴天明的绝唱之作,同时也为第四代电影人画上了句号。电影讲述了焦三爷与游天鸣新老两代唢呐艺人为了信念的坚守所产生的真挚的师徒情、父子情、兄弟情。影片一如既往地以一种责任感与使命感,观照和反思个体轨迹下的民族命运,以一种民族寓言的方式以小见大,将作为传统文化代表之一的唢呐传承与国家命运联系起来,从而思考如何对待传统与现代、艺术与商业、民族与世界的关系。在民族传统文化向现代性演进的过程中,用一种悲壮的影像方式书写了带有创伤与犹疑的民族文化记忆。

The movie Song of the Phoenix is not only the final work of the director WU Tianming, but also the end of the fourth generation of directors.The film tells the sincere teacher and student, father and son, and brotherhood that JIAO Sanye and YOU Tianming＇s old and new generations of entertainers produced for their convictions.As always, the film takes a sense of responsibility and mission, observes and reflects on the national fate under the trajectory of individuals. And in a national fable way, it connects the inheritance of one of the representatives of cultural tradition with the destiny of the coun try. That is in order to think about how to deal with the relationship between tradition and modernity, art and business, as well as the nation and the world.ln the process of the evolution of traditional ethnic culture to modernity, the national culture with wounds and hesitations was written in a tragic image.