《海的尽头是草原》:民族团结叙事的美学置换

In Search of Lost Time: Aesthetics Substitution of the National Unity Narrative

《海的尽头是草原》是一部以“三千孤儿入内蒙”为题材的影片。作为这一历史故事最新的讲述版本,影片在历史情境再现方面有了长足的进步,但是影片叙事对历史语境的还原并不彻底,致使民族团结的经典叙事经历了美学置换,其核心情节构成了对民族团结历史的复杂化表述。从历史唯物论的角度而言,中国电影人讲述民族团结的故事,需要通晓民族团结历史的本质属性,挖掘并表现民族团结的历史本源和现实意义。

In Search of Lost Time is a film based on the historic story of “ three thousands orphan sentering Inner Mongolia ”. As the newest edition of the historic story-telling, the film has made a remarkable progress in historic situation representation, but the respect and revivification of the film narrative to the historic context is not a thorough one. Thus the classic narrative of the national unity has been substituted in aesthetics, and its key plot has complicated the expression of the national unity history to an extent. From the historical materialist perspective, when telling the story of national unity, the Chinese filmmakers need to understand the essential properties of national unity in China, and exploit to manifest its historic origin and practical signification.