Rhinoceros in Love in Drama

Interpretation of Rhinoceros in Love "Man is an animal living in symbols." -Cahill's "On Man" I. Drama-Flowing Symbol All existence itself is placed in a symbolic discourse framework, and all existence is historical in nature. Therefore, in such insurmountable limitations, the development of drama has been commercialized, hyped and conceptualized, and drama has been artificially branded with obvious cultural stratification to some extent. "In moral imagination, the parallel analogy of equal columns replaces the symbolic order of halo" reappearance ":while gap and harmony, fracture and cohesion are all reduced to rhetorical symbols, which is a footnote to the scattered world." (Wang Dewei). All art forms, including drama, are actually symbols that interpret people and things in the real world. Therefore, when positioning the value of drama itself, we should reflect on ourselves more thoroughly while including all possible information about drama as much as possible. The growth of drama is full of people's shadows everywhere, and it directly faces what we call art appreciators. I know that the hardest thing for art is to say something, but I can't say anything. In the decision of whether to say or not to say in life, if it is out of almost pure devotion to artistic value, then we should choose to say, express our self-awareness, and promote the transformation of drama while highlighting the main value. As Ye Zhi expressed in a poem, "I must describe everything in my eyes. Of course, what I really describe may be another scene, because my nature will be revealed unconsciously. " "Art comes from life" is true, but compared with "art is higher than life", we should pay more attention to the value connotation of the latter. We are just a group of thoughtful advanced animals, living on earth, experiencing * * *, enjoying life, or having a proper spiritual sublimation, which is enough. In this context, we should be more inclined to the glorious side of art, after all, art is carefully tempered by builders, and every detail embodies the beautiful ideal of human nature. Traditional drama, avant-garde drama, experimental drama, coffee drama ... the artistic form always changes with people's needs. It can be said that every progress of society hides countless agitation for cultural desire, and it is this restless soul that can't wait to ignite the fuse of artistic change. Every progress in culture is a step towards freedom. Gide said: "Immortal masterpieces are caused by madness and completed by reason". Meng Jinghui, who is famous as an experimenter and practitioner of "avant-garde drama", probably completed his long-standing drama dream in madness and rationality. If a person has no artistic taste, then he will be poor, because his life will only be imprisoned by various prejudices. Meng Jinghui not only has a solid foundation in Chinese and directing, but also has a keen grasp of reality and a crazy pursuit of art. He can always "copy and paste" the most popular concepts, languages and behaviors in real life into his works, and can express a strong irony spirit and persistent idealism in this capture. The life of art originates from the subconscious praise of life and the doubt of reality. It is not so much the essence of an art as the carrier of the possibility of our human self-expression. In Meng Jinghui's masterpiece Rhinoceros in Love, each actor has a specific situation, a specific occupation and a specific personal experience, but these have no practical significance. They are still symbols, expressing the psychology and thoughts of different groups, and the whole drama can also be regarded as a symbol, conveying a kind of persistence. As for the ending of love, it is not the concern of this play. Second, the scene layout-the pioneering and experimental little theatre drama of the small theater, regardless of the theme and content; Directing and performing; Or stage art, lighting, etc. , are constantly getting rid of the monotonous and poor stage context and paying attention to visual effects. Let the drama quietly change from "tradition" to "modernity" and from realism to freehand brushwork, all of which show her vanguard. As an audience, in order to fully appreciate the aesthetic pleasure brought by drama, we must first change the role of the original society and devote ourselves to the utopia constructed by art with a brand-new attitude and a new way of life. Rhinoceros in love has always arranged a group of young people to witness, intervene and interfere with the road and obvious love, and make their own comments and comments according to their feelings and understanding of life. Their lives have been pushed to the edge of prosperity. They struggle for their livelihood and feel confused about their own meaning, but they always float on the surface of their emotions. Life teaches them: "Don't be too serious", "Stubbornness in this era is basically a mental illness", and "excessively distinguishing one's love object from other opposite sex is a dangerous signal of emotional confusion". Therefore, they can get married because of a "leer show", or they can refuse the wedding because the diamond earrings are dropped; You can also learn how to abandon your lover seriously and practice the "breakup skills" in a programmed way-the absurdity like farce and the pure beauty like the main line poem are intertwined, which is not only a sharp contrast, but also an aesthetic and thinking space full of tension. In the stage performance, the "frame" and "fourth wall" of the stage of the Grand Theatre were broken, and the audience was closely connected with the stage; Because of the small performance space, drama has a close relationship with performance, so it can communicate and interact with the audience at close range; Small theater drama is characterized by small performance space, close relationship between actors and audiences and strong pioneering spirit. For example, in the scene of winning the prize, seven or eight people crowded together, shaking, each holding a ring, showing the scene in the crowded subway, which is very vivid. They are discussing how to enjoy the lottery after winning the lottery. One of them rushed to the front and said that he wanted to eat enough, and the other said that he wanted to buy a house and a car ... Everyone said that he would give all the bonuses to Mingming on the road behind. People naturally cast strange eyes on him, instead of crowding to the front, and he stood out from the crowd ... The stage art and lighting of the love drama also showed vanguard. The effective organization of stage lighting makes the scene more clear and orderly. Interspersed music and intermittent lighting create a dramatic atmosphere, reflecting the strangeness and absurdity of real life and setting off the mood of the protagonist. The combination of scenery and lighting and the director's ideas blend together to form an organic whole-simple, smooth, full of personality and significance. The brightness of the lights in the play is high and low, which appropriately sets off the stage atmosphere as strange, sad or pure as the rain at the beginning of the new year or as fierce as the summer rain and thunderstorm. When love was finally shattered by reality and the road sang to the empty stage in the dark corner in despair, almost all the lights went out, leaving only a faint yellow light thrown into the canopy and a slowly rotating glass door, which swept the whole theater heavily ... It was never logical for Meng Jinghui to tell stories on the stage, but he always found some strange starting points. The music of the play accounts for a large proportion. At every stage of the plot, the actors automatically jump out of the role to sing. Songs carry emotions that can't be expressed in words, and also carry the reason beyond the emotions of the characters. Third, the means of expression-romantic poetry+rebellious spirit This is a drama with extremely rich means of expression: the simple and popular Road expresses the exploration of ideas in simple language, and many lines are as pure as poetry; Innocent and simple, bright and bright, willful and stubborn from beginning to end; As the background, this group of young people performed funny and exaggerated performances, condensed the vulgarity of fashion in life, completed the emotional dispatch of the audience, and made the heartbreaking sad story not overwhelming. And every time * * * appears, the actors become musicians and singers, pouring out, singing and shouting for the people in the play with tearful guitars and crisp or hoarse and sincere voices. Music is sometimes quiet, sometimes passionate, sometimes deep like the heart of a lonely monk sitting alone in the desert, and sometimes noisy like the slapstick of ordinary people in downtown; There was a silent roar on the road, only the vague "ah" sound choked in the throat, struggling in the ups and downs of the scale, trying to destroy people's tears! A glass wall splashed with mortar is used as a canopy, on which there is a moment of silence, a moment of steaming clouds, and a moment of rolling clear bubbles as if from the depths of the ocean; And whenever "Road" shows the nobleness curled up in the hearts of small people with a poetic monologue, those lines that capture people's hearts are quietly arranged on the glass wall, like the eyes of the soul of "Road", silently staring at the audience ... The actor's performance has also been explored to the greatest extent in the small theater. Although the small theater is small, it is extremely strict with the actors. On the surface, there is no sense of hierarchy, no pause, no gap, and sudden skills are used in the performance, which is consistent with the theme of the text and the director's understanding and performance. Life is not artificial and pretentious, so it doesn't need interpretation. In addition, the lines are classic and admirable: "I want to give you everything, but I have nothing." I want to give up everything for you, but I have nothing to give up. Money, status, glory, what little self-esteem I have, without which I would be nothing. If it was the Middle Ages, I could become a knight and write your name in every conquered city. If I were in the desert, I would shed my last drop of blood to wet your chapped lips. If I were an astronomer, there would be a star called Mingming. If I were a poet, all the voices would only be song for you; If I am a judge, your likes and dislikes are my supreme law; If I were a priest, there would be no better heaven than you; If I am a sentry, every word you say is my password; If I were the overlord of Chu, I would take you away from the cold war and be laughed at; If I were a murderous robber, they would beg you to let me obey. But I'm nothing. An ordinary person, an ordinary person like me, what can I do for you? " "You have an angel's face and a heart of * * * *" "Overexaggerating the difference between a woman and other women is the root of your unhappiness" "You never know/You are a sunny day I have been longing for for for for a long time/You never know/You are an unbearable thirst for me/You never know/You are the air I breathe" ┄┄ No one will tell us that we have experienced a tender love. When we feel that love seems to run out of energy, we never really start. The rhinoceros in love shows you a window to love. Everything is like a plot constructed in a TV series, but it is not weak. Fourth, the theme idea-is it ideal or extravagant hope? The arrangement of scenes and the scheduling of means of expression are the auxiliary of a touching drama. The soul and core of the whole drama is still a love tragedy driven by two persistent hearts. This persistence is the most beautiful quality of human nature, but because of the ruthlessness of fate, it has become a burden to the soul while showing beauty; This kind of love is a sweet gift of life, but because of the dislocation of life, it has encountered indifference and alienation of indifference to itself, and it has become a futile struggle while stirring the soul. The persistent love for Mingming is only a relief and adjustment for Mingming; Yao Ming's obsession with Chen Fei is nothing to Chen Fei. He may even be playing a game regarded as charity? From beginning to end, this Chen Fei didn't appear, but his existence is like a cold question mark: If all these beautiful things are guided by a cold and need a tragedy to set off, or even crazy because of its intensity, what is their value? Screenwriter Liao Yimei's evaluation is: "It is an immortal desire and a heroic dream in a tired life"; She also made the road look like a heroic declaration: "forgetting is the only thing that ordinary people can do, but I decided not to forget her." The road is persistent and even loves Mingming without hesitation, but this kind of love finally makes him feel desperate, puzzled and angry. What does he love about her? Smells like the unique body of a copier? Proud and cold expression? Her waywardness towards love? Her faint sadness and despair of love? Or does she have a lonely heart like him? He still doesn't understand why he can give everything to Mingming but can't make her fall in love with him. In fact, I obviously don't understand this. For Chen Fei, she can give everything, be a cow and a horse for him, endure humiliation and torture for him, but she still can't let Chen Fei treat her better. Two people who can do anything crazy for love, two people who are equally desperate. Is this kind of love a luxury or an ideal? Is it abnormal or persistent? Rhinoceros in love can't help but remind people of the foreign movie Imprisoned Helena. During Helena's imprisonment, a surgeon had an affair with the girl next door. Later, the girl got married, but the doctor still wanted to renew her relationship. The girl lost her legs in a car accident, and the doctor took the opportunity to put her on the cart, hoping that she could play the "Rochester" who changed her mind from now on. Unexpectedly, the girl refused to submit, so the doctor took off her arm and raised it like a bonsai. Is such paranoia still love? Maybe, sometimes, love means torture. It is this torture that has extraordinary power. Otherwise, why is it the tragedy of ancient Greece rather than comedy that better embodies the human spirit? Because it is not easy for human beings to respect their own quality, but things that cannot be easily laughed at, such as stubborn attitude towards irresistible fate and sacred attempt to safeguard dignity. In the fast-paced modern city, change is eternal, but persistence is different, and persistence is almost equal to metamorphosis. But Lu, with his sincerity and enthusiasm, with the heart of his beloved rhinoceros, with the persistence hidden in our hearts, makes us bright red. Lu loves Mingming, but Mingming falls in love with someone who doesn't love her, but she insists, "loving him is the best thing I have ever done." Two divorced and hopeless loves have led to an irreparable tragedy. In the play, Lu said: I promise you that I won't leave you and I won't let you leave me. I am different from others. Persistence is a way to regain dignity. Lu Xun said: "Comedy exposes worthless things to people. Tragedy has torn up things that are valuable to people. " Rhino begins with a symbolic singer being teased and robbed, and ends with obviously silent bound sobs and spasms, violent smashing on the road and singing at the top of his lungs, completing the mixture of comedy and tragedy, leaving behind confusion and meditation intertwined with contradictions. In such a reality, beauty is just an extravagant hope, but it is also a positive ideal that promotes human feelings and leads mankind upward, right? "Love for me is not a close relative of skin, not a dish and a meal. It is an immortal desire and a heroic dream in the most exhausting life. " (Duras) Love is your own business, and no one is really worth loving with all his money. But with love, it can help you overcome all kinds of illusions in life, touch the world with the longest tentacles, touch your heart that you have never found, open all your usual numb senses, get tired of years, peel off layers of secular calluses and expose your most vulnerable parts. Because it is too soft, pain will inevitably follow, but there is no direct feeling with the world and people. What are we living for? Existence needs to be proved. Because existence is really fragile. You don't necessarily need a reason, but you need proof of facts. I know that when people are struggling to find the meaning of existence, God is washing feet by the river in heaven; I know that everything will be harvested by the sickle of time. I know that no one knows who is waving the sickle of time ... but all these lives are eternal. Rhinoceros in love has given this era an eternal love myth, letting people know that there are legends in this world.