What are the characterization and artistic characteristics of the characters in Three Gorges?

1. Narrative theme: changing China. ?

The central theme of Jia Zhangke's films is change. Not only in The Good Person of the Three Gorges, but also from The Platform to The World, Jia Zhangke has always been concerned with the changes in the lives of ordinary people in the course of modernization, as well as the changes in the way they feel. In The Good Person of the Three Gorges, the change is more direct: the hometown is disappearing, and the relationship between marriage, neighbors, relatives and friends is also changing. Jia Zhangke said, "I have been sparing no effort to depict the changing China. Because, no matter whether it is the accelerated development of China's economy or the rapid development of social life, this change of spirit is, in the end, a matter of modernizing our country." The Three Gorges Project has attracted national attention, and the impact of the Three Gorges demolition is beyond the local area, so Jia Zhangke looks at the Three Gorges in the midst of demolition and change with the eyes of two outsiders from Shanxi looking for it. This is a vanishing reality that is y characteristic of China's present: all kinds of demolitions, perhaps the price of development, are of a transitional nature unique to the reverse process of modernization. Demolition is not a natural process, but neither is it a process that can be curbed through individual resistance; it has thus permeated the lives of the most ordinary people. In the movie, Jia Zhangke's attitude towards this change remains objective, respectful and reflective of reality. He faces Fengjie's old city with some fondness, and his helpless sadness and strong nostalgia replace the sharpness of criticism. For example, in the movie, the motorcycle driver points to the vast river and lazily says to Han Sanming, "The boat parked there, where my house used to be, is long gone." Han Sanming said, "You know it's drowned and still bring me here (Ma Missy's hometown)?" The boy replied angrily, "I didn't tell it to drown." Then there are the classic lines that "Little Brother Ma" says to Han Sanming: "Society nowadays doesn't suit us, though we are too nostalgic," and "A city that has been in existence for more than two years was torn down in two years! ". Our lives are undergoing drastic and rapid changes, there is more and more money, more and more openness and development aspects, but is life any better? Are people any better? This is exactly the question Jia Zhangke asks and thinks about.

2. Narrative background: small county, big world.

Jia Zhangke is good at showing the world of life in a small county. In his previous works, Jia Zhangke focused on the changes in his hometown, a small county, during the social transformation of China in the 1980s and 1990s. As a man born in the seventies, a witness to the drastic changes in his hometown life, and a small-towner who could not extricate himself from the whirlpool of the traditional culture colliding with the modern culture, he expressed valuable reflections with his works. Almost all of his early works were shot in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, blending the local conditions of a region with the works themselves to create a unique aesthetic style. As a result, "images of the county" became Jia Zhangke's label, and an alternative narrative text in the history of Chinese cinema. This is closely related to the fact that the director himself was born in a small county. Jia Zhangke said: "The most important thing that towns bring me is a kind of cultural confidence, which is the biggest nutrition I absorbed from the county. It gives me a kind of courage wherever I go." Starting with The World, Jia Zhangke stepped out of Shanxi, and although he moved the scene to a metropolis like Beijing, what we see in the movie is still a small county-style life. The same is true of The Good Person of the Three Gorges, which is not so much a reflection of the lives of the people of the Three Gorges region as it is a mirror image of the county, and which unfolds a panoramic view of Chinese society through a typical old southern county like Fengjie: demolition and relocation, human trafficking, the underworld, and the conflicts between the people who have lost their land and the government that expropriates it, which are clearly not just cases in Shanxi, Sichuan or Chongqing.

China's counties are a crossroads between the city and the countryside, with elements of modernity as well as the traditions of vernacular culture, and the changes in their social patterns reflect the real face of modernization in the last two decades or so in the middle and lower China, and are the most vivid embodiment of China's social metamorphosis. Jia Zhangke's film not only portrays the typical image of a small Chinese county: gray, noisy, lifeless, full of garbage and ruins, exaggerated small business scenes, etc., but also further penetrates into the living condition of the people in this county: the mayfly life of a small person - a kind of vagabond-like marginalized and special life. special life. For example, Han Sanming meets a group of migrant workers in the Three Gorges, Shen Hong encounters a little girl looking for a job on the road, and there is also "Little Brother Ma" who died young and was taken advantage of, and so on. They are drifting helplessly in the waves of changing times.

3. Objects of attention: the little people and the disadvantaged.

The Good Person of the Three Gorges portrays a group of the most ordinary immigrants, even Han Sanming and Shen Hongzhu are ordinary miners and nurses. Concerned about living in a small county at the bottom of the characters, the edge of the eight things is Jia Zhangke's work has always been characterized: "Xiaowu" in the thief Xiaowu, "Platform" in the song and dance troupe actors, as well as in the "any free" in the social problems of young people, and so on. The director who focuses his camera on the characters at the bottom is not only Jia Zhangke, Jia's characteristic lies in the fact that he has really given these ordinary people a texture of life and youth, conversing with them as equals in the soul, revealing their real state to the greatest extent possible, and showing a great respect without looking down and without sympathy in the general sense. Jia Zhangke said, "In any case, I want to use it [the movie] to tap and show the power of progress that lies within the people." Unlike past works, the protagonists of "The Good Person of the Three Gorges" have a new change in character, a change that is reflected in the behavior of Han Sanming and Shen Hong, who have the courage to take the initiative to make a break with their own destinies, and who are both psychologically or materially prepared for all the consequences they will have to endure, instead of being like the characters of "Platform" or "The World," who are going with the flow and blindly being at the mercy of life's changes.

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, also known as the Gorges or the Great Three Gorges, are located on the main stream of the Yangtze River within the territories of Chongqing Municipality, Enshi Prefecture, and Yichang City regions of China, starting from Baidi City in Fengjie County, Chongqing Municipality, in the west, passing through Enshi, and ending in the east at Nanjin Pass, Yichang City, Hubei Province, with a total length of 193 kilometers, consisting of the Qutang Gorge, the Witch's Gorge, and the Xiling Gorge. The Three Gorges of Yangtze River is located in the hinterland of China, belonging to subtropical monsoon climate zone, spanning Fengjie in Chongqing, Wushan in Chongqing, Badong in Hubei, Zigui in Hubei and Yichang in Hubei. In addition to the famous Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, there are attractions named Three Gorges on several rivers throughout the country. There are also poems with the Three Gorges as the theme.

Famous projects include the Three Gorges Dam, the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, and the Three Gorges Reservoir.

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River starts from Baidi City in Fengjie County of Chongqing Municipality in the west to Nanjin Pass in Yichang City of Hubei Province in the east, with a total length of 193 kilometers, with steep peaks and cliffs along both sides of the river, which are Qutang Gorge, Wushu Gorge and Xiling Gorge in order from west to east.

In Wushan County, Chongqing, there are the Daning River Little Three Gorges and the Madu River Little Three Gorges. Along the Yangtze River in Chongqing, there are "underwater forest of monuments" Baiheliang, "the hometown of the Oriental Divine Comedy" Fengdu Ghost City, the architectural style of the peculiar Shibaozhai, "Bashu victory" Zhangfei Temple, the Emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty Liu Bei's Hall of Solitude, and the Wushan Cultural Ruins of Dragon Bone Slope.