China's Exploration and Pursuit in 1902--Thoughts on "Western Mirror"

In the old Beijing in 1902, there was a photo studio called Fengtai. The boss is a loyal Beijing man, a mean wife, and a lovely son, Fu Guan. The shopkeeper in the store is called Liu Jinglun. Although poor, there is a heart and arrogance that does not succumb to fate. The boss is very good to him. He did not look at him because Liu Jinglun was just a buddy, but treated him as a brother.

But that's it. The ordinary days of one after another, like the creeks flowing through the fields, are scattered into unknown places. In the future, if the boss is old, let Fu Guan take over the photo studio and marry a wishful or unhappy wife. Liu Jinglun will also set a marriage, he will have a child, and his heart and arrogance will also be exhausted with helplessness as time goes by. But on this normal sunny afternoon, some people suddenly came and something happened. Then all the fates of the people have some deviations, and finally they have left the pre-set track and embarked on a different and completely different road. The road to go out by yourself.

They cried and laughed in the torrent of history. They were ordinary people and pioneers of the times. They were once alone for their dreams.

In the film, Raymond Wallace came to Beijing with a European movie, but it was considered to be "the magic light ghost", it was bad, it was the thing that corrupted the ancestors. When Liu Jinglun witnessed the movie with his own eyes, it showed people the life on the other side of the ocean. It opened a window to the world for those who have always lived in their own world. The magic of light and shadow.

Wallace asked Liu Jinglun, how do you like Chinese people like you? On this question, Xiao Liuzi replied with the unique Chinese spirit of Ah Q: Because you bent over, you look at the shoes of others, you know that this person is rich or poor...

The film is the meaning of existence. Marx said that people understand the existence of beings in the encounter with natural objects, and art is that people appreciate themselves in the world they create. At this moment, the blessings are shining, the darkness is lit up, and their existence is shining.

The dream is something that burns at a young age, and hope is the eye that shines at that time. When the Frenchman Wallace was driven out of the palace gate of the 琉碧銮金, I like to watch the panic when people first faced the movie. They screamed and fled, thinking that the train was about to come over. They scoffed and thought that the crowd was coming towards them. They eagerly waved and scratched and thought there was hidden secret behind the curtain. The young man looked at it curiously and studied it eagerly. This makes me think that the new things are so beautiful. It is full of brilliant hopes, awkward dreams.

Second day: sunny day