Lyrical Time And The Silent Truth

The film script Forget to Remember tells about the complex relationship between Yiqian Su and Yan Xiang in1936,1942 and 1969.Yiqian Su,in her twilight years,made a movie called Forget to Remember,which vividly narrated the past 40 years she has accompanied by her husband Yan Xiang to the public.Encountered in their early age,they once had betrayed each other due to their fanatical faith.After they woke up,they got back togther and walked into married.They protected each other in the Cultural Revolution.The predecessor of Yiqian Su,Kaiyan He,was touched deeply by the movie about the elders’ history.No one would ever know that a diary covering decades of life told a different story: in order to protect themselves,Yiqian Suand Yan Xiang abandoned each other in the age of fanaticism.They haven’t learned from tragedy and woke up,but went back and forth in the similar historical situation.The diary aroused Kaiyan He’s doubts about the truth behind the movie.But the truth which has been long lost in history dense fog is hard to trace.Forget to Remember is intended to present the ambiguity among lyricism,idealisim,group and violence—some idealists always forget the mesiocre life and real people Because of the great historical purpose.Blindly eliminating the defects of humanity,they laways forget the diversity of it.Therefore,it leads to group violence easily while they pursuing their noble intentions enthusiatically.The script tries to make a difference in narrate,characterization and author expression,reveals the destructive power brought by the fanaticism by the contrast between literati’s embellish and cruel reality.Through the contrary unreliable narration of the two characters,to present the complexity of human nature and the difficulty of finding the truth.Because of the wide space-time span of the story,the script adopts non-linear narration,in order to avoid the tedious narrative by making the three times become intertext;and uses the nested structure to nest the internal and external storise to avoid bloated.Lyrical Time and the Silent Truth explains the creation and summary of Forget to Remember from five aspects: the original source of inspiration,and the inspiration from history and sociology.The comprehensive application of play-within-a-play,nonlinear time narrative,nesting structure and unreliable narrative in the play.The characterization based on sociological and psychological theories.The reference of Milan Kundera’s thought and the break and innovation of similar movies.Finally,introspecting of some shortcomings in space-time span,transfer of vision,interdisciplinary.