On December 18, 2018, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was applauded.
At this time, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up was being held here, and 100 outstanding figures from various industries were awarded the "Pioneer of Reform" medal, and only one film and television actor was awarded this honor.
At the closing ceremony of the 8th North Film Festival 8 months ago, the actor also caused a lot of cheers.
When the drawer Hu Jun invited him to the stage to present the award, all the guests on the scene stood on their own feet and paid tribute to the actor with continuous applause.
The actor who has received such high-standard treatment is Li Xuejian.
If in today's showbiz circle, who can be worthy of the four words of "virtue and art double Xin", Li Xuejian must be one of them.
After entering the industry for so many years, Li Xuejian has always been the "insulator" of scandals, and he is more willing to put his energy into the shaping of the role than the lights of the show business circle.
In life, he is easy-going, never put up a shelf, he never put himself high, but always treats himself as an ordinary "little people".
It is hard to imagine that Li Xuejian, who is so honest and responsible, has even had the experience of making banned films.
The person who brought Li Xuejian to the road of banning films was his cousin Tian Zhuangzhuang, the famous "forbidden film director" of the fifth generation.
The cousins have worked together three times, two of which have been included in the ranks of "banned films".
The most well-known one is undoubtedly the "certain kite" that made Tian Zhuangzhuang banned for ten years in the directorial world (it is inconvenient to mention this name).
Another banned film is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 1988 modern theme film "Special Operating Room".
In the film, Li Xuejian starred in a scumbag who was actually "morally upright" in an "affectionate style", and a Sven scum outfit was quite subversive.
Many people joke that the reason why they watch this movie is to witness the rare "scumbag" image of Li Xuejian's acting career.
Returning to the film itself, "Special Operating Room" is not inferior to "a kite" in terms of scale.
Extramarital love, sexual harassment, incest... The film's discussion of various social phenomena is bold and sharp enough even today, and it was naturally forbidden at that time.
It wasn't until 2005 that Special Operating Room was re-released as a DVD, allowing people to witness the true face of the banned film.
In the 1980s, Chinese society was undergoing great changes, and under the violent impact of modern thought, many issues that were originally ignored by the public began to receive attention.
For example, the status of women, although the slogan of "equality between men and women" has long been proposed, the reality is not satisfactory.
Tian Zhuangzhuang, who has always been known for his "sharpness", presents the difficulties of contemporary women one by one through the encounters and experiences of the heroine Lu Yun (played by Shi Ke) in the film.
Lu Yun, a well-known female host of the TV station, has a successful career and is in a hot love affair with her boyfriend.
One day, Lu Yun found out that she was pregnant with her boyfriend's child, and in order not to affect her work, Lu Yun went to the hospital to prepare for abortion surgery without her boyfriend.
The pain of the operation made Lu Yun unforgettable, and also made her have a thought:
Why not make a feature film with the theme of "unmarried pregnancy" so that more people can understand the harm caused to women by unmarried pregnancy?
After receiving the approval of the leadership, Lu Yun returned to the hospital, and after communicating with the female doctor Yuan Yuan, whom she met when she was in exile, she used her identity as a doctor as a cover to begin an interview and investigation.
In fact, it was not easy to produce such a feature film, especially in the social environment at that time.
Although the phenomenon of unmarried pregnancy is not uncommon, in people's consistent cognition, this is not a glorious thing and is easy to be criticized.
For women who are pregnant before marriage, they are more afraid of external pointing than they suffer physical pain, and this mental pain is more unbearable.
As the two big aunts in the film said, having children without marriage is too unruly, and the tone is full of contempt and resentment that cannot be hidden.
Lu Yun's colleagues also said that he did not think that the subject of unmarried pregnancy had any significance, and this topic was not suitable for performance.
In their view, "unmarried pregnancy" is almost equal to moral corruption and unruly life, and such things should not be said on the surface, nor can they be on the table.
In the face of colleagues' doubts, Lu Yun's rebuttal was to the point: of course, you can't feel it, because you are a man!
During this time in the obstetrics and gynecology department, Lu Yun came into contact with many women who were unmarried and pregnant, and with the help of The Garden, Lu Yun found a lot of "interview objects" worth excavating.
For example, this girl named Fang Lin is dressed very eye-catching, and from a traditional point of view, this is not quite like a "serious" girl.
Compared with the panic of many girls dealing with unmarried pregnancies, Fang Lin's attitude is very free: it is not too late to have children after marriage!
In fact, before that, Fang Lin had already had several abortion experiences, and for her, doing abortion seemed to be no different from taking a shot with a cold.
In the eyes of this girl, she pays more attention to her boyfriend's "big money" identity, which is why she knows that her boyfriend is sexual but has not broken up, and is willing to have abortions for him many times.
Even if he was humiliated by his boyfriend in front of others, Fang Lin, although he was aggrieved, did not forget to pick up the ring on the table.
Under the temptation of money and materialism, Fang Lin lost himself and was willing to submit to male authority, becoming what we now call "gold worshippers".
There was also a girl who became a mother at a young age and raised her children alone.
A few years ago, she was raped by hooligans, but she did not expect that this would become a "stain" on her, subverting her life for the rest of her life.
Several boyfriends chose to break up after learning what happened to the girl, and the girl told Lu Yun that they only wanted to sleep with me, but they would never marry me.
Lu Yun asked her whose child it was, and the girl shook her head and said that she didn't know: the men who had sex with her didn't recognize the account, for fear of being relied on by the girl.
Insisting on giving birth to a child, the girl was expelled from the house and broke off relations with the family, only her brother occasionally came to see her.
Although the girl has always been a calm and calm look, Pi Ge feels very heavy in his heart.
Why did he end up being abandoned by everyone and bear all this alone?
As the story progresses, the film is no longer a simple discussion of unmarried pregnancy, but extends to the thinking about the current situation of women.
Lu Yun, although he is already economically independent, is emotionally troubled.
Whether it is the entangled ex-boyfriend, Director Jiang (played by Li Xuejian), who is also Lu Yun's boss, or the current boyfriend, Lu Yun has not been able to get the emotional belonging.
For Director Jiang, who has a wife, Lu Yun did love and fantasized that he could cultivate positive results, but his perfunctory escape eventually made her sober from this relationship and ended the relationship categorically.
For the current boyfriend, Lu Yun thought that the two could live together for a long time, but when he found out that his boyfriend was cheating, Lu Yun couldn't help but be discouraged.
Despite the boyfriend's bitter pleading, Lu Yun did not hesitate and decisively proposed to break up.
In Lu Yun's view, whether it is a boyfriend or an ex-boyfriend, what they need more seems to be not a lover, but a "sexual partner".
For the treatment of feelings, Lu Yun's choice is to break off, rather than becoming a passive "victim" in the relationship between the sexes.
But not every woman can be like Lu Yun, and more people are not willing to change the status quo, but choose to passively listen to the actual arrangement.
Just like Yuan Yuan, due to her husband's sexual dysfunction, she has not had sex for two years.
Her husband also advised her to divorce many times, but for moral reasons, YuanYuan did not agree for a long time.
But privately, Yuan Yuan endured great pain, not only to endure the torment of not having sex, but also to endure the cruel reality of not being able to have children.
She once cried to Lu Yun that she had nothing but work, did not have a complete family, and could not enjoy the joy of children around their knees.
As an obstetrician and gynecologist, it is undoubtedly a great sadness that he cannot have children.
The most painful thing is the girl named Li Jingjing.
Due to negligence during the operation, Li Jingjing's fetus was not destroyed, so Lu Yun and Yuan Yuan searched hard, and finally found her boyfriend and learned a surprising truth.
Li Jingjing's boyfriend told them that the child she was pregnant with was not actually his, but Li Jingjing's father, who had been raped by her biological father.
Thinking back to Li Jingjing, who was lying on the operating table at that time, it was so painful, perhaps not only physically, but also the venting of inner pain after being destroyed by her father.
At the same time, Li Jingjing found a private abortion place to beat up the fetus, but because the abortion method was irregular, Li Jingjing eventually died due to excessive bleeding...
The film ends with such a tragedy, which makes people sigh and sigh at the same time, but also causes people to think a lot.
Although the film was created in the 1980s, the problems of women reflected in the film are still common today more than 30 years later.
Under the influence of traditional moral concepts, many people's views and attitudes towards women have not changed much.
Many people's definition of girls is still meek and obedient, rules and regulations, girls should have the appearance of girls;
Many people feel that girls should be safe and stable, get married and have children at a certain age, do not need to work hard like boys, and do not have to have too high pursuits.
Many jobs have restrictions on women, and in reality, they are everywhere.
Pigo still remembers the words in the garden in the film: Women are always unlucky, and it is always women who suffer losses and suffer.
There is a lot of sadness and helplessness in this, and perhaps female audiences can feel it more.
In this way, the "gender equality" that we often talk about is still a long way to go.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Ah Zhi
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