"Blood Guanyin" is a drama film directed by Yang Yazhe, starring Hui Yinghong, Wu Kexi and Wen Qi, and the film won two awards at the 54th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in 2017 for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to competing for best supporting actress with "Blood Guanyin", Wen Qi also received a nomination for best actress for the 2017 topic work "Carnival". She was only 15 years old.
"Blood Guanyin" is set in Taiwan, and words such as parliamentarians appear in it, and because of the film's bitter and straightforward satire of the darkness of Taiwan's officialdom, it cannot be released in the mainland.
The story of "Blood Guanyin" revolves around three generations of women in the Tang Mansion, namely Lady Tang and her eldest daughter Tang Ning, and Tang Ning's illegitimate daughter Tang Zhen.
Although they do not have the protection of men, they can still rely on their soft bodies and cold-blooded means of doing things to win a place in the complex political and business network.
The whole film specifically revolves around the clue that "the government and business collude to embezzle public funds from the farm, used to hype the land of Xiushan, in order to sell it at a high price in the later stage to obtain huge illegal benefits", Mrs. Tang, as the manipulator of the whole thing and the coordinator of all parties, used her superb means to win the trust of the forces of all sides.
However, when everyone was discussing how to fish for a special fish, Lin Qingtang, the chairman of the farm who provided Mrs. Tang with 3 billion public funds, was wiped out, leaving only her daughter Lin Feiyi to be cut off and survived in the hospital.
After such a large criminal case, the farm's deficit of 3 billion was also exposed. As a result, Xiushan suspended development and gave priority to the development of the nearby Yeosu Village, which left the rest of the people's calculations empty.
It turned out that all this was manipulated by Mrs. Tang, who first joined forces with other local councillors in Xiushan to hype up xiushan skins and let the parliamentarians pay for their own big momentum.
On the other hand, he embezzled 3 billion yuan of public funds from the chairman of the farm Forest to buy real estate in Lishui and make a windfall.
Lady Tang used her superb political skills to lead the rest of the parliamentarians into xiushan's investment pit, turned to black and black, and turned the wind to invest in Lishui for huge profits. Later, he was afraid of the East Window incident, and even bought a murderer to destroy the Lin family.
She even overthrew Dean Wang and others with the "land speculation fraud case", and let her lover use the East Wind to naturally become the new leader.
It turned out that Mrs. Tang's huge political layout not only won 3 billion public funds for herself, but also helped her lover climb to the peak of power.
There are gains and losses, which is the common sense of the world.
In order to achieve her ultimate goal, Lady Tang also lost a lot of important things. First of all, in order to get rid of the police's pursuit of 3 billion public funds, she began to receive and use 3 billion public funds in the name of her daughter Tang Ning.
Later, at the cost of sacrificing his daughter, he laundered 3 billion yuan of stolen money.
And from the end of the film, the lover she worked so hard to help should not marry her, but just treat her as a pawn.
Only by chanting the mantra of past lives can she attain a moment of psychological peace.
Not only Lady Tang, but also her daughter Tang Ning also played the role of accomplice in this series of events, until she finally became a victim and repented.
Tang Ning is also a bitter woman, from her dialogue with her mother, we can know that Lady Tang once gave Tang Ning as a gift to those in power to enjoy, and exchanged her daughter's innocence for the superficial glory of the Tang family.
Tang Zhen should also have come to the world because of that incident, Tang Ning could not face this daughter, so in the first half of the film, Tang Ning only tentatively communicated with Tang Zhen, and never refused to enter the inner world of his daughter.
It is precisely because of this that Madame Tang has actual mental control over Tang Zhen.
Tang Ning's sacrifice represents the end of the scapegoat's life, from her beginning to death, it seems to be shrouded in the shadow of Lady Tang, her life is helpless and sad, unable to withdraw from Tang Mansion and dare not face herself.
She knew that Lady Tang had always used herself as a shield, but she had been lucky to expect that this day would not come.
Until Tang Zhen, the third generation of women in the Tang family, her personality is also full of old spicy cold blood that does not match her age. Tang Zhen is in this family, very clear that she is Tang Ning's illegitimate daughter, but she has not admitted this fact, has been running away from her mother, evading her own absurd fate.
But how can she be a clean person at the center of all events? She first betrayed Lin Pinpin and Marco's private affair because she was jealous of her friend Lin Pinpie.
Later, because he did not want to escape with Tang Ning, he betrayed Tang Ning's whereabouts to Lady Tang.
Even watching Lin Pian's life come to an end, he did not help. But we can't hate her to the bone, because she's just a little girl.
No one ever taught her what kind of life she should have and how to face love correctly.
At the end of the film, when she plans to give up everything to follow Marco to escape from this place, she discovers that the person she loves is just a normal scum.
Where the wind and the romance under the bright moon, where the fantasy dances with the wind, some are just the hurt under lust, and the rest is only the scorn of love.
The success of the film is not only in telling us a complete black story, all the characters have their own unseemly secrets, and all the actions are driven by interests.
It also uses the choice of three generations of the Tang family to reveal the theme of the movie for us: "The most terrible thing in the world is not the punishment in front of us, but the future without love." "Lady Tang, Tang Ning, Tang Zhen, which one is not like this?"