Many people who don't know this movie will wonder where this little girl in Yunnan suddenly came out in spring and summer.
Spring and summer - an unpolished small round face, a pair of large eyes that do not understand the world, breaking the world's definition of beauty. Her beauty is fragile and uneasy, with some girlish inferiority and stubbornness, as if tailor-made for Jiamei in "Blood and Plum".
The movie "Treading Snow in Search of Plums" starred in spring and summer
"Blood in Search of Plums", a Hong Kong film full of blood and yellow riots, detonated the Hong Kong film market in 2015. The film is produced by Meiya, written and directed by Weng Ziguang, and starring Aaron Kwok, Chun Xia, Bai Zhi, Jin Yanling and so on.
This film, based on a real dismemberment murder, not only won the closing film of the 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival, but also received 9 nominations at the 52nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and 7 awards at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Poster of the movie "Looking for Plums in the Snow" (Hong Kong)
In recent years when the Hong Kong film market has been depressed, this has been a pretty good achievement. The heroine who supported this phenomenal film is a mainland girl who has just turned nineteen, and she has almost no acting experience, like a blank piece of paper.
Before the movie was released, almost no one thought that she would succeed, and when you sit in front of the big screen, she is Jia mei who cannot be refuted.
"Blood in Search of Plums" won 7 awards # The 35th Hong Kong Film Awards # Male protagonist Aaron Kwok, female protagonist Spring and Summer
Who is Jammeh? A mainland girl who had just come to settle in Hong Kong, a female victim whose head had been cut off, her face peeled off, and divided into countless pieces sent to various butcher shops.
The story unfolds from the perspective of a policeman played by Aaron Kwok, who announces the answer to the murder at the beginning. In Hong Kong, a major carcass case has kept the police busy, the deceased is a young girl who has just obtained her identity to settle in Hong Kong, and the murderer is soon revealed, an unemployed truck driver Xiao Ding.
What makes two young souls fall together on the banks of the Fragrant River? What kind of deep hatred made a young girl say a final farewell to this human world in such a tragic way?
During Guo Sir's visit, the countdown to the girl Jiamei's life slowly opened in front of the audience. The mainland girl's mother and sister had already settled in Hong Kong as Hong Kong, while she was left alone in the mainland at a young age, waiting to grow up and wait for the international metropolis to accept her.
In order to be closer to her relatives, she left her hometown and moved to Dongguan.
Hong Kong, what does it mean for this girl? It could be a dream, it could be family affection, sitting on the high-speed train to visit relatives, she was lying on the big car window, looking at the receding scenery outside the window, Hong Kong, may be the room where she can see the scenery in her heart.
Finally, living up to the years of waiting, she got the identity of Hong Kong and could go to reunite with her mother and sister. It was probably the happiest time in Jiamei's short life.
But life in Hong Kong gave her a blow, and she was crammed into a cramped tube building with her mother and sister and sick stepfather. The cramped space seems to be very difficult to turn around. The classmates and teachers in the school were full of discrimination and injustice against her mainland sister, and her sense of inferiority made her walk on thin ice every day.
Because the stepfather could not work, the family's food and clothing were pressed on the mother alone. This exhausted woman, tormented by life, has not been able to allocate half of her patience to her daughter. She did not welcome this daughter who had been away.
The daughter's lack of affection is nothing more than the rebellion of the girl. Impatient, she kept complaining until her daughter died, how this daughter was so disobedient and ran away from home and did not come home.
This is a sad and hateful mother, and life has overwhelmed her, and she has intensified this pressure to her daughter. She may care about Jia Mei, maybe she cares too, but that's all.
She has no patience to help Jiamei safely survive the inferior and sensitive adolescence, and scolding the child is the responsibility in her eyes, and it is also her dissatisfaction and catharsis about life.
Because of a pair of designer earrings, JiaMei, who has been handing out flyers to supplement her family, is determined to go to the sea, and making money has become the only way for her to maintain her self-esteem.
Since then, she has degenerated into a young girl. One after another lewd men, exchanging money for the youth of this young girl, she did not care on the surface, but her heart slowly slid towards deeper darkness.
Then, the girl fell in love with one of her rhetorical benefactors, and the deception of the man made the girl like a life-saving straw. She thought she was getting love, and that insignificant warmth made her shine a glimmer of light from her suffocating life.
One day, the man asked her out, and she gave up the original guest and ran to the man with a happy face.
The man pushed her in front of another woman and asked her to explain her relationship with himself. It turned out that his girlfriend had spotted him shopping with Jia Mei, and the English-speaking woman questioned why men were looking for such garbage.
Jia Mei smiled bitterly and did one last thing for the man who was thinly affectionate, and then she left sadly and dialed the phone of her last guest.
This guest is the truck driver Xiao Ding, a fat man with autistic inferiority. When his parents died, his heart was full of loneliness, no friends, no lovers, and he didn't even dare to talk to women. He is like a ghost without roots in this bustling city.
He also had an unforgettable love, although it was a single love, it was already precious to him. Finally, the lover gave him an unforgettable experience before leaving. (Slightly bloody here, you need to be mentally prepared to watch the movie)
Then, he met Jia Mei online, and the two lonely souls comforted each other. What does the hustle and bustle of the lights have to do with them, and there is only endless darkness in their eyes.
Because it involves aid, the first half of the film is a bit colored, and the second half of the restoration of the process of killing and dismemberment is very bloody, if the audience is intolerant of this, they can choose to delete the version. After all, not everyone can afford such a highly restored bloody scene.
Even if you look at the deleted version, this work is still a very good human nature film. The film puts the prosperity of the metropolis and the huge loneliness of the people living in it in the same picture, which makes people feel helpless.
The girl's expectations for Hong Kong are very real reproduction of the irreconcilable contradiction between reality and desire. Seeing the room with the scenery also metaphorically refers to the girl's yearning for the scenery that does not belong to her, that is, the difference between class, rich and poor, dreams and reality.
The "window" that had been left for her had finally killed her, but it might have been the highlight of her short life, and the scenery allowed her to die with a smile.