In recent years, in the Chinese film industry, Taiwanese films have been quite unexpected, especially a number of realist films represented by "Big Buddha Plus", which have indeed scored three points.
In 2017, when "Big Buddha Plus" was released, there was an excellent Taiwanese movie that was also released at the same time.
If "Big Buddha Plus" depicts the drunkenness and dirty in the world of the rich, then this "Blood Guanyin" reflects the power and money transactions colluded by politicians and businessmen, as well as the dirty means of the Tang family's wife.
Some people say that "Blood Guanyin" is a thriller under the guise of suspense, and indeed, not all thrillers have to have supernatural events, and the horror of the human heart is far better than the horror of ghosts.
We often say: Tiger poison does not eat children. However, this movie really makes you feel the resentment of fratricide, and moreover, in the name of love.
The opening scene of "Blood Guanyin" is very special, introduced by the tv station director, the multi-screen mirror in the mirror to promote the storyline, the veteran artist Yang Xiuqing in the form of Taiwanese traditional chanting to explain the story synopsis.
Such a narrative is more like using the perspective of a third party's God to see the development of the plot, and the sentence "Good and evil will eventually be rewarded" points out the reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao in the underworld.
However, the scene where the singer is located is really weird, the blood-red "You can come" four big words on the banner, the clouds and mist can clearly see the little ghosts, judges, as if it is the layout of the Yan Luo Hall.
The main line of the story is actually not complicated, the film is based on a case of extermination, which leads to the dark curtain of the collusion between officials and businessmen behind the case to borrow money and buy land, and there is also the sinister intention of mrs. Tang family.
However, the means of the regime and the various ghost fetuses are only the stage of events, and "Blood Guanyin" uses political events to set off the cruel fact of the three families of the Tang family.
The film uses a rhythm of storytelling, so that the truth of the event slowly surfaces, the belly of human nature, the struggle for interests, and the complex relationship between the mother and daughter of the Tang family are also deeply trapped in such a human vortex.
The so-called mother-daughter affection is nothing more than an evil excuse. Under the words "I am for your own good", the greatest betrayal and self-hypnosis are hidden.
As a mother, Lady Tang was an antique dealer and the widow of a senior Burmese military officer. With her special status, she is at home between officials and businessmen at all levels, and as a broker of interests, she matches high-ranking officials to buy land on naked loans, and she is more two-sided and empty gloves.
Lady Tang's two Qianjin Tangning and Tang Zhen are two very different daughters, the older sister Tang Ning has a variety of styles to raise left and right Fengyuan for her mother, and the younger sister Tang Zhen is as pure and simple as a well-behaved woman. However, this family of three also hides a well-known secret: they are actually three generations of a family.
In the name of love to consume family affection, Mrs. Tang every time she faces her daughter Tang Ning, she says "I am for your own good", more like a curse of nightmares, so that she is trapped in this illusory maternal love, nowhere to escape, sink and die.
"I am for your own good", when Mrs. Tang first said this to Tang Ning in the film, she hoped that Tang Ning would take the initiative to approach Captain Liao of the police station. Use her daughter's body to find a protective umbrella for her crimes.
This is one of the few motherly love affairs between the two of them. When the maid brought three sets of newly made clothes from the tailor's shop, when Mrs. Tang beckoned Tang Ning to come closer, Tang Ning crawled to her mother like a dog.
The face is full of flattery, and it is also with a kind of joy of long drought and ganlin. Tang Ning lay on her mother's lap, And Madame Tang lovingly stroked her long hair, and at that moment, Tang Ning should be able to have a little happiness.
Until Lady Tang mentioned Captain Liao's character and family, all the atmosphere was instantly broken. Without the mother's explanation, Tang Ning had already guessed his mother's thoughts. After all, this was not the first time that Lady Tang had sacrificed her daughter's innocence for the sake of profit.
"I'm for your own good," Mrs. Tang said in Cantonese. Language is a major feature of this movie. Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, and various languages are intertwined in the film, representing different occasions and different backgrounds.
Cantonese, on the other hand, is a dialect that only appears in some of the dialogues between their mother and daughter, and this intimate language represents Mrs. Tang's good intentions in order to achieve her goal and to bring her daughter closer.
The second time Lady Tang said to Tang Ning, "I am for your own good", it was after Tang Ning deliberately approached Captain Liao and completed the intercourse in order to fulfill her mother's wish.
Tang Ning's mood when she returned home was nearly broken, because she saw the familiar tattoo on the photo of the corpse on the postboard at the police station, which was the family's killing method. She suddenly understood that her mother was the culprit of the Lin family's massacre, and she guessed her mother's despicable means of purchasing the Lishui plot.
"Mom, am I your designer bag?" From an early age, you let you carry it on your body to show everywhere. Now that it's old, change it to a new one, right? When Tang Ning, who was drunk and muddy, said these words to his mother, he was completely heartbroken.
In the face of her daughter's frankness, Mrs. Tang is also irrefutable. After a long time, a Cantonese sentence of "I am for your own good" squeezed out of her mouth revealed a powerless excuse that Mrs. Tang could not find.
The third time in the film, "I am for your own good", it is Tang Ning who wants to flee to Myanmar with her daughter Tang Zhen, and at the smuggling dock, she said to her daughter. Ironically, the same words, the same relationship, it's more like a pass-off, a means of bonding the other person with these simple five words.
"I am for your own good", Tang Zhen responded to Tang Ning with the same Chinese, and repeated it again in Cantonese. The same words, both languages, "Aren't you both the same?" Tang Zhen pointed out the truth hidden by this sentence.
After all, Tang Zhen did not succumb to Tang Ning's shackles, and from this point on, she had a deeper true biography of Lady Tang than Tang Ning. It also allowed her to escape the fate of death.
Lady Tang personally produced her own daughter, which could not be compensated even if she read the "Curse of Past Lives" ten million times.
This is the evil obstacle of three generations of a family, and it is also the inheritance of three people in one body.
Lady Tang, Tang Ning, Tang Zhen, when you grow up, I will become you.
The most terrible thing in the world is not the immediate punishment, but the loveless future. In this film, which is too dark to find an exit, all the verbal compassion and even the solemn statue of Guanyin become a tool in the hands of the ruler and a blouse to cover his ugly face.
However, good and evil will eventually be rewarded. This generation of inheritance, in the final scene of the film, lady Tang and Tang Zhen make a metaphor on the jade bracelet on their hands. The smooth circle shape is more metaphorical to a pair of tangible handcuffs, and both of them cannot escape after all.
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