"The Inquisitor", released in 1992, won the box office champion of that year. And it is worth mentioning that Zhou Xingchi won the best actor of the 37th Asia-Pacific Film Festival for this work; Yi Rong Jurong, female lead actress Mei Yanfang, also won the best actress of the second Hong Kong Gold Awards with "The Inquisitor".
Set against the backdrop of the Qing Dynasty, the film "The Inquisitor" tells the story of Song Shijie, a famous lawyer who used his brilliant intellect to sue people for justice, although he was dissatisfied with the corruption and darkness of the officialdom, he himself would also accept bribes and make a lot of money, so that more than ten sons died prematurely.
In order not to be desperate, his wife forced him to close the door and seal his pen, and could not go to the yamen to handle the case, Song Shijie, after thinking about it again, decided to accept his wife's suggestion, but he met a widow who was burdened with thousands of ancient injustices, so he was forced to re-emerge from the jianghu, exert his own skills, and give her a grievance.
In our traditional impression, the movie is a comedy, and the ending is also happy: Song Shijie wins the case, and then the children and grandchildren are full. But carefully watching and analyzing the film, we will find the terrifying story behind the camera: in fact, Song Shijie's family has long been killed.
When Song Shijie's family came on the field, many people came to watch and sent him chrysanthemums, what is a chrysanthemum? As Chinese we all know that chrysanthemums are used to mourn the deceased, and here chrysanthemums imply that Song Shijie is dead.
At the end of the film, Song Shijie successfully exposed the black background of the officials, and the result of the case was also very clear, and the case could be closed, but everyone carefully recalled that the inspector of the Eight Provinces who did not announce the outcome of the case was to retire from the church. In fact, at this time, Song Shijie had already touched the interests of the Eight Houses Inspector himself, so he would definitely kill Song Shijie for his own benefit, after all, only the dead could keep the secret forever.
When Song Shijie thought that he had won the victory and walked out of the door with his wife laughing, everyone could find that the door actually flashed white light, and some people thought that it might be the cause of the light, but the door was originally open, why did they glow when they left? In fact, this is a hint that Song Shijie and his wife are dead. White light already gives people a sense of ethereal and falsehood, in fact, that white light is a return to the light.
The film begins by telling us that Song Shijie is dead: "We've all had twelve children dead." At the end of the film, there are suddenly so many children around them, and the children are similar in age. The fertility of ordinary women is to have a child in two or three years, even if one is born a year, so many children will have to be born for more than ten years. Assuming that Mr. and Mrs. Song Shijie were alive, they would have had so many children after that lawsuit and raised them so big, let alone twenty or thirty years, but their appearance would not change in the past twenty or thirty years, and there was no sign of getting old, wouldn't this be a very terrible thing?
From the perspective of the crew of "The Inquisitor", the director of this film, Du Qifeng, likes the tragic ending of realism, and the core of Zhou's comedy is also a tragedy, behind the nonsense funny is a cruel and realistic portrayal, the most real and the most sad. So how can the ending of "Trial of Dead Grass" be "everyone is happy"?
Finally, I will attach an official poster to everyone, so that everyone can feel it deeply!
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