Last night, I watched a movie "The Favorite", directed by Gu Changwei.
Previously explained Gu Changwei's other classic movie "Li Chun": Jiang Wenli's first dedication to the film "Li Chun": it thoroughly explains the unbearable of adults
It turned out that he had missed a good movie "The Favorite".
Since the name of the movie is "Favorite", who is the favorite of whom?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Is love or desire? </h1>
The most interesting thing about the movie is that the background is in a village in Henan, which is a famous "AIDS" village.
Many villagers are suffering from AIDS.
The reason is that it is poor here, and it just so happens that someone (played by Pu Cunxin) can take the lead in getting money by "selling blood", so this non-scarce transaction began to spread.
After a long time, everyone found that the blood seller had a fever - AIDS.
People who have this disease will slowly die.
Pu Cunxin's father, "Old Pillar", is deeply sorry for the townspeople, so he volunteers to take care of these patients in the abandoned school, including his second son, Zhao Deyi (played by Aaron Kwok).
These sick people, like the plague, were rejected by the villagers who did not get sick, and in this abandoned school, everyone was given a short period of freedom.
One day, a beautiful woman wearing a red jacket came, "Shang Qinqin" (played by Zhang Ziyi), who was personally sent in by her husband.
Zhao Deyi, who had not had a wife intimacy for a long time, suddenly fell in love with this woman.
One night, on the roof of the building, in the name of catching the "thief of the red jacket", the two had their first physical contact, the qinqin was half pushed, and Aaron Kwok put his hand into the neckline of Zhang Ziyi's sweater...
In this way, the two secretly had a relationship again and again.
Finally, one day, she was locked in the broken warehouse, And Qinqin's husband "Xiaohai" (played by Cai Guoqing) scolded her in public, and Zhao Deyi walked out with an embarrassed smile after Qinqin was taken away.
Until Qinqin was kicked out of the house, even her own mother hated her, and when she was homeless, she met Zhao Deyi again. When two people warm up to each other, it is love.
Both of them abandoned the worldly opinion, and no matter how ugly they said it, the two lived happily in a stone house on the mountain. To use Zhao's triumphant mantra, "Proud of a day, is a day"!
But the most classic is the psychological tug-of-war between the two people, so this paragraph was also selected on the stage of "The Birth of an Actor".
Shang Qinqin said, you want to watch me die first.
Zhao Deyi picked up the hemp rope and tied a knot, then I will die to show you! At the same time, don't forget to tie a knot at the other end, meaning, "Do you dare to die?" ”
When Qin Qin also stuck his neck into the dead knot, Zhao Deyi suddenly smiled, "Proud of a day, it is a day, I will not die."
Finally, after the two people knelt down to beg Lao Zhuzhu for help, and after exchanging real estate with Qinqin's husband, the two of them received their long-awaited marriage certificates, and they were almost crazy enough to make a big happy candy in the village to share their joy.
Despite being rejected, he is still very happy.
The two went from the joy of fish and water to each other.
Compared with the "secret marriage" that occurs from time to time in the village, death, discrimination, indifference... The love marriage of Zhao Deyi and Shang Qinqin, which is "apocalyptic carnival", may be the last trace of temperature in despair.
Just like the red clothes that Shang Qinqin likes to wear, it is called "hope" in the movie.
At the end of the movie, Zhao Deyi had a high fever, and Shang Qinqin took cold water again and again and used a cool towel to cool him down, but anyway, Zhao Deyi still broke out and scolded, You, can you hurry! "Mother, I'm about to be burned" "On fire, on fire."
Shang Qinqin soaked her body in a cold water tank, and when she was cold, she went to the house to hold Zhao Dede to cool down.
Woman, you gave her a place to rely on and a destination, she can take out everything to return!
After soaking again and again, Shang Qinqin died before dawn.
One more day is one more day, and one more day earns one day. Even if Zhao Deyi was suffering from an incurable disease, he did not give up the hope of life. But when he lost his favorite, the defense line he had worked so hard to build collapsed in an instant.
He laughed and slashed at his leg with a knife, and the blood flowed like a river...
The second-rate man who has always insisted on "being proud of a day is a day" finally gave up the last right to survive for this woman who loved him deeply.
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Although the film states that "this film is purely fictional", I am still confused about whether it has a documentary-like reality in this society.
It is said that this is Gu Changwei's wife, Jiang Wenli (who plays "Grain Aunt" in the movie, a woman who has a fever and steals grain. ）
After seeing the report that the village was swallowed up by fever due to blood sales in Henan and other places, he was shocked, so he introduced it to Gu Changwei and had the prototype of this movie.
Zhao Quanquan (pu Cunxin) is the initiator of this nightmare, and at the beginning he organized the villagers to sell blood and made a windfall.
Later, when the sick villagers died one after another, he began to buy coffins and sprayed a conspicuous second business with red paint on the door of the abandoned school, selling coffins. Don't forget to say in passing, "They are all from their own families, give you preferential treatment."
Finally, he made a big fuss about marrying his son, saying that his relatives were relatives of the county magistrate, and "coughed, and everyone wanted to live."
The insatiable greed and disregard for humanity are heinous.
But for such a person, there are two details, one is to resolutely not let his younger brother Zhao Deyi sell blood, it is the younger brother who steals the blood sold in other villages.
Second, he helped his brother get a marriage certificate, and he was still suspicious of being straight.
"I know that the Niangniang Temple people hate me!" I don't want to be evil, but I don't want to be poor. ”
In the fight against "poverty", it is often more humane!
Zhao Deyi can also sell blood in other villages, proving that such a "deal" is not surprising, and Zhao Quanquan is changing his fate through his own methods.
The villagers did not dare to find a full gas, so they vented their resentment on his 12-year-old son, ate poisonous tomatoes, and died.
Shang Qinqin's mother-in-law drove her out of the house, but after Shang Qinqin and Zhao Deyi had a good life, they insulted the door!
The villagers, who were also sick, locked Shangqin Zhao triumphantly, and used this to blackmail the old pillar and take advantage of the fire to rob the tables and chairs and benches in the school.
After Zhao Deyi's wife Hao Yan learned that he was ill, she returned to her mother's house twice in three days, and she was still keen on dressing up, and she didn't even let him touch her hand.
If a person is evil, what is opposed to him must be good.
Human nature is complex.
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"I don't want a face, but I'm not dead, I have to live, and get married, even if it's half a year, half a month, we are also husband and wife, and when we die, we can be buried together in a dignified way, and it is also a home." 」
This is a rare line of positive energy.
The old pillar is upright, the three views are also righteous, he is "great compassion", compassion for people and things, but people are very painful to live.
Shang Qinqin and Zhao Deyi are people who strive to live in Xiangyang.
Life is a journey to death.
We are no different from the characters in the play, except that the journey to death is different.
Their time is short, our time is long.
Then do you want to do Zhao Quanquan who desperately wants to make money without asking right and wrong? Or do you want to be the Zhao Deyi Shangqin who was abandoned but tried to live? Or is it the old pillar of compassion?
The film portrays the faces of all sentient beings, which is to bring the cold and warm in real life to the screen with a dramatic approach.
It's hard to say, which is more brutal? Which is better?
"Let's get married and live while we live" is Shang Qinqin and Zhao Deyi's denial of death and the best explanation for life.
All the grievances, gains and losses, absurdities, ugliness, and coldness of all sentient beings are temporary, and only love is eternal.
What touched people at the end of the movie was also the love of the two people to warm each other.
"Let's love and live."
Anyway, they're going to die.
(Author: Ink Drop)