There are two banned films, which were originally banned in China, but they were both unsealed because they were first fired abroad. What is "surprising" is that although the focus of the two films is different, if you look closely, you will find many similarities. For example, the stories all take place in small mountain villages that are equally closed and backward, such as the villagers who are equally cold-eyed, such as the same suffocating pictures of oppression, such as the same ignorant feudal ideas, such as similar tragic fates.
"Bloody Morning" is adapted from the Nobel Prize-winning Marquez's literary work "A Pre-publicized Murder Case", which was adapted and adapted by director Li Shaohong in 1990 and adapted to the screen. Since its inception, the film has been banned in China for 26 years, and later won the World Award for Best Picture in France.
The beginning of the blood-colored morning is in a poor and backward small mountain village, and the only volunteer teacher Mingguang leads the students here to study. In such a small mountain village, although poor, but looking at these well-read children, it seems to see some hope, but the moon sets and the sun rises, and the picture switches to a bloody corpse, which is no one else, it is the volunteer teacher Mingguang.
Needless to say, the significance of the volunteer teachers to such a poor and backward small mountain village is not to be said, and the local villagers are even more respectful of it. But who would kill such a teacher who gave them hope? The director set a big question for everyone.
Amid the villagers' gossip, the truth finally surfaced.
Hongxing is 18 years old this year, is a well-known beauty in the eight townships, and the person who proposed his relatives has long broken through the threshold, but he has been rejected by Hongxing's two brothers Pingwa and Dogwa. Although the mother is still alive, the father is like the father, the brothers speak in this family is authoritative, of course, the brothers also want their sister to have a good home.
Coincidentally, after working outside the home to earn money, a powerful country that has seen the world appeared in front of the brothers. After a meal, several brothers reached an "agreement", the strong country married the sister to Pingwa, and the two brothers of Pingwa married the red apricot to the strong country. Such a "kiss to the family" made Pingwa, a 36-year-old single stick, naturally unable to refuse and readily agreed.
On the wedding night, it was not "lively", the front yard was just dispersed, but the back yard sounded a crisp slap. It turned out to be red apricots on their wedding night. The powerful country had just finished playing the red apricot, and rushed to Pingwa's house overnight to forcibly snatch back his sister and the bride price.
The divorce made such a big move, naturally the whole village knew. The Pingwa dog brothers had no light on their faces, and turned back to beat the red apricot again, but they couldn't ask who the "adulterer" was. I couldn't ask my sister here, but I had already figured it out in my heart, it must be the volunteer teacher Mingguang, and my sister only had to go closest to him.
Without further ado, the brothers went out with knives when they boarded, and the two of them circled around the village, the wind also trembled, and their faces were earned back, and they went down the steps to prepare to go home under the comfort of the village chief. But coincidentally, I encountered a bright light on the road. The villagers who watched the bustle next to them not only looked at it coldly but also blindly coaxed: "Don't you dare to do it, instigated?" ”
In this case, if nothing else, for the sake of face, the brothers can only come forward, the people next to them either look at the hilarity and are not too big, or afraid of getting into trouble, there is no one to persuade, Mingguang was killed in front of everyone.
Later, the brothers were sentenced to death, and Hongxing, as a woman who had lost her virginity, was also rejected by the villagers, so she committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake.
For this chastity, 4 lives were killed.
The plot of "Blind Mountain" is relatively simple, telling the story of a flower girl Bai Chunmei who was abducted and sold to a remote mountain village in Shaanxi Province, and tried all means but could not escape. Here, everywhere is repression and despair, Degui's parents help their son rape Bai Chunmei, cousins pretend to care in order to deceive Bai Chunmei into bed, the villagers will not sympathize with pity and will only become accomplices, and the driver, bus passengers, postmen will never save each other, will only look at their own interests, and even women with the same experience will persuade her to confess her life. It seems that except for the children, everyone is taking bai chunmei with bad intentions. The end of the film comes to an abrupt end after Chunmei slashes at Degui with a knife, leaving a relatively open ending.
After watching both movies, it will give people a deep depression.
If marriage is a transaction in "Bloody Morning", then in "Blind Mountain" there is a crime in addition to trading. If the villagers are spectators and cheering characters in "Bloody Morning", they have undoubtedly escalated into accomplices in crime in "Blind Mountain".
And the consistency of the two is undoubtedly to use naked methods to launch a fierce attack on feudal ignorance. From son preference to virginity; to marriage transactions, to abducting women; from being a wall watcher to aiding and abetting abuse; from rape and violence to wanton taking lives. Every inch, every moment, is a fierce critique of ignorant thought.
The powerful country in "Bloody Morning", as the only person in the village who has seen the prosperity of the big city. He could have chosen to settle down in a big city, but he chose to return to his hometown to marry, in his values: "To find a wife, we still have to be a country woman." The subtext of this judgment clearly contains the demand for chastity. Under the initiation of the money wand, an ancient ritual must be resurrected and completed: on the white sheet, it must be stained with the blood of the virgin Yin Red.
And this ritual is more like a commodity inspection, and the loss of virginity of red apricots in his eyes is more like buying a fake, and he is deceived, and he chooses to turn his face when he lifts his pants. First, he beat his newlywed wife, then he took his sister back overnight, took back the bride price, and smashed his mother's house.
Think about it carefully, is it particularly similar to the male protagonist degui of "Blind Mountain". Because 7,000 yuan was bought for Bai Chunmei, no matter what, I had to let this money spend the value. To this end, he carried out his analogy: "We must not let her go, we must not blind these 7,000 oceans." So rape, beatings, and detention became logical in his thinking.
And the Degui in "Blind Mountain" is also like the big brother Pingwa in "Bloody Morning". All the old singles can't marry a daughter-in-law, Degui chooses to spend money to buy a daughter-in-law, and Pingwa chooses to marry a sister for a daughter-in-law (marrying a sister to marry a wife), and in order to marry a daughter-in-law, she also does everything to the extreme. I believe that if Pingwa changes to the situation of Degui, Degui will definitely make the same choice, after all, the two places are the same patriarchal preference, and both are the same ideological ignorance.
In "Bloody Morning", 4 people died, Mingguang, Red Apricot, Pingwa, Dogwa, mingguang and Red Apricot's deaths make people sympathize, while Pingwa and Dogwa do not deserve sympathy. Mingguang was killed by the brothers in a conjecture as an "adulterer", and was forced to become a victim before the perpetrator was forced to become a victim; Hongxing died in the rumors and cold eyes of the villagers, because chastity killed his life, which was really pitiful.
And Pingwa and dog babies live on the face, the sister who marries out is returned, the daughter-in-law who marries back is robbed, the brother-in-law and wife brother who beat people on the wedding night, the "adulterer" is at large, the villagers watch and watch jokes, although it is unbearable to put on anyone, they should not live in the eyes of others, and their words and deeds should not be manipulated by others. The brothers had the idea of "teaching" Mingguang a lesson, but they were already trying to calm the situation by walking around the village with their knives. Make an example for others, the face can also pass, of course, I also hope that someone can pull themselves, make a fuss, at most beat up, almost on the line. However, he met the "adulterer" in a narrow way, and he made a very irrational behavior under the onlookers and even instigation of a group of people.
The deaths of 4 people are actually due to ignorance. One's own ignorance or the ignorance of others. In an environment of ignorance of thought, life seems to become a precarious existence at any time.
And in "Blind Mountain", Chunmei angrily slashed Degui, believing that everyone would not sympathize with degui, the demon. His death was due to his own ignorance. If there is no daughter-in-law, it depends on buying and cheating, rape if you don't follow it, lock it up if you want to escape, beat it if you dare to run away, and desperately try to get people.
From beginning to end, he did not have the slightest responsibility and responsibility as a husband, let alone a trace of moral or legal constraints, but only wantonly vented his desires in selfish, narrow, dark, and ignorant thoughts. Chunmei is like a commodity that he can use to vent his desires and pass on his generations, and any act of losing this commodity will be severely retaliated against by him.
Good is born of good, evil is nourished by evil, the so-called cause must have effect, Chunmei's sword wielding anger will make us feel uneasy about Chunmei's future, but we will definitely not have pity for Degui. Such a person, he did not die under Chunmei's knife, but under the "knife" he had prepared for himself. This knife is selfish, narrow-minded, dark, violent, and even more ignorant.
In addition to the protagonist, the most sympathetic is the widowed old lady (Red Apricot Mother) who lost all her children in an instant in "Bloody Morning", and also the doll (Chun Mei'er) who lost her parents and was deeply educated by feudal ignorance in "Blind Mountain". Whether they are old or young and lost, the accidental absence of their loved ones is undoubtedly the deepest and most hurtful pain in their lives.
Finally, the children in the small mountain villages in the two films, whether they have lost their volunteer teachers or amateur village teachers, will make the hope of the next generation to find light even more dim.
The blood is redder, and the blind mountain is more blind.