Cinema is like a magnifying glass, through which attention is made to details that are not normally noticed. The movie "A Thought of Ignorance" is directed by the new director Huang Jin, starting from bipolar disorder, there is no gorgeous camera movement and over-rendered soundtrack, the director can closely hold the audience's heart with an objective and calm shot, with the perspective of Ah Dong 's (Yu Wenle) thoughts, the sequence and flashbacks are carried out at the same time, the audience slowly understands Ah Dong's past and present at the same time, but also step by step into this extremely sensitive and restless psychological world, just over 100 minutes to bring in a lot of emotions, the narrative still maintains a stable rhythm, in addition to the director's skill, Screenwriter Chen Chuheng is also indispensable, the cooperation between the two completely presents the emotional flow between Ah Dong and his mother and father, delicately depicting the distance contrast between people in the same room, the distance between the inner world, and the heart-wrenching sense of alienation fills the whole film, so that the audience is trapped in it and cannot extricate themselves.
Screenwriter Chen Chuheng and emerging director Huang Jin
The movie "A Thought of Ignorance" actually presents a microcosm of real society, cruel but real, and these plots are no stranger to us: how long will the love and tolerance we have wear out under long-term care? The slogan of respecting people with mental illness will be shouted by everyone, but when encountered in the moment, who does not turn a blind eye or even take out a mobile phone to record the moment to prove that their "behavior is normal"? For example, in the movie, When Ah Dong collapsed, subconsciously ran to the supermarket, opened a bag of chocolates, stuffed it straight into his mouth, tears fell non-stop, he had sent a signal of "I need you" to the surroundings, helpless in this world, but only cared to prove that he was not a strange person, cold eyes are not willing to look at it with his heart, these situations may happen to you and me, and because of this, everyone can choose their own "one thought", whether it is hell or heaven, just look at the moment.
Promotional poster for the movie "One Thought of Ignorance"
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > ignorance</h1>
Before writing it down, let's solve the problem, the name of the movie is actually derived from the Buddhist language:
"Ignorance" means not to understand, not to know, not to see clearly, to lose wisdom. "One thought" refers to one thought, one thought gives birth to ten thousand thoughts, not just one thought, but a constantly stacked thought. Sometimes we are always clinging to something wrong and pursuing something we don't actually want. Stacked up, do we end up with enough wisdom to see what we're doing and see what the world has become? This is what ignorance means.
Bipolar disorder in "A Thought of Ignorance" may only give the audience an excuse, but what really makes Adon"," the reason for the "disease" is the lack of love, especially from the mother, when the responsibility from all sides falls on Adong, he is forced to accept the mother's emotional blackmail, and finally collapses; but what causes the mother to become an emotional blackmailer?
In the movie, Jin Yanling plays Ah Dong's mother, Lu Wanrong
In the movie, it can be known that her mother Lu Wanrong (played by Jin Yanling) read some books and has a bit of temperament, but she is married to Huang Dahai (played by Zeng Zhiwei), who can only drive, even though she has a high salary but is not decent, she is sick and does not see the little son she is proud of, and her mother's temper comes and goes strangely, sometimes even overstated; what makes me a little puzzled is that because she is pregnant with Ah Dong, she cannot leave the Yellow Sea, is this enough to make her "hate" Ah Dong so much?
Stills from the movie "A Thought of Ignorance"
In the movie, Zeng Zhiwei plays Ah Dong's father, Huang Dahai
Huang Dahai evades family responsibilities because of panic, Lu Wanrong blindly resents others because of misfortune, and Ah Dong suffers from bipolar disorder because he cannot decompress... Every character, every person, has their own "ignorance." No one is born to deliberately hurt others, and there are usually sympathetic reasons behind someone who hurts you. They often just don't know how to face problems and how to deal with emotions.
In the movie, Yu Wenle plays Adong, a bipolar patient
Many people are like a garbage truck, when the garbage on the car is full, it needs to be dumped, and sometimes it may fall on you. When confronted with these things, the best practice is to smile, wave your hand, and then bless them. Even if you don't reach this level, at least don't pollute your life, work, and loved ones with this garbage. Life accounts for more than half of the time, is to learn to deal with the influence of the outside world, and its difficulty is no less than a daily cleaning. Taking people as a mirror and introspecting ourselves, in fact, have we disposed of our garbage again? Obviously, people are extremely susceptible to contamination and then very naturally dump their own garbage, not only to each other, but more likely to other people. So, although we love each other, we continue to hurt each other.
If Huang Dahai could understand the nature of Dong's bipolar depression early on, perhaps the problem would have been half resolved; if Dong had the wisdom to relieve the depression in his heart that day, perhaps the problem would not have developed half of the follow-up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > two causal correspondences</h1>
The movie "A Thought of Ignorance" is based on two relationships, one is mother and son, and the other is father and son. Obviously, there is love in both relationships, because there is no love, there is no hatred at all. However, instead of knowing how to express love, the person concerned places more on the other person's pain, and eventually extends a greater tragedy in the misfortune.
First of all, let's talk about the mother-child relationship: her mother, Lu Wanrong, was originally Miss Qianjin, but because of fate, she married the driver Huang Dahai. Later, Huang Dahai alienated her, and his younger son abandoned her, coupled with the half-body failure and the pain of the whole day, so that his heart was filled with resentment, thinking that the whole world owed himself. Even if Antoine took good care of it, she was not grateful in the slightest, and she thought that this small compensation would never be able to make up for the regrets of a lifetime! The mother who suffers from bipolar disorder loses herself and scolds her son all day long, which will only vent all her resentment, but not only does not reduce it in the slightest, but also ends with her hatred. As a caregiver, Antoine, seeing his mother, whose blood is thicker than water, is mentally and physically tortured, and his heart is already like a knife, coupled with his mother's bad attitude and the paranoid idea of not allowing him to send his mother to a nursing home, he eventually suffers from bipolar disorder.
Stills of Ah Dong played by Yu Wenle in the movie "A Thought of Ignorance"
Talking about the father-son relationship: In the past, Because of taking care of his mother, Antoine was under great pressure. The misfortune that followed indirectly caused him to lose his love and was imprisoned in a mental hospital. Two years later, Antoine was taken back to live in society, and as a mentally rehabilitated person, he was blindsided in society, hated by his relatives and friends, and encountered difficulties in employment. Compared with his mother's almost unreasonable anger at others, Antoine has a more reasonable reason for resentment: all this is the father's big mistake of abandoning his wife and son for many years! Ah Dong, who gradually collapsed, began to refuse to accept his illness, unwilling to take medicine, sitting in front of the TV playing no picture late at night, but lying on the dead bed crying during the day, slowly giving up on himself. As a caregiver, the father, on the one hand, has nothing to do for bipolar disorder, on the other hand, he is eager to compensate his son, and finally falls into the vortex of obsession that can no longer be escaped, resulting in exhaustion and on the verge of bipolar disorder.
The father and son played by Yu Wenle and Zeng Zhiwei in the movie
These two relationships between bipolar people and caregivers have both causal relationships and corresponding meanings. From the analysis of causality, the mother's resentment causes the son to suffer from bipolar disorder, and the son's bipolar disorder leads to the father's abnormality. From the perspective of correspondence, the two relationships have too many points in common. The sick Antoine, like his mother before, was filled with negative emotions in his heart, crying silently, complaining all day long, and falling into a state of confusion and confusion. The behavior that made Ah Dong the most painful in the past is now all done. In the same way, what is respectable and pitiful is that the caregiver is always unwilling to give up, vows to take care of it to the end, and finally persists until even he collapses. Although the two relationships are closely related to each other, the film saves a little hope for this nearly broken father-son relationship at the end. This hope arises from a little difference, and from this difference it develops and leads to very different results.
Poster for the movie "One Thought of Ignorance"
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > four lives, four differences</h1>
The so-called "four ways" are love, apology, thanksgiving, and farewell. If you can do these four things well in your life, you can solve the problems between many people, and the effect may be more wonderful than what is presented in the play.
In the movie "A Thought of Ignorance", Yu Wenle played Adong, a bipolar patient
There are at least two things in the father-son relationship that mother and son do not have: apologies and love. In one of the scenes in the movie, Ah Dong went to the hospital to visit his father who was injured by an accident, the two talked in the garden, touching a lot of each other's scars, Ah Dong finally couldn't resist the outbreak of resentment that had been suppressed for a long time, and scolded huang Hai's shameless and bad deeds: When my mother was in trouble, when the pain was about to live and die, where did you go? Faced with irrefutable accusations, Huang Dahai knew that there was no way back and cried about the knots in his heart. Although I consciously tried my best to cope, I understood that there was an unshirkable responsibility, and finally said a sentence that had evaded for more than ten years: I'm sorry! In the next scene, Antoine actually carries his father, who has a foot injury, up the stairs, and tells him not to work again, suggesting that he wants to provide for his father. "Apologize" and let the father-son feud be resolved. In the last scene of the movie, although Huang Dahai mistakenly believes that Ah Dong wants to throw the little boy downstairs, Ah Dong has understood that love can bring people out of the predicament, just as the little boy uses love to save himself from the bed of despair, so he only wants to use deep hugs to add strength to his father. "Tao love" makes the future of the two fathers and sons see hope.
What really matters is invisible with the eyes alone.
Although love makes us sad and desperate, it is also love that makes us reinvigorate. With this hug alone, I sincerely believe that the ending of the two outside the camera, despite all the hardships, will eventually end in comedy.
If, at the moment when Ah Dong cleaned his mother's body, the mother did not say: I'm sorry, trouble you..., but replaced by a heartfelt "thank you", what flowed from the corner of Ah Dong's eyes would not be a ditch of despair, but a touching tear; if his mother was not killed by Antoine in chaos and struggle, but said goodbye to him peacefully in bed before dying, Antoine would certainly not regret his life, and would miss the time spent together.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > electric light is only between one thought</h1>
I like the setting of the narrow room between Adong and the Yellow Sea, but also because the environment is limited, only through the dialogue and getting along between the two people, to create a sticky atmosphere with a sense of reality; I think there will be some kind of connection between people, some people call it "tacit understanding", in this alienated society, we ask for more from others, but we can't be satisfied, poor, poor, the result is to live poorer and poorer.
The movie "A Thought of Ignorance" is a work of some pretense and persuasion for me, but in the process of watching the movie, I think that constantly throwing out questions, whether it is the film itself or the discussion of the content topic, is a good communication with the audience; at the end of the film, I don't think that in reality, Ah Dong can produce some electric light on life because of the belated companionship and the little prince's words, but who knows? Life seems complex but simple.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > epilogue: a thought of the present</h1>
Will love the movie "A Thought of Ignorance" so much because he is so personal, as if looking at the social microcosm of his own life, bipolar disorder is almost hidden in everyone's heart, from all aspects of the pressure given, a thought of the current pull will make themselves into a strange circle, as the title of the film, if you can not see clearly, will continue to hurt each other, even so, the movie still brings out a glimmer of hope, just like our life, life is always powerless, many times hard work can not get anything, change what, Life can't get better as soon as we wake up, we still have to do our best, continue to move forward, the last sentence "Let's go home", seemingly simple, but also full of positive energy.
Whether it is understanding and tolerance for others, or self-emotional management, it is indeed not easy, but because of love, we can still act because of love, and make progress small by small. Although there are all kinds of inappropriate places in society, people are ultimately responsible for writing tragedies. Everyone can choose their own "one thought", whether it is hell or heaven, depending on the present moment.