I always see a popular saying on the Internet, may you run away for half your life, and return to be a teenager, which means that no matter what you have experienced in life, you still have youthful feelings when you say goodbye, and you still have a pure heart.
Or the ups and downs of life have not made a person decadent, not old dragon clock but still full of vitality.
The words of wishes are always said so easily, and the reality is quite cruel, Zhou Ziyang's heart-wrenching work "Old Beast" tells a cruel story about the elderly and society.
We know that such a movie is destined to become an unpopular, thinking about human nature, family, and society, mostly ending in tragedy, if it is a tragedy, the audience is most reluctant to accept the helplessness of the heart.
If Feng Xiaogang's "Old Cannon" interprets one kind of father, then "Old Beast" is another kind of father.
The first half of the movie "Old Beast" shows the father image in their eyes from the perspective of children, just like netizens said that there is no praise, only show.
The male protagonist Lao Yang's hair has been gray, the year of the flower armor, now looks a little depressed, old Yang has a paralyzed wife at home, has been bedridden for six years.
At this time, Lao Yang did not take care of his wife at home but drank with his old friends in the restaurant, this old Yang was drunk and drunk, and his wife had already fallen off the bed at home.
Of course, Old Yang has long forgotten his wife at home, and his wife was sent to the hospital by the child, at this time Old Yang was taking a sauna with his old friend, blowing the cowhide of his youth.
From all of the above points of view, Lao Yang has long lost patience and responsibility for his wife, perhaps he hopes that his wife will die early, at least for now.
Yes, there is a young little three outside the old Yang, the old friend entrusted the old Yang to take care of his camel, the old Yang changed hands and bought the camel, bought flowers and new clothes for the little three, here we saw the smile that the old Yang never had for his family.
The human set completely collapsed, not only ignoring the wife, but also abandoning the wife of the chaff to raise Xiao San, and the audience seemed to be a little angry with this old bastard.
Let's talk about more absolutely, Lao Yang stole the life-saving money that his children gave to his wife, because the old friend was coming back and could not lose face, he used the money to buy a cow and gave it to the old friend.
The old friend is grateful to zero, the cow is worth more than the lame camel, and lao Yang is too interesting for the old friend.
On the other side, the children were extremely disappointed in Lao Yang, and the sons tied up Lao Yang and locked him up at home, and Lao Yang was very angry.
The family eventually got into trouble at the police station, Lao Yang and his children in the mediation room all kinds of tears, Lao Yang began to rely on the old man to say that he had raised a group of white-eyed wolves, and filed a lawsuit, he accused his children of kidnapping himself, and threatened to send them to prison.
Of course, Old Yang was only frightened and frightened, and he felt that he had no dignity, so he was angry and corrupt.
What Lao Yang did not expect was that the prosecution was successful, Lao Yang's son and son-in-law were going to go to prison for half a year, and Old Yang, who was in a state of intrigue, was anxious, and he did not expect that things would be so serious by himself.
Lao Yang and the court said that the lawsuit was withdrawn but it was too late, so a theoretical war between Lao Yang and the public servants began.
The whole process was very disturbing, the children of the family were extremely disappointed in Lao Yang, and broke off the father-son relationship with Lao Yang in front of Lao Yang... Family relations have completely collapsed.
Lao Yang, a man who had once become rich under the rapids of the times, is now bankrupt, and he seems to be useless, and even some animals are inferior.
In the second half of the movie, we see the other side of Lao Yang, Lao Yang's children are not excellent, he bought a house for the children, although not rich, but they are fine.
Old Yang called to collect debts, but was hung up, pay attention to friends, good face, he did not collect debts when he urgently needed to give money to his wife, Old Yang finally asked for help from his younger daughter, and after being rejected by his son-in-law, he also had no sharpness, but silently left.
Lao Yang is not unforgiving, but he is very macho and always cherishes his friends, while he takes care of his paralyzed wife alone for six years, and his children quarrel over the cost of surgery.
Lao Yang never said his own difficulties, nor was he willing to show his fragile side to others, such a character was doomed to not be understood.
Old Yang has tried his best, read a lot of comments that Old Yang is selfish and greedy for pleasure, ruthless and unjust, in the back of the old Yang and his children in the court, we will learn that Old Yang married a wife for the eldest son, sold the house for the younger daughter, of course, the children think that Old Yang as a father This is taken for granted.
Old Yang on the one hand to take care of the paralyzed wife, daughter-in-law side and hope that someone can take care of the son, old Yang may not have time to take care of the child, but he bought a transformer for his grandson, old Yang is affectionate.
The old man's downfall, old Yang's bitter water has nowhere to complain, he drank wine to wash his hair, said that he did not love his wife, when he heard that his wife's surgery money had arrived he smiled...
This society is cruel, everyone has their own difficulties, the movie "Old Beast" put an old Yang who looks like a bad person on the screen, what made Old Yang? There may be countless Old Yang in this world, and there are many people who have gone to the road of Old Yang, and for various reasons, people have turned themselves into nightmares.
"Old Beast" may you run away for half a life, and return to be a teenager, this beautiful vision is a dream after all, so in the end, Lao Yang and his wife drank sleeping pills.
"Old Beast", a thought-provoking movie, the old cannon of Inner Mongolia abandoned by the times, the old bastard with conscience, has been completely unrecognizable.