As human beings, we cannot choose our own origins, we cannot choose our own parents, or perhaps only when we are parents do we know that some kindness is as deep as a mountain, which is a responsibility that we must bear for a lifetime.
This old man with a white head was regarded as an enemy by his children and avoided like a snake and scorpion.
Don't pity him for the time being, if you know his story, you will understand that all this is not without reason.
The man's name is Lao Yang, who is addicted to gambling, and may have been brilliant, but now he is a down-and-out old hooligan.
The children were afraid that he would go out to gamble money and had no choice but to lock him in their home.
Old Yang was full of anger, and without saying a word, he took out a hammer and smashed the door lock, as long as he wanted to go out, no one could stop him.
He returned to the house, got the keys to the electric car and went out.
The wife who was paralyzed in bed at home pretended to be asleep the whole time and did not pay any attention to him at all.
Lao Yang lived up to his expectations and finally returned to the table once, but unfortunately today's mahjong was not played happily.
Next door, there was a table of debt collectors who were rattling their swords and even wielding knives. Old Yang saw this scene and did not want to be innocently implicated, so he turned around and slipped away.
After hanging out, Lao Yang met his friend Lao Huang, whom he had not seen for a long time.
Lao Huang is a poor herdsman who takes the only valuable camel in the family into the city to see a veterinarian.
Lao Huang shouted at Yang Zong, making Lao Yang's vanity burst.
Although he was down, he still wanted to be strong. Knowing that he was so poor that he jingled, he still invited Lao Huang to eat and drink, bathe and treat his feet.
Old Yang likes others to call him Yang Zong, and the little sister of the bathing center is accustomed to seeing Lao Yang's broken settlement, laughing and shouting yang Zong to arrange a lounge for them.
Old Yang did not return overnight, and his paralyzed wife was left unattended at home and fell from bed to the ground.
As a result, they went to the intensive care unit, and the children were even more chaotic.
The son wanted to notify Lao Yang to come and get an idea together, but how to call Lao Yang's phone could not be called.
At this time, the old Yang Xiao had no money to pay the bill after the pass, and could only escort the electric car to the bathing center and walk home.
Lao Huang has something to rush back to his hometown, before leaving, please ask Lao Yang to take care of the camel for a few days, Lao Yang swore a guarantee, that is, he lost the camel will not be lost.
Old Yang knew that his relationship with his children was difficult to repair, so he took a camel to find his little grandson to offer treasure, but unfortunately, the little grandson did not appreciate it and shouted for a transformer.
Old Yang had to promise his grandson that he would buy it for him, but where could Old Yang go to get money.
So as soon as he turned around, he sold Lao Huang's camel and got the money to redeem his electric car.
Then he bought a bunch of gifts and went directly to the home of his little lover Lily.
Until this moment, Old Yang had not thought of going home to see his bedridden wife, and the first thing he thought of when he got money was to please the little lover.
Holding his little lover, who was much younger than him, Old Yang seemed to have regained his former majesty, and unconsciously he slept.
On the other side, the wife's condition could not be delayed any longer, and several children gathered at the hospital to discuss how to raise money for the operation.
The second daughter asked the eldest son to go to the lover's house to get Lao Yang back, and the eldest son was very reluctant.
They all knew the existence of this lover, but there was nothing they could do about Lao Yang.
The eldest son wanted to take money to treat his mother, and the eldest daughter-in-law was so angry that she gritted her teeth.
Usually, they are paying for their mother's medical expenses, and the eldest daughter-in-law has to work and take the baby, and she is tired to death.
And Lao Yang did not help at all to help and often gambled debts, the resentment in the eldest daughter-in-law's heart was more and more, and finally released harsh words, as long as the eldest son dared to take money, he would divorce him.
Also implicated by Lao Yang was the second son-in-law, who was arrested for gambling money by him to find a relationship to bail out.
The second son-in-law is a public servant, and it is really ugly to have such a father-in-law who has a bad reputation, and even the leader has explicitly and secretly mentioned that he should pay attention to the image.
The second son-in-law could only break his teeth and swallow into his stomach, but Wei Nono nodded and said yes.
The third daughter was lucky enough to marry away from the smoke and flames of war at home.
Although they were angry, the three sons and daughters still made up 10,000 yuan for the operation fee.
When the second daughter paid the bill, the hospital toll booth was closed, and she put the money under her mother's pillow, planning to pay the fee tomorrow.
She also specifically instructed her mother not to let Lao Yang see the money, but Lao Yang still saw it.
At the same time, Lao Yang, who was in the hospital, also received a call from Lao Huang, saying that he would come back tomorrow to pick up the camel.
If Lao Yang couldn't get out of the camel at that time, it wouldn't be too faceless.
Lao Yang, who regarded face as his life, knew that Lao Huang wanted to sell the camel and buy a cow.
So he went directly to buy a cow and planned to return it to Lao Huang, so that Lao Huang must worship himself even more.
But where did Lao Yang get the money? This old guy actually took the money that the children gave to his wife.
The second son-in-law didn't want to put up with it anymore, he let out a message to the eldest son, if he continued to condone Old Yang, he would no longer care about these broken things in the Yang family.
The eldest son also felt that if he continued like this, his small family would also be dragged down, so the four children held a family meeting to collectively criticize Lao Yang.
Old Yang shouted that he would not be soft, and was tied up by his son and son-in-law, forced him to sign a reform agreement, and then locked him up in the warehouse downstairs.
Ben thought of letting Old Yang restrain himself and live a good life in the future. Unexpectedly, the old Yang dog jumped off the wall and dialed the 110 police number.
He did not allow his patriarchy to be challenged, and with his brain and cleverness, he went to the hospital to make an injury report and directly sued his son and son-in-law in court.
The county was engaged in the construction of a new civilization, and this matter just hit the muzzle of the gun.
In court, Lao Yang and his children had their own opinions and said their own reasons.
But kidnapping and injury are facts, and there is no doubt about it.
Old Yang was always angry and resolutely disagreed with mediation, so that his son and son-in-law were very likely to face imprisonment.
It was only after Lao Yang's anger subsided that he found that the case had been transferred to the public prosecution and that it was no longer possible to withdraw the lawsuit.
Old Yang was afraid that if he caused his son and son-in-law to go to prison, then he would have completely broken with this family, and he was afraid that no one would ever ask about it for the rest of his life.
Old Yang hurriedly ran to the home of the third daughter who was married far away, and the third daughter also knew a little about the contradictions in the family, and she also looked down on this father, and found an excuse to invite her father out of the house.
The court's verdict came down quickly, the son and son-in-law were sentenced to half a year, and the eldest daughter-in-law and second daughter hated Lao Yang.
Old Yang thought about making up for the money he spent to make up for his mistakes, but where could he go to get the money?
He asked his third daughter for help, and the third daughter already knew about the sentence of her brother and brother-in-law, and she couldn't help but be embarrassed. On one side are the father, on the other side are the brother-in-law and the mother.
The third son-in-law did not agree to pay this money, and he rudely drove Lao Yang out of the house.
Old Yang held his breath in his heart, and after coming out, he met two young men in the sales office handing out leaflets, and Old Yang Kou scolded without words.
The two young men are young and vigorous, no matter who you old Yang is, going up is a greeting, beating old Yang nosebleeds, but still did not subdue old Yang.
Breathless old Yang received a call from the hospital, told that his wife's surgery was scheduled for tomorrow morning, and he would smile heartily.
Sure enough, the children will not see death and not save, or they will make up enough money for their wife's surgery.
Unfortunately, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and after the operation, my wife's condition worsened.
Old Yang's nephew was a lawyer, and Old Yang begged his nephew to help his son and son-in-law appeal, and after several twists and turns, the two were finally released.
On the day the two were released, Lao Yang also went to pick up people, but the cold eyes of several children let Lao Yang know that it was impossible for them to freeze the previous suspicions.
His wife was carried home to take care of him, and Lao Yang, whose heart had completely fallen into despair, looked at his wife who had suffered and had no hope of recovering, and Lao Yang decided to end all the pain with poison.
He personally fed his wife and drank the potion, and he himself lay on the side, quietly waiting for the arrival of the god of death...
This story is the story of the movie "Old Beast", which won the 54th Golden Horse Award for Best Actor Awards, the plot synopsis allows the audience to set up an old guy who is idle, eating, drinking and gambling through the introduction and trailer before entering the theater, and after really watching the movie, it subverts the audience's cognition and thus promotes in-depth reflection.
When there was a scene in the courtroom, the audience could see something interesting. It turned out that the eldest son's wife was married by Lao Yang, the work of the second son-in-law was handled by Lao Yang, and the house of the third son-in-law was bought with the help of Lao Yang, but they all said that it was a matter of the past, and they also said that the current affairs should be responsible for Lao Yang himself.
During the kidnapping, the eldest son and the second son-in-law made two scars on Lao Yang's head, and the third son-in-law closed the door and directly knocked Lao Yang into a nosebleed.
At this point, the three families of the child have caused tangible and invisible scars on Lao Yang's body, and the ungratefulness of the three families of the child, or the belief that all the father's efforts should be reflected vividly.
The eldest son's child is in kindergarten, four or five years old? The little daughter's child has just been born. The son and daughter-in-law are blaming Lao Yang for not showing them the children, the second son-in-law is afraid that his future will be affected, and the younger daughter is not home.
But the film tells us that when there is no third generation, Lao Yang's daughter-in-law is already ill, taking care of her daughter-in-law and struggling, what time is there to take care of the third generation?
But old Yang has a third generation in his heart, get the camel to play with his grandson first, buy transformers for his grandson, the third daughter carries the child into the house, old Yang turns around and wants to touch it for fear of scaring the child.
Lao Yang endured the double repression of physiology and psychology, just the physiological needs he only needs to go to the shampoo room to find it, he needs someone who can talk to him, can let him temporarily put down his self-esteem, can communicate, obviously, the wife is not OK, the child is not OK, the brother is not OK.
The three children did not consider the problem from the perspective of Lao Yang from beginning to end, and the only third child who seemed to have a conscience was because he had been loved extra since he was a child. Who seems to be selfish?
This trapped fighting beast, after being violently beaten by the flyer man, received a call saying that his wife's surgery was arranged, he smiled, picked up the broken cigarette, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
The real fuse that made Lao Yang decide to die with his wife and children was not the attitude of the children, but the more serious the disease became, Lao Yang grinded the medicine over and over again, fed to his wife in one mouth, and he also lay on the sofa breathing gradually.
The only person who wants her to live the most and wants her to die the most is Lao Yang.
Multi-faceted is the original face of human nature, but also the original face of life. Complex people are common in life, and what we see is often idealized characters. Therefore, the valuable thing about this movie is precisely that it is very lifelike and very real.
Some people say that this is a story of old bastards whitewashing and humanity returning, seemingly sentient children are actually very ruthless, and seemingly ruthless old Yang is actually very affectionate. In fact, none of this matters, but the way of decoding is different.
Some people also say that the film seems to have a narrative of peace, and it feels that the whole story is very dull, but isn't the real life and family story plain and dull?
In short, we need to rethink, what is bestiality? What is human nature? What is an asshole? Under the shroud of a troubled life and a troubled fate, will you choose to fight the trapped beasts, or will you endure in silence?
Yesterday, when I read Yan Geling's novel "Judging Ugliness", the first sentence of the opening chapter was: "The aesthetics of the higher level are exactly the ugliness of the trial."
This sentence is also appropriate to evaluate "Old Beast": through the display of Lao Yang, Lao Yang's family and the social environment in which Lao Yang is located, "Old Beast" has achieved a higher level of aesthetics through the trial of ugliness.