Since this period of time, there have been many good TV series:
What "Mountains and Seas", "The Age of Awakening", "Mountain and River Order", "Si Teng", "You Are My Fortress fortress"... All good.
Recently, the Douban score of a drama actually went straight to Guo Jingming's "Small Times" series - "Great Song Palace Words", and the Douban score was only a pitiful 3.8 points.
What is even more surprising is that this film is completely a "star appearance" from the lineup: Li Shaohong and Zeng Nianping are jointly directed, and Liu Tao, Zhou Yumin, Qi Xi and other stars.
The last cooperation between Li Shaohong and Zeng Nianping was the famous "Daming Palace Words", and the Douban score of this film has remained at a high score of 9.1, which is regarded as a god by the audience.
The huge gap between "Daming Palace Words" and "Great Song Palace Words" makes people feel that Li Shaohong and Zeng Nianping are controlled by some evil force, and can only let parallel goods stand-ins to work.
Not to say that it is inconsistent with history, the characters, the plot, the lines, the editing... It's all slot points.
Simply confusing.
But think about Li Shaohong's bad film "Ma Ge is a City" in 2018, it seems that the director's level has been declining, obviously in the 90s of the last century, "Bloody Morning", "Forty Not Confused", "Red Pink" and so on are really good, and then there are few good works.
Today, through a film made by Li Shaohong at the beginning of the new century, we will approach the time when this director played at a high level .
"Life and Death"
The film is directed by Li Shaohong, starring Zhou Xun and Cai Ming, the screenwriter is the famous Liao Yimei, and the photographer is Zeng Nianping.
Li Shaohong we probably introduced before, let's briefly talk about Liao Yimei.
Liao Yimei and the famous drama director Meng Jinghui are husband and wife, she is the screenwriter of the "love bible" "Rhinoceros in Love", and has also written famous works such as "Magic Mountain", "Sexual Encounter", "Fly Like Chicken Feathers", "Amber", "Soft" and so on.
And the script of "Life and Death" is also from her hand.
The story of this film can be summed up in one sentence -
The story of a simple female college student who lacks love and is cheated on by a scumbag.
Scumbag, a title for a bottomless and immoral man.
When you meet a superb scumbag, isn't it a life and death disaster?
For example, Bao Li, a Peking University girl who committed suicide by Mou Mou's PUA before, was ruined by the scumbag who should have had a brilliant and brilliant life.
In "Life and Death", the heroine played by Zhou Xun is also like this, and the filming of this movie is Zhou Xun's 31-year-old in a good year.
Her mother, a native of Beijing, met her father, a farmer, when she went to the mountains and went to the countryside during the "Ten Years of Catastrophe".
The two are in love, you and I.
After her mother became pregnant unexpectedly, she married the man despite the opposition of her family, gave birth to a child, and has been trapped in a small town ever since.
In the face of this sudden daughter, In-law's mother loves and hates, loves because of flesh and blood affection, and hates because she has seen her head from the moment she became pregnant all her life.
I don't know if it was to make my sister-in-law live a better life, or if I simply didn't want to see her, my mother sent my mother to Beijing to live with my grandmother and aunt.
When her mother got on the train to leave, the young in-laws stubbornly refused to call out to her mother.
At this time, Zhou Xun's narration sounded: "That day, until the end, I did not call out to my mother." I don't think this woman with sweaty palms, oily face, and vicious talk has nothing to do with me. ”
Such narration has been throughout the film, making the whole movie carry a sense of alienation because of Zhou Gongzi's unique voice.
This kind of alienation is the inner and emotional vicissitudes of people when they recall their past.
After her mother left, in-laws officially began to live under the fence.
People who have had this experience, especially girls, must have had this feeling, a feeling of being alone, as if the whole world was running in order, except for themselves.
Grandma and aunt are not good to the in-law, and all kinds of criticism and insults come at any time. Naturally, in-laws also need to take on some of the housework, such as washing the family's clothes. This kind of work, she began to do when she was very young.
Until she was 14 years old, when her parents walked into the courtyard carrying stacks of things.
This was the first time that in-laws had seen her biological father, and she felt that the rural man in front of her who had his hand in his pocket and did not know what to grope for was very strange.
This time, they came back to discuss whether to keep her in-laws in school.
Her mother said that in-laws did not look like a person with a job, and going out to work early could also reduce the burden on the family.
The little aunt was naturally exquisite, saying that she was not good at deciding this kind of thing, so that the family would not resent her in the future.
In-laws' father, the man dressed as a peasant, the man who ate a meal and kept snorting, suddenly said: "Let's give the child a chance to study, although we are both poor, but a college student can still afford it." ”
In this way, in-laws were able to continue their education.
When his father left, he finally found two red eggs from his pocket and stuffed them in his hands, one of which had cracked because of the long squeeze.
Family affection is a complicated thing, mixed with love and hate, inexplicable.
A few years later, in-laws were successfully admitted to a very good university.
On the day of school, she finally felt a kind of freedom that she had never felt before.
While the other children were escorted into the university gate by their parents like babies, the thin in-laws carried a backpack and carried a huge box to school by herself.
However, she was still very happy, happy enough to give herself a taxi for the first time in her life.
However, this happiness only lasted for one day.
On the way to school, a van drove the wrong way and hit the taxi that in-law was sitting in, and the man in the truck was wearing the same hat as in-law.
And so began.
This truck driver named Mu Yu will be the doom of in-law's life.
To apologize, MuYu sent her to the dormitory, and introduced her to the school on the way, because he often came to deliver the goods and was familiar with the campus.
After that, he helped her make a bed, buy snacks, buy daily necessities, and invite her to eat...
He also secretly wrote down his in-laws' birthdays and gave her his first official birthday.
After such an operation, in-laws who had never been seriously cared for since she was born had fallen.
Remember, girls, this kind of meticulous care at the beginning needs to be vigilant, and it is never good for no reason.
No matter how much you long to be loved, how much you long to love, always love yourself first, hold your head high like a beautiful and proud peacock, and don't give bad people a chance to hurt themselves.
It's just that many times, there are too many ulterior motives in this world, and it is impossible to prevent it.
Mu Yu's means were so clever, so clever that even I, a bystander, couldn't help but shiver.
After in-law confessed to him, his first reaction was not to be happy or moved, but to refuse. Saying that he is a driver from the countryside, how can he be with in-laws, a college student, and be a brother and sister.
In fact, any words involving difficulties in the road ahead are tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for people who are in love, not to mention that Mu Yu is just trying to get away with it, like a stupid girl like In-Law, a dozen and one accurate.
Sure enough, in-law immediately said that she didn't care, and then the two naturally got together and then went to do what they loved.
You see, the little girl who is not involved in the world is simply being played by the scumbag, and this is just the beginning.
For a while, Mu Yu disappeared.
In-laws searched for a long time and found his place to live, but saw that he lived with a Sichuan woman, next to a newborn baby.
She left.
In the night, Mu Yu came over and said that the woman was known before, and that she was a person who pestered men for money. After the unexpected pregnancy, Mu Yu asked her to go to the abortion and she refused to die.
He also said he didn't love the woman and even felt that the child wasn't his own.
Hahahahaha, what a ridiculous word, it can be selected as a contemporary scumbag quote.
But In-law was already faint at this time and chose to believe him.
It wasn't until she got pregnant, and Mu Yu used the same cruel method to prevent the fetus from being beaten and decided to give birth to a child, and was expelled from the university as a result, that in-laws gradually realized that she was no different from the Sichuan woman who was the same as the crazy person.
When waiting for childbirth, In-law's mother came over and signed a contract with Muyu, which roughly means that After the birth of In-Law's child must be given to someone else, and Muyu takes the initiative to give up the child's adoption rights.
The advantage is that in-laws' mother bears all the costs of childbirth.
After giving up the child and some time later, a woman named Fang Fang came to the door and said that she was Mu Yu's girlfriend, and asked her to leave.
At this time, in-laws realized that something was wrong.
She rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and finally found a stack of papers in the corner, which was a contract to sell children.
It turned out that All along, MuYu had been tricking girls into giving birth to children for him, and he sold children to survive.
After the matter was revealed, Mu Yu revealed his true face, no longer gentle and no longer considerate: "I still have to give her money for a chicken, I prostitute you, you still have to earn money for me!" ”
Originally, in-laws wanted to kill him, and even bought a knife, but when she stood in front of him, she suddenly realized that this man was not worth her doing, and he was not even as good as a dog.
In the Hong Kong film "I Love You", the baby played by Yuan Yongyi also wanted to hand blade scum men and women after experiencing her husband's infidelity. But she just stabbed the woman and jumped from the tall building.
In-law is also crazy and stupid, but she wakes up at the last moment and decides not to give her life and future for the garbage-like man.
However, Fangfang will encounter the same ending as she and the Women of Sichuan did.
Persuasion, or no persuasion?
"When a person is in a dangerous place and she herself is unwilling to admit it, no one can wake her up."
She didn't wake up when she saw the Sichuan woman, she didn't wake up when she was expelled from college, and she still didn't wake up when she was persuaded by her mother.
Could it be that if she persuaded FangFang, it would be effective?
Not necessarily.
We always have both inferiority and conceit, inferiority when we should not be inferior, but obstinate when we should not be conceited.
Human nature is like this, only by falling on a big heel can you really understand.
"Life and Death" is a very good movie, whether it is the actor's performance or the script, it is very solid.
Zhou Gongzi's temperament is indeed very compatible with Liao Yimei's writing, the kind of pain that exhausts all the experience, and finally exchanges it for growth and awakening.
And the details of the whole movie are also very well done, such as those seemingly inconspicuous background sounds:
When Mu Yu gave her birthday, the line from the open-air movie floated in: "You have won the beauty plan." ”
When Mu Yu said that he didn't want to beat up the child, it was the voice in the movie again: "Why do you have to stay here and listen to the old guy talk nonsense." ”
When Mu Yu explained the Sichuan woman to in-law, a background voice came out: "Don't listen to his ghost words." ”
When in-law's child was taken away, Shan Tianfang's commentary on the TV said: "You take everything else, I only want the child." ”
All these words are a reminder to in-laws, including the damp, invisible basement, telling her that this love is dirty.
She gave her best thing, and the other party threw one sharp knife after another.
And these details show Li Shaohong's skill.
Sincerely hope that shaohong director cherishes his feathers, make a good film, really can't go back to the level of "Life and Death" and "Daming Palace Words" before, let's not shoot, after all, the age is not small.
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