When a person goes too far, can he still find a way back?
This sentence is a sentence on the poster of the overseas version of the film "Yesterday" directed by Zhang Yang, and the filming method of the real people and real events of the movie has made "Yesterday" win the title of "the bravest film of the year".
In this movie, Jia Hongsheng presents his experience and decadence in the past 10 years to the audience one by one. The real people and real events in it, the protagonist is Jia Hongsheng, and the main actor is also Jia Hongsheng.
10 years later, Jia Hongsheng jumped, leaving the world with infinite regrets and sighs.
One
In 1967, Jia Hongsheng was born in a literary and artistic family in Siping, Jilin Province, and his parents were national second-class drama actors.
His parents are the pillars of the troupe, busy at work, every day is either rehearsal or performance, young Jia Hongsheng often stays in the theater with his parents for a whole day. If his parents work overtime, he will also stay and "work overtime".
Hungry uncles and aunts help to feed a little food, sleepy to find a piece of cardboard to sleep, Jia Hongsheng's childhood, most of the time is in the theater "wandering".
Busy work, Jia Hongsheng's parents did not have much time to communicate with their son.
Slightly older, Jia Hongsheng was sent to his grandmother's house again.
This kind of "living without a fixed place" life has affected Jia Hongsheng's personality to a certain extent, he is independent and stubborn, sensitive and careful.
However, since childhood in the theater, Jia Hongsheng is particularly familiar with drama performance.
In 1985, Jia Hongsheng was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, which trains drama actors, with little effort.
The first time I went to Beijing, my mother accompanied him. The train of more than ten hours is the longest time that mother and son have been together in all these years.
Jia Hongsheng especially yearns for Beijing, and before that, he had never left Siping.
He was excited about his new life, and in his adolescence, he didn't have much in common with his mother.
After entering the school, Jia Hongsheng was quickly familiar with his classmates because he was so handsome.
Years later, He Bing recalled going to the Chinese opera to register, and when the tall and handsome Jia Hongsheng appeared, He Bing suddenly felt ashamed of himself.
At the beginning, he just heard that the Chinese opera did not care about the students' appearance before giving up the Chinese drama of the Nortel Examination, who knew that the school had such a handsome student.
In this way, Jia Hongsheng and Gong Li, Shi Ke, Wu Yujuan, Chen Wei and others became classmates.
Two
In addition to being handsome, Jia Hongsheng's acceptance of new things is also well known in school.
At that time, the economic conditions of the students were not very good, and Jia Hongsheng never blinked when he bought things.
His parents sent 80 yuan for living expenses, Jia Hongsheng could spend 70 yuan to buy an object he was interested in, and whether the remaining 10 yuan could last until the end of the month, he did not consider it at all.
He was the most fashionable student in the school, when the cassette was popular, and the students could always borrow the latest pop songs from Jia Hongsheng.
Such boys, not to mention more than 30 years ago, even today, are popular with girls on campus.
In the first semester of freshman year, Jia Hongsheng finally caught up with Wu Yujuan. However, it is not so much about chasing, but rather about mutual admiration.
Wu Yujuan is a native of Hunan and is 2 years older than Jia Hongsheng. At the age of 14, he entered the Hunan Leiyang Flower Drum Troupe, and became the top pillar of the troupe at a young age.
Just when Wu Yujuan wanted to try to enter the Hunan Provincial Flower Drum Troupe, the Leiyang Flower Drum Troupe was dissolved.
Wu Yujuan planned to go to a factory to report, but fate threw an olive branch to her, and he was recommended by the former leader to apply for the Central Academy of Drama.
At the Central Academy of Drama, Wu Yujuan, along with Gong Li, Shi Ke, Chen Wei and Jin Lili, is known as the "Five Golden Flowers" of Chinese opera.
In 1987, Jia Hongsheng, who was spending summer vacation at home, received a telegram from a film crew inviting him to shoot a scene.
Jia Hongsheng, who received the telegram, hurried to the school and saw the director, but he did not expect that when Jia Hongsheng went to ask for leave, the school refused his leave of absence on the basis of his studies, and the director did not let him intercede in the past.
Jia Hongsheng was depressed, a good summer vacation, it was going to be such a waste.
A few days later, Jia Hongsheng received a call from director Shi Shujun asking him to prepare his luggage, and the school had already made sense.
This is Jia Hongsheng's first film "Summer Expectations".
There are more than six shots in the whole film, and Jia Hongsheng alone accounts for more than four hundred. In the film, Jia Hongsheng plays Su Wei, a high school senior student with excellent character and excellent character.
"Summer Expectations" was filmed in Guangzhou, which is the city where reform and opening up started earlier, and there are many new things that Jia Hongsheng has not seen in Beijing.
At that time, Jia Hongsheng's daily salary was 10 yuan, and the crew paid a salary once every 10 days.
Although filming is hard, after each salary, Jia Hongsheng likes to go to West Lake Road.
In the early 1980s, Xihu Road was known as the "Light Night Market" in Guangzhou, and the garment industry was very developed. At that time, many foreign brands had a point on West Lake Road.
Young people's wages are never enough, Jia Hongsheng every time he goes to West Lake Road, the purchase is not satisfactory, see the objects he likes, he can only wait for the next salary to buy again.
Two months later, Jia Hongsheng returned to school and became a prominent figure in the school. The things he brought back were so popular with everyone.
Three
In 1989, another film found Jia Hongsheng and invited him to be the protagonist.
"Silver Snake Murder" is Li Shaohong's debut novel and a niche cult movie.
In the film, Jia Hongsheng plays Hao Feiyu, a film projectionist with an eccentric temperament, who is also a perverted killer. Every day is fine, the most favorite thing to do is to watch anti-Japanese films and model dramas.
The film is somewhat dark, and Jia Hongsheng plays Hao Feiyu's perversion and violence impressively.
Two years later, Jia Hongsheng took on another film called "ExtremeLy Cold", which is said to be based on real people and real events.
Jia Hongsheng played the performance artist Qi Lei in the film, because he lost confidence in life, Qi Lei used the forms of "cremation", "burial", "water burial" and "ice burial" to experience death, and finally committed suicide.
These two films are so small that many timid viewers dare not even watch them.
Jia Hongsheng, who personally starred in the protagonists of these two movies, does not know whether there is any impact on him.
"Murder of the Silver Snake" made Jia Hongsheng quickly famous in the show business circle.
At the same time, Jia Hongsheng was fascinated by rock, the vinyl records of famous foreign rock groups, and Jia Hongsheng could always find a way to get it. The school didn't teach rock and roll, so he tried to make up for it himself.
It may be that he listens to more foreign music, or for other reasons, Jia Hongsheng becomes less and less talkative, and he is often alone in a daze.
In 1992, Jia Hongsheng played the leading role in Zhang Yang's drama "The Kiss of the Spider Woman", which changed Jia Hongsheng's life.
Jia Hongsheng's performance method belongs to experiential performance, and he is unwilling to use "acting" to express the emotions of the characters. Therefore, from the time from getting the script to the time of performing a play, Jia Hongsheng is no longer Jia Hongsheng, but the role itself.
This way of acting can make the role more brilliant, but it also brings great challenges to the actors themselves.
In "Kiss of the Spider Woman", there is a plot of sucking D, and In order to find the feeling of the character, Jia Hongsheng actually tried poison with his body, and finally completely fell.
There is a line in the play:
I knew he was smoking for the first time, but he didn't have enough to smoke, and he learned everything very quickly. At that time, heavy metals were popular, he wore leather jackets, earrings, bandanas, he was like that, very competitive, he did anything more than others, I remember that day his reaction was particularly strong, different from everyone else.
This line is undoubtedly the most true portrayal of Jia Hongsheng at that time, and under the stimulation of "poison", he completely fell.
Four
One day in March 1993, Jia Hongsheng's parents in Jilin received a phone call that their son had been infected.
This news, to Jia Hongsheng's parents, was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
The person who called was Wu Yujuan.
Wu Yujuan is the most beautiful girl in the class, and Jia Hongsheng originally offended many classmates in order to pursue her.
When the two first fell in love, Wu Yujuan once explained to Jia Hongsheng that falling in love is to run for a lifetime, and over the years, the two have a good relationship.
On the eve of graduation, Jia Hongsheng also took Wu Yujuan back to Jilin to meet his parents.
After Wu Yujuan graduated, she starred in "Police Officer in the Year of the Dragon" with Zhang Fengyi and won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award.
Later, he starred in the TV series "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", in which one person played the roles of Yuan Ziyi and Yingu, and Wu Yujuan's appearance was also amazing at that time.
Since Jia Hongsheng was infected with drugs, Wu Yujuan gave up her developing career and single-mindedly helped Jia Hongsheng quit drugs.
In addition to cooperating with drug treatment, Wu Yujuan will comfort Jia Hongsheng every day, and the worst time will always pass, and then the two of them will imagine a better life in the future, hoping that this can reduce Jia Hongsheng's dependence on drugs.
But when the drug addiction attacked, Wu Yujuan's spiritual encouragement became pale, and many times, Wu Yujuan even knelt on the ground and begged Jia Hongsheng, but to no avail.
Although she still loves him, she is disappointed and hit again and again, which makes Wu Yujuan start to think about whether to love again.
Finally, after they had a long conversation, Wu Yujuan let go.
In 1995, Wu Yujuan went to the United States with a Chinese film delegation to exchange ideas and met the other half of Li Muhua.
Originally from Shanghai, Li Muhua is an economics professor at the University of Los Angeles, and the two fell in love at first sight.
A year later, Wu Yujuan married Li Muhua and soon had a son, named "Ma Xiang".
After marriage, Wu Yujuan is in Beijing, Li Muhua is in Los Angeles, the life of the two places is separated, even if the feelings are good, there will be a gap, and when Ma Xiang was 2 years old, Wu Yujuan divorced.
A few years later, the photos of Wu Yujuan and her son were exposed by the media, and many people thought that Ma Xiang was Jia Hongsheng's son.
Five
Although he took the initiative to let go, after Wu Yujuan left, the blow to Jia Hongsheng was still very large.
The parents were not at ease and rushed from Jilin.
In the face of his parents' uninvited arrival, Jia Hongsheng is repulsive, but he is not good at driving his parents away, and can only use silence to fight.
He often stayed alone in his room for days without saying a word.
In addition, many dramas came to the door, but they were also rejected by Jia Hongsheng, who refused to communicate with all the outside world and closed himself off.
One day, a "friend" of Jia Hongsheng sent him a "gift", and his parents saw it and hurriedly drove the so-called friend away.
The family of three sat together for a long time, and this time, Jia Hongsheng made up his mind, he said:
Dad, Mom, I will carry it even if I die, and I will never suck it again!
Although the process of detoxification was painful, Jia Hongsheng persevered.
In 1998, director Lou Ye found Jia Hongsheng and invited him to star in the motor in "Suzhou Creek".
In this drama, Jia Hongsheng met a second girlfriend, Zhou Xun.
Zhou Xun had just debuted at that time, still a young actor, and the two were sweet from the play to the outside of the play.
People in love are particularly sweet, Jia Hongsheng is no exception, the two ran all over the surrounding fun places together, Jia Hongsheng's spirit is also much better.
In 1999, Li Shaohong's "Daming Palace Words" began to be filmed, and Jia Hongsheng went to audition for no suitable role. Originally, Jia Hongsheng asked Li Shaohong for Zhou Xun to come to a slightly dramatic palace girl role.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Xun's sense of lens was very good, and finally the important role of the young Princess Taiping fell on Zhou Xun's head.
It's just that this relationship only lasted for more than a year before breaking up.
With the drama "Daming Palace Words", Zhou Xun began to emerge in the show business circle.
When someone asked Jia Hongsheng whether Zhou Xun's success was due to him, Jia Hongsheng only said lightly that it was her chance.
Six
In 2001, the movie "Yesterday" attracted the attention of many viewers.
"Yesterday" is a real-life movie based on Jia Hongsheng's experience in the past 10 years. This movie has puzzled many viewers.
Interpreting his bad experience again, when director Zhang Yang came to the door, Jia Hongsheng agreed very happily, and what he thought of was to make a complete break with the past through this movie.
But what parents think about more is the gossip outside after the film was broadcast.
But seeing their son's determination, the parents agreed.
In the film, Jia Hongsheng and his father still play father and son, but they have moved the daily life they have experienced to the screen.
In order to pursue the state of poisoning, Jia Hongsheng did not eat or bathe during filming. He only eats apples, drinks milk, and recreates the scene of the past.
After the film was finished, Jia Hongsheng began to close himself again, unwilling to speak.
During the Venice Film Festival, Jia Hongsheng still did not eat, faced with the reporter's questions, said the first time and never said the second time, he once again fell into the drama, unable to extricate himself.
Zhang Yang and Jia Hongsheng
A few years later, Jia Hongsheng filmed the last drama of his life, "The Blind City", and then fell into a closed state of isolation from the outside world.
If there is no "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng will not be a different ending.
In fact, before filming "Yesterday", Zhang Yang had planned to shoot "Three Possibilities of Jia Hongsheng".
The first possibility is that Jia Hongsheng followed the trend at that time, smoothly filmed commercial films, and today he is already a superstar, living in a villa, driving a luxury car, taking his parents over to support him, and being worshipped by countless people; the second is that Jia Hongsheng graduated from high school and stayed in Siping to work and became an ordinary taxi driver; the third is that he gave up the possibility of becoming a big star because he hated the hypocrisy of acting, chose an ascetic life, became more and more simple for material needs, and lived in his own spiritual world.
Looking back now, Jia Hongsheng is a pure person, a person with extremely high requirements for the spiritual world, he is different, unwilling to accept universal values, but he has no way to get rid of the shackles of the world.
He has become a strange person in the eyes of everyone, whether it is a self-revealing film like "Yesterday" or a poison test for "Spider Woman's Kiss", it is his rebellion against the world.
It's just that he underestimated human nature, "Yesterday" made him "infamous", and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" directly pushed him into the abyss.
On July 5, 2010, Jia Hongsheng jumped and bid farewell to this world of suffering once and for all, perhaps, heaven is more suitable for him.