In 755 AD, "Shisheng" Du Fu was 44 years old, his mood was not good, 7 years old can write poetry, 9 years old is famous for Zhen Dongdu, not only repeatedly failed, "North Drift" for more than ten years also only mixed with a warehouse administrator - "Bing Cao joined the army": responsible for guarding the armor weapons, access control keys.
In November of that year, Du Fu, the manager of cangguan, decided to temporarily leave the capital Chang'an, which was called "fleeing from the north to Guangzhou" and the local saying was "returning to his hometown".
Du Fu's hometown was in Pucheng, Shaanxi, and before he could enter the house, Du Fu heard a cry—his young son was starving to death.
Heaven was brilliant, but ten years of "North Drift" to work fruitlessly, back home and found that his younger son was starving to death, this kind of thing can not be tolerated by anyone, Du Fu of course can not tolerate, so he wrote a famous poem "From Beijing to Fengxian County Yonghuai Five Hundred Words", leaving a famous sentence for thousands of years:
Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and there are frozen bones on the road.
This poem can be said to be well known to women and children, and is well known to everyone, profoundly reflecting the sharp social contradictions at that time, vividly revealing the social reality of the huge disparity between the rich and the poor, reflecting the suffering of the people at the bottom, and exposing the absurdity and corruption of the upper levels.
The famous movie "House of Sin" that I want to talk to you about next is not only a very wonderful story, but also echoes Du Fu's ancient famous sentences, which is thought-provoking.
The film opens with a happy and harmonious scene: in a mansion, a rich family of four, plus a son-in-law, eating dinner, staggering and drinking.
The rich man gladly agreed to his daughter's marriage, and said, both of our families are in business, we can cooperate more in the future, although your family is richer, but I am not bad, I used to be mayor, and now I am about to get a knighthood.
The son-in-law and the husband chatted very happily, and brought the engagement ring to the rich daughter, and the family was happy and harmonious, happy and peaceful.
However, the son of the rich man sat on the side and drank heavily, and from time to time he sneered, dismissing it and being very disharmonious.
The rich man is very angry at his son's performance:
Your brain was kicked by a donkey, big day, you make this for me!
The son asked the rich father:
I heard that war was about to start.
The rich man waved his hand and said dismissively:
There can be no war, don't be blind to Bibi.
When the family is happy and harmonious, an uninvited guest quietly arrives.
A Detective Goode came to the door and said he was on "official business."
Regal welcomes:
I know your director very well, and I have something to say casually.
The Inspector general said:
3 hours ago, a girl committed suicide, do you recognize?
The regal looked at the photo and said:
You know, she used to be an employee of my factory, I fired her two years ago, and her death has nothing to do with me.
It turned out that the female workers in the factories of the rich, because the wages were too low, the rent rose, they could not afford to pay the rent and were hungry, they could not afford to buy coal in the winter to make a fire, and they saw that other factories had raised wages, and they also hoped that they could raise wages, but the rich people did not agree, so the female workers launched a strike and wanted to raise wages.
And the girl who was fired was one of the initiators of the strike.
Regal said:
I gave her a chance, as long as she could quell the strike, I could give her a separate salary increase, a promotion to a supervisory position, and manage 10 people, but she did not agree, and later I fired her.
The son of the rich man said:
You could have kept her, just because she was a little more fighting spirit than others, you fired her?
Just be tough on them, or they'll get in the way.
The Inspector General said:
It's better for them to be inching forward than for you to be rich.
The rich man was speechless:
The dismissal of her was two or three years ago, and she is now dead, and she has a relationship with me!
How does it matter? If you don't fire her, the next thing won't happen, it won't trigger a chain reaction.
You're so neurotic! That's ridiculous! We have to take care of this matter, two or three years ago, I tell you, I often play golf with your mayor, the relationship is very good, do you play golf?
I don't play golf!
The rich man expressed his anger:
You're going to fuck me, we're going to continue the dinner!
At this time, the inspector not only did not get out of the egg, but chatted with the daughter of the rich man, who was very concerned about the dead female workers, because they were of similar age.
The rich daughter asked:
Did the female workers find a job?
The female worker was an orphan from the mountains, both parents had passed away, had no friends, was laid off, had no job for weeks, was starving and living on the streets.
The rich man's daughter expressed great sympathy.
There are many girls like her, in every town in the world.
Two months later, the girl finally got lucky and found a job in a department store, but was fired after only 6 weeks.
A prick like her, wherever she goes, will be expelled, and she must be in trouble again!
The girl was complained about by the guests and fired.
The rich man's daughter fell into contemplation and uneasiness at this time, and she asked the inspector for a picture of the girl, and after reading it, she was shocked!
It turned out that the guest who complained was the daughter of the rich man, and it turned out that the daughter of the rich man was trying on clothes in the department store that day, and because she was in a bad mood, she complained about the waitress at that time, who was also the female worker who was fired earlier.
I didn't have a reason at the time, it was because I was in a bad mood.
When the rich daughter tried on clothes, the waitress seemed to laugh a little, because the rich daughter and her mother had an unpleasant affair that day, so they vented on the waitress.
The rich daughter threatened the manager that if she did not fire the waitress, she would not want to cooperate with her father in the future.
In desperation, the manager fired the waitress.
The rich man's daughter now expresses great remorse, she did not expect to become like this, she is only temporarily willful.
The rich woman asked:
Did she commit suicide because of this? Did I cause it?
The Inspector continued:
Because she was fired from the department store, the girl did not get a letter of introduction, so it was difficult to find her next job, and after a few months of loneliness and helplessness and wandering the streets, the girl changed her new name, Daisy, and found another way out.
When the girl's new name, Daisy, was announced by the inspector, the rich son-in-law who was sitting next to him suddenly panicked and could not sit still:
Give me a special glass of whiskey to crush the shock first!
It turned out that after the girl changed her name to Daisy, she went to the bar and met the rich son-in-law, who was attracted by the beauty of the girl Daisy and raised Daisy.
The rich son-in-law and Daisy lived sweetly together for a few months, and then they separated, each looking for his mother and going back to his own home.
The son-in-law said:
I just wanted to help her, and almost every man would do that!
The rich daughter is very broken:
You make me sick! No wonder you kept saying that you were busy at work and ignored me, it turned out that there were people outside!
Later, the rich son-in-law and Daisy "peacefully broke up" because they knew it could not last.
At this time, the rich man also had hopes for his son-in-law:
That's it, innocence.
Mrs. Regal said:
When I look at this, I can only blame this girl herself, this kind of girl is self-inflicted, can I blame others?
The rich woman broke down, still had a conscience in her heart, and took off the engagement ring and returned it to her son-in-law:
It's not that I don't love you, it's just...
The rich man wanted to stop his daughter and say:
Aren't all young people like this now? Don't say points, divide them.
But to no avail, the daughter's heart has been decided.
At this time, the inspector showed the photo to the rich lady, who remembered a past event after reading it.
It turned out that Mrs. Rich was the president of the Women's Aid Organization, specializing in helping girls who were in difficulty in society at that time, and daisy, a girl, had asked for help when she was in difficulty, but was refused.
At the meeting two weeks ago, The Rich Lady met the girl Daisy, who claimed to be herself "Mrs. Birlin" and became pregnant herself, but the child's father was an alcoholic and had to steal money to feed them, hoping to get help.
This made the rich lady very suspicious and angry, because the rich man was surnamed Bierlin, and the rich lady was Mrs. Birlin, and she felt that the girl was pretending to be her last name.
Therefore, the rich lady concluded that the girl was lying and refused the girl's request for help.
I can't blame her for her death, I can blame the man who made her pregnant.
The inspector showed the photo to the rich man's son again, and it turned out that the person who made the girl pregnant was the rich man's son.
The rich man's son also met the girl Daisy in the bar, the two had a relationship, even became a couple, and let the girl get pregnant, but the rich man's son had no money, and his father did not give him much money, so he could only steal the money from his father's company.
After the girl Daisy learned about stealing money, she stopped letting her rich son steal money and fell into trouble.
The reason why the girl Daisy is pregnant and calls herself "Mrs. Birlin" is precisely because she has a relationship with the son of a rich man, so she did not lie.
In the end, the girl chose to commit suicide.
The inspector pointed to the rich family and said:
You are all accomplices in her suicide.
While the rich family is enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner, Daisy, a girl living on the bottom, commits suicide alone, bitterly and desperately.
Many people have a question: Is the death of the bottom girl related to the rich family?
It seems to have a relationship, but it seems that there is no direct relationship.
Reminds me of the old saying:
At the time of the avalanche, not a single snowflake was innocent.
Tragedy occurs when social problems are acute, the gap between rich and poor is too large, and there is indifference and antagonism between classes, and everyone in "Sin House" represents a phenomenon:
The rich boss does not treat employees well and maliciously dismisses employees;
Guests from above can complain to the service staff at will;
The second generation of the rich played with the desperate bottom girls, and threw them after use;
Young people don't have the ability and wealth to build their own marriages, and they can't afford to have children...
The theme that Sin House wants to convey can be said to be very positive and closely related to each of us.
Human beings are actually a community of destiny, and between people, mutual kindness and care are not simply beneficial, but actually help themselves.
When the gap between the rich and the poor between the classes and the deepening of the contradictions, it triggers tragedies, not only the tragedies of the bottom, but the tragedies of everyone, as the detective at the end of the movie said:
You just have to remember that there are thousands of girls like Daisy in the world whose lives and deaths, their hopes and fears are closely related to us, to our ideas, our words and our actions.
None of us can be isolated from the world, we should care for each other, and if we don't understand this, the day will soon come, and people will have to endure the baptism of war, blood and scales.
The so-called "that day" actually "heralded the war", the rich man's son was very dissatisfied at the beginning of the film, calling for war in his heart, and at the end, the rich man's son was indignant and gritted his teeth and said:
I hope there will be a war, and I hope to end them.
The story of Sin House is cleverly set in 1912, notice that there are only two years left before the First World War in 1914, when young people in Europe were thinking and calling.
Finally, back to the year of the poet Saint Du Fu, a month after Du Fu wrote the famous sentence "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, the road has frozen bones", the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and the prosperity and beauty of the past will become a memory.
"Sin House" is a 2015 film, adapted from the 1945 classic play, is one of the three must-see plays in London's West End, the original story has been 75 years ago, but today, no outdated, it is still a sigh, especially when the news of the sudden death of a 23-year-old employee of a company in the early morning is being discussed.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. in Mark Twain