After Zhou Yi was arrested.
Gao Bin, the head of the secret service, asked Zhou Yi, saying, "What is your belief?" humanitarian? You even kill your own colleagues and clean up those heinous things, is that faith? ”
Zhou Yi said indifferently, "Your understanding is too superficial. ”
The colleague Gao Bin said was Ren Changchun.
In "Cliff", although Ren Changchun is only a supporting role, he has left a deep impression on the audience. He was a kind young man, he came from the countryside, he was also a bitter child from childhood, he was decent.
In the police station, Ren Changchun admired Zhou Yi the most, and later directly called him "brother", and later because of Sun Yuejian's arrest, Ren Changchun's presence directly threatened Zhou Yi, because he had seen them together.
In order to avoid exposure, Zhou Yi sent Gu Qiuyan to remove Ren Changchun.
Many people feel sorry for this, thinking that he is a good person and should not have such an end.
Now watching the drama again, I finally understand that Ren Changchun died unjustly.
01, although Ren Changchun is upright, he has no faith, and he only wants to get ahead
Ren Changchun is a rural child, who has suffered a lot since he was a child, in order to be able to get rid of the poor living conditions, so he was admitted to the police academy, and after graduation, he was assigned to this police station as a policeman.
He is conscientious and responsible, his thinking is relatively simple, there is no flower intestine, unlike other policemen who are contaminated with the greasy smell of mixed society.
Ren Changchun's first appearance was during a makeshift checkpoint inspection to arrest the Communists.
Gu Qiuyan and Sun Yuejian took the box containing the transmitter to the car through the checkpoint, and Sun's false identity had been exposed, so they lied that they did not bring an ID card, so they were taken to the police station by Ren Changchun.
Ren Changchun insisted on opening the box for inspection, and Gu Qiuyan's move out of Zhou Yi did not work.
He said, "I don't know this man, and we are not under the control of the Secret Service Section." “
In the end, It was Zhou Yi who personally came and called the director to resolve this crisis, in Zhou Yi's words, Ren Changchun was cautious in doing things, but he lacked some experience, otherwise all three people would have been exposed at that time.
It is not difficult to see that Ren Changchun is a man of integrity and has the quality of being a secret agent. I think that maybe at some point, Zhou Yi once considered plotting against this person.
When Zhou Yi planned to ask Gu Qiuyan to remove Ren Changchun, Gu Qiuyan felt that she could not do anything, and she suggested that it was better to reverse Ren Ce, but Zhou Yi resolutely refused.
"It's naïve to think that right now, maybe 50 percent sure, but I can't try."
I think the reason why Zhou Yi said that he was 50% sure was because he knew ren's belief and admiration for himself, but at the same time he also knew that Ren Changchun was a person without faith, a person without faith, and a person without a bottom line, so Zhou Yi did not dare to take risks.
I remember that when Ren Changchun reported to the Secret Service Section, it was Zhou Yi who personally talked to him.
Zhou Yi asked him why he didn't smoke, and Ren Changchun smiled sheepishly:
"My family was poor and I couldn't afford it, and my parents were farmers who tightened their pants and belts for me to go to school, which was not easy. I became a police officer so that my family would not be bullied. ”
Zhou Yi felt good about him and continued to seduce him in a good order:
"Doing this line of work can't make you soar, but it can make you crush to pieces, have you ever thought about it?"
"I thought that life and death have a destiny, and wealth is in heaven."
Zhou Yi then asked, "To do our job, we must have courage and faith, what is your faith?" ”
Ren Changchun said: "I haven't thought about this question before, I'll go back and think about answering you tomorrow."
It can be seen that Zhou Yi's disappointment at that time, because a person has no faith, it is easy to be tempted and bound by desire.
Such a person is like a duckweed on the water, going with the flow, and he cannot complete that noble and arduous task.
02, the matter of sending medicine to the mountain, it can be seen that Ren Changchun does not have much national righteousness in his heart
Ren Changchun is different from others, he has his own bottom line and conscience.
I remember that there is a scene in the play, when He wants to shoot Gu Qiuyan's little uncle Zhang Pingjun, someone proposes to let Ren Changchun personally execute it, Ren Changchun was very scared at the time, and then fell into pain.
"I've only killed chickens before, the first time I've killed people."
It shows that at this time, he still has good thoughts.
Therefore, when Zhou Yi set up a bureau to deliver medicine up the mountain, he proposed to Gao Bin that Ren Changchun go up the mountain together as an undercover agent of the secret service section.
In fact, this is a test and inspection of Ren Changchun by Zhou Yi, and unfortunately, Ren Changchun's performance is a great disappointment.
Ren is no longer the upright young man who just entered the police station, on the way to the Anti-League, according to the plan, pretending to join the Communists, to kill the two homeless people who impersonated the police, when pulling the trigger, Ren Changchun had no guilt, and there was no fluctuation in his heart.
Even Lu Ming, who killed people without blinking an eye, felt a little unbearable when he saw that two innocent tramps were about to die. Ren Changchun, on the other hand, looked at ease, killing people like killing chickens, without any compassion.
After arriving on the mountain, Ren Changchun, with his good insight, as well as his alertness and cunning, not only retreated with his whole body, but also brought back Lao Qiu, a secret agent who Gao Bin had installed in the Anti-Japanese League.
Ren Changchun witnessed the anti-coalition fighters surviving in a harsh environment on the mountain, lacking clothes and food, and fighting with ghosts, but his heart did not make the slightest wave.
At the same time, he knew that some of the medicines he had brought to the mountain had been injected with the plague virus, and once this batch of medicines was used by the warriors on the mountain, the consequences would be unimaginable and would be a devastating disaster.
However, he did not have any struggles and uneasiness, and he was at ease to complete the task and return to the game, waiting for the meritorious service to be awarded.
What touched Ren Changchun was that before he went on a mission, Zhou Yi sent a sum of money to his family, and from then on, Ren Changchun regarded Zhou Yi as a big brother.
It can be seen that Ren Changchun does not have any national righteousness in his heart, nor does he have a great concept of right and wrong.
As a Chinese, he had no sympathy for his countrymen. In his mind, personal gains and losses far outweighed the national righteousness and the lives of others.
I have to say that Zhou Yi was more disappointed in him. This is also another important reason why Zhou Yi has not plotted against him.
03, Ren Changchun's death brought Zhou Yi's inner pain and suffering.
Although Zhou Yi is an excellent agent, he has a romantic feeling of compassion, he has always opposed killing, let alone killing his little brother who has always respected him, which is indeed a very painful and painful decision for him.
Previously, when the bureau was investigating the internal traitors, Gao Bin repeatedly turned his suspicious eyes to Zhou Yi, and Gu Qiuyan proposed to send someone to assassinate him, so that Zhou Yi's situation could be alleviated.
But zhou yi vetoed it, and he felt that killing people was never the best solution to the problem. Later, on the issue of treating Chunsan, Zhou Yi also held the same attitude.
Moreover, it was necessary to get rid of Ren Changchun, who had always trusted and loyal to himself, which was something he was absolutely unwilling in his heart.
Before getting rid of Ren Changchun, he invited Ren Changchun to eat Western food at the Madier Restaurant. In fact, Zhou Yi wanted to make one last effort to examine whether Ren could be rebelled against.
Ren Changchun said: "I think that this police department is a place where bad people gather up and down, except for you, I don't believe anyone, I create a business here every day to kill, I think my mother gave birth to me, I didn't let me come to this world to kill people." ”
Zhou Yi pretended to remind him very casually that all police officers who had no family affairs could only achieve the position of Ren Changchun.
Ren Changchun listened, and immediately said that he wanted to find a woman to marry, from this it can be seen that Ren Changchun will do whatever it takes to climb up, even his own marriage can be sacrificed, let alone this big brother who is not related by blood?
Ren Changchun knew that what he was doing was sinful, but unfortunately he did not want to get rid of this demonic life, because in his opinion, this was just a means for his profession to climb up.
Zhou Yi's face could not hide the disappointment, as a good agent, he knew that he had to get rid of this hidden danger.
However, as a big brother who is trusted by the other party, he can't bear to take advantage of the trust and defense of the other party.
Moreover, through this conversation, Zhou Yi completely gave up the idea of plotting against Ren Changchun, and understood that getting rid of him was the only choice to solve the dilemma.
Zhou Yi finally said this sentence:
"It's all fate."
Finally, he was told: Be careful on the road!
It can be seen that making this choice is a painful decision for Zhou Yi, and it also violates his consistent principle of being a person, but for the sake of the overall situation, he must do so.
Ren Changchun told Gao Bin that Sun Yuejian, who was arrested, was Zhou Yi's cousin, so both Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan would be exposed.
This will not only fail to live up to the sacrifices made by Sun Yuejian and other comrades, but also bring unimaginable unit consequences to the underground party organization.
Therefore, during the later interrogation, Zhou Yi said that Gao Bin's understanding was too narrow.
Some people say that Ren Changchun's death is his retribution for killing Zhang Pingjun, and I think the choreographer wants to express more than that.
Although Ren Changchun's death is inseparable from his world outlook and values, the most crucial reason is the war, which is not so much a personal tragedy of Ren Changchun as a tragedy created by the times.
epilogue:
I personally feel that Ren Changchun's death cannot be measured simply by injustice and injustice, and the reason why the screenwriter arranged such a conflicting role has a deeper meaning.
In that era, the country was troubled internally and externally, and the fate of everyone was involuntarily born under the rolling wheels of history, and it was not transferred by personal will at all.
But we can still choose our faith.
The story takes place in early 1939, Zhang Pingjun and Ren Changchun, two children of ordinary people, have just left school and stepped into society.
They have both a vision of the future and a confusion about the future.
But the difference is that Zhang Pingjun was inspired by progressive ideas, although he was very naïve, he had a bright faith, so he went to the revolutionary road;
Ren Changchun, out of a narrow and selfish idea: in order not to be bullied at home, he was admitted to the police academy and entered the secret service section, and since then he has stepped into a path that violates his conscience.
When the country was in the midst of life and death, two young people made very different choices, and as a result, both died, but with completely different values, one was still alive and admirable, and the other died in vain with a sigh.