I have always known that I am not a medicine god is an excellent domestic film, processed according to the art of real people and real events, and has also obtained good word of mouth and box office results. However, due to various reasons, I was unable to watch the whole movie in its entirety. Recently, I have nothing to do, and finally finished watching this film in one breath.
Tell me how I feel.
As far as this film is concerned, it meets all the criteria of a high-quality film in terms of storyline, dramatic conflict, actor performance level or spiritual height.
However, after reading it, there is always a vague sense of déjà vu, feeling that similar stories have been encountered somewhere. Then a picture suddenly appeared in my mind--- "Schindler's List." I believe that many veteran fans will be impressed by the Hollywood blockbuster directed by Spielberg. I myself made a fortune in college by selling discs and paid screenings of the film on campus.
Let me analyze the two films in detail.
First of all, the approximate storyline of "I Am Not a Medicine God" is:
The owner, a middle-aged man, Cheng Yong, broke down in marriage and ran a health care product store with a dismal business to make ends meet, at this time, Cheng Yong's father was seriously ill and could not afford the huge cost of surgery. An uninvited guest with chronic myelogenous leukemia, Lui, has allowed him to open up a new business in India to buy special generic drugs for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia. At this point, he became the exclusive agent of Indian generic drugs for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia, and frantically amassed wealth by buying drugs. When he had made enough money, Cheng Yong gave up the business that could bring him prison. Patients who have lost low-cost generic drugs in China have suffered from illness because they cannot afford to buy genuine drugs, and then die in pain.
With the continuous and in-depth contact with chronic myelogenous leukemia patients, he gradually experienced the hardships and pains of this special group of people. After experiencing a huge ideological struggle, Cheng Yong decided to continue to act as an agent for generic drugs, and at the same time reduced the price of drugs from 2,000 yuan to a cost price of 500 yuan, which is equivalent to saying that the business at this time did not earn a penny.
Soon, generic drug factories in India were banned and there were no drugs for sale. Only there are high-priced drugs in circulation with a retail price of 2,000 yuan. At this time, in the middle of the film, Cheng Yong bought the drug for 2,000 yuan in the Indian market, and continued to sell it to patients at a price of 500 yuan in China, which is obviously self-redemption and is called "medicine god" by patients.
In the end, Cheng Yong was arrested and sentenced for smuggling. But it has won the respect of judges and the majority of patients. And there were touching scenes of patients queuing up along the street to send Off Cheng Yong.
In a word, the spiritual core of this film is the process of a person's gradual progress from a profiteer to the discovery of conscience, and then to self-redemption.
I'm not a medicine god still
Then let's talk about Schindler's List, which was filmed in 1993 and is roughly the following:
Oskar Schindler was a small businessman in failed Nazi Germany, who spared no effort to make himself an influential image among Nazi officers by contacting high-ranking Nazi officials, and then received a steady stream of production orders from the Nazi military. At the same time, he hired large numbers of deprived Jews of their property and freedom from the Nazi government at low prices or for free, to produce day and night for his factories. Through this method, Schindler earned countless sums of money.
Later, by chance, Schindler was shocked to witness the nazis' horrific massacre of Jews. At this point, Schindler experienced a great ideological struggle over whether to continue to employ Jews as cheap labor or to use the resources at his disposal to save the Jews. Eventually, Schindler's human side exploded, and in order to save more Jews in the concentration camps, he did not hesitate to convert his enamel factory into an arms production factory. The truth is that his arsenal never produced a single bullet that could shoot the barrel of a gun, and in order to deceive the Nazi authorities and continue to rescue the Jews, Schindler spent a lot of money to buy batches of weapons and give them to Nazi officers.
At the end of World War II, the German Nazis stepped up their execution of Jews. At this time, Schindler had a complete showdown with high-ranking Nazi officials and blatantly used cash to buy Jews out of the concentration camps.
In the end, Schindler managed to free 1200 Jews. In 1945, after germany's defeat, Schindler was wanted for his nazi membership, and when he was about to flee, thousands of Jews who had been rescued by him jointly wrote a letter hoping to save him from trouble, and lined up to see Schindler off.
Schindler's list of stills
Comparing the story content, the two films are very different. But the spiritual core of the two films is exactly the same. It is all about a person who, after witnessing great pain or misery, after an inner struggle, finally the brilliance of good in human nature overcomes the darkness of evil, and gradually discovers from the conscience of the adulterer and sublimates into nobility.
Personally, I think that the directors and screenwriters of Medicine God must have studied Schindler's List and extracted its spiritual core. According to this spiritual core, the medicine god was packaged with a Chinese story and reinterpreted.
But as for whether to plagiarize, I personally believe that the spiritual attributes do have references, which can be said to be completely consistent; there are also high similarities in the narrative methods, but the selection of "Medicine God" is very niche and has no historical baggage; in terms of spiritual height, "Schindler's List" has more reflections on the rights and wrongs of ordinary people in that historical environment, while "Medicine God" lacks historical support and is not so full.
To sum up, I think that "Medicine God" is not essentially plagiarism, but only borrows the spiritual core of "Schindler's List", that is, the transformation of evil and good in human nature. The goodness of human nature is an eternal theme. Under the eternal theme, why not tell a new story?