Xiao Wu's story, or our story

I stood in the fierce wind, hating and hating, and my heart ached.

Jia Zhangke "Xiao Wu"

The movie "Xiao Wu" tells the story of friendship, love and family affection of Liang Xiaowu, a young man who is a thief in a small county town in Shanxi in the late 90s, and the film ends with Xiao Wu being discovered and caught when he is stealing a pager, being handcuffed to the wire by public security personnel, and being watched, discussed and ridiculed by people on the street in the cold wind.

Xiao Wu is a thief as a profession, he and the traditional sense of the thief has a certain difference, he is a small man, dressed in a suit, wearing a pair of leather shoes, wearing a pair of big eyes, like an intellectual image, on the other hand, he can not leave the body, walking up to look like a hanging Lang Dang. Doing nothing all day, wandering aimlessly on the street, these two completely incompatible appearances appear in a person at the same time, suddenly making the audience have a natural curiosity and speculation about what Xiao Wu is doing. On the other hand, Xiao Wu is a thief who is not too bad by nature, he only steals money, and every time he sends the ID card stolen with the money to the police station through the mailbox, so as not to let the people who lose the ID card worry.

Friendship, Jin Xiaoyong used to be a very good friend with Xiao Wu, and also a good comrade-in-arms when stealing things in the past, and their relationship was extraordinary. However, just when Jin Xiaoyong made a fortune through smuggling and opening a song hall to get married, he sent invitations to many other friends who were originally good, but did not give Xiao Wu, the reason is that there are many people with heads and faces in many counties who attended his wedding, if Xiao Wu came, he would let others know that he was also a thief, he did not want to lose his dignity, and he did not want to have any connection with Xiao Wu, after all, he is still a thief, and he is an entrepreneur with a head and a face, Xiao Wu is a person with feelings and righteousness. He learned through others that Xiao Yong was getting married, and at the risk of a severe crackdown, he stole some money to give Xiao Yong money. Because it turned out that Xiao Wu had promised that if Xiao Yong got married, he would give him six pounds of money. When Xiao Wu went to the door with the money wrapped in red paper to find Xiao Yong, Xiao Yong ignored it with love, and even did not want others to see Xiao Wu come to his home to look at him with disgust, Xiao Wu said that Xiao Yong had changed, really fucking changed. Xiao Wu is a person who is not good at words, and every time he is unhappy, he smokes a cigarette silently, or fidgets on his legs, or walks back and forth. Time has really changed a lot of things, and what was once thought to exist for a long time may disappear in an instant. Xiao Wu is just a microcosm of reality.

Love, once when I accidentally went to the song hall to sing, I met a singing lady named Hu Meimei, and unconsciously Xiao Wu had a good feeling for her, accompanied her to go shopping, do hair, and make phone calls. From time to time to go to the song hall to find Mei Mei, once the boss said that Hu Meimei was sick, Xiao Wu found the place where she lived through others, and then immediately rushed to find her, it turned out that she was on a menstrual holiday, her stomach hurt and could not get out of bed, Xiao Wu bought her a hot water bottle, Mei Mei also sang to him, Fang Mei Mei turned around and lay on Xiao Wu's leg, and true love took root in Xiao Wu's heart. He and Meme had many happy moments, they danced together, sang, and squandered good times together. However, when he went to find Meimei again, the boss said that Meimei followed the boss in Shanxi, he did not believe it, and found the place where she lived, and another roommate said that she did not know where Humeimei went to play, only that she had just moved away today, and it was a Shanxi boss who drove her away. Xiao Wu took the ring he bought for Mei Mei and threw it around uneasily in his hand, he realized that the short love and happiness were far away, and he left Hu Meimei's residence disappointed.

Affection, he went home and gave the ring he bought to her mother, but because his second brother wanted to marry a woman who was a cadre in the county, he gave the ring to the second daughter-in-law, when he went to question his mother where the ring went, his mother beat him to death and did not say that it was given to the second daughter-in-law, the two also quarreled over this, and finally Xiao Wu's father scolded him as a disobedient and drove him out of the house, and he also angrily said that he would never come back. On the way away from home, Xiao Wu took off his coat and hung it on the railing of the car, which he wanted to hang on all the time.

Xiao Wu began to wander the streets with nothing to do again, looking at the dilapidated streets and the crowds, he did not know where the future was. When he saw a target person appear, he used to prepare to strike, but the pager on his body suddenly rang, his behavior was immediately discovered, he turned into a street rat, several people arrested him together, and then twisted to the public security bureau, and the TV also reported that he stole things. In fact, he had been waiting for Hu Meimei to give him a message back, and finally returned, and the content of the reply was to wish him all the best. He was handcuffed to a wire, and then crouched there to watch the passing crowd when the song "Farewell to the Overlord" sung by Tu Honggang sounded, and a young man wandering the streets would lose his freedom, and freedom was the last thing he lost, and it was also the most precious thing.

The movie "Xiao Wu" can also be said to be a short film, I like Jia Zhangke's film is very important because his film is always more content than form, popular point is to tell the story, tell the story, there is no shocking picture, only simple and unpretentious shots, and content, but these shot content can make people feel the real charm of human nature, experience the warmth and coldness between people, and perceive the changes of human nature in social change. Many people think that Jia Zhangke's films are very literary, I think it is not literature and art, or just the form of literature and art, in fact, the content is very cruel, it is a test and embodiment of human nature, watching his films will make us have an ultimate care and understanding of people and people, as well as people and society.