Feng Xiaogang once said that he has three major regrets in his life: one is sorry for his ex-wife Zhang Di; the other is sorry for his current wife, Xu Fan, who failed to have children with her; and the third is Wang Baoqiang.
Among the three regrets, the two wives accounted for two; and the emotional disputes of Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Di, and Xu Fan are also well known to everyone, which is nothing more than the story of a man who divorced and remarried his wife after cheating.
But Feng Xiaogang has a kind of obsession in his heart, he is eager to prove how big the desire and temptation of men face the world, so he set out to make a movie about extramarital affairs about middle-aged men cheating.
In 1996, Feng Xiaogang found Wang Shuo and wanted to adapt his novel "Wretched" into a movie, but he did not expect that when everything was ready to start shooting, the crew was forced to disband because the content of the film violated the forbidden area.
In 2000, Feng Xiaogang was still grumpy about this film, and took pains to make it see the light of day, and as soon as the film was broadcast, it caused great controversy, some people said that this film was low in style, and some people said that this was Feng Xiaogang's most underrated film.
Regardless of the external evaluation, this film is very realistic, those middle-aged cheating men, can't help but swing left and right, the form of struggle between two women is revealed, it rips off the "fig leaf" of the married middle-aged man.
Today, Uncle Chai came to talk to you about this movie: "A Sigh".
The path of infidelity – the devil of desire
The protagonist of the film, Liang Yaya (played by Zhang Guoguo), is a screenwriter who is not confused and accomplished, and his wife Song Xiaoying (played by Xu Fan) is a dentist, the husband and wife have been married for more than ten years, support each other, have a good relationship, and have a daughter Yueyue.
For the sake of their children's studies, the husband and wife are ready to buy a new house in Beijing for decoration. Beijing is short of land, housing prices have soared, Liang Asia, as the top pillar of the family, in the face of such great economic pressure, can only desperately make money to support the family.
He improvised a script, and the boss Liu Dawei rented a hotel in Sanya in order to make him concentrate on writing the closed script, and also sent him a life assistant Li Xiaodan (played by Liu Bei).
Li Xiaodan in the film is young and bright, helping Liang Yaya, a rough man, to fold neat clothes, prepare lunch and dinner, hand over water from time to time, intimate and gentle she admires Liang Yaya, softly whispers "Teacher Liang" shouting, Liang Ya is unable to resist such a beautiful little girl.
Although Liang Yaya and Li Xiaodan have a good feeling for each other, out of a sense of responsibility for the family, Liang Yaya is discouraged.
But unexpectedly, the next thing that happened broke the balance between Liang Yaya and Li Xiaodan, and aroused the most primitive desire in his heart.
Li Xiaodan was drunk at the class reunion, Liang Yaya, out of kindness, took care of her and sobered her up, and the delicate and charming Li Xiaodan, while pulling the zipper of his clothes, called "so hot" to him while pouring out his admiration.
Liang Ya in the film looked at her peach cheeks flushed, the delicate smooth skin exposed to the light, he suddenly felt dry mouth, heart ape, unconsciously swallowed the saliva.
On this night when the atmosphere and lust were picked to the highest peak, Liang Yaya fled into the wilderness; he was afraid that his desire for a youthful jade body would break through his rationality and make things unmanageable, so he hurriedly packed his bags and prepared to return to Beijing.
However, when the audience thought that Liang Yaya restrained his desire and escaped a disaster, the back of the film surprised Uncle Chai: on the way home, because Li Xiaodan's zipper was stuck, Liang Ya did not think much, subconsciously bit open the zipper with his mouth, and the faint fragrance on Li Xiaodan's body made him defeat the last line of defense in the nerve.
The ambiguous atmosphere circulated in the taxi, and the driver turned the front of the car and went to Li Xiaodan's home. Perhaps the burden of the family is too heavy, or perhaps there is no palpitation feeling about his wife for a long time, and now Liang Ya only wants to indulge himself once.
They crossed the moral taboo and ran together to the fallen heaven.
Behind the sour – the sadness of Chinese marriage
After all, the sinking is always a moment, and Liang Yaya, who has a clear brain, still has to go home and throw himself into the arms of his family. He pondered how to explain to his wife the fact that he got off the plane in the morning and came home in the evening.
As everyone knows, this kind of deception has a second time, be careful every day, can not let their words full of loopholes, not to mention that his wife can not find out that he is cheating, Liang Ya can be described as walking on thin ice, frightened.
Compared with the humble and timid wife here, Liang Yaya, who is with Li Xiaodan, is full of self-satisfaction every day, and falling in love with a young and beautiful girl is like letting him return to his youth, can be reckless, can be wanton, because Li Xiaodan treats him as a child, washes his feet, and peels fruit.
In Li Xiaodan's happy world, he does not have to rack his brains every day to make money desperately, do not have to worry about the pressure of life, do not have to deal with his wife's questions and answers, just enjoy.
This scene in the film is the epitome of how many ordinary men, too much pressure to seek a "utopia", feel the excitement and happiness, secret and freedom.
In this way, Liang Yaya met around between Li Xiaodan and his wife Song Xiaoying, dividing the time into two, with Song Xiaoying and Li Xiaodan each taking a share.
When Liang Ya went to Xiangshan to create, Li Xiaodan took a car for more than an hour every day to accompany Liang Ya, full of affection and honey, so uncomfortable!
At the same time, Song Xiaoying took her daughter to Xiangshan on a whim and greeted Liang Yaya with a warm greeting.
Liang Yaya was overwhelmed with emptiness, and after he sent Li Xiaodan out, he hurriedly disrupted Li Xiaodan's neat clothes and took care of the extra slippers before going to open the door. As soon as Song Xiaoying entered the door, she conveniently packed up his clothes for him.
Looking at a drawer of clothes neatly arranged, Song Xiaoying paused. Immediately, there was a knock at the door, and she vaguely heard the name of "lover", and she understood something.
Thinking of Liang Asia's recent anomalies, she sat wearily and quietly.
Once upon a time, they also fell in love with each other fiercely and worked together, and Liang Yaya was also a good husband and good man with satisfactory parents, a good future, and responsible for the family.
But now it is so, I can't help but sigh.
In fact, behind this is not an allusion to the heartache of middle-aged men and the sadness of Chinese marriage.
Men always have to stand up to the sky and support a home, women always have to be small and gentle, do a good job of strategic rear, and they are loving but they have exhausted their feelings in the chicken feathers of decades of life.
As Liang Yaya said in the film: "When I sleep at night, I touch your hand like touching my own hand, I don't feel anything, but if I saw your hand off, it hurts as much as sawing my hand!" ”
In the washing of time, traditional couples transform their heart-warming and happy love into quarrelsome and happy affection, cold and boring, but it is undeniable that this is the norm of marriage.
Things are out of the way, left and right
In the climax of the film, Liang Yaya, who was exposed by the extramarital affair, followed his wife and children back home, and Song Xiaoying's first words were "divorce", Liang Yaya did not want to see her family torn apart, and advised her to consider it again.
Under a series of crying and quarreling by Song Xiaoying, Liang Yaya was unbearable and moved out of the house, the two separated, hindered by the children, they did not divorce.
Liang Yaya, who escaped from his family, was unrestrained and started a new life with Li Xiaodan, although the property was left to Song Xiaoying, but the poor life could not break the pedestrians who lived enthusiastically, they kissed passionately in the forced room, danced freely, and enjoyed each other.
In this way, Li Xiaodan and Liang Yaya, who did not seek money or fame, spent two years of immortal life, without the interference of outsiders and the gossip of strangers.
However, after surviving the hot love period, Li Xiaodan, who longs for love, hopes that he can have a name, and hopes that Liang Ya can give her a safe home, but Liang Ya has heard about it for a long time.
Although Li Xiaodan was a little sad, he did not show it. She took Liang Yaya to see her father, under the scrutiny of her father, Li Xiaodan said about their relationship, and the silent father said "no face", which pulled out Li Xiaodan's hidden emotions in the past two years and could erupt at any time.
Li Xiaodan's heart was shattered in an instant, she just liked a person, not tolerated by the world, not expressed by morality, and those two years of youth were drowned in the mouth of others.
She began to force Liang Yaya to divorce, three days of a big quarrel, two days of a small quarrel, the relationship between the two is also in jeopardy. When Li Xiaodan was disheartened by Liang Ya, Liang Ya still took care of both ends, playing his good father in front of his children, and then turning back to coax himself.
Extramarital affairs, no winners
Li Xiaodan's heart is tired, Liang Yaya's heart is even more tired, not only to take on family responsibilities, but also to soothe the lover's emotions, he is too difficult.
He swayed left and right between the two women, he was reluctant to run the family for many years, he could not give up the affection with Song Xiaoying, and he could not ignore Li Xiaodan's deeds for his deviant behavior.
A man, eating in the pot and looking at the bowl, wants to have both, and the cowardly and uncertain personality leads to the final consequences: neither a person inside nor outside, neither a good husband nor a good lover, but hurts two women at a time, making them feel uneasy and like fish in the throat.
At that time, the news of his wife Song Xiaoying's fall gave him a choice - to return to the family, he took care of Song Xiaoying every day, cleaning, cooking, and picking up his daughter from school.
Who knew that Li Xiaodan visited on Liang Yaya's birthday, and the hostile Song Xiaoying and Yue Yue took advantage of this opportunity to taunt her fiercely, first giving her a drink that was difficult to drink, and then showing her the past photos of Liang Ya and Song Xiaoying, sweet and happy.
Li Xiaodan's heart seemed to be being held hard, and a sour feeling flowed between his heart. She realized that her relationship was wrong after all, and she should not fall in love with a husband with a wife.
Since then, Li Xiaodan has left their lives, and the life of their family of three is warm and beautiful, but Liang Yaya and Song Xiaoying always have a wall separated.
At the end of the film, Feng Xiaogang flexibly uses a suspenseful style: Liang Yaya took his wife and children to Sanya for a vacation, he received a phone call, and his panicked look was exposed, which meant that Liang Ya could never escape this extramarital affair.
And in this extramarital affair, no one is a winner: Liang Yaya lost his lover and lost the trust of his wife, Song Xiaoying lost his love, lost the good husband, Li Xiaodan gambled on dignity and reputation, and failed.
This film can be described as avant-garde at the time, but it also reflects the truth of marriage incomparably true - cheating harms others and harms yourself, do not easily try the results of taboos.
Just as Liang Ya said to Liu Dawei in the film: "She is a fairy, you have to endure it, and then there are fairies!" ”
In fact, everything is at work of desire and freedom. The man longs for a fresh girl, makes an excuse for his laziness, the dissipation of the enthusiasm of marriage, and in the moment of infidelity, the feelings of excitement, happiness, and freedom haunt him.
But when these fade, only the ordinary life is the truth of the world, in the face of a materialistic society, we must hold on to ourselves, not tempted; based on the present, not greedy; restrain our desires, unbound and lightly move forward.
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