Author of this article: Chuan Meimei
I watched Wang Xiaoshuai's movie "Left and Right", I didn't expect this theme to be so sadistic, I saw two couples, to be precise, three couples (former couples), on the proposition of saving children's lives, so consistent, I burst into tears.
The film is a 2008 work by the sixth-generation director Wang Xiaoshuai, which was released in the mainland on April 1 of that year. Starring Liu Weiwei, Cheng Taishen, Zhang Jiayi, Yu Nan, etc., the film won the Silver Bear Award at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. The movie's care for human emotions, respect and cherishing life, let the two couples put aside their own grudges and chicken feathers, and finally only to save the life of a five-year-old child, this heavy choice is moving. The kindness and morality of human nature persistently flow in the lives of two ordinary couples, highlighting the director's humanistic care and the brilliance and value of human nature, which is worth observing and appreciating.
The story is not complicated. Zhuzhu (played by Liu Weiwei) lives with her second husband (played by Cheng Taishen), his five-year-old daughter Hehe is well-behaved and lovely, and her husband Lao Xie is a designer, he loves his wife Zhuzhu very much and regards her daughter Hehe as his own. From the plot, we learned that Taketake has been divorced from her ex-husband for four years, and the family of three has a peaceful and happy life. Ex-husband Xiao Lu (played by Zhang Jiayi) has been married to flight attendant Dong Fan (Yu Nan) for two years, and their relationship is very stable.
Zhuzhu's profession is a real estate agent, her job is to constantly show customers the house and introduce the property, and if it can be sold or rented, that is her performance. The set of three bedrooms, three living rooms and two bathrooms in her hand is really good, and the orientation of the lighting floor is good, but strangely, there are many people watching wave after wave, and it has not been able to complete the deal. The ghost made a difference, she rented this house herself, rented it for a month, you didn't expect it, it actually came in handy for herself.
Let's start at the beginning. Her daughter Hehe has always had a fever up and down for days, and the couple took the child to the hospital for diagnosis, but they didn't think that the test results came out, leukemia. The doctor advised them to take their child to the hospital, prepare for blood group verification matching while treatment, and eventually always have a bone marrow transplant. However, the blood types of the biological parents cannot be matched, and the doctor told him that there is only one way to see if the child has biological sisters or brothers, and that using umbilical cord blood can save Hehe. The question is, my mother Zhuzhu and my father Xiao Lu have been divorced for many years, where to find this child's siblings? In other words, it is difficult to succeed in matching blood now, and to save the child can only be found from the child's kinship, to put it bluntly, Hehe must have a biological sister or brother to save her life, and the parents of Zhuzhu and Xiao Lu have no choice.
The film is a white drawing technique, putting forward this thorny question, as a mother Zhuzhu did not think much about it, found Xiao Lu, and bluntly went straight to the theme "I must give birth to a child to save Hehe". Very good, Xiao Lu said, "Old Xie is good". "No, it's with you!" This is a problem, he is now the husband of Dong Fan (Yu Nan), how can he have children with his ex-wife, which raises ethical and moral problems.
According to Dong Fan's words, I must lend my husband and fulfill him and his ex-wife to have a child to save poor Hehe, which seems to be morally justified. But, in practice, alas, my husband, this kind of human challenge in this realm is very dilemma. Dong Fan thought about whether to withdraw from his marriage with Xiao Lu, then there would be no obstacles for him and his ex-wife. Of course, there is Lao Xie, the current husband of the ex-wife, then it is not something she should worry about, alas, trouble. Dong Fan has always wanted to have a child of his own with Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu always dodges and pushes, and he hasn't thought about whether the two of them want a child or not. Perhaps the experience of divorcing his ex-wife still makes him palpitate.
Wang Xiaoshuai is worthy of the sixth generation of directors with personality, he faces this practical problem of human nature and human ethics, and he asks his young beautiful wife Dong Fan to single out this human subject. Dong Fan lost his temper in front of her husband Xiao Lu, I quit and fulfill you. In fact, she also has a lot of waves in her heart, and she is also a woman and motherhood.
There was a scene, she and her flight attendant colleague Xiaotian went to visit Zhuzhu together, not wanting Zhuzhu to be at home, she knocked on the door of her husband's ex-wife's house and saw her current husband, a gentle man, he held his sick daughter Hehe, a little girl who was tender and loved in every way, the well-behaved Hehe was wearing a mask so weak and helpless, like a sick cat leaning in his father's arms, alas, my tears flowed disobediently. Even if you have a stubborn heart of stone, it is impossible for you not to break your mind in front of this sick little girl. I saw the tears in Dong Fan's eyes, her motherhood was touched, she said goodbye to her husband, and she made a decision.
She calls her husband, and I agree, you go with her to have a baby. But you also have to promise our baby on the agenda. Xiao Lu promised with a mouthful, okay, have a baby with you. Dong Fan flew, and she was busy in the air. The husband was busy collecting sperm, cooperating with Hehe's mother, and the doctor helped them to artificial insemination. However, after failing three times in a row, Zhuzhu's heart was like a knife, and her Hehe was one step closer to death every day she waited, and her heart was broken. She begged the doctor if she could try again. The doctor refused. She remembered what Dr. Cao said, "cord blood can save children", she decided to face her ex-husband sincerely, and use natural methods to have a baby!
She formally met with Xiao Lu and decided to take a risk. At this moment, I understand Zhuzhu too well, a mother's heart to save her daughter earnestly prays for unstoppability, even if there is a cliff of the abyss in front of her, she has no hesitation to jump. Xiao Lu asked her, how do you tell Lao Xie? I won't tell him. What about himself, Xiao Lu seems to have the answer. Seeing this, I sighed incomparably, since ancient times, the most tormenting difficult and difficult juncture in life, the brave character who gave up his life, whether it is a woman or a man, it seems that it is still a weak body of maternal love but looks at death as home.
So, she took a taxi with him, "left", "right" she commanded the taxi driver, and drove to the apartment where she showed the client N times. They were separated for four years, and in order to save their daughter, they decided to share a bed and "cooperate" to make a baby. I admire such a brave and strong mother, and I admire that her ex-husband Xiao Lu did not hesitate to "cooperate", all for the sake of a young innocent life forced on the edge of the cliff at any time may fall into the abyss, what is greater and more holy than saving a life. I remember that a colleague of mine suddenly had acute leukemia a few years ago, and she was born for 49 days, and she did not wait for the day when she could be matched and left. Her life is forever fixed at the age of 45, this winter, her son has just entered university, tragedy, a human life, a talented Chinese teacher. I went to see her two days before leaving, and her pair of gray eyes made my heart break, I still can't forget, alas, what can I do...
Also remembering a movie "The Long Marriage Contract" Five soldiers were sentenced to death by a military court in order to escape for their lives, and were thrown at the forefront of the German-French war zone according to the instructions of their commanders, one of the soldiers named Benjamin already had five children in his family, and as long as he had 6 children according to the regulations, he was allowed to retire early, so he arranged for his friends and his wife to "borrow the womb to have children" because he himself was infertile. Look how precious and wonderful life is.
And although Hehe unfortunately had leukemia, she was lucky, her biological mother and father, her stepfather, and her biological father's wife were born as human beings, and they all unanimously chose to have a baby to save her, and they deserve to be great parents with upright capitals!
At the end of the film, under the background of the crimson sheets, Zhuzhu closed her eyes, I felt that her sleeping posture at that moment was incomparably beautiful and holy, she completed the sublimation and shaping of a mother's love, and the baby she and her ex-husband recreated was the hope and beacon of Hehe's life.
Lao Xie nagged with his wife, waiting for the baby to be born, and told them that it was okay, or we would bring it, just say that it was our child. I burst into tears again, the world is worth nostalgic, there is such a frank and broad husband, I want to say for Zhuzhu, "Lao Xie, I will always love you, and I and Hehe will always be with you."
In fact, there is a terrier, when Zhuzhu and Xiao Lu were dating in that room, they accidentally touched the mobile phone call, Lao Xie picked it up, he heard them talking, he knew everything.