Although it has been two months, it still can't resist the eagerness of the editor to want to give this domestic suspense masterpiece Amway to everyone.
Shortly after the opening of "Labyrinth of Hearts", the director showed the contradiction between the father and son of the village chief, the contradiction between the miserable young woman Liqin and the thief Wang Baoshan, the village chief's son Zong Yao and his girlfriend Huang Huan.
Subsequently, the murder case appeared, and flashbacks and interpolations were the laughing fates of several pairs of contradictory characters.
In recent years, few domestic films have dared to set up intersecting contradictions for several groups of characters. Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece " A Generation of Grandmasters " , which has been polished enough in recent years , is one of them.
And "Labyrinth of Hearts" turned out to be the Virgo of director Xin Yukun, with a cost of only 1.7 million yuan. Therefore, in the production, there are inevitably very rough places, and the scenes and characters are particularly simple.
The actors who contributed superb performances in the film, except for Jia Zhigang, who played the "big and strong", the film resumes of others were only one "Labyrinth of Hearts", and they were all invited from the local theater troupe.
Director Xin Yukun said that because there was no investment, he had to "run naked by the story".
If you haven't been exposed to similar black humor movies, you might be shocked when you first start watching this film.
In fact, the director's method is to imitate the Coen brothers, Gehrig and other predecessors who shoot black humor films, and he can successfully graft this story type with china's rural environment, and people can't help but applaud him.
Compared with the violent killing of other suspenseful crime movies, Xin Yukun's "Labyrinth of Hearts" uses a very restrained method to slowly ignite the contradictions in the rural environment.
What is great is that the film does not have any set of contradictions in the end. The relationship between each group of characters ends peacefully, of course, except for the protagonist, the village chief father and son (the self-surrender subtitle at the end of the film, everyone understands).
However, the audience's heart is uneasy.
It is too difficult for the current audience to watch a domestic film in the cinema and then suffer a sense of uneasiness in their hearts. Because now most movies have only entertainment features.
Even if the director wants to explore human nature and social issues, there are more or less mistakes in the plot. There is no shortage of "dead people and murders" in domestic films, but the audience rarely feels sad and helpless because of this.
Two people die in Labyrinth of Hearts, and they are two people who are not worthy of sympathy. But their absurd method of death, the fate after death, because it is related to the fate of several families, makes the audience feel uncomfortable.
There are few positive characters in Labyrinth of Hearts, and no one is responsible for justice. But the audience can't criticize anyone, because the mistakes these people make will be made by everyone.
It's just the "coincidence" in the movie, let them make some "small mistakes", and push their lives into the black hole. This misfortune puts the audience at risk, and the four words "impermanence of fate" hang high above their heads.
Several groups of characters in the film have a common mentality, that is, they all feel that "I can control the direction of things".
The most classic is the village chief to his son. He was a man kidnapped by experience, facing a wall full of medals and honors, and gaining a kind of pioneer confidence.
He decided that his son must sit in the office, be by his side, marry a city girl, and bear grandchildren for him in a few years.
His son's unhappiness did not seem to him to be a problem, so he did not intend to communicate with the child to reach an understanding. However, such an old-fashioned and traditional father is very honest and honest for officials, and he is reasonable and close to the people.
He paid a terrible price for his conceit in his fatherly relationship, a price so cleverly designed that it should not be said here, spoilers at first. In short, at the moment of paying the price, you can see how boring and hypocritical the father's experience and morality are.
The village chief took a wrong step, lost all the games, saw the hope of overturning several times in the middle, and finally lost desperately. After watching the movie, you will say that the village chief loves his son deeply and has done something completely contrary to his own values.
But I believe that at the end of the film, when the village chief and his son look at each other on the side of the coffin that "tricked everyone", they feel that they do not understand what love is.
The living can talk about morality. Direct contact with death, and may be infected by death, the animalistic turned over to dominate the brain.
In the film, Xin Yukun very deliberately let the video data of chimpanzees and gorillas appear three times in the TV set.
Several people in the film, in the face of direct and indirect death, have become chimpanzees. IQ is still there, but behavior is all replaced by animal instincts. All actions are made to protect themselves.
Even if the characters are despicable, the audience knows that this is a critique of the current social group portraits that are progressing and regressing at an astonishing rate. Everyone still acquiesced, there was unhappiness, and they did not dare to show too much.
At the end of the day, it's because the director's storytelling skills are extremely high. The neatness brought by the story dissolves the audience's sense of shame.
At the end of the film, I was overwhelmed. A mountain temple that symbolizes the confusion and impetuosity of chinese faith in the present, and it is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva and mountain gods.
The merit box is full of money, and there are many merit monuments outside the hall. The most disgusting white tiger in the film walks to the temple to pray sincerely and then leaves. Far away, the mother of the male protagonist Zong Yao is also worshipping.
The incense in the temple is very strong, and the villagers are worshipping. They were expressionless when they saw the funeral, and only chopsticks had a sound when eating flowing water mats. The mountain gods must have blessed some of their wishes, otherwise the incense would not have flourished.
But what happened after the white tiger prayed, the gods were on top, and they should be able to see it clearly, but the white tiger was not blessed.
Who do the gods bless? According to the theory of karma, the protection produced by divine powers only takes effect for those who deserve to be blessed.
In the film, everyone is guilty, and everyone is also suffering. In exchange for us, we are them, and sin is also a subconscious thing. In front of the gods, everyone seems to have something to be blessed and forgiven.
Is it because everyone and the orangutan are still the same, so they pay for the bestiality?
The film ends here, and the director doesn't give an answer.
A young man who wants to break free from his patriarchal control accidentally kills a leper from the same village in a dispute and is forced to flee:
It turned out to be the village's leper white tiger
The White Tiger overheard the conversation between the two men and threatened Zong Yao with a 10,000-piece sealing fee
If you don't give it, tell everyone that the son of the village chief's family slept with the yellow flower girl, and also made the people's stomach bigger
When the time comes, see how Xiao Weiguo became the village chief
Zong Yao dragged the White Tiger
The two men wrestled
Suddenly Zong Yao let go of his hand violently
The white tiger slammed into a stone on the side of the road and died.
Zong Yao and Huang Huan ran out of the village overnight
He did not expect to escape from the comfortable life in such a way, but when he left, he was shocked to find that fate had already bound him closely to his authoritarian father, and he would lose everything if he left or left:
The two men hid in a rental house in the city, terrified
Looking out the window, I was afraid that the next second the police would come after them and arrest them
Huang Huan pressed the phone at home
Not sure what to do next
Huang Huan wanted to go home
But Zong Yao would not let it
A left-behind woman devastated by domestic violence finds solace in the arms of her former lover:
As soon as the picture turns, a female voice says, as soon as your wife is pregnant, look at you
The two men tossed and turned dry firewood
Unfortunately, the wife made a phone call and ruined the good deeds of the two people
It turned out that the two were secretly in love with Li Qin and Wang Baoshan
In the darkness, the desperate woman and her lover secretly murdered her husband, but when the news of Mangfu's death really came, the lover avoided denying everything:
Wang Baoshan thought of a way for Li Qin, killed Chen Zili and dragged the body to the mountain and burned it, along with the surrounding wild grass
In this way, others think that they were accidentally burned to death, just like Uncle Sun
Uncle Zhao said that the body found in the morning was not Huang Huan at all, but Chen Zili, a man from Liqin's family
Villagers found the deceased's wallet on the charred body, which contained Chen Zili's IDENTITY
Wang Baoshan finally answered Liqin's call, and he told Liqin that he really didn't do anything
Li Qin listened to this and thought about it
When a woman is desperate again and another man shows up in her life, he brings more to the woman than just care:
Da Zhuang should like Liqin, and also brought a lot of things to Liqin
Determined to take good care of Liqin in the future
An old village chief with integrity and strict self-discipline carefully designed his later life after retirement:
Here, Xiao Weiguo was still showing off Zong Yao's current good work
It's an iron rice bowl and it's close to home
Xiao Weiguo thought that in two years, Zong Yao would get married and have children again, and then he would not be the village chief himself, and he would hold his grandson safely and steadily
Faithful to his faith all his life, he bowed his head easily in the face of his nature; a stain fell on the blueprint of fate, and he tried to wipe away the stain, but peeled off a black hole and fell into it:
Xiao Weiguo did not speak
In the evening, Xiao Weiguo came to the Spirit Hall alone
I couldn't believe what I had done
But since he did it, there was no way to turn back, Xiao Weiguo opened the coffin.........
How exactly did the three sets of contradictions erupt in silence? Under the arrangement of fate, what coincidences have occurred that make the audience sigh and feel uneasy after watching?
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