The story takes place in northern Shaanxi, China in the early 90s. Bai Xuemei, a college student who has just entered the society, is happy to meet a noble person when she has not been able to find a job.
A manager who claimed to be a Chinese herbal medicine company kindly promoted Bai Xuemei and took her to a mountain village in northern Shaanxi to engage in procurement.
After the manager couple took the opportunity to leave, a nightmare befell Bai Xuemei.
Now Bai Xuemei's farmhouse claims to have spent 7,000 yuan to buy her as her daughter-in-law from her family and forcibly imprisoned her.
A few days later, a happy event was held in this farmhouse, and the groom Huang Degui was excited to get rid of his single-point identity, and Bai Xuemei, the bride who was tied up in the house, had no way to help!
The cave room spent candlelight night, but the groom Huang Degui was difficult to subdue this fierce woman who preferred to die unyielding, and as a result, with the concerted efforts of the father and son of the Huang family, this subjective cave room was completed, and the objective rape, Bai Xuemei's body was tragically defiled!
After that, Bai Xuemei, who was on the verge of collapse, went on hunger strike to fight against the misfortune of fate!
Mother Huang: "Girl, want to open something!" Who to marry and not to marry? Marrying a son will not treat you badly. Besides, we spent so much money, we can't help but enter the cave room! ”
Bai Xuemei: "Which one married your son?" Beast! ”
Bai Xuemei: "Your family is all animals, let me roll!" ”
Huang Degui: "Dog day, don't want to live?" ”
An uncompromising character will only be exchanged for a ruthless beating.
When she tries to escape, she is pursued by the entire village to protect their mutual interests.
As the village chief who is an official of one of the parents, Bai Xuemei's call for help is even more official in favor of the Huang family. This is so because the village hides a large number of so-called daughters-in-law who have been purchased from human traffickers!
Chen Chunli: "Sister, are you better?" My name is Chen Chunlan, and your mother-in-law asked us to persuade you, in fact, like you, we were abducted here by human traffickers. ”
Chen Chunli and Bai Xuemei have the same bad luck! Chen Chunli, who is now a mother, although she has succumbed physically and mentally, she understands and sympathizes with Bai Xuemei's feelings and experiences very much. Under her persuasion, Bai Xuemei understood the truth of "leaving the green mountains there"!
So, resisting the hunger strike, she began to eat;
also no longer resists Huang Degui's encroachment;
She even took on chores for housewives.
All kinds of acts of submission are only to remove the guards of the Huang family in order to escape successfully!
Bai Xuemei, who was penniless, often secretly handed over letters to the postman who came to deliver them, asking him to send them. Although the postman helped every time, Bai Xuemei's waiting reply ended in vain every time.
Bai Xuemei did not pin her hopes entirely on this, and she also tried to escape the nightmare by relying on her personal ability! After a difficult climb over the mountains, she came to the road leading to the town.
Helplessly, because he had no money to pay the fare, he was refused a ride by the van driver along the way!
Then, Huang Degui led several villagers to chase and capture Bai Xuemei.
Huang Degui: "I'll give you food, buy you new clothes, what are you running away from?" I still don't believe I can't clean up your mother-in-law. ”
The result of the attempted escape is naturally an endless violent beating!
Huang Degui's cousin, Huang Decheng, is a teacher in the village and the only intellectual.
Gao Chinese relied on him and Bai Xuemei, who had a college degree, and his words were very speculative, so Bai Xuemei asked Huang Decheng for help!
Huang Decheng agreed to her with sympathy. However, what Bai Xuemei didn't know was that Huang Degui used to buy his own money, including one that Huang Decheng loaned.
The sanctimonious Huang Decheng, on the surface, sympathizes with and approaches Bai Xuemei, which is nothing more than using his help-seeking psychology for lustful pleasure.
The dream did not last long, and Huang Decheng was soon caught and raped in bed by his cousin Huang Degui!
Father Huang: "Decheng, what do you say should be done about this?" Gong or what? Public, go to the director to evaluate, you gave your sister-in-law incivility, see what to do? Private, Degui married and borrowed your money, it should be a gift! Do you pick one? ”
Huang Decheng finally chose to break the wealth and avoid the disaster, and for Bai Xuemei, it meant another failure!
Even though the sacrifice is huge, Bai Xuemei still will not miss any opportunity to help her get out of the sea of suffering.
The owner of the village commissary has been coveting her body for a long time!
Seeing this, Bai Xuemei once again made a sacrifice and exchanged her body for a precious 40 yuan of prostitution.
After having money, she successfully hitched a ride on the van bound for the town, and then smoothly boarded the long-distance bus to the county seat.
Bai Xuemei: "Master, please, don't open the door, otherwise I will die." ”
Unexpectedly, the haunted Huang Degui and a group of villagers had already blocked the road crossing out of the city and searched for vehicles leaving the city.
Huang Degui: "My wife ran away, I want to go up and see, come, smoke a cigarette." ”
Driver: "That door opens." ”
The god of luck still did not favor this woman with a bumpy fate, and under the indifferent demeanor of the passengers in the car, Bai Xuemei returned to a nightmarish life!
It didn't take long for a fact that made Bai Xuemei even more unacceptable finally happened!
Mother Huang: "Woman, I beg you, you can do whatever you want to do to me, an old woman, don't hurt the child." ”
In anger, Bai Xuemei tried to knock out the evil root in her belly!
Huang Degui: "If you dare to kill Liwa, I will kill you." ”
Mother Huang: "It's our Huang family who is sorry for you, you can beat me or scold me, my old woman knelt down for you." ”
In the end, Bai Xuemei also had to accept this inevitable fact!
After being pregnant in October, Bai Xuemei successfully gave birth to Huang Degui's son.
Bai Xuemei has a good relationship with a young boy named Li Jinshan in the village. When Li Jinshan could not go to school due to family reasons, she selflessly helped this poor child to teach him.
Li Jinshan: "Sister Bai, I saw the postman hand over the letter you sent to Huang Degui." ”
One day, after seeing Huang Degui bribing the postman, Li Jinshan informed Xuemei of this fact without hesitation.
The reason why the outwardly righteous postman took the letter again and again was only to covet Huang Degui's little return.
Li Jinshan: "Sister Bai, don't be sad, I'll send you a letter." “
In the end, the only one who brought hope to Bai Xuemei was this child with innocent nature!
Some time after Li Jinshan sent the letter for Bai Xuemei, the public security police brought Bai Xuemei's father to the door.
Father Bai: "Xuemei, I'm Dad." ”
Bai Xuemei: "Why are you here!" ”
Father Bai: "Go, let's go home." ”
Mother Huang: "Give me the baby, it's from my family." ”
Bai Xuemei: "This child is mine." ”
Policeman: "The baby belongs to her family, let it go quickly, otherwise you won't be able to get out of H'er when you wait." ”
Father Bai: "Xuemei, go home first, the baby's affairs, we'll talk about it later." ”
As a last resort, Bai Xuemei had to give up the child temporarily, but the Huang family and villagers would not let her go!
A mob ignored the law and openly stopped the police car that was about to leave.
Mother Huang: "If you want to take her away, just run over me." ”
The two policemen were powerless to resist in the face of arbitrary obstruction. Huang Degui's mother even forced her to die and blocked her way.
In order to resolve the conflict, both the police and the people went to the village committee and asked the village chief to resolve it. When the village chief went to pacify the villagers, the two people's policemen proposed a proper solution to Bai Xuemei!
Policeman: "Do you want to go back?" ”
Bai Xuemei: "I have to go back when I die, they are all a bunch of animals, not people, and I won't go in this direction in the future." ”
Policeman: "Well, you listen to us." Today you go home first, endure it, and in three days, we will bring someone to rescue you. ”
Bai Xuemei: "Uncle policeman, you must take me away today, otherwise I will only die here, please!" ”
Father Bai: "Two police officers, you can't leave, please!" In order to save my daughter, I finally scraped together thousands of yuan in rescue money, and I can't save my daughter this time, I really can't get the money to save my daughter! ”
The so-called rescue fee is similar to the employment fee, and Bai Xuemei's father has obviously lost his family and incurred debts in order to rescue his daughter.
Now in the face of such a fierce battle, the two police officers are also powerless. As a result, they had to leave a "promise that they would come back in three days to rescue" and left in a panic!
Bai Xuemei's father vowed to protect his daughter and stayed here.
In order to deal with the police who might go and return, Huang Degui's family forcibly dragged Bai Xuemei to hide. Seeing this, Bai Xuemei's father tried to stop it, and was beaten by Huang Degui.
Father Bai: "Beat someone, help!" ”
Bai Xuemei: "Don't hit my father." ”
In a hurry, Bai Xuemei picked up the kitchen knife on the ground and hacked Huang Degui to death. This is the end of the story.
"Blind Mountain" 2007 China
"Blind Mountain" is a documentary-style film, and the actors used in the film are many non-professional actors, as well as local people in Qinling, Shaanxi Province.
Therefore, this simple and natural performance style, the image presented is really like what you see in life.
The film's choreographer, Li Yang, used an extremely depressive atmosphere to show us the tragic experience of abducted women!
The actor who plays the heroine Bai Xuemei even did not hesitate to dew a dew point for this.
"Blind Mountain" has two versions with very different endings, this article is about the overseas release version, which ends with the suffocating ending of Bai Xuemei slashing Huang Degui to death.
Although this is a relieving ending, what made her cut this costly knife was helpless after doing everything she could for her fate!
This helplessness that is powerless to change is caused by blind people, blind cognition, and blind mentality in "Blind Mountain".
The domestic release version creates an ending that the audience is happy to accept emotionally. Bai Xuemei was finally rescued by the police, and although she paid the price of separation, she managed to escape this nightmarish village.
It is said that this is just an ending created by director Li Yang alone in order to cope with the domestic review mechanism!
Obviously, from the attitude of the creator, the overseas version of the fate is more in line with his wishes!