The original is darker and more shocking! Lao Mozi's "original" anti-corruption blockbuster was almost banned!

This National Day file, Uncle Meat only watched one movie:

Zhang Yimou.

The reason for choosing this one is also very simple, one is that the lineup is really strong enough, and the other is that the release is tortuous enough, and as the highest-grossing film in the National Day file, I have to watch it.

But.

Unexpectedly, this is also the film with the lowest opening score (and later climbed) in this National Day file.

Zhang Yimou can't do it?

After watching the film, Uncle Meat once fell into a state of struggle and confusion, always feeling that this work is difficult to say, but has to say.

So this time, we decided not to talk in the usual way.

Let's just talk about its core.

Here, I sincerely recommend that all family members collect this article first, do not read it, and go to the theater to see it in person before new products.

Because the following content is to start the car sharply, drive fast, and plate the chilling details of the story.

01

The most "bigging" cut

Much has been said about the deletion of the film.

There are a lot of details.

For example, some character relationships, some violent scales, and so on.

But Uncle Meat felt.

One of the most nerve-wracking deletions came from Vice Mayor Zheng Gang.

So much so that if you don't do your homework in advance and go directly to the cinema to watch the film, you may be confused by several plots.

Like what:

Why does Vice Mayor Zheng have the means to grasp the builder's weakness, knowing that he has an illegitimate son with rare mental illness, and also knowing his complex equity relationship with the Golden Five Group, these personal privacy cannot be understood as clearly as even a big official?

Why did Zheng Gang see the triad boss Li Zhitian (played by Yu Hewei) looking back at the blurry pixels in the surveillance after seven o'clock in the mysterious night, and was shocked, saying that the mobilization of public security and special police is mobilized, a word of things?

Why does he have a private gun and can point at Li Zhitian and shout for his life?

Why did he talk to his adopted son Su Jianming about the possibility that his parents may be a drug dealer couple...

It seems that the deputy mayor knows all about violence and dark areas.

The only explanation can only be:

Vice Mayor Zheng is actually the director of the Public Security Bureau, and he combines law enforcement and law enforcement, so he can be at ease.

If you've seen some of the movie material, it may be clearer.

In the film documentary, the scene of Zheng Gang wearing a police uniform to preside over a police meeting is clearly filmed; Liu Bo (Xu Yajun) also said bluntly in the interview.

And in the scene of Zheng Gang and Li Zhitian's quarrel, not only did Li Zhitian call Zheng Gang "Zheng Bureau", but even Zheng Gang's lines were: You are nothing in front of the people's public security.

Under such a premise, you can see many small details in his life.

For example, pay attention to body management and physical fitness, and insist on night running.

For example, sensitive and suspicious, after being given a transparent silicone mobile phone case by Xiaowei, he quickly threw it into the river.

And the temper is not good, say that the hot pot table is lifted.

In fact, the original Zhang Guoli speaks Chongqing dialect (changed to Jinjiang City in the movie), and also rushes through the underground foul language, which is very compatible with the identity of the Public Security Bureau who deals with violence.

And this.

In fact, understand the core message of the movie.

Unfortunately, in the current version, this information is eliminated.

02

Hidden figures

Few people realize that there are actually many hidden characters in "Rock Solid", and it is these hidden characters that drive the story forward.

Remember when Zheng Gang forced Li Zhitian to sign a contract with a businessman?

It is equivalent to directly sending others 48 billion.

When mediating in the car, many people thought that Zheng Gang was greedy, but pay attention to Zheng Gang's expression at this time, with a serious face when facing Li Zhitian, and a flattering face when facing the businessman.

Combined with the reason why he said he needed this money, "the above began to check me", "get through this hurdle", and you will understand that this money, given, is the person "above".

In order to let the person of a higher level raise his noble hand.

But isn't Zheng Gang the deputy mayor?

Just like a sentence that was deleted from the main film, in this city, the bright place is surnamed Zheng, and the dark place is surnamed Li.

Didn't the two cover the sky with one hand?

What's more, the wife of the vice mayor played by Chen Chong, He Xiuli, is not a simple character, Li Zhitian even mentioned that "if it were not for the resources of the old man", Lao Zheng could not have today's achievements, indicating that Zheng Gang's father-in-law is also a figure with higher power, and even, the old man is the matchmaker and acquiescence behind the Li Zheng alliance.

This can only show that the "above" of the investigation of Zheng Gang came from another level of "officials outside the government", not a local official.

So everything is actually very clear.

It is precisely because the "people above" began to investigate Zheng Gang, and even the "old man" could not help, so Zheng Gang had only two ways to save himself:

1, treat Li Zhitian as an outcast, let him carry the pot.

2. As always, bribes with amazing rewards.

But the latter is obviously not safe, otherwise there would be no deleted clip in which Zheng Gang wanted to see someone, but was told that "no guests today" closed doors.

Therefore, he could only do everything to drive Li Zhitian out.

So the design framed.

So he tried to murder again and again.

The result?

A body was "accidentally" found, and the two died at the same time.

But, is this really just an accident?

Just like Mr. Hong in "Dark Flower", in fact, the entire movie, the behavior of Zheng Gang and Li Zhitian, is actually shrouded in the shadow of this "above" person.

They themselves are nothing more than pawns.

03

ring

A short video platform circulates a piece of material.

A reporter asked Vice Mayor Zheng and his family of three to take a group photo, and as a result, the three embarrassed cancer almost exploded in place.

In particular, the vice mayor and his wife looked very close, He Xiuli wore a wedding ring, but nervously rubbed it with her hand suspiciously, while Zheng Gang did not wear a ring.

After watching the movie, I know that Zheng Gang is actually Su Jianming's biological father, and Su's biological mother is an abandoned corpse in the wall, a big beauty, song and dance actor Zhu Li.

She gave birth to a son for Zheng Gang, named "Jianming" because she was tired of her boyfriend's dirty business with Li Zhigang, and traded money and power, hoping that one day she could be a decent person because of the birth of her child.

Unexpectedly, she was killed by Zheng Gang in the presidential suite of Li's hotel.

This setting caused two dissatisfaction among the audience.

1, too many coincidences, after Zhu Li was killed, she happened to be fooled by Ma Zi, and the body was randomly stuffed into the construction site wall, and after many years, it happened to be found, and even the mobile phone where she kept the evidence happened to be well preserved and found.

2, the plot is too jumpy, Zhu Li's niece Yang Xiaowei is the object of Zheng Gang's private meeting, but the film does not make it clear about the relationship between the two, and Yang Xiaowei faced the temptation of 10 million, the subsequent plots all disappeared, and there are obvious deletions here.

To be honest, the former is really a problem with the script.

And the latter.

In fact, there are traces to follow.

A detail.

Zheng eats at Xiaowei's house, but what do you see she is wearing at this time?

Pajamas.

She not only fed him, but also gave him a mobile phone case, asking if the old man could protect himself for the rest of his life.

So it is clear that the two are lovers.

And what about Xiaowei's ending?

The subtitles at the end of the film say that she was rescued?

No, no, no.

There is a plot where Li Zhitian calls Zheng Gang and roughly asks, does Xiaowei want to stay?

Zheng Gang said, stay.

In the previous plot, Zheng Gang's wife He Xiuli had actually asked Li Zhitian to get rid of Xiaowei, so Li Zhitian asked rhetorically: You two, who am I listening to?

He Xiuli took the phone: Listen to me.

And then what?

Then Zheng Gang slapped his wife, but did not refute this "order" in the slightest.

It is clear that Li Zhitian carried out the latter's orders.

Not to mention.

Also in the ending subtitle, there is such a crime in the crime committed by He Xiuli: intentional homicide.

Who was killed?

I'm afraid I can only Xiaowei.

04

Confidant

At the end of the film, Su Jianming found his mobile phone, but did not return to the police station, but ran to his ex-girlfriend's residence, why?

The explanation in the movie is that it is relatively close.

Is that really the case?

Even if this answer is reasonable, shouldn't police resources be mobilized immediately when a large number of people are chasing and killing?

In fact.

This reason is also hinted at in the film.

That is, it is likely that the ranks are not safe either.

An example.

The leader of the Public Security Bureau played by He Zhengjun has been obstructing Su Jianming as the head of the bus bombing investigation team, not because the other party is young and inexperienced, nor because he is the adopted son of Vice Mayor Zheng.

The more secret reason is that he is most likely a "confidant" who knows Vice Mayor Zheng's secret.

There is a detail.

At the scene of the bus explosion at the beginning of the movie, he was the only person who followed Zheng Gang to approach the outlaw, playing the role of deputy and shadow.

Fear.

Only by perceiving that "there are bad people in the team" can everything be in order.

05

Lens design

In the warehouse of the abandoned construction site, a man in a protective suit frantically knocked with a wrench on the gagged and kidnapped man on the ground, and the sound of his skull shattering could be heard.

Blood splattered all over the mask.

The murderer was disgusted and nauseated, and the vomit almost fell into the mask...

Yes, this is the most violent scene in the film, and the poor man who was smashed by a wrench is called David (played by Sun Yizhou), and the perpetrator is his father-in-law Lai Zhitian.

The reason was that he betrayed his husband and handed over the information of the builder who caused the bus explosion to Su Jianming, so that he would have a chance to retreat when the Jinwu Group's big ship sank.

What's more, he was believed by Li Zhitian that it was this decrepit boy who randomly selected the room number to sleep in to the killer who pretended to deliver spicy hot takeaway, and almost died of old age, so this son-in-law must die.

But is it really the work of this son-in-law?

There is a scene that actually implies that David is not deeply involved in the dark, and his original intention is just to marry the Li family and live a rich life:

He went up the hotel escalator with Li Zhitian and several high-ranking henchmen, everyone else was in black suits, only he was gray, indicating a vacillating and ambiguous state.

So, he's just a back-pot man.

So who exactly sold the room number information?

The film doesn't say.

But given the presentation in the film, only David and Liu Feng (played by Li Naiwen) can get those room cards. And in the end, when Li Zhitian was knocked, Liu Feng, who had always been inseparable, was not present, and the magic disappeared.

So it can be determined that this is another figure with a secret identity.

06

There is money outside of money

Everyone can understand that "there are still officials on the official", but what about the other phrase "there is money outside the money"?

Just say that deal?

In fact, there is a detail that can understand what Li Zhitian is talking about.

Lai Zhitian intends to use David to whitewash.

David is a returnee who studied finance and knows the game of equity very well, Li's original idea was to help him take over the position of chairman, and then launder black money.

He used the spit group promotional film to be too dirty, what age it is, which led to the idea of deliberately supporting David.

I don't know that I have killed myself and David.

Because Zheng Gang did not allow it, and Zheng Gang's internal line buried in the Golden Five Group did not allow it, this money was so whitewashed, gone, they were so greedy that they continued to "have money outside the money" (movie poster slogan).

The outside here is likely to refer to "abroad", transferring black money abroad as his private property after absconding.

Of course.

Like "There are still officials on officials", this "there is money outside the money" film did not continue to be filmed, but guess, why did the film poster use this as a slogan?

07

chafing dish

For the first time, Su Jianming ignored Zheng Gang's obstruction of going to the meeting single-handedly, appeared at Li Zhitian's "Hongmen Banquet", and saw the other party forcing the hand of the district chief to probe the hot pot, and was very angry, feeling that Li was threatening himself and his adoptive father Zheng Gang, so he broke the hot pot.

And Zheng Gang set off the hot pot, in turn, because Li arranged the "Hongmen Banquet", one of the very important reasons is also to protect Su Jianming from dirty water.

Li Dao broke the sky, how do you father and son like to lift the table, because he knows that it is "real father and son", and the temper tantrum is brought by genes.

Speaking of hot pot, Zhang Yimou created a hot pot-style image style for the movie, which is very Chongqing and not Chongqing.

This is also where the film is very controversial.

Each picture has at least three colors, like a hot and fresh pot, rich in ingredients, like human desires, human minds, unpredictable.

It is said that it is not Chongqing, because there are really many Chinese masterpieces filmed in the mountain city, such as "Young You". But the two are completely different, Chongqing in the lens of Lao Mozi, some people say that it is cyberpunk style, very magical, seems to be true and fake.

But Uncle Rou feels that this is probably the style of purgatory, even if Li Zhitian overlooks the high-rise buildings on the river, the golden sunlight spreads on the clothed beasts, but also conveys the death temperament of the mad people, and they all have bloody sins in their hands.

Purgatory is also like a hot pot, where people are put into soup and do not want to be born.

08

Dark under the lights

When Li Zhitian arranged the "Hongmen Banquet", the river was slowly sailing past one colorful sightseeing cruise ship, and the people on board enjoyed their entertainment, not knowing that such a perverted violent incident was happening on a boat next to him.

This is the beginning.

And at the end, there is an echo, a group of underworld fanatics are surrounding Su Jianming and his teammates, the violence escalates, the lives of the righteous side are at stake, and the traffic that is also close is unnoticed.

This is the typical "dark under the lights".

The dark forces that destroy conscience are likely to be within close distance of the ship.

Regarding the "boat", it is a metaphor that Zheng Gang and Li Zhitian like to quote, they are people in the same boat, but they have infighting for money; Li said that he was a small boat, and Zheng Gang was a big boat. He promised to personally dispose of Julie's relics, hoping that the big ship would be safe and sound, and after the wind and waves calmed, he could let his small boat go back into the water.

Li Ai uses the metaphor of a boat because of her origins.

His family is very poor, and the cook who works as a private cook is his cousin, who is very rich and has a boat, and his cousin often tempts himself with pieces of meat, humiliates himself as a "dog mongrel", and since then has been psychologically twisted and vowed to become a superior human being by any means.

But what about after becoming a human being?

Most of the victims in the film are at the bottom.

For example, the punk who took 3 million and pleaded guilty to killing David.

For example, the migrant worker who pushed the witness and jumped from the hospital.

and the gang members who are shot dead on the boat at the end of the film and also have to move forward step by step.

The top brass are strategizing.

But they.

But for the sake of life, there is no choice.

09

"Something you shouldn't open"

Hui Lin, a policewoman played by Zhou Dongyu, has a line: Some boxes cannot be opened, and they can no longer be closed when they are opened (similar).

This is not "Pandora's box", closed to the heavenly desire, but also shocking truth.

In the film, there are at least three such energy things, and once opened, they will stir the black and white worlds, causing a fierce chain reaction.

Step by layer, like a matryoshka doll.

The first: a small hole in the wall where the back kitchen stuffs cigarette butts, and inside the wall is cracked, and inside is Julie's skeleton.

The second is the red Motorola mobile phone left by Zhu Li, which contains evidence of Zheng Gang Li Zhitian's crime.

The third is the bamboo tube that Li Zhitian carried goods by the river when he was in charge of the army, which contained a lot of U disks, a secretly filmed video of Zheng Gang killing Zhu Li, and darker materials than Zheng Gang's larger officials.

The cousin cook who humiliated Li Zhitian back then, in Li's story, was cut half pulled tongue, can no longer scold the "dog mongrel", in the feature film he shows a complete tongue, Uncle Meat suspects that this is modified, it should be half pulled tongue.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why he became an angry nameless person at the end, slamming his cousin Lai Zhitian with a bamboo tube containing a USB stick.

Here, Uncle Meat has also heard that the original setting is: Li was beaten to death by this bamboo tube and his cousin, just like he did with David.

But in the main film. When the cousin attacked, the special police rushed out, and Li Zhitian felt that the only thing remaining, caring for his daughter and newborn granddaughter, and chose to open the largest "Pandora box" - a bamboo tube containing many U disks.

After reining these nine details, Uncle Meat finally wanted to say. Many of them have not officially appeared in theaters, and because of their absence, some audiences feel stiff and abrupt about the transformation of certain plots of the movie, and will feel that the characters' behavior is broken.

If you add these possible deletions, you may have a relatively complete and full cognition.

It is difficult to have a definitive answer to whether a film should be a finished film, or a complete or uncut version made up by imagination. There are many similar examples: "Young You", which was also filmed in Chongqing, the former "White Deer Plain", "Underworld" and so on.

Returning to the release version of "Rock Solid" that everyone can see, Uncle Meat feels that Zhang Yimou's efforts are obvious.

The retained part is already far beyond the genre standard, and the appearance of violent scenes is not to create a scare gimmick, but to let these materials originally taken from real cases of anti-black out of the "black under the lamp", from the hot pot to be turned over, exposed.

Perhaps they can only appear through dramatic paths.

But in this era of popular sweet sticky, soft emotions, and dopamine filters, we are also alert to the darkness, and have enough determination not to be swallowed up, becoming the never-seeing material in Pandora's box.

Just like the original title of the movie, "The Pawn Who Jumped the River".

Originally, there was a sense of tragedy, which was a trick of fate that "can only advance but cannot retreat".

But now what.

The big chess game of fate has always been played.

And we can only turn a blind eye.