Nowadays, people in the world still have the heart to help the world, mostly for the sake of power and profit, but among these people, there are always some lonely brave people who come forward, they choose to go against the current, not for fame, not for money, just for a kind heart to save the world and help the people.
In the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", the protagonist Cheng Yong played by Xu Zheng embarked on the road of rescuing thousands of people with such a heart, but at the beginning, he was also in pursuit of the benefits, so how did he make such a change?
The film "I Am Not the God of Medicine" tells the story of Cheng Yong, the owner of a divine oil shop, who went from an ordinary merchant who couldn't pay the rent to accidentally became the exclusive agent of the Indian generic drug "Glenin".
It was during the period when Cheng Yong was selling "fake drugs" that his mentality changed, but in this drama, you will find that there is no so-called "bad guy" in it, all ordinary people living under great pressure.
At first, Cheng Yong seemed to be a rotten person, and he also had two people in the world who cared about nothing, one was his sick father, and the other was a son who was raised with his ex-wife, but he was about to lose these two.
His father needs surgery, and his ex-wife has to fight for custody, and the premise for him to maintain these two is to have money, but he has none of them, and it is precisely this reason that he embarked on the road of going to India to buy "fake drugs", which realistically reflects the difficulties encountered by people in reality.
In the end, Cheng Yong chose to go to the Indian pharmaceutical factory to negotiate with him at the behest of the patient Lu Yili, but the Indians were not optimistic about Cheng Yong, because he could only buy 100 bottles with the money, and Cheng Yong introduced him to the Chinese market.
So the Indian pharmaceutical factory asked him to sell the 100 bottles of medicine within a month, so that he could get the exclusive agency, at this time Cheng Yong thought that "life is money", and he only came to make money, not to save people.
At first, the sales of "fake drugs" did not go well, and during the sales period, Cheng Yong also made more friends, such as Liu Sihui, the leader of the leukemia group, Pastor Liu, who is proficient in English, Zhang Changlin, who sells fake drugs, and Huang Mao, who grabs drugs because he has no money to take medicine.
This group of people formed a team to sell "fake medicines", so that many people who could not afford to eat real drugs could eat therapeutic drugs, and Cheng Yong also made a lot of money at this time, but he still carried out it in line with the original intention of making profits.
It didn't take long for Cheng Yong and his party to sell "fake drugs" was also discovered by the manufacturer of the real drug and called the police, and the police also found the clues, during which they met Zhang Changlin, who was also selling fake drugs, Zhang Changlin intended to buy Cheng Yong's agency, and threatened him, and finally sold it to him under Cheng Yong's weighing.
Cheng Yong's behavior also caused dissatisfaction with his peers, they once thought that Cheng Yong was not making money for the sake of making money, in fact, they were wrong about Cheng Yong, and everyone broke up at a celebration banquet, and the group was disbanded, in fact, this is human nature, which can only be measured from their own point of view, Cheng Yong opened a factory with the money he earned, and his life gradually got better......
After losing Cheng Yong's low-cost medicine, and although the "fake medicine" sold by Zhang Changlin was cheaper than the genuine one, it also made leukemia patients unaffordable, and later was also pursued by the police, Cheng Yong's friend Lu Yingyi also chose to commit suicide several times because he couldn't afford the medicine, and when Cheng Yong saw him on the hospital bed, his heart was full of waves.
Cheng Yong understood that it was his own behavior that led to this situation, and Lu Yingfu did not blame him for his original decision, but laughed, maybe because of the torture of the disease, maybe because he didn't want to waste money, he chose to hang himself at night.
When Cheng Yong learned the news, he never saw him again, and at Lu Ying's funeral, he met his former friends and many patients, and after staying up all night, he decided to sell "fake medicine" again. However, the pharmaceutical company is not optimistic, the manufacturer of the genuine drug is already in a lawsuit with the Indian imitation drug factory, but the owner of the pharmaceutical company promised to continue to provide Cheng Yong with drugs, this time he is not fighting alone.
Cheng Yong, who re-sold medicine, still maintained the previous price, which was also an atonement for his deceased old friend, this time he was not to make money, just to save people, and the yellow hair that looked down on him before also came to help him sell medicine.
In a time when Huang Mao and Cheng Yong picked up the goods, Huang Mao accidentally found the police who were chasing them, in order to lure away the police, Huang Mao drove away alone, Huang Mao who accidentally threw off the police was hit by the car on the side, and Huang Mao went offline.
Huang Mao's departure made Cheng Yong cry bitterly, and he also questioned the policeman Cao Bin at the police station, what is his crime, is he guilty if he wants to live, looking at Cao Bin who didn't say a word, his heart was also at a loss, what is the meaning of his work, where his profession is, he must carry it out, and he is also sympathetic to him as an ordinary person.
At this time, Zhang Changlin, who was fleeing everywhere, found Cheng Yong again, and in the face of the difference in the price of the subsidized "fake medicine" that Cheng Yong paid out of his own pocket, he said that there is only one disease in this world, that is, the disease of poverty, Cheng Yong alone He can't treat it, and he can't save so many people, so he persuaded him to give up.
Zhang Changlin, who took the money, also spoke about righteousness, and when he was caught by the police later, he was also tight-lipped and did not confess Cheng Yong's whereabouts, and is poverty really a disease? How wrong is it for a person to live and survive and work hard to survive? Poverty cannot be the definition of life.
In the back, the police caught some patients and tried to learn Cheng Yong's whereabouts from them, but they were unmoved, and in the dialogue between the policeman Cao Bin and the old lady, the sentence "The medicine is fake, can we not know?" It makes the audience feel deeply heartbroken, but the fact is that the medicine is not fake but illegal.
Cheng Yong, who is out of human nature and morality, cannot defeat the weapon of the law, which really makes everyone feel sad, and these characters in the play are ordinary little people, very close to us, so that the audience can often integrate into the plot and be deeply moved.
The film "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is based on real events, Lu Yong is the prototype of Cheng Yong in the movie, and he is also a patient of chronic myelogenous leukemia.
At the same time, he was also accused of illegal and criminal sales of "counterfeit drugs" in court, under the plea of the majority of leukemia patients and the defense of the lawyer, Lu Yong was finally acquitted, and his deeds were also reported by the media, he single-handedly changed the market of high-priced drugs, and the state also amended the drug management law and added it to the medical insurance.
Although Cheng Yong was sentenced at the end of the play, his deeds touched thousands of people, and there were many patients who supported him.
Every character in the film is vividly displayed, you can see the patient's love and desire to live, they are only a weak force, only when they are condensed is the power that can shake everything, Cheng Yong also uses his own strength to show the love and kindness between human nature.