What kind of person.
When someone else's house was in vain, he went to offer incense, but he scolded at the spiritual position:
No matter how you die, you won't find a place to die and cause this mess in my house.
When the family heard this, they couldn't get angry and quickly apologized:
Bad power. (I'm sorry)
Today's story is about him:
Old fox
This man is called the old fox (played by Chen Muyi).
The old fox scolded the man in the frame because he committed suicide at home, turning the house into a murderous house and the house price diving.
The old fox is the landlord of this house.
The deceased's family still has to continue to live under this roof, don't they have to be respectful to the old fox?
Life and money.
Which one is more important?
is what the movie wants to say, and is this kind of thing still deeply bothering us today?
The movie scored 7.3, all the way up to the current 8.0.
In addition to the aesthetic elegance of the movie itself, it has a unique charm.
is also because the theme of the movie has pierced the hearts of many audiences.
Housing prices that are beyond the reach of ordinary workers, the stock market that has soared and fallen into the abyss, and asset players who knock on the bone and suck the marrow......
Yes, Sir is talking about Taiwan in the 90s.
01
White Rabbit
Let's start by teaching you some money-saving tips.
The faucet is thick, don't close it tightly, leave a little bit, and keep dripping and dripping.
This way the water meter will not be pinched.
And wow.
When you are about to finish bathing, turn off the gas in advance.
In this way, you can use up the hot water left in the water pipe, is it not enough to save gas?
Not only do you want to save money, but you can also earn extra money in your free time.
Doing some manual work in the living room while watching TV can be exchanged for money.
I don't know if you've experienced such days since you were a child.
This is the first touching part of "The Old Fox".
It is difficult for us to see such a delicate and life-like movie on the big screen today.
In the movie, it is a father and son who depend on each other.
Liao Jie, 11 years old (played by Bai Runyin).
His father (played by Liu Guanting) can always live a careful life and have a good taste.
Every day he would come back from packing meals from the restaurant where he worked.
He works part-time as a sewing worker, making clothes for children with surplus fabric.
He also cuts his hair, and he takes care of his son's head.
That's right.
He also had a dream:
Open your own barbershop.
He told his son about the idea.
So, this became a dream shared by the two of them.
Liao Jie counts the dates every day, getting closer and closer:
For his father told him:
Three years.
At the current rate of saving, it only takes three years for them to take down the store downstairs and open their own barbershop!
Their days are tight, but there is hope.
You see, my father rides to work every day, and the sun shines brightly, like a gallop on an avenue of hope.
But in the blink of an eye.
It's still the same street, a rainy night.
He just got a piece of news:
It turned out that in just half a year, the house price of the shop he looked at had doubled......
Ordinary people want to make money diligently, buy a small industry of their own, and be their own boss.
But for the proletarian workers.
Where can they keep up with the speed at which their wealth is accumulating?
Liao Jie's father.
It was the little white rabbit that ran forward, but did not know that he was already the prey.
02
Old fox
It was also a rainy day.
Liao Jie got into the old fox's car.
His father was too busy working overtime to take him home, and he tried to hide from the rain but was kicked out by his bullying classmates.
He was alone on the streets, pitiful and helpless.
Then the old fox passed by and left the door open to him.
God sent a ghost, fearless, and he ended up in the old fox's Rolls-Royce.
The old fox said, now there are kidnapping cases everywhere, how dare you get into a stranger's car.
As a result, Liao Jie was not afraid at all (maybe scared, but he was also stubborn), and he said:
I know your name is Old Fox
Oddly enough.
The old fox was not angry at all and let him stay in the car.
Even stranger.
The old fox directly said his name, and then gave the address of his house.
That's right.
The old fox is the landlord of Liao Jie's house.
But the old fox's family has a big business, and there are more houses and shops to rent, as well as properties such as recycling yards.
Why could he remember a little boy's home address to the house number?
Sir sells a pass.
In short, the old fox likes Liao Jie very much, and takes him to take a luxury car and visit a mansion every day.
The classmates who bullied him in the past, when they saw that he was from the old fox's side, they didn't dare to mess with him.
Liao Jie, who grew up in an ordinary family, experienced for the first time what is the ability to make money.
You say, isn't this a story of the boss who forgot the New Year's version?
But this story, and this dark side:
The old fox is ready to train Liao Jie into a little fox.
He told him:
Your dad is a failure.
A person who cares about the feelings of others is a failure.
He also taught him the tricks to success:
Withdrawal from relationships with others.
It's simple.
There are only three steps:
First, drink iced water.
Second, close your eyes.
Third, tell yourself, it's my business.
Thereupon.
The clever Liao Jie also learned.
When his father took a bath and asked him to turn off the gas, he said angrily:
It's not bad at all, stupid
Because he knows what good it is to save a few pennies of gas?
Can you open a barbershop?
There are so many properties in the old fox, which one of them is saved by thrift?
Futile.
When the downstairs neighbor committed suicide and the house became a murderous house and the price was reduced, this was the time for them to buy, and he persuaded his father to buy it quickly.
His father taught him that people were still doing funerals.
He taught his father in turn: "us." ”
For the first time, his father slapped him.
"The Old Fox" is like "Parasite".
Is it possible for the bottom to dive into the upper class and want to achieve class leapfrogging?
But the ending did not bring a fight.
It's more like a race:
On one side is a gentle and kind little white rabbit.
On one side is the old fox who calculates everything.
Who can win that innocent mind?
03
Partly Taiwanese Warm History
"Old Fox" can see the shadow of many classic Taiwanese movies.
The precocious son is like Yangyang in "Yiyi".
Director Xiao Yaquan served as the assistant director of "Sea Flower", and Hou Xiaoxian is the producer of "Old Fox", and his influence can be seen in this movie to some extent.
The entire movie team also devoted themselves.
In Fuhuadao, which tried to restore Taipei of that era, it was messy and full of fireworks.
The environment of Liao Jie's home and his father's working environment are rich and harmonious.
The color of the home environment is matched with shades, simple and warm.
The use of lens language can also see the director's ingenuity.
For example, the owner of a beef noodle shop who is obsessed with the stock market, when he heard the news of the stock price limit on the radio, danced with his wife, and didn't have time to put down the kitchen knife for cooking.
But the camera turned and came to the door.
The revelry was obscured.
All that remains is the omen (knife).
This seems to have hinted at the fate of the beef noodle shop owner.
It was an era when Taiwanese stockholders were all stockholders, and many people made money by buying stocks, housing prices rose, and prices rose.
Originally, a bowl of beef noodles cost only 32, but in the blink of an eye, it costs 35 pieces.
In this frenzy.
Honestly rushing forward, people like Liao Jie's father are outdated people.
Because the speed of the times, set by speculators.
We need to exploit inequality to create inequality
Inequality is the map
Be clear and help us point out the direction of winning
If you are with strong people, you will climb up
If you want to mix with the weak, you will fall down
From the old fox, Liao Jie knew that achieving a class leap in an unequal society is the fastest.
In the era of "Taiwan's money drowning feet" (referring to Taiwan's economy taking off, there is so much money that it drowns people's ankles), getting rich overnight is really not a dream.
Taiwan's stock market broke through the 8,000-point mark and went straight to 10,000 points, creating a stock market miracle.
You won't lose money by buying a stock at random, and you can even get super high returns.
The bonus at the end of the year for securities companies is up to 70 months, or even 100 months' salary.
The owner of the beef noodle shop in the film followed the trend and threw himself into the stock market, and after tasting a little sweetness, he invested all his money.
At that time, people didn't know that the stock market could make money and swallow it.
There is a bubble in the economy, and it must decline if it flourishes.
In 1990, after the stock price index rose to a high of 12,682, it took a sharp turn, and eight months later, it fell to 2,485 points, bankrupting tens of thousands of shareholders.
The movie is not as enthusiastic as "Flowers", nor is it as crazy as "Stock Crazy".
Rather, the focus is on after being destroyed.
The gradual precipitation and rebirth of the human heart.
In the film, the old fox sits in the car with Liao Jie, and he keeps telling Liao Jie that he wants to become more ambitious like him.
But when the camera turns, you will find that he has actually been talking to himself all the time.
△ This part of the director did not use special effects, but used mirror reflection to let the old fox talk to himself, which is in line with the allegorical effect that the director wants
shows his inferiority complex, and he is eager to win over Liao Jie to become an indifferent and ruthless person for the sake of profit like him.
Even if he changed his class, he couldn't abandon his underlying empathy.
After playing music in the car, the old fox remembered the past, and remembered that he had also begged people everywhere to find a house for his mother.
At this time, the position of Liao Jie was reversed, and the identity class of Liao Jie and the old fox was equalized at this time.
From the choice of an 11-year-old boy as the protagonist to tell this story, you can see the director's ambition, he pinned his eyes on the future of the film, hoping to play a guiding role in future social values.
Thinking about it carefully, in the film, Liao Jie is the one who has the greatest choice.
Poor dad or rich dad?
Poor dad tells him to be kind to the world, and the world will treat you kindly.
Rich Dad tells you that this society is cruel and you have to be indifferent to become strong.
No matter how you choose, Liao Jie is the one in charge of the future world.
The director said on social media:
"Maybe there are many 'inevitables' in life, but the remaining few 'inevitable' are enough for us to change, and those small 'inevitable's are choices. A slight inevitability is a choice that most people in this era cannot keep up with the trend of the times, and they insist on treating the world with the purity of their hearts. ”
Sir found that in the film, the old fox has always been teaching Liao Jie what kind of person to become, but Liao Tailai often doesn't know how to explain to his son why he doesn't buy stocks and why he gives up the cheap murderous house, he just uses actions to prove his choice.
So which one is better, the film will naturally not give an answer, because this should be left to the protagonist, and the future children will explore it themselves.
Knowing and not knowing, seeing and not seeing, children see the world far wider than adults.
The picture in this article comes from the Internet
Editorial Assistant: The second child of the Sakamoto family