In Henan, China in 2000, on the one hand, the prelude to the new century was opened, and on the other hand, a wave of layoffs swept through the whole of China.
Xiao Daquan, who lives in Anyang, is the victim of this storm, and he who has a poor life has accidentally laid off, giving life a worse predicament.
He wanted to go to the noodle stall of the night market to eat bowl noodles, searched his pockets but could not even get a few pieces of noodle money, and could only say to the boss in embarrassment to go home and get the money.
Desperate, he wanted to leave the place to see if there was a means of making a living elsewhere, but at this moment, an accident interrupted all his thoughts.
There was an abandoned baby at the noodle stall with a note on it that he had two hundred to live on every month, and he was only looking for someone who could take care of the child.
Xiao Daquan was a rough old man, and he would not have taken care of the children, but the income of the two hundred yuan was particularly heartwarming to him.
This is the background of the story of the movie "Anyang Baby", as a documentary-style drama, the whole story is particularly realistic, a laid-off worker at the bottom who has no power and no power, takes the initiative to take on the responsibility of taking care of the baby, but in essence it is very realistic just because of money.
The child's mother, a prostitute who sells her body for a living, can pay to entrust the child to a stranger, and in a way, both irresponsible and painful for the child, highlights the first step in the contradiction of the whole story: good and bad, and the opposite of good and evil.
A film about the little people at the bottom, whether it is the dark streets in it, or the powerless struggles of the characters in the face of reality, are highlighted vividly in this movie.
The child was not guilty, but accidentally became a tool to connect the front and back of the movie, and Xiao Daquan, who was an outsider from beginning to end, finally became the culprit of the murder because the child's underworld father came to the door, ruining his original life without waves.
It can be said that the overall tone of the movie is indeed cruel, but in addition to cruelty, it can always leave us with a lot of thoughts from the various realities revealed in it.
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After Xiao Daquan brought the child home, the child kept crying, although he was in his forties, he was not married, and therefore had no experience in how to take care of a baby.
This kind of busyness made him particularly irritable, he did not know whether it was right or wrong to bring the child back, but it was very realistic that he needed the two hundred dollars.
So, even if he was hard-headed, he had to leave the child behind and contact the child's mother the next day according to the number on the note.
They met at a noodle shop, and Xiao Daquan, who had not eaten enough for a few days, unceremoniously ate a large bowl of noodles, while the child's mother was quite beautiful and dressed up compared to Xiao Daquan.
But her identity is really undignified, even in that era, the boys and girls in the entire red light district were never in the minority, and it was equally incumbent to sweep away pornography and fight against wrongdoing.
The mother can't take care of the child, but still gave birth to him, on the one hand, there may be a vain attempt to hold the child to blackmail the child's father's extravagant expectations, on the other hand, wandering away from the sound and color places and different people, as a woman, always hope to leave a little good mark in this world.
She told Xiao Daquan how to take good care of the child, but until she finally left, she did not dare to look at the child again, and the flesh that fell from her body was painful, but for a long time in a chaotic society, she refused to let her heart be soft.
Her real name is Feng Yanli, obviously reduced to the point of using the most unbearable means to make a living, but there is a kind of tenacity that is unwilling to compromise in the face of life, she will be on the bus, because others are moving their hands and feet, and will also insist on giving money to her family every month.
Lonely and lonely, she has always longed to have a home, but on the other hand, she has become so indifferent that she is destined to be afraid of the moment when she really settles down.
And Xiao Daquan is not like this, because of his family situation, he has not been able to have his own home, nor has he been able to have his own children, the arrival of this baby, suddenly the soft side of his heart was stimulated.
He used the two hundred yuan to set up a bicycle repair stall in front of his home, taking care of the children while working, and the days passed slowly.
The involvement with Yan li became not simple in the second meeting a month later, the child would always cry when he saw his mother, Yan Li fed him, and Xiao Daquan, who saw this side, still felt that the child should be returned to her.
He had two hundred pieces, he had solved the urgent need, it was only natural for the child to stay with his mother, but Yanli did not have extra energy to take care of the child, in order to keep Xiao Daquan, she chose to take her body and made a deal with him.
On the surface, all this seems to make the originally pure relationship no longer clean, but on the other hand, they who feel sorry for each other can understand that it is not easy, they are the same people, so it is easier to attract each other.
They are all in front of reality, and they dare not ask for a family, so after having skin kisses, Xiao Daquan can only tell Yanli, here I am, I will take care of the children.
They never minded each other's identities, but maintained a parasitic relationship, in this cold and numb world, so that they could warm each other.
So later as an outsider we saw a particularly absurd scene, Xiao Daquan was still repairing the bicycle in front of his home, while Yan Li brought it back to this home after soliciting customers outside, and he witnessed all this every day, without waves or ups and downs.
We can define the feelings between them in this way, and it is already difficult to describe them with a universal value.
At least in our opinion, there is no love between them, Xiao Daquan does not care about Yanli with other men, and recognizes the profession as a "sex worker", but the closeness between them makes them completely have the attributes of a family, so, rather than love, I think they are more eager for the sense of existence that each other brings to them.
Outside of this society, they have been wandering for most of the time they have not been understood and accepted, and this stability now makes them both happy and especially afraid.
So they accept each other's appearance, do not ask anyone to change, but only hope that this feeling can continue.
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Such a day may seem absurd, but it gives you the most peaceful and happy time between Xiao Daquan and Yanli.
Later, they gradually became tacit, like a real family, to visit the market, to buy things for their children, they formed a similar harmonious family under the oppression of such a cruel society, but it was only as short as a flash in the pan.
They are insecure and dare not easily promise a future that cannot be guaranteed, but they are so eager that the future can give them hope.
Therefore, later Yan li dared to reassure Xiao Daquan that she would not do it when the spring was over, that was what they finally dared to imagine, how to have a real home.
But an accident broke so many beautiful expectations, the child's biological father came up, he is a rogue leader similar to the boss of the underworld, the original brothers are not beautiful, but accidentally found cancer, which also has the hope that they have a thought.
Each other's Xiao Daquan has already regarded the child as his own flesh and bones, and it is impossible to send it out at this time, but the child's father has been unforgiving and let Yanli really helpless.
The conflict arose in an instant, Xiao Daquan lost his hand for a while, and the gang boss who was already sick and vulnerable left, but he was also locked up because of negligence.
Later, Yan Li took the child to visit the prison, and Xiao Daquan also told her that even if she left, she should not treat the child badly.
Yan Li took the child back to the noodle restaurant where they first met, and reality never gave them enough kindness, and such an ending, when they had the greatest expectations for the future, came to the head, which was really cruel.
But in that era, how many people similar to them were also struggling, and it may have been uncountable.
The part of the story that is difficult to look at directly is that it peels off the desperate situation of the little people at the bottom to the point of being naked, but it also allows us to see a cruel truth in it.
The gorgeous special work, Xiao Daquan's superficial greed and actual kindness nature, all let us see how the two people who work hardest are tenacious and unyielding step by step.
But they also belong to the marginalized group that has not yet been accommodated in this society, and they are even finally abandoned because of moral standards in a broad sense, which finally makes us wonder what the hope that represents the new life represents in their world.
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At the end of the movie, because of Xiao Daquan's dependence, the desperate Yanli can only restart her previous business, but later in a sweeping operation, she can only give her child to a passerby during the escape.
By the time she got out and went back to look for her, the person had long since disappeared, and she had been caught in plainclothes that had already been ambushed.
The ending that awaits her is that the girls who are "misguided" like her are sent back to their hometown, and the child who is stuffed into the hands of strangers is not explained in the end of the movie.
But the director finally left us with a surreal shot, in the gorgeous fantasy, the child was finally stuffed to Xiao Daquan, as if the whole story completed a closed loop.
The child originally represents the hope of the new life, but in the film, it acts as a mirror, through his identity and perspective, we see the truth of each person.
Xiao Daquan passively assumed the role of father, after he faced the storm of layoffs, he began to usher in new expectations and hopes, and Yanli, as a mother, gave birth to a child, while wanting to take care of him, while she was powerless to do her own life difficulties, but the child also brought her hope and transformation.
When she fantasized that she could have a real home with Xiao Daquan, the truth revealed at that moment was that after so many years of removing the mask disguise, she was finally willing to let down her guard.
Including the underworld boss, who learned that his life was short, heard his mother say that "he should stay behind", in fact, it also made him calm for a moment, and the child was the trace he left in this world, and it will also be his continuation.
Unfortunately, at the end of the movie, the realistic side still only tears apart all the beauty, and he only leaves the most real but cruel side.
What will happen to the children who are caught in the hands of strangers, and what will happen to the gorgeous people who return to their hometowns? All the answers become an extension, and they are also the answers that the director left for each of us to pursue in our hearts.
The fate of the bottom society, many times there are too many parts of involuntariness and powerlessness, the last shot of the movie, the faint light that penetrates through the carriage window, flashes another glimmer of hope in the bright eyes.
The future is still long, she will have the opportunity to start over, even if the future is still not in her hands, but living itself is already a precious thing.
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"Anyang Baby" is a work released in 2001, although the evaluation of it on the Internet is indeed mixed, in a sense, it is too purposeful and clear, and it always seems to be partially deliberate.
But in the portrayal of realistic significance, it is still a film that exposes the nature of human nature, good or bad is never absolute, but good and evil can be chosen.
So, remember that no matter what class we are in, we may not be able to choose the environment, but we can choose our own hearts.
Thanks for reading! Image from the movie "Anyang Baby"
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