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Synopsis of the Floating City Mystery · · · ·</h1>
Policeman Tong Mingsong (Zu Feng) is responsible for investigating a car accident, college student Mosquito (Chang Fangyuan) died unexpectedly, Tong Mingsong decided to investigate the truth of the incident with his buddies, Qin Feng (Zhu Yawen), a car repairman who likes mosquitoes. When the two track down the truth, they involve middle-class couples Qiao Yongzhao (Qin Hao) and Lu Jie (Hao Lei), Lu Jie knows her mother Sanqi (Qi Xi) because of her daughter's playmate Yuhang in kindergarten, but in the process of interacting with her, she discovers her husband's affair... With the revelation of the clues layer by layer, things became more and more strange, and Tong and Qin discovered that Qiao Yongzhao, Lu Jie, and Sang Qi were hiding ulterior secrets.
What are we talking about when we talk about love? Leg splitting, indulgence, incest, car tremor, raising a little three, prostitutes? Only these things occupy the front pages and magazine covers of newspapers and magazines large and small. There is a post on Tianya called "See How I Clean Up The Mean Man and the Little Three", which hung high because it was about this kind of thing, until one day, it was put on the big screen by China's most realistic sixth-generation director, the story is quite obscure and filthy, but just like the love of this era, zero is turned into mud and dust, turning beautiful expectations into pessimistic tombs.
It should be said that Lou Ye is pessimistic, his films are always melancholy, the scenes of the night, the gray sky, the wet environment, the sunny and harmonious world, he is looking for another kind of truth, in "Floating City Mystery" he constructed a deformed family relationship, a man, two families, each with children, the male protagonist Qiao Yongzhao not only has a good game in this triangle relationship, but also can go out to steal, enjoy young fresh meat, in front of his children, he always behaves like a dutiful good father, But the attitude towards the two women is completely the same, the gentleness of the wife and the rudeness of the little three, is the sign of his personality separation, Qiao Yongzhao has the separation of "love" and "desire", which makes it difficult for him to settle in a certain state, wavering between the attraction of desire and the constraint of morality, which is the symptom of all cheating men, but also the hidden danger of many families today, the paper can not hold the fire, once exposed is the end of marriage, the end of "Floating City Mystery", the same tragedy of family breakdown, Lou Ye borrowed this negative result, It reveals his deep disillusionment with marriage and love in the modern city.
And caring for women is Lou Ye's nature, but women in reality are just as scarred, and lou Ye's movies always have a woman who sheds tears while making love, as if she was raped by the times, and that kind of pain formed a powerful metaphor. In the love relationship, they are most likely to be hurt by love, even if Lu Jie is a good wife and mother in the movie, she will make crazy moves because of the impulse of jealousy, and at the end of the day, she wants to leave calmly but she can't help herself. Sanchi is another kind of woman, with a strong sense of dependence, overlove, love as lowly as a bitch, living in a small house, having children for love, and willing to be a sex slave of love. In the love relationship, women are always weak and irrational animals, but compared with Qiao Yongzhao's rogue "rationality", their actions can get more understanding from the audience, even in the movie, two women face a husband, neither scolding street quarrels, nor pulling hair and biting fights, or sword fighting, but can still accept calmly, to some extent can be regarded as the same disease in the female perspective, anyway, deep love is a tragedy, in this dangerous relationship, or as Lu Jie walked frankly, Or love as despicable as Sanchi, from beginning to end.
This "Floating City Mystery" is filmed in the tragedy of a generation of young people, emotional confusion, the wounds of desire, they become plankton or walking dead in the middle of the wandering. Lou Ye's films have been filming the younger generation, who have experienced the pain of reform and opening up [weekend lover], war [purple butterfly], political storm [summer palace] and other era changes, becoming a wounded and collapsed generation, and "Floating City Mystery" is located in the harmonious era, but behind the suffering life of most people, we can read the happiness index of this era, life is not satisfactory, love is falling apart, family is broken, life is destroyed, these are deeply involved in this realistic film. If pushed to a more metaphorical level, then Lu Jie and Sanqi in this film can also represent the living conditions of capitalism and socialism, and Qiao Yongzhao refers to a symbol of our own, in reality, we both have the grassroots ideals of socialism and indulge in capitalist life, so we are unhappy.
In the whole movie, although Qiao Yongzhao is the male protagonist, he is rarely in the first perspective, Lou Ye almost completely denied such an image, for the two women, they have a tragic fate, their own happiness is stifled in such a deformed relationship, too much sigh. The two women are love enemies, but they pity each other, in the face of Sangqi's provocation, Lu Jie fought back, but in the end chose each other's destiny. Hao Lei and Qi Xi, two actresses, have strong internal strength, interpreting the nuanced psychological state of the characters exceptionally well, the rainy night killing scene has a strong sense of disillusionment, the imminent composition, the local magnification close-up, and the shaking shots all highlight their inner struggles and are doomed to fate. Love killing is the end of countless tragedies, and the same is true in the movie, they are all trapped in the long wasteland of life because of the sin of blood staining their hands.
Very small pattern and very delicate relationship, "Floating City Mystery" did not use a heart-rending cry, but indifference told the reality of the love tragedy, the tone is indeed sad, the world is too bitter, the so-called music is only two, one is pretended to be festive, one is bitter music, "Floating City Mystery" is probably the latter, behind the sound of the "Ode to Joy", like the death knell mourning, counting the layers of spiritual scars in reality and a handful of tears.