In December 2018, a man in Tianjin brutally murdered his wife in Phuket, Thailand, after faking the scene and falsely claiming that "his wife drowned."
The wife's family found that in the months before the trip, the husband had purchased more than a dozen insurance plans for his wife, with an insurance amount of 20 to 30 million, and the beneficiary of the policy was the husband himself.
The sensational Tianjin man's wife-killing fraud case in Phuket was originally scheduled to be pronounced on November 8 this year, and this day was also the day when the movie "Beneficiary" was released.
One
I don't know if it is a coincidence, because "The Beneficiary" is a movie about "killing wives and cheating insurance".
When I watched the trailer before, I felt that this movie was particularly "dare", it was produced by Ning Hao, and it was the work of "Bad Monkey".
It not only touches the desperate reality of "killing wives and cheating on insurance", but also contains sharp plots and character settings such as corruption, touching porcelain, live broadcasting and so on.
"The Beneficiary" is as sharp and real as "Bad Monkey" before "I Am Not a Medicine God".
But in comparison, "The Beneficiary" is more grounded, it restores the bittersweet and bittersweet in real life, and presents the original taste of life.
If the verdict is revealed, then the film spreads out human nature, Dapeng and Liu Yan play the more winding story behind the "wife killing and cheating insurance", as well as the luck and misfortune of the low-level small people.
Before entering the theater, I saw some people say that this was the best performance contributed by Dapeng and Liu Yan, and after watching it, I felt that it was not too prestigious, and no one was more suitable for these two roles than them.
Wu Hai, played by Dapeng, continues his consistent image of "di si", poor and destitute, in order to buy medicine for his children to see a doctor, he acts as a network manager during the day, and drives on behalf of him at night, and is beaten by life into a gyroscope that can't stop.
But this time Dapeng jumped out of the previous comedic performance form, the acting skills exploded, and the human feelings he had experienced were mixed in the role of Wu Hai, vividly outlining the plight of the middle-aged man, which was both refreshing and allowed the audience to have an inexplicable sense of familiarity with the role -
Wu Hai is the real low-level middle-aged man around you and me, their difficulties are always greater than their skills, and they always have an powerless face in front of life.
Yue Miaomiao, played by Liu Yan, is kind, spontaneous and beautiful, and is a network anchor who "wipes the edge ball", and Liu Yan is originally a host, and there is no sense of violation in controlling this character type.
Dapeng also said that at the end of the performance, he was a little confused, and the people in front of him were a little miao, and some were liu yan.
Miao Miao does have a similar fate trajectory with Liu Yan, they have both "suffered a lot of sins and fallen for a lot of fools", but they still believe in love and long for true hearts.
When Yue Miaomiao said in the movie, "What I want is a man who has 100 pieces and is willing to spend 99 pieces for me", at that moment I believe that Liu Yan embedded her voice in Yue Miaomiao's script.
Two
In the short comments, many people say that the role of Yue Miaomiao is very pleasing, I admit, but rather than "happy", it is better to say that it is "empathy" and "sense of substitution".
Yue Miaomiao's body condenses the figures of countless elderly young women who struggle alone in a foreign country, they do their best to protect themselves, and the bottom line in the face of love is "no deception".
But it was this Yue Miaomiao, who hated being deceived by others the most, and was the most miserable to be deceived.
Wu Hai approached her because the accountant of Fa Xiaozhong threw him to do the game together, Wu Hai was responsible for "marriage and signing", Zhong Accountant was responsible for "cheating, accident", and Miao Miao, she was "responsible" for using sincerity and life in exchange for 10 million bail.
Not everyone will encounter such a scam, but no one can hide from the lies and deceptions in love.
Even if it is a twisty story to others, we will involuntarily torture ourselves souls and ask, "If the person you love cheated on you, will you forgive him?"?
To be reasonable, throw this problem out in a vacuum that has not yet happened, and probably 90% of women will say no forgiveness.
"Not forgiving" is not intolerance, "not forgiving" is our expectation, expecting that there will be no lies and deception in love, expecting that we will not have to face such a dilemma in love.
However, when deception occurs in real life, this problem is difficult for people to firmly choose not to forgive.
We are not imagining a distant possibility, and the person we love is standing in front of us close at hand.
Once a person is moved, the firm answer will also waver.
Miao Miao is like this.
When she first found out that she was deceived, Miao Miao was very angry, it turned out that Wu Hai not only had no money, but almost nothing, but Miao Miao chose to forgive without too much struggle, because Wu Hai did "have 100 yuan to spend 99 yuan for her".
Also from a poor background, she instinctively empathized with Wu Hai's "white lies".
When she found out the second time she had been deceived, Miao Miao was even angrier, and it turned out that Wu Hai was not nothing, he had a deceased ex-wife and a sick son.
Miao Miao had a painful psychological struggle for this deception, and when she chose to forgive the next day, I was not surprised.
Miao Miao, who has difficulty in giving birth, is too eager for a home and a child, and this lie makes up for the lack of her life by mistake, and Miao Miao once again rationalizes Wu Hai's deception.
When she found out for the third time that she had been deceived, Miao Miao did not show a trace of anger, although she almost took her own life because of this man.
Because when a person is disappointed to the limit, she has no strength to be angry anymore.
Three
Assuming you are Yue Miaomiao, will you still forgive Wu Hai?
Not forgiving is more like that politically correct option, which is why some people think that Miao Miao is too "virgin" - the scumbag who cheated almost died, why should I forgive?
Wu Hai's deception is not false, but he is not actually a complete scumbag.
The purpose of the fraudulent insurance is to treat the child's illness, but also to help Zhong Accountant, he can't see the child being in danger again and again, and he can't see his good brother for many years in prison.
He has his bad, but in many details Wu Hai is permeated with instinctive goodness.
When he met with Zhong Accountant, he saw that there were baby products in the trunk of the owner, and he moved his compassion, reluctant to kill the owner, the same father, he understood the meaning of the child for a father.
Before Miao Miao appeared, his son Youyou was Wu Hai's greatest sustenance in life, and he regarded his son as more important than anything else, so important that he lost his rationality several times and stepped into the deception trap set by Zhong Accountant.
It is not so much that Wu Hai is the beneficiary, but that he is a deceived person like Miao Miao, who is deceived by Zhong Guang into not being able to see his true heart, until the last moment he realizes that he is really in love with Miao Miao, so he is desperate to save her.
When Dostoevsky wrote about the spurned Fei Yaodor in "The Brothers Karamazov", he said that he had "evil in his heart and fragile feelings", which is somewhat similar to Wu Hai, who has the evil of last resort, but he is also an emotional animal.
Wu Hai's final awakening is like Miao Miao's final shaking, everything arises from deception, and ends with love.
It is such a Wu Hai who has experienced too much embarrassment and embarrassment, and cannot be concealed by the word "scum", will you forgive him?
Forgiveness is not about right or wrong, it is about being able to fulfill oneself.
In terms of my personality, I must choose not to forgive, but for Miao Miao, she has a reason for her forgiveness.
There is a clip in the movie that earned me enough tears.
Miao Miao decided to stop the live broadcast, and the last time she faced the camera, she took off her makeup while saying a lot of truth to her fans:
She's not 24 years old, she's 38 years old;
She's not as shiny as she is in front of the camera, she just lives in a dimly lit and dilapidated room that doesn't even belong to her at all;
She's not single, and she "finally waited for the guy who made her really herself."
Why doesn't Miao Miao live in lies and deception?
In order to make a living, in order to survive, for the sake of her old father who was sick in bed at home, she could only lie to the camera that she was young, that she was single, and that she was doing well.
It is precisely because she has also experienced the embarrassment and helplessness of having to deceive and have to lie, that she can better empathize with Wu Hai's involuntariness and understand the sincerity behind Wu Hai's lies.
Wu Hai did deceive her, but he did give her the life she envisioned, and he had her in his heart, a pair of slippers, a massage chair, all of which were his love.
In the days with Wu Hai, every bit of happiness and happiness that Miao Miao felt was incomparably real to her, not false.
Although the beneficiary of that insurance policy is Wu Hai, Miao Miao in this relationship has also fulfilled her beautiful expectations.
In her heart, she was also a "beneficiary".
There is a detail in the movie that is worth playing, and it does not deliberately highlight the core of Wu Hai's character, but this detail is the soul of Wu Hai's character.
In order for his son to recover his health, Wu Hai wants to buy an island house for his son to live in.
Of course he couldn't afford it, that's why he valued the souvenir from the sales office, a bottle of island air, which he put on a high place and looked up day and night.
When Miao Miao wanted to throw away this bottle, Wu Hai was anxious, for him, it was not an empty bottle, there was a yearning for life, because of this yearning, he chose to take risks.
Miao Miao also has such a bottle in her heart, each of us has such a bottle in our hearts, when the bottle containing hope and yearning is crushed by reality and lies, we can indeed choose to throw away the fragments on the ground, lose the original heart and yearning.
Forgiveness and persistence are pieces of the bottle that are pieced together, and even if it can never be intact, it always means hope for the person who yearns. #电影受益人 #
General Guo, master of psychology of Beijing Normal University, national second-level psychological counselor, and popular author of Han Han [ONE]. 8 years of psychological counseling experience, The WeChat public account "We all have diseases in our hearts" (ID: staynormal), the book work "The World Prefers Self-Healing and Self-Pleasure" is selling well.