This article may contain suspense and thriller elements, so please read it with caution for those who are not comfortable with this.
What is true death? Heart stopping? Brain stops working? Everyone is afraid of death, which is the consensus, because human beings cannot judge whether there is consciousness after death, and there are joys and sorrows.
But do you believe that people can come back from the dead? Not the kind in the movies but scientifically achievable. Whether there is another world after death has always been a topic of discussion, which has led to a core point in the heated discussion of atheism and religious belief. The differences between Eastern and Western cultures have led to the preference for Eastern horror films to have the presence of "ghosts".
However, with such a film completely overturning the death criteria established by Western medicine, can you believe that a person can come back from the dead by soaking herbs for three years? Can you believe that the photo studio is actually the legendary "Nai Ho Bridge"? If you want to rank Chinese horror films, this movie must be on the list. And Dawn won the Golden Horse Award for Film Emperor with this film.
Nonsense, please fork fork for everyone to bring this "three more" !!!
The corpse was hidden for three years, just for resurrection
Because of the needs of work, the policeman Ah Wei moved with his son to a soon-to-be abandoned apartment, which had long been empty, and the landlord told Ah Wei that the only tenant here was named Yu Hui. In the vast corridor, only the sound of one's own footsteps can be heard, and even during the day this huge building is chilling.
Ah Wei's son kept hinting to his father that a little girl dressed in red always appeared in this residential building, but Ah Wei did not pay attention to it.
Ah Wei's son is missing, and Ah Wei suspects that the little girl in red in his son's mouth is the daughter of a neighbor Yu Hui, and he finds Yu Hui, but Yu Hui claims that he has no children. And Yu Hui's indifferent attitude and the strange smell emitted at the door further aggravated Ah Wei's suspicions, he took advantage of Yu Hui's outing, sneaked into Yu Hui's room, but saw a naked female corpse being soaked in a wooden barrel, Ah Wei was stunned, was hit by Yu Hui and fainted in the back of the head.
During his imprisonment, Yu Hui did not kill Ah Wei, but on the contrary, he diagnosed Ah Wei's health abnormalities through his experience in traditional Chinese medicine, and gave him acupuncture and boiling Chinese medicine. Treating him, all indications show that Yu Hui is not a perverted murderer who hides corpses and loves corpses.
Yu Hui explained to Ah Wei that he and his wife Hai'er were originally students studying Chinese medicine, and the two had long worked out a way to bring people back to life, which seemed good, but this treatment method had great limitations - the deceased had to go through three years to be resurrected.
Because Hai'er had cancer, Yu Hui had no choice but to strangle Hai'er, taking care of Hai'er's body according to chinese medicine methods, Yu Hui had to speak to Hai'er's corpse every day, let her know her existence, three years would soon pass, and there would be three days for Hai'er to come back to life.
Watching Yu Hui change the body every day and over again, chatting with the corpse. Although he knew that Yu Hui did not mean to hurt himself, Ah Wei still did not believe that the dead could be resurrected, and he even used the theory of Western medicine to provoke Yu Hui's persistence for three years.
The last day of the three years came, and Yu Hui dressed hai'er up and waited for his wife to recover. Just as Hai'er was gradually regaining her temperature, the police suddenly knocked on Yu Hui's door to inquire about Ah Wei's whereabouts. Yu Hui lied that Ah Wei went to Macau to gamble money, but he did not want to show his horse's feet. Ah Wei did not excuse Yu Hui and allowed him to be arrested by the police.
Watching Hai'er being put into the coffin, Yu Hui desperately broke free of the shackles of the police, but did not want a speeding car to knock him away and die in the street. Perhaps everyone did not expect that in fact, Hai'er's eyes and fingers had begun to gradually regain consciousness when Yu Hui was arrested...
Later, the coroner told Ah Wei that Hai'er had been dead for at least two years, but every inch of skin was like a living person; and the hospital doctor also revealed the news that Hui had cancer 6 years ago; when Ah Wei looked through the video, he learned that Yu Hui also died like Hai'er six years ago, and it was through Hai'er's 3 years of care that Yu Hui had only come back to life, all of which corroborated Yu Hui's previous remarks that herbs brought people back to life.
At the end of the story, Ah Wei's son appears. Yu Hui and Hai'er, the couple, did not get together as living people, but were placed in the same morgue, which can also be regarded as a kind of reunion...
End of story
A few questions about the film
1. Why did Yu Hui strangle Hai'er instead of letting Hai'er die of cancer?
Yu Hui strangled Hai'er, who was suffering from cancer, and it was not excluded that Yu Hui hoped that Hai'er would get rid of the pain of the disease as soon as possible, and let Hai'er enter the three-year resurrection period in advance, "die early and live early", killing Hai'er is actually saving Hai'er. But on the legal level, does Yu Hui's behavior count as murder?
2. Who is the little girl in red, and what is the meaning of her appearance?
The little girl in red is a key character who connects the entire story, appearing several times in the film. If she had not abducted Zeng Zhiwei's son, Ah Wei would not have met Yu Hui, let alone caused Yu Hui's plan to resurrect Hai'er to fail.
However, when Ah Wei asked Yu Hui, Yu Hui said that he did not have children, as if everyone except Yu Hui could see the little girl in red, and this kind of sign appeared to be strange and abnormal.
Hai'er was once pregnant, but because of cancer, she had to beat up their child, and the little girl in red has been wandering around the Hui family, which is exactly the same as the 5- and 6-year-old little girl according to the time.
In the end, it is not difficult for us to conclude that the little girl is the child of Yu Hui and Hai'er who was miscarried, and she is really a ghost. It was the girl's ghost that wanted her parents to become ghosts to reunite with her, so she abducted Ah Wei's son and directed the encounter between Ah Wei and Yu Hui.
3. What is the family portrait of Yu Hui's three people who appear at the end of the film?
At the beginning of the film, a photo studio appears, and the people who take pictures are expressionless, which is actually the NaiHe Bridge on Huangquan Road. The photographer asking the little girl "whether to shoot or not" is actually asking her if she wants to reincarnate.
The girl stubbornly wants her parents to become ghosts to accompany her, and finally Yu Hui is killed by a car, Hai'er's resurrection fails, and the family of three becomes a ghost with a smile on her face and takes a group photo at the photo studio (Nai Ho Bridge), indicating that her plan succeeded.
Yu Hui and Ah Wei mentioned several times that waiting for Hai'er to return to her hometown to see her parents is the emotion of her children missing their parents' homesick hometown; and the little girl in red also hopes that Yu Hui and his wife will become ghosts to accompany her, and it is also the children's feelings of missing their parents' homesick hometown, which is really good with the name of the movie "Homecoming".
A heartwarming story wrapped under the cloak of a horror film
"Homecoming" is only one of the chapters in the movie "Three Changes", but because of the solid story script and the wonderful interpretation of Dawn and Liang Chaowei, it has become a classic in Chinese horror films, and the film uses the "Liaozhai" style ghost story cloak to tell a warm story about family affection and love.
Whether it is Yu Hui to Hai'er, or the girl to Hui couple are the most valued emotional relationships Chinese. The death of Yu Hui and Hai'er at the end seems to be a sad ending, but being able to reunite with their daughter in the form of ghosts is a reunion ending that Chinese audiences like most.
It is worth mentioning that the director of "Homecoming" is Chen Kexin, the director of "Chinese Partner" and "Submission of Names", and the screenwriter is Su Zhaobin, the director of "Double Pupil" and "Sword Rain", which is not difficult to understand the warmth under the cold tone of "Homecoming".
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