In 2002, the first horror film series of "Three Changes" came out, which contained three independent stories: "Memories", "Reincarnation" and "Homecoming", directed by Lonsney Mebida, Jin Zhiyun and Chen Kexin, respectively, of which Chen Kexin's "Homecoming" is the only warm film in the Sangen series, which tells a loyal and helpless and poignant love story, which can be said to be a love movie shrouded in a horror atmosphere.
Co-starring Li Ming, Zeng Zhiwei and Yuan Liqi, the film received seven nominations from the 39th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and was shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival Panorama Audience Award.
Li Ming won the only Taiwan Golden Horse Award film emperor in this life with this film, and was also nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards and shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival.
So what kind of love story does it tell?
This also has to start from the broad and profound Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is the greatest invention of our ancestors of the Chinese nation, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors, it originated from the primitive society, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period began to take shape with a set of basic theories, and then through the successive dynasties of physicians painstakingly researched, expanded, improved, passed down to the present, thousands of years shouldered the heavy responsibility of saving mankind.
Of course, some unique secret books in the field of Chinese medicine have unfortunately not been passed down, and have become an unattainable legend.
The heroes and heroines of this film are both professional practicing Chinese medicine physicians who apply a legend to practice when their lover is terminally ill.
Legend: Thousands of years ago, there was a mastery in ancient China, as long as the deceased was desperate for half a day, acupuncture, massage, medicine stickers, pulp washing and other methods can bring the deceased back to life.
In the two dilapidated police dormitories, the residents moved out one after another, leaving only Yu Hui and Hai'er, a couple who had been dead for more than two years, and Yu Hui used the legendary ancient method to soak Hai'er in a medicinal bath every day, regularly trim her hair, dress her, talk to her every day, and take good care of her.
Under the action of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture for a long time, the dead Hai'er not only did not decay, but also came to life like a living person, as if she had never died.
She was about to be resurrected as promised in a few days, but at this crucial moment, a policeman's stay broke the couple's peaceful life.
Policeman Ah Wei moved in with his young son Xiang Tsai and lived in the opposite building of Yu Hui, xiang Tsai was young and could see ghosts that adults could not see because of his young age.
On the first day of check-in, Xiang Tsai saw a little girl dressed in red on the roof of the building. He was so scared that he didn't dare to go out, and Ah Wei encouraged him to say, you are a man, be brave.
Xiang Zai saw that every time Yu Hui went out to pour Chinese medicine residue, the little girl in red would follow him.
One day, Xiang Tsai saw the little girl in red again, and she took him into a hades photo studio. On the walls of the photo gallery are pictures of various dead people, and the souls who have taken pictures here are considered to be officially human.
In the middle of the night, Ah Wei found that Xiang Zai had not returned home, and after looking around unsuccessfully, he came to knock on Yu Hui's door. Yu Hui told him that he had not seen his son and that he did not have a daughter at home.
Ah Wei did not believe it, and took advantage of Yu Hui's going out to sneak into his house, accidentally found the naked female corpse soaked in the medicine jar, when Yu Hui suddenly appeared and knocked him unconscious and imprisoned.
According to the plot development of conventional horror films, Ah Wei should then be killed by Yu Hui to destroy his body to kill his mouth, but this film is not an ordinary horror movie, and Yu Hui is not the perverted doctor who has lost his humanity. Instead of killing him, he entertained him with good food and drink, and in addition to not letting him go, he tried to meet his other requirements, especially when he was sick with wheezing, he also gave him acupuncture treatment, prescribed him prescriptions, and told him which foods to avoid.
It fully demonstrates the light of the doctor's benevolence.
Yu Hui told him that in three days, Hai'er would be resurrected as promised, and the family could go back to their hometown in Hunan, and then he would let him go.
Ah Wei did not believe the ghost story of resurrection from the dead, thinking that he was crazy.
In the blink of an eye, on the day when Hai'er should be resurrected, Ah Wei's colleagues came to the door to find the missing Ah Wei, and noticed something strange, and then the police broke into the door and arrested Yu Hui and rescued the trapped Ah Wei.
Yu Hui was escorted to the police car, and Hai'er was carried in a coffin to the funeral home's car. When the funeral home's car started, he realized that the resurrected Hai'er might be pulled to be cremated, and immediately rushed out of the police car, chasing the funeral home's car like crazy, and was killed by the car on the road outside the community gate.
In the morgue, a tear fell from the corner of Hai'er's eye, wreaking sorrow for his death and also sadness at the helplessness of fate. He lay side by side with her, he was dead, and she sensed his death and eventually chose not to be resurrected.
The forensic doctor told Ah Wei through examination that although the female corpse had been dead for more than two years, the skin was still elastic, and the hair and nails were still growing, showing signs of life
Ah Wei felt very incredible after listening, after investigation found the doctor who had seen the couple, and also found a video in Yu Hui's home, after watching the contents of the video, he fell into a deep shock and self-blame.
It turned out that six years ago, Yu Hui had liver cancer chemotherapy once and did not go again, Hai'er used the legendary ancient method, soaked the dead him in the medicine tank, gave him acupuncture and massage every day, spoke to him to call his soul, after a long three years of treatment and careful care, the liver cancer in his body was cured and then resurrected.
Husband and wife reunited, soon Hai'er was pregnant with a child, when going to go to the examination, accidentally found that she also suffered from the same cancer as him, in order to cure the disease she was forced to beat the fetus in the abdomen, in order to cure the disease he strangled her, and then used the legendary ancient method, according to the way she treated him in the first place to heal her, it was a long and lonely three years.
It turns out that there is still such a loyal and unswerving love in the world, and the original legendary ancient chinese medicine method is so magical!
But in the end, it is the creation of people, the two people who love each other deeply are always yin and yang, and they are about to get together again, but finally they both lie in the morgue.
At the end of the film in the hades photo studio, the little girl in red waved goodbye to Xiang Zai, Yu Hui took her little hand and walked in to meet Hai'er, the family of three was finally reunited, after taking this family portrait, you can embark on the way home.
Xiang Zai finally walked out of the Hades Photo Studio, and when he turned back, the Photo Studio had disappeared, and the dilapidated building was as silent as death.
With a cold and dark tone, this film sets off the loneliness, loneliness, coldness, and almost desperate protection of the husband and wife in the six years between yin and yang, thus reflecting their mysterious and great love.
The only bright color in the whole film is the little girl in red, she is particularly prominent in the cold and dark tone, she represents the hope of life, is the crystallization of their love, and has become a ghost before she comes to the human world. She has been wandering around her parents, but her parents can't sense her presence, only Xiangzi, who has low fire eyes, can see her.
The essence of the whole film is that I killed you just to cure your cancer and save you! Even if I am lonely for three years, even if others think that I am neurotic, I will not be able to stop my determination to save you!
Such a high ideological realm makes this horror film contrast with other horror films that show the dark and ugly side of human nature, and also stands out from a large number of bloody and cruel horror films, which implicitly expresses the noble side of human nature and shows the world that even in the materialistic world, there is still loyal love.
It also elevates the level of horror films, telling us that horror films can still be made like this.
In addition, it also shows us the magic of ancient Chinese medicine, whether the legendary ancient law is true or not, in the modern society where Western medicine is rampant, Western medicine cannot solve the problem, and we have to turn to Chinese medicine, chinese medicine is our last hope for life.