The film "Daytime Fireworks" tells the story of two marginal characters who want to return to normal life, comfort each other on the journey back, and trample on each other. In order to live a normal life in the sun, Wu Zhizhen, a cold beauty played by Gui Lunmeng, betrayed her husband Liang Zhijun (played by Wang Xuebing), who has been guarding her in the dark, and instead relied on Zhang Zili (played by Liao Fan), a policeman who felt more secure. In order to return to the police force, Zhang Zili betrayed his lover Wu Zhizhen. Both people's choices are deviated from the normal track, but both have the original desire of the heart as a motive. We can't judge whether they're choosing right or wrong. If you were put in their place, what choice would you make?
Wu Zhizhen said, "It doesn't matter, I'll teach you." A few words highlight the contradictions in the characters' hearts, which is the biggest turning point in the film. What happens to Wu Zhizhen and Zhang Zili at the wild ice rink arouses the curiosity of the audience.
What is money? Money is the guts of people. All of us are forced to make some unwilling choices because we have no courage, and these choices have affected our lives, and whenever we look back, we are overwhelmed with regret.
Wu Zhizhen's most lack of money was in 1999, when the laundry was just opened, she washed a 28,000-strong leather coat for customers, and her monthly salary of 2600 yuan was unable to repay the huge compensation, and she was forced to go to the hotel many times to open a room to repay, and finally killed people by mistake.
Wu Zhizhen is weak and helpless, but also cruel and cold-blooded. After Wu Zhizhen accidentally killed the owner of the leather dress, her husband Liang Zhijun helped her to shredd the body and throw away the body, and put his ID card into one of the corpse pieces, causing the illusion of death, concealing the police investigation, becoming a living dead, and accompanying Wu Zhizhen in the dark.
Weak and helpless, Wu Zhizhen has to maintain her ordinary life after experiencing a body dumping case and her husband is considered dead by the police. Wu Zhizhen wants to fall in love with ordinary people in the light, but this has become a luxury. Because Liang Zhijun, who paid for her "life" and could only be a shadow, could not accept her being with others, all the men who skated wild ice with her were killed. Wu Zhizhen had no choice but to accept this lonely life. Being molested by the perverted boss, he only swallowed his anger; he was pressed to the ground by Zhang Zili and did not make any resistance. The weak Wu Zhizhen has become accustomed to living in the shadows, living in the shadow of Liang Zhijun, living in the shadows of her own past.
Wu Zhizhen is ferocious and cold-blooded, and everyone who has a story is afraid that others will ask questions about it. When Zhang Zili tracked herself, she began to worry about the secret being revealed and was unwilling to have more contact with Zhang Zili. However, Zhang Zili said, "Next time, let's go skating wild ice." The invitation, her attitude changed from "Don't follow me anymore." "It's okay to shift to "It's okay, I'll teach you." ”。 Skating wild ice is an invitation that Wu Zhizhen cannot refuse, because she knows that behind this invitation is a man showing love to herself, which is a rare light in her bleak life; she also knows that the men who accompany her skating wild ice will be killed by Liang Zhijun, but she cannot refuse someone to accompany her to do what she likes.
After Wu Zhizhen knew that Zhang Zili was a policeman, he thought that he could get rid of Liang Zhijun's shadow, so he told Zhang Zili the secret of the body dumping case hidden deep inside. On the night that Wu Zhizhen betrayed Liang Zhijun, the ice flowers in the window reflected Liang Zhijun's vague figure, and the illusory life would pass. After Liang Zhijun's death, Wu Zhizhen began a new life, wearing makeup, dressing up, and interacting with Zhang Zili in a normal communicative attitude, thinking that he could erase the extremely bad memories of the past.
Qian is Wu Zhizhen's guts, so being recognized is Zhang Zili's original desire, he wants to get emotional recognition, get the recognition of the police force.
At the beginning of the film, Zhang Zili and his wife divorced, and their feelings were mutilated. In the course of investigating the dumping case, he was shot and transferred to the factory security department as an errand boy, turned into a drunken putty, and social recognition was mutilated. When he found that the case of throwing away the body was still continuing, he wanted to seize this opportunity to turn over his life and make up for these mutilations one by one.
In the process of investigating the body dumping case, Zhang Zili was gradually attracted by Wu Zhizhen, sent tape to bandage the wound, and skated wild ice together. For a brief moment, he was even considering whether to fully accept this woman, to cover up all her past mistakes, and the two met like lovers at an old place at night. Zhang Zili learned the truth about the disappearance of the owner of the leather jacket in 1999 at the "Daytime Fireworks" bar, and patched together with the body dumping case and Liang Zhijun at that time, and he gradually felt that the truth was hidden in the weak woman.
Wu Zhizhen looked at his familiar and unfamiliar "daytime fireworks" on the Ferris wheel, and the extremely bad memories he wanted to erase reappeared. No matter how long it has been, we must face the dusty memories in our hearts, the past that is lamented, the past that has ten thousand kinds of ifs.
Zhang Zili weighed between emotional satisfaction and social recognition for a long time, so that he could lose a little slower in his life, betrayed his lover Wu Zhizhen, and won the recognition of the police force. Did Zhang Zili win? The film begins with Zhang Zili's divorce and ends with Zhang Zili's lonely dance. He is a loser emotionally from beginning to end, and his sick relationship with Wu Zhizhen is just an episode, and when he runs out, he loves himself more.
The contingency of life makes Wu Zhizhen and Zhang Zili become marginal figures in society, with no sense of belonging, no value, and no solution in the face of inequality in reality. They have very little, and in order to return to their normal life, they can only sell what they have. In order to repay the twenty-eight thousand skins, Wu Zhizhen betrayed his flesh; in order to return to a normal life under the sun, he betrayed Liang Zhijun, who bore his own guilt and guarded himself. In order to return to the police station, Zhang Zili can only use Wu Zhizhen's feelings for him. Their choices are all compromises that are powerless against this society. Are they wrong? Behind their choices, they all have strong primitive desires to support them, they all have their own legitimate reasons, but they all deviate from the mainstream values of society.
"Daytime fireworks" are like hundreds of millions of ordinary people in society, working hard in the surging crowds, trying to change themselves and change society, but they have not left any traces.