Today's sharing with you is "I 11"
The story is set in a special era, when hundreds of factories and mines are housed in the deep mountains and wilderness, and the film opens in this repressive tone. The boy who was brushing his teeth was Wang Xian, who was 11 years old and still in elementary school, he had a young sister, his mother was a female worker in the factory, and his father worked in the city's literary troupe.
His father liked to paint and hoped that Wang Xian would become a painter in the future. On the way to send his father to work, Wang Xian asked his father if there was a literary troupe in the county, but his father told Wang Xian that he could not decide what kind of work a person wanted to do. This sentence highlights that under the tide of the times, everyone is like duckweed, drifting around. In fact, it is also a dark line of the story, and we will find out later that the fate of the original human being has always been wrapped up in the times and is powerless to change itself.
Wang Xian has three friends, namely Ba Latou, Wei Jun, and Little Mouse, for a group of 11-year-old children, their fun is to play horizontal bars to vent the desires of adolescent ignorance, they have the common characteristics of children of this age, love to play and curiosity. They were curious about the development of the girls, they went together to disturb the kissing couples, and they went to play by the stream without knowing the depth, in their unformed world, sorrow seemed to be just an abstract symbol, and Wang Xian truly realized the sorrow of his life for the first time, he was selected by the teacher to become the leader of the school.
Leading the way was an honorable thing, but the teacher wanted him to wear a brand-new white shirt, which was a difficult requirement in an era when new clothes could only be worn in the New Year. After several times begging his mother for no avail, Wang Xian even started the idea of hunger strike, stealing money, and not going to school, and he longed for a white shirt and stood in front of all the teachers and students of the school to lead the exercise. And this white shirt, which is emphasized by the director, is actually the main line that runs through the story of this film.
The mother thought that Wang Huan was three days hot, and it would be good to dry him for a few days, but she did not expect that Wang Huan would cry for the white shirt, and his mother compromised, she went to the school to understand the situation, and after learning from the teacher that there was indeed such a thing, although the cloth was in short supply, she still used a year's cloth ticket to buy cloth, and made a white shirt for Wang Han overnight.
When Wang Xian got up and found the white shirt, the joy was overflowing, and the exercise was particularly majestic. But the good times did not last long, he and his friends were playing by the stream, listening to their friends talking about the recent killings that had swept the city, suddenly fainting, and then waking up to find that his white shirt was missing, he mistakenly thought that his friends were playing a prank, and in anger he had an argument with his friends.
After his friend left him, he had to fish out his shirt alone, and while he was waiting for it to dry, he met a man who was in a hurry and covered in blood, and the man took his white shirt and used it to cover the wound on his stomach.
Although Wang Xian did not know the man's origin, he could think of his mother's angry look when he learned that the white shirt he had worked so hard to make had been lost, which made him have to enter the mountains, but he was only an 11-year-old child, so when he found the bloodied man behind him, he turned around and fled. At this moment, the fear of the unknown overcame his desire for a white shirt, but he was finally caught by the man, who covered his mouth tightly and threatened to kill you if he shouted again, and Wang Xian had to obediently obey.
The man is not a heinous bad guy, so he did not kill Wang Huan, and even asked him why he went into the mountains, Wang Huan said that he only wanted to get back the white shirt, but the man did not plan to return the white shirt to him now, he promised to return a brand new white shirt to Wang Huan in the future, and let Wang Huan help him find a herb that can stop the bleeding, in order to prevent Wang Huan from attracting soldiers, the man threatened him if he told others, he would kill him.
When Wang Huan picked back herbs to give medicine to men, he learned that the man was Jue Hong's brother Jue Qiang, Jue Hong was a very beautiful middle school student in the school, five years older than Wang Huan, her curves were fully displayed, revealing the innocence of the girl's unique genus, but her beauty also attracted many disasters for herself, Jue Hong's story is a dark line of this film, at this time, due to the series of white shirts, the two lines of light and dark lines are intertwined together, promoting the development of the next storyline, and why seemingly kind men will become murderers is a mystery to be solved.
The man eventually let Wang Huan go, and hooked him and promised that he would return his white shirt, and Wang Huan also promised to keep the secret of the mountain forest for the other party. So after he returned home, in the face of his mother's scolding, he did not say the man's secret, only said that the shirt drifted away with the river, and his mother naturally did not believe his words, but the two people took flashlights and searched for half a day in the late night stream and did not find it, and the mother could only believe Wang Xian's words.
At this time, the incident of the man killing was discussed by everyone, some people said that he was to avenge the rape of his sister, some people said that he was to rebel against the factory system, and some people said that Jue Hong's father Lao Xie sacrificed his daughter in order to transfer back to Shanghai, but was unexpectedly discovered by his son. The dark line we mentioned in the opening chapter before is vividly shown here, the work is not chosen by people, but some people do not recognize their fate, want to make some efforts to change their fate, and finally they still can't escape the end of being photographed into the abyss by the tide of the times.
Whatever the reason, Juehong fell into an embarrassing situation because of what her brother did, at school she was called by the teacher to inquire, the classmates talked about her, she did not go to school after that; at home she was watched by everyone, and she was helpless. She was just a 16-year-old girl, but because of her father and brother, she suffered pain that her peers should not have.
Friends because of Wang Huan's previous unreasonable behavior isolated him, in order to ease the relationship with his friends, when he heard them talking about the fugitives, he took the initiative to tell them the man's secret, the three people did not believe everything Wang Huan said at first, but Wang Huan said that they could take them to meet the man, so the four of them met at night to give food to the man, but the four people were bolder than one, and finally fled in a hurry under the shouting of a ghost who did not know who came.
The next day Wang Xian told his friends that if the man knew that he had told someone else his secret, he would come and kill him. The threat of a murderer is very deterrent, the four people believe it, and the hook agrees that no one is allowed to tell the matter, but the little mouse, who can't keep the secret, still tells the teacher about the fugitive. The teacher and the soldiers led them to the creek, where Wang Huan identified the scene where the man had appeared, and despite the many troops, the man was not caught.
Wang Xian's father was beaten because he went forward to dissuade the struggle between the two gangs, and therefore he was idle at home, and then he put all his energy on teaching Wang Xian to paint, one day when he took Wang Huan to the wilderness to sketch, he happened to meet Lao Xie with Jue Hong to go to the grave of his deceased wife, the four of them went home together after a bit of greeting, but on the way back, they encountered a rainstorm, and his father had to take Wang Xian to temporarily stay in the old Xie family to avoid the rain, Jue Hong brought clean clothes to Wang Huan, and the two changed clothes back to back, in the process of changing clothes, Through the conversation of his fathers, Wang Xian finally understood the reason for Jueqiang's murder, which was similar to what everyone guessed, Juehong was bullied by the factory director because of his father's job transfer, and his brother brutally killed the director to avenge his sister, and he was dissatisfied with the whole factory, and even wanted to set fire to the factory. Jue Qiang was originally a kind person, but was forced by reality to become an arsonist, this incident can not help but sigh, if justice is late, what choice should we make?
Wang Xian looked at the beautiful but lifeless young girl, thought of her tragic experience, and then thought of everything her brother Jueqiang had done for her, he vaguely felt that something had changed in his own world. After returning home, Wang Huan had a high fever and was confused, he heard the alarm outside, but his eyes were chaotic, and reality became incomparably chaotic, just like he couldn't tell whether Jue Qiang was good or bad. When he opened his eyes again, it was already two days later, and his friends gathered around his hospital bed and told him that on the night of his high fever, Jue Qiang had set a fire in the factory, but he did not expect that a sudden rainstorm would extinguish the fire, and Jue Qiang was not dead and wanted to come back and set the fire again, but he was caught. Children who did not know men only felt that he deserved it, and even competed to imitate his captured posture to amuse Wang Huan.
Is Ke Jueqiang really a bad person? In order to avenge his sister, he did not hesitate to take his life, even if he risked being exposed by Wang Huan, he still let Wang Huan go, and after he was arrested and imprisoned, he did not forget to keep his promise and sent Wang Huan a brand new white shirt. Is he really guilty of such a terrible crime?
Wang's parents learned the truth of the matter through this white shirt, and they took Wang Xian to the prison to inquire about the origin of the white shirt of the prison guards.
Jue Qiang kept his promise, but Wang Xian did not. And the family members in the mouth of the prison guards are the old Xie and Juehong who everyone thinks they have returned to Shanghai, they have made up lies to deceive everyone in order to make up a lie for Jue Qiang, who is about to be shot, and they will come to the prison to visit Jue Qiang in three days, and they want to accompany him more in the last time limit of Jue Qiang's life.
Just when Wang Xi and his family were about to leave the prison, they found Lao Xie and Jue Hong standing in the doorway, the two people standing straight and expressionless, as if they had lost all their vitality, and the Wang Family could not face the tragic situation of the father and daughter, let alone pretend to be a greeting, and could only take Wang Xian away from the back door.
Everything that happens in the film is illusory to the 11-year-old children, who just stand outside and watch curiously. Whether it is watching lovers in love, curiously discussing the killing, hiding in the corner to watch a chaotic battle, or running to the execution ground to see Jueqiang being shot, they are all ignorant, it is precisely because of ignorance, so they run carefree, but on the way that the four people went to see Jueqiang being shot, only Wang Xian stopped, and when he was about to turn 12, the awakening of sex and the awakening of personality came together with the awakening of the new era.
Wang Xiaoshuai inherits the characteristics of the sixth generation of directors to express their own growth experience, in "I 11" to focus on the small people in life, through the flowing water documentary style, the special 70s and human nature of the in-depth thinking. Through an 11-year-old child, standing outside the tide of the times, curiosity and ignorance take us to see the changes of the times, this shooting method weakens the suffocating breath of the times, so that we do not experience a deeper pain, this is the compassion that belongs to Wang Xiaoshuai, and it is also what he wants to tell us through the film, "No matter what era you are born in, which family, you are you, all you can do is accept him and respect him."
Life is like this, all we can do is to calmly accept every gift that life gives us, whether it is bitter or sweet, we have to laugh and swallow.
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