Today, let's talk about the movie "The Eleventh Time".
Titled The Eleventh Chapter (2021), aliasEs Are You Smell / Brake Problems.
After "You Are My Lover" and "A Spoon", "The Eleventh Time" is the third film directed by Chen Jianbin.
If you count it according to independent instruction and personal style, "Eleventh Time" is his second work.
The style of the film is similar to his last film, A Spoon.
Chen Jianbin plays Ma Fuli, a murder case party who has lived for thirty years.
Thirty years ago, he accidentally crushed his wife Zhao Fengxia and Li Jianjian, who repaired the tractor, and he admitted that he had killed people and spent more than a decade in prison for this.
Thirty years later, the Municipal Repertory Theatre based on this case and choreographed a drama to show the murder case of that year.
Ma Fuli felt that the drama was not properly arranged, so he went to the drama troupe and wanted to stop the rehearsal. At the same time, Ma Fuli's new family is also a chicken feather, and the situation is continuous.
As he kept looking back, Ma Fuli re-examined his decades-old position and finally decided to live for himself.
Thirty years ago, the murder is the key to the whole movie, and if you understand the truth of the case, you can understand the motives of the characters in the film.
At that time, Zhao Fengxia and Li Jianjian had a good feeling for each other in junior high school, and the two separated after adulthood. By the time Li Jianshe returned as a tractor driver, Zhao Fengxia was already married to Ma Fuli. Li Jianshe vowed not to marry for the rest of his life, and Zhao Fengxia and Li Jianshe also had a bit of an old love rekindle.
Li Jianshe was about to leave his hometown when he was admitted to college, and before leaving, he asked Zhao Fengxia to send himself. The person in charge of the transmission was Zhao Fengxia's cousin, and the cousin was not at ease and let Ma Fuli follow him.
Li Jianshe did a trick on the tractor in advance, sending people halfway, and the tractor was indeed broken.
Li Jianshe pulled Zhao Fengxia to repair the car together and put Ma Fuli in charge of stepping on the brakes.
Just when Li Jianjian and Zhao Fengxia were working passionately, the large screws of the tractor parts were broken, Ma Fuli could not step on the brakes, and the tractor sliding car to crush Li Jianjian and Zhao Fengxia.
When Ma Fuli got out of the car, he found that he had been wearing a green hat, and in shame, he decided to maintain his dignity.
His idea was that it was better to be a murderer who punished extramarital affairs than to be a in the dark. So he took the mechanical fault of the tractor to himself, saying that he deliberately released the brakes and caused the murder.
In fact, as long as you carefully investigate, you will find that the tractor has been manipulated, coupled with the aging of parts, which is a complete accident. But Ma Fuli would rather go to 15 years in prison himself than save some face.
So it was true that Ma Fuli was wearing a green hat, but he didn't know all this before he got off the tractor.
It is false that Ma Fuli deliberately killed people or killed manslaughter, and he was willing to be a "murderer" only to look good.
Ma Fuli spent 15 years in prison and lived for another 15 years, and everything had been forgotten.
At this time, the Municipal Repertory Theatre suddenly wants to turn over the old accounts, which is not equivalent to making Ma Fuli's 30 years of efforts adrift.
That's why Ma Fuli had to go to the drama troupe to prevent the wrong information from continuing.
At this time, the film involves the concept of the main self (the ontology) and the guest self (the character).
The Lord and I am the philosophical concept proposed by Mead. Mead was the first to study human self-awareness from the perspective of communication, and proposed the "self" and the "self" that is different from the body. The "self" can be broken down into two aspects that are interconnected and interact with each other, namely the "main self" (I) and the "guest me", just like the main object in English.
In simple terms, the Lord and I am the true Self, and the Guest I am my own evaluation or the self of others. The two constantly interact with each other, leading to the formation of a new self.
"The Eleventh Time" features Ma Fuli, who has lived for decades but has never thought about the concept of the master and the guest, until the drama troupe rehearses the program, and he is not alert.
It can be said that Ma Fuli has lived most of his life and has been living among the guests. He has always lived for the sake of the guests in the eyes of others, even if he bears the reputation of "murderer". He didn't care what he really thought, but about being put on a green hat or being a murderer.
The rehearsal drama allowed him to see the existence of the Lord and Self in his heart, who had not thought about the meaning of his own existence for decades, but wasted his life for the nothingness of other people.
Eventually he used a death certificate to say goodbye to his past, and he wanted to live for himself.
The film throws out a question at a deep level: What do people live for?
For yourself, or for the sake of yourself in the eyes of others.
In general, the two are unified, but when the two conflict, which one do you choose first?
In most cases, what we need to do is to pay attention to the feelings of the Lord and me, let the guest and I be close to the Main Me, and at the same time pay attention to the image of the Guest and me, and feedback to improve the Main Me. In a positive interaction, constantly make yourself better.
However, we can never be perfect in the eyes of others, so we don't have to embarrass ourselves for the sake of being perfect.
Just like the same bowl of tofu flowers, some people are salty, saying that the salt is too much, and some people are too light, saying that there is no salt.
And the tofu flower has not changed, it is still the bowl of tofu flowers. If you put less salt for one person, the next person will think that you don't put salt.
Sleepwalking for thirty years white to raise me,
Count the repertory theater to find the Lord Me.
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