Title: "A Thought of Ignorance"
Douban score: 7.9
Imdb rating: 7.3
Director: Huang Jin
Main cast: Yu Wenle / Zeng Zhiwei / Jin Yanling / Fang Haowei
Genre: Drama/Family
Country/Region: Hong Kong, China
Synopsis: Ah Dong (Yu Wenle), who suffers from bipolar disorder, was sentenced to be admitted to Qingshan Hospital because of the manslaughter of his mother (Jin Yanling), who was suffering from pain, and after recovering and discharging from the hospital, he lived in the board room of his father Huang Dahai (Played by Zeng Zhiwei), who was a dry port driver. Huang Dahai tried to care for his son, but Ah Dong did not appreciate it, and it turned out that Ah Dong had always been grumpy about his father's abandonment of the family. Antoine re-entered the society, but was discriminated against by his friends around him, but he tried to calm himself, and At the same time, Antoine also tried his best to find Jenny (Played by Fang Haowei), who talked about the day that was almost engaged, but he did not expect that when he found Jenny, he had a different taste.
Film review: "8 nominations for the Academy Awards, new directorial debut, 20 million costs, 16 days to shoot." Zeng Zhiwei and Yu Wenle are willing to star in zero remuneration after reading the script. "The film was full of labels before it was released
It's really worth it after watching it, and this film is the best Hong Kong film I've made in the last decade, and it's also my favorite Hong Kong movie in recent years.
Based on a real news case in Hong Kong, the film depicts the indifference and unfriendliness of the public to the mentally ill with a family tragedy, and tells the story of how a father and son with heavy guilt face the past.
Flipping through some Douban comments, many people call this movie the Hong Kong version of "Manchester by the Sea", although they have different funerals, they are the same depression, depressed to the point of breathlessness.
The two films are likened to two different bottles of wine
is a soft entrance, and slowly coming up is a sadness that overflows the screen.
"Ignorance" is like a spirit entering the throat, like a sharp knife. Several of the main scenes have a great explosive power, the father and son rooftop play, the ex-girlfriend church scene, the two scenes that moved me the most.
The narrow coffin room, the killing of mothers, the affection between father and son, the twisted forgiveness of ex-girlfriends, and the indifferent prejudice in society are all the tension of the film, and the director uses a seemingly calm, but in fact, choppy narrative technique, which is particularly emotionally penetrating when it breaks out at a certain point.
The biggest similarity between the two films is that they can't get out of the tragedy even in the end, but they both choose to continue to live. Because there is hope to live!!
To paraphrase a passage from Lu Xun as the final conclusion:
"Downstairs a man was dying of illness, and the house in the wall was singing a phonograph; opposite was a child. There were two people upstairs laughing wildly; and there was the sound of cards being played. There were women crying on boats in the river about her dead mother. The joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same, I just think they are noisy. "--Little Miscellaneous Feelings"