On a rainy day in June 2008, I resigned from Foxconn.
In the fall of 2010, I took a train from Shenyang to Changchun to interview for a job, and across from me were two young women of Korean ethnicity, and the two of them talked all the way in Korean, except for the occasional "Smecta", I couldn't understand anything.
In 2010, I published a small article "Xiaobai" in QQ Space.
In October 2011, Luoyang, Henan Province, broke out a case that shocked the whole country" of "Luoyang Li Hao Cellar Prison 6 Women Case"
In 2012, my friend said: "Little White" adaptation, let's make a movie.
In 2014, filming began in Hanchuan, Hubei Province, and then moved to Yanji in the northeast.
In 2014, I thought, let's write another book.
So there was "Heart Prison".
"Luoyang Li Hao cellar imprisonment of 6 women case", if it is not CCTV and other media detailed reports, I am afraid that even the most senior screenwriters dare not make up this, the case is full of magical colors, the criminal Li Hao is extremely vicious and vicious, but the reaction of the six women inside, let the police handling the case very confused, they not only get along harmoniously in it, but also love Li Hao very much and even aid and abett, I think this can probably be regarded as a typical case of "Stockholm Syndrome".
(Screenshot of CCTV news of that year)
Criminal Li Hao
My director friend knew that I was going to write about sex slavery, and he was very happy, and he told me: I must write out the story that happened in the dungeon in detail, and the change in the mentality of these women in the dungeon, the tragic encounter with the destruction and reconstruction of human nature, will be a very attractive story content.
But, I don't want to. Because a large number of Japanese love action movies are based on this theme, although it is more erotic, but if I want to write, I must also involve too much in this aspect, but the content is not my heart. So I had to look for a new direction.
In 2014, just when I was conceiving the script of "Heart Prison", I was deeply moved by a Japanese film, which was "Only Shine There", which was a Japanese film that won numerous awards that year, but few people in China were interested in it.
Screenshot of the movie
(Screenshot of the poster of "Only Shine There" that won multiple awards that year)
"Only Shine There" tells the love story of two frustrated men and women, who struggle in life, but shine in love, and there are many shocking descriptions in it, which are limited to platform restrictions, so I will not elaborate.
What deeply moved me about this movie was not the strange and bizarre settings, but the sad atmosphere that pervaded the whole film, after many years, I can't remember most of the plot, but the atmosphere of depression and helplessness always infected me, there are no happy people in this film, everyone seems to live in a pressure cooker, overwhelmed by life. The whole film seems to be dark and indifferent at dusk in the evening.
This is exactly my favorite movie.
I don't want to write about the "Les Misérables" under the dungeon, I want to write about the "Les Misérables" of the people on the ground, the women underground are locked up in the cellar, and the sentient beings on the ground are not locked up in their own prisons. Therefore, the dungeon and the sex slave are just a lead, and the miserable beings on the ground are the focus of my attention.
Grasping this pulse, I spent a month, indulging in the creation of stories every day, I read the online reports on such cases, and contacted the city cleaners to personally accompany them late at night to sweep the floor and talk to them, to understand their work status and psychology.
When I write, it hurts and I am happy. Fortunately, in the end, the script of nearly 60,000 words was completed, and I was personally satisfied, and I sent it to my director friend, who insisted on describing the strangeness and cruelty of the underground, and was very dismissive of my expression, so I gave up. This "Heart Prison" has always been placed in my computer, raised in the deep boudoir unknown.
Screenshot of the cover of "Heart Prison" that year
This time the opening article number, I decided to change slightly, the script into a novella, serialized in the headlines, although not called the praise, but the best paragraph has more than 40,000 reads, up to nearly 5,000 fans, many people left messages to express support, I am very comforted, I feel that the crime of that month 6 years ago was not in vain.
Regarding the plot and characters, I personally feel that I have explained very clearly, this is a work without "good people", although Zhao Sanjiang is not bad, but he has suffered grievances and has been "crippled"; Gao Sumei finally knew who the murderer was, but with a stupid son around him, his life has been "abolished"; most of the other characters with names can be classified as "bad people" and "miserable people", and this life can basically be determined.
To mention Li Jian and Huang Xin in particular, many readers have some doubts about the ending of these two people after reading it, especially Li Jian, many people feel that he is not at fault, bent on solving the case, although the procedure is flawed, but should not get such a fate. But I want to say that since the stage of conceiving ideas, I want to take Li Jian as the most hated type of person, because there are many people around us who will do whatever it takes to achieve the goal.
Friends who may know me well know that I am a very pursuit of "procedural justice", probably because I have watched too many Western movies and remember the slightest procedural flaw in the trial process that led to the reversal of the case. Li Jian's case was not to seek justice, but to promote officials and get rich and marry his wife, and his surveillance and detention of Zhao Sanjiang was not fully evidenced, but only based on a prejudice and intuition. Some people will say: What if it is really Zhao Sanjiang's murderer? Didn't he just make a contribution by doing so?
This is the point I am trying to express: our nation has long had a view that if the goal is correct, even if the process and means are dirty, it is feasible. Here, I would like to express my deep disagreement.
I guess it has something to do with nationality, but I don't want to go into it, you guys think for themselves.
As for Huang Xin, because I originally wrote the script, if the audience is presented from the picture on the movie, it should be able to quickly understand that this is a material woman, who is content with pleasure after being unspoken by her boss, which is a typical case.
Finally, I would like to state that the names of the three most important male characters in the text, "Zhao Sanjiang", "Li Jian" and "Ren Yong", respectively, come from the names of my three best friends in Yingkou, although there are good and bad in the text, there are adultery and evil, but all three of them are the spiritual support of a foreigner living in the northeast, and only use this article to pay tribute to the three of them.
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