Jiang Wen is a film genius, he began his debut, starring in Xie Jin's "Furong Town", Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" and other genius works. Later, Jiang Wen became a director, and his debut work was called "Sunny Day", which made Jiang Wen's film talent get full play, but it also laid the groundwork for Jiang Wen's later bumpy career. Because he dared to break through the routine, for a while Jiang Wen lost the right to be a director. Although Jiang Wen participated in many works during the period, Jiang Wen was once again sought after by the public, and the work "Let the Bullets Fly" released in 2010 was counted. The film is directed by Jiang Wen, who is also one of the major leading actors including Zhou Runfa and Ge You.
In addition to the above three main actors, there are also superstars such as Liao Fan, Chen Kun, and Liu Jialing. But in the whole film, there is a small person, which is the key to the whole film. This person's name is Sun Shouyi, which is the "cold powder seller" in the film. Although the characters of Jiang Wen's Zhang Mazi, Ge You's Tang Shiye, and Zhou Runfa's Huang Silang are all very classic, the role of Sun Shouyi is the "fourth protagonist" implied in the whole film. The reason for this is that the focus of the whole film's story lies entirely on Sun Shouyi alone.
Zhang Mazi, played by Jiang Wen, enters Echeng County after kidnapping Lao Tang (actually Ma Bond), played by Ge You, and will reveal the unjust drum trial on the first day. Here is a very interesting phenomenon, the drum of injustice has not been struck for a long time. It means that no one in Goose City has beaten the drum in the past few years, and since no one has sounded injustice, it means that the people here basically accept the current life. However, at this time, Zhang Mazi's dry son Xiao Liuzi ripped open the unjust drum at zhang Mazi's order, and this unjust drum just rolled out to chase after the boss Sun Shouyi, who sold cold powder, running in the street, and Sun Shouyi just happened to bump into Huang Silang's regimental training leader Wu Juren.
Then the first case of grievance was born, and Sun Shouyi sued Wu Juren. At this time, do we see that Sun Shouyi is willing to sue the martial arts? Of course not! But is Sun Shou righteous? It also happened to be due to a traffic accident caused by unjust drumming, and was beaten by the martial arts people. Is it right to hit people in traffic accidents? Of course not. But is it worth it to fight against a martial artist because of a beating? For Sun Shouyi, it is definitely not cost-effective. But what about Zhang Mazi? He needs such a person, he needs a reason to fight with Huang Silang.
At this time, Sun Shouyi's role came out. A person who sells cold powder is sandwiched between Zhang Mazi and Huang Silang because of a traffic accident, and the culprit of this traffic accident is Zhang Mazi himself. Then we look back at Sun Shouyi carefully, judging from the fact that he was beaten by martial arts that day, this city vendor was usually beaten. But judging from his clothing, Sun Shouyi also belongs to a small boss who can live his life well. In such a situation, Sun Shouyi was willing to endure Huang Silang at that time, so he hoped that he could avoid the contradiction between Huang Silang and Zhang Mazi.
In fact, in Goose City, in addition to Sun Shouyi, there are many city figures such as Sun Shouyi. They all wanted to live a stable life through their own diligence and patience, and most of them were indeed not involved in a contradiction that they were willing to accept, like Sun Shouyi. These people are willing to be oppressed by people like Huang Silang, and they are willing to side with Huang Silang under certain circumstances. And Sun Shouyi represents such a character in the whole film. They don't even have the courage to beat the drum and sound the injustice, but if they are really involved in social contradictions like Sun Shouyi, they will only follow their feelings and go with the flow.
In the film, did Sun Shouyi do something wrong, so much so that he ended up losing his life. Judging from the appearance of Sun Shouyi at the beginning, he was indeed very innocent, chased by the rolling drum and bumped into Wu Zhuangyuan on Xing's head. At this stage, Sun Shouyi was completely passive. But is this person really innocent? If a person lives in civilized human society, then this person is enjoying the benefits brought by civilization and social organization. Sun Shouyi is such a person, but it is far from enough for a person to enjoy only welfare.
Like Sun Shouyi, he finally lost his life. Sun Shouyi's killing seems to be the result of the competition between Huang Silang and Zhang Mazi, but at the same time, it is also the result of Sun Shouyi's own inaction. Sun Shouyi's inaction refers to his inaction in social rules. Before Zhang Mazi went to Goose City, Sun Shouyi resigned himself to Huang Silang's existence, and he had no ability or courage to rebel against Huang Silang. This was not to blame, and then in the unjust drum incident, when Sun Shouyi decided the case of Zhang Mazi, in fact, he actually had at least one chance to save himself, that is, to stiffen his waist and argue with Wu Zhuangyuan.
With this plan, there is a high probability that Sun Shouyi will have the opportunity to get rid of Wu Zhuangyuan's entanglement. If Wu Zhuangyuan felt Sun Shouyi's resistance, he would not have chosen Sun Shouyi when creating an unjust case. He would find another person with a weak personality to use as material for creating an unjust case. In this way, while Sun Shouyi escaped the disaster, he also had the opportunity to completely get rid of such a minion as Wu Zhuangyuan.
Social fairness is achieved by a group of people, and the fair treatment of individuals must also be achieved by their own struggle. The biggest problem for Sun Shouyi is that he gave his fairness to Zhang Mazi and Huang Silang to wrestle. In the process of the two wrestling, Sun Shouyi not only did not get fair treatment, but he himself became cannon fodder for social justice. So a very ordinary individual, if this person can't take responsibility for himself, he rarely gets fair treatment from the underworld.
Only when a person is responsible for himself can he be responsible for society. People like Sun Shouyi actually have a lot of people in society, and these people are not bad people, and even most of them are good people. However, this part of the people will only enjoy the civilized norms of society, but will not make their own efforts to the civilized norms of society. Under such logic, Sun Shouyi's biggest problem is that he does not have a clear attitude towards himself. Later, because of one of his words, Xiao Liuzi "cut the abdomen to take powder".
Under the vicious circle, Sun Shouyi brought himself into a dangerous situation, and in the end he not only failed to help himself. In fact, his cowardice also intensified the contradiction between Huang Silang and Zhang Mazi, and further brought Huang Silang into a dangerous situation. In such a situation, Sun Shouyi's mistakes are clear at a glance. He lacks basic self-responsibility and social responsibility, and in the chaos, Sun Shouyi also invites the disaster of killing.