Title/Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart
Director: Wang Jing
Writers: Wu Nan
Starring: Yan Bingyan / Chen Gang / Jiao Gang / Li Xian / Zhao Qian / Wang Moxi / Yang Mingqiu / He Minglan / Liu Shan / Huang Shouxia / Sun Zhongjiang / Zhang Ruitian / Yu Longgang
Genre: Drama / Family
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Mandarin Chinese / Wuhan dialect
Release: 2012-11-16(Chinese mainland)
Runtime: 118 minutes
Also known as: Feng Shui / Feng Shui
imdb link: tt2513344
Synopsis:
In Wuhan in the 1990s, in an ordinary family, the husband Ma Xuewu (Jiao Gang) is the director of a state-owned enterprise, the wife Li Baoli (Yan Bingyan) is a hawker in Hanzheng Street, and the two have a son Xiao Bao (Li Xian). A business partition allowed the family to live in a new house, and it was expected that from the day of the move, a series of unexpected changes followed: her husband Ma Xuewu filed for divorce, his wife found out that her husband was cheating, and her homeless mother-in-law wanted to move into a new home, and finally Ma Xuewu went to the road of suicide under a series of blows. Baoli's friend Xiao Jing (Zhao Qian) attributes all the bad luck to the bad feng shui of the new house, calling it "ten thousand arrows through the heart", and Li Baoli, who has a stubborn personality, is unwilling to compromise and is determined to support this family...
The film "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart" is based on the novel of the same name by the famous Wuhan writer Fang Fang, and was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival.
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If I want to talk about the final feelings about this show, it may cause a lot of scolding. Because this is a domestic drama that many people have recommended. To what extent has God gone? "Falling Leaves To the Roots" 7.4, "Blessed Ears" 7.7, "Auntie's Postmodern Life" 7.2, "July of the Car Watcher" 7.8. For such a score, I think it is a bit of an inflated score. The level of this film can be stable at around 7.9 or even 8.0. But it is still far from the height of 8.5.
Therefore, for those who do not hesitate to even rely on just a few screenshots to canonize this film, there may be only one reason. Domestic films are seen too little. Therefore, for a film of a normal level, there will suddenly be an illusion of rushing. It's as if the domestic films of 2012 were basically shot. Maybe we overlooked "Sun Tzu from America", "Floating City Mystery", "Tell Them, I Went by White Crane", these are all films of the same type. Not to mention "Trail of the Wokou", "1942", "Killing" and many genre films.
Sometimes it is very sad to be overly superstitious. Because people will stubbornly think that a certain kind of performance can be called acting, and some actions should be the most perfect embodiment of expressing a certain emotion. Therefore, I don't care so much about the backbone of the story. Yan Bingyan is a good actor, but not the most underrated actor. Because there are many actors of the same type like Yan Bingyan, such as Liu Mintao, Liu Weiwei and so on. All are acting online and can sweep through the existence of their own age group. Similarly, when we praise Yan Bingyan in a good situation, in fact, we just don't know that there is still this writer.
Okay, I'll talk about the movie now. To be fair, this film is really good. Why it is good, it is precisely because we have long looked at the story design of the domestic family ethics drama without a lower limit. When such a very plain film appeared. We'll all be dazzled. This may be due to the fact that we often create an illusion on TV or in the surrounding propaganda. All cities are well-dressed and all the people are refreshed. And those grounded stories and scene settings, usually we don't pay for it. Because we don't want to acknowledge these real corners of the world and, like most of us, live in a state of salt and wood.
Unfortunately, the film is based on such a fact.
The whole story is a family tragedy, and such tragedies play out all around us all the time. A very ordinary story looks very good, because this story has entered the depths of our hearts. Because of the ordinary families around us, most of the stories we face every day will be staged in this movie. The father of a good old man, a hot mother, and a rebellious son. Such families exist in the country for tens of millions. And when the directors really put these things on the table, we will all exclaim and seal the gods. Let me ask you, why did you go earlier?
The heroine of the film, Li Baoli, can be said to be a portrayal of most housewives. At home, it can encourage a person's bad temperament. When this temperament slowly gets higher and higher. The family will erupt into a series of conflicts. Of course, this persecution will create many possibilities. Ma Xuewu's kind of is probably the last thing most "Li Baoli" wants to see. And such a possibility is not an intractable problem in our view, divorce is indeed the best choice, or it is their own change. But Li Baoli's approach can be said to be the most unwise, but it is also the most praised by most domestic housewives. Use another overwhelming advantage to coerce your husband into submission.
But even if a man is not bloody, how can he go on like this? Soon this calm will be broken. Layoffs are, of course, one factor, and the other is despair. When Ma Xuewu stood on the bridge, his despair for the world was no less than that of Li Baoli when he took photos of the children by the river later. There will be a million reasons to seize a person's hopes. It was just that the layoffs and his wife's coercion just came to Ma Xuewu. And so tragedy struck.
After watching this film, we are very touched by Li Baoli's situation and behavior over the years. But sometimes there are some incomprehensions. Why don't people do some introspection? If it is not Xiao Bao's final unraveling knot, then Li Baoli will still follow her own life trajectory. This is a very sad thing. Because in our current view, women's independence may not be a difficult thing. And in those days, it perhaps took a lot of courage to get a housewife to start her own new life. If you get to know yourself again, you may see more beautiful things from the outside of this house.
Why would you want to trap yourself in such a small house? Give yourself and your life a chance, maybe really like Li Baoli said, leaving may be a good choice.