Actress Jiang Wenli was shocked by the report that the village was swallowed up by AIDS due to blood sales in Henan and other places, so she introduced these news to director Gu Changwei, and there was such an old movie + good movie that was not suitable for children. ps, the movie is not suitable for children to watch, because the smell of death is too strong, and there are many sex shots.
Yayi talks about the storyline of this film.
The story takes place in a rural area in the mountains.
The villagers are too poor, and someone who can take the lead can get money by "selling blood", so the blood sales transaction began to spread. Zhao Quanquan (pu Cunxin) is the initiator of this nightmare, and he organizes the villagers to sell blood and make a windfall.
After a long time, everyone found that the blood seller had a fever - AIDS. People who have this disease will slowly die.
In this group of AIDS patients, there is Zhao Quanquan's younger brother, Zhao Deyi (played by Aaron Kwok). His brother wouldn't let him sell blood, but he still ran to the next village to secretly sell blood, and he also contracted AIDS.
Because of the spread of AIDS, the primary school in the village was closed, the teachers were scared away, and the school was empty. Zhao Quanquan's 12-year-old son was also poisoned by the villagers in retaliation to death.
Seeing that his eldest son was doing the blood sales business and harming so many people, the old pillar knelt down to the villagers. Deeply feeling that the godsons were helpless, he was sorry for the townspeople, so he volunteered to take care of these patients in the abandoned school.
As a result, the villagers who had a fever (AIDS) moved to the school one after another.
These sick people, in this abandoned alpine school, were given a short period of freedom and dignity.
Zhao Quanquan came again, and he brought a little flour.
When the sick villagers died one after another, he began to develop a second business - selling coffins. He sprayed prominent advertisements with red paint on the door of the abandoned school and sold coffins. Don't forget to say in passing, "They are all from their own families, give you preferential treatment."
One day, the school came to a beautiful woman wearing a red jacket "Shang Qinqin" (played by Zhang Ziyi).
Why would she sell blood? Because he envied the hair of the women in the city, he wanted to buy a bottle of shampoo, so he secretly sold blood.
She was brought in by her husband himself.
The male protagonist, Aaron Kwok played this Zhao Deyi, took a fancy to this woman.
Both men had AIDS, both were rejected by their families, and when they were homeless, the two warmed up to each other.
The two abandoned worldly views and lived happily in a stone house on the hill. To use Zhao's triumphant mantra, "Proud of a day, is a day"!
As Shang Qinqin said: "I don't want a face, but I don't die, I have to live, and I have to marry proudly, even if it is half a year, half a month, we are also husband and wife, and when we die, we can be buried together in a dignified manner, and it is also a home." ”
The most classic is the psychological tug-of-war between the two people as they get closer and closer to death, and this shot is also selected for the stage of "The Birth of an Actor". The content is --
Shang Qinqin said to Zhao Deyi, You want to watch me die first.
Zhao Deyi picked up the hemp rope, tied a knot, and said that I would die to show you! At the same time, don't forget to tie a knot at the other end, meaning, "Do you dare to die?" When Qinqin also stuck his neck into the dead knot, Zhao Deyi suddenly smiled, he did not want to die, he said: "Proud of a day, it is a day, I will not die."
Next, the two men hoped that the light would be together and knelt down to ask the old pillar for help. Finally receiving their long-awaited marriage license, they were almost insane to make a lot of candy in the village to share their joy.
Despite being rejected, they can keep warm to each other.
The two went from the joy of fish and water to each other.
Compared with the "secret marriage" that occurs from time to time in the village, rejection, death, discrimination, indifference, disease... We see that sin is raging, that the power of death is so rampant, that terrible diseases deprive people of their dignity.
The love marriage of Zhao Deyi and Shang Qinqin, which is "apocalyptic carnival", may be the last trace of temperature in despair.
At the end of the movie, Zhao Deyi had a high fever, and Shang Qinqin received cold water again and again and used a cool towel to cool him, but anyway, the torture experienced by people in the later stages of AIDS was too painful.
Extremely uncomfortable, Zhao Triumphantly scolded, "Can you hurry!" "Mother, I'm about to be burned" "On fire, on fire."
When Shang Qinqin saw her lover suffering, she used her body to soak in a cold water tank, and when she was cold, she went to the house to hold Zhao Deyi to cool down.
The soaking again and again destroyed Shang Qinqin's body. She, rather than sacrifice herself, but also alleviate her husband's pain - this woman's psychology is so simple, her husband gave her dependence and destination, she took out her life to repay him!
Shang Qinqin, who died before dawn.
Seeing his wife die, Zhao was extremely remorseful, he laughed like a demon, and then took a knife and slashed it on his leg, and the blood flowed like a river... The second-rate man who has always insisted on "being proud of a day is a day" has given up the right to last survival for this woman who loves him deeply.
"Let's get married, while we are alive", this sentence is shang qinqin and Zhao Deyi's final account of life. In the face of AIDS, all the grievances, gains and losses, absurdities, ugliness, coldness, and cruelty of all sentient beings are temporary, and only love is eternal.
The most touching thing about the movie is the love of the two people who warm each other, and the love of the wife who sacrificed her life for her husband.
Love does not fail, it does not stop.
love never fails。
The film is labeled "purely fictional". But I still think it's comparable to documentary truth. After reading it, Yayi's biggest realization was that we all had "diseases", it turned out that we all had sins, and it turned out that we would all die.
Life is a journey to death. We are no different from the characters in the play, except that the journey to death is different.
Their time is short, our time is long.
But man, inherently dead, has judgment after death.
Who will judge Zhao Quanquan, who desperately tries to make money and does not ask right from wrong? Who will pity Zhao Deyi and Shang Qinqin, who are trying to live and try to love? Who will understand the old pillar of compassion for god and atonement for the sins of his son?
Today, we live too comfortably and comfortably, often forgetting that there is an end to death. No, this may not be the end, but a threshold that must be crossed in the past – entering eternity is where everyone belongs.
Great movies that will give us a heads-up drink.
One is to make you find yourself dead.
The second is to let you see that before dying, the pain is so real, and money, fame, and even relatives can't help you. The only power that can soothe you is true love.
The third is to make you compassionate for those who live and die faster than you. They are like ants, sick and living in misery. Their existence reminds us to be good stewards of life and invest in more meaningful things.
Life is a trust, a test, and a temporary task. I'll cite the story to illustrate this:
A nobleman is going to go far away, and when he has the power of honor, he will return. Before setting out he called his ten servants, each of whom gave them a piece of silver and commanded them to do the business. Much later, he returned home and called the servants to know how much they had made in business.
One of the servants said, "I have earned ten ingots of silver. The nobleman said, "Well, good servant, since you are faithful in the smallest things, you can help me in the ten cities in the future." Another servant said, "I have earned five ingots." "He got five cities.
Another said, "Your silver is here, and I'm afraid of losing money, so I wrap it in a handkerchief." Then the noble man said, "You lazy and evil man, why don't you give it to the bank to collect interest?" So he took his silver and gave it to someone else, and punished him severely.
Life is like this "trust".
Wife, children, property, talent, health, age, all these things are like assets entrusted to me by God. I don't know how long I'm going to live, but I can choose how I live.
Life is also a test. I can use these assets to earn more assets and take good care of all of them to give happiness to my loved ones. I can also be like the blood dealer in the movie "The Favourite", taking advantage of the cheap, vicious and cunning, coveting comfort and living a lowly life. The bad guy who committed the crime, his own son was also killed by the enemy, he dug the trap, and fell into it himself.
The latter, which often seems to be able to evade trial in just a few short decades, seems to be living a little better. Time is long and short, and we often walk and forget our end point and forget our original intention.
On a path full of temptations, I need to constantly draw strength to resist the secular utilitarian culture and hold on to the spiritual home of the soul.
Life is a temporary task, and when this prologue comes to an abrupt end, I will pay for it and receive the rewards and punishments I deserve.
Only such a outlook on life and death can save us from the temptation snare, to be able to take what we can give up, to know what to do and what to retreat, to see the true state of life in the calm of the wind and waves, to taste faintly and rarely, and to know the nature of the mind and body.
When I watch the movie "The Favourite", I often feel chills. It is as if sin and death, like the true person, are marching everywhere in search of someone to devour. (ps, when everyone watches, be alert)
Sin is powerful, it is alive, and the greatest power is death.
But that doesn't stop there.
In the same way, righteousness is powerful, and the greatest power is salvation. The one who suffers on the wood also bears the sins of man, and his burden is far greater than that of the old pillar in the movie. His fulfillment is to give people the new life and strength to overcome death.
Life is lively, it is sustainable, not a carnival, but a beautiful marathon. When people without faith face death, they can only enjoy themselves in time, and they are proud of one day after another. We can only say, "Let's love well, while we are alive." Anyway, they're going to die. ”
But when the faith of man is firmly rooted in the depths, our lives are like a boat in a storm and a wave, safe and secure.
Wise people will go to the house of mourning rather than the house of the feast, because those who are suffering will give us a more real experience of life, reminding us to prepare for the birth, old age, illness and death that no one can escape.
The more so, the more we must be self-disciplined, with reverence, with holiness and honor, and declare, Death, where is your poisonous hook? Hades, where is your power? By the strength that has been added to me, I have more than enough to overcome.