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Change of relatives: As the name suggests, two families with the same daughter marry each other into each other's house.
Zhang Qiangguo, who has returned from working outside the home, is experiencing a change of relatives, which is the opening of the movie "Bloody Morning", the joyful opening, and finally the tragic ending, which unveils the ignorance of human nature.
The film "Bloody Morning" is adapted from the writer Márquez's short story "A Murder Case With Premeditated Publicity". This magic realist novel satirizes the ignorant, timid and cowardly villagers in a story-like way, even if they die in the end, they have not been able to get salvation, what a sad thing.
What makes people feel even more sad is that the seemingly absurd and unreasonable plots in the movie that make people feel funny are all happening in reality, which makes people feel that behind the strangeness, deeply ponder the sadness of human nature.
Back to the beginning of the story, Zhang Qiangguo works outside the home, makes a lot of money, and in the small mountain village where the news and roads are blocked, he represents the rich party, and the people in the village say that he can find a beautiful woman in the city.
Zhang Qiangguo was reluctant to find beautiful women to marry in the city because she felt that the women in the village were cleaner, and the closed environment also represented the purity of the women, so he returned to the village with a large amount of money. In his wedding speech, he repeatedly stressed that the money he earned was clean.
This is a man who is extremely strict with traditional moral rules, and even if he makes a lot of money, he has not been able to change the small peasant consciousness in his bones.
He took a fancy to the red apricot in the village, a simple and sensible woman, and was very happy with Zhang Qiangguo's fat meat sent to the door. Hongxing's family has an old mother and two brothers, and the family is very poor, far less rich than Zhang Qiangguo.
Hongxing did not like this man who had never met, but she could not change the end of the change of relatives, as a woman, she did not grasp the opportunity of her fate, in the crowd of people in the village, she married Zhang Qiangguo, and entered the cave with him.
What should have been the happiest marriage night for a woman has become the source of the tragedy of the red apricot.
Zhang Qiangguo has money, but he chose to change relatives for two reasons:
First, Zhang Qiangguo's sister is disabled, although physically disabled, but she is a complete woman, in this remote small mountain village, as long as the woman is pure, it does not make much difference.
Second: Hongxing's brother has not been able to marry his daughter-in-law because of his poor family, so that both families can have a decent marriage, which is what the villagers say is pompous, they chose to change relatives.
Despite this, Zhang Qiangguo still sent a lot of bride price, which was enough to change the status quo of Hongxing's family. Overall, the Red Apricot family still took advantage of it, but they were able to marry a woman, and the two families were still very satisfied with this change of relatives.
No one thought that Hongxing did not fall red on the wedding night, Zhang Qiangguo judged this as the only criterion for whether a woman was chaste, he angrily slapped Hongxing twice, and the next day drove Hongxing back to his mother's house, and took his sister and bride price from Hongxing's house.
The Hongxing family, who were immersed in a better life, were shocked by the sudden arrival of the news, they did not expect that the red apricot had been returned like a commodity, and in addition to the lost bride price and wife, their family had become a joke for the whole village.
No matter where they went, the two brothers could feel the taunts from the villagers, because of the red apricots, they suffered a cold eye. So they vented their anger on Hongxing, and they frantically beat up their own sister and forced them to ask who the man was.
But no matter how they fight, Hongxing is still reluctant to say who the man is, and the two brothers lock Hongxing in the cellar and vow to find this man.
In the hearts of the two brothers, they hated the man who did not know his name.
The coming good life is in vain, and what is even more tragic is that the brother may never find a daughter-in-law again, and their hatred has nowhere to vent. What made them feel even more sad was that their family's reputation had all been ruined, and the rumors of the villagers made them feel extremely embarrassed.
The two brothers were furious and began to investigate the man who had taken over with the red apricot.
Soon, Hongxing's brother locked in a man, Li Mingguang, the only teacher in the village. In this small closed mountain village, it is not easy to have a teacher, who often brings people a lot of new things, such as magazines, such as books, but he is not respected.
The village is not proud of reading, and working in the fields is the basis of a person's survival.
Because they will not work in the field, the father of Li Mingguang's girlfriend always disagrees with the two of them together, in their cognition, useless is a student, Li Mingguang is a typical failure, sooner or later to starve to death.
However, Hongxing has a good relationship with Li Mingguang, and often goes to Li Mingguang's residence with Li Mingguang's girlfriend to read and study, and their normal interaction is considered unruly in the village. People are terrible, and the village has long said that their relationship is not pure, and even worse, they have held hands together.
Here, a man and a woman are better off not alone, otherwise it will be countless gossip. But Hongxing was often with Li Mingguang, and Hongxing's two brothers naturally suspected her head, and they pressed Hongxing again, but Hongxing chose to be silent.
Taking Hongxing's silence as acquiescence, they began a plan to murder Li Mingguang and publicized it in the village. It was a brazen murder, just like the name of the novel, a pre-publicized murder.
They didn't have any evidence, they didn't have any sense of the rule of law, and they took it for granted that Lee Mingguang should be punished, so they sharpened their knives and axes in the courtyard to make Lee Mingguang pay for his actions.
Everyone in the village knew that the brothers were going to kill Li Mingguang, but no one told him that they saw it as a farce, and for them who had been at home for a long time, the declaration of the two brothers was as lively as a drama.
The only aunt who sold breakfast thought about sending a letter to Li Mingguang, but did not pay attention to it, and finally her grandson folded a paper airplane and flew to Li Mingguang's yard, and this note with words on it was not seen by Li Mingguang, who was washing his face.
The cold eyes of the villagers also led to Li Mingguang's death.
On the morning of Mr. Lee's murder, he walked to the classroom as usual to greet the villagers.
Passing by the square where the villagers often gathered, one or two well-meaning people reminded him to hurry up, and before he could notice, Hongxing's brother had already rushed to him, holding an axe, and looking at him angrily.
He turned around and was about to flee, but he accidentally fell in front of the two people, Li Mingguang, who was hacked to death with a knife, did not know why he was killed, he did not know the rumors in the village, and he did not know where he provoked these two fierce men.
His death did not bring sympathy from the villagers, on the contrary, the villagers only felt that he was too unbeaten, like the feeling that watching a play would end without enjoyment. Li Mingguang's sacrifice was worthless, and after twenty or thirty years, there was no evidence that he was the man who was with Hongxing.
After this incident, one of Hongxing's two brothers was sentenced to death and the other to life imprisonment, and these two men did not feel that they had missed it until the end, how sad.
And Red Apricot, after experiencing a series of blows, had a mental breakdown and jumped into the river to die.
When investigating The case of Li Mingguang's death, the villagers embraced culture, and they avoided the murder of Li Mingguang and told the investigators about the problem that their grandson could not go to the hukou. In their hearts, Li Mingguang's death was not so important.
As for who the man who lived with Hongxing is, the play does not reveal, but in the original work, there is a vague dark line pointing to Hongxing's father, a series of coincidences, creating the tragedy of Li Mingguang.
This novel, with satire as the main line, ended in the suicide of Hongxing. But those villagers were not affected by the tragedy of this incident, in their hearts, they only cared about their own lives, and they were only curious and had no sympathy for the lives and deaths of others.
Indifference is always the most tragic trend in this society.
Li Guangming's death combines various factors, including ignorance and ignorance, as well as cold-eyed bystanders.
But in the final analysis, it is the distortion of people's values, and the influence of culture that will make us distinguish between right and wrong and cultivate correct values.
Only when everyone realizes the horror hidden in the depths of human nature will there be a better world.
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