Today, Douban Jun wants to talk about "Blood Guanyin", which can be called the "most painful" female film in the Chinese market in recent years. Not only did they beat "Big Buddha Plus" and "Carnival" and won the Golden Horse Best Film, Hui Yinghong and Wen Qi also won the Golden Horse Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress with this film, which can be said to have won a Grand Slam. The whole film is carried by female characters, and all male characters are reduced to "tool people". In this story, love is only appendage, and power is king.
The protagonist of the story is the Tang family. Lady Tang, played by Hui Yinghong, is the widow of a general, with great business acumen and political skills, and profits between politicians and businessmen as an antique dealer. The eldest daughter Tang Ning, played by Wu Kexi, is the executor of all of Mrs. Tang's plans, and the younger daughter Tang Zhen, played by Wen Qi, is silent and well-behaved, and follows Mrs. Tang to help entertain guests.
The film opens with an adult Tang Zhen covering his mouth to answer the phone, as if it were a chapter novel, played and sung by the "Talking about the Ancients" Artist Yang Xiuqing said and sang, telling the plot development from the perspective of God, focusing on the "magnate Xiushan land speculation incident", using "belly black Tang True Cultivation Record" and "sexy Tang Ning color seduction two or three things" to promote the development of the plot, and finally reached the end of "Lady Tang's power to rule the world".
At the beginning of the film, the statue of King Tang Kaming is noteworthy, closely following the title of the film "Blood Guanyin", which adds a lot of religious color to the film, and the set is also a purple tone, ghostly and enchanting, suggesting that the characters in the story are all charming.
In that year, Lady Tang, as a broker, borrowed the excuse of holding a painting exhibition for President Wang's wife, and together with Lin Sang, the president of the peasant association, Mrs. Lin, the wife of the county magistrate, the speaker of the parliament, the special assistant to the speaker, and the wife of President Wang, she used the three billion yuan of funds embezzled by Lin Sang to buy a piece of land in Xiushan, where the central government planned to develop the Midas Project, and prepared to make up for the remaining families after the implementation of the project. At the same time, Dean Wang is also a popular candidate for the next chairman, and Mrs. Tang seems to have made money and climbed the relationship of political celebrities. During the banquet, a civil servant of Jianjian Shu who called himself "Obscene Sea Xiao Qingliu" came to spread drunken madness, was coaxed away by Tang Ning with three words and two words, and bribed him for two million yuan to cooperate with the implementation of Xiushan's Midas project.
When the matter was about to settle, the Lin family suddenly died. Only a daughter lin pinyin, who is a good friend, only has a daughter lin pinnacle in a severe coma, who comes to read the news to Lin Pinnacle every day, hoping that she will wake up soon. The police suspect that it is the groom marco of the Lin family, who is also Lin's boyfriend, and because of the crime, they hunt him down. At this time, Marco has been hidden by Tang Zhen in his flower room.
However, the central government did not implement the Mida project in Xiushan, but chose Lishui, and the money of several families was all trapped, and "Xiao Qingliu" committed suicide by accepting bribes. On the other hand, the deficit of the peasant association's three billion funds was also exposed at this time, and Mrs. Tang, the county magistrate's wife, and the speaker of the parliament were all taken to the district prosecutor's office for questioning. At the same time, Captain Liao of the police station suspects that Tang Zhen is shielding the criminal Marco, and Tang Ning, in order to dispel Captain Liao's doubts, uses his flesh to subdue him, but inadvertently discovers the truth that the Lin family was killed. When Tang Ning went to see Lady Tang for verification, he also told the earth-shattering secret of the Tang family, Tang Zhen was not Tang Ning's sister, but Tang Ning's daughter!
In fact, the relationship between the three women of the Tang family is not simple, and there is a foreshadowing at the beginning of the film. At the exhibition of President Wang's wife, everyone drank tea together, Tang Ning came forward to greet him, and President Wang's wife said, "Three generations of your family" and then changed her mouth to "a family of three.". "The unjust sinking of the sea is unwilling, why the mother and daughter linger in the three rivers, it turns out that the flesh and blood are fratricidal and have a big grudge, it is really a cycle of cause and effect reincarnation." The lyrics of the ancients spoke early on to the twisted emotions between the three members of the Tang family.
From the very beginning, Xiushan's whole thing was the bureau of Lady Tang's cloth, and she had long known that the central government would drop the Mida project in Lishui, and Xiushan was only used to set off the guise of the three billion funds of the peasant association, and at the same time it could bring down President Wang and everyone in the chain of interests, and the Lin family bore the brunt. Tang Ning was the first bird in the whole plan, and Lady Tang used her head to buy the land in Lishui, put three billion funds into her daughter's account, and retreated with all her body, sitting on all the benefits. The Speaker of the House, Tesuke, realized the bureau made by Mrs. Tang and wanted to eat black.
Unfortunately, the shrewd Lady Rutang, in the face of threats, first sang a song "On the Beach", and then used the evidence of the death of "Xiao Qingliu" to complete the counter-killing, turning the Hongmen Feast into a chessboard in the stock. This section uses the foreground to block the shooting, from the gray dimming of the surveillance video to the cold blue light of the interior light sign, proving that At this time, Mrs. Tang has completely exposed her fangs and won the victory. The superposition of the characters in the picture allowed Hui Yinghong to perform the momentum of thousands of troops and horses.
Tang Ning no longer wants to be his mother's executioner and wants to leave with his daughter Tang Zhen, but Tang Zhen learns Mrs. Tang's power and tricks ten times out of ten, pretending to take leave with the teacher, in fact, reporting to Mrs. Tang. She understood that only by relying on her grandmother could she get the most out of herself. Tang Ning left by boat and became an irreparable victim of Lady Tang's innings. But the conspiracy did not stop until now. President Wang was deposed because of the land speculation incident, Secretary General Feng took over as chairman, and this big drama designed by Madame Tang was all to help her lover take the throne.
"Everything is looked down upon" When Mrs. Tang said this line, the focus of the camera was first given to Mrs. Tang's face, and then zoomed to the posthumous photo of Houjing Tangning, which means that her daughter's death is only in exchange for Mrs. Tang's capital of "looking down on everything", and the emotion is far less important than power. The hand shook under the table also proved that Lady Tang was the queen of the powerful world, and Secretary General Feng was just a puppet, another shield after Tang Ning.
As the successor, Tang Zhen completed his self-transformation in Marco. Tang really likes marco, and will get closer to Lin Pinyi. After Lin Waspian was seriously injured, Tang Zhen took marco for himself. When Lin Pianyi's condition suddenly worsened, Tang Zhen did not help her, but watched her die. It was this that made Mrs. Tang believe that she was her future successor. For Tang's true love, Marco responds with rape, which destroys the last remaining beauty in Tang's heart and makes her completely blackened.
The picture returns to the beginning, and the "save her" in the mouth of the adult Tang Zhen refers to Mrs. Tang, who is terminally ill and can only rely on machinery to maintain her life. Lady Tang wants to be euthanized, but Tang Zhen must make her alive, in the name of love to take revenge on this grandmother who taught herself, achieved herself, and destroyed herself, while sending the most vicious blessings of the whole film.
"You must live a long life of 100 years, 10,000 years of wealth" "Begonia branches are broken and there is no blood, the bird's nest is blown upside down by the north wind, and the widowed mother and orphan daughter are not in harmony." Talking about the lyrics of the ancients at the beginning of the film hints at the tragedy of the three generations of the Tang family.
As the ending credits say – the most terrible thing in the world is not the immediate punishment, but the loveless future.
In the story of "Blood Guanyin", it can be said that there is no good person, even Tang Ning, who finally woke up, his hands are stained with dirt that cannot be washed away. The use of female characters to portray human nature and politics is extremely evil, which gives this film a unique sense of coolness.
Tang Ning's fate is already hinted at at the opening night feast of the painting exhibition. The dark green railing, the dim light in the upper left corner of the picture, and the white-faced geisha slowly walking forward in the virtual focus background, together are the appearance of Yan Luo Temple.
The singer sang "Send you to the locomotive, turn your head and do you go" When Tang Ning fled, Tang Zhen turned his head and left her determination. The philosopher Kierkegaard said that there are three major despairs in life - not knowing that there is a self, not wanting to have a self, and not being able to have a self. Tang Ning is a typical example of "not being able to have oneself"; she cannot do Madame Tang's determination, nor can she escape the fate of her family, and can only live soberly in hell, doing dirty things while paralyzing herself with the indulgence of her body. When she fled, Tang Ning shouted to Tang Zhen, "To live like a person", and she pinned her life on her daughter what she had never done in her life, but unfortunately, Tang Zhen never stood on her side.
Tang's true evil is hidden in hidden forbearance, and it is inseparable from Lady Tang's teachings. At the beginning of the film, Tang Zhen sees Tang Ning and two men doing shameful things, and is bumped into by Lin Pinnacle, and then Tang Zhen's hands are unstable when making tea, and he almost spills it. At the end of the film, Tang Zhen witnesses Tang Ning being killed, and when he makes tea for Madame Wang Dean at home, he can be as stable as Taishan, which is all the credit of Mrs. Tang. "When you hear a terrifying sound, as long as you are brave enough to face it, it will disappear." When you see something terrible, you can only face it, and you can no longer see it. Lady Tang is both a leader and a control, step by step to turn Tang Zhen into another self.
In Mrs. Tang's heart, the desire for power is greater than the sky, which is the most brilliant place for this role. In most of the works of the big heroine, the female characters seem to be realizing their self-worth, but even if it is a film and television adaptation of the empress Wu Zetian, it is still inseparable from the love and attachment to men. But for Mrs. Tang, love is just a means of exchanging benefits. I don't know if you found it, Mrs. Tang's costumes are all cool indigo, dark green, deep coffee, dark gray, even if the final victory, did not use the flamboyant color to reflect the power in hand, but chose a more neutral gray green not only hinted at Mrs. Tang's deep thoughts, but also showed her cold blood.
Throughout the film, the details of the whole story are laid out, just like the teacher drew the focus of the whole book before the final exam. Secretary General Feng's ascension is hinted at the beginning of the film. In the magazine that Lady Tang handed to Lin Sang, although President Wang and Secretary General Feng were on the cover, the crown was worn on Feng's head, and at the same time, Lady Tang said, "We must find another way, and ordinary people will have a good scenery if they take less roads", which also hints at the failure of President Wang.
The flowers on the other side of the Tang family's decoration and costumes are the yellow spring flowers that bloom in the Santu River in the legend, with blood red flowers and poisonous rhizomes, indicating the bloodthirsty nature of the Tang family. What is not interesting is that at the exhibition of Mrs. Wang Dean's wife, the three members of the Tang family appeared in uniform clothes, but if you look closely, you will find that the flowers on the other side of Tang Zhen's body are still flower buds, and the flowers on Tang Ning and Mrs. Tang Ning's body have bloomed, indicating that Tang Zhen is not mature at this time, and the fabric of Tang Ning's clothes is obviously different from the other two, suggesting that Mrs. Tang and Tang Zhen will live to the death, and Tang Ning can only die Huang Quan.
The apple, which appears repeatedly like the other flower, is the forbidden fruit that symbolizes sin and desire;
The jade jewelry circulating between the wives represents the ownership of the stolen money; from Mrs. Lin to the county magistrate's wife, to the wife of the dean of Wang, and finally the bracelet is worn on the hand of Mrs. Tang, indicating that Mrs. Tang has won both power and money;
Marco was willing to stay in the Tang family's flower room, not because he was afraid of the police, but because his ID card was taken from the beginning to the end and could not return home, so when he raped Tang Zhen, he would say: "What mountain alliance and sea oath, from beginning to end, Lin Pinnacle held things and would not let me go."
And "that's how every lady boss taught me" means that he is not only Lin's partner, but also Mrs. Lin's plaything, which explains why Mrs. Lin is so angry when she knows that Marco and Lin Areian are mixed together.
Mo Yan said in "Sandalwood Punishment": "All people are two-faced beasts, on the one hand, benevolence, righteousness, morality, and the three principles and five constants; on the other hand, men and women are prostitutes, bloodthirsty and indulgent." Human nature has never been black and white, but a complex polyhedron, and "Blood Guanyin" releases the evil in people's hearts to the greatest extent. The Guanyin statue that circulates in various homes is the turbulent desire in everyone's heart.
Guanyin's severed hand still seems to be kind and pure, but in fact, his hands have long been stained with blood, on the surface is Guanyin Bodhisattva Pudu sentient beings, behind which is the ghost Shu luo encountered the Buddha to kill the Buddha.
There is a line in the Japanese anime "Asura", "It is human nature to live by eating other lives, to take away the life born in the sea, and to take away the life born in the mountains." Man lives on this, carrying sin on his back. Even then, I desperately want to live in a limited life, because then the world is so beautiful. "Only by seeing through the great evil in human nature can we have an infinite desire for goodness, and I think that's what Blood Guanyin wants to tell us."
Author/potato will flower