Even if you avoid, defend, struggle, resist, or even violate the rules and commit dangerous crimes, only the wind and waves can determine your fate. You can't avoid it, and the ending seems to be doomed.
Even if the world is vast, you have no place to live, no place to live, only let nature take its course and surrender, just like fate.
I didn't.
Because I was not born in that era, nor grew up in that environment, my family is well-off and law-abiding, and my education is to have a firm stand and the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
I dare not say that I can arrange my own destiny, but at least I can control my actions, keep the bottom line, and keep fighting for it, lock in my lifelong goal, have a successful career, have a harmonious family and live a happy life.
Even if you can see a lot, it is someone else's. Most of them are in movies and books, just like the first-line examples listed in today's negative textbook. I just didn't expect to see it in a domestic black movie I went to see in a rainy and cold winter.
Party at South Station.
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At the end of the road, the trapped beast still fights.
The plot is set in the south of Wuhan in 2009, a village in the city that is mixed with evil people and evil people. Gangs who steal motorcycles for a living are holding a regional planning meeting. One of them, Zhou Zenong, a key member who just got out of prison, fought with other thieves for the site. The final outcome will depend on whether the two sides hold a late-night car theft contest. In this process, Zhou Zenong's brother was attacked by his opponent and died, and he was injured himself. It rained heavily during the escape and was covered in blood. He couldn't tell whether it was rain or blood, enemy or friend, and accidentally shot and killed a policeman.
The police were furious and mobilized all the nearby forces, offering a reward of up to 300 thousand to arrest and shoot his colleague Zhou Zenong. Zhou Zenong knew that it was difficult for him to fly. Before the end of his life, he hoped to get the help of a local swimming girl he just met at the station, so that his long-lost wife could report to the police and get a reward to meet the future needs of her and her son, and he also died a fair death.
Liu Dui, the captain of the major crimes unit, took all kinds of criminal police, underworld hostile personnel headed by cat's eye, Zhou Zenong's former brother Huahua, his wife Yang Shujun and his swimming partner Liu Aiai, each with his own worries, and finally met Zhou Zenong in a "wild goose pond" that he didn't care about. Interest disputes, bullets, bloody, street racing, cornered, fleeing everywhere. Faced with the containment of many forces, Zhou Zenong became a weak and helpless trapped beast, struggling to stand and desperately struggling, as if attending a party about chasing and fighting.
It is said that the film was inspired by a true story, and the director had an unruly name-Yinan Diao. He won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival with his last work "Fireworks in the Day", and was selected as the main competition unit of the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival five years later. Inspired by a foreign song and a piece of northeast news, he created stories about adventure and love, escape and humanity.
This is a crime drama. I think it's similar to a Hong Kong movie, with the beauty dying and the hero dying. But the result is only the love and hate of the marginal people, the struggle of the bottom people and the self-salvation of the fugitives. The scene is no longer high-rise buildings and streets on Hong Kong Island, but electric cars, shining shoes, tubular buildings, girls with wine bottles, people who can't tell the difference between police and bandits, dense fork roads and crowded urban villages with China characteristics.
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If you live in a dream, you will be happy.
The whole movie was finished in darkness and humidity. Except for the blue sky and white clouds looming in the wild swimming scene by the lake, the sun can hardly be seen in other scenes. The dark yellow tone focuses on the confusion of people in the film.
The film begins with the encounter between Zhou Zenong and Liu Aiai in the heavy rain, and then the story begins with the memories of both sides.
I have no way to verify Zhou Zenong's background. I only know that he also has a wife and children, but he has not returned for many years. He just got out of prison and took the train, in a daze. He just wants to go back to the hotel to sleep, but when a theft gang is in a meeting, he wants to stay in a corner and look on coldly. However, because of the division of the theft area, the competitor refused to accept Zhou Zenong's responsibility for more sites and began to quarrel. Then he began to fight, and his brother shot people. ...
I don't know if it was an accident or fate. In a word, the predicament comes as scheduled. Hands and feet were cut off by a forklift, and the steering wheel was fiddled while fleeing. Because I met the attacker, I shot the policeman, and all my brothers died, so I had to entrust my life and reward to strangers. ...
Liu Aiai, a female swimmer, can't see any relatives or friends. Professional female swimmers each wear a white hat, which is nominally a escort, but in fact it is a primitive sex trade. Nobody cares, and the strength is weaker. Everything depends on selling your body to get a little money from men, and then continue to smoke to survive. I saw her running around and pulling around among different types of men.
They all represent the abandoned people at the bottom of society in the reinforced concrete building of Nuoda at that time, just like the objects to be investigated in the film, including "released prisoners, dissatisfied people and people with abnormal behavior". They usually live in "construction sites, places where social idlers live, dead corners, empty houses, demolition areas" and other places, without formal education and care from their parents and family.
They may be construction workers, repairmen, dishwashers and other low-level workers. Their salaries are meager and unstable, poor, humble, helpless, confused, or helpless, or ganging up, so some simply embark on the road of crime, stealing, cheating, drug trafficking, pornography, violence, crime and killing each other.
In this environment, the ambiguous encounter between criminals and prostitutes due to the huge bounty is always pursued by many forces, from the station to the highway, from the lake to the castle, tired, injured, hungry, afraid and desperate.
Everything is like a dream, everything is so forced, everything is so unconscious. From being involved in this escape to Zhou Zenong's murder and liberation, both of them seem to be pushed by fate, and it doesn't help to struggle occasionally. The ending is already doomed.
Life is short, life is impermanent, and people in movies seem to be dreaming. Outsiders can't tell reality from illusion. I hardly see him having a happy moment with her. If there is, it may be just intensive lakeside transactions that ruined two bowls of steaming beef noodles in the store.
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Life is too short to get carried away.
At that time, he chose to steal for a living, and she chose to sell her body. The same marginal figure. The same thing is inescapable.
He met her outside the station for the first time. It rained heavily and he wanted to say goodbye. Red man, transparent umbrella, provocative tone. The woman said, big brother, give me a light. The fire flashed and the smoke filled, and the woman's words continued to imply: I can replace her if you like.
For her, "a pair of thousands of jade wrist pillows, a little lip, thousands of guests" have seen countless mean men. She never thinks about fate. Good things are as elusive as clouds in the sky, and everything can only be done by herself. Of course, it is best to get a tip-off letter at your fingertips and open a small shop in your hometown to spend the rest of your life.
"Pretending to be a little shy and hypocritical", she has long been used to treating people with a mask, with a gentle and virtuous appearance and a delicate body. The train rumbled, swearing that light and shadow are intertwined, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
When did the prostitute, who was originally just for the reward, start to hesitate?
After the meeting, she put on makeup in bed, picked out clothes in front of the wardrobe, and finally chose a long black elegant dress? Are you wandering around the lake, full of expectation, unable to wait for anyone, and disappointed beyond words? When he finally appeared, she immediately turned around and couldn't hide her smile?
What kind of thief will have a real affection when he meets her?
Is it the ambiguous rainy night encounter, the handsome face and melancholy eyes, the simple and neat skill of judging accurately, or the touch caused by his care for his family before he died, or the desire he wanted to pour out after he suppressed her for a long time.
Or perhaps it is the subtle trust and silent tacit understanding between men and women, as thin and small as the vast sea of people, and also living at the bottom.
From strangers to interdependence, vague feelings are like flickering lights in the lake, flashing and disappearing.
Since there is no tomorrow, it is better to spend the night on spring night first.
On a muddy lake, on a clay boat, there is real sex. The gentle touch of both sides. An unknown sense of happiness.
She has been clinging to her own position. Although she betrayed it, she also has regrets. Betrayal but regret.
When he knew that he had been cheated many times and still let her go through fire and water, she finally decided to complete his redemption and give this reward to her family as their last care.
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Self-improvement, independence, special
The party at South Station is also called Yanchi.
Both names are equally shocking. South, humid and sultry; Station, crowded and busy; Party, grand, noisy, routine. No matter where the Wild Goose Hall is, it is easy to breed evil, and there is an ambiguous lake.
Zhou Zenong's fighting skill is extraordinary, and he is also familiar with theft. This shows that this is a small underworld with small skills. He has anti-detection ability and can quickly throw a mobile phone when being chased; You can walk into the station through the temporary chaos at the entrance of the station; You can choose a place without monitoring, knowing that the more dangerous the place, the safer it is; Can get away with it in the pursuit of many people; You can handle the wound yourself, and you can choose a suitable place for the other party to report.
Wisdom and courage are everywhere.
Zhou Zenong is really a bad guy. Why do I only see his kindness as an audience, his concern for his wife and children, his deep affection for his brother and his trust in swimming girls? There is even a little hope that he can finally get rid of bad luck and the ending will be reversed.
Just because he starred.
Hugh.
From Mei, from Mingtai to Zhou Zenong, he was self-reliant, independent, never drifting with the tide and stuck to his laurels. Now, at the end of the road, he interprets the gloomy, introverted and cold life of street people. Finally completed a thorough transformation on the big screen.
Perhaps the director's casting took this into account, which added two colors of good and evil to this black crime film. It is enough to cope with the cruelty of the world to make just people always be kind after seeing it.
After the film, there are elements that are incompatible with today's society, not only dark yellow, gray and black tones, but also temporary tents, crumbling demolition buildings, stray bullets flying around, and noisy square dances wearing shiny shoes. The grotesque lake, the gentle and elegant protagonist, is also out of place.
We still have a long way to go before abiding by the law. I can't help but remind myself again that this is just someone else's unhappiness and someone else's masterpiece. And I, just to achieve a small goal of mine, continue to piece together messy words.
Consider it a dream. In my dream, I can try to live a drunken life with the people in the play.
The movie is over. It's time to wake up.
Go back to reality and start over.
It is time. Let's continue to move bricks in the morning and at night.