Even if you avoid, defense, struggle, resistance, and even violate the rules, commit crimes, but can decide your fate, never only the wind, only the waves, you can not avoid, the end as if already predetermined.
Even if the world is vast, you have no place to live, no place to stay, only to listen to, hand in hand, like destiny.
I did not.
Because I wasn't born in that era, I didn't grow up in that kind of environment, and since I was a child, I've been a good family man, I've followed the law, and I've been educated to have a firm position, and I've been able to distinguish between right and wrong.
I don't dare to say that I can arrange the destiny, but at least I can dominate what I do, keep the bottom line, and always towards the bright shore that can be reached, struggle, struggle, and lock the lifelong goal of success, family harmony, and happiness in life.
Even if you can see a lot of bad, it's all others. Much in the movie and television, books, just like today a line and so on to the negative examples listed. Just did not expect, but also in this one in the rainy cold winter days to see the domestic production of the black movie to see.
A Party at a Southern Station .
01
The end of the road, the beast of the fight
The plot is set in the south, in Wuhan in 2009, in a mixed and dirty urban village. A triad gang that steals motorcycles for a living is holding a regional planning meeting, and one of its key members, Zhou Zenong, who has just been released from prison, is fighting with other thieves for turf, and the talkers end up organizing a late-night car-stealing contest between the two sides to determine the outcome. In the process, Zhou Zenong brothers were rivals attacked and died, he was also injured, fleeing in the pouring rain, full of blood he could not distinguish between rain and blood, could not distinguish between friends and foes, inadvertently opened fire and killed a police officer.
The police were outraged and mobilized all the nearby forces to arrest Zhou Zenong, who was wanted for killing a fellow officer, and offered a reward of up to 300,000 dollars. Zhou Zenong knows he can't get away with it, and before his life is over, he hopes to get the help of a local escort he just met by the station, so that his wife, whom he hasn't seen in a long time, can report him to the police and get the reward money to pay for her and her son's needs, and at the same time, he can die in his own way.
Liu team, the captain of serious crimes, with the form of criminal police, the triad hostile personnel led by Cat's Eye, Zhou Zenong's former brother Hua Hua, his wife Yang Shujun, who has not seen him for five years, and Liu Ai Ai, the escort girl, all kinds of people with different concerns, and Zhou Zenong finally meets in an unregulated area of the "Wild Goose Pond". The two finally meet in the "Wild Goose Pond", an unregulated area. There are disputes over interests, gunshots, bloodshed, street racing, panic, and fleeing in all directions. Faced with the siege of many forces, Zhou Zenong became a weak and helpless beast, hard to get a foothold, desperate maneuvering, just like participating in a party on the chase and gladiator.
It is said that the inspiration for the movie came from the real plot, and the director has the untamed name of Diao Yinan. The director, who won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival for his previous film, Daybreak, and was selected for the main competition at the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival five years later, was inspired by a foreign song and a piece of northeastern news to create a story about adventure and love, escape and humanity.
It's a crime drama, and I was expecting something like a Hong Kong movie about a beautiful woman at the end of her life and a hero at the end of his rope. But it turned out to be just the love-hate relationship of the marginalized people, the fight and struggle of the underclass, and the self-redemption of the outlaws. The scene is no longer high-rise buildings and the streets of Hong Kong Island, but electric cars, glittering shoes, silos, bottle women, crowds of people who can't tell whether they are police or bandits, densely packed off-ramps, and crowded urban villages with Chinese characteristics.
02
It's a dream come true
Throughout the film, it's dark and humid, with the exception of the wild swimming scene by the lake, where the blue sky and white clouds appear, and the other scenes are almost impossible to see the sunlight. The dark, yellowish tones of the film emphasize the confusion of the people in the film as they run towards the end of their lives.
The movie begins with a meeting between Zhou Zenong and Liu Ai Ai in the pouring rain, and then proceeds with the memories of both parties.
It's impossible to find out where Zhou Zenong came from, except that he has a wife and son, but hasn't been home for years. He just got out of prison, took the train, muddled, like a world apart, would just like to go back to the hotel to sleep, but bumped into the theft gang in the meeting, would like to stay in a corner and watch coldly, but because it involves the division of the theft territory, the competitors are not convinced that Zhou Zenong is responsible for the territory on the side of the majority, began to quarrel, and then the firefight, the brother of his own side armed with a gun and injured people ......
I do not know whether it is an accident or predestination, in short, the dilemma as expected, hands and feet by a forklift to cut the head, fugitive fiddling with the steering wheel, because met the attackers, but the result is shot the police, the brothers who met one by one to die, forced to trust their lives and bounty to strangers ......
The escort swimmer Liu Ai Ai is even more unable to see have any relatives or friends, professional escort swimmers each with a white cap, nominally accompanying the swim, in fact, doing the primitive sex trade. No one cares, the power is even more meager, everything relies only on selling their bodies to harvest a little money paid by men, and then continue to smoke and survive. Just see her constantly running and pulling in different types of men.
They all represent that era, in the big reinforced concrete building bush, abandoned the bottom of the social class, as the object of the movie, including "returned from prison, disgruntled, abnormal behavior," they usually live in the "construction site, the gathering place of social workers, the dead end, and the center of the city," and they have to live in the "construction site, the gathering place of social workers, the dead end, and the center of the city. They live in places like construction sites, social gatherings, dead ends, empty houses, and demolition zones, and have no formal education or parental care.
They are poor, humble, helpless, confused, unsupported, or ganged up, so some of them simply take the easy way out and go into crime, stealing, scamming, drug dealing, pornography, violence, crime, and killing each other.
This environment, criminals and prostitutes because of the huge bounty of ambiguous encounters, always being chased by multiple forces, from the station to the road, from the lake to the pavilion, fatigue, pain, hunger, fear, a hundred turns, the end of the road, the beasts of prey.
Everything is like a dream, everything is so compelled, everything is so unconscious, from being involved in the escape, to Zhou Zenong was killed to relieve, the two seemed to be fate pushed, and occasionally struggled to rebel, but also useless, the end has long been doomed.
Life is short, life is unpredictable, the movie personnel as if dreaming. People outside the theater are even less able to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Almost did not see him and her have joyful moments, if there is, may be just that brimming lakeside deal, dilapidated store that two bowls of steaming beef noodles.
03
Life is short, not as good as the soul
In those days, he chose to steal for a living, she chose to sell her body. The same marginalized characters. The same nowhere to run.
He and she met for the first time outside the station, the rain pattered, wanting to talk. Red people, transparent umbrellas, with a provocative tone. The woman says, "Brother, let me have a light. The fire flickered, smoke filled the air, the woman's words continued to imply: as long as you want, I can take her place.
In her, "a pair of jade wrists a thousand people pillow, half a point of the lips of ten thousand guests taste", see countless cheap men, she never thought of the favor of fate, the good things like the clouds in the sky as unattainable, everything can only rely on their own, of course, it is best to get the report of the hands of the gold, to go home to the countryside to open a small store, to spend the rest of his life. .
"Fitted with a few shy state, made a piece of false heart", she has long been accustomed to the mask to see people, the appearance of gentle and virtuous, soft body, the train rumbles, swearing, light and shadow intertwined, difficult to discern between this is true and false.
Originally only for the bounty of prostitutes, from whence the hesitation?
Was it after the appointment, when she put on her makeup in bed, picked out her clothes in front of the closet, and finally chose a long, flowing black dress? It is wandering around the lake, full of anticipation, waiting for no one, overflowing with disappointment? When he finally appeared, she immediately turned around and couldn't hide the smile at the corner of her mouth?
What kind of thieves and her encounter, only to feel a trace of real love bubbling out of the seedling?
Is that ambiguous rainy night encounter, is that handsome face melancholy eyes, is that accurate judgment simple and sharp hands, is touched by him in the death of his family's favor and produce touched, or entangled in his long pressure on her desire to come out after a long time.
Or man and woman are equally thin, the sea of small floating objects, also living in the bottom, in the escape to establish a subtle trust and wordless tacit understanding.
From not knowing each other, to rely on each other, fuzzy ambiguous sentiment, like a flickering light in the lake, flashing and extinguished.
Since there is no tomorrow, it is better to spend a night of spring first.
The edge of the turbid lake, the earth boat, the real fish and water happiness occurs. Gentle caresses from both sides. The unknown pleasure that springs up.
She was always entangled in her own position, although betrayal but regret. Although betrayal but regret.
When he knew that the repeated deception still save her from the fire, she finally decided to fulfill his salvation, take the bounty to the family's last care.
04
Self-improvement, independence
The party at the southern station, also known as Wild Goose Pond.
Both names are equally shocking. The South, humid, sultry; the station, crowded, busy; the party, grand, noisy, routine. Wild Goose Pond. An unregulated area, prone to breeding sin, and an ambiguous lake.
Zhou Zenong fights in the hands of the extraordinary, theft movement is easy to handle, it can be seen that this is a small skills of a small triad. He has the ability of anti-detection, can quickly throw the cell phone when being pursued; can through the station entrance temporary confusion, swaggering into the station; can choose the location of no monitoring, know the more dangerous place is more secure; can in multiple people in pursuit of the whole body; can deal with their own wounds, and can choose the appropriate place suitable for each other to report the right place.
Wisdom and guts are nowhere to be seen in the whole movie.
Zhou Zenong is practically a bad guy, why as a viewer I only see his good side, his attachment to his wife and children, his brother's love, and his trustworthiness to the chaperone. Even there is always a little bit of hope, hope that he can finally get out of the bad luck, the end of the reversal.
Just because he starred in it.
Hu Ge.
From Li Yi to Mei Changsu, from Mingtai to Zhou Zhennong, he is self-reliant, independent, and never follows the trend and is stuck in his ways. Now, he has performed the grim, introspective, and cold performance of a city character who is at the end of his rope. Finally, he has completed a complete transformation on the big screen.
Perhaps the director's casting is taking this into account, so that this black crime film to add the color of both good and evil. The goodness of the heart will always be there for those who are righteous enough to cope with the cruelty of the world.
The movie is over, there are elements of today's society out of place, not only in the dark yellow gray and black tones, temporary tents, crumbling demolition of the building, flying into the stray bullets, wearing flash shoes, noisy square dance. And then there is that strange lake, gentle and elegant protagonist, equally out of place.
In the law-abiding we still have a great distance. I can't help but remind myself again that this is just someone else's upside-down back and forth, someone else's entry in the masterpiece. I, on the other hand, am just trying to achieve one of my own small goals, and continue to cobble together a mess of words.
Think of it as a dream. A dream where you can try to get drunk and lose your mind with the people in the play.
The movie is over, the dream should wake up.
Return to reality and start again.
It's time to get to the point, continue to touch the morning and greed to move bricks.