Everyone is an island

Maybelle 2022-02-07 14:49:10

Although I didn't get the ticket for "Terrorist" in the archive, I didn't have the chance to watch Yang Dechang's early works again on the big screen. But it can be considered to be alone at home and relive it again.

I saw someone commenting: If he wasn't Yang Dechang, this might be his best movie. I think the evaluation is very appropriate, but it is also because he is Yang Dechang that he made such an excellent movie.

Some time ago, the CC restored version of "Guling Street Teenage Murder Case" posted resources on the Internet, and the majority of movie fans rushed to tell them. I remember the first time I watched this movie, if it wasn't for the fact that the recommenders had a considerable weight, I might have given up this movie because of the dark pictures and vague dubbing and dialogue. And now this remastered version is so different, the four-hour movie feels like it's being reborn.

After watching "Guling Street Teenage Murder", I have watched all of Yang Dechang's films, from "Yiyi" and "Mahjong" to "Independence Times", and I like this cruel and calm director more and more.

The well-known teachers Jin Shijie and Li Liqun gave their most exquisite performances when they were young in this film. If the impression of these two only stays in the acting style of old and crazy, you can watch this movie. They were also heroic when they were young.

The story of the movie is very simple. A couple who respect each other on the surface, but they can't understand each other in their hearts, and finally separated because of an unfamiliar phone call. But Yang Dechang is known for his ruthlessness, telling the story of a common marital relationship coming to an end, and then hiding the saddest truth.

The movie is divided into three clues. As each clue continues to deepen, finally you will suddenly realize that the original trivial things are developing in an uncontrollable direction, and eventually evolve into the "terrorist" incident as the title says.

Li Liqun plays a young and promising doctor whose life is regular and monotonous. Every day I go to work in a suit and leather shoes, and when I get home from work, I must wash my hands first. In his life, he only went to work and went home, and he rarely even went to see friends. He would only go to friends when he was in need.

And his wife is a goddess-like character in their university. She likes written novels, has countless strange ideas, and hopes to become a writer. Married to this monotonous husband when she was about to give up after a brief attempt. In her heart, perhaps she has never looked down on her husband.

As the writing of the novel became more and more difficult, all the passion of life was exhausted by the novel. After the first 30 years of life were quickly used up, the wife began to become restless, but she became more and more determined to have an idea: her The world is getting smaller and smaller because of the uninteresting day-to-day life of my husband.

In this way, the couple's ordinary relationship is slowly showing fissures from the depths. They are carefully maintaining this relationship like walking on thin ice, and no one is willing to take the initiative to break this tranquility. The husband does not ask about his wife's past, everything follows the wife's will, and he doesn't even dare to step into his wife's study for fear of disturbing her creation; the wife does not leave home to write novels, and does laundry for him. But she did not have in-depth communication with her husband because she felt that her husband would not understand.

It's just the return of his wife's old lover from college and a sudden, unfamiliar phone call that brought the couple the final straw that broke the camel's back.

The strange call came from a delinquent teenage girl who was locked up at home. Bored so much, she started making prank calls to strangers in the phone book. One would call someone to say that he was going to commit suicide; one would call someone to order takeout; and one would call someone to say that she was her husband's lover.

It was because of this phone call that the wife finally chose to give up her current life. However, she did not mention anything about the call. Just blindly tell my husband that he doesn't understand himself at all. Before the wife finally left, she cried and said to her husband: I used to give up writing novels to marry you and start working, which was a new beginning; then I re-write novels, and I also felt a new beginning; now leaving you also hopes to be a new beginning Start.

After leaving her husband, her wife started to work in her old lover's company, lived with her old lover, and even wrote a novel using her ordinary married life and the sudden phone call as material. The content of the novel is: an ordinary couple, after receiving an unfamiliar phone call, the wife suspects that her husband is having an affair, which eventually leads to the breakdown of the marriage. The enraged husband finally killed his wife and committed suicide.

At this time, the husband came to a dead end because of the departure of his wife and the failure of his career. After reading his wife's novel, he realized that his wife left because of that prank. Having caught the last ray of hope, he wanted to explain this to his wife, but he saw a picture of his wife with his old lover.

When the story of the movie developed to this point, all the audience realized that a bloody case was inevitable. The novel's ending may become the movie's ending, and the couple's ending. A novel is life, a movie is a novel, and life is a movie. Between film, novel and life, the three will have a perfect fit.

As everyone expected, the husband found his friend who was a police officer, got him drunk and stole his gun, then rushed to the house of his wife and ex-lover, shot and killed the ex-lover, but forgave his wife. Finally, at a loss in the street, he met the girl who made the prank call, and everything seemed to be arranged freely. The husband raised his gun, trying to get revenge on the girl.

A bang.

Wake up the sleeping police friend, and also wake up the wife. The picture just now was just this friend's dream. In a hurry, he ran to the bathroom but saw his husband who had committed suicide, collapsed beside the bathtub, bleeding nonstop, and more blood on the wall behind him.

The movie was here for the night, and Cai Qin's soothing mezzo-soprano gradually sounded from far to near. Leaving everyone immersed in sudden sadness.

The name of the movie is called terrorists, but in fact, in the whole movie, except for the intermittent gunshots in the street when the police arrest the criminal, there is only the last gunshot.

This husband, who was forced by the pressure of life and society, finally took up the gun and tried to take revenge, but finally found that he had only the courage to commit suicide may be called a terrorist; the girl who was trapped at home and made prank calls may also be a terrorist; The husband's wife who understands that he is unwilling to treat her husband fairly may also be a "terrorist", a real "terrorist".

This is the saddest part of the movie being hidden: everyone feels more or less that the important people in their lives don't understand them. This person may be a parent, a partner, a couple, or a friend.

In life, everyone is an island.

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Extended Reading
  • May 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    The last compliment a woman wants to hear is "kindness," and the last compliment a man wants to hear is "honesty." The honest man who grew out of the soil of life bloomed a sad flower. If it is destined to not be able to go to the end together, then when I leave, "Please Pretend You Will Reluctant Me".

  • Florian 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    They obey the old inertia and strive to build the shell of form, but they have no talent for analyzing the essence. It numbs the indifference of the model life, and has a warm and negative attitude towards life. A passive and cowardly group, they restrain their impulses in their hearts. Once the fragile clay sculptures with only their shells fall to the ground under the impact of multiple thoughts and changing rules, they can only dance to the final scene of killing and suicide. Terrorists, bred in ordinary times, remember! 【9↑】