Recently, I have seen a lot of people recommending "I'm Not the God of Medicine" in the circle of friends. There are a few teachers whose movie tastes I trust. I think I can still see whether they are really boasting or promoting tasks, so I watched it from Shanruliu yesterday. . I have to say, I was very surprised after reading it. First, I glanced at the poster and thought it was a comedy film similar to Thai 囧. I didn’t expect it to be a serious drama. to Hollywood standards. Of course, the Hollywood level I am talking about does not refer to the top-notch water quality of the Oscars, but the level of Hollywood movies.
I don't mean to tout this movie. I don't believe in Hollywood, but under the perfect industrial system and scientific management of Hollywood, there are indeed very few defective products, and most movies can achieve a good story structure. Complete, there is no major problem with the logic, the actors are performing online... This level, this is just a description of the objective level.
I also burst into tears when I saw the movie, but after watching the movie, I was not as excited as my friends, but Brother Yong reminded me of the episode in "Beijing People in New York" that time. Wang Qiming, played by Jiang Wen, has already made money and is very rich. One day, he chatted with A Chun, played by Wang Ji. A Chun was cutting an apple in his hand, and Wang Qiming was talking about life. He said that in this world, there are only two kinds of things. People are not condemned by their conscience. One kind of people has their conscience eaten by dogs, because they have no conscience, so they will not endure the pain of conscience condemnation. They will be condemned by their conscience. The most painful is actually the kind of person whose conscience is eaten by a dog and half of his conscience remains. This kind of person has the most tiring and painful life.
After listening silently, A-Chun handed the peeled apple to his hand and said, "Then you mean to let the dog lick the rest of your conscience clean?"
When I was a child, I just thought it was funny. When I grew up, I realized that there are very few people in this world who have no conscience at all and those who never act against their conscience. Like Brother Yong played by Xu Zheng, he is an ordinary person whose conscience lets the dog eat half of it and keep half of it. At the beginning of the movie, although he appeared as a loser who sold counterfeit drugs, collected debts, and was a rogue suspected of domestic violence, on the other hand, he was very good to his son and paralyzed father. He found an opportunity to make money. Selling smuggled drugs, he sells 500 yuan of drugs ten times, but in fact he can sell them more expensive, this price is his conscience price, the last fake drug dealer also has his conscience price, his The conscience is less than that of Brother Yong, but it does not mean that there is no conscience at all.
After watching the movie, many people discuss it more as a social issue. However, in my opinion, conscience is actually a completely private matter. Freud has id, ego and superego. This superego is actually everyone's conscience. Although it has many factors of public social environment, But more of it is what each of us learned from our parents and teachers, so to put it bluntly, it is a very personal matter. For example, because I received my parents' orientation and education on literature since I was a child, I am still a poor literati, just like my father. When it comes to money, the powerful morality within you will come out to constrain you. But some peers are completely barrier-free. It doesn't matter who is more noble, it's just that everyone's superego, the teachings of your inner parents, is not so easy to break.
Brother Yong made his first pot of gold by selling medicines. Selling medicines is a pain in his conscience. Just because he is saving people, he can balance it out, but he later considered safety. He gave up selling medicines and gradually became wealthy, but the torture of his conscience did not let him go. He was in great pain. In the end, he returned the money to his patients by selling medicines. In that story, he thought he could let the dog lick his conscience clean, but found that there was no way, really, for those people whose conscience was half eaten by the dog, if he really tried it, he would find that let the dog lick his conscience clean. It is also very difficult for a dog to lick his other half's conscience clean. Most ordinary people can neither be a big devil nor live according to their own conscience. In the end, they are bitten by dogs every day. torment. Brother Yong must have been living in pain. So he made a new life choice, simply accepted his conscience, and from then on became a person who did not act against his conscience. This is not a noble choice, but it must be a brave choice, the bravest choice an ordinary person has ever made.
Those people in the world who finally become Buddhas are ordinary people who have gone through a long mental journey and made the latter choice.
So, this is an important reason why I am willing to give this movie a thumbs up and recommend it. Over the years, the mainstream movies in the Chinese film market, the blockbuster blockbusters as a whole gave me a feeling, like the image in Yue Minjun's oil painting, with a heartless smirk, unwilling to touch a little bit of humanity , unwilling to understand the moral dilemma of a little bit of human nature. And this film, although the discussion of human nature is relatively shallow and simple, it can be seen that it is still very attentive.
Of course, the director is still cunning. For example, he hates the portrayal of the Swiss pharmaceutical company. But the actual situation is that the cost of drugs may not be very expensive, but a large pharmaceutical company develops a new drug, starting at 1 billion US dollars, there is no guarantee that the research will be successful, and there may be various risks. For example, if you have a medical accident, you have to pay compensation. Moreover, a large pharmaceutical company may study five kinds of drugs, and only this one is successful. The other billions have been lost. There are so many people in the whole company who are counting on this drug to support their families. The executives are Earning a lot, but not earning much, the company can't retain people, and it can't develop this drug either. If no one develops the drug at all, the patients will also be waiting to die. You don't allow big pharmaceutical companies to make money, and they have no incentive to develop or fund the development of new drugs.
Regarding this point, I think that as long as the director and the screenwriter have done their homework, it is impossible not to know, so the big pharmaceutical companies are mentioned in the movie, because the moral dilemma of this medical ethics is bigger, more complicated, and more difficult Discussed. But what I have to praise is that, from a technical point of view, the director is very good at hiding his clumsiness. He has stirred up the audience's emotions and avoided this pit perfectly. Of course, how will the audience discuss after seeing it? It's about the audience.
Overall, this is an easy-to-understand but quite interesting movie. If you are planning to go to a movie theater recently, I recommend you choose this one.
Disclaimer: All discussions of characters in this article revolve around movie works, not for real-life prototype characters .
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