"Blind Well" is the debut feature film directed by Li Yang, which was nominated for Best Picture at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the 40th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. The film tells a shocking story that happened in a Chinese mining site. The film makes the seemingly incredible thing of murdering a person in exchange for money true and credible. In the film, life is not as priceless as we preach, but is clearly marked low. By showing the whole process of murder, the film clearly presents the chain of selection, admission, murder, and disturbance before us. It makes us think about what makes people obliterate the conscience? Why is the murder so logical? Why are the things that we promote invaluable in the film are clearly marked? The theme of the
film is very grand, involving issues such as mine safety, system hazards, human darkness, poverty, etc. The film mainly presents the themes one by one through the main lines of Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming. The beginning of the film is the end of the murders of Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming. After going to the mine, they "send people home". The two cooperated in the disturbance. The mine owner blocked the news and took the money. The two took the money and left, threw away the ashes, and sent the money home. To wife and children, take money to KTV. The pace of the film is not fast, and the daily life of the two people is slowly described with documentary images. But this is what shocked us. Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming are two characters throughout, and they are again selected from them. Entering the mine, hesitated and entangled in the murder to the final suicide. As negative characters, the two show the evil in human nature, and also tell their helplessness and sorrow. They also show the hidden safety hazards in the mines and the dark side of the society of collusion between government and business. In
, Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming make the theme more authentic through the swaying of humanity between good and evil. Killing a person is never a simple matter. Although at the beginning, the two people acted neatly and even took money from the shoes of the murdered person and flushed the ashes into the toilet at will, but they are not necessarily free of guilt and guilt. When a 16-year-old boy came to them, he looked like they used to be, like their sons and daughters now, and this boy fully trusted them and would use his meager salary to buy chickens for them. This boy still focused on returning to school I have never tasted the world’s hopes. Faced with such a sincere and hopeful teenager, like a teenager rising up the sun, the two began to hesitate and sway, and they said that they would obey the rules of the rivers and lakes and push back the time of murder day by day. However, two people whose hands had long been stained with blood and sin couldn't be easily moved. They still chose the original path, and eventually suffered the consequences. But their vacillation fully reflects the complexity of people. This rare kindness is a priceless existence in the film. The
film sets off the theme from the front by portraying the character of Yuan Fengming. He is the only bright color in the film, giving people a glimpse of hope. The tone of the whole film is gray and there is no extra bright color, which is of Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming. The clothes are also gray, and Yuan Fengming is the rare brightness in the film. From the beginning it appeared in a clean blue and white school uniform. Later, he wore bright red clothes when he went down to the mine. Even the room where Yuan Fengming lived had a clean newspaper wall and the light coming through the window, which looked very clean and beautiful. Yuan Fengming’s deeds are in contrast with others. He honestly believes that others will donate money to high school students who can’t afford to go to school even when he’s down and out. He still hopes to go to school. He looked at the female posters on the wall with shame. His behavior evoked the kindness in the hearts of Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming. Song Jinming also donated money to the high school students, and Tang Chaoyang agreed to murder later. In the end, Yuan Fengming escaped from birth, as if a ray of light illuminates the blind well, bringing us a glimmer of hope.
How hard is it to murder a person? Countless criminal investigation films tell us that the most complicated crime skills will also be found out, and there has never been a perfect crime. But in "Blind Well", no one wants to go into the details of why people died. The mine owner blocked the news, took the money, and could contact the relationship to cover up the truth when he had to. In the dark mine, the light and good of human nature are covered, evil is flooding all around, and the blood of murder seeps into the coal and disappears. A life worth 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, 100 yuan can solve a physiological need, a few yuan donation can rekindle a child's hope of going to school, all seemingly priceless things have low prices in the film. Before the most basic needs of people are met, all humanitarian concepts and the basic concepts of good and evil that should be possessed are empty talk. Who should we blame? eachIndividuals seem to have their own positions and reasons, but it is precisely because of these reasons that they have ruined every life. We can only hope that everyone will not make excuses and excuses for themselves, and do not sacrifice others for their own interests. We hope that the praiseworthy things in human nature are truly priceless. We hope that pricelessness will win priceless one day!
