's recently released movie "The Three Brigades" is another word-of-mouth masterpiece at the end of the year. Douban netizens gave it a high score of 7.9. As of 9 pm on December 17, the box office of "The Three Brigades" has exceeded 244 million. The movie
tells the story of the members of the third brigade who accidentally led to the death of the suspect during the investigation of a vicious burglary-turned-robbery and rape causing serious injury. The police officers of the three brigade were collectively imprisoned. Six years later, captain Cheng Bing was still unable to give up his obsession after being released. He traveled around the country chasing the murderer for eleven years and finally caught the murderer.
Poster of the movie "The Third Brigade".
Different from the general suspense themes, the shocking power of "The Three Brigades" does not lie in the complex plot of reversals and reversals and the curious exploration of the darkness of human nature. It is simply like a fable, and it even only tells a story. This kind of life choice - for an obsession in my heart, even though there are thousands of people, I will make it.
Another touching power of "The Third Brigade" comes from the fact that it is adapted from a real story. The original short story is called "Please tell the director that the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed" and the author is Shenlan. Deep Blue has been publishing non-fiction works on NetEase Human World since December 2016. "Please report to the Director, the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed" is one of them. The protagonist of the story, Cheng Bing, is a real person and a real person.
A book of the same name accompanying the film's release has also been published.
Documentary reportage "Please report to the director, the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed" This non-fiction story begins with the most glorious arresting moment at the end of the movie "The Third Brigade":
One afternoon in September 2013, in a prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province In a residential complex, a middle-aged water deliveryman had a conflict with an owner who was passing by the water station for no reason. Unexpectedly, the waterman quickly put the male owner to the ground, and the owner struggled desperately.
The fight between the two people quickly attracted the attention of surrounding residents. Someone called the police. After the police arrived, they took the plumber and the injured owner to the police station for questioning and disposal. At the police station, the water deliveryman quickly confessed his illegal behavior of "beating others," but then the police continued to collect evidence from the injured owner for a full twenty hours.
In the end, the water deliveryman was acquitted, but the injured owner was criminally detained after completing DNA collection and comparison.
One day later, our city police sent people to the local area and picked up the water deliveryman and the injured owner. At this point, the city’s 2002 “8·22” vicious burglary-turned-robbery and rape-causing-serious-injury case was finally announced to have been solved, and all suspects were arrested and brought to justice.
At the beginning of 2014, the verdict was announced in the "8·22" case. The "owner" who was pushed to the ground by the water deliveryman was finally sentenced to a suspended death sentence. The water deliveryman who was nearly fifty years old finally ended his four years of wandering. Life. Faced with the police's attempts to stay, he smiled and shook his head, then packed his bags and boarded the train heading north. "If nothing happens in the future, don't contact us." Before leaving, the waterman said to the policeman who was seeing him off, but he turned around and added: "Please tell Director Yang that the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed."
"Chasing the murderer", Far more difficult than we imagined
The story of "The Three Brigades" can be divided into two parts. The first hour focuses on the incident and the following days; the next hour is six years later, Cheng Bing is released from prison, and Eight The other members of the brigade traveled to various provinces together and began the long process of chasing the murderer.
In the preface of "The Three Brigades: Selected Stories of Deep Blue" recently published by Xinxing Publishing House, Shenlan wrote that in the story "Please tell the director that the mission of the Three Brigades has been completed", he wanted to highlight This includes the difficulty of chasing the murderer.
Stills from the movie "The Three Brigades".
Shenlan is a former front-line policeman. As an ordinary grassroots policeman in a third- or fourth-tier small city, his job often involves gamblers, thieves, and drug addicts. As the main force on duty, he has also witnessed all kinds of crimes. people and things.Shenlan said that chasing the murderer is really a miserable job:
In a drug project in 2013, He Fan (pseudonym), a colleague from the anti-drug detachment, traveled to 18 cities across the country in order to track down drug dealers. He was involved in car accidents twice in one month. Lost 20 pounds due to internal violence;
When investigating a series of robbery cases in 2015, in order to determine the identity of the suspect, Director Lin compared the ID photos of more than 6,000 suspected persons with the naked eye in three days, and ended up undergoing emergency surgery for retinal detachment. ;
In a gun and drug case in 2016, Sergeant Zhou of the special team squatted for 69 consecutive hours in the scorching heat to arrest the suspect. Excessive fatigue caused myocardial infarction. He was only 44 years old when he died on the line...
Compared to The dangers of hand-to-hand combat and the long process of "chasing the murderer" are the most painful.
In the article "One Person, One Pair of Shoes, One Life", Shenlan wrote: "Ten years ago, by chance, I heard the story of Captain Cheng from my colleagues. At first, even I couldn't believe it. There is such a senior, until another colleague told me the same story. Only the first half of the story is highly consistent, but the second half is different: 'He went to Guizhou, worked as a security guard, delivered couriers, drove a taxi... ''He went to Hunan, set up a night market, collected waste, and did odd jobs...''He went to Chongqing, where he made sticks, installed air conditioners, and mixed construction sites...''He went to Sichuan...'"
The movie "The Third Brigade" 》Stills.
In the non-fiction story "Please tell the Director, the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed", the processing of this part is actually very simple. Shenlan wrote:
In the four years from 2009 to 2013, Cheng Bing reported to the community police in his place of residence The working places described are all in Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou, and the types of work are also very diverse: working in night markets, working as porters, night shift taxi drivers, couriers, and even working as Internet cafe security guards, community janitors, etc. wait.
Shenlan said frankly: "From the beginning to the end, I actually don't know how Captain Cheng spent his 12 years. Except for the necessary people involved in the case, Captain Cheng has not disclosed to anyone about the years of chasing the murderer. Just a few words. And with my limited life experience and work experience, I can't guess what he has experienced. This has also become a shortcoming in the original text of "Please tell the director, the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed"." In the
movie, Zhang Yi The Cheng Bing played by Cheng Bing finally stood at a crowded intersection. Everything was over. He seemed to hear the real hustle and bustle of the world for the first time. Everyone came to say goodbye to him one by one. In reality, Cheng Bing finally put this experience behind him after four years of chasing the murderer. Shenlan said that in a later interview, "Captain Cheng on the other end of the phone just said to me calmly, 'Let the past be left behind. Let him go, be a good policeman, handle the case well, and protect yourself."
A man's battle
Cheng Bing's real experience was actually more lonely and difficult.
Cheng Bing became a policeman after graduating from the "Provincial Public School" at the age of 21. He started as a policeman with household registration and police section. By 2002, it was his 16th year as a policeman and he accumulated a lot of experience in handling cases. As shown in the movie, the turning point of Cheng Bing's life occurred on the day when Wang Dayong was interrogated and died.
In reality, Cheng Bing’s colleague Lao Zhang restored the scene at that time in an interview with Shenlan:
When Wang Dayong was taken to the Third Brigade, he was beaten beyond recognition by the victim’s family. We looked at the photos for a long time and then finally It's definitely him. " Lao Zhang said.
... That day, Lao Zhang was assigned by Captain Cheng to be on duty in the duty room next to the office and did not personally participate in the interrogation of Wang Dayong. But from the screams and curses coming from next door, he knew that his Colleagues were "trying" on Wang Dayong. "I went to the next door on the way to deliver materials. Wang Dayong was 'carrying a sword' on the window. A policeman next to him was holding an electric baton and asked his brother Wang Eryong where he had gone. , He didn’t say..."
Stills from the movie "The Third Brigade".
Wang Dayong died at 11:10 that night when he was interrogated. Lao Zhang said that he remembered that time clearly.
"Wang Dayong said he wanted to go to the toilet and was taken out of the office. After going to the toilet, he sat on the sofa in the hall. His head was sweating profusely, his whole body was shaking, and his expression was very painful. I have seen uncooperative suspects being punished before ', but I have never seen one so heavy. I reminded them to be gentle, but the colleague also looked angry and said that three mop rods were broken, but Wang Dayong refused to speak and even made sarcastic remarks in front of the police..."
... ..."Later, a forensic examination organized by the procuratorate revealed that Wang Dayong died of severe craniocerebral injury and liver and kidney failure..." Lao Zhang said.
In the real story, the members of the Third Brigade were sentenced to varying degrees after Wang Dayong's death, and the team also fell apart.
Shenlan said that screenwriter Zhang Ji made Captain Cheng not fight alone in the setting of the movie "The Three Brigades", "We don't want him to be so lonely, so we want his partners to accompany him on the road for a while. "
" So Captain Cheng in the film has four good brothers who are born and die. Xu Yizhou, who trains dogs, Ma Zhenkun, who sells late-night snacks, Liao Jian, who works as a security guard, and Cai Bin, who drives a taxi. They are eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers and accompanying each other. Captain Cheng went through a journey of chasing the murderer. Even when Xu Yizhou said, 'The Third Brigade is back!', I instantly felt excited."
"But after calming down, I suddenly discovered, 'Partner 'This warm word allowed me to understand Captain Cheng's difficulties in reality from another aspect. They were all multiple-choice questions, but Captain Cheng's questions had only one option. At the crossroads of chasing the murderer, Ma Zhenkun chose For family, Captain Cheng chose to pursue Wang Eryong; Liao Jian chose his children, and Captain Cheng chose to pursue Wang Eryong; Xu Yizhou chose love, and Captain Cheng chose to pursue Wang Eryong; Cai Bin chose treatment, but Captain Cheng still chose to pursue Wang Eryong. Cheng It seemed that only Wang Eryong was the only one in the ascetic reincarnation of the captain. But when Ma Zhenkun left, he held his head in his hands, covered his face in the corner and cried; when Liao Jian left, his face was ashen, and he hesitated to speak at the table; when Xu Yizhou left, he walked quickly, He choked up his blessings at the seaside; when Cai Bin left, he was heartbroken and plunged into the river."
Shenlan also said that more than ten years ago, Captain Cheng left no trace on that lonely and secret pursuit road. As a junior, I only know the result but not the process, and even paying tribute feels pale and feeble; but in reality, Captain Cheng may have faced the same gap on his way to pursue the murderer. He had no companions by his side, but was full of retreats. But he still persisted until the end, with one person, one pair of shoes, and one life.
It is reported that the stories in "Third Brigade: Selected Stories of Deep Blue", including "Please tell the Chief, the mission of the Third Brigade has been completed" and other eleven works, involve five real people's policemen in the real world, and four A shocking crime and two criminals who give rise to mixed feelings. All the content comes from real cases, including cases that Shen Lan personally participated in investigating, as well as stories written by Shen Lan based on the real experiences of other police officers.
In addition to Cheng Bing, the archetypal policeman who chases the murderer thousands of miles away, the book also records Chief Zhou who hated criminals and eventually died in the line of duty while stalking, Lin Suo, who turned to the police to prevent his fiancée from taking drugs, as well as auxiliary police officer Xizi and auxiliary police officer Yang Brigade. Some of them take it as their mission to hunt down criminals and others, some regard the police as their dreams and careers, and face the difficulties that life throws at them.
This is a front-line record of grassroots police. These are salvaged from the rough river of reality, shining with coldness and warmth of real life, and hiding the truth of fate.
(This article is from The Paper, edited by Sonorous Film/Mingyue Linxi)
