When it comes to film and television dramas about anti-trafficking, sadness and heart-wrenching are inevitable. What would happen if there was a work with this type of theme that could make the audience feel "good" from the bottom of their hearts? "The Road to Fire" is such a mov

In reality, for parents of abducted children, the road to finding their children is far away, and finding their children is a lifelong pursuit; in the movie, finding their children is the same as the ultimate goal of two men and one woman, but after Besides, they require the bad guys to pay.

Unlike expectations, "Road to the Fire" is a standard enjoyable movie setting.

At the beginning of the film, Cui Dalu, played by Xiao Yang, has just been released from prison and comes to a railway. Facing the train that is about to pass, he lies between the rails, his life or death uncertain. When the train roared past, a wild-looking man stood beside him, ready to negotiate a deal with Cui Dalu.

This man who doesn’t look like a good man ( Liu Ye) is called Zhao Zishan. He is looking for Cui Dalu, and the person he is looking for is Li Hongying ( Zhao Liying ) , relationship with Cui Dalu confusing. The main characters all appeared, and the story unfolded accordingly.

The three people, two men and one woman, went from being wary of each other and suspicious of each other to going on the road together. They became dependent on each other, and the "purposes" belonging to the three people also surfaced. Cui Dalu was an unreliable father, and it was precisely because of his unreliability that he lost his son.

Li Hongying looks the most mysterious. When she appeared in the private search team, no one knew her purpose. She is said to be a promiscuous woman, but she can only accept working as a cleaner in places like karaoke and dance halls. Even Cui Dalu, who has known her the longest, doesn't know Li Hongying well. He doesn't know that she joined the folk search team because her biological daughter was sold by her father, a human trafficker. He doesn't know that Li Hongying makes money to redeem her daughter.

He is certainly very skilled, and he is rich and willing to spend money. The box he drags with him looks very important, and seems to contain the huge amount of money he dares to spend casually, but in fact it contains the purpose and destination of his trip. He is the most persistent of the three and the only one with no way out.

Cui Dalu and Li Hongying are also similar. They both have their own reasons for their children to be abducted. Both of them are guilty and the pain is buried deep in their hearts.Li Hongying mistrusted the scumbag and was unable to escape with her child. Cui Dalu was a loyal man, but not a good father in the true sense. It can be said that Li Hongying and Zhao Zishan awakened his inner conscience. .

The three protagonists and the group portraits from the private child-finding organization constitute the portraits of the parents of the abducted children. The director and screenwriter probably hope that through such group portraits, they can create a diverse and three-dimensional representation of the true appearance of the victim group.

The performances of Xiao Yang, Zhao Liying and Liu Ye made the images of three different types of victim family members appear more clearly and three-dimensionally in front of the audience: no matter how bastard the father is, he will continue to go on the road to lose his child, and no matter how "wrong" the mother is, she will also You have to risk everything to find your children, and for most parents of abducted children, Zhao Zishan represents their true inner emotions of fighting against the traffickers. Anti-trafficking can be so exciting!

Many people will have a similar feeling after coming out of the viewing scene of "Road to Fire": refreshing. This movie with the theme of anti-trafficking, but actually integrating many elements of commercial films, brought a real sense of satisfaction to the audience during this National Day release.

Most of the anti-trafficking works in the past two years give people the feeling of depression, sadness and abuse. For every family and parents, losing a child is an insurmountable pain and blow. This "pain" is transformed into another emotion for the audience in "The Road to Fire" - pleasure.

Zhao Zishan, a former police academy instructor, has almost solved more than half of the troubles on the road with money and fists. This behavioral logic is in line with the characteristics of human traffickers. They recognize money and give up at critical moments.

Therefore, the film is very particular about the design of the fight scenes. Whether it is in a narrow room or behind the scenes of the circus set up in a large tent, the fight scenes not only become one of the highlights of the wonderful plot, but also allow the audience to digest them with fists and fists. It shows the suppression in the true meaning of anti-trafficking.

In addition, the lines in "The Road to Fire" are also cool enough.

On the one hand, it comes from Cui Dalu’s slightly playful sense of humor. Although he is not a competent father and mainly relies on stealing, robbing, and cheating to deal with problems, his poor talk does constitute the laugh point of the film, and his carefree character even The three-person Xunzi group, which was filled with tension, felt a little more relaxed and happy.

Li Hongying herself is very happy. She is a victim of human traffickers. She was not only cheated by Lu Yongan (Wu Xiaoliang) into giving birth to a child, she was also deceived by him into selling the child. But her own character has a very heroic side among women. She personally sent Cui Dalu to prison, but in order to find a child, she could wait for him in a mixed place for three years.

Zhao Zishan rescued her daughter for her. She could have lived an ordinary life with her child, but she chose to go into the tiger's den again and marry a fool, because if she didn't, "Old Zhao would be dead."

Compared with Zhao Zishan's "Life has been unfair to me, I want to seek justice with my own hands", Cui Zilu used a little cleverness to get greater benefits. Li Hongying not only showed a mother's determination on the road to find her son, but also embodied it. It depicts the true meaning of the so-called motherhood.Compared with the miserable mother image shown in similar works, Li Hongying in "The Road to Fire" brings the audience another perspective of the image of a mother who has lost her child: forbearing, wise, moral and decisive. of.

No matter which one is good, it is enough to make the audience "relax" in such a theme.

The director and screenwriter even set up a nonsensical plot in the film to enhance this feeling of pleasure: the bad guy Lu Yongan was struck to death by lightning. Such an event that is expected by everyone but difficult to happen in reality is so satisfying. happened. This scene formed an intertextual relationship with the ending of Li Hongying finding her child. It may also represent the attitude of the main creative team towards anti-trafficking: never give up the search, never give up hope, good deeds will be rewarded, and evildoers will eventually be struck by lightning.

Indeed, fighting trafficking should be so fun!