The film "Qiao Yan's Mind" adapted from Zhang Yueran's novella "Da Qiao Xiao Qiao" will be released to domestic audiences on October 26. This film, nominated for the main competition section of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, was released in domestic theaters even ear

The film "Qiao Yan's Mind" adapted from Zhang Yueran's novella "Da Qiao Xiao Qiao" will meet the domestic audience on October 26. This film, nominated for the main competition section of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, was released in domestic theaters even earlier than its premiere at the film festival, allowing ordinary audiences to enjoy this double-drama film with a strong artistic style in commercial theaters in advance. Female protagonist movie.

Director Zhao Deyin is a Chinese born in Myanmar and grew up in Taiwan. He has been nominated twice for the Best Director Award at the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. Most of his past directed works were based on life in Myanmar, and the film style often had a strong sense of realism and compassion. This "Qiao Yan's Mind" starring Zhao Liying and Xin Zhilei is no exception.

Compared to Tai'an, Shandong, the hometown of Xiao Qiao in the original work, the director moved the film version of the story to the China-Myanmar border area in Yunnan, which he is more familiar with. Qiao Yan (played by Zhao Liying) , as a popular actress today, suddenly received an anonymous blackmail text message one day. Not long after, an unknown number called. The voice of her sister (Xin Zhilei) whom she had not seen for seventeen years, , came from the other side of the phone. She said she was coming to Beijing and hoped that Qiao Yan would pick her up.

They hadn’t seen each other for many years. In addition to being unfamiliar, the two seemed to be a little nervous. My sister, who has been in Myanmar all year round, looks like a rural woman. She speaks Yunnan dialect, has a dark face, is dressed in rustic clothes, and is even seven months pregnant. Why did she suddenly take the bus for several days to come north to find him? What is the connection between her appearance and the blackmail message?

In the eyes of her sister, the current Qiao Yan also feels strange to her. She has a thin and delicate face, and holds a luxury car and mansion. When they meet her, she gives her the latest mobile phone, and takes out a credit card for her to swipe at will... Even the billboards on both sides of the most prosperous avenue in Beijing are hers. Beautiful shadow. "I knew you were rich, but I didn't know you were so rich." In one sentence, it was unclear whether it was envy or sadness.

However, the fetters of family love between the two still exist. After taking her sister home, she opened her suitcase and found a box filled with Qiao Yan's favorite hometown specialties and snacks. Qiao Yan also instinctively wanted to take care of her pregnant sister, and wanted to give up the master bedroom for her sister to sleep. But she refused. Maybe she also understood that her arrival was too much like an uninvited guest with evil intentions.

But at this time, Qiao Yan was indeed worried. In addition to anonymous blackmail messages, his career was not going well either. She did not want to renew her contract with the agent who had tied her up for many years, but was repeatedly forced to do so, both soft and hard. According to the will of her agent Shen Haoming ( Huang Jue), she attended a management dinner party that she did not want to go to. Starring in the movie he asked her to make was just for the smooth financing and listing of the agency in the future.

has climbed step by step from a small border town in her hometown to a highly anticipated female star. She has been in the vanity fair for many years. After experiencing exchanges of interests and intrigues along the way, Qiao Yan's eyes are full of determination and indifference, but at the same time there is a layer of confusion and tenacity. . She went to the anonymous text message appointment alone and found that the blackmailer was actually her brother-in-law Yu Liang (played by Dong Baoshi). The brother-in-law who owed money abroad used the sisters' past secrets as a threat and asked Qiao Yan for 10 million to keep quiet. fee.

Qiao Yan then mercilessly found the middleman Yao Po and gave her a sum of money to send Yu Liang back to Myanmar to deal with the problem. But who knows that Yu Liang instigated the kidnapper brought by Yao Po, and asked the kidnapper to act in a play with him, and used a trick to call his sister.

The pregnant sister came to her husband alone with a big belly, but the other party offered to redeem him with 10 million, otherwise he would continue to torture him. The sister who was eager to save people suddenly panicked and finally confessed to her sister that she was in urgent need of a large amount of money. But her sister already knew that it was Yu Liang who wanted money. She told her sister sincerely that her brother-in-law was not a good person and hoped that she would let him go. Qiao Yan would take good care of her sister and the child in her belly.

His thoughts flashed back to the border past more than ten years ago. Father Qiao, who wanted a boy, learned that his wife was carrying a girl and wanted to abort her. However, a "poisonous injection" from a small clinic gave the baby girl a life. , his wife died in childbirth. In that era of family planning, if he wanted to register a baby girl, his father would have to lose his job as a middle school principal. Therefore, the baby girl was regarded as a black household and was sent to Myanmar across the river to grow up.

But during the high school entrance examination, her sister Qiao Yan chose love and wanted to elope with Yu Liang and go out to work in the jade field, so she left her admission ticket and identity to her sister, asking her to take her place. Qiao Yan's identity was legal in the country. Study and go to school. On the way to change their identities, their father also passed away due to an accident. From then on, the two sisters became separated, and their fates began to separate in different directions.

So, they are sisters, but they are also Qiao Yan. Yu Liang, his brother-in-law who was forced into desperation due to debt, was jealous of his sister's smooth life, and hoped to use this as an excuse to encourage her to take back her identity. In the end, her sister, who had no way to turn for help, did not hesitate to find Qiao Yan's agent, reveal the secrets of the two sisters, and asked him to lend her 10 million. The scheming agent not only readily borrowed the money, but Yu Liang also secretly sold him the baby girl born to his sister. This allowed him to continue to control his sister Qiao Yan in the name of his child.

From beginning to end, all Qiao Yan wanted was freedom. This kind of freedom is not only career autonomy, but also magnanimity in identity.

As a superborn child since childhood, she was a "superfluous person" who had no household registration and needed to live a legitimate life by borrowing her sister's identity; and as an adult, she has become a person who needs to wear a mask at all times to maintain a perfect persona. female star; but behind the glamour, she is also a capital tool used by her agent to make money at will.

As Qiao Yan's identity has been replaced for many years, this identity already refers to her instead of her sister, but she doesn't want it anymore. However, if you abandon all this or start it all over again, will the lives of the two sisters really become better? In the movie

, my sister has been talking about going to see the Great Wall since she was a child. But after everything was settled and both Yu Liang and Shen Haoming were punished by law, the two sisters took their children to climb the Great Wall, but the sister said, "The Great Wall is different from what she imagined." Qiao Yan said, "Some places are better just existing in your imagination. But when you really go there, you find that they are nothing more than that."

This is just like the relationship between the two people in the movie. They are both Qiao Yan. Before they met, the lives they imagined they could break free and exchange would not change with the change of their names and identities. good. In the last scene of the movie, Qiao Yan, a popular actress, chose to take a break and returned to the streets of Myanmar with her sister and children. Three women were sitting on the street casually eating snacks.

Perhaps the life at this moment is what they longed for most.