The cruel life of "Half Life": The muddle-headed maternal love destroyed the sisterhood of Manzhen and Manlu

The two sisters who were in love with each other, because the men turned each other into enemies, is this a loss of morality or a distortion of human nature?


This is a distortion of human nature. The two sisters


are Gu Manzhen and Gu Manlu of "Half Life".



Manzhen was ruined by Zhu Hongcai. At first glance, the inevitable result of Manlu's blackening, Zhu Hong is the culprit.


is not the case. If


is a second-rate novelist, this kind of plot is very bloody. Gold medal screenwriter Liu Heng refused to write the script for "Half Life" because he thought the book was strange.


Xu Anhua directed "Half Life", which was once regarded as a classic version. But she didn't take a good picture of why Manlu turned black and pulled her sister into the water.



Shijun hopes that Manzhen and Manlu have a clear relationship, but Manzhen disagrees, and the two quarrel. Immediately afterwards, Manzhen went to visit the sick Man Lu.


Mrs. Gu told Man Lu, "Manzhen and Shijun are about to be good."


Manlu said, "This is also a good thing. A woman always marries someone. It is also your happiness to be able to marry someone you like."


In fact, Manzhen Shijun’s feelings are at stake, so he replied to Manlu “I’m not so lucky”.


Manlu was irritated, and returned to Manzhen, "Our second eldest lady is not rare, there are many people to choose from, unlike me, who is a sludge."



This quarrel became the last straw of Manlu Lamanzhen. On that night, Man Lu watched Zhu Hongcai ruin Manzhen. The


Xu Anhua version did not follow the original.


follows the golden rule that the original is not a film and television adaptation, but Manlu’s darkened sections are worth following the original.


In the original book, the purple velvet cheongsam is the last straw that crushes Manlu.


This is not an ordinary cheongsam, but the love token of Manzhen and Zhang Yujin.



Before the death of Mr. Gu, Manlu and Yu Jin were married, and the two fell in love and had a rosy future. At that time Zhang Yujin wrote a love letter to Man Lu, calling her "sister in purple".


After the death of Mr. Gu, Man Lu dropped out of school and retired to work as a dancer to support the family. She sacrificed her love for her family.


Many years later, when Man Lu married Zhu Hongcai, she still did not forget Zhang Yujin's goodness. Goodbye Zhang Yujin, Man Lu will wear this purple velvet cheongsam specially.


However, Zhang Yujin said harsh words in front of Man Lu, thinking that the love of the year was a joke.


​​"People always have to change, and I have changed. My temper is different from the previous one. I don't know it is the relationship between my age. It is very ridiculous to think about the past."


At that time, Manlu's pain, I see Still pity.


​​Manlu thought to himself: He denied everything in the past. He was ashamed to admit some of the memories she cherished. The purple dress Man Lu was wearing suddenly felt thorns on her back. His whole body was burning like fire. She can't wait to tear that dress into rags.



Man Lu thinks that the purple velvet cheongsam is her medicine for pain, as long as it is there, Man Lu's wound can heal. Zhang Yujin's cruel words made Man Lu realize that the cheongsam had become a knife to kill her. It is a pity that the movie version of "Half Life" did not make full use of the narrative effect of purple velvet cheongsam.


Zhang Ailing uses the grass snake gray line to play, constantly hinting to readers that this dress destroys Manlu’s lastreason.


The second day Manzhen was pulled into the water by Manlu was the day Zhang Yujin got married.


Everyone knows that Manzhen did not attend Zhang Yujin's wedding in the end, but it was easy to ignore what Mrs. Gu said-Xu Anhua's version of "Half Life" is exactly the case. What Mrs. Gu said is-


​​"Well, you ask my sister to borrow a piece of clothes to wear. Last time I saw her wearing purple velvet is quite suitable."


At first glance, these words look like Louis Koo's unremarkable.



sister wears sister's clothes, is this abnormal? How could it anger Manlu and completely change Manzhen's life?


mentioned earlier, because this dress is too important for Man Lu.


Mrs. Gu thinks that Manzhen wears the plain, it is a fact.


Manzhen passed away and the Jun family was reluctant to add a new dress, but wore an old sheepskin coat. Once, Shijun saw Manzhen wearing new clothes and felt "like abruptly taking off her filial piety".


In order to support his family, Manzhen does not pay attention to dressing, which shows her kindness. Even though she is very kind and knows how to consider for the family, Mrs. Gu can't reciprocate her love and protect her daughter well.


Mrs. Gu asked Manzhen to wear Manlu's cheongsam to Zhang Yujin's wedding, which is really murderous.


To understand the lethality of this sentence, we must substitute the perspectives of Zhang Yujin and Man Lu.


Let me talk about Zhang Yujin first.



Zhang Yujin's wedding is a bit strange.


He works in Lu'an, Anhui, but holds a wedding in Shanghai. This kind of big-handed style is not quite Zhang Yujin. After all, Zhang Yujin is a person who saves accommodation fees when he comes to Shanghai on business trips and lives in Gu's family.


He is a phoenix man with a strong personality. He marries a Shanghai girl and holds a wedding in Shanghai. The most likely thing is to continue his anger towards Man Lu and show him.


Zhang Yujin said cruel words in front of Man Lu, not because he was not kind, but because he was annoyed that Man Lu married someone else. The details in the book


hint at Zhang Yujin's loss.


Zhang Yujin is already over thirty. He has been striving for a career for so many years. Without a family, he hopes to continue his relationship with Man Lu.


Only in this way, Zhang Yujin has the confidence to annoy Manlu.


Manlu Zhang Yujin has turned from a lover to an embarrassing person, and the Gu family also knows very well. When Mrs. Gu and Man Zhen mentioned Zhang Yujin's wedding, Man Lu asked, "Whose wedding drink?"


Manzhen's feelings about taking care of her sister, just talk about her old classmates. Zhang Ailing did not say whether Man Lu knew the truth,


I personally think that Man Lu probably knows that Zhang Yujin will get married tomorrow and will invite Man Lu to the wedding.


This can also explain why Man Lu pretended to be sick. Mrs. Gu heard that Man Lu was ill and came to visit, and Man Lu could also use pretending to be ill to push away Zhang Yujin's wedding.


Manlu did not expect that she would be completely blackened because of Mrs. Gu's words.



talk about Manlu.


Manlu is the poorest person in "Half Life".


For the sake of her family, she sacrificed her love and lost the possibility of happiness.


She married Zhu Hongcai because Mrs. Gu wanted Manzhen to get married early. For her sister, she is also willing to marry a scumbag.



Gu Jia owes Manlu too much, but never knows how to compensate her.


is Mrs. Gu. I heard that Zhang YujinchengTo be the dean, in order to seek backing, I made up the idea of ​​pro-superior pro-prosperity. She hoped that Manzhen would marry Zhang Yujin so that Man Lu could match her up.


This made Manlu surprised and angry.


​​"Her mother thought she must approve of it. In fact, she was surprised and angry. The most annoying was her mother's tone, which seemed to be between the elders and the elders, where they were discussing the marriage of the next generation. It seemed that she was a complete person. Outsider, this matter has nothing to do with her, she no longer has the right to be jealous."


Because Mrs. Gu didn't know how to consider Man Lu's feelings, Man Lu felt uneasy.



Zhang Yujin is a white moonlight that Manlu can't touch, and she doesn't want her sister to be able to touch it. This jealousy comes from human instinct. The affection between the sisters, after all, can not defeat the human nature of , greed, hatred and ignorance .



Man Lu, whose married life is unsatisfactory, pulls her younger sister up with one hand, allowing her to receive higher education and become a self-reliant little white-collar worker. But this younger sister was able to take her Zhang Yujin away, to attend Zhang Yujin's wedding, and she had to wear her most beloved clothes.

Manlu collapsed like this.



Manzhen once said that Manlu is innocent by nature, but Manlu is not a saint after all. She still has greed, hatred and ignorance that ordinary people can't overcome, and she will still be overwhelmed by an unfortunate marriage, and eventually become a vicious woman who pulls her sister into the water.


Xu Anhua's version of "Half Life" makes sister quarrel a fuse for Manlu's blackening, simple and straightforward, but also slightly rough.


The two sisters who were in love with each other turned into enemies because of their quarrel. After all, they are not as sad as the purple velvet cheongsam, and even more embarrassing. The more ordinary


is, the more shocking it is. Who would have thought that a cheongsam could crush Man Lu.


Love is omnipotent. It can save and destroy people.