movies are not only a way of the director's performance, but also more of a director's inner thought level. is a creative industry integrating politics, economy and culture. It can accurately "restore" the real world and "show" the virtual world, giving people a sense of realism. said Zhang Yimou director, the reason why he can have a higher reputation than other directors, the big reason is that Zhang Yimou's films are very artistic, and the casting is also very good, and the vicious vision makes Zhang Yimou Going further and further on the road of director. A thoughtful film will be a good film, but if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet. Among the films directed by him, the only one that has been banned is " is alive " starring Ge You Gong Li.
The story takes place in the 1940s. The male protagonist played by Ge You is rich and expensive, a playboy who has no worries about food and clothing.
"Young Master Fugui, you lost again, hey, he didn't open all night, remember what hey, of course, apart from gambling, he also has a better hobby, which is shadow puppetry ."
He thinks casinos play shadow puppets It didn't sound good, so I went to the backstage to perform in person, and the audience under the stage praised it, but they didn't know that Long Er, who was under the stage, was already planning to make the rich and famous go bankrupt.
"Master Fugui, as long as Mr. Zhao loses one more night, it will be your business. Don't make a mistake. That's right, it's an account. When you get home, old man, aunt, you can lose your family."
The wealthy old man was actually a prodigal. Originally, the Xu family had three large yards, but this one was left in his hands. "There is no old bastard, where is the little bastard, who can I learn from? I wonder why there is only one hospital left in the three courtyards? The famous Xu Da bastard was not my old man, what else did he want to say? You were blocked by rich and noble mothers, and grandpa came to scold you again, that is your grandfather singing."
went back to the room and said hello to his wife Jiazhen casually and lay on the bed, the wife was crying and sad, it turned out that the wife was pregnant again Now, Fugui promised him that he would not gamble again, but Fugui couldn't change it at all. The next day, Fugui went to the casino to find Long Er to gamble again. His wife found him and persuaded him not to gamble, but Fugui scolded him out of the casino, "Go away and go out." But it didn't take long for Long Er not to follow him. After playing, it turns out that the wealth and wealth lost all the family property is nothing. "This young master, you don't even have half a room left in the courtyard of your mansion. Don't blame me for being cruel. I really like that courtyard so much, I'm sorry." See you in two days, Madam, hey , Long Er stayed, and left if he went to pick up the house in two days. After
left the casino, his wife told Fugui that he did not want to live with the gamblers, so he took his daughter back to his parents' home. Now the wealth is nothing. Two days later, Long Er came to collect the house, and the rich father was mad to death after pressing his handprint. Afterwards, Fugui left his ancestral house with the luggage of his mother He Jingsheng, who was suffering from gas-sickness. In order to survive, the rich and rich began to set up stalls on the street to make a living. Although he was poor, he also succeeded in quitting gambling. A year later, Jiazhen brought her daughter and son to find her. When she learned that her daughter-in-law was back, she hurried home rich and happy. When she saw her son, she hurriedly asked her son's name. "Again, whoever doesn't gamble doesn't gamble anymore. Who is angry with me? I don't gamble well, I don't gamble well, I never gambled again, and I won't gamble in my next life. I know, or I won't come back." Of course, Not gambling is not my son's real name, it's just a joke with Fugui. My son's real name is Youqing's daughter-in-law. When my son comes back, the family is considered money. With a daughter-in-law and children, it's definitely not enough to set up a stall. So Fugui put down his pride, found Long Er, and wanted to borrow some money from him to open a small shop in the town.
Long Er stopped running a theatre troupe after he had a rich yard, so he lent the shadow puppet from a foreign land to Fugui and asked him to find a helper and set up a team to make money. Soon Fugui found Chunsheng to set up a shadow puppet team to perform performances to discuss life, while Jiazhen took care of the elderly and children at home.
did not last long. In 1949, they encountered the defeated Kuomintang troops, and they were arrested as strong men.Don't think about running away, saving your life is the most important thing now. In fact, Lao Quan stayed in the Kuomintang army in order to find his brother, and when Fugui fled with the Kuomintang army. He has always carried the shadow puppet box, because he still has to rely on it to support his family. After all, he still borrowed it and has to pay it back.
"Damn, it's this broken box blocking the way, who's who, put the car and report to the squad leader, there are my things there, keep it, throw it away, throw it away, it's just a broken box Eyes? Throw it away, use panic, you have to pay back what you borrowed from others, and you will point to him to support your family in the future."
This evening, there were many wailing sounds on the snow, these were injured Kuomintang troops The wailing sound, they have been surrounded by the People's Liberation Army. Chunsheng took some clothes from some soldiers who died of freezing, and the three of them warmed up a lot after putting on the clothes. Woke up the next day to find no one in the trenches. Lao Quan said calmly, "The People's Liberation Army is about to charge, and everyone else has run away." Rich and noble also want to run. Lao Quan said, "It's easy to get shot when running around. If you want to survive, just stay here, because the People's Liberation Army will treat the prisoners preferentially, and of course they will go home after they are captured. If they pay you a travel fee, then you can't run. Yes, you want to go home. Ah, you can't run around at this time, you don't have to think about hitting, you can't just raise your hands, just raise it like this, you can do it like this. As soon as you touch your waist gun, you will be shot, the Communist army treats the prisoners preferentially, eats, drinks, and shines, I have experienced this, just hold it up."
Then the two raised their hands and walked around the trench stroll. Chunsheng likes to drive a car very much, and when he sees the car, he sits and plays with it. Then they saw a lot of wounded soldiers frozen to death in a spacious place. The scene shocked the two of them, rich and noble. "We have to go back alive, we have to live a good life when we go back." The People's Liberation Army launched a charge, and the two were frightened and ran in Laoquan's direction. Lao Quan found that the clothes Chunsheng had picked from the dead had the number of his brother's unit on it, so he went to the place where the wounded soldiers were frozen to death to find his brother. Unexpectedly, during the search process, Laoquan was shot, Fugui and Chunsheng immediately dragged him away, but it was too late, Laoquan left. When the rich and the rich brought Laoquan clothes, the People's Liberation Army had already begun to charge. Seeing that the PLA troops were coming, the two were so frightened that they ran away immediately. In the end, they couldn't escape, so they raised their hands and surrendered as Lao Quan said.
A soldier found a shadow puppet on the ground, he looked at it carefully in the sun, and this box of shadow puppets let the People's Liberation Army know that they are just working people. As a result, the rich and noble sang and pulled carts for the PLA in the barracks, which was considered to have participated in the revolution. Soon, the wealthy hometown was liberated, and he returned to the town. Chunsheng also got what he wanted and became a driver in the army.
Fugui just returned to town when he saw his wife carrying her son and daughter pouring hot water for a living. The wife cried with joy when she saw Fugui, and only when she got home did she realize that Fugui's mother was no longer there. Forget it, my daughter Fengxia came back because she was sick and had a fever for seven days, but she couldn't speak. It can be seen that Ge You's expression is really hiding and looking at the smile, but his eyes are full of desolation.
The mayor heard that Fugui was back, so he came to see if he needed help. Fugui took out the documents of the army, "You used to be a citizen of the People's Liberation Army? Rich, so what did you do?" "That is, if you pull a cannon and sing a show, that is also a revolution." Later, the town mayor told Rich, Long Er will be put on public trial, and let Fugui participate in and receive education. Fugui is puzzled, what did Long Er do to be put on trial? "Hey, it's not just because your house is like that, you set a landlord for Long Er." "Huh?" "It's not just because he decided to break up. According to the policy, he refused to beat the cadres in the hospital room that the government wanted to divide. , and also set fire to that courtyard house. This is not a counter-revolutionary sabotage. Ah, burning the cattle house for several days and nights, the wood in your house is really good." The next day, Long Er was sentenced to death. Seeing Long Er being shot, Fu Gui was so scared that he wet his pants, "What's wrong? Why are your pants wet?" "Top five, top five killed Long Er, killed Long Er, killed him, top five If you are beaten to death, you will definitely not survive." Jiazhen, who heard the news, hurriedly took out the proof of the revolution from the clothes to be washed, and hurriedly I couldn't find the mine, so I hung the proof on the wall and hung it on the wall. hang. In this way, the time came to 1958.
this year, to mentionDue to the high national steel production, every household donated all the ironware, and the mayor came to collect the ironware. Because the wealthy family still had to supply hot water to the steelmaking plant, the mayor specially left a few iron pots for their family. Jiazhen asked casually, what will I eat after the pot is gone? The mayor of the town said that a large collective canteen has been established in the town, and people in the town will continue to do so in the future. All go there to eat. After speaking, the mayor also asked casually, is there anything else with iron in your family? No, no, my son is strong, so he moved out the rich shadow puppet box, and the iron wire on the shadow puppet is also an iron tool. Seeing that the shadow puppets are about to be demolished, the rich and noble have a plan. I sang a play for the People's Liberation Army. After listening to the play I sang, they attacked two hilltops in one day, and their two bodies attacked four hilltops.
"Hey, good idea, good idea. As soon as the mayor heard it, he thought it was a good idea, so he asked Fugui to take the shadow puppets to the steel factory to encourage everyone, so this box of shadow puppets was saved." Because Fengxia couldn't speak, Several children in the town often bullied his younger brother. Youqing fought with them when he saw it, but after all, his fists were no match for four. In order to take revenge on a few arrogant children, Youqing deliberately asked the chef to ask for it when he was eating a big pot of rice. He ordered a lot of noodles and chili sauce, and then hit the bear boy who was bullying his sister on the head. The bear child's father asked Fugui to take good care of the child by name, and Fugui, who didn't know the truth, asked his son to apologize, but Youqing was also very stubborn and just didn't go. So the rich and noble taught his son in public. After
returned home, his wife told Fugui the truth. Those children bullied Fengxia, and if they had money, they should protect her. Big sister, Fugui knew that he was blaming his son, so he apologized to him and asked his son to watch him sing at night, but his son was angry and didn't want to go, so Jiazhen asked him to punish his father, and then think of a way to make it impossible for your father to sing. ? Go and bring a bowl of tea to your father, and pour a cup of acetic acid into the tea, okay? Youqing came to the scene and was attracted by the shadow puppet. He was very happy to see his son bringing tea to him. But on the next day, the mayor of the town brought a piece of steel with gongs and drums. And when they came home with dumplings, they found that the two children were too tired to fall asleep, and the mother didn't want to disturb them, after all, for life.
Youqing has not slept for several days, but this is a notification from a few arrogant children, saying that the district mayor will come to check today and ask Youqing to go to the school to participate in steelmaking. As soon as he heard that the district chief was coming, Fugui woke up his son, and Jiazhen packed a box of dumplings for his son. Afterwards, Fugui went to school with his son on his back, but this time it became an eternal separation. It turned out that Youqing was so sleepy that he fell asleep behind the courtyard wall, and the district chief only arrived at the school at night, and he also did not rest for four or five days. He accidentally knocked down the school's courtyard wall when he reversed his jeep, but the authority of the courtyard wall was placed on Youqing, and he died on the spot. Looking at the body of his son, the rich and noble are distraught, what happened? The warrior agreed. Dad is here. You didn't go here. My name is Yang. Seeing that Jiazhen was also coming, in order to prevent Jiazhen from being more stimulated, the mayor hurriedly had you carried away.
The next day, Jiazhen brought the box of dumplings she hadn't eaten yet, as well as new ones. The boy came to pay homage to his son, regretting that he should not have woken up his son. At this time, the mayor who caused the accident also came, and he was Chunsheng. You owe our family a life, you have the money to kill you, you owe our family a life, you remember. Friendship is killed by you, you remember, you go with him early. I go. I owe your family a life. I remember. When Chunsheng returned, he found that Fengxia had smashed the glass of his car with a stone. What was he doing? He smashed the glass of the car, and when he came up, he smashed the glass with a stone. I don't know whose child. It's all smashed, you still can't do this car, don't do it. In this way, the time came to 1966, which was a special era. The mayor came to Fugui's house and persuaded them to burn the shadow puppets. This time, there was no excuse. Fugui could only take out the box of shadow puppets on the spot. Burned. After
finished burning, the mayor found another marriage for Fengxia. This person was called Wan's daughter-in-law. She was a wage worker in the county town, and she was also in the factory. Look, um, the conditions are so good, can you like Meng Fengyao? He was also a little ill, and his legs were a little lame. Terribly lame? Walking is not in the way, walking is not in the way, you can run when you are in a hurry, and you can run when you are in a hurry. Is that congenital? It’s not that people with work-related injuries are still receiving allowances. the mayor simplyI introduced Erxi's situation. His grandfather, his father and his third wife were all workers. Xiao Sangsang's worker sister Jiazhen also introduced the situation of their family, and said that Fengxia's father also worked in revolution. Erxi glanced at the certificate on the wall and didn't say anything, then after seeing Fengxia, she left the rich house. Jiazhen thought that Erxi just glanced at her daughter and left without even having a meal. Maybe he didn't like it. After a few days, Erxi brought a few workers to Fugui's house. The neighbors found Fugui and told him that someone was going to demolish their house. After hearing this,
Fugui was very good, and immediately rushed home. When he got home, he found out that he was helping to clean up, and Fengxia was also helping. In this way, the affair between Erxi and Fengxia was settled. The family took a family photo on the wedding day, and Fengxia was reluctant to leave when they left. Fugui and Jiazhen waved their hands and let them go in peace. When Fugui returned home, he found that Chunsheng was waiting for him in the yard. He was here to send a gift, but Jiazhen still had a grudge against Chunsheng and didn't want to see him. Chunsheng left consciously after sending the gift. After a period of time, Erxi brought Fengxia to visit Erxi, and brought a table of good food and wine. It turned out that Fengxia was pregnant. Jiazhen told Erxi to take a picture of him every year when the child was born. photo. At the dinner table, Erxi told Fugui that Chunsheng had recently held a criticism conference, and asked his father-in-law to draw a clear line with him.
That night, Chunsheng found Fugui, gave his bankbook to Fugui, and told Fugui that his wife had committed suicide, and he did not want to live anymore. Fugui persuaded him not to think about it, even if my sister-in-law and I accepted the money, we would leave it with you first, and the days would be long. I know you are not feeling well right now. But no matter what, you have to endure and endure. At this time, Jiazhen walked out the door, Chunsheng, it was cold outside, go in and say, yes, go in and say, my sister-in-law will not go in, I came out secretly, and I have to go back quickly. Looking at the lonely back of Chunsheng leaving, Jiazhen told Chunsheng, Chunsheng, remember, you still owe our family a life, you have to live well.
Soon, Fengxia was about to give birth, but all the old doctors in the hospital were taken to a meeting, and all that remained were young and inexperienced nurses. Jiazhen was not at ease, and asked Erxi to think of a way. Erxi brought back an old doctor from the obstetrics and gynecology department, thinking that he would be able to give advice at a critical time, but he hadn’t eaten for several days, so Fugui bought him seven steamed buns. As a result, the old doctor ate all seven steamed buns in one go. Looking at the old doctor who eats steamed buns, Jiazhen takes steamed buns as her grandson's nickname, because names like steamed buns are easy to support. Soon, Fengxia gave birth to a son, and everyone was very happy. At the same time, they found that the old doctor was choked on a steamed bun, so Fugui poured him some water. At this moment, Fengxia suddenly bleeds heavily. Hearing that the nurses didn't know how to deal with it at all, the situation was very critical, they immediately asked the old doctor for help, but found that she had been supported. In the end, the old doctor was rescued, but Fengxia left forever.
A few years later, the rich couple brought their grandson and Erxi to Fengxia's grave to pay their respects. According to the agreement, they took pictures of the grandson every year, and finally the family had dinner together, and the movie ended here.
The film is alive is adapted from the novel of the same name by Yu Hua . It is the most special work of Zhang Yimou's directorial career, and it is also the only banned film among all his works. The reason is that it is said that the film participated in the selection of Cannes Film Festival without permission, so it has been banned from being released in China. After watching this movie, you will find that the plot of the movie is real and thought-provoking. Such an excellent movie, even Zhang Yimou lamented that the movie was treated unfairly. And the starring also won the Cannes Best Actor in one fell swoop by virtue of his superb acting skills in the film.
But this movie has not been released again so far, which is also a pity!
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