At the beginning of the film, Fugui, a playboy, loses the gambling in his family's big house, and his wife leaves because he has never quit gambling. He originally thought that this was the peak of his misery in life, but he never imagined that this was just the beginning of suffering.
After being impoverished, Fugui's father was so angry that he guarded his sick mother to live a miserable life. A year later, his wife Jiazhen brought her daughter home and her newborn son after hearing that he no longer gambled.
Fugui borrowed shadow puppets to make a living. Life is starting to look a little hopeful. But here comes the war.
Fugui was caught as a strongman in the defeated Kuomintang barracks and witnessed the tragic death of thousands of people.
He finally saved his life from the battlefield. The next day after returning home, he learned that Long Er, who had won his family's mansion by gambling, was beaten as a landlord, and he was shot because he refused to hand over the house and set it on fire.
Fugui was so frightened that he wet his pants and said to Jiazhen, "If I hadn't lost the house, I would have been shot today"...
After two narrow escapes, Fugui lived a few years in peace, so he came to DYJ.
DYJ itself does not directly cause danger to life. However, during the Great Leap Forward, everyone worked day and night, and was extremely sleep-deprived. Even children had to stay up all night every day.
Fugui's son stayed up all night in a daze, and was called to school to make steel. The district mayor who came to inspect also didn't sleep for five or six nights, and was still driving with severe fatigue. So he hit the wall of the school and knocked the wall down. Unexpectedly, Fugui's son fell asleep under the wall because he was too sleepy and was crushed to death on the spot.
This is a tragedy caused by over-fatigue, and such a case is certainly not an exception.
No matter whether human beings are sad or happy, time moves on and on. The Fugui family came to the WG period.
The district mayor was labeled as a capitalist roader, and the advanced mayor who had been loyal to the party was also labeled a capitalist roader. The district mayor was Chunsheng who climbed out of the dead with Fugui back then. When he was criticized, his wife committed suicide, and he wanted to commit suicide too.
Originally, WG had no direct and strong influence on the ignorant poor like Fugui, but Fugui's daughter was going to have a child.
To give birth to a child requires a doctor, but the doctors in the hospital are all labeled as "reactionary academic authorities" and locked up in the bullpen.
The hospital has been taken over by the red generals of the nursing school.
They tried their best to bring a gynecologist out of the cowshed, but the expert was starving and dizzy because he hadn't eaten for three days.
Fugui went to buy steamed buns for the experts. He bought 7 buns in total. Unexpectedly, the hungry experts ate all of them and were too choked to move.
They gave the expert water again, the steamed buns swelled in the stomach, and the expert couldn't move.
At this time, Fugui's daughter suffered heavy postpartum hemorrhage, the nurse who was still a student panicked and panicked, and the expert was choked on steamed buns and could not save himself. Fugui's daughter died as a result.
What kind of black humor.
Countless coincidences led to the death of Fugui's son and daughter, but in a sense, it was also inevitable in that era.
Absurd times inevitably lead to absurd tragedies.
This is the life of an ordinary Chinese in that era.
All kinds of absurd and tragic stories continue to occur in this land.
It's hard to live, but what can you do? The power of the individual is so weak that it can only float in the torrent of the times, and it is where it is washed.
Under the general environment of the times, the power of an individual is almost insignificant. Even if you have money (Long Er) and power (the district chief and the town mayor), you can lose everything in an instant; and how powerful is the individual's vitality, it has endured so much How painful, Fugui and Jiazhen are still struggling, enduring, and living.
The Chinese nation is a nation of many disasters, and many sufferings are man-made disasters. To survive on this land, one must constantly "suffer". It may be because of so much suffering that people in this land have developed a habit of being easily forgotten, and many things are not allowed to be remembered.
But I think it should be understood and remembered. Remember the past sufferings and don't repeat them again.
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