The actor Shi Chuxi in this film is a non-professional actor. He was born to a prostitute, suffered tortured childhood, and was sent to a mental hospital after his childhood. When he became an adult, he made a living by singing and singing on the streets. The director discovered that he used many details of his life in the filming of this film. The film uses a lot of local actors, including real pimps and auto mechanics. In many ways, the director just gives them an outline of the plot and lets them play by themselves.
The name of this movie is the name of a classmate of the director. The director wrote the essay back then and asked his classmate Shi Chuxi to write it on his behalf. In return, he made his classmates immortal through the film.
This film actually has some political thinking from the 1970s, which is quite intriguing and controversial. For example, it compares the suffering of people during the Nazi period in Germany with the life of capitalism in the United States. Shi Chuxi said that the difficulties in Germany in the past were like when he was wetting his bed when he was a child. The teacher punished him to raise the bed sheet until it dried, and they even beat him from behind. This is a physical torture. After he talked about the United States, all the bankers who watched lending smiled, but they would also come and take the house away with a smile when you couldn't pay for the house. This is a kind of mental torture.
Today, compared to his actual feelings in the United States, Shi Chuxi's words still sound very realistic.
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