Under the unfinished building, under the abandoned soil, under the planted saplings, it seems to be a huge grave with a body inside Shang Jiu, who has turned black, has a "mother" who has just fallen from a building and died, and Jiang Dao who is wearing a pink sweater that has been taken off from Shang Jiu. They lie there side by side in the same way, and the lying state is actually a different way of dying. , Sang Jiu who hoisted himself from a wheelchair with a hook and died is the death of the past, the "mother" who jumped from a tall building and fulfilled his revenge is the death of the present, and Jiang Dao, who was breathing calmly next to his mother, was the death of the future. The death of the past, the death of the present, and the death of the future also wrote three models for death: the death of sin, the death of the avenger, and the death of the redeemer.
Death in the sense of sin is the most direct and painful death. In this place called Cheonggyecheon, the beauty and warmth of the past are being replaced by the machines of the industrial age. Every mold production workshop and every lathe workshop are chaotic and cold. Gears, punches, cutting, extrusion, but But it is a manual workshop production. What the workers here need is orders, and in the face of the dilemma forced by life, their way of making a living is to borrow usury loans. Whether it is for production or living needs, it seems that there is only such a way. Only then can they maintain their operations, but the loan sharks have turned into a huge abyss that they cannot repay and are ultimately cornered in front of the debt collectors.
Because Xunzhe borrowed 3 million, he did not want to pay back 30 million with interest. 30 million was like an astronomical figure for him and his wife Mingzi, so they could only pull the shutter to avoid Jiang Dao's debt collection. Qi Song also borrowed usury loans. He used the envelope to secure the wallet, but Jiang Dao said that there was still interest. Qi Song, who could not repay the money, bid farewell to his kind and crying mother, and was dragged by Jiang Da to the upstairs of the building. Pushed him down—not to let him die, but to let him live, live in pain, and live with disability, because only the disabled can get the insurance compensation of 3,000 yuan. From 3 million to 30 million in debt, for them, it is a body swallowed by usury, and one hand disability can get 3,000 yuan in compensation, but it has become their "way to make money" to get out of their predicament . In this deformed reality and logic, these workers are numbly forced into a state of despair, but it is this despair that makes people see a sin.
The worker who is going to be a father next month, on the one hand, is the surprise of life for him to become a father for the first time, on the other hand, it is the pain of physical disability. It became a kind of self-active choice. "One hand is 30 million yuan, and two hands are 60 million yuan. You can cut it off for me, and I will be compensated 60 million yuan." On the machine with sharp turning tools, this man with musical dreams, this man who likes to play guitar, when he stretched out his hand, he gave up an ideal and approached a reality, and only such a bloody reality could help him, "I You must become a crippled person, so that you can be worthy of your children." Behind the choice of suicide is the greatest sin in reality, exchanging compensation for one's own physical disability, and using these compensations to continue life, such a sin is the sin of the times, but it is also the cause of Jiang Dao's Represents the sins of the debt collectors.
"You will be cast into hell and die, and the fire from purgatory will burn you up." This is the curse of the maimed workers on this vicious, ruthless debt collector. Xunzhe hoped for a few more days of grace, but Jiang Dao did not answer. Xunzhe slowly saw the punishment he could not escape, and called him a scumbag. Jiang Dao said: "Those who do not pay their debts are scumbags." Xunzhe's woman Wanting to trade his body for a grace date, Jiang Dao ruthlessly stripped off her underwear and whipped her on her body. No matter what method, Xunzhe's hand was forced into the machine, mixed with machine oil and blood. liquid left from the machine. After Qisong was pushed down by Jiang Dao, he could no longer stand on one foot. Jiang Dao used a stone to pad his foot, and then smashed it down with a stone, leaving a crisp cracking sound of bones. Song screamed in pain; when the "mother" woke up and finally didn't hit the worker who likes guitar, but when Jiang Dao let him play a piece of music and finally the sentence "must be left to your children to listen to. ” When he walked out of the room in the middle of the words, he activated the button himself, and there was also a tearing scream from behind Jiang Dao.
Under the enormous pressure of reality, and in the face of the body-devouring usury, they all fell victim to sin. Cheng jumped from a high-rise building and regretted saying goodbye to the people who lived in his hometown for 50 years. They were a group portrait, in the rumbling sound of machines, in the violence of debt collectors, in front of unreasonable rules, and finally died. And Chang Jiu, who used hooks and chains to hang his body in a wheelchair to commit suicide, became the first example of death in such a desperate reality. And what this template pulls out is another template, that is, the death of the avenger "Mother".
The mother's revenge plan fell into a certain cliché at the beginning. She followed Jiang Dao, but not to give Jiang Dao a stab in the dark in a secluded place, but to get close to him, and even make herself his mother. An alternative way to make Jiang Dao feel the lost mother's love and make him change from a devil to a human being. Jiang Dao, such a person who was abandoned by his mother since childhood, has long since lost his humanity and has been reduced to a tool. Xun Zhe's wife's name hopes to devote herself, but in fact, in front of Jiang Dao, who lacks caring, she can't even arouse her interest. For him, masturbating in bed every day is the vent of his physical desire, and he faces naked charcoal pen girls every day. A knife in the painting is revenge for the lack of women's lives. Therefore, it seems difficult for the mother to enter the life of Jiang Dao. However, the mother endured humiliation, torture, inhuman treatment and even incest, and Jiang Dao wanted to believe that he was his mother who had been separated for 30 years.
The first time she met in the alley, she brought the chicken to Jiang Dao with a smile on her face; when she knocked on the door to say hello to Jiang Dao, Jiang Dao would slam the door shut and pinched her hand in the door frame. But she didn't cry out in pain, she still had a smile on her face; she ran in to wash him, clean up the room for him, and handed him the dropped knife-she sat at the door almost all day and night, hoping that he could accept her; Qisong was pushed down from the upstairs, and his foot was broken by Jiang Dao. When Qisong kept calling him a devil and he must not die, she actually walked over and gave him a kick: "It is not allowed. You cursed my son." In order to make Jiang Dao accept this strange mother, she tried almost everything, from following her to helping her, from outside the door to the house, from smiling all over her face to constantly crying: "I'm sorry, I gave up. You, I've only come to recognize you now, please forgive me!" Tears burst into tears, and for the already numb Jiang Dao, it was full of disgust at first, and then turned into doubt-in order to prove that this woman is not his mother, he even She cut off a piece of her own body and let her eat it, and even stretched her hand to her lower body, "I'll come out from here, you won't mind if I go in again." Her cry, her struggle, for Jiang Dao , just to hear a sentence: "No, no, I'm not your mother, please let me go." But she didn't, in order to avenge her dead son Shangjiu, she could only endure such humiliation, and in such a " Under the test", Jiang Dao seemed to return to the status that he was the son of the woman in front of him.
She bought him eel and cooked for him. At first, Jiang Dao still had doubts in his eyes. He didn't eat that breakfast, but it was no longer a denial, but a slow acceptance. Looking back at her, walking down the street, he looked back at the window again. Looking back, there is clearly a yearning for re-establishing a mother-son relationship. So when he went to collect debts again, he seemed to have some kind of pity, and he asked the guitar player not to be maimed by the machine, because "must be left to your children" - child, this The words have a certain warmth, and even become a response of themselves. When a strange woman gradually becomes a mother, gradually awakening his inner desire, he also returns to the identity of a "child". They went shopping together, bought balloons together, and ordered food to eat together. When someone scolded them, the mother did not hesitate to conflict with others for the benefit of her son, just like the one who stepped on the disabled man. Why the interests of the son are to maintain the feelings of the mother and son.
The mother and son became a community of interests. In turn, Jiang Dao even began to protect her. When the disabled Qisong broke into the house with gasoline and kidnapped his mother for revenge, he and she stood on a united front. He even shouted at Qisong: "Don't hurt her, come to me. When his knife was inserted into Qisong's chest during the joint confrontation, the two finally embraced each other. At that time, she regarded him as a son, and he regarded her as a mother, and after this turn, she becomes a mother at all, he cooks for him, celebrates his birthday, and even masturbates to him, but on the one hand, the closer she gets to the role of mother, it evokes inner pain, because in her It seems that she has always been a "pseudo-mother" to avenge her dead son. The sweater knitted in front of Jiang Dao was actually for Shang Jiu, and the birthday that bought the birthday cake was actually for Shang Jiu. In her revenge plan, there are actually two kinds of targets. One is the president of the loan shark company behind the debt collector. She smashed the president to death in the office with the heavy chain on her hand; Another object is Jiang Dao who directly put his son to death. The former revenge completes the death of the body, while the second revenge is to destroy the soul.
And the more Jiang Dao is returning, the easier her revenge plan will appear. She creates the illusion of being beaten, which makes Jiang Dao uneasy and even fearful, because it means that the sins he committed will be avenged, and he himself will become a victim invisibly. The victim, and this kind of victimization is precisely because of the fear of losing the love that he has regained. The mother who has been reunited after a long absence, the smiling mother, the meticulous mother, for Jiang Dao, who has always lacked maternal love, it is a return to the human track. , is to re-awaken the feeling of love and being loved, and once possessed, you will be afraid of losing. When the mother creates an illusion, Jiang Dao is frantically searching for the missing mother. In his opinion, only those who are pushed into the abyss of pain by themselves Talent will ruin their happy future. So when finally the mother stood on the tall building and shouted loudly: "Please let me go!" For Jiang Dao, it was a huge horror, he knelt down and begged others not to hurt his mother, begging them to let himself go To die, "kill me if you want to kill me, and I will die for her."
In fact, for the mother, this long-planned revenge action is not just to let the person who made the sin die, if it is in a reincarnation way , let death return to death, just like killing the president, there will be a moment of satisfaction in her heart, but it will not make people suffer forever, suffer forever, her plan is: "I want to die in front of him , he will walk dead because of the loss of his relatives." So her revenge escaped the harm and revenge for the body in the general sense, and turned into torment for the soul, so between the life and death of the high-rise building, she did not use one in Jiang Dao's confession. The identity of the mother to redeem, did not put him to death with the tools and weapons at hand, but let Jiang Dao see the cruelty of the world in a way of self-death, the world of kindness that was finally established, but so fragile. And the ruthless way to collapse, in Jiang Dao, is a real and complete destruction.
Let Jiang Dao finally collapse is the ultimate goal of his mother's revenge plan, but Jiang Dao has become a redeemer in the sense of self-denial in the punished world, and the meaning of this redemption is more unforgettable than simple revenge. , when he discovered the truth of the matter in the pit under the small tree, and did not choose another revenge, he had completely become a son, a child who had a mother's love, put on her knitted sweater, lay on Beside the mother, there is a real return, then bury them, water the saplings, and complete the "will" that the mother once made, and at the time of this once self-destruction, when the awakened love is lost, Jiang Dao Repaying the debt owed to the world in the final redemption way, he tied the iron chain to himself and hung it on the bottom of the wagon with iron hooks. When Akiko's wagon started in the early morning and drove out, he did not struggle or groan , only the blood marks left on the long road, the farther and farther you go, the last trace of life is drawn.
Holy mourning is a kind of emotional loss, a fall of belief, and a kind of destruction of human nature. The theme of mother and child implies the meaning of new life, even if it is a mother who is replaced by revenge, even if it is self Named Son, in this deformed relationship, what is ultimately needed is some kind of resurrection after redemption, a resurrection of a sinless death, a resurrection of an unsullied destruction, a resurrection of a kind of human love, despite being broken, But it was also a faint light, just like the words written on the wall of Cheonggyecheon River: "Believe in Jesus and you will live forever", just like the morning before Mingzi set off, she fed her husband with a broken hand a bowl of hot porridge, and Xun Xun. With tears in his eyes, Zhe hugged his wife tightly with his only arm.
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