Because of the quarrel between Xiuwei and her stepmother, she failed to rescue Xiulian in time. I don't think she will forgive herself in her life. But that's not the main reason for her schizophrenia, I think it's mainly because she lost her, the only person who can depend on each other. Maybe she will never find the courage to live in the future. Without the person she swore to protect, she can only live in her own fantasy. In her own world, she is still her patron saint.
When I first started watching, I had already guessed that Xiulian was dead, and I thought it was a cliché when I saw it. My sister was tortured to death by her stepmother, and then she became a ghost, but she couldn't bear her sister, and continued to stay by her side. Or in some movies, maybe a person died, but she didn't know the fact that she had died because she was too worried about another person.
But it's not. The end of the film has been sublimated, this is indeed a film about the contradiction between stepmother and Xiulian, Xiuwei. The cowardice of the mother, she left the sisters desperately and chose death, I think this is the beginning of the incident. In order to pull her mother out of the closet, Xiulian tried to get her in instead. At this time, her words, "Save me, sister." became the magic wand in Xiuwei's heart forever.
Everyone in this world has a reason to live. Anyone who has watched Yu Hua's "Alive" may know that when Fugui lived to his old age, he was the only one left in this world. His relatives passed away one after another, but he Still live a good life, just to live. But how many people in this world can do this, just like Xiulian's mother, choosing death may be a relief for her, but what about the two children, has she ever thought that under the oppression of her stepmother, they can grow healthily. Another example is Xiuwei, who lost her mother and Xiulian. She can only live in her own world, because there are people she wants to protect and her beliefs.
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