The experience of watching "The South" is very strange. It is dark and chaotic. From time to time, there are harsh sounds that suddenly sound. These sounds not only startle you, but also frighten the characters in the movie. Reflecting the character's turbulent inner state, these sounds constantly stimulate the rhythm and turns of the whole movie, forming a vortex in which people rush to the left and right, and are slowly swept into it.
When you finally saw two haggard women, holding a pile of money and walking with a relaxed smile, you suddenly felt a sadness. A kind of sadness in which a person is completely enveloped and conquered by fate. Did they win fate, or fate beat them? People's lives are exchanged for RMB, which is exchanged for the lives of relatives and lovers, like a difficult victory - this victory is about how to successfully kill their lovers and husbands.
The life of this slain man was a serious sacrifice. Originally a tragedy, it turned itself into a comedy. It wore a smiling mask and made all kinds of paradoxical movements, but after taking off the mask, it still had a face of despair and calm. Just like Zhou Zenong's wife, she knew that she and her son needed money more in the future. So he calmly conspired with her husband to complete the conspiracy and murder of her husband, so that she could take her husband to collect the bounty. Deciphering the textures, the whole incident is so miserable that it makes people shudder.
1. The benefits are greater than the sky
To what extent can interests change your relationship with the people around you? You can feel it as you get older. Almost all relationships in this world are dominated by interest (demand) relationships.
The beginning of the story of "South" originated from a small turmoil in the underworld workplace. On this day, just after Zhou Zenong was released from prison, the two brothers Mao Er and Maoyan were about to compete with Zhou Zenong (played by Hu Ge) for control of several blocks. Zhou Zenong's wife and brother shot each other in the knee on impulse. The cat's eye and the cat's ear vowed revenge. They set up a bureau to kill Zhou Zenong's faction. Zhou Zenong killed a patrolling policeman in a panic. The nature of the whole incident became serious. The police paid 300,000 yuan to arrest Zhou Zenong.
The small-scale merger of the underworld underworld, with the help of 300,000 bounties, went out of control and evolved into a thrilling game of hunting and killing. In this game, Zhou Zenong turned into a prey with ulterior motives. He carefully jumped over the traps of many hunters to capture him, and walked towards the one he liked with determination.
Under the radiance of money, the delicate and complex hearts of many characters are constantly flashing and changing. The crowded and chaotic farmers market, the crowded and foul-smelling low-level residential areas, the desolate and chaotic waterside... Hua Hua was originally Zhou Zenong's good brother. He initially wanted to help Zhou Zenong, but soon he stopped thinking that way. He tried to use his concubine Liu Aai as bait to lure Zhou Zenong into the trap, so that he could collect the reward from the police. At the same time, the moderator of the underground meeting of the underworld, an upright centrist who seems to preside over the morality of the rivers and lakes and side with Zhou Zenong (forgot his name, let's call him the big brother of the golden chain), also began to secretly unite with the cat ears and cat eyes. , trying to capture (kill) Zhou Zenong to receive the reward.
300,000 yuan, easily alienated the underworld of Jin Jian, everyone made their own calculations, Zhou Zenong became the big fat at the end of the food chain, and everyone wanted to bite him. The animal nature of human nature is the most brutal and naked when faced with interests.
Huahua wants to use Liu Ai'ai to tempt Zhou Zenong, so as to eat Zhou Zenong; and the more powerful cat's ear and cat's eye brother also wants to kill Huahua and the golden chain elder brother and swallow Zhou Zenong for himself. Standing at the top of the food chain are the police brothers who can afford to pay. They dominate the direction of the game. Most of the time, with little need for their hands, the gangster brothers began to kill each other and take the initiative to eliminate evil for society.
Even Zhou Zenong wanted to eat himself, because he found out that he was so fat and so valuable! He even started Tuo Huahua to find his wife and asked her to report him in order to receive the 300,000 bounty. However, the goose is so obvious that it will make the police suspicious. So he had to use Liu Ai'ai who came to him with ulterior motives, let Liu Ai'ai report him, give her a certain share, and leave most of the money to his wife and children. But how could Zhou Zenong believe Liu Ai'ai - this swimmer (prostitute)? It turned out that Liu Ai'ai couldn't stand the test at all, she was just a little bait of the food chain that couldn't help itself. In order to protect herself, she took the lead in selling Zhou Zenong to Brother Mao Er.
Instead of worrying about Liu Aai's betrayal, Zhou Zenong might as well care about the fact that he doesn't want to be eaten by the cat-ear brothers. So the prey rose up and killed all the men who wanted him. He found Liu Ai'ai again, helped her kill her rapist, and then asked her to complete the plan.
For a low-level gangster who makes a living by stealing and robbing electric cars, 300,000 is a huge sum of money, which definitely gives them the motivation to take risks; for Zhou Zenong, who is also poor and desperate, this money can change the fate of his family . He wanted to give his death as a gift to his lover who owed him many years.
2. A little bit of light
In the animal world of selfishness and mutual killing, Zhou Zenong's choice and Liu Aai's choice have become the only remaining trust and affection in this cruel world. Zhou Zenong protected Liu Ai'ai and successfully died in Liu Ai's hands. Liu Ai'ai successfully received a bounty of 300,000 yuan. She kept her promise and turned around and gave it to Zhou Zenong's wife (so fast that the police even noticed it). The two women walked side by side, holding the pile of money tightly. Zhou Zenong and Liu Ai'ai completed a very trusting delivery and entrustment, and Liu Ai'ai and Zhou Zenong's wife depended on each other, and they became a firm alliance. This ending breaks out of this game of nihilism and moral decay, igniting a faint but striking glow of humanity.
From this film, we can see the gradual maturity and stability of director Diao Yinan's "black crime movie". From the despair and sadness in "Fireworks in the Day" to the cold sense of black humor in "The Party at Southern Station", Diao Yinan began to control him. , and looks at everything in this world with a light-hearted and sadistic attitude: including deception, betrayal, murder, sacrifice and fulfillment. Forgiving but with a bottom line, chasing also keeps a distance, with a hint of cold humor, this style is dashing, it is unforgettable.
Like Lou Ye, he has an open attitude towards his films. In recent years, Lou Ye's "Mystery of the Floating City" and "A Cloud Made by Rain in the Wind" are also crime suspense films. The directors have lost the persistence and extremeness of their youth, and they have begun to present the cause and effect of everything calmly in their hearts. , subtle feelings, complex and absurd relationships and ever-changing human hearts. But to be honest, Lou Ye is on the rise both in style and core. His film world experience is rich and shocking (such as "A Cloud Made by Rain in the Wind"); but Diao Yinan's "South" is more It's like a style exercise, but it lacks the final and powerful sublimation and questioning, and lacks the core energy that touches people's hearts.
In their chaotic, dark, rough and violent image sea, there is always a trace of tenacious belief. Although they have seen the scorching heat of the world, have tasted the bitterness and bitterness of the world, and have suffered through half their lives, these films still stubbornly hold the faith and light out of this Dead Sea—believing that justice will be served, that love will never fail, and that people will be in harmony with each other. It's not just utilitarianism and trading, I believe that there will always be people and light who can escape this iron-blooded law and gravity.
I believe that it is probably the persistence of the prey, and it is also the meaning of many of us trying to live (original film review, signed Dang Afei, declined to reprint).
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