Unbreakable Author | Zeng Yingjun
A good movie is an invisible connector that interweaves the audience with the image, and then strips the sticky emotional expression into suitable resonance, brewing in the viewer's chest, fermenting in the brain, and finally producing a wonderful chemical reaction.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" reconciles the emotional catalyst just right. At the thousand-person screening of the 21st Shanghai Film Festival, with the film's shady scenes and subtitles, the 7 times of continuous applause is dedicated to this film . The film's reputation exploded on social networks before it was released. The media, film critics, and ordinary audiences used different emotional "shocks" to reveal their hearts. What's more, the film was praised as the theme of domestic realism. milestone.
Whether it is a milestone or not I can't predict, but the power presented by this film tends to be infinite. The good and the bad are the sincere expressions of the viewers' self-will and personal emotions. In my opinion, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" can be regarded as the nirvana rebirth of the domestic "Reality Criticism" theme.
In the Korean film market in 2011, a significant film "The Furnace" was produced. This film is a model of the perfect combination of artistry and sociality. It not only makes the whole Korean society examine the heavy reality of "child sexual abuse" The problem has further prompted the country to pass the "Melting Pot Law" . As a result, "other people's movies" has become a height that we envy and cannot reach.
When "I'm Not the God of Medicine" begins to focus on sensitive topics such as "high-priced drugs", "international purchasing", "legal human feelings" , perhaps this will be the closest step to "The Furnace". Of course, the far-reaching significance must be judged by each audience. We can only release our inner respect for the film. After all, a purely commercial genre film can make many audiences reluctant to leave the scene for a long time after the movie ends. is not easy.
Due to the particularity of the film's subject matter, after "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was screened, the star and producer Xu Zheng also expressed his joy on Weibo. Every step of the way to the theater is so difficult. It also reflects from the side that the domestic censorship system is innovating and progressing, and how will "I Am Not the God of Medicine", which is about to gradually fade away from its mysterious color, stand in the summer file in a stunning manner?
Reality in black humor
The film is based on the "adaptation of real events" , the protagonist has a prototype, and the story has a basis. It was the sensational "Lu Yong case" in 2015 that gave birth to "I am not the God of Medicine". Perhaps most of it happened to Lu Yong.
Lu Yong, who suffers from chronic myeloid leukemia, needs to rely on the high-priced domestic drug Gleevec to maintain his life. Later, when he found that there are generic drugs with the same efficacy in India, and the price is only one-twentieth of the domestic Gleevec . , he began to travel to India to buy such illegal drugs and recommend it to other patients.
Lu Yong's illegal purchasing behavior was eventually arrested for "selling counterfeit medicines" , but his experience also made thousands of terminally ill patients sympathize, so a joint letter signed by more than 1,000 people began to support Lu Yong, "self-help" The procuratorate withdrew the prosecution and regained his freedom.
In the movie "I am not the God of Medicine", more vivid characters are added. Cheng Yong played by Xu Zheng is not a terminally ill patient, but a businessman who "only talks about interests". Yang Cuozhong entered the adventurous road of "international purchasing". He bought at a low price and sold at a high price "just to make money, never thinking of being a savior in the past" .
In the first half of the film, a large amount of ink is used to outline the cause and effect, to expose Cheng Yong's entanglements and struggles, to reasonably get the "pharmacy team" together, to complete the character characteristics of each character, and then let the conflict erupt. , the connection of interests, the coveting of peers, and judicial pressure are all natural results, and the connection of each other's fate makes the first half of the story have an unexpected comic effect.
The black humor reached its climax when Xu Zheng embarked on the road to India. The fast editing and jumping pictures forced out a sense of "Indian embarrassment", and then the scenes of car chases and drugs, crowds smashing the stage, and nightclub carnival scenes will all be The drama culminates in that the audience has no doubts about the motives of the characters because putting everyone in it, the choices are the same, and the results are the same.
The eruption and silence were in an instant, and all the silence came to an abrupt end after the character Wang Chuanjun committed suicide.
Jurisprudence and Humanity in the Dilemma of Contradiction
Ordinary people cannot understand the sadness in the hearts of terminally ill patients, so it is not easy to resonate with ordinary audiences for leukemia patients. Medicine means the continuation of their lives, and the sky-high price of medicine makes them struggle in the dilemma of "poverty" .
But when the sick aunt in the film was full of begging, holding Zhou Yiwei's hand and crying, "I don't want to die, I still want to live, please don't catch the drug dealer" , most of the audience at this moment "Empathy" rose suddenly, and tears were uncontrollably shed.
When the whole play entered the second half, it was as if his emotions had crossed another dimension. Cheng Yong's inner struggle changed from interest to responsibility, and refined egoism turned into a sense of mission of self-redemption. He paid money to buy and sell medicines. To a certain extent, to make up for the incompleteness of his heart, he could not forgive himself, but he could not stay out of it.
Every flesh-and-blood image in the film is displayed in front of the camera very fully, whether it is Lu Yiyi, who just wants to survive and bow his back, or Sihui, who is committed to Fengyue and is eager to save women, whether it is lofty and proud, and attaches great importance to love and righteousness. The yellow-haired man is still a strict and faithful priest...
When we can't see any sickness on the patient's face, when they try their best to survive, and the pain does not become the fatal injury of the terminally ill patient, the "poor disease" is the terminally ill that cannot be cured.
In fact, most of the depths discussed in the film have been pointed to, because many things cannot be continued, and "legal principles" and "human feelings" are inevitably entangled. No matter how you choose, you cannot agree with everyone, and the system and national conditions are in front of you. , Contradiction and predicament have also become an insurmountable gap, which is the other side that "I am not the God of Medicine" is difficult to reach.
Most viewers who have watched the complete film will compare "I Am Not a Medicine God" with "Dallas Buyers Club" . The reason makes it impossible for viewers to connect the two.
The patient Ron and the businessman Cheng Yong are both drug buyers forced by reality. When life tortures you in another way, your "desire to survive" will make you do everything possible to survive. Once saved, society will find it difficult to heal itself when it is sick.
Five years ago, "Dallas Buyers Club" won numerous awards at numerous film festivals and awards, starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto also won the Oscar for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. , we can't expect "I'm Not the God of Medicine" to reach such heights, but we hope that this film becomes a new starting point, at least arousing the awakening of something.
I hope that the spring of domestic genre films will not be too far away.
I hope these themes can also be filmed: the most powerful film materials are all in China (but no one is filming)
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