After watching the screening of "I'm Not the God of Medicine", I was quite surprised! Before entering the theater, I thought it was X 囧's routine again, but the location was moved to India, and the soup was not changed. The result was a surprise. The audience waited until the end of the subtitles, and some people were applauding.
As a highly entertaining commercial blockbuster, young director Wen Muye chose a more sensitive creative genre. Therefore, although the essential issues have been explored, the depth is still difficult to reach "Dallas Buyers Club".
Despite this, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is still an excellent Chinese movie. There are very few provocative plots and soundtracks in the whole film, and many places are touched, and the aftertaste is endless.
The actors are excellent, there is no traffic blessing or drama. In particular, Wang Chuanjun's retro appearance reminds me of Matthew McConley. His acting skills are remarkable, and he left "Love Apartment" a few blocks away from the same period. I especially like the scene where Yiwei Zhou confronts Xu Zheng in the factory office.
As for the topic, I have never supported the simple and crude "rob the rich to help the poor" solution. Whether the high prices of genuine drugs are reasonable is also a topic of extensive discussion.
Taking the FDA as an example, the research and development, experimentation, application, and final launch of a drug take a long time.
The high selling price also protects patents, and encourages profit-oriented large pharmaceutical companies to spend a lot of human, financial and material resources to develop new products, with huge profits as a return for long-term investment.
One-size-fits-all price cuts, or the replication of low-priced knockoff products, even if they save lives in the short term, are not simply ideal solutions.
This may dampen the enthusiasm of pharmaceutical companies to reduce cost input, but in the long run, reduce the overcoming of more intractable diseases.
This is a complex and huge issue, and the movie has been simplified into a "Swallow Li San"-style personal heroism story, but it lacks some deeper discussions, which is a bit regrettable.
Generally speaking, in the current environment, the main creators have the perseverance and courage to talk about such topics, and even if there are many restrictions, they still present a good answer.
If the movie can be used to make the public pay attention to such issues, it will be a fulfillment of its social mission.
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