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.1. An extraordinary victory for ordinary people
Different from "Wolf Warrior 2", the "Medicine God" in the movie is an ordinary middle-aged man in a dilemma. He has no three heads and six arms, and no one sees his potential as a "hero".
From human to "god", this film makes people teary and bloody because it is an extraordinary victory from an ordinary person, which makes people feel uplifting and anticipating, and its subject matter and story are out of the narrow direction It is related to every person living in this country, facing the public and pointing directly to the hearts of the people. It has no distance from the audience, allowing us to see ourselves in the film.
In a sense, Ning Hao and Xu Zheng brought us back to the pride of domestic films, and were rescued from the situation where directors like Jia Zhangke would come to mind whenever the subject of realism was mentioned. I'm not saying that Jia Zhangke's movies are bad, but that when the protagonist of the movie changes from a young man in a small town to an urban ordinary person who sits in a theater to watch a movie, those everyday, ordinary people constitute a movie.
.2. The bitter life of a group of "daigou"
The protagonist of the film Cheng Yong (played by Xu Zheng) is a purchasing agent. If I remember correctly, this is the first time this "occupation" has appeared in a domestic film, but this emerging profession has already been integrated into our daily life. And Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, purchased the anticancer drug Glinin made in India on his behalf. This means that we are entrusting someone to purchase cosmeceuticals or health care products from Japan, because the domestic genuine price of Glenin is close to the sky-high price of 40,000, while Cheng Yong is It is relying on purchasing this drug to get out of the predicament of life.
Cheng Yong, who appeared at the beginning, was arguing with his wife for a divorce and competing for custody of his son. The old father was lying on the bed in the nursing home waiting to spend money to see a doctor. He opened a small health care store selling "Indian God Oil". Every day the landlord urges the rent...
He's a middle-aged man with a miserable life that we don't usually guard against, which is why we have a lot of affection for this character. When he fed porridge to the old father lying in the nursing home, when he was embarrassed to take out a month's income to renew the nursing home, and sent cigarettes (a pack) to the finance to ask for accommodation... These cover the self-evident The daily details of the mundane world show that he is interpreting the dilemma of thousands of people and showing the difficulty of our struggle against ordinary life.
When Cheng Yong was forced to have no way out, a chronic myeloid leukemia patient, Lu Yiyi (Wang Chuanjun), came to the door, and Cheng Yong began to have a relationship with "chronic myeloid leukemia". After inquiring about the vastly different efficacy and prices of these medicines, Cheng Yong discovered a huge business opportunity. After bringing back the first batch of medicines, he bundled them with Lu Yiyi to sell them, officially entering the world of "patients".
From Lu Benyi to the dancer Liu Sihui, the church priest and the rural migrant worker "Yellow Hair" who robbed medicine, with the in-depth contact with chronic myeloid leukemia patients, Cheng Yong gradually formed a purchasing team, and their personnel included urban areas. Middle-class, single-parent families, young and middle-aged patients, and patients at the bottom. The movie doesn't spend too much time introducing the cruelty of everyone's life, but it's just a point to stop, and even has some dark humor, which makes us laugh frequently during the viewing of the movie.
The beautiful mother played by Tan Zhuo is a stripping girl as soon as she comes on the scene, no need to repeat, you can understand her helplessness to come to this point.
Lu Yiyi took Cheng Yong home for dinner, and his wife took a glass of wine and drank it. She regarded this "big shopping agent" as a benefactor. How can we not understand the mood of this young father watching the sleeping baby in the cradle beside him on the big screen? He wanted to live, wanted to watch his son grow up, and thought, "Maybe he can still be a grandfather"...
.3. A heroic story of a diaosi counterattack
Glenin's daigou business in India has brought hope to Cheng Yong, his daigou team and other patients. However, the good times did not last long, counterfeit drug dealers appeared, and the police began to pay attention to this batch of "fake drugs" in India. For a time, it was like the "true and false Monkey King" stage in "Journey to the West", and several forces were engaged in a "dark battle" around the purchasing industry chain of Glenin in India.
After Cheng Yong was threatened by counterfeit drug dealers, he finally made up his mind to stop purchasing on behalf of others. A few people in the squad originally gathered around the hot pot happily and prepared to celebrate, but they broke up with Cheng Yong's roar. He shouted, "Can I manage so many people? I also have seniors and juniors." In this scene, several people's reactions were very accurate. "Yellow Hair" is young and reckless, and he doesn't seem to understand Cheng Yong's concerns and cowardice as a father who wants to protect the healthy growth of his children. As a mother, Liu Sihui raised her glass and said "Brother Xie Yong". Is she not disappointed? But she understood the feeling of being a parent better, so she restrained herself and got up and left, rushing into the rainy night.
Cheng Yong shouted "you all have to thank me" at the dinner party. His clamor was more like a kind of comfort to himself. Under the powerless anger, there was deep helplessness and fear. So far, the style of the film has changed abruptly, and we can't keep laughing with the mood of dispelling sadness like the first half. In the year after their separation, Lu Yiyi suffered from chemotherapy because his condition deteriorated because he could not afford the sky-high medicine. Cheng Yong, who had been clamoring for everyone to thank him, began to become more restrained and silent with guilt. He decided to go back to his old business and start the purchasing agent of Glenin in India again.
This time, he has changed from a passive businessman who needs to rely on purchasing agents to make money, to a friend and brother who runs around for these patients. He bought it at the purchase price and sold it at the original price. The film starts from here, with the unpleasant feeling of being stuck in the throat, one side is the departure of the old friend, the other side is the thousands of patients who need to be rescued, and the police tracking after the counterfeit drug dealers raised their prices. Cheng Yong retrieved the original members of the "dancing girl", "yellow hair" and "priest" several purchasing teams, and re-supplied the patients with sadness and guilt. This character begins to gradually have the aura of "divine".
Don't forget that Cheng Yong we saw at the beginning was a bad husband who didn't take care of his family and life well. He would only yell at his ex-wife and even be rough. In this seemingly passive whirlpool of fate, he really grew from a frustrated and immature drug peddler to a man. After sending my son away, I took the risk and began to bear the hopes and complaints of thousands of patients, so real and so heavy, with everyone's wish to achieve a counterattack.
When the movie is nearing the end, we see the faint hope of the patients for life, we see the disaster of a family being dragged down by illness, and we hear the heartbreak of "I don't want to die, I want to live", and we have to think about "true or false" The meaning, the distance between institutions and life. Cheng Yong was endowed with the sacred meaning of religious sense in the ceremony where the patients watched, and this layer of meaning comes from death and blood, and it carries our irresistible respect.
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