"I'm Not the God of Medicine" is a movie you watch with high expectations and it won't let you down.
The film tries to break the boundaries of many domestic topics, making people see the incredible rareness of domestic films. This can be regarded as a film in the history of domestic film release, with a reputation close to full marks, and the box office has also soared at the same time.
There may not be many domestic films like this in the past, now, and even in the future. Let's watch and cherish them.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" reveals the domestic real-life social type theme. Such bravery itself makes people feel that it is not easy, not to mention that with the efforts of the conscience production team, the audience can see the silent cry in the lives of marginalized people.
How to define a good movie may be to let you put down your inner barriers, put yourself naked into the story in the movie, let the movie hollow yourself out a little bit, release your emotions completely, and at the same time re-examine your life Opportunity.
Although the story of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" revolves around chronic leukemia patients, every viewer can still really feel that this is not telling their own story.
As the old grandmother in the film said to the police,
"If you don't have a patient in your family, you can guarantee that you won't get sick for the rest of your life."
The theme of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is actually not new, that is, the balance between facts and truth.
Facts are laws, and truths are human feelings. When a line is drawn between the facts and the truth, there will always be people who are injured and die in this line. These people are the chronic leukemia patients of that era.
But the high-level narrative of "I'm not the God of Medicine" is that it portrays Xu Zheng as a real trader around us, with little greed, ruffian, and various small shortcomings.
But it is such a real character, when the kindness in his heart shines, that light is dazzling and can make you burst into tears many times.
Many people are commenting. This year and even in recent years, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is a film with zero negative reviews.
Strictly analyze, of course, the film will have shortcomings. Even the main creator himself said that the film has actually been removed in many scenes, otherwise it will be difficult to pass the trial, so when watching some scenes, there will be obvious jumps. sense of clipping.
For example, in the police investigation of counterfeit drugs, the depiction of the detective and the chief is more insipid compared to other characters in the film. Although the police role is handled very boldly, Da Cong believes that the film originally intended to express the police scene. , will make people more curious and satisfied.
Looking at this movie from an ideological point of view, there are still many things to say.
For example, the film did not mention the Food and Drug Administration, and attributed the high-priced drugs to pharmaceutical factories. The source of sky-high prices came from the evil "capitalism", and demonized the image of pharmaceutical factories (in fact, pharmaceutical factories are also weak). The agent is transformed into a ruthless businessman with a leather collar to add to the drama.
At the end, Glenin is also included in medical insurance (in reality, it is very complicated). This kind of treatment is to express the country's attention and efforts, and to come up with a disguised theme. Perhaps these are small adjustments made for the trial.
However, is "I Am Not the God of Medicine" a rare good movie? The answer is certain and yes. As for whether it is a domestic masterpiece, it will take time to prove it.
God's work is not self-proclaimed or it's self-appointed. The definition of God's work is a kind of flower that grows out of the soil of the film after many years of collective consciousness.
In any case, the attempt made by "I'm Not the God of Medicine" on the entire domestic film genre still makes everyone unbearable to raise some flaws with this film, because the film is good enough.
As Wen Muye, who picked up the guide tube for the first time, there is Ning Hao on the left, Xu Zheng on the right, and there is a real life story blessing, Wen Muye is lucky.
In the first half of the film, you can obviously smell Ning Hao's film style language, such as some dark humorous bridges, such as the connection of camera language, especially the scene of chasing Huang Mao.
However, in the second half of the film, Wen Muye's personal romantic heroism begins to manifest, and the film has a lot of idle brushes. These idle brushes appear in the streets that Indian gods walk through, in the interweaving pictures of old and new cities in Shanghai, and in old Shanghai. In the flowing rain scene in the alley, it appeared at the end of the tunnel that could not be seen at a glance.
These idle brushes also express the sense of powerlessness and directionlessness that the characters carry in the devastated reality.
At the time of the film, the price of genuine Glycinnine drugs was close to sky-high prices, and families with chronic leukemia were basically waiting to die without an annual salary of one million.
The low price of generic drugs in India has become a miracle drug for life. For patients with chronic leukemia, it is only by prolonging the effective life and living a quality life that they can feel alive.
Just like when Cheng Yong and the others went to the disco, Cheng Yong spent money to make the barman dance striptease, the cheap Indian Glenin gave Sihui a sense of return to normal life. On that night, she really did had a guest.
And the reason why the genuine Glenin is sky-high, also has its helpless reasons, patent exclusive rights, research and development funds, these are real money investment of tens of billions of dollars.
If you don’t follow the market rules, the pharmaceutical factory invests in the high price of Glycin, but it is ruthlessly pirated by the market, then the next time investors will not favor the research and development of new drugs. Over time, a vicious circle will make human medical research Entering stagnation, but the newly discovered or newly generated diseases of human beings every year are far higher than the drugs that resist the disease.
This is also the misunderstanding brought about by Da Cong's previous mention of "demonizing" the agents of the pharmaceutical factory .
And our management at the time was also helpless. When the genuine glenin patent had not expired, it could not introduce lower-cost generic drugs, because this would cause the butterfly effect to produce unknown malignant results.
Just like everyone now keeps saying that they should pay attention to copyright and patent protection, these are exactly what our management has always insisted on, including the sale of genuine Glenin according to the law.
The chief of the police is the representative of the management's legal principles, and the police detective is more of a representative of the truth that the management gradually sees, so as to try to get close to the listeners and get effective corrections and help.
Let's talk about Xu Zheng. His contribution to the film is inexorable. He shows the character of Cheng Yong extremely accurately, and shows the transformation arc and highlight moment of the character.
For example, at the beginning, Cheng Yong was mercenary. When the group owners came to see him, they had to take off their masks. When they took off the masks and coughed, Cheng Yong was already soft-hearted. Although he was still very aggressive, he also Immediately pinch off the cigarette, these details can show Cheng Yong's kind side.
Next is the appearance of Huang Mao. Although Cheng Yong has a hard-line style, he has actually decided to save this young man.
These seemingly casual characters' actions can feel the purity of the protagonist's heart.
But just like the genuine Glenin, and the helplessness of the police, Cheng Yong himself has his own helplessness. Under the threat of Zhang Changlin, Cheng Yong did not want to be a saint, and Cheng Yong also did not want to be a saint, not to mention that this saint did not get the state at all. support, and on the contrary violated the law.
But when Cheng Yong saw Lu Yiyi's suicide attempt and the howling of debridement during the leukemia blast, he realized that life was a big death and decided to go back to India to get medicine to save Lu Yiyi.
When I went to India to get medicine for Lu Yiyi, there was a parade of gods in the streets of India. The atmosphere was a metaphor for what Cheng Yong half-jokingly said at the beginning of the film,
"If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? It's better to save a life than to build a seven-level pagoda, Amen."
Many of Cheng Yong's half-joking statements and details in the first half of the film turned into tears in the second half.
Including Huang Mao's ugly long hair, which was ridiculed by Cheng Yong as a ghost, but when Huang Mao finally cut his hair and bought a ticket to go home, it became the most unbearable sad part of the film.
At the end of the film, it was like a tribute to "Schindler's List", and everyone on both sides of the street took off their masks, which corresponds to the first time the group owner saw Cheng Yong and was unwilling to take off the masks.
Masks are used as a metaphor for people to take off their guards. The patient's act of taking off the masks at the end of the film is the greatest respect for Cheng Yong himself.
Did Cheng Yong break the law? Yes, but he exchanged his five years in prison for the lives of so many patients. He is a saint who breaks the law.
The structure of the film is very similar to that of South Korean films of the same type. When watching the film, Cheng Yong's character transformation and character creation reminded Da Cong of South Korea's "What Car Driver" and "The Defender" last year . The films all find ordinary heroes in hot real social themes.
In terms of social themes in China, it is not that there is none, but "I Am Not the God of Medicine" combines the elements of commercial entertainment very well, which is also the reason why "I am not the God of Medicine" has become a phenomenal hit.
Because domestic audiences are in constant repression and silence, they need to see their own kindness and truth in their real social life.
No matter from which point of view, "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is mature and worthy of the pride of domestic films. I hope "I am not the God of Medicine" is just the beginning of the maturity of a domestic film genre, not a flash in the pan.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" tells us that life is really hard, but please be sure to believe that there will be cracks in life, because that's where the light comes in.
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