At the artistic level, the film discusses only one issue,
It is redemption in the face of death.
Death is immortal . Death is the only god. If you pretend not to look at him, he will come to you.
Brother Yong, played by Xu Zheng in the movie, faced death for the first time when he saw the statue in India.
That god statue, holding a human head.
Brother Yong went to India for the second time. He specially took medicine to treat Lu, and watched the streets of India being disinfected and insecticides.
(There was originally a shot full of bug corpses here, which was later deleted),
Insecticides and disinfectants symbolize the fragility of life, and people are like weeds.
And the statue with the human head passed in front of Brother Yong in the smoke of disinfectant,
This god is called kali, half symbolizes destruction, half symbolizes protection,
Brother Yong slowly put down the handkerchief covering his mouth. The next scene is that Lu Yiyi committed suicide in the toilet.
Deity kali, wife of Shiva
Legend has it that there is a demon that is not only very powerful, but also that every drop of blood can turn into 1,000 clones of himself and continue to harm the world.
In order to eliminate the evil in the world, kali sucked the blood of the devil, and then killed the devil.
But after the victory, Kali himself fell into a frenzy, trampling the earth with his feet, causing harm to the world
In order to alleviate the suffering of the common people, Shiva lay down at the feet of kali and let him trample.
So when we see kali, there is a high probability that she is stepping on Shiva under her feet.
This is a mythical redemption story in order to save people and get into trouble.
I don't go to hell, who goes to hell
Kali, has also become half a symbol of destruction, half a symbol of protection
Half symbolizes death, half symbolizes the God of creation.
not a single line,
Brother Yong was when he saw the Indian god kali, which was half a symbol of destruction and half of protection.
made his own decision.
In the confrontation between life and death, he chose his own path of redemption.
In the film, the most common is the contrast of symbols, and the opposition of foreshadowing.
life vs death
Favor and law
The confrontation between hero and businessman
The same is true for some empty shots, for example.
The empty shot of the city, India is in a mess, but it shows many vitality,
After chatting with the factory manager of counterfeit medicine, he shouted something to the children who were playing with joy in the downstairs venue.
The high-rise buildings in Shanghai are depressing and bustling, but there are dilapidated small buildings and old alleys nearby.
In the distance, the Oriental Pearl and the three skyscrapers appeared several times in gray, but the broken bricks and tiles were clearly visible in front of them.
The opposition between prosperity and ruin,
Whether it is a garbage dump in the Ganges or a first-class metropolis, people are the same wherever they are. They have to live and live.
After coming out of the Lu family's funeral, watching Huang Mao eating oranges, watching those patients,
Then I drove my car under the overpass in the city and looked out the window. The dubbing of the lines of the fake drug factory director started to sound one step before the screen:
India is a poor man's pharmacy, but the Swiss company Nova has sued the Indian government for a lawsuit,
This is probably Yong Ge's third trip to India. The intermediate process is omitted.
But I know, Brother Yong must have thought about it under that overpass,
Order, and the opposition of life, which is more important?
The old grandma took Officer Cao's hand, (taking off her mask) and said,
Leader, please do something. Can you not arrest him.
No one has ever met a patient. Leader, can you guarantee that you will not get sick in the future?
You took him away, we all have to die
I don't want to die,
I want to live,
OK?
This is the opposition between life and death, and this question tortures the souls of all audiences.
Birth, old age, sickness and death, among the eight sufferings in life, the most irreversible are the first four. This grandma didn't cry, didn't kneel, and the other patients didn't coax. She just asked a question, which made Officer Cao see an unanswerable question.
So Officer Cao let everyone go, because he was not capable, he couldn't handle this case, and he was not so ruthless.
The grandma, who only had this line, contributed the best acting skills this year, which made most of the audience cry.
The greatest tragedy in the world is not that you are worse than me, I am worse than him
But in the face of tragedy, there is no solution. Nothing but despair.
So what we need most is hope.
Zhang Changlin said, I have been selling medicine for so many years and discovered that there is only one disease in this world, that is, the disease of poverty.
You can't save it, you can't save it, forget it.
But Brother Yong was still saved.
Because he has hope in his heart, and hope will get better and better. Hope this day comes sooner.
So he said, I know I have broken the law, and I can punish it any way I want. In a dilemma, he made a choice.
In opposition, everyone has a dilemma and needs to make a choice.
Everyone has difficulties, which is the foundation of art.
Brother Yong sent his children abroad before selling drugs to other provinces.
Brother-in-law, Officer Cao, it's better to send it out. It will be more promising than the two of us in the future.
Brother Yong was arrested and said to his brother-in-law, tell the child that I am not a bad person.
In the beginning, your lives are in my hands, and I will give you a 20% discount if you take off your masks and respect Lao Tzu.
In the end, I paid you the medicine, but you voluntarily took off your masks and watched me go to jail.
Because I am not a medicine god. And respect is not a threat.
You say that I am a heroic medicine god, but I am not.
I am just atonement.
You are the heroes, you have been heroes for a long time.
You fight alone for your family and life,
Dancing, robbing the rich to help the poor, giving in churches,
It is also possible to commit suicide in order not to drag down the family.
In order to make money, I fool you and say, I don't go to hell, who goes to hell.
But in the end I really understood, I don't go to hell, who goes to hell.
At this time, Brother Yong is the goddess Kali who made himself fall because of saving people.
Once a businessman, now a hero
Half see death, half choose protection.
Wharf, Brother Yong asked Huang Mao, do you really look down on me?
Huang Mao answered yes
Brother Yong averted his eyes.
Huang Mao added another sentence, it used to be.
Brother Yong turned his eyes back to look at Huang Mao,
Huang Mao quickly moved his eyes away.
Maybe between men, there is no need to confirm the eyes.
Another example is smoking. This detail is an inner anxiety and impolite.
Brother Yong in the early stage, as long as we talk about things, order a cigarette
Even if he eats a meal, the cigarette never leaves his hand.
Later, Zhang Changlin asked for money to run away that night, and persuaded you to stop doing good deeds, it was useless.
Brother Yong lights a cigarette. Are you done? Finished and go.
Officer Cao came to Brother Yong to ask about the case, but he smoked a cigar.
Because he wants to pretend that he is an unscrupulous businessman and only has money in his eyes, it is impossible to do such a thing to save people.
So don't smoke, smoke cigars.
Finally, get out of jail.
Quit smoking.
In opposition, everyone has a dilemma and needs to make a choice.
The police officer has the predicament that the law outweighs the love. He is a law enforcer, and he cannot bend the law for personal gain. If he opens this hole, he will be messed up, so he can only say that I am incompetent and I quit
The patient has the dilemma of life and death. Huang Mao said, I will die sooner or later. Lu committed suicide in order to avoid pain, and he could also commit suicide in order not to drag down his family.
Sihui danced a striptease, and when she saw the male manager dancing, she was rejoicing and silent, she turned her face, and acquiesced in going to bed in order not to offend Brother Yong.
Even pharmaceutical companies have difficulties. R&D patents cost tens of billions of dollars. The price of patented drugs is not high, and there is no money. How to develop new drugs?
The film pushes pharmaceutical companies, especially pharmaceutical representatives in this Chinese region, to the position of villains.
Shaking a hand, dipped a hand in the red potion, and wiped it off, as if wiping away people's blood.
It alludes to capitalism relying on high-priced medicines to make money, and it wastes people's lives.
The reality is of course more complicated.
In the end, the government came out and included the medicine in the medical insurance and paid the bill.
The cure rate went from 30% to 80% and the problem was solved.
The good day that Brother Yong said is here.
Emotions are promoted and sublimated, but there are fewer and fewer scenes explaining the transformation of characters. It doesn't matter whether I am a medicine god, whether I sell magic oil or fake medicine.
When Pastor Liu appeared , he read a passage about what Jesus saw.
It probably means,
Jesus walked through all the villages, preached, saw the crowds, and had only pity in his heart.
Because of birth, old age, sickness and death, there is no solution to destruction, they will eventually suffer, and only a few people can be rescued.
So Jesus sacrificed himself to save the world.
If you, too, look at the hustle and bustle of the crowd, you can't help but feel the same kind of pity.
In the dilemma of opposition, the film points out the road of hope for redemption.
The worst thing in the world is not that you are worse than me, I am worse than him.
But in tragedy, there is no hope.
But there are sacrifices, and there are mercy, so there is hope.
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