It is a complicated thing to rate "I'm Not the God of Medicine". I was hesitant between two stars and four stars. It is certain that this film is definitely not worth 9 points.
If it is purely a fictional story, without event prototypes, and no so-called social reality, then things will become much simpler. I just want to see it as a touching movie story, but it is clothed with real things. The adaptation of the mantle complicates my viewing experience as well.
The main focus is to promote the black humor of Ning Hao and Xu Zheng's reunion, but this film does not contain much comedy, which made me cry almost from the beginning to the end. It basically counts as a tragedy, and many viewers are moved by it. It needs to be emphasized that making the audience cry and whether the movie is good or not are definitely two different things. When I watched the scene of "Ten Mile Street" for the second time, even though I already knew that Lu Yiyi and Huang Mao would appear in the camera again, Tears still overflowing from my eyes, but now that I know the plot, I will jump out and pay more attention to the audio-visual and performance outside the text, and observe more objectively how they arouse the emotions of the audience. Under the mobilization of texts, performances, cameras, and music, even if the plot is known, it is a natural physiological response to shed tears. Just like the chef carefully cooked a bowl of hot and sour noodles in front of you, when you enjoy it, you are stimulated by the senses, tears, sweat, and runny nose are all normal reactions. The technical means accomplished the effect the film wanted to achieve, but did the core of the film really touch me?
Although I walked out of the cinema with tears in my eyes, my doubts were more than moved. Why remove the most critical "patient identity" in the prototype characters, and completely transform "self-help" into "saving people"? Since it is based on real events, what could be more exciting and real than real events? Continuing to watch the film with such loss and doubts, I found something even more confusing—the binary opposition established by the film for dramatic conflict and its crude appeal for social justice.
Cheng Yong took the risk of purchasing Indian generic drugs for patients because everyone could not afford the genuine drugs, so the genuine drugs became the big villain in the film. Its incarnation is the man in oil-haired suit played by Li Naiwen. In order to highlight the arrogance of "Li Naiwen", He also deliberately added the details of his meeting with "Zhou Yiwei" to wipe off the red potion on his hands.
Cheng Yong risked being imprisoned for illegal purchases for patients is naturally a character in the film Acura, but even the Indian pharmaceutical company that stands on the opposite side of the genuine drug has become a positive image, especially in the climax of the film, the Swiss company sued the Indian pharmaceutical company for causing the drug When the factory stopped production, the director of the pharmaceutical factory tried to find a way to buy medicines for Cheng Yong in the pharmacy, and the factory director worshipped Buddha, and then received a court leaflet brought by the police.
This kind of bullying behavior in the film is very unfair. First of all, regardless of the high price of Swiss genuine drugs in China, it is not up to the company to decide, and it is unlikely that a pharmaceutical company will have "I will raise the price of drugs." To the subjective will that none of you can afford." In the matter of Cheng Yong purchasing Indian generic drugs for chronic granulation patients alone, whether it is a Swiss company that produces genuine drugs or an Indian generic drug factory, its purpose is to make pharmaceuticals profitable. There is no distinction between good and evil. The two pharmaceutical companies should present a neutral image. It is a legitimate act for a Swiss company to maintain the drug patents it has worked so hard to develop, and if it hadn't developed an effective drug, where would India imitate it, and where would Cheng Yong buy it from?
The binary opposition established by the film is simple and effective, but it is low-level.
There is one scene in the film that I think everyone will be impressed by, that is what the fake drug dealer played by Wang Yanhui said "there is only one disease in the world, poor disease". It sounds reasonable at first, but it is no less than "poisonous chicken soup". The presence. "Everything in the world is not a problem, the problem is that I have no money", I am afraid everyone has said this, but in the real world, it is impossible for everyone to have money, and there is even a huge gap between the rich and the poor, so it is necessary to have "social The existence of "guarantee"!
"Poverty and disease" originally meant that there was no money to buy medicine, which brought up the issue of "social justice". Although the film conveys this sentence through the villain of the fake drug dealer, it seems that the film also agrees with this point of view. Cheng Yong and the patient are both low-level and weak, but their opponents are relatively wealthy, the medical representative of genuine medicine, Sihui's boss, and Cheng Yong's ex-wife (she also has a wriggling diamond ring). detail). After Cheng Yong made money through purchasing drugs, he changed from a coward who was intimidated by his ex-wife and brother in the police station to a confident boss. Qian forced him to dance pole dancing. Did you feel relieved when you saw this scene? If so, isn't that instigated by the film? Do we work hard to make money just to be someone we hate one day, and then humiliate him with money the same way he humiliated us before?
When it comes to "poor diseases", but how to get poor diseases and how to treat them, the God of Medicine did not prescribe a prescription, but just shouted slogans, pitted the rich and the poor against each other, and rudely put forward the demands of "social justice" , I am very worried that such a scene will incite hatred of the rich.
Although the title of the film is "I am not the God of Medicine", the film tells the story of Cheng Yong's road to becoming a God of "I am the God of Medicine". Cheng Yong was originally a middle-aged man who failed in his career and family but had a good heart. He made a fortune by purchasing generic anti-cancer drugs by chance, and was stimulated by the deaths of patients and friends he knew, and finally embarked on a path of self-redemption. trip. Such heroic stories are more dramatic, so the main creator will give up the identity of the prototype character as a slow-grain patient. Maybe they don't care about the specific deeds of the prototype. I don't know how credible such a transformation can be for a character who deviates from the archetype, is purely fictional, has a history of domestic violence, and takes advantage of the opportunity to befriend a single mother with a sick daughter.
But Cheng Yong's road to becoming a god is actually quite mythical. In the face of suffering, people seek solutions everywhere. The deaths of Lu Yiyi and Huang Mao were like sacrifices. Their deaths made Cheng Yong, who had the ability to save them, put down his selfishness and sacrifice. The small self completes the big self, and finally the Tao becomes God. Christ and Hindu gods appear in the film, but only "I am not a medicine god" saves people. I don't know if there is a deeper religious interpretation of the suffering of "disease".
Of course I have a good impression of this film. The film's depiction of the devastating damage of disease to a person and a family, the powerlessness of human beings in the face of disease, and the struggle to survive are all very touching, and I feel guilty for not treating my body well as a healthy person. . Although there is no detailed discussion on the social problems caused by the "Lu Yong case", it shows social issues such as people's poverty due to illness, the predicament of being unable to afford medicine, and the contradiction between love and law.
However, although the film claims to be a realist theme and is adapted from a real event, it does not treat this theme seriously and simply. It deviates from the real fiction, and is full of drama and sensational skills, which is really contradictory. Before watching "I'm Not the God of Medicine", I always thought that the market would be more inclined towards more commercial and visual spectacle films like "Animal World". Unexpectedly, after the "I'm not the God of Medicine", after the point screening and the incident of "Shanzheng Brother", the box office took off, if there is divine help. Could it be that audiences now prefer reality-themed films? "I'm not the God of Medicine" in the same genre is not good, "Carnival" is much better, why hasn't it become a commercial hit? Perhaps for social reality, the audience does not want to touch the real dark area, and "moving" has huge commercial value.
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