It is difficult to see a doctor, difficult to live, and difficult to do anything. The world is so complicated that there is no answer, even if you are Nietzsche or Einstein, not to mention you are just a commoner.
On June 19, at the Shanghai Film Festival, Xu Zheng, Wen Muye, Wang Chuanjun, Tan Zhuo and others watched [I am not the God of Medicine].
Going back to the editorial department, apart from the quality of the film, the question that the friends are most concerned about is, is Xu Zheng still greasy?
As for the role, I have played a lot of greasy ones. And Cheng Yong, who fell to the [Medicine God], had to be a little greasy on the surface.
The feeling of Xu Zheng's performance was just right. It was exactly what a cowardly uncle downstairs looked like.
But in essence, being greasy is the prerogative of successful people. In "I'm not the God of Medicine", Cheng Yong is neither a god nor even a successful person.
When watching a film at the film festival, of course, there is applause after the screening. But applause is not the same as applause.
Some were stunned for a while before they sounded out of step. That was because the movie was too esoteric, and the audience didn't respond.
Some are tacitly consistent, but there are a few corners that are particularly loud, that is, a few crazy fans of classic movies.
And after the subtitles of "I'm not the God of Medicine" came out, the applause was long, neat and imposing, and it made my hands hurt when I heard it.
It was a victory for the common people.
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No fame, no profit, what about greasy
The word greasy should belong to middle-aged people who have achieved some achievements. They obviously took advantage of a set of game rules in the world, but they have to put on the appearance of a born expert.
But Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, is just an ant and a commoner. What is greasy, I don't have that qualification.
If it is said that he used some greasy means and put on some greasy gestures, he was just desperate to stay alive.
Not pretending to be born, but actually rolling in the mud.
Cheng Yong was born out of the real person Lu Yong. When the genuine drug price was sky high, he purchased generic drugs from India for the leukemia friends who were suffering from the same disease. For this he was once arrested and released for not making a profit.
Cheng Yong is not sick, but has his own difficulties. He wanted to make money to get out of the predicament, and by the way, he helped the leukemia patients.
In last year's media reports, Lu Yong read the script and felt a little aggrieved: he never wanted to make money.
On the eve of the film's release, he spoke up again, saying that what he really wanted to clarify was that he never wanted to be a hero and never wanted to fight against the law.
Contradiction? Not contradictory. Because it's not a black-and-white choice.
Not an anti-bone hero, nor a cowardly rat. It's just an ordinary person who wants to live and can't bear to watch others die.
That's exactly what the movie does well.
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Meet three times, the greasy dissipates
In the movie, Cheng Yong sees his patients three times. The greasy skin was originally there, but in the process, it gradually dissipated, restoring the original appearance of this little person.
For the first time, it was Lu Yiyi (played by Wang Chuanjun) who brought in the owner of the patient group to expand the sales of generic drugs.
He sells divine oils, owes the rent for the storefront, his father is ill, divorced from his wife, and his son is about to be sent abroad.
It's all like this, but I still have to put on the appearance of a little boss and shout five and six.
The group of patients in front of him who had never met and wanted to ask him were giving him a chance to shed some oil.
"Hey, hey, 5,000 yuan is still too expensive for you. Don't eat it if you think it's too expensive." Just like a shrewd hawker on the street.
One of the most human-like details is asking the patients to take off their masks and talk to him.
When I talked to the uncle, I still covered my face, and I was not happy--a little bit of the expansive feeling of being a villain.
This reminds me of my second landlord, who pretends to be hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, and wants to cheat my two hundred water and electricity bills. It seems to be cheaper for me.
Liu Sihui (Tan Zhuo) rounded up the situation and said that the patient is afraid of bacteria. He said yes, but his eyes glanced at Lu Yiyi, the soft persimmon, and motioned him to take the lead.
The patients had to take off their masks one after another.
This is the philosophy of the market that has to be understood after a lot of winking. Only this time, he finally gave others a wink.
In contrast, it was the third time to see a patient.
At this time, Cheng Yong couldn't even make a small boss. For the second time, he sold medicine desperately in order to save a patient, and ended up sitting in a prison cart.
The patients, however, send each other off on a ten-mile-long street.
There was no need to shout or wink. The patients took off their masks spontaneously.
True respect is not obtained by begging or coercion.
At this time, Cheng Yong had lost the greasy feeling. Those who thought they were right are gone.
And the juncture of all this happened was the second meeting with the patient.
It was Lu Benyi's funeral.
Cheng Yong was afraid that he would be prosecuted for selling drugs, so he gave up and cut off contact with the drug sales team.
A year later, seeing Lu Yiyi again, he is in critical condition because there is no cheap medicine.
When Cheng Yong left the Lu family's funeral, the corridor was full of patients.
He walked through it, the road was narrow, people seemed to be sideways to give way, and they seemed to be reluctant, leaning to block one.
No one spoke, just looked at him with eyes like knives.
At the end, it was Huang Mao (played by Zhang Yu) who was picking at an orange and chomping on it.
In the past, Lu Yiyi always lowered his eyebrows and greeted people to eat oranges, even when he was the most ill. It has become the habit of this cowardly patient to please, but no one actually eats his oranges.
At this time, I was eating oranges, but it was tasteless, as if I swallowed hard, I was able to swallow back the tears.
It was this huge shock that made him throw away the greasy, even a part of himself.
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What is greasy, see others
The argument that people call Xu Zheng greasy is mainly the [囧] series, especially the [Hong Kong 囧].
In this series, he plays Xu Lai. It sounds like the breeze is coming, but inside is a small businessman facing a mid-life crisis, a high-risk group of greasy syndrome.
Xu Lai became a "door-to-door son-in-law" and inherited his wife's family business. He has achieved success, and he can do all the speculation and calculations in the world. He has gained benefits, but he feels that he is a victim.
I should have been spotless, holding a paintbrush, and roaming the rivers and lakes with my first love.
DeLongwangshu is a human inferiority, and the root cause of greasy disease is not only too greed, in the final analysis, it is too narrow vision, only oneself and the one-third of the land in front of him.
They think that their own sacrifices are sacrifices, their own achievements are achievements, and others don’t complain about the hardships they suffer, and what they do is not a problem.
This kind of "little person", even if he is not a commoner, if you say he is, he should not recognize it himself.
Under the pressure of life, NY went to see his first love girlfriend, but did nothing in the end. Just sighing again is no different.
And this family, including children, girls, young adults, and old people, each has its own childhood crisis, adolescence crisis...
Only then can we see that who is not a fool in life, and what age can enjoy peace.
In Xuan Dian's words, all living beings suffer, and oneself suffers moment by moment, so why bother.
And Xu Lai didn't understand his wife until the end, his limited sympathy, like charity.
Of course, [I am not a medicine god] cannot be compared with [11]. The latter is a complete enlightenment, but it is still rolling in the mud, struggling in the world, and there is no lack of speculation, but at least, it is truly immersed in the life of human beings, Go to the pain, go to the sinking, come up again with a slap in the face, choke a few sips of water and sink again.
So I joined the WTO, so I felt compassion, so although I was middle-aged, I was no longer greasy, but felt at ease to be a commoner.
At first, Cheng Yong, of course, only saw his own suffering.
When the greasy sickness flares up, he also boredly spends money to play a heroic scene of saving beauty, but he sees Sihui's child at the door.
The child's drooping eyes, his eyes seemed to understand everything, and he didn't seem to know anything, and his sense of vanity was completely shocked.
Or they originally teased Huang Mao intentionally or unintentionally, and paid out wages, like someone who came over and looked at the younger generation.
Later, I taught him a lesson, going home to have a look and cutting his hair. But the attitude has been much more equal, and it is no longer a gift for him. Still fighting, Zhang Yu impromptu barked, Xu Zheng reacted quickly and called a yellow dog.
After Huang Mao's accidental death, he cried heart-to-heart: "He's only twenty years old, he just wants to live, what's his sin?!"
To be honest, Xu Zheng is not good at crying scenes.
Sitting alone in the yellow-haired house crying, the sadness is too deep.
Wang Chuanjun, Tan Zhuo, Zhang Yu... The entire team accompanies him in this night scene. After each filming, they line up to come in and hug him.
Everyone wants to live.
From now on, no matter if you lied to the police brother-in-law, or told the fake drug dealer to let him go quickly, don't implicate yourself, the meaning is not the same as before.
It's no longer about getting out of trouble or a midlife crisis, it's about surviving, with the struggle of surviving with patients.
At this moment, he is really no longer a greasy little boss, but a commoner like you and me. The mid-life crisis is no longer just a fussing about the courage of the past, but a real one. There are old people at the top and young people at the bottom. They don't dare to get sick and don't dare to die.
This film, to say the narrative style, is too ordinary, with honest cause and effect, no tricks, no ingenuity, and even no so-called structure, it looks old. However, the pain of the common people in the story is too real.
It is difficult to see a doctor, difficult to live, and difficult to do anything. The world is so complicated that there is no answer, even if you are Nietzsche or Einstein, not to mention you are just a commoner.
Therefore, there is no one-size-fits-all method, and it is impossible to live up to the Tathagata and live up to the emperor. Only when you know you can’t do it, you should carry it, you should be punished, and if you want to say why, it is not a big talk of justice and conscience. Can't bear it. Because they are all choking on water in the sea of bitterness, they are all in pain.
He is not God.
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Text: Jiang not stop
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