I don't understand, it's the biggest tragedy in marriage

Raphael 2022-04-20 09:02:33

The film "Terrorist", works by Yang Dechang.


In this film, there are all kinds of people living in Taipei City, police, thieves, rich second-generation, doctors, writers... The female thief who escaped from an arrest, hid in the dark and silently had sex with others contact. She is a cancer in this environment, secretly eating away other people's money, family, and even life.

For example, one of her anonymous phone calls caused his wife, Zhou Yufen, to run away from home.

Zhou Yufen, a female writer who originally gave up writing, was at the bottleneck of writing at that time. She felt that she had been hollowed out. Staying up all night and smoking couldn't make her think well, so she couldn't hand in the editor's draft on time.

Inadvertently, Zhou Yufen met her old lover Shen Weibin, a person who not only saw from her novels that he had caused her harm, but also made it clear that writing novels could not fully release her talents.

Li Lizhong, Zhou Yufen's husband, a small clerk working in the hospital. He was on his own and only wanted to be safe. When there is a chance to be promoted, he will also play a little trick and look forward to getting ahead. Everything at home is obeyed by his wife. He does not dare to step into the small study written by his wife, and he never reads the novels written by his wife.

At this time, Zhou Yufen received an anonymous call from a girl, implying an abnormal relationship between her and Li Lizhong.
After answering the phone, Zhou Yufen left and came back three days later.

Zhou Yufen went home and solemnly told her husband that she was going to work and would no longer write novels. She's going to move out, leave him, leave this house.


Li Lizhong was puzzled and asked again and again. Zhou Yufen said:
"When I got married, I thought it was a new beginning;"
"I wanted to have a child, but I thought it was a new beginning;"
"I wrote a novel again, hoping it was a new beginning;"
"I decided to leave you . , for a new beginning;"

"Tell you this, will you understand? What you understand are those things that you are accustomed to, day after day, repeated over and over again. I hide in that small room every day, Just to avoid constant repetition. Do you understand this? You don't! That's the biggest difference between us!"

She didn't say anything about the anonymous call.

Later, Zhou Yufen's novel won an award, Li Lizhong had hope for promotion, and he also knew the phone number. He thought everything was going to be alright, he thought he had found the reason why his wife left home.

But Zhou Yufen's answer was: "It's not the reason for the phone call at all. You still don't understand!"

His wife didn't come back, and the promotion failed.

What will this man with no money and man do?

The movie has two endings: Li Lizhong wants revenge, revenge on everyone who ruined other people's money - to his immediate boss who hoped and let him down, his rival in love, the female thief who made anonymous phone calls. Or just end your life with no money and money.

The ending of Zhou Yufen's award-winning novel can be seen as the third ending, killing her and then committing suicide. But this is the only novel of his wife that Li Lizhong has read, and he thinks it is just a novel.

No matter how it ends, people believe that Yang Dechang exposed the "terrorist" of the society at that time. But who is the "terrorist" between Zhou Yufen and Li Lizhong?


Yang Dechang's film vision is very broad, and he puts as much as possible his views on various aspects of society, such as love, into each film.

In "Yiyi", love is in a person's life, ups and downs, tangled and tangled, as if telling you and me off-screen. In "Guling Street Teenage Murder Incident", adolescent love, accompanied by ignorance and recklessness, grows savagely. In "Terrorist", a discordant marriage is viewed with a magnifying glass. In a neat and orderly family, there are countless "terrorists" hidden like bacteria. That anonymous phone call was just the last straw that broke their marriage. The "terrorists" had already made their marriage riddled with holes and vulnerable.

"Terrorist" in Zhou Yufen's mouth, called "you don't understand."

Li Lizhong didn't understand why Zhou Yufen married him, why she wanted children, why she gave up writing and started again, let alone why she left. But Shen Weibin understands. I don't understand, it's a "terrorist" in marriage. It can ruthlessly and brutally destroy a marriage, no matter how gorgeous it may be.

"You don't understand." Those three terrible words can easily destroy everything, let you obey, let you be careful, let you magnify love infinitely, once these three words are spoken, everything will be like dust. , instantly vanished.

Perhaps, Cai Qin never understood Yang Dechang.

Do not understand, is the greatest tragedy in marriage.

Qi Qiyan...

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Extended Reading
  • Alvina 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    Calm, calm, keep calm. The somewhat dull fragments in the first half are like black-and-white photos on the wall lifted by the wind, unknowingly piecing together a perfect broken circle. Gunshots, gunshots, gunshots, and finally empathized Li Liqun pushed all the resentment and resentment up his throat to find the exit, waking up from a dream, all the things that were about to overflow were stuffed back into his chest and stopped abruptly! Shredded, shredded, all shredded, a little bit of reverie about life, a little bit of fantasy about love, after tearing it up, you have to throw it on the ground and step on it. The ending is so wonderful. I used a movie to act as a novel, but only played the most tragic part. The fictional novel won an award, but the real life collapsed... (Taipei)

  • Tracy 2022-03-20 09:02:55

    Big screen rewatch. I was attracted by inconsequential details. When the female writer went to her ex-boyfriend to run a company, the open window reflected the figure of the cleaning worker hanging in the air, and then the camera was pulled outside to put the cleaning worker and the female writer in a frame. The cleaners have no narrative role at all. But this inexplicable connection seems to imply that our worlds are all connected, and this is similar to the structure of the film in which the three stories are combined in an accidental way.