Fault and vengeance, life and death, original sin and instinct.
Or, most of us only take one second to consider the above issues in the decades we have lived, and the traces of that second in our lives are ignored by us because they are too faint .
Most of the time, our life is a train whose tracks have been booked, it is galloping forward, and we cannot end it until it reaches its destination. Survival is just an inertia.
So most people, just as we cannot choose to be born, do not choose to die.
However, in the film, the repeatedly mentioned survival has nothing to do with instinct, has nothing to do with choice, it should be a right.
"Although I am not much stronger than a beast, I still have the right to live."
"Although our sins are heavy, we at least still have the right to live."
Although the two rights are related to survival, but not related to death, Death is a choice, survival is a right.
In the first part of the film, Wu Daxiu, who lives in prison, is lying on the ground like a dog. On his head is a foot that is trampled and crushed. Wu Daxiu stretches out his hand and can only catch that foot?? We can do this Alive; in the second half of the film, Wu Daxiu faces Li Youzhen like a dog, shaking his ass?? We can live like this; at the end of the film, Wu Daxiu hugs the peach and weeps silently, we are alive?? Just maybe, We are still breathing.
Fifteen years in prison, breathing never stops, fifteen years in prison, entertainment and pleasure never come. We live, we are as castrated as beasts, both sexually and emotionally. If this is our right, we only have this right?? to breathe.
The two pairs of lovers who appeared in the film used life and death to reflect each other by continuing to live and breaking themselves. Two men, one is the price of being together after cutting off his tongue, the secret can no longer be continued, and the other is choosing to die after trying his best to make the forgotten secret come to mind again.
Two people who died, one cried "We love each other very much, can you be like us?" One smiled "Don't forget me." Two people who hugged together alive, one cried and laughed because they found a lover ; One laughed and cried because he knew the secret.
This seems to be a story of revenge. The tongue that was brutally cut at the end may be the final trophy of this revenge, the past that swept away many years ago, or a trivial matter, but if it is connected with the existence of life, So is it enough to give him some extra weight? We keep looking for a reason to live, to breathe one more day, but who, forgets death? Forgot who stayed at the bottom of time?
Li Youzhen once said lightly and sadly, do you think Mei Tao really fell in love with Wu Daxiu?
It seems that nothing can be controlled by us, and love is only the result of hypnosis. It seems possible that the love that we advocate magnified is far from concealing the preciousness of family affection. It seems that all we have is that we can still breathe.
I only hope that Wu Daxiu's last silent cry can still convince us that the tongue is not the only guardian of secrets, but the mind is, living and breathing, maybe we can still believe that there is always a little, a trace, still Being able to control myself, even if I am, it is still painful.
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