"Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart"
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If 2011 belongs to "The Piano of Steel", then 2012 is this "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart".
Adapted from Fang Fang's novel of the same name, the film is in the economic and social background of the 90s of the 20th century, the ups and downs of the life of Li Baoli, an ordinary Wuhan woman. Relying on the textual foundation of the novel, coupled with the wonderful audio-visual language, it constitutes a superior work in a Chinese-language film.
The movie is too real, real like what happened around you and me, divorce, betrayal, abandonment, compromise....... The whole film completes the sublimation of the entire theme through a tragic narrative structure.
The background of the opening is Hanzheng Street, a famous commercial old street in Wuhan.
In the early days of reform and opening up, it was known as the first street of the national small commodity market. It was a forerunner of the reform boom and a witness to the decline of the small commodity market.
On this street, Li Baoli works in a wholesale socks store, receiving a small salary every day, she has a husband who is a director in the factory, a smart son, and the family has just moved into a new house allocated by the factory, and a new life seems to beckon her.
On the day Li Baoli moved to a new house, she sat on the moving car and shouted excitedly to Ma Xuewu, who was riding a bicycle behind:
Don't be left behind.
Here is a foreshadowing, foreshadowing the imminent tragedy of their marriage.
But the person who fell behind was not Ma Xuewu, but Li Baoli.
Ma Xuewu is no longer the poor student who only sent people under the fence for a city hukou, he is now the director of the factory office of a state-owned factory, and he has divided his own house.
The workers did not work properly, made two marks on the new floor tiles and did not change their shoes when they entered the door, and the house was dirty, so Polly quarreled with the workers.
At this time, her husband was busy singing white faces and giving cigarettes to the workers, and Li Baoli was so angry that she gave Ma Xuewu a kick.
At night, her husband Ma Xuewu, who had been silent, said coldly: "Let's divorce!"
When Li Baoli heard Ma Xuewu say this, she felt like she was going to move seriously, and she was directly blindfolded, and she was also scared, so she didn't go out to sell socks the next day.
happened to be her best friend Wan Xiaojing came to look for her, and she told Wan Xiaojing about it.
Wan Xiaojing did analysis again, came up with ideas again, and finally asked her Li Baoli: Will Ma Xuewu have someone else outside?
This really reminded Li Baoli that although the two are usually noisy, she has never thought about it. Hearing Wan Xiaojing say this, Li Baoli kept an eye on it.
One day, Li Baoli found a hint of her husband.
Li Baoli hid at the factory gate, followed her husband Ma Xuewu and a female colleague talking and laughing, until the two walked into a small hotel in the alley.
Li Baoli was furious and rushed to the room, but she was defeated at the door, she did not have the courage to smash open the door that hid a man and a woman......
Li Baoli, who walked out of the hotel, was full of anger and called 110 and said: I want to report that there are prostitutes in room 203 of Taoyuan Hotel.
Ma Xuewu was criticized by education, and the factory dismissed him.
It didn't take long for the factory to usher in a wave of large-scale layoffs, and Ma Xuewu became the first batch of laid-off workers because of his bad record.
On the same day, he privately asked a female colleague to have breakfast, ostensibly to ask the girl how she was doing afterwards, but in fact he wanted to find out if the two could continue their relationship.
When he learned that the matter between the two was reported by his wife, he couldn't bear his wife's betrayal and couldn't accept being abandoned by the unit......
Li Baoli never understood what the problem was, why her husband's suicide note was so cruel that there was not a single word about her.
Since the day Ma Xuewu left, Li Baoli's life has shown a cliff-like change, but she stubbornly did not shed a single tear, she believes that this is not caused by her.
The best friend told Li Baoli that her new home was built at countless intersections, like "ten thousand arrows piercing the heart", and she would inevitably live a miserable life.
Li Baoli, who was unwilling to bow to fate, chose to face the difficulties and support the family.
Li Baoli quit her job selling socks and began a career of "dan dan" (a coolie who picks up flat burdens), and her son Xiaobao was taken care of by his grandmother in the countryside; Although it is more difficult to sell labor, it has become a guarantee for Li Baoli to support her family.
Son Xiaobao has been very attached to his father since he was a child, more than Li Baoli.
In his heart, his mother has always been a strong shrew who only forces himself to study.
Although he cares about his children, he can say to his children the most "Is the homework done", which causes Xiaobao to never feel the gentle care of his mother and ignore Xiaobao's emotional changes over the years.
Xiaobao witnessed his mother's toughness and pungency day after day, as well as his grandmother's "teachings" to him, which gradually distorted his values.
Xiaobao was very competitive and became the champion of the college entrance examination, Li Baoli, who thought that the lintel was glorious, was unilaterally announced by her son to dissolve the mother-son relationship, because the son always remembered his father's departure, Xiaobao even secretly investigated the reason for his father's death.
Li Baoli, who was hit by a critical attack, sat alone by the river all night, saw the happy young people around her, and recalled her life of suffering, she suddenly figured out everything.
She returned home, simply packed her luggage, left the real estate certificate that Xiaobao wanted, and left this home with "ten thousand arrows piercing her heart......
A beautiful woman who was originally flying and domineering finally bent down to life and became a simple and vicissitudes of manual labor.
When my son's only spiritual pillar collapsed, I seemed to hear her inner sigh.
After watching the film, it is difficult to say which person is a bad person in the real sense.
Because this is the reality of life after it has been overturned, and it is also the shackles that many people are unable to get rid of.
Two
It is worth mentioning that with the role of Li Baoli, the 40-year-old Yan Bingyan won eight awards for Best Actress, including the Huabiao Award, the Beijing University Student Film Festival, and the London International Chinese Film Festival.
The film itself is not a complicated and tortuous story.
On the contrary, its story is ordinary but true, even a little desperately true.
Looking back on Li Baoli's life, the small citizens with savage vitality met the intellectuals who were submissive.
Under the limitations of the times and the family, the unbuilt and uncontrolled primitive energy is amplified, and the individual cannot be repaired after the rupture of the relationship between the two parties, and finally leads to self-destruction and destruction.