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That night, Li Hong took her luggage and left home without looking back. She got into her car, kicked the accelerator, and drove into the open world.
This is a climactic scene in the movie "The Determination to Runaway", Li Hong worked hard for the family for half her life, but in exchange for her husband's cynicism, she decided to live for herself for the rest of her life.
This is also the real experience of self-media blogger Su Min's "@50岁阿姨自驾游".
In 2020, she drove on the road and started her new life. Her story has touched countless netizens, and now it is directed by Yin Lichuan on the big screen.
"The Determination to Runaway"
"The Determination to Runaway" was released nationwide on September 15, a film based on real people and real events, which confronts the family and workplace difficulties of contemporary women.
Why did Li Hong run away? The movie gives the answer. The grievances she suffered in the first half of her life should be smoothed out with the splendor of the second half of her life.
What kind of life does she want to live?
Netizens watched Su Min's daily sharing on the Internet, and most of them were VLOGs she took on the road. She traveled all over China in four years and lived the way most people dreamed.
The film adopts the shooting technique of a biopic, and depicts the difficult growth and awakening of a woman through the ups and downs of the fate of the protagonist Li Hong (played by Yongmei) for half of her life.
However, Time Jun declares that "The Determination to Runaway" is not a biopic. Li Hong's experience in the first half of her life is not only her personal, but also the epitome of her generation.
Li Hong is a symbol that represents the reality of millions of women in the family.
Director Yin Lichuan did not use the formal narrative technique, she divided Li Hong's life story into two.
The content of the film consists of two story timelines, the main line begins in 2016, the middle-aged Li Hong works day and night for the family, and she longs for freedom and relaxation; The secondary line began in 1982, when the young Li Hong longed for a better life, but his dreams were stifled by reality again and again.
The main line is the effect, the secondary line is the cause, the two lines are intertwined, when Li Hong's life pressure accumulates to the limit, she finally chooses to break out.
Through layers of progressive and interlocking storytelling, the film constructs a state of Li Hong's bondage in the first half of her life and her free and easy in the second half of her life.
Li Hong has always faced a question in the first half of her life, that is, "What kind of life do I want to live?" ”
Li Hong has always had her own life plan. But in the first half of her life, her family life has been interfered with by patriarchy and husband's power, forcing her to constantly make concessions and sacrifices.
In 1982, Li Hong wanted to go to university. However, on the eve of the college entrance examination, she was dropped out of school by her father, who asked her to return to work in a factory in Henan, and her studies were terminated.
In 1986, Li Hong got married. She is married to Sun Dayong (played by Jiang Wu), who works in Zhengzhou, and she doesn't care even if she can only live in a dormitory when she gets married, she desperately wants to escape from her original family.
In 1996, Li Hong wanted to divorce. The husband's life is calculating, constantly ridiculing and denying Li Hong, and the relationship between the two parties breaks down. Under the persuasion of her parents, Li Hong had no choice but to give up the idea of divorce.
In 2016, Li Hong wanted to travel to Chengdu. However, her daughter Sun Xiaomei (played by Wu Qian) is about to give birth, and she has to give up her plan to go to Chengdu to reunite with her old classmates. The idea of traveling far away germinated in Li Hong's mind.
Li Hong lives in such a family environment, and she erases her dreams in the process of retreating and achieving the happiness of others.
The first half of Li Hong's life was no different from that of hundreds of millions of women in China, especially the generation of the post-60s.
Li Hong was once one of the many housewives who worked hard for the family day in and day out, but her husband took it for granted and the housework was easy.
Sun Dayong's arrogance and unreasonableness even caused Li Hong to suffer from moderate depression.
Not many people care about the contribution of housewives, who spend most of their lives worrying about their parents, husbands, children, and even their younger siblings.
Li Hong lived the first half of her life like this, and this was definitely not the life she wanted. When the pressure of her life was at its limit, she finally freed her from the constraints of her family with the help of a car.
In reality, not every woman can run away like Li Hong.
However, this movie can at least give the audience a little inspiration, the husband should face up to his wife's hard work and respect his wife's family status.
Yongmei and Jiang Wu perform "Family War"
Yongmei won the Best Actress Award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival for the movie "The Earth is Long and the Sky is Long", and is an international actress who is well-known at home and abroad.
Yongmei fades from beauty in "The Determination to Runaway", and most of the time, the audience will see the image of an ordinary middle-aged woman.
Yongmei grasped the characteristics of the characters and truly turned herself into an ordinary member of the vast sea of people.
Yongmei in the film interprets the three stages of Li Hong's life: the first stage, the young Li Hong who has just entered married life; In the second stage, the middle-aged Li Hong is trapped in family trivialities; In the third stage, Li Hong, who walked out of the family "cage", was free.
The newlywed Li Hong is full of yearning for life, the audience can see the light in the eyes of the actors, and Yongmei gives the character vitality.
The middle-aged Li Hong has been tortured in life, her eyes are empty, her head is bowed and she is silent, and Yongmei releases twilight on the character.
The free Li Hong's eyes became shining again, and her relieved expression made the audience see a new vitality.
Yongmei completely entered the spiritual world of the character, empathized with Li Hong's situation, and accurately interpreted the twists and turns of a woman's half-life.
Yongmei's performance gives the character a distinct character arc, and she transforms the ordinary Li Hong into a radiant and unique screen image.
Sun Dayong, played by Jiang Wu, is also representative, he symbolizes the "head of the family" who is powerful and prosperous at home.
According to the characteristics of the role, Jiang Wu gradually showed Sun Dayong's self-centered family concept. For example, he took Li Hong out of the house, took care of himself with an umbrella in the rain, and his selfish mentality was clear at a glance.
Sun Dayong is the villain in this movie, and Jiang Wu's performance gives the characters a hateful and real character. The stinginess, narrow-mindedness, and irritability of the characters will make the audience feel that this person is too strange.
However, if the audience takes a closer look at life, they will find that Sun Dayong can be seen everywhere in reality.
Sun Dayong was overly self-conscious and constantly attacked Li Hong psychologically. Li Hong is trying every way to avoid Sun Dayong's attack every day, there is no way to avoid it, and the two sides can only break out into conflict, which is an endless "family war".
In such a difficult family environment, Li Hong was forced to transform and become a better version of herself.
The best performance scene in the film is undoubtedly a scene of "The Night Li Hong Ran Away".
On this night, the family was enjoying the beauty of life, the father won the ball award, the daughter worked regularly, and the son-in-law was promoted.
They are happy, only Li Hong is silently undertaking all the housework, and her hard work is taken for granted in the eyes of her family.
Li Hong's emotions exploded at this moment, and she poured out her unhappiness for many years and officially broke with her family.
Yongmei's performance is like a volcanic eruption, and the lines are loud and clear.
"For most of your life, what have you done to me? Why do I have to bear all your ugly words? I want to have my own business, I'm just like you! ”
Li Hong spoke the voices of countless housewives.
Su Min, the life that the movie didn't film
Norway playwright Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is world-famous, and the heroine of the play, Nala, cannot stand her husband's hypocrisy and selfishness, and finally chooses to run away from home.
United Kingdom film "A Doll's House" (1973)
A Doll's House was created in 1879, during the Second Industrial Revolution, when women's emancipation was an important social issue.
However, "A Doll's House" can only be written about Nala's departure, and her life after that is not covered. At that time, there were not many employment opportunities for women.
145 years have passed, and the world has changed dramatically.
Su Min, the prototype character of Li Hong in "The Determination to Runaway", bravely walked out of her family at the age of 56 and won a place for herself in the new living environment, and she lived the style of a woman in the new era.
Su Min attended the Beijing premiere of "The Determination to Runaway".
On December 3, 2020, Su Min posted a long article on her personal Weibo "All the past is a prologue, and all the future can be looked forward to - a 50-year-old self-driving aunt self-report".
The article reviewed her past life and showed her current situation, "This time, there is no ambiguity, age, marriage, money, and family have not hindered me - at this moment, I have to go out." ”
She wrote bluntly about family life: "Living with him is pressure, pressure, pressure. ”
Su Min left the house without hesitation, she did not act blindly.
She struggled to get a driver's license in middle age, saved money + loans to buy a car, and had the necessary conditions for a long trip.
After she retired, she had a pension of more than 2,000 yuan per month, and she bought tents, kitchen utensils and other necessities before leaving. She travels in the form of a road trip, and her meals and accommodation are solved in the car as much as possible.
Su Min's brave escape, the way she traveled far away, and her reasonable use of self-media platforms made her quickly become a figure of attention on the whole network.
As of September this year, she has gained the attention of 2.98 million followers on the Douyin platform.
Su Min's Douyin personal page
Over the past four years, Su Min has continued to release short videos on self-media platforms to share her journey life. Not only did she see the world herself, but she also shared what she saw and heard with the public.
She began to receive business placements, placing product advertisements in short videos. Most of these goods are daily necessities that people need during the trip, and netizens have praised her.
Today's Su Min is already a self-media blogger with broad horizons, and her story has also been put on the big screen.
Her car changed from a cramped car to a spacious RV.
It is foreseeable that her life will get better and better.
On July 15 this year, Su Min told the outside world that she was going through a divorce with her husband, but she had to pay her husband 160,000 yuan. Because Su Min was not divorced when she ran away, the income from her self-media account since then is also marital property.
After mediation, the husband and wife reached an amount of 160,000 yuan. Su Min said: "160,000 buy me a freedom!" ”
Su Min, in the 20s of the 21st century, she wrote a sequel to "A Doll's House" with her own actions, and women can live more wonderfully after leaving their oppressive families.
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