Time Network Special ArticleAn elderly couple's only son was accidentally killed in a car accident, and the son and daughter-in-law had no children. After the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, the lonely old people hoped to retrieve the embryos stored in the hospital after the "test-tube baby" of their son and daughter-in-law - this is the last bloodline left by the son in this world.
A middle-aged couple, a 4-year-old only daughter unfortunately drowned, after experiencing such a major blow, the couple who decided to divorce encountered the "divorce cooling-off period" stipulated by law, and they needed to wait 30 days to complete the divorce procedures.
A new film in the Mid-Autumn Festival file tells the story of how these two families face social issues such as marriage, loss of independence, childbirth, and surrogacy-
"I wish you happiness! 》
A car accident, a drowning
Xiao Yang plays Luo Yu, a lawyer with an average temper, careless work in life, and no improvement in his work, and Song Jia plays his wife Bai Hui, a doctor in the hospital's assisted reproduction department.
At the beginning of the film, the two were going through divorce procedures, and during the 30-day "divorce cooling-off period", Luo Yu met Qin Zhiyuan (Ni Dahong), a lonely old man who came to "make trouble" in Bai Hui's hospital.
Qin Zhiyuan and his wife have an only son, Qin Kewen (played by Liu Batel), who was accidentally killed in a recent car accident. The daughter-in-law Wang Ran (played by Zhou Yiyi), who was in the same car, saved her life, but became a vegetative person and was taken care of by her mother Xia Meiyun (played by Wu Yue).
The son and daughter-in-law did not have children after marriage, and after their father Qin Zhiyuan gave birth many times, the young couple went to do "test-tube baby", and the embryo was stored in the assisted reproduction department of the hospital where Bai Hui worked, but the car was destroyed and died before the embryo transfer. The "medical trouble" mentioned above is that Qin Zhiyuan wants to ask the hospital for this embryo and have the last bloodline of his son in this world.
In the process of protecting his wife in the hospital (due to the divorce cooling-off period), Luo Yu met Qin Zhiyuan, an elderly man who lost his independence, and decided to serve as his defense lawyer to help him recover the ownership of the embryo from the hospital. At the same time, Qin Zhiyuan's in-law Xia Meiyun also wanted to keep the bloodline of her only daughter, and she made the same appeal as Qin Zhiyuan, hoping that the hospital would hand over the embryos to her for safekeeping.
However, according to the informed consent form signed by Qin Zhiyuan's son and daughter-in-law with the hospital, the consent of the husband and wife is required to process the embryo, and now the son has been killed, and the daughter-in-law has become a vegetative person with no capacity for civil conduct. According to the agreement, the hospital could not hand over the embryos to their parents and could only wait until the freezing period had expired to discard them.
In the tripartite lawsuit between Qin Zhiyuan, represented by Luo Yu, Xia Meiyun and the hospital, the direct cause of Luo Yu and Bai Hui's divorce slowly surfaced with the presentation of flashbacks - they once had a 4-year-old daughter who unfortunately drowned when Luo Yu was taking care of his mother-in-law.
The husband and wife can't get out of such a human tragedy, and all the stumbles in life have become stumbling blocks that hinder their marriage from going on, and Bai Hui can't forgive her husband's dereliction of duty when taking care of their daughter.
If two people negotiate a divorce, they need to wait for 30 days after applying for registration of divorce at the marriage registration authority, and within these 30 days, if either party is unwilling to divorce, he or she can withdraw the divorce registration application to the registration authority - it is the cooling-off period for divorce.
Zhou still plays Wang Ran, who has become a vegetative person
Can Luo Yu and Bai Hui get a successful divorce? Will the embryos of the young couple involved in the car accident go to the man's parents, the woman's mother, or will they eventually be destroyed by the hospital?
If the embryo is successfully obtained, what will the old people do with the embryo? ——Surrogacy in China not only violates human ethics and women's rights and interests, but also violates the law.
In the second half of their lives, there was no hope for the elderly who lost their independence, so they hugged together to keep warm, participated in the mutual aid association, and told the thoughts of the children separated from yin and yang.
Such a domestic film that directly faces many issues makes people sad, worried, and sad to watch.
"Embryo lawsuit" prototype case
In 2012, a post-80s couple adopted the legal "test tube baby" technology in mainland China - that is, in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer technology, obtained 4 embryos, the hospital froze them, agreed to carry out embryo transfer in March 2013, and signed an informed consent form with the husband and wife, clearly stipulating that the hospital will cryopreserve the embryos for one year, if the preservation period is exceeded, the couple choose to agree to discard the embryos.
However, 5 days before the agreed embryo transfer operation, the couple was killed in a car accident, and the embryos never had a chance to be used by them again.
Both are only children, and after the car accident, both parents fell into the blow of destruction, and after the parents discussed together, they unanimously wanted to retrieve the 4 embryos left by the children. The two elderly couples who lost their independence began a lawsuit, and added the hospital that refused to hand over the embryos as a third party, asking the court to award them the inheritance and disposal of the frozen embryos.
Everyone knows that after the death of the only child, the purpose of the old people to ask for these 4 embryos is surrogacy. In the mainland, the buyer and the seller (pregnant mother) do not violate the law, but the hospitals and intermediaries that operate for this purpose are illegal.
After more than two years of litigation, the final result of the second instance in September 2014 was that the four frozen embryos were handed over to the parents of both parents for custody and disposal. What happened after the removal of the embryo is no longer legally relevant to the case.
The trend behind this incident is that in December 2016, the old people took the embryos and sent them to Laos for surrogacy. In December 2017, a Lao surrogate mother gave birth to a child, and the first case of frozen embryo ownership dispute in mainland China ushered in the finale.
4 elderly people with newborn children
It is not difficult to see that "I wish you happiness! is largely adapted from this real-life case, but it has changed a lot of very important details - after the car accident in the film, it is not the death of the husband and wife, but the life of the wife, and there is a vague hint at the end of the film that the young wife may wake up, avoiding the illegal act of taking the embryo as a "surrogacy" one day.
In the film, lawyer Luo Yu also asked publicly in court, "What do you do with embryos, don't you just want surrogacy?" Such a very intuitive question, to which Qin Zhiyuan replied, "We just want to have an idea, we will keep this embryo by ourselves when we get it, and we don't plan to be a surrogate." ”
Xia Meiyun played by Wu Yue
However, in the film, netizens had fierce doubts about whether Qin Zhiyuan would go to "surrogacy", and specially arranged a scene of blocking the door and "cyber violence". At the end of the film, the plot of the old people going to the hospital to watch the embryo storage situation was arranged, but the "surrogacy" plot of going abroad in the real event was deleted.
Without violating Chinese law and morality, the creators' adaptation and restoration of this human tragedy has also made this Mid-Autumn Festival file, a thought-provoking and thought-provoking film.
Divorce cooling-off period, who needs to calm down?
The "divorce cooling-off period", which has caused many uproars on the Internet, will be implemented from January 1, 2021. The real cooling-off period is actually as short as 30 days and as long as 60 days. After the expiration of the "cooling-off period" of the first 30 days, the husband and wife should apply for a divorce certificate in person at the marriage registration office within the next 30 days - this is the real "divorce".
Within the next 30 days, as long as one of the spouses fails to apply for a divorce certificate at the marriage registration office, it will be deemed that the application for divorce registration has been automatically withdrawn, and it is "not divorced".
The above-mentioned seemingly complicated divorce procedure is only part of the "divorce by agreement" - if both spouses reach an agreement and want to leave, a divorce can be successfully obtained within 30-60 days. If one of the parties does not want to leave, he needs to choose "litigation divorce", which needs to go through multiple procedures such as case filing, court hearing, trial, and judgment, which is the legendary "divorce lawsuit", and the waiting time will be even longer.
Back to Wishing You Happiness! In Luo Yu and Bai Hui, who are preparing to divorce, the contradiction between the two has existed for a long time before their daughter drowned. The problems and costs, helplessness and pain encountered by women in the process of marriage and childbirth are also shown in the film.
After giving birth, Bai Hui's nipple scalp bloomed when breastfeeding, and after suffering from "sad nipple syndrome", her husband ridiculed the strange name of this condition and disagreed;
After the accidental death of the child, Bai Hui showed the shocking stretch marks and the scars of the caesarean section on her body - the pain of loss of independence is not only in the heart, but also deep in the flesh and blood of the mother who has experienced the pregnancy in October, and penetrates into the depths of the soul;
When preparing for the divorce, Luo Yu said the words "You were the one who decided to keep the child in the first place", which slashed Bai Hui's heart, combined with what Bai Hui said at the beginning of the film, "You only remember what you did right, and you never remember what you did wrong"......
In addition to the failed marriage between Luo Yu and Bai Hui, on the way to embryo transfer surgery in the film, Wang Ran, who became a vegetative person due to a car accident, originally had no plans to have children in the short term, and couldn't bear the endless birth of his parents-in-law, and finally went to do a test tube. "Who else feels sorry for my own daughter besides me?" Mother Xia Meiyun's screaming questioning made people cry.
For couples who have long been separated by thousands of miles, divorce is the best destination. Every day that continues to be together is an extra day of marriage, who still needs to calm down?
What exactly is the significance of the cooling-off period for divorce here?
In the face of the divorce registry office of the Civil Affairs Bureau, the couples who broke down and cried and yelled that they wanted to divorce as soon as possible, and in the face of ordinary people who denounced "divorce is not free" on the Internet, why can policymakers still insist so much?
Whether you are married or divorced, I wish you all happiness.
Author/Editor: Donnie Yen