The story of a mother who "shamelessly" wants to give birth to a child challenges the ethical limits of human nature and pierces the bottom line of love.

It was probably around 2006, maybe I finally "realized" that I was middle-aged, so when I heard a story about "childbirth" that happened in two families, it triggered infinite feelings and sudden emotions. creative desire.

The ensuing "result" is this film adapted from a real person's story. Through the perspective of a small character, a simple description can make people breathless. The "twisted" story of a mother who "shamelessly" wants to give birth to a child - "Left and Right".

Actually, I prefer, or think the other name "In Love We Trust" is better. < /p>

What he didn't expect was that his story was so "exciting" that it would later be fermented into a world of understanding and reputation both at home and abroad.

But in China, due to various reasons, it caused great controversy at the beginning of its release, including about the scale, about the beauty and ugliness of the actors, about the script, and even about the The criticism of "corruption of three views" rarely touches on the connotation of "love and trust" he wants to express.

In the final analysis, it is because of this story about two couples from two families who need to be matched because of their daughter's terminal illness. The helplessness, coincidence, and "love" in it are too much. Bizarre, or originating from real life, is far more difficult to accept than being made into a movie.

What’s more, in order to highlight the “depth”, Wang Xiaoshuai enlarged the various “scales”, which is a challenge to the public’s ethical limits of human nature.

As expected, before and after filming, due to this problem, the film had to be reshot six times intermittently before it barely passed the review and was able to be put on the big screen and accepted public scrutiny.

I accidentally saw another version, probably the previous one.

Although I admit that it is a bit too much to put this kind of "drama" that makes people blush and heartbeat on the big screen.

But it is undeniable that the more straightforward the nakedness is, the more it will not make people feel vulgar, but will make people feel a more depressing and suffocating feeling that seems to come from the depths of the soul.

The kind of "trampling" on the bottom line of human ethics and the moral challenge to one's understanding of "love" are really too breathless.

Not to mention trying to put yourself in someone else's shoes: "What would I do if it were me?" This is a question that embarrasses yourself.

Therefore, what I want to bring to you here is hidden in the story, perhaps a little understanding of what Wang Xiaoshuai really wants to say: "Because of love, I believe."

Xiao Lu and Mei Zhu divorced, and his daughter Hehe followed her mother.

Then Mei Zhu and Lao Xie remarried, and they lived together as a family of three.

Xiao Lu and Dong Fan also remarried.

Originally, this was the most common story of a middle-aged couple having marital disagreements, divorcing, and re-forming their families.

Unfortunately, one time, her daughter He He had a high fever and slowly slipped into an uncontrollable "abyss".

After being admitted to the hospital with a high fever, He He was found to have leukemia.

His mother, Mei Zhu, immediately tried to get a match, but failed, so she went to Hehe's father, Xiao Lu, to find a match.

Xiao Lu and his wife Dong Fan have been married for two years and still have no children. So when he learned that his daughter Hehe was sick, he was very anxious and immediately went for a match, but unfortunately, it failed.

What should they do next?

This is the first and easiest "life-saving" problem that Wang Xiaoshuai has posed for everyone.

Leukemia is a cancer with a high cure rate. Basically, as long as a suitable match is found, the disease can be cured with a high probability.

The premise is to find a match.

However, if the biological parents are not good enough, there are only two options left for the patient, either to race against death and search for a needle in a haystack to find a match, or to find a match for a sibling.

One can imagine how lucky Mei Zhu was when she knew this "best" way.

But for the honest husband Lao Xie, how crazy it is that his wife wants to have another child with someone else in order to save his stepdaughter who calls him "uncle".

On the other side, Xiao Lu, who was told by his ex-wife that this was "the only way to save his daughter", felt complicated and shocked inside.

Yes, he only has one daughter, so of course he must save her.

However, he strongly opposed the idea of ??having a child with his ex-wife in order to save his daughter.

Because this kind of thing that challenges the bottom line of human ethics is not something that a "person" can do.

What's more, he has remarried, so he must be responsible for his "home" and his wife. In order to gain a "high probability", he gave birth to a child. Not to mention that he did not agree, his wife Dong Fan also Impossible to accept.

As a result, the two couples from the two families fell into an almost unsolvable "dead knot."

This is also the second ethical dilemma set by Wang Xiaoshuai for the public, an expression that seems to have only one "result" - giving birth to a child, and repeatedly tests the bottom line of human ethics.

This dilemma was also the most controversial plot for the public when it was released, because Wang Xiaoshuai "deliberately" ignored the "three views" and allowed the public to face the absolute choice between life and morality. It is very challenging to human nature.

Just like the straightforward Chinese title of this film "Left and Right", when we are born as human beings, human nature will always struggle between left and right.

As a result, the story begins to move towards the seemingly "only" outcome, which is what Wang Xiaoshuai most wants to put aside all ethics and choose to highlight the expression of "love and trust" - giving birth to a child.

Because in his view, the "level" of life should be the highest and must be higher than the so-called "ethics".

Just like Dong Fan, who was originally trapped in struggle, grievance and painful decision, suddenly softened when he saw Xiao Hehe who was tortured by illness.

She seemed to be suddenly defeated by the "maternal love" that emerged involuntarily and the distress she felt when seeing her husband. Because of "love", she believed, so she compromised...

At this point in the story, it is obvious that Wang Xiaoshuai’s “awkward” personality will never let the public off so easily, so the third, most controversial, and even criticized ethical dilemma arises—— The necessary natural conception is here.

At first, because her daughter Hehe was still young, Mei Zhu did not want her first child after her remarriage.

However, it was that miscarriage that caused Mei Zhu to suffer from the sequelae of habitual abortion.

As a result, two people failed to succeed in artificial insemination three times in a row.

However, daughter Hehe’s condition is getting worse day by day. What should we do?

In order to save her life, Mei Zhu tried to grasp the last straw - natural conception.

This time, he and she challenge not only the limits of human ethics, but the cliff of true "love"...

When Wang Xiaoshuai puts the two When a family, two couples and four people are dragged into a "desperate situation" in this decisive way, he is actually asking what the bottom line of "love" is?

At this time, the four people no longer simply stand on the standpoint of their respective families, but are placed on the balance of life and love.

What the left and right are struggling with is not just a superficial ethical issue, but a precious sequence issue of "love" in human nature.

What Wang Xiaoshuai throws out is the torture of "human nature".

The answer may be different for everyone. Some people put love above family affection, some people put family affection above love, some people put ethics above life, and some...

And he chose life above all else. With love, people can get out of any predicament.

In 2006, Wang Xiaoshuai entered the forty-year-old mark, a life stage that had to be admitted as "middle age".

Before that, his immersion and state may have been in "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle".

Therefore, for him, "Left and Right", which he can almost "empathize with", is a part of his release of his feelings at this stage.

Therefore, in the film, he almost did not try to cater to the public and increasingly "trafficized" the market aesthetic of "appearance is king", but tried his best to return "people" to the characters.

In addition to handing over Dong Fan to the slightly "better" actor Yu Nan, the weak and pitiful Liu Weiwei will be chosen to play Mei Zhu, the vicissitudes of life and despair Cheng Taishen will be chosen to play Lao Xie, and the actor who is born with " "Honest Face" Zhang Jia plays the role of Xiao Lu.

And they are not given any bright "modification" at all, and even the pictures are gray, to the point of looking extremely depressing.

Trying to tell this story from the real visual perspective of "ordinary people".

Because in fact we are all ordinary people, but the more ordinary we are, the stronger we will be in the face of huge difficulties in the slow-flowing life. It is an ordinary emotion that belongs to ordinary people. .

Just like the "crazy" Mei Zhu in the story.

In my opinion, she was "wrong", but as a wife, not as a mother.

Because the "love" belonging to a wife should be responsible for her husband and her own family, it has the bottom line of at least monogamy, so she was wrong.

However, when she became a mother, she stood on the opposite side of this "love".

Although Wang Xiaoshuai's handling of this aspect was too rough and he just "willfully" followed the trend, so naturally, Mei Zhu's identity as a mother, in the eyes of the public, It's awkward and has a bit of "gangster logic".

Even if the "ethical dilemma" set earlier is life above all else.

But the problem is that this behavior actually ignores the rights of another life, the child who is about to be born to save his sister, as a free person.

This reminds me of a book I read before, "Sister's Keeper". The sister in it was also born as a glorified "guardian". In fact, her birth was just a thing that could save her sister. It is just a "tool" of life, so when the sister was really born, she became it in the eyes of her mother, a "life-saving medicine" that could ignore her "human nature" and had no future.

And this is Mei Zhu, and it is also the "mother's logic" that puts motherhood first in life at this time - as long as my child is alive, I can do everything, and I don't care about anything else.

Therefore,

When a wife is living as a mother, she is a "warrior", a hero who can do anything for her children and charge into battle, even though there will be sacrifices.

For her at this time, there was no dilemma between right and left. No matter which way she took, she hoped that the end of that road would be to save her daughter.

Therefore, in the eyes of the public, Mei Zhu’s request is such a challenge to the ethical limit and “three wrong views”.

Because what everyone sees is a wife's "cheating", a woman's betrayal, and an ethical "only choice" that can be ignored.

The reason for this is that we are all ordinary people, so we have the chronic diseases of human nature - prejudice, sympathy for the weak, and ignoring the strong, such as the courage of Mei Zhu, who is obviously stronger.

At the end, they pulled away from "Pan", lay on the red bed, and sank into the red quilt, sweating profusely.

At that moment the piano sound sounded, they seemed to be suddenly relieved, and a look of hope began to creep up on their faces...

In recent years, I have become more and more fond of watching old movies, because many times , when a new movie is released, there will be too many "voices" around, which not only affects one's independent judgment, but also obscures many things, such as the profound meaning of "Left and Right".

It is true that Wang Xiaoshuai's handling in "Left and Right" was far less mature than that in "Eternal Life", because he was also "entering middle age for the first time."

But at least, he "saw" the image of his mother here. Even though the treatment was very blunt, it was rare in the "movie industry" dominated by the male perspective.

Just like his original intention - believe because of love.

Trust me, "Left and Right" is worth watching.