Tell me about it.

This is a magical film directed by Jiang Wen. Except what is clearly explained in the film, the audience can guess for themselves. There are 1000 small villages for 1000 readers.

Lao Tang (Jiang Wen) is a playboy who once joined the army and is a war hero. Lao Liang (Huang Qiusheng) is his best friend and colleague. He is also a versatile person and is very popular with girls. At the same time, they fell in love with Tang's wife (Kong Wei), who later married Lao Tang. Lao Liang chased him for three years and they got engaged, but in the end, Lao Tang moved Kong Wei with only one letter. Kong Wei married Lao Tang, and Lao Liang was depressed. She touches a woman's ass through a wedding, and the folk customs are open. This is 1958. At the same time, crazy mom (Zhou Yun) is pregnant with Lao Tang's son. Because of his romantic nature, Lao Tang cheated his lover, crazy mother, and had sex under the guise of a war hero aura. At this time, Lao Tang used an alias: Li. Later, in order to get rid of his crazy mother, Lao Tang fabricated false news about his death. There is a package of letters in the relic, but it is not addressed to crazy mother, and there are three women's braids. Crazy mom is not stupid, knowing that she has been cheated, so she keeps saying "I know I know", but she has no choice but to call him Alesha to lie to herself. So the tragedy of crazy mother began. It is conceivable how an unmarried mother survived with an illegitimate child in that era. She may have thought about suicide, or she may have intentionally thrown off the train after giving birth to her son, but great maternal love stopped her. She stopped the train and ran frantically along the tracks to find her son.

Mad Mom and her illegitimate captain (Fang Zuming), led by policemen Li Shuli and Li Congxi, came all the way to Lao Tang's hometown and lived for 18 years, expecting to wait for Lao Tang's return one day. But a woman with no birthright, in that depressed era, can only stop others' gossip by playing dumb, or refuse to accept the reality and deliberately live in her own fantasy world. In short, in addition, Li Shu, who was kind enough to help her at the beginning, changed her mind when she came back as a volunteer (so the crazy mother told the monitor that Li Shu was dead), probably attracted by her. Her life is very miserable, as you can imagine. She climbs the tree at the head of the village every day, expecting a miracle.

1976, a miracle really happened, and Lao Tang was sent back to his hometown. So crazy mom is not crazy anymore. On the day when Lao Tang came back, she dressed neatly and told the monitor that she would never hit him again, climb trees or dig holes again, and told him to meet people at the village entrance. Old Tang did come back, but not alone, with his wife, so the tragic life of crazy mother came to an end-she jumped into the river and committed suicide. Lao Tang didn't see the woman who had been waiting for him 18 years.

After marriage, Lao Tang and his wife separated, and Lao Tang and Lao Liang were assigned to a university as teachers. Lao Liang can play a good guitar, which is very popular among girls and has many suitors. However, while watching a movie, he touched a woman's ass. In fact, the woman admired him very much and was willing to, but she was still mistaken for a gangster and was chased by everyone, so she broke her leg and lost her dignity. Finally found out the real hooligan. Lao Liang committed suicide after being cleared of his charges. I didn't commit suicide before because I didn't want to die in humiliation. Now I just die with a smile. But it may also be homicide, that is, he died at the hands of Dr. Tang and Dr. Lin (Chen Chong), because Lao Liang accidentally revealed the affair of Dr. Tang and Dr. Lin on the day he was chased. In addition, Lao Liang and Tang's wife are also likely to have an affair. This guess comes from the shotgun, which belongs to Lao Tang. He should have given it to his wife for safekeeping, but he went to Lao Liang's house. At that time, Lao Tang said, "I seem to have seen this gun in Xinjiang" (Lao Liang and Tang's wife are very similar to the story of "Pearl Shirt" in Feng Menglong's San Yan Er Pai), which also increased the possibility of Lao Liang being killed.

After Lao Liang died, Lao Tang was sent back to his hometown for some reason (probably because his affair with Dr. Lin was exposed), and Tang's wife accompanied him. The team leader drove the tractor to pick them up according to mom's crazy mom's meaning. When they returned to the village, the crazy mother had committed suicide by jumping into the river. Except Li Shu, no one else in the village knows that Lao Tang is actually the father of the monitor (because he called the crazy mother a sister-in-law, and he was afraid that another person would tell the monitor the truth). Old Tang takes a group of children hunting and playing the trumpet every day, which is enjoyable. Tang's wife was left out in the cold, and in an age of extreme depression and no entertainment, she could easily have an affair with the team leader. Tang's wife told the monitor that Tang said her belly was like velvet. The adultery was accidentally discovered by Lao Tang. He wanted to kill the monitor with a shotgun, but the monitor didn't know what velvet was. Lao Tang has a principle, that is, never take advantage of people's danger. In order to let the monitor die clearly, he went to Beijing to look for velvet. In fact, this also gives yourself an excuse and time to think, otherwise you don't have to go so far to find it. I found an old friend (Cui Jian) in Beijing, and Cui Jian helped him analyze that the responsibility was not on the captain or his wife, but on himself. Old Tang figured it out and decided not to buy cashmere anymore, and he didn't want to kill the monitor. But the captain himself went out of the village and bought a velvet flag. The naive captain told Lao Tang that his wife's belly was not like velvet. Insulted by his dignity, Lao Tang finally shot and killed the monitor angrily. But he didn't know that it was his own son who committed suicide. Yi tui, Lao Tang will also be sentenced to death for intentional homicide.

In that special era, even the air was depressed, and many people died in this extremely depressed torture for various reasons, such as these characters in the film. But mankind is still prosperous and the sun rises as usual. ...