Is "Blind Mountain" good to watch? How is the plot?

Blind Mountain》Many people may not know it. Because it is difficult to download online. It tells how a trafficked female college student staged a great escape, and her perseverance can be said to be the Chinese female version of "prison escape."

Trafficking women is no longer a new thing, but what the movie shows , but it is far more than just the phenomenon of trafficking in women. It's about exploring the blind spots of society and human nature.

This is a movie that needs to be watched quietly, but you can't calm down after watching it. It opens with silent subtitles, without any background sound. Because it is a documentary-style video, the soundtrack only included a few local folk songs. The last few sentences are particularly true: "...it is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, the east wind is powerless and the flowers are withered..."! On one side of the picture are crying children and running pursuers, and on the other side is a woman who finally escaped from the prison. The poetic lyrics only express the bitter and helpless life.

Life in "Blind Mountain" is bitter, because human attributes are multi-faceted, just like "a ridge when viewed from the side and a peak from the side." As an ethical person, carrying on the family line has been the first major event for thousands of years, so poor men swear like a curse at wedding banquets: "Whoever doesn't drink this wine will be a bachelor for the rest of his life, and his sons and grandsons will also be beaten." Bachelors, I will remain bachelors in my next life!" His fear and fear of bachelors have penetrated history and penetrated deep into his bones! As a person who rules by law, because trafficking in women is an unquestionable illegality, once many obstacles are overcome, public security personnel still have to climb over the blind mountain to rescue them. As a commodity, since people are bought with money, they can leave if they don’t want to stay, but the money must be paid back. As animals, both men and women have desires, but women have an extra layer of motherhood, so when they are rescued, some women refuse to leave - because she is a mother and cannot listen to the cries of her children!

It is so intricate and complex that the intertwined conflicts of various attributes have resulted in many things that cannot be explained, explained, controlled, or helped. Just like what is often mentioned in the film, "I don't know what you are doing either." Who is telling the truth?" Therefore, although the female college students have repeatedly informed people about the advantages and disadvantages of the law, they are still abducted, so what, there are more people abducted! Although it was obviously a reproductive tool that was purchased by force, her "mother-in-law" still "reasoned" again and again - woman, you will marry whoever you marry, "marry" to my son, we will not treat you badly. ! Although he resisted and ran away again and again, he gradually became more at ease after having children. Although the postman repeatedly accepted the distress letters entrusted to him by women, he only left a little hope for her, and then turned around and handed the letters to the man who bought her.

The conflict between civilization and barbarism is an important theme of the film. The female college student is a symbol of civilization. The big reason why she decided to leave here until she died instead of staying for the sake of her children like other women is that she regarded this place as a barbaric place. It’s out of place here! The cowardly elementary school teacher "Huang Decheng" (what a meaningful name) who only had a high school education finally chose to leave. But civilization and barbarism are sometimes blurred. Although her knowledge is the greatest here, she was still abducted here from the civilized world by civilized people. It can be seen that knowledge is sometimes a double-edged sword, which can both help and harm others. The postmen, tax collectors, village committee leaders and other civil servants who have contact with the outside world are undoubtedly symbols of civilization, but they still turn a blind eye to what is going on in the Blind Mountain, facing the women who knock on the windows and shout. , I can only say, "We have no control over your family's affairs." In this blind mountain, many things are vague, but this is too pessimistic. After all, a primary school student taught by a female college student in this blind mountain helped her send a letter of distress and was the biggest contributor to her rescue. Perhaps, this can be seen as the director’s hope for civilization.

Director Li Yang has repeatedly emphasized that he shot this film just to show the complexity of people and the blind spots in life, so there is no clear black and white binary distinction between things in "Blind Mountain". There is a very absurd metaphor. The escaped woman asked an old man carrying firewood where the road was in a blind mountain. The old man pointed it to her without hesitation. In the next shot, the pursuer asked the old man where he saw a person. The woman ran over, but the old man pointed it out to them without hesitation! "I don't mean to expose the ugly side of us Chinese people. Such things happen all over the world.

I'm just exposing human nature! "Li Yang said this, because he also has his blind spots. The only thing he can do is to be like the old man and point out whatever he has to everyone who watches the video! Even if this is a tragedy, it is better than not pointing it out or acknowledging it. Its existence is better!

According to the description of "Blind Mountain" when it was released in France: "During the fierce tug, the desperate and helpless Bai Xuemei picked up a kitchen knife and pointed it at the man who was beating her father. The 'husband' was chopped off - the film ended abruptly here! "The ending of the domestic release was that Bai Xuemei was finally rescued by the police and kept the child; the other two trafficked women chose to stay! Regarding the editing and adjustment of the video content, the director explained this way: "I think This is a process of mutual compromise. As an artist, I may not be able to be so sharp in order for the film to be released in China, but if this can be exchanged for the film being released, I think it is worth it. "In a certain environment, artistic creation may be like what the woman in the film said, "Life is like this, sometimes you can take care of this but not the other"!

Since life is mentioned, The issue of human nature has been mentioned, so after watching the film, we should think carefully: Whose blind mountain is this bitter and helpless life? How did the blind mountain come to be? It can only be said that you and I are both in the blind mountain? Among them, the blind mountain was built by ourselves, so we also suffered from the consequences of habitual indifference, the inaction of relevant personnel, and the gap in civilization... These deep-seated problems are definitely not caused by a few people. This needs to be faced by people living in the blind mountains together!

If you have been living in a "civilized" city, then you can never imagine the wilderness in the mountain village! : Backwardness, ignorance, ignorance, and barbarism can all be seen in the mountain villages in the film.

But it also reflects another side of the villagers' thoughts: ethics and filial piety. But you can't hate those ignorant villagers, because they are faced with a hurdle that they will never be able to overcome.

There are three types of unfilial piety, and having no offspring is the most important thing in Chinese culture since ancient times. Precipitated teachings

Why abduction and trafficking of women and children occurs? In the final analysis, it is to continue the family line

When poverty deprived them of this right, they chose another solution. Where there is demand, there must be supply, so there is trafficking.

The curse that the man Huang Degui made with the men from the same village at the wedding banquet showed their hatred and hatred for being single. Fear

"Whoever doesn't drink this wine will be a bachelor for the rest of his life, and he will be a bachelor in the next life, and his son will also be a bachelor!" What a vicious curse!

I couldn't bear to watch it from the beginning. Yes, this was the natural attitude of the people in the village when they saw the girl arriving. Xuemei was tied up in the house. Her "husband" Huang Degui and his family invited the villagers to hold a wedding banquet outside the house. Degui made a toast, and several children gathered by the window. Looking out the window to see Xuemei struggling on the bed, Xuemei kicked the short Huang Degui out of the house. Huang Degui failed to "get it". He couldn't hold his head high in front of his friends in the village, and even he looked kind-hearted. The old father also scolded him for not being able to handle a woman. So, the old father and the old mother helped their son hold Xuemei down and let his son rape his "wife." Hand your son a cigarette.

This attitude of treating things that are outside the scope of law and morality as normal seems uncomfortable, even if you understand these farmers. Illiterate and legally illiterate, I have long been blinded by the blind mountains around me, but I still feel extremely angry towards these people in my heart, and feel as helpless as Xuemei.

The movie shows. In the meantime, Huang Decheng, who was a teacher in the village primary school, sent Xuemei some magazines to relieve her boredom. He was Huang Degui's cousin. At first, he thought that this man had a good mind. When Decheng introduced his name to Xuemei, he said "Morality" "The virtue of integrity, the sincerity of integrity", I wanted to laugh at that time. After Xuemei was deceived into this remote mountain village where no one could save him and she had no way to escape, someone actually mentioned "morality" and "integrity". , is simply a huge irony. I want to laugh because there is always a hint of hypocrisy in the sincerity of this "brother-in-law". I guess maybe the actor is not good at acting. After all, he really wants to care about this abducted sister-in-law. Because he went to high school and worked as a teacher in a village primary school, he also has some conscience.

When this guy later touched Xuemei's hand, kissed Xuemei's mouth, and fucked Xuemei's body in the name of rescuing Xuemei, he completely understood that the little knowledge he had more than the villagers had been completely used by him. He committed the same immoral behavior as the villagers, and this meager knowledge gave him a mask of conscience. He relies on Xuemei's glimmer of hope to solve his emotional and sexual life, which is horrifying and outrageous.

There are also those who seem to be able to rescue Xuemei, such as tax collectors and postmen, who are also completely colluding with the villagers, because they understand that in this world, everyone is tied by the same rope. grasshopper. The toll collector looked at Xuemei, who was patting the window and calling for help, and said, "This is a family matter, we have nothing to do with it." He turned around and took all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes from Huang Degui's family, saying that Huang Degui was very lucky, and then added, "My wife needs to clean up. It’s the same as charging, you have to pay hard.”

The postman’s attitude towards Xuemei always seemed so polite. Every time Xuemei wrote a letter and handed it to the postman, the postman carefully put it into the mail bag on the back of the bicycle. Here, Xuemei said thank you, but he said no thanks. The problem is that the postman was equally polite to Huang Degui. He accepted the plump old hen from Huang Degui and handed Xuemei's letter to Huang Degui. When the postman first appeared, a smile appeared on Xuemei's face. When the lead actor Huang Lu performed, the smile was so fierce that I thought Xuemei had run out of hope at this time and was laughing at everyone. They all colluded to create an inescapable trap for all the purchased wives. Later, they found out that the smile was a sign that Xuemei saw hope again, because she thought she could write a letter and ask the postman to deliver it out of the mountain.

In order to escape, Xuemei finally figured out how to use her body as capital. In addition to her "morality and integrity", she also used her body to exchange fifty yuan with the canteen owner. He counter-offered to forty yuan, and she took the money, but still didn't leave.

Women.

Women seem to be born to marry a husband and have children, and to become a man's accessory

Huang Degui's mother has always wanted to persuade Bai Xuemei to settle down

"Women You can marry anyone, but if you marry my son, my family will not treat you badly." As a woman, Huang Degui's mother stood on her son's side. Not only that, she also asked several women from the same village who were also abducted and who had resigned themselves to their fate to be lobbyists

"Since this is the case, you want to be more open-minded" Can we just accept our fate? . But Huang Degui's mother sympathized with Bai Xuemei and refused to let her son beat her. She also added egg custard to Bai Xuemei's rice. After Bai Xuemei was raped by her son, she said, "I can't help it. You will understand when you have a baby."

Of course, Huang Degui's mother's sympathy for Bai Xuemei is based on the idea of ????keeping a future for the Huang family.

The villagers' indifference, habitual behavior and even helping the evildoers are also shocking.

The village director said to Bai Xuemei: "You said you were cheated, how can you prove it?"

Bai Xuemei asked the postman to help her send letters, and sent her letters in hope again and again. , but the postman handed all the letters to Huang Degui

When the tax collector mentioned above came to collect taxes, when faced with Bai Xuemei’s request for help, he said: We have no control over your family’s affairs

When Bai Xuemei escaped again and again, the villagers played the role of chasing her

Even when the police came to take Bai Xuemei away, the whole village surrounded the police car with hoes. Huang Degui’s mother also You have to sit in front of the wheel and threaten death

The law is worthless in the mountain village. "Who can marry a wife for free if you sit in prison?" Huang Degui is worth it

Li Yang is very ambitious. He wants to show more things in the movie

The poverty of the villagers is not without reason. In addition to being located in the mountains, the management system is also a bigger factor.

There is also a fee. Even if Huang Degui’s family stopped raising pigs two months ago, he still has to pay the fee. The tax officer said that this is the director’s rule.

The mountain is high and the emperor is far away. A director can set the fees, which shows the corruption of the local government.

When a higher-level government official comes to inspect, the village director hangs a banner at the entrance of the village to welcome the superior's inspection. Work, and also broadcast to the villagers: Don’t talk nonsense about what you shouldn’t say. Anyone who damages the reputation and image of our village will be responsible for all the consequences!!

Those abducted women were even sent to They took refuge in the mountains, and visiting officials praised the beauty of the place. . .

The ending of the overseas version of this movie is that the desperate Bai Xuemei raises a knife and attacks Huang Degui, but in the domestic version, Bai Xuemei is rescued by the police with the help of the child Li Qingshan

Probably Li Yang wanted it to be staged smoothly in China. After all, what this movie reflects is too heavy.

Chinese film censorship system, the previous ban of "Blind Well" may have made Li Yang wary. Personally, I think the ending of the overseas version may be more meaningful, because in the progress of the plot, the foreshadowing has been laid

When Huang Degui was washing his hair, he asked Bai Xuemei to get a towel and cursed loudly. Bai Xuemei was thinking about it with the knife hand. He lifted it up, but immediately put it down. . .

Women’s natural motherhood is also fully reflected in the movie

The abducted woman Chen Chunli said: It’s better to accept your fate. Anyway, I won’t run away. I have two babies, even if I What should I do if I run out?

When the police raided to rescue people, Bai Xuemei still wanted to run with her child in her arms

In the car, Chen Chunli gave up because she heard the cry of the child behind her. She chose to stay when she had the chance to be rescued

Bai Xuemei stretched out the car window and kept looking in the direction of the village. . .

We may feel sorry for Chen Chunli, but as a mother, her choice is undoubtedly the right one.

The domestic version I saw finally made people breathe a sigh of relief. The real version in Li Yang's mind must have an ending that completely blocks the exit, as was Morgan in "Seven Deadly Sins". Freeman believed the second half of the sentence "The world is beautiful and worth fighting for", but in this brutal ending, it cannot be believed at all. It is conceivable that only in this way can this "Blind Mountain" become more completely blind.