Tragic movies of immigrants

Last night, the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards ended.

The biggest winner-

Xun Mei in the blood

In the nomination stage, 13 finalists took the lead, and * * * won seven awards, including Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Male Matching and Female Matching.

Aaron Kwok was nominated five times and finally reached the top.

This film has attracted much attention since it was nominated for nine Golden Horse Awards last year.

When it comes to it, it is almost inseparable from this attribute-

Best Hong Kong Film of the Year

However, this is still a "third-rate movie".

Even in Hong Kong, Malaysia and other places, abridged versions of less than 100 minutes have been shown.

However, the Hong Kong media revealed that when the film was released in Hong Kong, it also saved the life of a fan-

A Aaron Kwok fan from mainland China had planned to commit suicide after watching Xun Mei, who was starred by an idol.

But after reading it, I decided to go on living.

He left a message on the Internet: Wang Jiamei died for me once.

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Can this story, which consists of dark elements such as calling prostitutes, killing people and dismembering bodies, even "save lives"?

Where is the magic?

Sir, let me tell you the secret-

(Note: Some materials are quoted from an article about "Walking in Xun Mei" written by "Poisonous Tongue Movie" last year 10).

Xun Mei's Walking Blood was originally named Xun Mei's Walking Snow.

Wang Jiamei's dismemberment case, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong in 2008, was adapted from the story of a 17-year-old girl being dismembered.

Mei, refers to the girl's broken body.

On April 27th, 2008, Wang Jiamei, a 7-year-old girl who immigrated to Hong Kong from Hunan with her family, met Ding Qitai, 24, online.

Ding Qitai, who was unemployed at home and weighed more than 200 kilograms, accidentally strangled the emaciated Wang Jiamei during sex.

In order to cover up the crime, Ding Qitai spent six hours shredding the body.

Then put the head in a styrofoam box, take Kowloon Bus Line 6C to Kowloon City Pier and throw the body into the sea.

Seeing this passage, Mr. Wang's first reaction was "Flower of Darkness", a gangster Dong Yao who dragged his head around with an Adidas bag.

Ding Qitai is colder-

After that, I went home and threw away the bloody sheets and kitchen knives, and took more than 4,000 yuan from Wang Jiamei's wallet to take a shower and sleep.

I contacted another girl online that day.

After being arrested, Ding Qitai said that he felt that the process of dismemberment was abnormal and he couldn't bear to look at the face of the deceased when dismembering, so-

Some bodies were even distributed to nearby market stalls.

At that time, Hong Kong once caused a panic of cannibalism.

The case was finalized on July 27, 2009, and the murderer Ding Qitai was sentenced to life imprisonment.

It is not difficult to see that the case itself is bizarre enough.

As long as it is basically restored and adapted, it will "speculatively" add some elements of sexual violence.

There must be a lot of audience support.

But director Weng Ziguang didn't want to-

He doesn't want to turn it into a crime mystery film full of gimmicks.

Even the process of solving the case has no intention of rendering.

From the beginning, Xun Mei clearly told the audience who was the murderer.

The process of committing the crime is clear.

Compared with Who Killed Someone, the director is more concerned about the role of Aaron Kwok as a policeman-why did he kill someone?

I don't want to know why you killed someone.

I just want to know why.

In the movie, this case is divided into four parts-

Xun Mei, a lonely man, walks in a pool of blood and can see the scenery.

With the gradual deepening of police investigation, the social genes behind the tragedy were excavated from the perspective of new immigrant girls and unemployed murderers in the mainland.

Aaron Kwok police officer Zang Sir is a workaholic. He seldom cares about his family and is abandoned by his wife.

He has a quirk in handling cases-

I like to take a photo at the crime scene with Polaroid camera as a souvenir.

In the face of cruelty, he will not rush to make moral judgments, but will be interested in the origin of the characters in the case and try to figure out their lives before the accident.

There's only one reason-

In fact, I really want to believe that the killer will not be a demon.

Wang Jiamei, a young girl who plays in spring and summer, has a very rich inner world.

On the surface, she is a "kind, intelligent and considerate girl" praised by her neighbors (Wang Jiamei also got such an evaluation in a real case).

But before immigrating to Hong Kong, she lived with her mother's stepfather and dropped out of school for economic reasons, which made her feel very depressed.

Hard work, often scolded by the boss.

Not used to wearing high heels, I fell on the street.

Before the incident, she asked a question about self-harm at the dinner table.

There is something wrong with your eyes.

Why did she cut herself with a knife?

Ding, the murderer, is an unemployed truck driver who lives alone in an apartment in Shek Kip Mei Street and has no friends.

I can't erase the shadow of seeing my mother die in a car accident.

He and Wang Jiamei met online and hit it off immediately-

Tell Ding that she wants to die.

I am not afraid of death, because living will hurt and living will hate.

Living is thinking about how to get better every day.

I really want to be strong, but I will be very tired.

Especially when you're alone.

So Ding "fulfilled" her.

This is Weng Ziguang's change of reality.

There is such a passage in the script outline-

The same ugliness, the same lack of money, the same lack of family warmth, help each other in the same boat, and finally the parties mistakenly think that they killed the girl in order to bring relief to each other.

So you see, in the movie, when Ding tells about the killing process, the expression on his face is more vacant than calm.

In the movie, the murder is more like two people enjoying each other with lonely hearts.

In the film, Wang Jiamei's favorite song is Sammi Cheng's "Dolls See the World"-

Now I continue to make a fuss every day, but I am eager to be a simple person in my dream.

She can't choose how to live, so she chooses how to die.

Weng Ziguang went through many twists and turns to film Xun Mei.

As early as 20 1 1, his script won the HAF award (hong kong Asian film investment association), but it was postponed several times because of the disagreement with investors.

Investors were very excited when they heard that he was going to shoot the dismembered body case at first, and they all wanted to shoot the sensory stimulation of curiosity and sell it in the mainland-

Weng Ziguang can't accept this plan.

Many media describe it from a curious perspective.

But what he wants is the story behind it-

Hunan women don't adapt to life in Hong Kong, which involves the new immigration policy, but we will always only see how bloody and abnormal the case is in the newspaper.

Weng Ziguang has always wanted to make "a 100% Hong Kong movie".

This idea runs through his works.

The first novel, Bright Time, describes the changes in Hong Kong in the past ten years.

20 13 the little girl of friendship vividly describes the life of underage girls in hong kong.

In Xun Mei, he wants to talk about social problems such as new immigrants, work pressure, information explosion and Hongkong.

Aaron Kwok plays Zang Sir. In the process of investigating the case, he is actually looking for what Hong Kong people have lost.

The producer of Xun Mei once commented that Weng Ziguang was a "dangerous director".

But Weng Ziguang doesn't admit-

If movies are just icing on the cake for the public, they will also become poison.

If people are out of control, it is often the most exposed essence.

Then, appalling crimes and exposure are also common hidden wounds in this society.

The murderer Ding's words may be the key to our interpretation of this film:

I don't hate Mei Jia at all, nor do I hate women.

What I hate is people.

Finally, Mr. Wang would like to say a few more words about the results of last night's Oscar awards-

As everyone knows, the best movie is a sensitive word.

Frankly speaking, in this case, what Sir sees is the relatively fair selection mechanism of the Academy Awards (one person, one vote, no one can interfere with the result) and the absolute respect of the organizing committee for the final result.

Watching the live broadcast of drug friends, you should hear Dong Chengyi, chairman of the organizing committee, quote President Roosevelt-

What we should fear is fear itself.

But in an interview with the media today, Dong Chengyi bluntly said-

Personally, I am very opposed to religious and political interference in movies, because doing so will make the art of movies not simple.

Jiang Wen has a saying that is particularly good-

Compared with art, politics is small, or art is bigger.

Almost every one of Jiang Wen's works can interpret the political metaphor of mountains and mountains.

But that's not why we like Jiang Wen.

Return the movie to the movie.

Similarly, when watching Xun Mei, maybe we should forget that it is a third-rate movie.

Is it just consumer violence and sex?

Or use this as a knife to break the life full of lies, present a more real texture behind the incident, and grasp the faint and trembling light and darkness in the depths of human nature.

The latter is really bold and energetic.

Is the reason why we are really worth looking forward to.