A famous director is a famous director, and it is really extraordinary when he makes a shot.
Following "Dog Thirteen", "Scorching Sun", and "The Murderer Chaser", director Cao Baoping brought another of his masterpieces"Wading through the Sea of Wrath".
The cast of the film is quite eye-catching, not only with the actor Huang Bo's passionate performance, but also the wonderful performance of the actress Zhou Xun, as well as the joining of two promising young actors Zhou Yi and Zhang Youhao, which is also another partnership between the two after "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy".
In terms of the narration of the story, this film adopts the form of double lines interspersed back and forth, slowly revealing the truth behind the story. Not only that, but there is also a very interesting point in the plot of the film, that is: what you think is only what you think.
This is true not only for the audience, but also for the characters in the film.
In the film, Huang Bo plays a divorced father with a baby Jin Meteorite, he lives on the sea, most of the time is floating on the sea, his daughter Nana is his only pride, everyone praises him for having a good daughter when they see him.
In his eyes, Nana is a well-behaved and sensible child. Once, because she wanted to talk to him, Nana waited by his bedside until he woke up. Nana's move is still unforgettable for him.
However, it was such a daughter who he regarded as his pride, but suddenly disappeared while studying in Japan.
As a father, he left behind 30 fishing boats and flew directly to Japan to find out the whereabouts of his daughter. But who knew that it was the news of his daughter's death.
In the morgue, when he saw his daughter's tragic condition, his first reaction was not grief, but vomiting. Afraid of being bumped into, he took off his coat and wiped the vomit on the ground.
At first glance, this detail does not reflect the meaning of the description, and it is not until the revelation of the ending that the meaning is understood. If Jin Meteorite really cared about his daughter, maybe this tragedy wouldn't have happened.
Not only that, in the face of his daughter's death, what made him angry was not the cruelty of **, but the trampling on his dignity. He believes that by ravaging and killing his daughter, he is undoubtedly crushing his only pride on the ground.
So, under the influence of his pride, he launched a crazy revenge action against Li Miaomiao.
After returning to China, Jin Meteorite first found Li Miaomiao's father's home and made a fuss, but returned in vain. With the appearance of Li Miaomiao's mother, he stared at the other party again.
Li Miaomiao's mother knew that her son had offended a madman, so after finding him, she hid him and prepared to send him out of the country.
But just when she was ready, the golden meteorite came. So, the two of them chased me on the highway, but they didn't know that the sky was not beautiful, not only the wind was fierce, but also the rain of fish, which caused the two vehicles to accidentally get into a car accident.
Fortunately, the gold meteorite was not seriously injured, and he managed to climb out of the car. Li Miaomiao's mother couldn't move on the side, calling for help from him, but he couldn't open the door, so he could only look for something that could pry the door in the scattered items around him.
Who knows, this time he found Li Miaomiao, who had been looking for a long time, and he dragged Li Miaomiao out of the car, ignoring Li Miaomiao's mother's heart-rending cry.
While catching Li Miaomiao, he also showed a long-lost smile. This revenge is not so much for his daughter as for himself, as the police officer in the film asks him, is his daughter really biological?
Indeed, what he did didn't look like what a father would do, because a father who loves his daughter deeply will not easily show his daughter to others.
And this is the biggest tragedy hidden in the film.
From the beginning to the end of the film, Golden Meteorite has always been a father figure who avenges his daughter, but as the truth emerges, his image collapses instantly.
Looking at his almost crazy behavior, everyone thought that he loved his daughter sincerely, but they didn't know that it was he who caused this tragedy.
Nana is a child whose father doesn't hurt and her mother doesn't love, and from her point of view, her parents never care about her, she is just a burden to them. After her parents divorced, she was sent to her mother by her father, but her mother was unwilling to take her in, and she had no choice but to return to her father's side.
But her father always seemed so impatient with her, and for the sake of her so-called pride, she always lived under high pressure. And fearing that she would be abandoned again, she had to learn to be sensible.
It is the painful memories of her childhood that gradually distort her into a person who desperately longs for love. But she wanted to be loved, but she didn't know how to love, because no one had ever taught her, and she thought that death was love, so she finally gave her life to prove her love.
The movie uses one tragedy to cover up another huge tragedy, making the core of the story heavier and heavier.
both tell the audience that a family without love is destined to only bloom withered flowers, such as Nana and Li Miaomiao in the film;At the same time, it shows the meaning of the word "sensible" in an alternative way. The so-called sensible is nothing more than the child sacrificing himself in exchange, for example, Nana is obviously covered by a towel and is out of breath, but she still has to endure it because she wants to be loved.
And these are the reasons why the film can get out of the circle.