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In order to identify the culprit, the policeman Ma Zhe (played by Zhu Yilong) investigated a series of people, and they died one after another.
Death excludes suspects one by one, and the real ** is just a madman?Ma Zhe's mind and will were constantly beaten, and at some point, he also sank into a nightmare. The movie "Mistake by the River" is being screened, let's clear the fog by the river together!
The story takes place in a small southern town in the **10s, Ma Zhe is a "strong" policeman who loves to wear leather jackets, and is arranged by the director to work in an abandoned movie theater.
What can happen in an ordinary town is mostly trivial things, but by the river in this town, a ** case and rapid rain hit at the same time.
A mother-in-law died by the river, with a machete wound, Ma Zhe organized an investigation overnight, and found that the deceased had raised a madman before his death.
The madman naturally has the greatest suspicion, and Ma Zhe has doubts, follows all clues, and has found everyone who has been to the river on the day of the crime - including a girl who fell in love and poetry, and a big wave in high heels.
Ma Zhe kept doubting and overturning his suspicions, and at the same time revealed more and more secrets, until the madman killed a second man and ran into the street with blood and was arrested.
At this point, ** is not over. What exactly caused the deaths?Ma Zhe, who has always pursued the truth, can he reach the end?
In his first appearance in the film, the madman spreads his coat on the surface of the river and puts stones on it without saying a word, he looks somewhat harmless, and we can't be sure of his motive like Ma Zhe. Instead, the sound of "macro" made from the tape left by the river by the girl's lover is as strange as the soul.
And another big wave that has been to the river, it turned out to be a man with a transvestite, who committed suicide by jumping off a building, and landed precisely on the roof of Ma Zhe's car. Ma Zhe's self-righteous and logical pursuit caused more deaths. Doctors also determined that his unborn child had a possible birth defect.
In the face of the impermanence of fate, man is powerless. He drifts into a trance, falling into a nightmare of dead souls in an abandoned theater, unable to tell whether the shooting of a madman is a hallucination.
At the end of the film, in the warm light, Ma Zhe bathes the baby, and the baby puts the duckling toy on the water, just like the madman used to behave.
Is Ma Zhe crazy?Is the child normal?Perhaps, as in the case of the truth that Ma Zhe is seeking, there is no answer, and all our conjectures are just rainwater sinking into the river.
As a literary film, with a box office of more than 100 million yuan, and won the best film at the Pingyao Film Festival, how can "The Mistake by the River" not be considered fame and fortune?
The film is adapted from Yu Hua's novella of the same name**, one of the representative works of avant-garde literature, which infiltrates Yu Hua's literary concept, with a strong style and a little black humor in addition to absurdity.
"The Mistake by the River" experienced the failure of the adaptation of two directors and two companies, and was finally extradited by Wei Shujun, a post-90s director, and received praise from countless film critics.
Director Wei Shujun entered Cannes at a young age, and the film was shortlisted for the Cannes "Un Certain Regard" unit, and its adaptation added a lot of details to the original story.
Not only is the richness of the character setting, but also the realism of the scene layout, and the shooting with film superimposes the retro texture of the picture. In order to play the protagonist Ma Zhe, the new Golden Rooster actor Zhu Yilong first gained weight and then lost weight, with a weight change of more than 40 pounds before and after, and sunken cheeks in the later stage, which perfectly adapted to the crazy drama.
The birth of this masterpiece, the story of Yu Hua, Wei Shujun's bold scheduling and Zhu Yilong's apt performance are all indispensable.
Corresponding to the avant-garde nature of **, this is also an anti-genre movie, which seems to be suspenseful at the beginning, but it is not actually making suspense reasoning.
Not only is the logic of reasoning not rigorous, but many of the episodes are also very abrupt, which highlights the arrogance of fate and the absurdity of reality. In the river of life, experience is greater than logic, and fate is above all else.
Instead of guessing with your brain, it is better to go crazy with your heart, and it is precisely because of madness that this film is moving.