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During the period from the late 30s to the early 40s of the 20th century, the land of China was experiencing the invasion of external Japanese invaders and the conflict of blood and fire between internal factions, and this war continued, causing countless loss of life. In order to gather critical intelligence, the Communist Party sent Zhou Yi (played by Zhang Jiayi) and Gu Qiuyan (played by Song Jia) disguised as a husband and wife to secretly enter Harbin of the puppet Manchurian forces to conduct espionage activities.
Zhou Yi successfully entered the Special Service Section of the National Police Agency, and with his excellent work skills and the secret support of his superiors, he was appointed as the captain of the Special Operations Team by the puppet Manchurian**. However, his true identity has been questioned by Gao Section Chief (played by Cheng Yu).
During the brutal underground labor, Zhou Yi deeply cares about his wife Sun Yuejian, whom he cannot openly admit, and his son Xiaojiaqiao, who has been separated since childhood, while Gu Qiuyan also cares about her husband Zhang Pingru, who fights the enemy on the battlefield.
In the context of that unique era, it was a unique emotion that is difficult to describe in words in a special relationship. This is a time when we need to love and be loved, and we need to feel it with our hearts. In that environment of loneliness and risk, along with mutual understanding and support, deep emotions will emerge in everyone's hearts.
Although the two of them lived in the same room and shared a daughter, they never crossed any hurdles because of their strong faith and loyalty. Under the spiritual upliftment, their physical desires have also become a brilliant rainbow beyond life.
1. With the passage of time, the relationship will gradually deepen, and after the precipitation of time, it will eventually be transformed into deep family affection.
Zhou Yi, a man who already had a wife and son, in order to follow the organization's arrangement, disguised himself as husband and wife with Gu Qiuyan, a reporter who also had a husband and was pregnant, and went deep into the enemy camp to cooperate. Although Gu Qiuyan was initially reluctant to play the role of "wife", there was no real emotional bond between her and Zhou Yi, the disguised husband. Although they openly declared themselves husband and wife every day, when they stood guard at the door of their homes, they found themselves comrades of the revolution.
Out of deep concern for female comrades and his status as their respective partners, Zhou Yi let Gu Qiuyan lie on the soft and comfortable bed every night since then, while he chose to rest on the recliner in the study.
Because Gu Qiuyan was not experienced enough in underground activities, she made mistakes repeatedly, but almost every time, Zhou Yi tried his best to save the situation and successfully defuse the crisis. In the early days, both men hoped that the organization would separate or transfer them away, but after a period of adaptation and running-in, their daily routines gradually changed slightly.
Especially from the moment Zhou Yi was taken away by the Japanese special high school, he returned home late at night and found Gu Qiuyan sitting tremblingly on the stairs of the house waiting for him, and she still held a pistol and grenade in her hand that was ready to go all out. This is the first time that Zhou Yi can't control herself, and walks into the house with her shoulder at home.
Especially since Gu Qiuyan gave birth to her daughter Sasha, the relationship between the two has become more and more obvious because of the changes in the child. For Zhou Yi, although Sasha is not his daughter of blood, she seems to have a deep dependence on him from birth.
The little girl began to cry from night, but only with him she was able to sleep peacefully. This seemingly innate father-daughter relationship, as time passed, the relationship between Zhou Yi and her mother gradually deepened.
According to Zhou Yi's description, because he couldn't spend time with his son for a long time, the relationship between the two gradually became cold, and they could no longer even have love. The birth of Sasha gradually inspired Zhou Yi's deep fatherly love, making it difficult to control.
Although he tried his best to control his feelings for Gu Qiuyan, his deep affection for Sasha was like treating his own daughter, which was difficult to hide.
Although Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan have lived together under the same roof for 6 years, they have never had intimate contact, and there are few sweet words in private at home.
In daily life, interaction with the outside world is always accompanied by vigilance and precautions, and only when you return home can you have the opportunity to meet openly or have a deep conversation, so that you can release your inner depression.
In this disguised family environment, the affection between the two gradually deepens over time. Clear-eyed viewers can clearly feel that Zhou Yi's concern for Gu Qiuyan and her mother has gone beyond simple comradeship.
The deep affection from the heart is a kind of family affection between people that is difficult to get rid of after a long period of accumulation. During the war years, he and she were classmates, studying Xi in the same school. According to Gu Qiuyan's later description, if she had a partner in spirit, it would be Zhou Yi. His gentle and considerate personality helped her a lot in her life. She had also expressed her hope that after the war was won, the children of the two families would come together as husband and wife, and that the two families would be able to maintain contact permanently.
Zhou Yi's personality is similar to this, although he has a strong will, even on the surface he seems cold, he hides the love in his heart, but in the end, in order to protect the lives of Gu Qiuyan and her mother, he decides to give up the good time with his wife and son and risk his life to return to his and Gu Qiuyan's home.
Zhou Yi's behavior is already obvious, and he has successfully completed the task assigned by the organization. Without hesitation, he returned to the enemy's stronghold, which was completely instinctively erupted by a man with a high sense of responsibility in order to save his wife and children, showing sincere feelings that did not care about personal life and death.
2. In the face of faith, all friendship and human nature seem to become insignificant.
In the enemy's camp, Zhou Yi and Ren Changchun, a police officer who regarded him as his brother, and Gao Bin, the head of the police department who was skeptical of everything, had developed a deep personal friendship in their daily lives and work, but it was all based on the premise that the red line of revolutionary faith could not be touched.
However, at the critical moment when the lives of comrades who matched his beliefs and ideals were in danger, Zhou Yi did not hesitate to sacrifice his feelings and ordered Gu Qiuyan, his "sister-in-law" who was also trusted by Ren Changchun, to eliminate Ren Changchun, who was born poor and chose the police only because of his family's poor economic situation.
Officer Ren, a young man who had great trust in Zhou Yi and was obedient, would have been a candidate for Zhou Yi's plan to betray the same revolutionary team if time permitted. But he eventually gave up. At the moment when Zhou Yi gave Gu Qiuyan an order, Gu Qiuyan's heart was full of pity, and she asked Zhou Yi many times if she still had a chance to fight for him.
In view of the current precarious situation, time can no longer wait in any way. His hands were shaking and his eyes were waterling. From Zhou Yi's complex facial expressions and his tone full of helplessness, we can clearly feel that he made such a cold-blooded and ruthless decision out of deep concern for the safety of his comrades.
He witnessed a little girl in the hallway of his workplace who had come to receive a pension and had lost her parents, becoming indifferent to eating cold buns. Shockingly, the girl's traitor parents were none other than Zhou Yi, and the information they provided about the rape was brutally killed.
In the torture room, Zhou Yi witnessed the harsh torture of ** comrades who shared his beliefs. On the execution ground, he saw his comrades calmly shot and re-fired by the firing squad. Despite the fact that he felt helpless many times and his heart was full of pain, his outward appearance still showed a cold and uncaring attitude.
Zhou Yi's heart, although it seems ruthless on the surface, in fact, his heart has always been tormented and tortured like hell.
After he was arrested, in a private conversation with Gao Bin, Section Chief Gao wanted to keep Zhou Yi out of personal feelings and appreciation for Zhou Yi. But when asked about the belief that "you can even kill your own comrades", Zhou Yi's response was: You may not understand, but this is our belief.
Some of our comrades, precisely out of deep faith, in order to achieve their ultimate goal and provide cover for their more critical comrades, would rather use the power of their comrades in front of the enemy and are willing to pay with their lives, which is undoubtedly a powerful spiritual pillar. Faith is not an ethereal thing at any time, it can bring spiritual inspiration to people, motivate people to pursue and struggle. Faith is also a supporter of this power.
The deep affection between Gao Bin and Zhou Yi is sincere. Until the last moment of his life, he still hoped to get in touch with the high-ranking **, even Emperor Puyi or the prime minister of Japan, through his personal relationship with Zhou Yi. Gao Bin hoped that Zhou Yi would survive and continue to play for the puppet state of Manchukuo with him, but Zhou Yi decisively gave up all of this.
In fact, in the deepest part of his psyche, he also had the desire to survive, but he firmly chose to give up his expectations of life.
3. When love and morality conflict, coupled with the lofty attitude of faith, the final action completely exposes the true nature of man after the release of all.
After 6 years of ups and downs, especially the deep emotional bond of Sasha, the seeds of love quietly took root and sprouted in the hearts of Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan and buried deeply. Especially when the task was about to be completed and Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan's temporary family was facing the crisis of dissolution, they realized how painful and inseparable it was to erase their deep affection for each other from the depths of their hearts.
From a moral point of view, it is unjust to treat the other party's main room in this way, but under the specific background and experience of that era, their spiritual deviation is uncontrollable.
From emotion to logic, especially Gu Qiuyan, from her eyes and words, she has vaguely expressed her deep affection and dependence on Zhou Yi, and she has regarded Zhou Yi as her most cherished and trusted partner.
Gu Qiuyan, a woman who is both beautiful and intelligent, but also full of sensuality, pride and conceit, is likely to be conquered by men who completely suppress her. And the personality charm exuded by Zhou Yi is what makes her deeply admired and admired.
Zhou Yi, a person who has always been strict and thoughtful, didn't he notice the change in Gu Qiuyan's attitude? He knew she was waiting for an opportunity. He was naturally aware of this, but he always maintained a calm appearance and a rational attitude, suppressing his sincere emotions with a firm will.
Before Zhou Yi failed to complete all the tasks, his sincere feelings for Gu Qiuyan were not released. When he crossed the river on the Sino-Soviet border, in order to see off his wife Sun Yuejian and son Jia Qiao into the safe area, he wrote a letter to his son, affectionately expressing his eternal and only love for the mother and daughter.
There is no doubt that this represents Zhou Yi's sincere feelings, what is true love? Is it companionship, or is it loved? Isn't true love the company of others? The power of love comes from the support and encouragement of family affection, but who can say for sure? Zhou Yi's failure to fulfill his duties as a father and husband is expressed in a way that is a kind of deep guilt and inner comfort for his failure to fulfill his responsibilities over the past six years.
It is also impossible to ignore the fact that he also seems to hypnotize himself as he deals with the emotional conflict and uncontrollable ideological struggle between the two families.
In the past 6 years, his love for Sun Yuejian and Jia Qiao has been based on his responsibilities and indebtedness, while his love for Gu Qiuyan and Sasha has been based on his attachment and deep affection. In such an emotional balance, judging from a person like Zhou Yi who has deep feelings for friendship, from the moment he decided to take another risk to save Sasha and Gu Qiuyan in order to rescue his wife and son, he had already made his decision.
The deep affection between Zhou Yi and Gu Qiuyan for 6 years represents family affection, love and ultimately war friendship, but in this, there is a mixture of sublimated life and death between them, which makes their emotions even more precious.
In the end, when Zhou Yi returned to Gu Qiuyan, who had a nervous breakdown due to his death and the disappearance of his daughter, he once again succeeded in rescuing Gu Qiuyan not only on the emotional level, but also on the psychological level.
Zhou Yi's return made her no longer regret the 6-year experience of devoting herself to the revolution, and more importantly, her inseparable affection for Zhou Yi and everything she had paid suddenly felt a sense of worthiness and relief at this moment.
That night was their last farewell night, and at this special moment, Zhou Yi shared with Gu Qiuyan for the last time how to save her life and strategies, but also to let her "betray" and betray him, in order to fight for her own safety.
On that night, the two of them couldn't control their emotions and hugged each other affectionately. Through Soviet love songs, their emotions are perfectly released in red wine and **. At this moment, their happiest smiles and most enthusiastic eyes have become the most sincere nudity in the past 6 years. In this context, their emotions appear so moving and touching, both as a hero's romance and as the last words of love.
In the scene that was about to walk to the execution field, Gao Bin asked Zhou Yi with a hint of helplessness if he had any other requirements, and Zhou Yi said that he wanted to see Sasha. "I know you like her. It was at this critical moment of life and death that he knelt down, hugged Sasha affectionately, and whispered to the child in his ear with tears in his eyes: "Mom, my love for you is so deep! ”
In the last moments before saying goodbye to Zhou Yiyong, he candidly expressed the only love mentioned in the letter to his son, although it seems contradictory on the surface, but in fact it is the most sincere feeling. In this final confession, he proved his choice and his love for his career with his actions. At the moment when his life was about to come to an end, he finally affectionately gave Gu Qiuyan a love that was difficult to express in words, and at the same time showed the audience the most sincere feelings.
Zhou Yi has made it clear that the bond between them exists only in this distorted social context. We are living in an era of violence and bloodshed. Such a society is gone, but we can imagine what it would have been like in that era if we could wholeheartedly protect the protected and entrust each other's backs?
Zhou Yi once expressed this opinion: "Only what can be left in the end is the best!"
Epilogue part: Gu Qiuyan's husband Zhang Pingru is as great as Zhou Yi, her beloved wife lives with another man, and the children she has never met know nothing about her, and she always regards the other man as her biological father. Her life is so peaceful and happy. The noble qualities of that man were not far from those of himself.
Both Zhang Pingru and Zhou Yi devoted themselves to their careers and beliefs, and he did not blame Zhou Yi for anything. During his six-year fighting career, he was convinced that his wife had drifted away from him, both mentally and emotionally.
If Zhou Yi hadn't made a sacrifice, when he later returned to his home and faced his original partner, he and Gu Qiuyan's hearts would still miss each other from time to time. After peace, if we meet again, can we see it as if we never really fell in love with each other? If you see each other again, you can tell yourself everything? Although the two have never experienced sexual contact, they have entrusted each other with everything that is even beyond life, and have spent up to 6 years with each other, life and death. This kind of deep longing and concern can never be abandoned. In their lives, this kind of affection may arise because they have never met, but they cannot meet because they want to meet, and this emotional entanglement and entanglement will always prick their hearts, and occasionally feel a trace of pain.
Sasha, a daughter, has regarded Zhou Yi as her biological father since the moment she was born. When she returns to the arms of her biological father, she will always love Zhou Yi, who has raised her since she was a child. If she could see Zhou Yi again in front of her biological father, she would feel extremely uncontrollable? In fact, although Zhou Yi's sacrifice is full of pathos, it is extremely perfect for the overall emotional line. Although the audience is deeply sympathetic to the final ending of the hero, for this character, the regrets are no longer there.
From the work "Cliff", we can observe that the sublimated love appears more noble and magnificent at the critical moment when life is threatened. Although this love is accompanied by sacrifice and pain, for the two women who love deeply, the choice made by Zhou Yi is undoubtedly the release of great love, and it is also an emotional redemption and the embodiment of eternal love!
I would like to pay tribute to the hero of "The Cliff" with a poem by the famous poet Petofi: "Life is precious, but love is more valuable, and if it is for freedom, then both can be discarded." ”