The Spring Festival and Valentine's Day film markets in 2024 can be described in one word - "fairy fight". Jia Ling lost 100 pounds in order to make a movie, and she brought her own publicity hotspots, and "Hot and Hot" also showed the female director's delicate ability to control the subject matter, and the box office and word of mouth were unbeatable, which truly convinced the audience. 
On the other hand, Shen Teng's "Flying Life 2" is also very competitive, racing and love, the eternal theme, but it can make people's blood boil many times. The king of Bayingbrook was deeply moved. 
In fact, just these two comedy celebrities made a move, and no one dared to take it easily. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yimou also wanted to gamble with comedy movies during this period! "Article 20" has dense laughs, and the overall texture is not inferior to the above two movies. It's a pity that the box office results are not ideal, and the box office has only broken 1 billion so far, which is not as high as the box office of the animated film "Bear Infested: Reversing Time and Space". 
But the audience understands that the quality of a movie is not just measured by the box office. In my opinion, the focus of Zhang Yimou's new work lies in the realism of its story, compared with the characters who pretend to be poor in some movies, this movie really captures the life of the "poor". 01 "Poor" to the bones In the eyes of the audience, the image of "poor" is a scarcity in domestic film and television dramas. Because few people can grasp the true essence of the word "poor", but Zhang Yimou did it. Taking Hao Xiuping's family in the film as an example, their poverty is reflected in all aspects of life. 
The first is - food, clothing, housing and transportation. Hao Xiuping's home is the poorest in the current countryside. There are two deaf and mute people in the family, and the husband has little education, so he can only do some hard work. But even so, he had to borrow money to treat his child's illness, empty his family, and suffer humiliation. 
Therefore, they can only live in the simplest brick houses, and the farm tools and sundries in the yard are covered with traces of time, which is in stark contrast to the surrounding people. Especially in the back, the bullies deliberately retaliated, making the already dilapidated home even more eyeless. 
And Hao Xiuping and her daughter, who walked on the road to escape, have been wearing those two shabby clothes, and there are still some stains on them that can't even be washed, and even their hair is messy. 
Anyone who looks at this orphan and widow will think that this is a character rooted in the bottom. 
However, Zhang Yimou's great thing is that the key to his concretization of the "poor" is to capture the plight of these poor people in front of the law. The real "poor" are not only poor in life, but also in their mental limitations. 
That's why Hao Xiuping's husband will borrow loan sharks for the sake of **daughter's illness, instead of seeking other ways to help. Maybe they don't know, or maybe they don't know at all. 
The long-term bullying also made them afraid to call the police, and Wang Yongqiang could only watch his wife being ** and being chained to the door like a dog by the bullies. Does Hao Xiuping really want to jump off the building? No, no mother wants to leave her daughter behind.
She just couldn't help it, partly because the bullies used the child to force her to change her confession. On the other hand, it is because in Hao Xiuping's impression, the principle of one life for one life is deep-rooted. Otherwise, the bullies, as the perpetrators, will not feel that they are the justified party.
Hao Xiuping may feel that her man is in a dead end, and only if she loses her life, can this case start from scratch and return Wang Yongqiang's innocence. Sometimes, in the eyes of the poor people at the bottom, the law is a "butcher's knife" for those bad people to run rampant and domineering.
Pay off debts, kill people to pay for your life. How sad is it that the bullies use legal terms, divorce agreements, and IOUs as tools to unscrupulously abuse these poor people? But for a long time, this was the most realistic and helpless place.
In addition to Hao Xiuping, the powerless bus driver was sentenced to intentional injury for his righteous and courageous actions, and was imprisoned for three years. Even the son of prosecutor Han Ming, who accidentally injured someone because of stopping school bullying, has to face the situation of entering the bureau and keeping a case record. "The law is to make the cost of committing crimes higher for bad people, not for making the cost of being good people higher. ”
Many people feel that the shouting at the end of the film has a sense of immediacy and value. But in fact, this line needs to be carefully savored, because every sentence shouts out the hearts of the people at the bottom. It is not sad to be poor. The sad thing is that he is so poor that he has no way to redress his grievances, he is so poor that he is bullied and he is so poor that he has no backbone. After watching "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou, I finally understood what the real poor should look like.
02 Poor people don't shoot indiscriminately, in fact, it is very simple for domestic film and television dramas in the past two years to gain popularity, you only need to shoot them down to earth. This also made some directors find the traffic password, and even felt that they could shoot the poor casually. For example, in "Fearless", the heroine Luo Yingzi played by Reiza, her husband owes tens of millions to the bank, and the house is mortgaged.
But people are like everything has happened, with 6 million cash in hand, renting a spacious and bright house with a nanny, and dislike the smell of the kitchen. With this condition, don't cry poor, the really poor will crack with envy.
There is also the heroine in "All Wishes Come True", with a salary of 3,000 yuan a month, and she can't even afford a new mobile phone. At first glance, it looks really poor, but people live in hundreds of millions of courtyard houses in Beijing, dressed up brightly every day, oily hair and noodles, and those who don't know think it's a daughter! Director, don't you look ridiculous for yourself? There are also those characters who carry brand-name bags, live in villas, and drive luxury cars, which makes the audience almost think that poor people are of this standard, and they are not even as good as the poor.
03 Epilogue: I beg the directors of domestic film and television dramas to open their eyes and look at the daily life of ordinary people, and learn how to shoot poor people from director Zhang Yimou. "Article 20" actually does not deliberately emphasize how poor the characters are, but from the details such as the service and the scenes, we can still see the difficult life of the people at the bottom. What's more important is that the movie vividly presents the situation that ordinary people have nowhere to redress their grievances under the power, which makes people feel a lot of bitterness and helplessness in laughter. Fortunately, the final outcome is good, and the law is in a process of continuous development and progress, and it can protect the rights and interests of the people in the most fair and just way. And legal principles are inseparable from human feelings, and warm laws are the desire of everyone. At present, "Article 20" is still in theaters, this movie with laughter, tears, and depth is worthy of a movie ticket from the audience. So what else do you think touched you about this movie?