Zhang Ziyi moved frequently after the divorce
Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" has ushered in the finale, and the lively atmosphere of Chen Kexin's "Sauce Garden Lane" at the filming site has also attracted the attention of audiences across the country. If the former is a sudden ** broadcast, then the latter has become the focus before filming has even begun.
The strong lineup of this work is exciting. Although it has not yet been officially announced, judging from the news from various sources, its luxury is no less than "Flowers", and it is believed that it will be a feast of "fairy fights".
Two years ago, Chen Kexin established the "Pan Asian Film Company", which sparked heated discussions among netizens. Many people are looking forward to this, believing that it will help revitalize Chinese-language films.
It is understood that the "pan-Asian film company" will focus on producing excellent works, rather than just making them for the purpose of passing censorship and being released in the mainland. They will provide filmmakers with ample creative space and showcase their talents on the streaming platform.
And "Sauce Garden Lane" is one of the works worth mentioning.
Chen Kexin poured a lot of effort into this film, which took 7 years to prepare, during which he also announced many interruptions. In an interview, he revealed that this is the film he has spent the most energy on in the past 10 years.
Of course, the most important thing is the script, this story is adapted from the sensational "Murder of the Husband in the Sauce Garden" in Shanghai in the last century, full of blood and violence, and the truth revealed is even more deafening and shocking!
In the sauce garden lane in Shanghai's Huangpu District, there is an old shop called Zhang Zhenxin Sauce Garden. In this alley, which was built in 1899, there was an amazing "murder case".
One morning in March 1945, Zhang was fetching hot water when he noticed a blood stain on the ground. With the guidance of the ticking sound, she and the landlord followed the bloodstains to find Zhan Yunying and Zhou Huizhen who lived upstairs.
However, when they opened the door, they were stunned by what they saw.
Zhou Huizhen collapsed to the ground after the killing, holding a bloody knife in her hand, her hair was messy, her eyes were hollow, and she couldn't stand. She not only killed her husband Zhan Yunying, but also brutally dismembered his body into 16 pieces.
After the landlord called the police, Zhou Huizhen was arrested by **, and she did not show a trace of struggle for the accusation of killing her husband and frankly admitted her crime. Here, it is necessary to provide some background information: at that time, the society generally adhered to the traditional concept that women should abide by the three obedience and four virtues, and always put the husband as the center, and the husband was her heaven.
Therefore, such a bad incident will undoubtedly bring a death sentence to Zhou Huizhen. Surprisingly, however, Zhou Huizhen survived and was spotted by reporters on a farm in the northwest in 1990.
What happened in the meantime?
The case is confusing and has aroused widespread concern in Shanghai. There are different opinions about Zhou Huizhen's means of killing her husband. The main controversy is that there is a huge difference in size between the two, Zhou Huizhen is less than 1.6 meters tall, while Zhan Yunying is tall and has a clear advantage in strength.
Therefore, even if Zhou Huizhen can really kill people, how to complete the autopsy independently has become a big question.
Zhou Huizhen kept changing her confession during the interrogation. At first, she confessed to slashing her husband with a kitchen knife while he was asleep and dismembering his body and hiding it in a wooden box. However, she then denied the fact that she committed the crime alone.
She identified a person named He Xianhui, who had the nickname "He **Zi" and lived in Sauce Garden Lane. He Xianhui admitted that she had an affair with Zhou Huizhen, and because she sympathized with Zhou Huizhen's situation, she often helped her, and the relationship between the two became increasingly close.
However, Ho has vehemently denied the murder charges.
Before the in-depth investigation was launched, Zhou Huizhen exposed her husband's friend He Baoyu. She insisted that the case had nothing to do with He Xianhui, but that He Baoyu had assisted her in committing the killing.
In the face of these accusations, He Baoyu was unable to defend himself for a while.
Zhou Huizhen's performance in court caught ** unexpectedly, and she put forward a new defense. She said she had been subjected to violence during the investigation and had to make casual accusations.
After a series of complicated procedures, Zhou Huizhen finally became the only suspect. However, her death sentence in the first instance has attracted a lot of attention, which will have a significant impact on her future.
Zhou Huizhen's tragic experience has made many people deeply sympathetic. Her original name was Du Chunlan, her parents died when she was a child, she was raised by relatives until she was 9 years old, and then she was sold to a pawnshop in Shanghai as a girl.
When she was 17 years old, she married Zhan Yunying, who worked in a pawnshop, and his nickname was "Zhan Big Guy". Zhan Yunying was in charge of the appraisal at the pawnshop and saved some money. After getting married, he took Zhou Huizhen out of the pawnshop and started a small business on the street, and the two started a new life.
Although Chow Hye-jin's marriage was arranged by her family, she felt fulfilled and full of expectations for a better life ahead. Because this is the first real family she has, although life is not rich, it has allowed her to say goodbye to the adrift and uncertain state of life.
Unfortunately, Zhou Huizhen's dream of happiness was shattered less than two months after she got married. The true face of her newlywed husband Zhan Yunying gradually emerged.
He indulged in socializing with unclean women and, worse, became addicted to gambling, squandering all his savings from doing business. Not only that, but he also had a large debt and was addicted to gambling and could not continue to work.
As far as the family is concerned, he is the shopkeeper, and the burden of the family is on Zhou Huizhen's shoulders. In order to pay the monthly rent and living expenses, she ran out of money and pawned the house's belongings.
When she didn't even have anything to pawn at home, she began to borrow money from her neighbors, to the point where she was embarrassed even herself. In desperation, Zhou Huizhen decided to find a job.
Luckily, she was hired as a worker in a spinning mill. Although the work in the factory is hard and tiring, and the salary is still very low, Zhou Huizhen is very energetic, and she feels that there is hope in life again.
Zhou Huizhen's happy life was ruined by her husband Zhan Yunying's misunderstanding and violence, and she quit her job, but the pain of life has not lessened. In desperation, she chose the extreme way and killed Zhan Yunying, hoping to end her painful life.
This incident has aroused widespread attention and controversy in society, especially Su Qing's article "In Defense of the Husband Killer", which raised the case to the level of emancipating women.
This action to save Zhou Huizhen has triggered us to think deeply about women's rights and domestic violence.
Su Qing believes that the reason why Zhou Huizhen killed her husband was that she had a hard life, high mental pressure, experienced a lot of pain and humiliation, and long-term depression led to psychological imbalance. Although she tried to kill herself, she was unsuccessful and chose to kill herself.
After that, Su Qing began to write in columns such as "Legal Principles and Human Feelings", "Zhan Zhou's and Pan Jinlian", which triggered extensive social discussions. In the article, she directly asked: why are there only prostitutes, and there are no prostitutes?
If a prostitute can be killed, why can't a prostitute be killed? Life is so stressful right now that the number of people who kill and commit suicide because of the stress of life is uncounted.
Zhan Zhou's killings, in the strict sense of the word, may be a broader social issue.
Su Qing used words as the first to speak for Zhou Huizhen in distress, which aroused the attention of many intellectuals. In the end, a Catholic church grandmother used perjury to get a suspended sentence for Zhou Huizhen.
The dramatic turn was that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the changing situation, Zhou Huizhen was pardoned, and although the sentence was commuted to 15 years, she was sent to a farm in Dafeng, Subei for labor reform.
The story of Su Qing and Zhou Huizhen shows us the power of knowledge and courage to change our destiny through action, even in the face of adversity.
In this case, we can't just regard it as a ** case, but we should see that what is reflected behind it is the tragic experience of the people at the bottom in the context of the great era.
It involves ideology, ethics, legal system and other levels. As a netizen said, "It is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs", but behind the difficulty of breaking family affairs, are we protecting the weak or protecting the abuser?
Sadly, there is far more than one "Zhou Huizhen" in society.