The story takes place in Taiwan, Li Lizhong is a doctor, and his relationship with his wife Zhou Yufang is in jeopardy.
He always washed his hands repeatedly, forced himself to repeat the boring life, was not satisfied with the status quo, and lacked the courage to break through the deadlock.
People living in cold cities are often miserable, and it is not easy.
The film is divided into three lines, three groups of characters:
The first line is the marriage crisis of Li Lizhong and Zhou Yufang;
The second line is the rebellious life of the mixed-race Shu'an trying to escape from her family and living by cheating. She grew up in a broken family, had an indifferent relationship with her mother, and a series of previous behaviors revealed the embarrassment and helplessness of her identity.
The third line is the separation and integration of the rich second-generation Xiaoqiang, who loves photography, and his girlfriend.
There was an unexpected intersection of these three lines.
This intersection leads the story to an irretrievable end.
The intersection comes from I-Pass Anonymous**.
A mischievous anonymity** triggered a deterioration in the relationship between Li Lizhong and his wife Zhou Yufang.
Shu'an was locked in the house by her mother, and she was very bored, so she found a random number in the ** book, and the person who picked up ** was Zhou Yufang.
Shu'an lied that she was Li Lizhong's lover.
Obviously, this prank** has dealt a fatal blow to the other party's marriage.
Ironically, Zhou Yufang did not feel sad after hearing the news that her husband had a lover, but confirmed that "she no longer loves her husband", and moved out of the house on the same day and found a lover to live with.
And Li Lizhong learned of the existence of this **, thinking that his wife's departure was a misunderstanding of himself, but when he found his wife to explain to no avail, he was desperate, and there was the final tragedy.
The movie is summed up in one sentence, an occasional mischievous **, another man's wife separated, and finally committed suicide.
This is one of director Yang Dechang's most desperate films.
His anger at the midlife crisis is burning in this film.
He is talking about how everyone has to anesthetize themselves with their work or ideals, and make themselves a machine that keeps spinning.
He is talking about the fact that everyone in the city is atomized, that everyone is struggling in the dark room of their own heart, and that even the closest people know nothing.
The male protagonist just wants a form of respect and love, but this is not available.
The anger of being rejected by the whole world makes him finally slash his enemies and cheating wife, and resist the weak status quo by destroying everything.
Yang Dechang iswrote the inevitability by chance, which shocked the death of the hero.
He is so patient, he is talking about the whole process of collapse, this process is so long, so all-round and all-round.
The title of the film is "**But the whole film is not bloody and violent, not cruel**, there are no bones, or even tears.
In fact, in the whole movie, except for the first part of the movie, when the police arrest the criminal, the intermittent gunshots on the street, only the last gunshot.
That gunshot solved all the problems, but it didn't seem to solve them.
The husband who was forced by the social pressure of life and tried to take revenge, but finally found that he only had the courage to commit suicide, maybe it was ***
The girl who is trapped in the house and plays pranks everywhere may be ***
The wife who always feels that her husband understands that she is not may also be a "**".
Director Yang Dechang's hidden central idea is: everyone more or less, feels that the important people in life do not understand themselves.
It is possible that this person is a parent, a companion, or a friend.
In life, everyone is an island.
The most terrifying element is loneliness.
The most pitiful Li Lizhong only dared to kill his wife Zhou Yufang in a dream, and the fact is that he committed suicide.
In addition to the depiction of the state of the characters, the film also makes a detailed portrayal of the external environment.
The beginning is reflected through a cracked mirror;
In the beginning, we tried to reshape the process of surveillance into something intelligible, but at the end, it goes back to the omitted fragment where the gunshots disappear into the hollow.
It turns out that this is the real horror, and the real horror is not the derailment of the sky, not the painful suicide, but the fact that no one cares about your existence.
The emptiness of the external environment is a portrayal of the character's heart, that kindNothingness is heartbreaking horror
Like the wind that destroys the integrity of a photograph, like the lingering lens of that unworn shoe, frictionless moments persist.
As soon as the camera turned, the writer Zhou Yufang and his lover sat up on the bed.
She winced, a gurgling sound coming out of her closed mouth.
She then leaned back on the bed and made a vomiting sound.
The film cuts to the end credits during the vomiting process, there is a cause but no effect, and there is no action but no response.
The tension is maintained and the laces are untied.
The art of the whole movie is handled extremely gray, but the close-up of the characters' faces is a strong red light, which is a metaphor for impatience in indifferenceA terrible lurking crisis
All this stems from the mediocrity of life, from the mid-life crisis of chickens and dogs, and all the nothingness has created a dilemma in life that cannot be shaken off.
It was released in 1986 and has a score of 9 on Douban so far0 points.
After the release of this film, it won the Best Feature Film Award at the 23rd Taipei Golden Horse Awards, which is one of director Yang Dechang's most important film works.