If Zhang Yimou's previous films were rich and timeless in mellow sorghum wine, then "Article 20" is like a piece of chocolate, dipped in the witty sweetness of the sketch, wrapping up the spicy taste of society. 
On the first day of the national start of work, I stepped on the warm sunshine of the ninth day of the new year and went to watch this movie that received rave reviews for the Chinese New Year. The film made the audience laugh in many places, but it was tear-jerking. Until I walked out of the movie theater, there were still tears in the corners of my eyes, and my ears echoed for a long time a generous statement by the male protagonist Prosecutor Han Ming (played by Lei Jiayin) at the hearing: We are not handling a case, it is someone else's life, if we can't do justice and let the law punish evil and promote good, are we still worthy of wearing this dress?! Although Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot" won the Spring Festival movie, Lao Mouzi's "Article 20" bucked the trend and topped the single-day box office list. With warm applause and hot tears, I wrote down my deep respect for Lao Mouzi, my appreciation for the "Article 20" movie, both decent and villainous actors, and my touching reflections on the theme of film realism. 
01 sketch quarrel mode reveals the reality of life The beginning is that Prosecutor Han Ming, played by Lei Jiayin, has just been seconded to the Municipal Procuratorate, and before the desk and chair are hot, he received a ** from his son's school teacher, and his son Han Yuchen (played by Liu Yaowen) injured his classmates. The teacher who received the couple was played by Li Naibin, with white-rimmed glasses revealing a ridiculous cunning. Han Ming has been working in a small county town, and seeing that his son was in his third year of high school, he seized the opportunity to be seconded to the city, and asked his son to borrow from the city's No. 3 Middle School, which has a high rate of college entrance examination. After this incident, the injured classmate was still the son of the school's dean. The teacher means that you must apologize to the injured classmates, otherwise the complaint that the other party has reported to the public security will not be withdrawn, which must be a negative factor for the child facing the college entrance examination - the case record. Troubles are pouring into the middle-aged greasy prosecutor Han, and his newly arrived city procuratorate has his college classmate Lu Lingling (played by Gao Ye), and interestingly, they still had such an intimate history 20 years ago - first love. 
As a full-time mother, Han's wife Li Maojuan (played by Ma Li) felt that her husband had a situation for the first time, and it was too late to pick it up, and even the negotiations with Director Zhang (played by Zhang Yi), the parent of the injured child, at the scene had not yet reached a result, and the Han Jian disappeared. When she touched the massage shop, she unexpectedly found that her husband and Lu Lingling were chatting happily on the massage chair. What happened by accident made her have to think about it more, she interrogated her husband at home with a gun and a stick, what is it, are you working, or dating. Talking and talking, I also brought out the crying, I am also a beautiful young fair-skinned pink princess, feelings gave birth to a son for you, are you now rekindling your old feelings or what? There was even a time when Han Ming came out of the scene, in order to protect the witness Hao Xiuping (played by Zhao Liying) was pushed to the ground in the struggle with the village tyrant, and his forehead was injured, he went to the hospital to bandage the wound and went home, deliberately wearing a mesh head shield for head surgery, trying to exaggerate the injury to win his wife's sympathy, but somehow he straightened up a long black hair, Li Maojuan used the topic to play again, she herself is yellow hair. 
and then met with Director Zhang for the second time to talk about the withdrawal of the lawsuit, it was after Han Yuchen was beaten violently by the bad son's instigation, the couple were filled with indignation and anger, and broke up unhappily. After these quarrels, it was really a rush, the smell of gunpowder was very strong, the son injured others, and there was no room for maneuver to ask the other party to withdraw the lawsuit. The audience followed Han Jian and his wife, plus Lu Lingling, and his own uncle, Director Li of the police station (played by Chen Minghao) met and argued, you and I said two sentences, the case is still quarrelling, I feel that the movie is like a sketch, where the characters go, where the fire burns, this life is a mess, their own chicken feathers are not counted, and there is a chaos of chickens flying and dogs jumping. It's not, this is the real original presentation of life, good-looking, excessive. 02, the three main story lines exploded into cruel judicial loopholes, in addition to the troubles at the personal emotional level; There are three cases that plague the male protagonist Han Jian: one is the bus driver Zhang Guisheng (played by Yang Haoyu) who he handled, who was brave and brave, when he witnessed the "groping pig hand" ** girl on the bus to help, and as a result, he injured the little hooligan and was sentenced to three years in prison, and he has always refused to accept the petition; The second is that the dumb girl of the creditor village bully was stabbed to death by her husband on the spot, and the village bully gathered the villagers to come to the door of the procuratorate; The third is that his son broke the bridge of his nose when he was brave enough to bully his classmates at school, and was called by the teacher to apologize to the other party. 
These three cases have many similarities with the real Kunshan anti-homicide case, the Fuzhou Zhao Yu righteous and courageous case, the Huizhou Wen Yansen case chasing a thief, and the Yu Huan mother's case, which is nothing more than the injury or killing of the other party in legitimate defense, and Article 20 of the Criminal Law focuses on the results of defense in sentencing, and the legitimate defender who causes serious injury or death to the criminal shall bear criminal responsibility. There is a cruel truth that the people slaughter more dogs in righteousness, which seems to have chilled the hearts of many righteous and brave people and brave self-defenders. The movie clearly proposes that "the law cannot give way to the lawless" and "the law is to make the cost of the bad guys commit crimes higher, not the cost of letting the good guys take action". "Our responsibility is to fight for fairness and justice for the people." As Mr. Luo Xiang said, "the essence of legitimate defense is to empower the people, encourage the people to fight against illegal infringement, the law does not need to give in to the lawless, and must not be too strict with the defenders, chilling the hearts of the righteous and courageous." 03 The acting skills of the leading actors have firmly aroused the audience's appetite First of all, the male protagonist Prosecutor Han Ming, he is a middle-aged greasy uncle who has worked in a small county town for 20 years, and now he has won to work in the city for the future of his only son Han Yuchen to be admitted to a good university. Of course, he wanted to get a good reputation and stay, and his son's future was under control. 
There is no doubt that his acting skills are excellent, but even a little crotch pulling can't suppress the excitement of the stars. He has a beautiful and capable wife (Ma Li), who is a bit strong but also loves him. He sometimes has a snort, such as a forehead injury, he exaggerated the brain, and it is normal for him to take care of the top leader of the family A (the largest playing card except for the commander). He was "afraid of guilt" and didn't dare to pick up Lu Lingling**, for fear of causing more "trouble" that was difficult to argue, adding a lot of laughter, which was very funny. In fact, a husband like this with high emotional intelligence and weakness in life is quite cute, and he is really liked by wives of knowledge, "curves save the country". Li Maojuan played by Ma Li is very strong, and her vinegar strength is also a bit big, but there is no shortage of such heads of families around us, they are strong and domineering and work hard to support a family, which is quite competent. I admire Gao Ye's Prosecutor Lu, who adheres to principles and has a sense of justice, she is more kind and sympathetic in handling cases, and from the beginning she insisted that the victim mute girl Hao Xiuping (played by Zhao Liying) and her husband Wang Yongqiang (played by Pan Binlong) are legitimate defense, and they must find a knife to prove that he stabbed the ** criminal with scissors for the greatest possible self-defense. She was willing to sacrifice her future for the people's life, and she took the responsibility for Hao Xiuping's suicide alone, not only because Han Jian was her first love, but also for the sake of the case, and saved her strength to continue to investigate and collect evidence. It is touching to sacrifice one's own future and resolutely defend the disadvantaged groups. 
Zhao Liying's female image of the dumb girl is even more word-of-mouth explosion, unanimously praised by the audience, her talent is incomparable, her sexual tension raises her hand and cries, and the kind of face that is desperate to die is unforgettable and tearful, and she vividly interprets a weak woman who has been humiliated, how can such a poor woman not make people cry tears of sympathy. There is also the villain teaching director played by Zhang Yi, the arrogance and contempt for the poor grass people in his bones are despicable. Zhang Yi has always played a righteous policeman, and his acting skills are super **. This time, the villain is also outstanding, and he confronted Li Maojuan, the mother of the righteous and brave anti-bullying child, and became angry and ashamed. Because Li Maojuan talked about his pain, he was divorced, he smashed the wine bottle, fell to the ground and broke his bones, and Li Maojuan was detained. But he also paid the price for his pampering of his son. The image of the old man Liu (played by Fan Wei) as a village tyrant, of course, an old drama bone like Fan Wei can easily take it, his scoundrels and the nonsense of having resources in his hands are disgusting. 
It was his long-term indulgence of his son who cultivated a young bully, he had no fear to rely on his own money, if you don't pay back, I will sleep with your wife, or publicly**, sleep once worth 200 yuan. He chained Hoff to the door, "You are one of my dogs, I will sleep with you woman, what can you do"? This kind of violation of the dignity of others and the bottom line of humanity is enough to make people crazy and make victims desperate to resist. It is what Mr. Luo Xiang said: "This anger is a powerful resistance of a moral nature to desecrate rights; It is the most beautiful and inspiring testimony that the sense of Dharma has produced." By the way, we all know this ** criminal, he is the murderer Li Hongwei (Aruna) villain in "Hurricane", a village tyrant who is vicious and tyrannical. There is also Zhang Guisheng, the bus driver who acted bravely and bravely, his life was very sad, he was sentenced to three years for saving people, and he kept petitioning after he came out, and finally died in a car accident in the petitioner. Good people** have good rewards? The common people really want to ask, where is the justice, fairness, and justice?! This actor has just played the small boss of a garment factory in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province in "Flowers", and Mr. Bao has an intersection. I can see that I nod frequently, Lao Mouzi's casting is interesting, haha. 
04 is not so "conspiracy" but has fulfilled the "conspiracy ceiling" written here, please don't blame me for spoilers. "Article 20" Lao Mouzi directed the tube, he did not use the color pictures of the incomparable master of photography that he is good at as always, and did not fill the lens with the magnificent and beautiful smear of Mount Tai, this time it seems to be a perfect combination of sketches and realistic storylines. With three story lines, he grasps the audience's tracking curiosity to explore the development of the case, and lays out the deep thoughts about the 20 articles of the Criminal Law that he wants to ask. Some people say that Lao Mouzi is an old planner, he held high the banner of realism and filmed "Article 20". His ambition is lofty, but he uses popular expressions to present the touching keywords of family, predicament, fairness, and justice to the Chinese people, completing the soul torture of Article 20 of the traditional judiciary. Seeing that Zhang Guisheng, a righteous and brave man, insisted on petitioning after being sentenced, and finally died on the road, leaving behind a lonely girl who was still struggling to study, did you cry? Seeing that the disabled woman Hao Xiuping owed a debt for the treatment of her mute daughter Juanjuan, and was a hooligan**, and only death can wash away the shame, have you ever burst into tears? Yes, they call out to the heavens, the earth is speechless, and they can only fight for a humble and rotten life......
As a result, Prosecutor Han's final declaration was deafening——— we are not handling a case, but someone else's life. Justice is not only the law, but also the human heart. Sometimes, it's more complicated than you think. A crime pollutes a river, but a wrong verdict pollutes the entire water source. I want to say that "Article 20" is Lao Mouzi's best movie in the past ten years, although it is not so "conspiracy", but it has fulfilled the "conspiracy ceiling".