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Chapter 477 Mobius Rings

In short, the story is a farce caused by a charred corpse, which is a typical black comedy, and "Crazy Stone" took such a path back then.

Stunning serial narratives, erroneous character relationships, wrong-to-wrong story trends, and multiple clues are intertwined.There are actually quite a few such movies, such as the Coen Brothers' "Blood Labyrinth", "11:14", the Norwegian film "Headhunter", and even Quentin's "Reservoir Dogs" and Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels"... …

Over the past 100 years of film development, almost any story has formed a pattern, including films similar to "Heart Labyrinth", which promote the relationship between characters on multiple parallel narrative lines through one item, and play the role of parallel time and space in the story structure. Concept, the characters in the story are in the center of the vortex and are in a state of fascination with the authorities.

View the development of the whole event from the perspective of the audience as God, such as the concept of "time bomb under the table" that Hitchcock made good use of, to provide the audience with a macro dramatic context, and to have their own characters and plots brought in, so as to achieve a typical The duality of images brings the ultimate viewing effect.

All the stories take place in a small mountain village. The layout is very small, and the opening is not very immersive. However, through some details to explain the relationship between the characters, and the chain reaction triggered by the appearance of the corpse as a node, three main lines have been separated.

These three clues have their own narrative sequence, and are actually parallel times. The film’s cleverness lies in its grasp of the narrative sequence and parallel time and space, which creates strong suspense for the audience. The three stories are independent of each other, but they complement and complement each other. Echoing, the later story explains the suspense left in the previous one, and the previous story reflects the development of the later story.

The characters in the film only look at events from their own perspective and have no knowledge of each other's actions.However, from the perspective of the audience, through the mutual echoes of the three stories and the erratic relationships between the characters, although the stories are interlocking, the audience has a clear understanding of the entire sequence of events.This is the concept of a ticking time bomb under the table, and this is what makes the film so amazing.

Although it is presented in the form of group portraits, it does not look messy, and it is very good in shaping the character of each character and paving the way for future behaviors.The personality characteristics of each character determine their respective choices and the dilemmas and entanglements they face.

The upright village head, who was very protective of his son, had to burn the body in order to save his son, and covered himself up in the next few days, constantly facing spiritual torture.

Zong Yao, who wanted to get rid of his father but actually cared about his father very much, did not hesitate to kill someone in order not to damage his father's reputation after learning the news that his girlfriend in the countryside was pregnant.

The beautiful Liqin was torn between a man with domestic violence whom she did not love, a cowardly man who dared not take responsibility for whom she loved wrongly, and a simple and honest bachelor who had a heart but no guts, and finally chose to face her life alone. to all things.

Because the poor brother and sister-in-law of Baihu could not afford to exchange the gambling money owed by their younger brother, they finally had to come up with a trick to stage a drama in which their younger brother faked his death, not knowing that the person in the coffin was his younger brother.

Such a way of portraying characters makes the whole film permeated with an absurd sense of reality.It is absurd because there are always some unexpected situations at some critical moments.

For example, Baihu died after being pushed by Zong Yao; for example, Wang Baoshan ran to Mingqin's house to steal food when his wife was pregnant; for example, Chen Zili stumbled and fell off a cliff;

But it is true because when the above absurd scenes are put back into the reality of rural China, everything is so logical.

If you think about it carefully, you will find that the logic behind every choice and every action of everyone in the film is understandable.

One of the reasons that makes the story of an unknown corpse possible is the increasingly alienated interpersonal relationship in rural areas.Throughout the whole film, it reflects the mass transfer of rural young and middle-aged labor to the city, which has led to the alienation of the relationship between people in the village, even between relatives and relatives, lovers and lovers.

After hearing the news of Chen Zili's death, the villagers said that they did not have his phone number, and the village chief only found his contact information after digging through boxes and cabinets.Baihu's elder brother could not be contacted either. On the one hand, it was difficult to contact him because he owed debts and avoided debts, and on the other hand, he was neglected to contact his family when he went to work in the city.

In today's fluid age, it's so easy to lose touch with people.Under the impact of urbanization, the kinship bonds in the countryside gradually began to break.And it is against such a background that family ties are beginning to break, that it becomes possible for the nameless corpse to remain nameless.

In a society with weak ties, the sudden disappearance of an individual becomes so inconspicuous that it cannot attract attention.Because for villagers, the disappearance of their loved ones may have become routine.

What makes the whole story more complicated is people's attitudes towards women in a patriarchal society.Fame is a big deal in the village, especially for women.From the beginning, Baihu used this as an excuse to blackmail Zong Yao.

Because whether it is Huang Huan, Zong Yao or Bai Hu, they all know how difficult life will be for an unmarried young girl in the village.And this is why Huang Huan chose to use the tactic of fake pregnancy to force marriage. Huang Huan knew in his heart that as a woman, a young unmarried woman, this was her leverage to keep Zong Yao.

Liqin was opposed by his parents because she was with Wang Baoshan when she was young.The old lover repented of the marriage and evaded responsibility, making her an unwanted and devalued woman in people's eyes.

After passing middle age, because he was afraid of being criticized in the village, he refused to help his ex-lover to provide an alibi in front of everyone.For a woman, a beautiful woman, a woman married into the village, life is difficult and harsh.

She has to behave as a woman and learn to restrain her beauty, otherwise she will be called a vixen; she has to endure the domestic violence of her husband for many years, otherwise she will be called unvirtuous; she has to deny herself and her true love in public. Otherwise, they will be said to be dissolute and indiscreet, and they will not be able to hold their heads up in the village from then on.

All of the above factors, whether it is the weakening of social relations or the influence of the powerful patriarchy, make absurdity possible and reality.Leave everyone in the film with no other choice.

The lack of choice of the characters in this film, the greatest experience brought to the audience, is that there is no way to make any kind of judgment without authorization, moral or value.Each character has his own motives and standpoints, and their actions are reasonable and irrefutable in the micro-situation in which each person is placed.

And it is precisely everyone's actions that secretly promote a corpse from nameless to named, and finally back to nameless.

After reading the script, what impressed Ding Cheng the most was Liqin.

It reminds people of Zhang Yihe's Liu's daughter and Yang's daughter. To some extent, she even feels that she is the protagonist.

Everyone else assisted her in completing the perfect husband-killing plan that she had imagined again and again.In the process, she killed her husband with the help of others, and also recognized the true colors of her old lover.

Finally, she stood beside her husband's grave and looked back at the funeral procession behind her.So calm, so beautiful.However, the Liqins in real life may not be so lucky.Some of them were imprisoned, some died with their lives, and some were still waiting for their fate to judge them.

At first glance, it looks very complicated, but it is actually very simple. After going in a circle, the original corpse is still the original corpse in the end.This kind of plot arrangement is very interesting. It is conceivable how such a story came about. The most basic is the structure of a Mobius ring, which can also be called ouroboros.Then various characters and plots are continuously added to this ring structure, and the causal relationship is constantly enriched.After completing the most overall story, it will be disrupted into three stories, thus becoming the final appearance of "Heart Labyrinth".

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