The Metamorphosis of Fanggoudan

"My daughter was abducted by traffickers, her name is Beibei."

"I beg of you, if anyone sees it, please tell me."

"My Beibei is eight years old now, I haven't seen her for a year..."

The woman in the camera is holding a stack of papers printed with portraits and words, walking along the alley, and pasting missing person notices on the wall one by one. If anyone stops curiously, she will eagerly tell passers-by about her daughter.

Eight years old, loves to smile, has two dimples on her face, likes to tilt her head when she talks, and doesn't like to eat carrots... She said it over and over again, as if every time she said it, her daughter would be found sooner .

The corner of the wind chaser's lips curled up. This is a long shot with one shot to the end, which is rarely seen in Wang Yilu's previous films.

In the camera, Ye Min, the mother played by Yang Piaoxu, searched the streets and put up missing person notices in order to find her abducted daughter Wang Beibei.Just as she was talking to passers-by about her daughter's abduction, two urban management officers came over, one impatiently tore off the missing persons notice that had just been pasted on the wall, while the other looked at Ye Min helplessly and sighed .

"Why are you posting this again? You're embarrassing us."

From the tone of the urban management, it is not difficult to hear that it is not the first time for Ye Min to post a missing person notice.

Under the long shot, another urban management officer was still tearing up the missing persons notice posted on the wall. The papers with Wang Beibei's photo were torn off one by one and thrown into the trash can in a ball.Every time a sheet was torn off, Ye Min's expression became worse.

"I, I can't help it, Captain Zhang, my Beibei cried with me, she called her mother in her dream, she wants to go home." Ye Min tightly held the thick stack of missing person notices in his hand, guarding a piece of paper behind him. The wall didn't budge.

Captain Zhang frowned in worry, glanced at the colleague who was still tearing up from the corner of the eye, and then at the haggard Ye Min in front of him, and sighed heavily.

"You can't find your daughter by posting things indiscriminately like this. As much as you post, my team will have to tear up as much. Why bother?"

Ye Min and Captain Zhang became at a stalemate. Captain Zhang had pity and persistence in his eyes. Seeing that Ye Min still wanted to post those missing person notices, he had no choice but to reach out to take the rest of the missing person notices in Ye Min's hand. past.

The sounds of their arguing, the sounds of passers-by discussing, and the sound of missing persons being torn from the wall are all intertwined and changing under the long shot. Without any soundtrack, the audience's minds are drawn into the relationship between Ye Min and the urban management. in opposition.

One is a mother who is desperate to find a daughter, and the other is an urban management officer who upholds her own duties. The audience watched nervously, and it was difficult to guess what would happen next.

Watching this scene, Chaser of the Wind felt amazed, not only because of the acting skills of the female lead Yang Piaoxu, which made people feel the helplessness and bitterness of the characters in the film, but also because of Wang Yilu's incomparably wonderful long shot.He dared to assert that just relying on the long shot that was nearly a few minutes long just now, it was enough for Wang Yilu to win the Best Director Award at this year's Golden Bull Awards.

He didn't know how many times Wang Yilu reshot this scene, but the cooperation between the characters, the scheduling changes of the scene and even the movement trajectory of the camera are absolutely perfect. There are many directors who use long shots, but they use them so well. There are very few, so the wind chasers are amazed by this scene of Wang Yilu.

This kind of uncut shot, without post-editing, often requires actors and scenes to fully express the storyline in one shot.Characters, background scenes, plot advancement, etc. all have a kind of angry and unique characteristics because of this uncut lens. In the eyes of the audience, it is a pure and natural feeling, as if they are also in the scene Experienced the same again and again.

The stack of papers in Ye Min's hand was still snatched by Captain Zhang. When the two fought, they couldn't hold it firmly between pushing and shoving. The stack of missing person notices was thrown into the air, scattered like flying snow, The whole alley was as white as snow.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, Ye Min knelt down on the cold concrete road, Captain Zhang looked at the papers all over the sky, his face changed back and forth.

"Look at what this is called!" He was angry, but seeing Ye Min's ashamed look, he couldn't say anything more serious.

The city manager who was tearing up the missing person notice came over muttering, and gave Ye Min an angry look, blaming her for causing trouble for them again.

"Looking for a child, looking for a child, living a life just to find a child! I think you are going crazy before you find your daughter."

Ye Min's hair was disheveled, her eyes were swollen, and there was not much anger on her face that was not old. A gust of wind blew a piece of paper onto her arm, and she didn't react too much. Like crazy.

At this time, Captain Zhang's bell rang. It was an old nursery rhyme. As soon as he picked up the phone, he softened. He called out his daughter, and his face was full of smiles.

Ye Min seemed to be woken up, got up from the ground, looked at the missing person notices all over the alley, wanted to pick it up, but was pushed aside by the impatient urban management.

"What else are you picking up? Don't even try to pick it up and let it be pasted indiscriminately. I have already called the sanitation." The expression on his face was very ugly, and he looked at Ye Min with disgust and irritability.

"With the skill of posting indiscriminately, it's better to go to the police station a few more times."

After speaking, he turned around and left, chatted with Captain Zhang, and waited for the sanitation workers.

"Captain, why is that girl so refusing to listen to persuasion? How many times has this happened? If posting these things can find a child, she would have found it long ago. I think she might as well have another child while her grade is not old. "

"That's as simple as that. You have to calm down when you have another one. Didn't you see that she lost her child as if she had lost her soul. She also quit her job and divorced, and all she wanted was to find a child?"

"But this child has been lost, life is still easy..."

The wind blew what the two of them said into the ears of the audience. Ye Min stood not far away, letting others look at her. She didn't know if she heard it. There was no expression on her face. The exhaustion in my heart.

"It's better to live a good life and have a baby sooner, so I can feel better."

The sounds of people lingering around, pedestrians stepped on the missing person notices scattered on the ground,

Seeing this scene, many viewers frowned. Ye Min's experience made people feel sympathetic. Those footprints not only stepped on the paper, but also stamped out the only trace of warmth left in Ye Min's eyes.

"I don't want anything else, I just want Beibei to go home." No one around heard her whisper, and even if they heard it, they would not take it seriously. They only thought that she was too persistent and a little crazy.

The excitement around her has nothing to do with her, she seems to be out of place here.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was a booming sound from time to time, as if a heavy rain was about to fall.Pedestrians looked at the sky, scolded the ghost and left in a hurry. The two city management officers kicked the missing person notice on the ground, and turned to leave. Only Ye Min stayed where he was.

The sky was getting more and more cloudy, and the dark clouds filled with rain were so low that they seemed to fall down at any time, and the strong wind blew Ye Min's hair away, making him look even more like a lunatic.

The rain gradually started to fall, and Ye Min's hair and clothes were all wet, but she seemed to be in a daze in the rain, staring at the waste paper on the ground that was soaked and softened by the rain.

From time to time, pedestrians passed through the alley with umbrellas, but no one stayed by her side for a moment. Occasionally, their eyes fell on Ye Min for half a second, and there was only disgust and bewilderment.

No one wants to stop for a moment to ask what happened to this woman, just passing by like icy cold rain.

No one heard Ye Min's trembling and suppressed voice.

"Where are you, Beibei, mom misses you so much..."

Following this soliloquy, the screen slowly went black, and another scene was switched, and the story finally entered the main plot.

The sky is sunny, the urban-rural fringe, opposite the old house is a piece of ruins that have just been demolished.

In a remote low room, a couple was scolding their children. From time to time, there were business things being broken and the crying of children.Neighbors around heard the noise and leaned out of the window, frowned and shook their heads, cursing that the couple was beating the child again, so they didn't care anymore.

The camera moved to the house, a man and a woman stood at the dining table, two children knelt in the corner next to the wall, there were broken plates and bowls on the floor, half-eaten meals were scattered on the floor in a mess.

The man with deep eyes and a fine face seemed to be very angry. It was not enough to smash the bowls and chopsticks, and he stretched out his legs and kicked the wooden chairs to the ground.

He squinted at the woman next to him, as if he didn't want to bear it anymore: "Ma Xiaoyun, if you say another fucking nonsense, believe it or not, I will beat you to death."

Ma Xiaoyun was taken aback by the chair, seeing that he hadn't been kicked, he snorted strangely with a cold face.

"Okay, Zhu Jinya, kill me if you have the ability, who will help you with children in the future!" As she spoke, she glanced at the two children kneeling in the corner, and as if venting her anger, put a pile of clothes hangers at her hand. Throw it at the heads of the two children.

The metal clothes hanger was quite heavy, and the kneeling teenager got hit on the head, raised his head in pain, and got hit on the face several times, it took him a long time to react, and quickly blocked the little girl next to him behind him.

Maybe seeing the painful expression on the boy's face, Ma Xiaoyun's anger finally subsided a little.

"This fool actually knows how to protect people, but he doesn't eat nothing." She turned her eyes and fell on the little girl who was kneeling next to the boy, "What is there to protect, it will be sold sooner or later." go."

As soon as Zhu Jinya heard it, she knew that her anger had subsided, so she picked up the steps and spoke up.

"Xiaoyun, raise the baby first, I will go outside more often, and I will definitely sell this girl to you."

As he spoke, he threw a bowl of rice in front of the two kneeling children, and poked it with his shoes, like calling a dog: "Eat quickly, and lick the floor clean."

The white rice was covered with dust when it fell to the ground, and it was run over by Zhu Jinya's shoes, making it impossible to eat at all.But if the boys and girls don't eat, Zhu Jinya will whip them on the back again and again, just like the peasants driving cattle in the past, and if they don't listen, they will whip them hard.

But Zhu Jinya was much more ruthless than the peasants, he didn't care whether the boys and girls were obedient or not, he just wanted to see the miserable appearance of these two children when they were beaten.

This scene was very short, but it made many people in the theater look disgusted.Looking at the expressions of Zhu Jinya and Ma Xiaoyun, it was clear that this bowl of rice was not for those two children at all, they just wanted to see the ugly appearance of the child kneeling and crawling like a dog to eat.

The Windchaser knew that the fools and ugly monsters that Zhu Jinya spoke of were the children he had kidnapped and sold.

This kind of forcing others to lick the leftovers on the ground is very difficult to make people feel comfortable, especially because Zhu Jinya and Ma Xiaoyun feel happy because of this, and when they stop arguing, it makes the audience feel even more uncomfortable.

Although I didn't see how the two traffickers abducted the children, this simple scene was enough to make people feel uncomfortable.

The Wind Chaser analyzed the direction of the plot, the shooting angle of the camera, recalled the roles played by Lu Kun, the actor of Zhu Jinya, and even recalled the amazing long shot at the beginning.

However, he still felt that it was not deep enough.

The girl was none other than Ye Min's daughter, Wang Beibei, whom Ye Min was looking for so hard. However, compared with the photo on the missing person notice, Wang Beibei looked like another person at this moment.

The dirty clothes almost lost their original color, the messy hair seemed to have never been combed, and the most frightening thing was that there was black mud between the long nails.

Wang Beibei called the boy a fool brother, but the audience could see through the camera that this malnourished boy was not a fool, but just a person who was slow to respond to the outside world and a little autistic.

Faced with Zhu Jinya and Ma Xiaoyun's bullying from time to time, he would quietly move Wang Beibei behind him, even though he was as thin as paper,

He hardly spoke, and only grunted a few times after being beaten. Every time Zhu Jinya kicked him and got angry because he disliked him for not being able to sell, he didn't respond like a fool.However, when Ma Xiaoyun said that he would sell Wang Beibei next month, there was a kind of anger and depression in the eyes of this fool.

He can understand.The audience thought to themselves, and followed the idiot boy to the blue sky outside the window.

The fool is looking at the blue sky.Why?Do you want to escape?

Had to escape, Zhu Jinya's temper became more and more explosive because of losing money in gambling, and Ma Xiaoyun became more and more angry as he counted the money.If the fool and Wang Beibei didn't escape, even if they hadn't been beaten to death by Zhu Jinya, Wang Beibei would have been sold abroad by Ma Xiaoyun to be a child prostitute.

The camera cuts to Ye Min's side again.

The poor mother finally heard the news about her daughter from the police station. Last month, someone saw a child who looked like Wang Beibei appearing in a certain city with a couple dressed as a couple.

This news was like a life-saving straw, finally gave Ye Min a glimmer of life.