Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

The dirty, messy and limitless environment of the Walled City makes it difficult for a young man like Jiahui who has read foreign books and seen a modern international metropolis.

However, no matter how unbearable it was, in order to survive and for the reason of entering the city this time, he still had to endure it.

Originally, when Jiahui thought that it was unbearable for ordinary people to endure these dirty and messy environments—the reality slapped him hard without stopping.

The road of the postman in the Walled City is not walked by people at all!

It is easy to say that there are still ways to go at the points of attention such as laneways and stairs. Those "shortcuts" such as planks built illegally by residents, scaffolding made of bamboo poles, and windows of various sizes made Jiahui suffer a lot.

On the contrary, old man Cao, relying on his familiarity with the Walled City for many years, even with a cane, he is much more agile than Jiahui when he walks on these mysterious roads: after all, many times, walking these roads requires both hands and feet. Climbing over, the function of the feet is weakened a lot.

Some neighbors even poked their heads out to laugh at him, saying that a young man could not outrun his grandpa with a cane...

The old and young walking in the deformed buildings on the screen became one of the inspirations for the extreme sports of "parkour" in the eyes of those who care about it: Xiangjiang's early urban action films, more or less Few of them have such elements, so the stalks of XX Happy Building and XX Happy House are derived.

But during this period, these elements were just scattered in the plot as embellishments; only Su Yun, who integrated the knowledge of later generations, combined the road map and action reference during the filming period to design these two postman characters. A first-generation parkour form with different speeds and well-proportioned patterns.

It is a pity that at the premiere of the Berlin Film Festival, these well-designed, seemingly thrilling action clips, which finally arrived at the destination without any surprises, were caught by ghosts who did not know They were amazed and exclaimed as "Chinese Kung Fu"...

Although things backfired, this thrilling story of entering the Walled City for the first time is indeed very arresting.

From action design to screen composition, the kind of struggling to survive in a ruined and difficult place, and following the actions of the two postmen, the display of the Walled City buildings from point to surface to the whole is closely following the previous experience from the outside. The shock of viewing the Walled City from the outside and the inside gradually transitions to the excitement of sketching the Walled City from the inside out.

Then, when the two postmen walked up to the roof from the dark and mysterious road, the afterglow of the setting sun with the gorgeous sunset glow made the viewers suddenly feel a sense of surviving after the catastrophe and seeing the sun again.

Accompanied by the deafening roar, the huge black shadow of the plane cut through the fine dust floating in the air under the setting sun, and then narrowly brushed over the messy wires and clothes poles and clothes racks, and brought the clothes and quilts it lifted Fly away.

The children who climbed up to play outside the roof after school in the distance cheered a few times at the shadow of the plane, and then began to quickly pack up the messy drying clothes and quilts.

When Jiahui, who climbed up to the roof for the first time, regained his senses, Old Man Cao led him down the dark alleyway again.

Time flashed by for several days following the actions of the two postmen. On the night before the official start of work alone, Jiahui turned on the lights and fought at night, drawing one sticky road map after another.

"As the saying goes, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen. You just came back and you can't memorize everything with your brain. If you know how to write it down, it's a good way." Uncle Cao is very satisfied with his grandson's professional attitude.

"I know." Jiahui pushed his glasses, took another piece of paper and was about to continue drawing, but the small lamp on the table suddenly flickered a few times.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" The whole room suddenly went dark, and Jia Hui was so startled that he called out a few times in the darkness, but only got the old man Cao's usual tone.

"The line here is like this. There is nothing you can do if you are in an emergency. Go to bed early. I will ask Yunji to come over and fix it tomorrow." Uncle Cao looked out through the dilapidated window that can only be opened by the width of an adult's palm. After taking a second look and seeing lights in other places, I knew it was a problem with my own wiring.

"Is there a mistake..." Jiahui's complaint and Uncle Cao's snoring gradually faded into the darkness, and a few seconds later, a white flashlight illuminated a pair of brown eyes.

Those eyes looked hazy like a dream, but unfortunately, all the beauty was ruined by the scar that couldn't be concealed by the big scarf that covered the eyes.

After a few efforts to fix the wiring problem at Uncle Cao's house, Yun Ji, the electrician played by Su Yun, after collecting the money, walked slowly to the opposite side of Luang Po's house under Jia Fai's suspicious eyes.

The dragon mother-in-law in the opposite room is a widowed old man, relying on Weibo supplies sent by the welfare association and doing some cleaning chores in the Chengzhai Nursing Home, her life is very difficult.

However, Yun Kee showed no mercy at all, and bluntly said that Luang Po hadn't paid the money for repairing the rice cooker yesterday, regardless of Luang Po's explanation that she had recently bought medicine and was short of money, she just stood there and stretched out her hand to ask for money.

Jiahui subconsciously took a step forward, but was pulled back by Old Man Cao: "Yunji is the only electrician who is willing to stay with us, you can't offend her, otherwise we won't be able to use electricity in the future."

The crowds in the Walled City are clearly divided, the east of the city gathers in associations, and the west of the city gathers together.

Most of the businessmen are in the middle of the two sides. Most people are willing to do ordinary business on the west side of the city, but for the profession of electrician, it is difficult to find a few good ones even in the "regular" east of the city.

There is no other reason. After decades of stealing electricity in the Walled City, even if the government reluctantly pulled the electricity in the past few years, so as not to cause troubles caused by the electricity in the Walled City, those wires are still a mess. .

What's more, this level of repair and maintenance is no longer competent for ordinary electricians.

And high-level technical jobs are extremely rare in the Walled City with an extremely low average education level.

It is said that the inside of the Walled City is chaotic, of course there is chaos; but most of them are ordinary people, with the dream of sending their children or leaving here by themselves after working hard and saving enough money.

Those who are in transition are those who go out to work outside during the day to earn outside wages, and then come back to sleep in the Walled City at night and enjoy the housing prices in the Walled City. The price difference between here and outside is almost five times.

As long as they can go out, no one wants to stay in the old sheds and new buildings in the Walled City: most of the residents in the new buildings are people who cannot build new houses on their own, so they can only use the land of their old sheds to settle with real estate developers. Change to a unit in a new building.

In this transaction, the real estate developer is very "generous": one-for-one, or even one-for-two things often happen-because these new buildings, which are nearly four-fifths cheaper than outside housing prices, do not have relevant documents. Instead, there is only a self-made contract paper that has basically no legal effect.

Once there is any dispute, the residents of the new building are very insecure.

But even so, those new buildings have been filled with people one after another in the past few years.

Most of the people in the Walled City who understand the routines of real estate developers, as well as the elderly who have difficulty letting go of their old houses and cannot climb tall buildings, mostly live in the old dilapidated shantytowns, which complement each other with the seemingly brand-new and sturdy new buildings. A strange stark contrast.

Watching Luang Po staring at Yun Kee's back and scolding in a low voice, Jiahui listened carefully and heard Luang Po saying that Yun Ji is ugly, selfish, and white-eyed wolf, and deserves to be secretly put on by the men in the family. All kinds of insults.

Taking advantage of his duty to travel around the Walled City, the curious Jiahui inquired a little about Yunji.

The old man in the old people's home said that Yunji lived in the walled city back then. When he was a child, his face was accidentally burned by a small fire. Later, he was picked up by his relatives to live there. It was only two years ago that he ran back quietly with a pretty boy. .

At that time, Yun Ji was treated by a quack doctor outside the city, his face was broken, and he was seriously ill. He cared about his little boy but didn’t have much money; so after a few months, some migrant workers saw him being treated outside the walled city. A fat and rich woman who was tall and thick drove her back.

Everyone talked about this matter in private. As for whether Yun Ji knew about it, everyone didn't think about it: there are few people who can do electric work here, and Yun Ji has such a face...

Walled City needs electricians, but the job of electricians is hard to make ends meet and they often encounter defaults. Maybe the boy is so rampant that he often asks the postman if he has any letters, which is also the tacit consent of Yunji!

Especially the letter, a naughty child secretly took it out to read while Uncle Cao was resting in the corner—the smell of cheap perfume that smothers people is set off against the hot red heart-sealed envelope, and the contents are even more sensual and explicit The words and the exhortation to meet in the old place gave many people goosebumps.

The most unbearable thing is that every time he receives a letter, the little boy will definitely sneak out!

"...I don't have any letter from you for the time being." On the other side, Jiahui, who delivered the letter to Yunji's hut, was a little speechless in the face of the question from the little boy Arong.

"If you have a letter from me, please send it to me as soon as possible. It's more urgent." Ah Rong is a young man who looks clean and tidy. The behavior is unbearable, but Jiahui feels that it is not as "normal" as Yunji, who is indifferent and ruthless in collecting debts everywhere.

Of course, if Yun Ji acquiesces in what he does, then these two are a natural match for a bad pot and a bad cover: from before to now, there are also the kind of bad people who let their wives come out to sell and act as a solicitor by themselves .

Of course, this kind of person is basically not valued by anyone.

At dusk at the end of a day's work, before the sun goes down, Jiahui always likes to stay on the roof of a high-rise building and feel the rare sunshine in the Walled City.

Now he, like the residents, can turn a blind eye to the planes passing overhead, and only focus on what he has in hand.

The previous scattered hand-drawn drawings and records of the people inside the Walled City gradually improved and merged as he deepened his understanding of the Walled City from the inside out.

But the more he knew about the Walled City, the more Jiahui hated this messy, deformed fortress.

With the close-up of his complicated eyes, the camera gradually zoomed out, the bleak figure standing in the dusk, while blending into the darkness with the buildings below under the radiance of light, faintly revealed a kind of incompatible resistance and rebellion meaning.