Plot"The Maze of the Heart" movie comment ary copy
In a small village in the north
A charred, unnamed body suddenly appears on a hill
Three families came one after another to claim it
But within a few days, they all returned without exception
Seemingly simple villagers
When confronted with the corpse, they all had ulterior motives
For their own interests and desires
They were deceitful, they were willing to take advantage of the situation, they were willing to use the knife to kill.
They and the corpse
This collision is extremely absurd and dramatic
This movie was the most watched Chinese movie in 2015
At the same time
One of the best crime suspense movies in the history of Chinese cinema
It actually only cost $1.7 million
It took 26 days to shoot....
It's called The Maze of the Heart
The young man Fang Yao returns to his hometown during his vacation
It's a small rural scene with simple folklore
His father is the head of the village's "good old boy"
The village chief values honor and medals more than money
Quite a prestige
Therefore
He has a high prestige in the village
But he never had a good relationship with his son
The two are like water and fire
They don't get along at all
An old man in the village who had difficulty with his legs went to the mountain to burn the grass
Unexpectedly the fire was too big
He was directly burned to death
Fang Yao went to the funeral banquet
The main characters of the movie
also took turns to gather at the banquet
Ah Zhuang, who owns a kiosk, brought over beer and drinks
He also had a few words with his crush, Xiaoqin
Xiaoqin is a kind of mature woman who still has her charm
Her husband is often away from home
And she and another man, Dabao
is developing an underground affair
While they are flirting with each other
Dabao saw his brother's ex-girlfriend Xiaohuan
It was because she broke up with her brother
That's why the brother died of alcoholism
Dabao was furious
He went up to Huan to argue with her
Threatened to make her pay for her life
Coincidentally
Huan and Fang Yao are now in a secret relationship
Because Fang Yao's father wanted him to find a city girl
So he didn't dare to tell his family
This is the point of the movie
The story only officially began
The first part of the movie is just laying out the complicated relationship between the characters
The complicated relationship between the characters
On the night of the funeral
Huan and Fang Yao went to the woods for a private meeting
Huan didn't want to be so sneaky anymore
So she decided to lie to Fang Yao that she was pregnant
Just when Fang Yao was confused
Unexpectedly their conversation
The village gangster Baihu overheard them
He asked for 10,000 yuan to keep his mouth shut
If he didn't pay, he would tell the village.
The village chief's son had slept with a girl.
He even knocked her up.
Then his father would not be able to be the village chief.
Fang Yao can't get the money.
And he was too embarrassed to tell his father.
He could only tug at Bai Hu in excitement.
In the middle of tugging
Bai Hu fell down
He fell on the stone and died
Seeing this, Fang Yao rushed to cover the body with dry grass
He took Xiaohuan with him and fled in the night
They hid in a rented room in the county
Originally they planned to flee to the south and disappear.
But Fang Yao suddenly remembered
He had stolen a medal from his father and put it on his body
And that medal
Now it's likely to have fallen to the murder scene.
Now...
If it's found.
Father will not only lose his job as village chief
He might also be imprisoned.
Then everything would be over
Xiaohuan didn't think that her lie
Would cause such serious consequences
But now she could only keep the truth
The truth that she was not pregnant was hidden in her heart
She didn't dare to tell Fang Yao
And now she is involved in a murder case
I didn't dare to contact my family either
A few days later
Fang Yao received a phone call from her mother
Reassured, Fang Yao asked about her father's condition.
（"Where is my father?)
(Your father)
(Your father is repairing the pigpen)
Fang Yao couldn't hold back any longer and was ready to go back to turn himself in.
But just as he reached the village entrance
A funeral procession was coming.
The person on it was Bai Hu.
It seems that Zihu's body was found.
But somehow he was a charred corpse.
People in the village told Fang Yao
White Tiger was drunk and lying on the hay smoking
And the cigarette ignited the haystack
and burned himself to death.
This made Fang Yao even more puzzled
At that time, he saw Bai Hu (the gangster)
He saw him die on a rock.
So who covered up the real cause of death of White Tiger?
And for what purpose did he do it?
Back to a few days ago since the tiger died that night
At that time, Dabao and Xiaoqin were having a rendezvous.
Xiaoqin's husband used to beat her up, kicking and screaming.
She didn't even dare to mention the divorce
If she mentioned it, she would receive more violent beatings
For this reason, Xiaoqin even thought of killing her husband
But she was afraid she wouldn't be able to dispose of the body
Dabao, who was across the room, had a bright idea
She had an idea for Xiaoqin
After killing her husband
Drag his body to a haystack in the mountains and burn it
Many people in the village had died this way before
No one would suspect Xiaoqin.
And the police would not be alerted
No one would have noticed.
And Dabao also promised
He would do this for Xiaoqin.
Early the next morning
The charred body was found.
At first, everyone thought
That the body was the missing Xiaohuan.
The Huang family also pointed the finger of suspicion at Dabao
Dabao could only reveal himself
He was with Xiaoqin in private last night
He didn't have time to kill anyone
And when Xiaoqin arrived and saw Dabao's cowardly face.
She was very upset.
And she didn't want the fire to be directed at herself.
So she denied it indifferently and turned around and left.
But Xiaoqin had just returned home.
The secretary next door came to the door again
He said the corpse was not Xiaohuan
But it was Xiaoqin's husband Chen Zili
Because they found Chen Zili's charred body next to the corpse.
They found Chen Zili's burnt ID card
And when Dabao heard that the corpse was Chen Zili
He was also very shocked
He didn't do anything
How did he die?
Xiaoqin pretended to shed tears in front of everyone
When she got home, she immediately changed her face and called Dabao
She thought Dabao had helped her kill her husband
But the call was rejected by Dabao
At this time
Ah Zhuang, who had been secretly in love with Xiaoqin, realized that his chance had come
He immediately started to pay attention to her
He volunteered to work for the funeral.
He even went to the city to buy funeral supplies for Xiaoqin.
After buying funeral supplies for Xiaoqin
Ah Zhuang also bought a bracelet
He wanted to further his relationship with Xiaoqin with this
But just when he was returning to the village happily after shopping
He ran into Xiaoqin's husband Chen Zili on the way
Ah Zhuang was dumbfounded
Is it because the man's bones are still cold?
He had gotten into the idea of his daughter-in-law
That's why the spirit warned him
At that time, Ah Zhuang was so scared that he could not say a word
But soon afterwards, he found out through details
The Chen Zili was not a ghost
He was really not dead
Chen Zili asked Ah Zhuang to drive him home
Ah Zhuang's feelings at that moment were very complicated
He was able to accept Xiaoqin
was based on the fact that Chen Zili was already dead
Thinking of this
And looked at Chen Zili who was sleeping
Ah Zhuang got out of the car
Picked up a brick from the roadside and wanted to shoot him to death
However, after hesitating for a while
He still did not dare to do it
At this time, Chen Zili wanted to get out of the car for a while
Within a few minutes of crouching down on the hillside
Ah Zhuang heard him fall down the hill
This is really easy to get
And he didn't get his hands dirty.
Ah Zhuang hurried back to the car
He grabbed Chen Zili's bag and threw it down the hill
This cleared himself of any involvement with Chen Zili
But when he got home, he was still a bit disturbed
Ah Zhuang could only burn incense at the Buddha statue
begging God to forgive him for his sins
It was time for Chen Zili's funeral
But the funeral procession hadn't even taken two steps
Xiaoqin received a call
The town police station asked Xiaoqin to hurry over
Ah Zhuang volunteered to drive Xiaoqin to the town
Xiaoqin had just gotten into the car when she noticed something strange
On the back seat of the car was actually her husband Chen Zili's crutches
In the police station
Xiaoqin saw the real body of her husband
The time of death was yesterday
It was exactly the time when Ah Zhuang was out shopping
Xiaoqin logically thought that Ah Zhuang killed Chen Zili to get her
So he killed Chen Zili (her husband)
After returning to the village, Xiaoqin silently took Chen Zili's walking stick
She also returned the bracelet that Ah Zhuang had given her before to him
(Thank you)
Although she was grateful to Ah Zhuang
But she didn't want to spend the rest of her life with a "murderer"
Xiaoqin took the coffin back to the village council
She told the village chief that the corpse was not Chen Zili.
The reason why he had his ID card
Most likely the owner stole Chen Zili's wallet.
The village chief went home and continued to work on the pigpen
Baihu's brother came to the house with a gift
He stammered for a long time
before he said he wanted to borrow the charred corpse for a while
It turned out that Bai Hu had gambled and owed too much money
White Tiger's family couldn't afford to pay
It is better to use the corpse to lie that the tiger is dead
So that the debtors can cope with it
The picture turns back to
Before Baihu and Chen Zili in the roadside dinner
White Tiger was at that time on Chen Zili's wallet
Time goes back to the night when White Tiger was stoned to death
The truth is finally revealed
The village chief and his friend went home after a drink
By the woods, he happened to witness
His son and the white tiger were fighting together
He watched his son kill the white tiger by mistake
After Fang Yao and Xiao Huan chose to escape
The village chief came out and opened the body of the white tiger under the hay
He took out the lighter in his pocket
Under the torture of both his conscience and his desire to protect his son
He finally decided to help his son to hide the truth from the world
Cover up the truth of what happened
Burn the body and disguise it as an accident
Early the next morning
The clerk came to tell him
Everyone in the village said that Xiaohuan had been burned to death
So there was the previous
People misunderstood Dabao is the murderer of the plot
What's more, before that, Dabao
He threatened to kill Xiaohuan at the banquet
Then someone jumped in and said the body's pelvis was so big
It must be a man
The village chief was trying to make things easier.
He said that since he didn't know who the body was
Don't call the police yet
said that the police would not be accepted
On the other hand, the people who were looking for White Tiger's debt were raging.
White Tiger's sister-in-law is still talking to the village chief
(This morning)
(A body was found in our village)
(Male)
(It's White Tiger)
(No)
（"I don't know.)
（"It would be better if it was a white tiger.)
(What are you talking about?)
At this time, the secretary found the village chief again
Told him that the body was Chen Zili.
That's how the whole thing came about.
Ziyou's body was repeatedly misidentified by several people.
was repeatedly misidentified
The village chief went home and put away his medals
But things will always be revealed one day
Instead of that, it was better to find Chen Zili first
He called Chen Zili's phone number
He didn't expect that Chen Zili would be on the hillside at that time.
He rolled down the hill to answer the call.
(Who is it?)
(speaking)
Late at night, the village chief came to the funeral hall.
He opened the letter and stole the body.
He was going to bury the body under the pigpen that his family was repairing.
The debt collectors continued to threaten Bai Hu's brother to give him up.
White Tiger's sister-in-law had a plan
Ask the village chief to lend them the corpse
She lied to the debt collectors that it was the corpse of the white tiger
So that the debt collectors would stop harassing her
They won't know
In fact, it was the corpse of the white tiger
White Tiger's brother also had a good excuse
Saying that the white tiger had drunk too much and smoked.
And burned himself to death
Hearing this
The village chief had a plan in place
He covered up the pigpen which had just been cemented
He lent the body of the white tiger to his brother
Let them "pretend" to go to the funeral
Along the way, they met Dabao, Ah Zhuang, Fang Yao
The debt collectors and Xiaoqin standing in front of Chen Zili's grave in the distance
Ignoring all the characters
At this moment, they form a ring that echoes each other
Xiaoqin picked up her walking stick
Burying the crutches and ashes together
Fang Yao returned home in a trance
He found that all the medals in the house had been put away
The one he took himself was also still missing
Later, the village chief found that Bai Hu's coffin had not been buried
He went to confront his brother
To his surprise, his brother said
After all, it was an "unknown outsider"
It should not be put in the ancestral grave of the family
In case someone wants it in the future
And save digging out again
And so, the coffin was "buried in the wilderness"
Finally went in a circle
The body of the white tiger is still the body of the white tiger
But he could not be recognized by the family.
Fang Yao and his father both walked in front of the coffin in the darkness.
They looked at each other, silent and speechless
From afar, Xiaohuan silently squatted down
And hid the medal he had secretly found before
and hid it under the stone
Swallowed all the secrets
This is the end of the story
Labyrinth of the Heart" is the debut film of director Xin Yu-kun
Although the production has a very low cost
and an all-vegetarian cast
but it became a phenomenon in its own right
The story is based on a real-life incident that the director heard about
In a village in the 1990s
A corpse once appeared
As a result, several families argued that it was their own child
Finally
The coffin actually changed three owners in just a few days
In the movie
This is how the corpse of the tiger was repeatedly moved and rotated
The last scene at the end of the film
is that Zig Fu went to the temple to pray to the gods
And this is actually the beginning of the whole story
Baihu is a gambling scoundrel in the village
His blackmail and death by falling down
And is the source of the subsequent other evil
It is because of him that Fang Yao is guilty of manslaughter
The village headman was guilty of destroying a corpse
Xiaoqin's underground love affair was forced to be exposed
Chen Zili because he stole his wallet
He had to hitchhike halfway home
Then he fell off the cliff
But the irony is
He initially stole Chen Zili's money
But he put the stolen money into the merit box and offered it to God and Buddha
He was just like any other ordinary person
Donated money, took incense and worshipped Buddha
Praying that his condition would get better quickly
To have a bright future
The people who worship the gods in this film
may be simple-minded at the time of worship
But afterwards, they did evil deeds that they never thought of
Or they may have worshipped
with the intention of atoning for their sins
Want to use superstition to cleanse their sins
Although I am a person who does not believe in God and Buddha
But suppose God and Buddha really exist
When they see these worshipers
With money and incense wanting to seek refuge to wash away their sins
How would you feel
The last reversal
In fact, it also peels away the last layer that the director wants to express
He doesn't want to show a whole crew of villains
Rather, he wants to tell the audience
Everyone in life is torn between good and evil
There is no absolute bad guy
There is no absolute good guy either
The village chief is still the same
The respected village chief
But he also committed the crime of destroying a corpse
The corpse that keeps moving
It's like a "button" that turns on the transformation of human nature
It makes the evil deeper into the heart of each person
More naked in front of others
Dazed and confused living together
Spinning in the labyrinth of human nature
And then go further and further away
The walls that make up this labyrinth
The reversal of human nature is accompanied by the reversal of the fate of the characters
And the reality may be more absurd than the movie
That's the end of today's story
I'm XXX. See you next time.
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