Introduction to the plot of defendant Shan Ye Gang

Introduction to the plot of defendant Shan Ye Gang | Appreciation | Reflection

1994 color film 1 1 copy

Produced by China Emei Film Studio.

Director: Screenwriter: Bi Fan Yuan (based on Li Yiqing's novel "Mountain") Photography: Rao Ren's main actor: (played by Zhao Shan)

This film won the Best Feature Film Award of the 2nd College Student Film Festival from 65438 to 0995, the Best Feature Film Award of the China Watch Award of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the Golden Rooster Award of the Chinese Film Association, the Best Feature Film, the Best Screenplay, the Best Director's First Novel, the Best Actor, the Best Feature Film of Hundred Flowers Award and the Best Actor Award of the Popular Film.

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In the mountainous area of western Sichuan, there is a small village called Duiduiping. At dawn, the fog is thick, and you walk out of the threshold with a toilet in your hand, but you bump into a female corpse hanging in front of the eaves. Your life was frightened to disgrace and shouted out dad Zhao Shanbang. When Zhao Shanbang came out, he was greatly frightened. They hurriedly put down the already cold body. Zhao Shanbang let go of his hand and gasped.

The mist slowly receded, the sky brightened, and the mound lost its former calm. Some people ran and shouted, "Oh, no! Hurry up and yell at Ramwa. His wife hanged herself in Ram Ye's house ... "People gathered in Ram Ye's yard. Ramwa looked at his wife's body and cried, demanding compensation from Ramye. Master Shan looked awed and asked Ramwa: Was Qiang Ying forced to commit suicide? Hunwa asked Shan: Did you punish her for showing movies to the whole village? Send militia to the village to tie her up for swimming? Isn't this forcing her to death? Grandpa Shan Bang calmly replied: Doll, you are wrong. I am forcing her to live a good life and be a good person! Ramva said angrily that she would sue him; Uncle Shangang smiled coldly and said that he was not afraid to sue for punishing bad style! Ramva was speechless, squatting underground, sobbing.

Uncle Shan Gang asked Zhao Accountant and Lazheng to help Ramwa's family with their affairs and do their own thing. He couldn't figure out why Qiang Ying was so stubborn. It's a pity that a living person died when he said he died.

Zhao Shangang's grandson Huwa goes to school 50 miles away and comes back every Saturday to help his family. Today, grandpa and grandson dug the ground together on the hillside again. Grandpa Bud wants to know what happened at school. Huwa told grandpa that the school opened a new legal knowledge class this month. According to the teacher in class, grandpa broke the law. Grandpa Ye Gang didn't think so, but laughed at the teacher's boring teaching of dolls. Huwa didn't understand, and the adults on the hill compared the village to the country, and compared the village rules to the national laws, saying that they were all the same thing, and they were all used to punish unruly bitches. Grandpa did nothing wrong.

Right, right, right, back to normal. On the threshing floor, some are drying grain and some are weaving bamboo baskets. Earley lay in the window of the agency shop and begged his second wife to give him a drink. Grandpa Bud came over and seriously criticized Erli for often getting drunk and beating his wife, not working, like a tramp, and forbidding him to drink any more. Erli had no choice but to hand over the bottle, but she was not convinced.

A police car is heading for the dump. Lao Wang from the township police station and Sugar Singing and Ding Xiao from the county procuratorate sat in the car. Lao Wang introduced Ping to Su Heding: Public security is good, there have been no criminal cases in recent years, and there are some disputes in civil affairs. Zhao Shanbang, secretary of the Party branch, handled it personally, and the villagers obeyed him. Su Qin and Xiaoding came to investigate Lord Shanbang. After listening to their words, they were lost in thought.

As usual, Mr. Shan Ye Gang is very enthusiastic about the comrades coming from above, pouring water and handing cigarettes; Wang Gongan was embarrassed. Tell Shan Gangye that Su and Ding came to investigate an anonymous letter, which reflected that you punished someone for showing a movie and tied her up to parade. And she hanged herself right in front of your house. And you tied people up, locked them up without permission, beat and scolded villagers, and opened other people's letters without permission. After hearing this, Master Shan Ye Gang was very calm and unwilling to explain. He arranged for Zhao accountant to lead the investigation team and let them visit the parties themselves.

The investigation team first came to Hunwa's house. Ramvanian cried and told the story. It turned out that Qiang Ying often abused her mother-in-law, beat her and scolded her. She couldn't take it anymore, so she reported it to Uncle Dan Gang. Seeing that there are more and more people in the village who are not filial to the elderly, Mr. Shan Yegang decided to use Qiang Ying as a knife. So he punished Qiang Ying for showing movies to the whole village and invited Qiang Ying's parents to let them know about it. Qiangying came home, took it out on her mother-in-law and got into a fight with her. The bartender stopped her, and she called the bartender Nan Batian; Guisheng's daughter-in-law advised her, and she also hit Guisheng's daughter-in-law. Uncle Shan locked up Qiang Ying in a rage, and the next day he asked La Zheng and others to escort him to the village. That night, Qiang Ying hanged himself in front of Shan Gang's house.

In the ancestral temple village office, Sugar Singing and others are investigating Zhang Mingxi and Guihua. Outside the ancestral temple, Wang Yao's father told Shan Gang that Mingxi and his wife were talking with the investigation team inside. Wang Yao's father thought it was Zhang Mingxi's complaint, because he was fooled by the mountain, and he graduated from junior high school with many books and tricks.

So Lord Yamaoka recalls the past. When production was reduced that year, the village issued a notice to recover the outflow of labor. Uncle Shan was very upset, so he immediately called a meeting of the villagers and asked his family to inform all the people who went out to go back to the village to farm, saying, "If anyone refuses, don't blame me for being rude." When they arrived at the scene, the villagers had tea with Mr. Bar in the teahouse, and the postman sent a letter from osmanthus for delivery. Everyone guessed that it must be Mingxi's. Mr. Barr had the letter opened. Mingxi said in his letter that he could earn more than 20 yuan a day outside and didn't want to go back to the village to grow wheat. Osmanthus fragrans was very angry when she saw his letter opened. Master Ba told me that he opened the letter and told Guihua to immediately release Mingxi back to the village and send someone to Shanxi to catch Mingxi. Others are worried that Mingxi won't listen. Mr. Ba said, "There are red-headed documents on it. If you are afraid of it, tie it! " In order to avoid wasteland reclamation, Mr. Ba personally took people to help Mingxi's family plow the fields. Mingxi and Guihua from the ancestral temple office said these things, and they were all very grateful to Mr. Shan Bangye, saying that everything Mr. Shan Bangye did was for the whole village and for their own good.

Early got drunk and beat his wife, so Uncle Barr tied him up and put him in a dark room. Su Qin and others rushed to dissuade him. Master Ye Gang said you don't know anything about the mountains. If this unruly rogue is not rectified, how can the village produce and strive for progress? Su Qin and Xiao Ding made people feel relieved and overjoyed. The next day, Erli boasted to the villagers that the county leaders liberated him and shook hands with him. Uncle Samba is finished this time. Uncle Shan was very dissatisfied with this and said to Xiao Ding, "You gave two profits and raised a bitch in Diao Han, which made our grassroots work more difficult." .

Wang Lu took the initiative to find the investigation team to reflect the situation. A few years ago, I defaulted on public grain and was punished by my uncle. He was shut up for three days, and he was not even allowed to eat. Wang Lu's sister Xiao Fang was very dissatisfied with her brother's exposure, saying that there was sugar in the water you drank, which was put by the bar owner. The owner of the bar is good for the whole village, and you say goodbye to others and bad things.

At Uncle Shan's house, your life and daughter-in-law are worried about Uncle Shan. They suspected that Barbara was the one who "typed in black" and remembered what happened when the water reservoir was repaired. Lazheng didn't agree with Mr. Ba's decision at that time. He didn't want to pay or contribute to the construction of the reservoir. Uncle Ba is telling him that party member must obey the decision of the branch; As a result, La Zheng said, party member wants to transfer, as long as he cuts two Jin of meat and makes a pot of wine, he will transfer party member to him. Bugs was so angry that he slapped Lazheng and stopped his registration in party member. Su Qin and Xiaoding's investigation of Lazheng also confirmed this matter; But Lazarus didn't complain, but praised Baye for saving him and making him prosperous. Now he has contracted the fish pond in the reservoir and started to make a fortune.

Su Qin and Xiao Ding finished their investigation and talked with Master Shan. Uncle Dan Gang said frankly that this is all true. Sugar Singing said to Uncle Shan: Your motives are good and the social effect is not bad, but your actions have violated the law, especially your struggle with the British, which directly led to her hanging herself. Uncle Gao was not convinced and said, what should you do if you encounter these things? Sugar Singing said: Try hard to do ideological work, criticize and educate, or ... Her voice is subtle, showing a kind of unconfidence and unconfidence.

Uncle Shan Gang thought that he would go to jail for breaking the national law, and he was afraid of losing his party membership. His heart was very painful. He stroked Tiger Baby's head and admitted that Sun Tzu was right and the teacher was right. Who knows, Hu Wa burst into tears and said that he wrote the letter. He just wanted to ask if what grandpa did in the newspaper was illegal.

In the ancestral hall office, Mr. Ba presided over a branch meeting. Mr. Barr let the branch Committee "cheer up"; Ask Lazheng what you are going to do for the village if you succeed me as secretary. Lazheng said that he would build a TV relay station in the village, raise funds to build a new school, and rectify bad style. "Piling piles together is really inseparable from a pretty three-point principle!" Uncle Ba was very happy and said he was relieved.

A few days later, a police car came and took Uncle Sam away. The villagers gathered around the police car and witnessed the persistence of the bar owner, with tears in their eyes. Shanbangye, handcuffed, watched the villagers stay away from the familiar alignment in the speeding car, and tears rolled down their cheeks.

Distinguish and appreciate

No matter from the plot or the theme, the most surprising place in the film The Defendant Mountain Ye Gang that can arouse people's long-term thinking is not the husband of the deceased Qiang Ying, nor the "naughty bitch" who was ruthlessly rectified by Shan Ye Gang, but his grandson Hu Wa, who is in middle school.

Tigress naturally didn't mean to report grandpa. Grandpa loves him and regards him as a treasure; He also loves and respects Grandpa. However, Qiang Ying was forced to commit suicide in the village, and his grandfather's views on the incident, his explanation of village rules and regulations, and the new legal knowledge education he received in the school classroom all puzzled him. So, he wrote to the newspaper to reflect this problem, which led the county procuratorate to send people to the village to investigate and finally put grandpa in the dock of the court. Previously, people's speculations and doubts about the "black letter" have become all kinds of "unwarranted", and the whole story is completely unexpected.

Obviously this is the creator's careful design and arrangement, but it shocked us with profound connotation, which made us amazed and impressed. Huwa's action was completely accidental and spontaneous. He doesn't understand the severity and ruthlessness of the law, and he doesn't understand the seriousness of the consequences. So when he learned that grandpa would be taken to court for this, he cried with regret. But this accident is inevitable, that is, when our society enters the legal era, with the popularization of legal knowledge and the enhancement of legal consciousness, people will inevitably question and deny all kinds of illegal phenomena that were neglected and commonplace in the past. Intentionally or unintentionally, it doesn't matter. It is important that legal consciousness and legal concept will reach every corner and everyone's heart sooner or later, even for an extremely remote village like Duiping and an inexperienced teenager like Huwa.

The beauty of this film lies in that artists look at the real rural life with a new sense of the times, and they find mounds, hillsides, tiger dolls, and the great contradiction between traditional consciousness, traditional behavior and modern social progress. Here, the pair of peace and the mountain gang can be said to be the unity of mutual conditions and causality. Without this closed, backward, simple and ancient mound, there would be no owner of the mountain bar who combined the old and new traditions. Without this loyal, selfless, overbearing and overbearing grandfather, there would be no such pile of glory and filth, comedy and tragedy. Hu Wa's hazy questioning means the awakening of a new generation. Although he is unconscious, he is just a bud, but it symbolizes that he is about to enter a new era in which the rule of law replaces the rule of man. The arrival of Su Qin and Xiao Ding proved this point. Therefore, we can call this stroke of the work the projection of the light of the times.

The most outstanding achievement of this work is the successful portrayal of a typical character with complex personality. As a grassroots cadre of the Party in a remote village, he has many valuable and excellent qualities. He did not seek personal gain, faithfully carried out the spirit of instructions from his superiors, and wholeheartedly took the right path for the villagers, lived a good life, and worked tirelessly and constantly. To this end, regardless of personal gains and losses, he did not hesitate to severely punish Diao Han's shrew by various means and crack down on bad style. Finally, the pair of flat face, won a variety of "advanced" and "model" title. However, after all, he is a native farmer and a mountain dweller, with narrow vision and simple thinking. Influenced by the long feudal tradition, he only knew the village rules and regulations, but not the national laws. He only knew how to punish people, but he didn't know how to respect them. He was lawless and arbitrary, which eventually led to the tragedy of Qiang Ying's suicide. He seriously violated the law and was pushed to the dock of the court.

The image charm of Mr. Shan Bangye largely stems from his "polarized" composition. On the one hand, he is extremely "kind" and a saint who is almost perfect in morality and motivation. He holds power, but never thinks for himself. When others get rich, he is still penniless, heavily in debt and living in poverty. Even all kinds of illegal things are out of public interest, out of the implementation of superior instructions, for the benefit of the pile and the parties. On the other hand, he is extremely "evil", arbitrary, abusive, privately set up a cell, privately opened other people's letters, and punished him for traveling in the village, driving people to the wall. The former let us sympathize with him and respect him; The latter makes us hate him and sympathize with him. In the great contrast between "good" and "evil", artists not only strongly attract our emotional input; It also profoundly enlightens us to think rationally. From this, we will think of all kinds of complicated social and historical reasons in the bipolar personality of the mountain; It will also be associated with the intricate relationship between morality, culture and legal system.

At this point, some critics did not really understand this work. They believe that praising and affirming the advantages and motives of Shan Bangye blurs the criticism of the rule of man model and leads to people's misunderstanding of the legal model without moral foundation. In fact, the artist's description of "polarization" is precisely to deny the rule of man more effectively. They affirmed the qualities that should be affirmed in the mountain bar; It also strongly denies what is backward in the development of the times and should be denied. Morality and legal system are a complex subject: the legal system naturally needs a corresponding moral foundation; But the legal system also has its own relative independence and inviolability. Standing on the general moral standards, we can think that Uncle Shan is a "good man"; However, from the perspective of higher respect for people, respect and protection of people's rights, Uncle Shan cannot be considered as a moral model. So there is no "misunderstanding" here, which is the artist's unique angle to cut into the theme. Their purpose is to ring the alarm bell of the times louder and more thought-provoking.

The film is also profound in its "cultural reflection" and "cultural criticism" Since the May 4th Movement, progressive writers, represented by Lu Xun, have devoted themselves to the excavation and transformation of national character, which has exerted great influence. Defendant Ye Gang inherited this tradition and created the image of Ye Gang and Duiping villagers. We can see that during the whole investigation, almost all the villagers stood on the side of Shangang. They sympathize with, support and intercede for the hills. They can't feel the dignity and rights of others and need the care and protection of the legal system; Instead, I feel that I need him and can't live without him. They also don't understand that it is their own selfishness, narrowness and ignorance that drives Samba into the quagmire of arrogance and arbitrariness; I don't know, the best way to really save Samba is to obey the law, be civilized and have self-esteem first. Through the portrayal of villagers' images, the film tells us that the autocratic thought and style of Shangang's parents have a deep social foundation in an environment with low production level and cultural literacy. If we want to transform mountains, we must transform such a social foundation together. Therefore, we can't just regard the work as telling a story of "good people breaking the law"; Nor can it just be regarded as a work that popularizes legal knowledge and legal spirit. Its deeper significance lies in criticizing the old traditional personality and culture, thus prompting us to actively construct new personality and culture in the new modernization process.

The film adopts the type of "detective film"; But the focus of his description is not to tell us the conclusion of the incident, but to depict the image of Shan Gangye and reveal the social environment in which he lives through multi-viewpoint narration in the process of "investigation". A large number of retrospective shots and paragraphs will not make us feel disorganized and rambling, because they all focus on the truth investigation of the illegal incident of Shangangye, and the selection of each clip is very representative and attractive. They are like beams from different angles, illuminating the three-dimensional artistic image of Ye Gang. Artists not only pay attention to the overall goal and task of "backtracking", but also recall shots and paragraphs; I also noticed that I should alienate myself as much as possible and concentrate on it. This has caused the existing ideal viewing effect: the "suspense" feeling of the survey itself attracts our attention like a magnet; And multi-angle narration is like a rotating kaleidoscope, which brings us into the wonderful art world. This film is quite successful in trying to borrow traditional types and structural methods to give new ideas and profound meanings.

Director Fan Yuan graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, which is his first independent film. In addition to pursuing unique artistic image and profound ideological connotation, he also attaches great importance to the expression and expression of environmental modeling. The description of the environmental atmosphere in the film has a strong visual impact, which embodies the creator's intention and consciousness. The rolling mountains, remote and closed mounds, high mountains, gray clouds, stone roads shining with cyan light after rain, stone archways standing heavily at the head of the village, slow-moving old waterwheels, and blue-and-white police cars that villagers rarely see are closely related to the psychological and plot development of the characters. On the whole, they constitute the external environment of villagers' life and convey the internal relationship between the closed and backward environment and the causes of characters' personality. We can regard them as symbols and metaphors, but what is rare is that they are not forced into a certain meaning from the outside, but are naturally reflected from the description of events and are very appropriate. This makes the whole work look concise, natural and smooth.