On the big screen, Rui Zheng was walking towards an old tan RV resting on the mountain, with a dilapidated mountain house standing not far behind. Rui walked up the steps of the RV. A baby's cry was heard in the voiceover, and Rui knocked on the door. Diagonal medium shot, the door of the RV is opened, and a girl holding a baby wearing a pink and white hooded cotton coat is standing behind the door.
The girl is slightly shorter than Rui. She is wearing a green-brown jacket and faded jeans. She wears a small silver ring on her left ring finger and has no other accessories. She has long brown and slightly red hair hanging straight behind her head, and a face with delicate features. Rong also wore no makeup and looked very plain.
In the close-up shot of the two people from the side, they immediately smiled when they saw each other, showing the intimacy of old friends. Ree on the right said, "Hey, Gale," while scratching the baby's head, "Hey, Ned." Gale on the left breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank God, it's you, Sweetpea. I thought it was Freud¡¯s parents again, those two old guys always stared at me, as if I had done something wrong.¡±
"Can you please stop saying that? Isn't it because of the two of them that you can live here?" The camera cuts to the outside of the RV, where a tall blond boy about 20 years old, a campus athlete, is sitting on an old sofa. , holding a bottle of beer and drinking, with an impatient expression as if he was about to get angry at any time.
"Hey, Floyd." The camera shot back, and Rui outside the door looked into the car, "Won't you invite me in?" Gale looked sideways at her husband, obviously unable to make up her mind.
"Come in, just for a moment." Freud said in a cold tone, stood up and walked away with the bottle in hand, "She already has a child now."
Both Rui and Gail turned to the side to let the door open. When Floyd stepped out of the RV, they looked at each other and smiled again.
The camera shows them walking into the narrow master bedroom of the RV. Several huge posters of racing cars, heavy metal bands, and beautiful women are hung on the walls. The double bed covered with light brown sheets has some unpacked clothes. Gale laid the baby flat in the middle of the bed, pulled the clothes to the left, and then fell back flat on the bed. He put his hands on his chest, took off the ring on the ring finger of his left hand with the thumb and middle finger of his right hand, and exhaled: "He's a horse."
Off-screen, the audience was not surprised by Gale's "fuck". There is no one in the film who doesn't swear, except for children.
And all the fans who are looking forward to Alicia Vikander¡¯s performance have seen it, and there are no surprises either! It was just a face-to-face meeting, and her expression, movements, and tone all told her confusion, doubts, and sadness about marriage and the current situation. A sad young girl who was pregnant and married at an early age was already on the screen.
"Has he been fucking Heath Bowney recently?" Rui asked, lying down on the bed with her feet on the ground.
A close-up shot of the three of them from an elevated angle, with Gail lying on the left and Rui on the right, while a baby separates them.
"Can't you?" Gale's soft voice sounded like a sneer, "Heath is his love, I just got him when he was drunk." She turned to look at Rui, and smiled without thinking about the troubles: "I haven't seen you for a while, what are you busy with?" Rui couldn't help exhaling: "Sweet pea, you are so stupid."
Just-fucking.
A steady shot cuts between a close-up shot of them alone and a close-up shot of the three of them. Rui tells Gail her trouble, and she wants to borrow a car to go look for them in Hoekfur. But Gale couldn't make the decision, and Floyd had all the car keys. Gale stood up to ask, and Rui also sat up. She teased Ned with a smile, showing her girly side again.
With everything on camera, Gale walked back, expressionless, "He said no."
"Did you tell him that I would pay for the gas?" Rui frowned slightly.
"I said it, but he still refused." Gale's voice seemed to be withering.
"Why?" Rui was a little anxious.
"He never told me the reason, he just said no." Gale was a little irritable.
Rui Tie frowned, looked away, and suddenly said in disgust: "It's so sad, sister, so damn sad! It's always like this, you don't do anything he doesn't allow you to do."
Gale¡¯s expression remained unchanged, as dull as a dead tree. He fell face to face on the bed again like an ostrich, and his dull words came out: ¡°It will be different after you get married.¡±
"It must be, you didn't do this before, not at all." Rui's tone was also low.
Ned suddenly started crying again. Gale turned around, looked up at Rui, and said softly like a guest: "Ned needs to sleep for a while." She watched Rui get up and leave with dull eyes.
The atmosphere of the Brown Bear Theater is even colder, but the smiles of cute babies and girls bring a heavy feeling. It can be thought that Gale must have been a young and fierce wild girl before, and then suddenly If Songya, Victoria, and Connie are three ends, and Gale is reaching a fork in the road, who will she be in the future?
In the side panorama on the screen, Rui walks down the steps of the RV, and on the left?Floyd in the depth of field is peeing in front of the RV, and there is a gurgling sound effect.
Rui glanced at it and walked away. Floyd said while peeing: "Are you leaving?" Rui ignored him. Panoramic view from the front, Floyd in the back shook his body and pulled down his pants, saying: "What are you pulling on? Girl, you think you understand, but in fact you don't understand anything."
"Gail is not your belongings." Rui continued walking.
"No one here wants to be a villain." Single frontal close-up shot, Floyd takes out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket to get some cigarettes, and says to Rui: "It's just that people here don't understand the rules yet, so life is not easy. Better."
¡°Fuck you,¡± Rui said.
The audience has become accustomed to this vulgarity and harshness.
The film is merciless to women, and the same goes for men. It is a faithful recorder without correction, attitude or bias.
Men all have their own irresponsibility. Jesup disappeared and stood by with tears, leaving the entire burden to Rui. As for Freud, what is a traditional man and a teenager ruled by hormones? He is like this. He gets drunk and cheats and makes other people's bellies bigger, so he has to get married. He still maintains a relationship with the girl he loves and treats his wife as an object. It's disgusting, but this kind of bastard is often sought after by girls, and his words seem to have some deep meaning
The people on the screen are just a bunch of evil people, why? Is it because "people here don't understand the rules yet"?
It seems that only the police officer is better, but he is also timid and useless.
After her biological uncle, Rui encountered another obstacle with her good friend, but she did not stop. Unable to borrow a car, she walked on the desolate road and flagged down a truck to catch a ride. The bearded burly driver does not look like a kindhearted person, nor does he look like a school bus driver who is obviously joking. His lustful eyes and teasing words, "Little girl, are you going to provide that?" all make people worry about Rui's safety. Her face The person smiled a little and said, "Not provided."
Ho-Kefir is another hilltop. The scenery is no different. It is still so desolate and desolate. Houses made of stone and wood are scattered in the low-lying areas of the ridge. As Rui comes and walks around, there are strong dogs walking around. Barking endlessly.
The audience watched Rui hit a wall one after another. A young woman named Megan stopped her on the road. Compared to Victoria, Megan looked gloomy, but she gave her help. After learning Rui's purpose, Megan took her to find little Arthur. During the subsequent meeting, little Arthur covered up his obvious uneasiness with a playful smile and could not explain Jesup's whereabouts. Rui could tell that the other party was lying. From her expression, the audience also knew that she had guessed that something had probably happened to her father.
After leaving Little Arthur¡¯s house, Megan told Rui to ask Thumper Milton on the way. Thumper is a big shot here and should know about things. After hearing this, Rui said, "That person scares me more than anyone else," while Meghan said, "It's natural to be afraid of him. He is my grandfather, but I never dare to anger him."
Rui came to a particularly large house on the hillside. Several chained vicious dogs in the yard growled, and a cold-faced old woman standing on the porch walked up. After hearing Rui's purpose, the old woman drove her away. Rui begged bitterly and once again mentioned the blood relatives and said, "At least part of our blood is the same." Although the old woman still looked fierce, she changed her attitude: "How old are you? There is no one in your family." Are men here to talk about this?"
¡°I¡¯m 16, it¡¯s just me.¡± Rui said.
The old woman seemed a little impatient and asked Rui to wait at the chicken pen while she went to talk to Samp. Rui walked to the simple chicken pen in the distance and waited. The scenery lens captured the chickens in the pen, the chicken droppings on the ground, and the vicious dogs walking in the distance. As time passed, Rui changed his posture several times, and the house remained empty. movement. It was raining heavily in the dark sky. Rui squatted on the ground next to the chicken pen, using the little roof to block the rain, but the rain still floated or splashed on her body, and she was shivering with cold.
The camera showed everything, the heavy rain stopped, the old woman finally came from the house, Rui hurriedly greeted her. The old woman was holding a cup of steaming something in her hand. She handed it to Rui and said, "Drink the hot soup and then leave."
"Thank you." Rui took it and drank it all in one breath, looking at the old woman expectantly.
Fans have observed that it is the traditional women on the Huo Kefuer side. They are not unkind, and they all have good intentions towards Rui. However, what the old woman brought was cold nails. Samp knew what Rui wanted to ask and knew that she was asking around, but he didn't want to hear it. Rui was very dissatisfied. The old woman warned her that she had better be sensible and leave quickly, and don't come back to ask him a second time. Never.
At this time, on the screen, the old woman turned and walked away with the cup, and Rui was still saying harshly: "Blood relatives don't even count to the big shot. Do I understand correctly? Okay, tell the big shot for me, I hope??I live a long life in a hospital bed, do you hear that? You tell him it was Rui Dolly who said it! "
The old woman in the background of the over-the-shoulder shot turned around, a cold anger appeared on her wrinkled old face, and she repeated: "Don't come again."
Single close-up shot, Rui looks stubborn. After scolding her, her fear becomes less and less visible, and her wolf-like courage becomes stronger and stronger.
The rumble of thunder brought the screen to the next scene. The dark night sky was pouring rain, covering the entire lonely mountain range. Rui hid in a small cave with only room for three or four people. She leaned against the left cave wall with her arms and legs folded, and turned her head to look out of the cave in trance. There was a small pile of firewood burning on the opposite side.
In the reverse shot, the rain outside the cave was getting heavier, and Rui's side was submerged in the darkness, making it impossible to see her face.
This scene is sad, dejected, and has nothing that can be called angry.
In this place, there are no good people, no warmth, and no hope.
But with strength, a 16-year-old girl is carrying such a family, and there are many things that need not be said.
The sound of thunderstorm gradually faded away, and the image changed scene. In the morning, Rui was walking on the slope home. Just when the camera saw Sonny and Harold standing in front of the house as if waiting, they saw Milton, a blond man smoking next to a black pickup truck not far away, throwing away his cigarette butt and shouting towards Rui: "Crazy girl, someone is already following you. You told me to shut up, you¡¯d better listen to them!¡±
As soon as Rui frowned, Milton grabbed his arm and dragged him to the pickup truck on the left: "Get in the car!"
"Don't touch me, get out of here!" Rui struggled violently. The two brothers over there saw it, Harold opened his mouth in panic, and Sonny was already running over screaming: "Don't hit my sister!" The blond Milton looked at him with a weird and twisted smile. Rui struggled and yelled: "Boys, go back to the house! Make some mashed potatoes for breakfast, go!"
Sonny did not go back. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "No one is allowed to hit my sister."
At this moment, the nervous audience outside the screen was suddenly moved. In times of crisis, family affection and courage show up.
"Boy!" The blond-haired Milton suddenly grabbed Sonny's collar, "You're quite capable, but don't let this courage turn you into a fool!" He suddenly threw Sonny to the ground, and then In an instant, the camera cuts to the screaming Rui, and Sonny falls on the slope and bleeds from the corner of his mouth. Harold came closer, wincing.
Milton sneered. Rui stared at him with wolfish eyes and said in a deep voice: "My dad will kill you if he finds out"
"Fart, when your father was a child, I had to beat him twice a year." Milton grabbed Rui's arm again and tried to drag her into the car.
"You haven't beaten him once since he had a man's fist, don't you dare!" Rui said.
"Hurry up and get in the car and take you to see something."
Under Sonny¡¯s resentment and Harold¡¯s uneasy attention, Rui was pushed into the pickup truck by Milton, who also got in the car, and the car drove away.
A tense atmosphere arose in the theater, but the camera continued to record plainly. Milton took Rui to a charred house in the mountains. He said, "This is where I, and others, last saw Jesup." "Where", Jesup's ice-making machine accidentally exploded and perished in a sea of ??fire.
Rui did not believe it easily. She insisted on getting out of the car and going over to take a look, even though the area around the house was still poisonous. "If dad died inside, I would take him back and bury him."
She carefully walked over and inspected the black ruins. The broken wall lamp swayed in the wind, the kitchen sink smashed through the floor and fell into the soil, the bent faucet protruded from the charred wood, and there were gaps everywhere. Weeds have grown on them, and they are half as tall as a man.
Rui slowly withdrew and returned to the pickup truck with a calm expression. The blond Milton drove away, and on the way back, the two of them didn't say a word. Rui looked out the car window, her eyes blinking for a long time, as if she was restraining something.
At this point, Rui knew, and the audience also knew, that Jesup was 90% dead, but not there or that way.
The scene cuts back to a few houses on the hillside, the car door slams shut, and the two get out of the car. The blond-haired Milton said kindly: "Girl, I know that Jesup is gone and your family is having a hard time. I know that your burden is heavy." Rui said as he walked away: "We will get through it."
"I talked to Songya, and we can take Sonny over. Harold can't, but we are willing to take Sonny, after all, he is my son." Milton continued, and Rui did not stop speaking firmly and forcefully. Pace, only said "Go to hell", Milton shouted angrily: "Be careful what you say! That kid is raised by us, he is better than you and your crazy"??Mom doesn't know how much better it is. Maybe we can pick Harold up later. "
At this time, Rui, who had reached the depth of field on the right, stopped and turned around. She looked at the golden-haired Milton on the lower left, and for the first time she showed real ferocity as if she was desperate. Her words became louder and louder: "Son of a bitch, just get off. Hell! Sonny and Harold will die with us, even if they live together in the cave, they will never stay in your house for a night! Fuck you, blond Milton, do you think I'm an idiot in that place? The weeds have grown as high as our chin, and it must have been a year since the house was destroyed!"
After she cursed, she spat at Milton's feet, turned around angrily, and strode home. The blond Milton stood there annoyed.
Rui's outburst made the atmosphere in the theater very lively, and everyone was really impressed by the change. She had always been like a restrained hedgehog before, but when she suddenly put the spikes on her body upright, her fierceness, anger, hatred and repression were revealed. The sorrow is shocking to the heart.
A few clicks! On the screen, two old-style rifles were taken out of the closet by the girl's hands. On the hillside behind the house, Rui handed the two guns to Sonny and Harold respectively, and said: "I didn't know what to do before. It's time for you to learn to shoot, and I'm afraid it's time for you to learn it."
The faces of the two boys were a little tense, and Sonny still had wounds at the corners of his mouth.
From a long shot, you can see empty cans, milk cartons, plastic bottles and other targets standing in a row on a dining table in the close shot.
Rui taught them step by step how to hold a gun and how to aim, and also told them some gun knowledge. As the camera cut away, gunshots rang out, and the two pulled the trigger again and again. With great difficulty, a milk carton on the dining table exploded, and Rui's voiceover said: "Harold, that's it! "
At this time, it cut to a panoramic shot, and a figure walked around the house, holding a large basket with something in his left hand.
The three siblings turned around when they heard the footsteps. The two rifles in the boy's hands were immediately pointed at the visitor. The figure stopped suddenly. He wanted to raise his hands but could not lift the large rattan basket above his head. It looked quite funny. . The mid-front shot shows Gale holding the baby. She said anxiously: "Oh my God, Sweet Pea! It's just me and Ned!"
This dangerous and absurd scene made many viewers laugh, and their mood became more positive after being depressed for a long time.
The same goes for Rui on the screen. She smiled and walked quickly. The two brothers lowered their guns. Rui Xiao said: "Gail Lockran! I knew you wouldn't suffer for so long. You would change back to yourself. Come to me, and I would know it."
"It's Gale Longan." Gale showed a fleeting wry smile, "He went to fuck Heath on his horse again." She raised a bunch of car keys in her right hand and shook it, "But I stole my parents-in-law's old car. How's your trouble here?"
Rui's smile has also disappeared, "I was just going to look for it over at Red Pass, you were a big help." She looked back at her two younger brothers and said, "That's all for today's training."
The camera cut to the living room of the shabby house. Gale reached out and patted Connie's left arm on the rocking chair, calling softly: "Aunt? Aunt? How are you doing recently?" Connie still looked calm, as if she wasn't there at all. heard. When she saw Rui walking towards him with Ned in her arms, her eyes changed, with some suspicion and guilt, and she suddenly said: "I gave birth to another child?"
Rui said nothing, Gale said with a smile: "That's my son, his name is Ned."
Connie turned her eyes and looked at Gale deeply. She didn¡¯t say anything more, but she seemed to have said something.
"Let's go." Rui said.
The audience was inexplicably sad, and the two girls walked up to a dilapidated red antique car in front of the house. Gale got into the driver's seat and asked, "Auntie, do you know what happened?" Rui carried the baby. He sat in the passenger seat with the basket, "I think she knows."
"Don't you think you should tell her?" Gail put in the car key and started the engine. The car made a harsh rattling sound, and a large cloud of black smoke spewed out of the tailpipe. Rui's voice-over brought back a close-up view of the car, "It's so cruel to tell her this. She just goes crazy trying to escape from these fucked-up things."
"I don't think she can be of much help." The car finally started and Gail twisted the steering wheel and drove.
"Yes." Rui nodded.
There has been no soundtrack in the film, and the theater is quite silent. It doesn¡¯t matter what kind of connotation it has. Movie fans and audiences have already been immersed in the story itself, worrying about the fate of the two girls.
It was night again on the screen, and the two of them took their baby to a house in Red Pass and met the female owner of the house, April. This is another beautiful and elegant middle-aged woman after Victoria. Her home is also clean and elegant, with bookshelves and many wooden artworks.
Walking in a house like this,Rui and Gale's footsteps were much gentler, and their eyes were looking around.
A middle-aged man who looked very polite was sitting on the sofa in the living room and watching TV. April led the two of them down the corridor to a carving studio, where they sat down at the carved wooden table and chatted. Rui Dao explained her intention, and April said, "Jesup and I have been separated for a long time," but she probably did know something.
April said while smoking a girl's cigarette: "About the last time Jesup was caught, he and I were getting along for a while. A few months ago, I started dating Hubert. He He is a good man, and I think we are a good match, but your father always makes me feel more itchy I met him unexpectedly a few days ago, and he still made me happy, so we hung out for a few more days. "
Once again, April airily tells the audience that she is not a "good woman," but a bitch who does the same thing as Freud.
There are assholes among men, and there are assholes among women.
Rui and Gale listened quietly. April shook the ashes from his cigarette and continued: "Then he left again. About three or four weeks later, I passed by the Kuishanke Tavern in the town and saw He was drinking with three other people I didn't know and they didn't look very happy."
"Did dad say anything?" Rui asked a little anxiously.
"He glanced at me, but pretended not to recognize me." April took a deep breath from the cigarette and puffed out the smoke. The baby's carrier was placed on the table next to her. She said sadly: "It seems that he has never seen me before. I'm sure. Something happened. I thought he was protecting me."
In a close-up shot of one person, Rui is lost in thought.
A few moments later, the scene changed. Outside the house in the dark night, the two of them walked into the car carrying the basket and were about to leave.
Immediately, the scene changed again. The car was driving on the broken dirt road at the foot of the mountain. The headlights barely illuminated the front. The car was rumbling and rattling due to the extremely bumpy terrain, as if it would fall apart at any time. Rui tried her best to hold the baby's carrier firmly, but her body was leaning back and forth. Gale, who was also unable to sit still, complained: "Our road is getting worse and worse. It's not even a road anymore."
"You've been saying that since third grade." Rui spoke.
"It was true then, and it's even more true now." Gale was talking when suddenly the car encountered a big pothole on the road. There was a loud bang, and she almost jumped up, and sighed: "I have I always thought, why don¡¯t they repair these roads?¡±
"No one cares, I guess." Rui added, not feeling in a good mood.
Gale is also asking every audience, why? The film not only focuses on the theme of women's rights, but also focuses on the plight of the region in a remote and harsh environment. How to live in such a rotten place? How to adapt, change or escape? How can one live a good life?
Why is all this happening?
If you do n¡¯t want to think too much, the front of the screen on the screen, both of them have changed. The car slowly stopped in the side view. Back-up shot from the front of the car. On the bad road not far ahead, a group of dozens of big fat pigs were crowded there. A pair of strong farmers and women were driving them away with flashlights and sticks. A rude shout came: "Lu." "Hey, come this way!", "I'll kill you stinking beasts later!"
There is a farmhouse in the distance on the left side of the bad road in the wilderness, with dim lights on.
The camera cuts back to the car, and both of them can only sit and wait.
Rui leaned on the back of the chair. Gale took the baby carrier from her lap and looked at Ned sleeping in the basket. He said, "Do you remember that time when we were kids? When our parents raised pigs, they "We were asked to feed corn once." She smiled, recalling in her tone: "But we thought the pigs had no hands and couldn't chew the corn cobs directly. In the end, we stupidly picked up all the corn and fed it." ?¡±
"Remember." Rui also smiled slightly.
"Our fingers had headaches for a monthit seemed likewe were so stupid at that time." Gale's voice had already dropped.
Rui remained silent.
And many viewers suddenly shuddered, and large lumps appeared on their skin and hearts.
These two rough girls were once so innocent, so kind and even considerate of pigs, so "stupid", just like the stupid girls in the city. Then they can't be like the girls in the city who don't feed the pigs but learn to dance, don't curse but learn to sing, don't chop wood but play the piano, don't watch their family make ice but instead go on a family trip, don't go hungry and eat leftovers. Instead, eat the expensive but affordable meals at Disneyland.
If they can, aren¡¯t they city girls?
"I'd better go down and help herd the pigs." On the screen, Rui suddenly said while unbuckling his seat belt and looking ahead, "At this rate, we have to sit here all night."
"That's right." Gale put the baby's carrier on the vacant passenger seat and said to Rui outside the car, "Wait while I find something to tie my hair."
Frontal view, they walked quickly towards the pigs in front, Rui had already tied up her dress, and Gale had tied up her tail in a ponytail. The squealing of pigs, the barking of dogs, and the shouts and curses of farmers and women all merged into a chaotic murmur. Rui helped the farmer drive the pigs from behind, shouting "Uluru!" while Gail helped the farmer's wife drive: "Uluru!"
Although the pigs were driven towards the farmhouse, they were still agitated and in disarray. They were squealing, and a few pigs rushing around rushed towards Rui like a counterattack. She raised her feet and gave them some boots, shouting angrily: "Let's go." "Fuck you, let's go!" Gale on the right side of the pigs was knocked down by a few pigs and fell to the mud. The farmer woman hit the pigs back with a stick. Gale quickly got up, and Rui's voiceover shouted: " Gale, let¡¯s rush together!¡±
Rui and Gale gathered together again, waving their hands and kicking their feet together to herd the pigs: "Ooooo!" A close-up shot of the two of them, their stern faces were dripping with sweat, and the night wind was blowing on their foreheads. The hair is just more messy.
The last shot of this night scene panoramically focuses on the backs of them driving pigs, the dark night, the foot of the mountain, the wilderness, the bad road, the two girls and a large group of rushing pigs.
Powerless, helpless, helpless.
Off the screen, some audience members sighed in the theater. Yes, they are not silly girls in the city. They never have been and never will be.