Watching an art film requires patience and thinking, especially one like this which is nothing fancy, with no montages, long shots, gorgeous photography, etc., and it doesn¡¯t even have a soundtrack. Is it because of rush work? Almost all the sound effects are harsh and unpleasant to listen to.
" Undoubtedly, this is the most serene viy movie. At this time, some viewers in the Brown Bear Cinema were engrossed in watching it, while others who did not like it were dozing off.
The bang of gunshots and the shrill screams of animals brought the audience to the desolate mountain forest in the early morning. Rui, Sonny and Harold leaned against a large oak tree that had fallen to the ground, sitting next to each other in the fallen leaves. On the pile, Rui and Sonny each held a rifle. There was no morning sunlight, only the cold mist between the three of them.
"Did you hit it?" Harold, who was sitting on the left, asked nervously.
"It's hit. If you make a cry, you've hit it." Rui said, grabbing Sonny on the right who was about to get up to pick it up, and whispered: "Don't move yet. When they hear the gunshot, they will run back to the hole. , but if you stay still for a while, they will come out again. We only need two more."
The boys all screamed, and Rui handed her rifle to Harold, "You will shoot later."
"Me?" Harold looked hesitant, "I don't want to kill these squirrels, they also have mothers"
"Don't be afraid." Rui Wei glared at him and forced the gun into his hand. Harold muttered and took the gun: "I'm not afraid, I just don't want to."
"It's not up to you." Rui looked forward and suddenly seemed to have discovered the whereabouts of the squirrel again. He whispered to them: "Did you see the grass in front? You all try your guns."
This scene was captured by a frontal lens. A reluctant 8-year-old child and a strong 10-year-old child were both holding rifles and aiming somewhere in front of them, as if aiming at the hearts of the audience. Following Rui's command, " "Shoot." They all pulled the triggers, and there was fire and two bangs!
The whole scene is in the backyard of Dolly's wooden house. The boy put five dead squirrels on the wooden table. Two rifles were placed on the left side of the table. Rui on the right was holding a small carving knife and An old homemade log chopping board was placed on the table. With a bang, she asked, "Do you want it fried or stewed?"
¡°Fry it and eat it!¡± the two boys said in unison, their expressions and tone becoming fanatical again.
"Then let's fry it and eat it." Rui took a dead squirrel and put it on the chopping board. "Come here and learn how to skin it." The two boys approached with different expressions.
The audience also watched this bloody process. Rui first cut the squirrel's neck, then cut off its hands, cut along the arms, cut off its feet, then cut along the legs, and finally separated it from the middle. She said: "You guys come and cut all the openings." Pull them together and pull them apart."
The two brothers grabbed both sides of the squirrel's body and pulled it apart with all their strength. A large piece of the squirrel's skin was peeled off, revealing the bright red flesh. This time even Sonny frowned in disgust, and Harold stopped uneasily. Rui's tone was a little gentler: "Just think of it as undressing a squirrel."
At this time, the camera was finally willing to leave, and it cut away to see Gale holding the baby in his right hand, holding a steaming cup of water in his left hand, walking towards the wooden table, watching the three of them busy.
The camera cut back, and Rui stabbed a skinned squirrel corpse in the stomach, and called Harold, who looked more frightened: "Harold, put your hand into its belly and pull out the internal organs." Harold. Rhodes shook his head violently: "No" Before Rui could say anything, Sonny suddenly reached into the belly of the squirrel corpse and pulled it. Suddenly, a pile of dark red, light red, brown and black things were pulled out and fell on the chopping board. The blood flowed away.
The audience felt like vomiting, and many female viewers temporarily averted their eyes. These scenes were too cruel, not very bloody, but very disgusting.
This makes some parents and viewers think, this is a movie, but how was it filmed? That was a real squirrel carcass, a real child, a real child doing this kind of thing The director should really be condemned for filming it like this!
But no matter what, people have a better understanding of the ecology on the screen.
A few scenes later, Rui cut open another dead squirrel, peeled off the skin with both hands, and threw it to Harold, "You get this one." He was still hesitating. Rui Lai scolded angrily: "You still have to overcome your fear of many things, boy." Gale next to him encouraged: "Harold, you have the guts to do this, don't you?"
At the same time, Sonny silently dug out the remaining internal organs of the squirrel, his little hands covered in blood.
"You're not from the city like his!" Rui scolded again, "You can't let Sonny do all the dirty work. He's your brother." Harold hesitated and reached into the belly of the squirrel corpse, the look on his face His expression seemed to be about to cry, and his hand pulled out a long and slender intestine, stretching it out.
Neither Rui nor Gale spoke.
The theater is also silent, what is it doing, Harold is obviously kind-hearted, and Sonny is just a child
¡°However, as Rui said, many things depend on whether you are willing or not. When they were children, they didn¡¯t want to feed pigs, drive pigs, or slaughter pigs.
Bang bang! Rui was chopping firewood with an ax in the front yard again, and Uncle Tears appeared unexpectedly but expectedly. Wearing a brown worn leather jacket and black jeans, Rui was startled by his silent arrival.
Tears brought new news: "This morning, the policeman found Jesup's car by Lake Gullett. Someone burned the car last night, and almost nothing was left." He gave Rui a She rolled up thick bills and advised her, "This morning is the day for him to appear in court, but he didn't go. Sell the wood in your house quickly." Rui was unwilling, but as soon as the people from the bail loan company took over, they didn't want to go. It will leave her with a broken branch. Rui was silent.
"Have you learned how to smoke this?" Tears once again casually took out a bag of ice and sniffed it, Rui said resolutely: "I will never touch ice." Ice and marijuana are different. Tears lazily said: "Learn to adapt, girl." He looked at the two boys chasing each other in the distance, as if they were investigating something.
Rui¡¯s face suddenly tightened, and Uncle Tear was picking on someone.
"Sonny is much better than Milton with golden hair, he will be fine." Uncle Tear's words are very meaningful: "As for Harold, he'd better like guns."
"I will take them, both of them." Rui said quickly.
"Then you have to be able to handle it." Uncle Tears turned around slowly and walked away. Rui watched him leave behind him with complicated eyes.
A nervous atmosphere of impending danger filled the screening room, and the fire was burning to the eyebrows. Jesup did not appear in court, and someone would come to take away the house at any time. Where would Rui and the others go? Uncle Tears seems willing to take away the two boys and let them hang out with the desperadoes from now on?
Just destroyed like that? Raised to be a drug dealer before he grew up? Just like this for a lifetime?
It was very lonely on the screen, and Rui was seen supporting her mother walking on the dirt road in the mountains and forests. Connie put on a fluffy mottled sweater, and her steps were staggering and slow. From time to time, she leaned crookedly on Rui, as if she could only stand with her daughter's support, otherwise she would have fallen to the ground.
With everything in the camera, Rui helped Connie sit down on a big rock on the top of the mountain, where she could see the setting sun and the surrounding silent mountains. This originally broad and beautiful scene turned out to be so dry and miserable. Connie is sitting in the foreground, and Rui is sitting behind her, calling softly: "Mom, look at me."
But Connie stared blankly into the distance, showing no reaction at all.
"Mom, I need you. Mom, look at me, I need your help" A close-up shot of a person from the side, Rui turns to look at her mother, her eyes are red, fully revealing the loneliness and hesitation in her heart, "What happened Something happened, but I don¡¯t know what to do. Mom, can you help me once?¡±
Connie¡¯s sluggishness remained, while Rui held back the tears that were about to fall and looked into the distance wordlessly.
The sun is setting, the night is coming, and the soul is crying: help me, please.
The audience was helpless, and the big screen changed scenes. The dark shabby house was illuminated by dim lights and firelight. Connie was sitting in the rocking chair, and the boy was nestled on the sofa doing homework. It was as peaceful as the beginning, with the addition of Gale. Holding Ned in his arms, he walked around and rocked the baby.
There was a knock on the door. Rui, who was holding a rifle, went to open the door and saw the surprising Floyd.
He was holding a white plastic bag that looked like a gift, with a baby toy stuffed bear hanging out from the edge of the bag. He asked expressionlessly: "Is Gale here?"
Rui said nothing. The camera panned inside and Gale had already seen it. She put the baby on the sofa and turned around.
An oblique panoramic shot, Gale and Floyd stood facing each other in the open space outside the house. The light from the house on the left barely illuminated their dull faces. A white pickup truck parked behind Floyd. In the single close-up editing room, Floyd said stiffly: "Go back, my parents want to see their grandson."
"Your parents? What about you?" Gale showed a ridiculous look and challenged her husband's hegemony.
"I" Floyd paused and his voice became gentler: "With you guys away, that RV is too deserted. By the way." He tried to smile at Gale in a friendly way, "Your mail order catalog has been sent. Come on, you can pick out some nice clothes and I¡¯ll buy them for you.¡±
Gale looked cold and said more forcefully: "Some bastard things can't be like this anymore. You can't control me every minute!" Floyd's smile was stiff for a few seconds before nodding. Gale The expression is clearHe stood up and his tone became lighter: "You can't fuck Heath anymore. You can't even see her again."
At this time, the camera cut to a close-up view of Floyd. His face was expressionless, he did not speak, and he looked away from Gale. Mid-profile side shot of two people, Floyd hands the bag in his hand to Gale, and Gale takes it, his hands are trembling a little, and his face is looking at him motionless, so obviously uneasy.
What choice will he make?
At this moment, her future and her life are all decided by this bastard man. Her show of strength is just a bluff. She has no power.
On the screen, Floyd turned around, walked into his pickup truck, and drove away without saying a word. Floyd made his choice, but what about Gale, whose fate was dictated by a man who was simply not worthy of forgiveness?
Side view, she stood there numbly, the bag in her hand swaying, just like her heart at this moment.
Both girls are confused under the pressure of fate.
Several empty shots are not intended to soothe the audience's nerves. At dawn, the sky is breaking, the cold wind blows the piles of dead leaves in the mountain forest, and a group of birds peck at the water in the wet mud puddles on the hillside.
Rui and Gale, who was holding the baby, stood side by side on the porch and looked into the distance. Gale said, "Have you noticed, the scenery here is actually very good." Rui, who had been quietly admiring the scenery before, asked, "What's the point?" Gale said softly, "I don't know "
yes! For them, what does it mean whether the scenery is beautiful or not, whether the sky is beautiful or not?
Without waiting for the audience to think too much, the camera shot back and saw a silver high-end off-road vehicle approaching. The blond Milton and several other men on the other side looked at him. The SUV parked in the front yard of Dolly's house. A young and middle-aged man wearing a peaked cap, a gray sports coat and military trousers, and a gun holster on his leg got out of the vehicle. He had a goatee, a high-spirited appearance and a complete The temperament of different mountain people.
The man waved to Milton and the others and walked towards the porch of Dolly's house.
"Who is this guy doing?" Rui muttered.
"He's from the city, look at what he's wearing" Gale said, looking at him.
In the subsequent scene, Rui walked down the steps to talk to the man, while Gail stayed on the porch holding the baby and watching.
This man¡¯s name is Mike Satterfield, from a bail loan company. Jessup failed to appear in court on time and ran away. Rui said her father didn't escape, but Satterfield didn't care. He had the legal right to search the place if he wanted to.
Rui was very angry after hearing this, and exploded again: "I knew you were wasting your time in vain, and annoying me! Listen, Jesup Dolly is dead. Isn't he buried now? It was like a pile of shit in a pigsty, or it was left in the wilderness, so rotten that nothing was left! But no matter where he was, he was already dead." It is full of thorns and does not reveal the deep sadness.
Satterfield said that he also knew the character of the people here, and revealed a key fact of the case to Rui: "This is quite strange. Your house plus other things are not enough for your father's bail. Not even close. But one night a guy came to our place and paid off the rest with a plastic bag full of crumpled money. I'm sure he wanted to come out, there are very few people like him. But at noon, it seemed that someone urgently needed him to come out."
¡°He¡¯s a good ice maker,¡± Rui said. Apparently, Jesup was needed because he had to rush to produce a batch of goods.
She asked the guy who took the money again if he had left his name? What does it look like? Satterfield avoided the conversation: "I only remember the bag of money." They also had their own rules. He told Rui that in at least half a month, the company would come to seize the house and evict the people. He said: "There is no other way. , the only thing that can be done is to prove that Jesup is dead."
As Satterfield drove away, Rui walked back to the porch in despair. Gale came up to meet her and said nervously: "I heard it all, Sweet Pea, you can't do that! We all know what that is. People like this must never go to Ho-Kefir again!¡±
Rui lowered his head a little, "Otherwise, what else can we do?"
The theater fell into silence, and the audience didn¡¯t know what to do. In the world on the screen, the law, government, charity, etc. are all ineffective, and they obviously have no control over this matter. No one cares about the life and death of their family, except themselves, and except for this 16-year-old girl, there is only her.
The image changed scenes in a depressing atmosphere. The sky was already in the evening scene. Rui was walking on the mountain road of Hokfell again. She noticed that there were several trucks and cars parked on the road. It seemed that many people had gathered here.The barking of dogs echoed inside and outside the screen again.
Rui strode towards Thumper-Milton's particularly large mud house, and the vicious dogs tied in the front yard barked at her. Suddenly, the door of the room opened, and the old woman from before walked out quickly with a hot cup, her old face like a withered vine.
In the frontal close-up view, Rui suddenly smiled, a little eagerly. Over-the-shoulder shot, she reaches out to take the cup of hot soup, "Thank you"
Wow! The old woman suddenly threw the contents of the cup into Rui's face, and Rui screamed miserably: "Ah!" A piece of red hot soup drowned her, and she instinctively covered her face with her hands. In an instant, she was already covered by the old woman again. The thrown cup hit Rui's head, bang, the cup bounced away, and the old woman had already raised her hand to slap Rui in the face! !
Rui screamed again and again, staggered unsteadily, and swatted his hands invisibly, completely reflexively protecting himself.
Four or five more women came running from all around, including Megan. She tightened her fierce face and kicked Rui in the calf with her boot, causing her to fall to the ground.
In the panoramic view from above, Rui was lying face down in the dirt, struggling to get up. Women were surrounding her, beating her, some were kicking her legs, and some were stepping on her back. The old woman, Mei Root, everyone fought without hesitation or hesitation, shouting like wild beasts.
Rui¡¯s struggle is getting weaker and weaker
No matter whether they were alert or not, the audience could not help but hear the sounds of beatings, shouts, and screams outside the screen, and their hearts were broken in shock. It was so sudden. The old woman and the others didn't even say a word. They just met and beat Rui to death right outside.
Don¡¯t come back, never.
These women may have good intentions at some point, but they are already beasts, beasts tamed by men. They will do whatever they ask them to do. Those human nature, self, and ideas are all ranked second to men's orders. They are clockwork oranges controlled by men.
¡°It¡¯s so sad, man, so damn sad.
At this time, the image cuts to a long shot, like a cold-blooded bystander standing far away, watching the women working together to lift Rui, who was beaten half to death, and her whole body hung motionless. The camera shows the women carrying her into a wooden farmhouse in the distance.
The image is a little blurry, like eyes that have lost focus, and low screams are still ringing intermittently.
"I warned you, but you refused to listen." The old woman's withered face gradually became clearer, and from a lower angle, she asked condescendingly: "Why are you disobedient!?"
With the camera turned, the anxious audience could see the situation clearly. It was a dimly lit small barn with messy hay on the dilapidated cement floor. Some hoes, iron forks, riding whips and other agricultural tools were placed around it, which was very eerie.
Rui was lying there on her side, motionless, and the women were scattered around.
"Say! Why don't you listen?" Megan, who was standing on the right, suddenly kicked Rui in the abdomen again, and her dying screams started again.
The mid-ground shot showed Rui's miserable state clearly. Her gray-blue dress was covered with mud, blood, spit, and black footprints. Her face was not delicate but had a stubborn air. Not only was her nose and face swollen, but her left The corners of his eyes were cracked, his right eye was swollen and unable to be opened, and his nose and mouth were broken, turning into a deformed bloody mass.
After being kicked by Megan, Rui¡¯s crotch skirt was soaked, and a pool of urine slowly flowed out from underneath her body, flowing down the uneven cement floor.
The camera glanced at the women. The old women had cold faces, showing disgust. One woman said: "You really don't need to be beaten." The other woman smelled the stench and covered her nose: "Oh, she even pooped out." Megan shook her head slightly and walked away, "Crazy girl, you asked for it."
The movie theater seemed to have been beaten to a pulp, with the audience's anger, shock, sadness, depression complicated and inexplicable. Rui Dolly, this little flower in the valley who has a beautiful heart, sticks to her integrity, and is tenacious and fierce, was eventually stepped on and trampled into the mud, like shit
On the screen, the old woman raised her eyebrows. In her subjective shot, Rui slowly struggled on the ground. She used her last bit of strength to push herself up, sitting unsteadily on her own puddle of excrement, with her eyes open. Looking at her left eye, which could still be seen, blood was dripping from various wounds on her face, like a dying ant.
¡°What should we do with you?¡± asked Megan, who was standing opposite.
"Kill me, I guess" Rui's voice was haggard and muffled. She spat a mouthful of blood on her swollen right palm, spat out two teeth, and lowered her hand into a fist.
¡°Someone has already mentioned this idea, is there anything else?¡± Megan asked again.
"Help me." Rui said it vaguely, that is to say casually, her stubbornness seemed to be on the verge of collapse as her swaying body, "No one must have mentioned this idea, right?"
"I wanted to help you before, but it ended up like this." Before Megan could finish speaking, she turned around and looked at the camera. A group of tough men walked in through the open barn door.
The leader is a typical old cowboy wearing a brown cowboy hat, brown jacket and dark blue jeans. His tough old face is expressionless, he has a gray-white beard, and he is as majestic as a mountain. Apparently it was Thumper Milton who finally showed up.
"The other men didn't have a good look on their faces, and little Arthur was among them. His expression was the most intolerable.
The camera seemed to be afraid of Samp, and did not take pictures of his front. The over-the-shoulder camera filmed him walking in front of Rui, squatting down, reaching out to grab Rui's chin, moving it left and right, checking it, and then shook it off. The strength was so great that Rui fell to the left, and then fell back to the ground with a bang.
"If you have anything to say, child, say it now." Samp said, his voice like a rolling flood carrying the weight of years of hard work.
His words were almost a sentence of death for Rui. In the frontal close-up view, the old woman pursed her lips solemnly.
Single flat shot, mid-close shot, Rui is lying on the ground unable to stand up. Her left eye is not looking at anyone, but drooping at the ground, "I have two younger brothers, and I can't take care of themselves My mother is sick. , and she¡¯s never been better.¡±
Her eyes were filled with blood and tears, her shoulders were trembling, and her weak voice was trembling: "It won't be long before the police take away our houseand kick us outand we can only sleep in the fieldswith the dogs." Same. Just like his horse and his dog. The only hope to save my house is that I have to prove that my father is dead."
Her tears fell down. If she hadn't tried her best to hold back, she would have burst into tears. Everything about her persistence, her strength, and everything else had turned into a puddle of shit.
Her humble voice sounded like fear, like begging for mercy, like talking to herself: "Who killed him, I don't need toknow. I never need to know. If dad did something wrong, he already got what he deserved." Punishment. But if I lose my houseI will never be able to support the three of themthe children and my motherI beg you"
"Please" In the panoramic view, her whole body was shaking weakly, and the pool of filthy water suddenly flowed and expanded.
There was a dead silence in the Brown Bear Theater, and many viewers had tears in their eyes. It was difficult to explain clearly what their mood was.
The barn on the screen fell silent for a moment, and Thumper turned around and walked away with the two men, followed by the old woman. Some of the other men and women were smoking, some were snickering and talking about something, and the noisy laughter penetrated into the depths of Rui and every audience member's mind, whether you wanted it or not.
No one takes Rui¡¯s words seriously, and no one takes her life seriously.
Suddenly at this time, dogs barked quickly outside the barn, and a very loud sound of driving was heard.
A man guarding the door suddenly screamed: "Here comes the damn horse's tears!" The dog barked even more frantically, and then there was a sound of the car door slamming shut. Another man left in a hurry: "I'm going to get some stuff. The lunatic will come over later and take a look. I don't want to be empty-handed." At that moment, several men left.
The air in the barn was tense and tense, while the air in the theater was filled with excitement. The audience's eyes widened with tears!
"Where is she?" Uncle Tear, still wearing the same torn leather jacket and black jeans, approached the door from the dark night and walked straight into the warehouse.
"Don't be excited, tears." Little Arthur followed him like a peacemaker, "I told her, but she didn't listen."
Tears came to a stop next to Rui. He glanced at it for a few times, then turned to little Arthur and asked, "Did you hit her?" The expression on his face didn't change, but it made people feel his rage. Maybe it was the throbbing muscles in his forehead.
Little Arthur¡¯s right hand reached for the gun holster hidden in his coat on his lower back, and several men who returned to the door were also holding on to their waists or pockets.
"Not him!" At this time, the old woman strode into the barn from the crowd and shouted: "No man touched that crazy girl. I beat her! I and my girl, they are all here ." The camera scanned Megan and several other women.
The tears in his eyes were slightly suppressed, "You didn't even touch the men?"
"No." said the old woman.
The tense scene made the audience dare not blink. Samp and the others also returned to the warehouse. The two men following him were holding shotguns. Although the muzzles were pointed toward the ground, His finger was pressed on the trigger. Their quick steps stirred up dust and hay from the ground.
Thumper walked and stood one step away from the tears. Side mid-shot of two people. Thumper on the right stared straight at the tears and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean, Harold."
The audience suddenly realized that Uncle Tears was also named Harold It should be said that the reason why Harold was called Harold was because of Tears.
¡°No one is allowed to hit my sister¡± Sonny is not the same Jesup who refuses to hit Rui.
Tears also stared at Samp, without any retreat, awe or fear, some of which had already been overcome. His words sounded casual but so decisive: "I never said a damn word about my brother, and I didn't ask anyone or look for it. What Jesup did was not in line with our rules, and he knew it. , I also know that I can¡¯t control this. But she is not my brother.¡±
The camera focuses on Rui on the ground. She is struggling to climb towards a wooden pillar of a shed not far away, dragging a dirty trail on the ground.
Panoramic view from the doorway, with tears in his eyes, he continued to Samp: "She is almost the only close relative I have left. That's why I came to find her, took her away, and sent her home. Do you have any objection, Samp?" "While he was speaking, Rui Zhu stood up swayingly while holding the wooden pillar. There was feces and urine from the corners of her skirt, soaking large areas of her skirt, and dripping on the cement floor below.
Even the calmest audience members felt uncomfortable because of this scene. Many viewers almost vomited, this chilling cruelty destroyed every strength.
Why is Rui wearing a skirt? Even if it's just an old skirt, it still matches so strangely? Why don't you wear jeans like other women?
Because she is a girl!
"For a person, a girl, being beaten like that is more embarrassing and destructive than killing her.
"You want to cover her, don't you?" Thumper asked with tears in his eyes.
"If she did something wrong, you'll blame it on me." Tears became serious.
Rui turned around reluctantly. The audience has some different views. They used to think that Uncle Tears was a bastard who stood by and watched, but it turned out that he was not. He just followed the rules on the road, but in this moment of life and death, he would only stand by his loved ones.
He will not be afraid, he is a "madman", and he is no longer the Harold who was unwilling to kill a squirrel.
Are tears a bad thing? By worldly standards, he is an absolute bad guy, but here, he is not so bad that the audience cannot accept and like him. Victoria loves him for a reason.
"You will be responsible for her affairs from now on." Samp said.
"This girl won't talk nonsense to anyone." Tears said.
"Carry her to Harold's car." Thumper looked at Megan and the other women. Megan didn't dare to speak and just nodded and left. Thumper turned to tears and asked, "What's the matter?" Are you done?" There was a warning in his tone.
Tears no longer looked at Samp, but stared at Rui being supported by three strong women and carrying her outside the farmhouse. He glanced at everyone and said, "If anyone wants to lay a finger on this girl from now on, kill me first."
In the silence of everyone, he strode out.
In the whole scene, under the shadow of the night, Megan and others stuffed Rui into the passenger seat of a dark green pickup truck. Tears walked past and closed the door, and walked around to the driver's seat. The car did not turn off. , kept making a roaring sound.
With the sound of the car door slamming, the pickup truck drove off amid the barking of dogs and the attention of everyone at the barn door.
There were long sighs of relief outside the screen. Many fans were still feeling the shock just now. Is that acting? That's true.
This movie does not have a violent emotional turning point very early like TLB or SS, and it has ups and downs all the way, and it is touching. Most of the time, it is like fragments of real life. It seems that not watching one or two will not affect the overall direction of the story. . But when the fragments joined together to form a circle, it exploded suddenly, and the audience who refused to miss the shot suddenly discovered that they had been quietly bitten by a poisonous snake, and at this time, the venom had already flowed from the wound to the heart.
The image on the screen did not stop. In the dark night, the pickup truck drove bumpily on the mountain road, and then stopped next to a forest on the roadside. In front of the car, Uncle Tears is holding a rolled-up white undershirt for Rui to bite, while saying: "That girl Gale really saved your life."
Rui slumped in her seat like a dead person, and the white sweatshirt she was biting quickly turned red.
"Jesup is this idiot." Uncle Tears looked at the road ahead, seeming a little bit sad: "He couldn't hold it in this time, and he couldn't bear to stay in the prison cell for another ten years. And your mother, you guys He couldn't bear the three children He became that Baskin's informant."
Rui slowly turned aroundLooking at him, the expression on his miserable face changed a little.
"But your father has never betrayed anyone from our side. He said he didn't." Tears said as he took out a baby food jar from the storage box on the dashboard, opened the lid, and leaned over to smell the inside. He filled the ice powder twice, looked at Rui, and said, "You have forced me into the open now, do you understand? They have been waiting for me to see if I will make any move, and they have been watching."
Rui lowered his head.
"I can't know who killed Jesup. If I knew who it was" The stern look on his tearful face already told what would happen. He paused and then said, "I will help you find his bones." , but the condition is that even if you know who it is, you will never tell me. Otherwise, I will die the next day, okay?"
Rui bit the blood-stained sweatshirt, stretched out her scarred hand to touch Uncle Tear's shoulder, and agreed.
"You actually withstood this beating. You are better than most men I have ever seen." He sighed with tears.
Rui spit out his sweatshirt, lost his soul, and said vaguely: "They can't beat me to death. What I can't stand the most is I feel so embarrassed, ashamed of my father. Telling is the worst rule But I think It doesn¡¯t make sense, why should I be ashamed? They killed him.¡±
"You love him, he loves you very much." Tears said while holding the steering wheel again and driving the car: "This is your weakness. The people here are very hard-blooded, but once a person has a hole, he will go crazy. Crazy, changing, always like this.¡±
Rui¡¯s tone was full of confusion: ¡°I just don¡¯t understand.¡±
"The current situation is." Tears glanced at her, "You have to be prepared to die at any time, and then you will have a chance."
People outside the screen have basically figured out the ins and outs of the story. Who killed Jesup? That doesn't seem to be what the camera is focused on.
The scene changed, and the pickup truck crashed to the front yard of Dolly's house and stopped. Gale, Sonny and Harold who were guarding the porch of the house suddenly ran in a panic. The camera shows Uncle Tear getting out of the car and opening the passenger door. Mid-frontal shot of the three of them. When he saw Rui paralyzed in the car, the boy froze there without any emotion. Gale's eyes were red and he was about to cry. He stepped forward to help Uncle Tears take Rui out of the car.
Rui was limply held in front of her by Uncle Tears. Her head rested on Gale's hands on her left side. She looked up at her friend and asked in a low voice: "Gale, help me clean up. Put all my clothes away." It's burned. Please, help me clean it" At the end, she was almost sobbing.
Not only Gale was in tears, but many viewers were also in tears, feeling so unbearable!
Rui completely understood that she was deceiving herself and others by insisting on wearing skirts before, and she was really ridiculous.
??The dignity of women, the perseverance of nature, the remaining sensibility that is held on to, the tranquility and beauty that exist in the future or fantasy
Everything was crushed to pieces by reality without any effort, and the stench mixed with feces and urine spread to the ground. It must have been burned!
The screen changed scene, and in a dimly lit bathroom of a simple and cramped shabby house, Rui was sitting in a wooden tub filled with water, and the not-so-clean water reached her shoulders. Gale on the right was wiping her body with a towel. Her bare shoulders were covered with red, swollen and bruises, and they could be vaguely identified as fist or footprints.
Both of them were silent, as if they were performing a solemn ceremony.
The camera captured this very symbolic scene from the front. This is a baptism. The Rui of the past has died. The disguised feminism has gone with the sewage and fire. From now on, Rui, who has been reborn in the darkness and destruction, comes to the world.
Will she still persist in what she wants to persist in? In what way?
The scene changed, and Rui was lying on a single wooden bed in a very simple girl's bedroom. She was covered with a thick old quilt, and only her miserable head was exposed. Two bloody teeth were placed on the bedside table on the left. At this moment, there was a click, and the door on the upper right opened, and Sonny and Harold walked in.
Rui looked at them with her left eye open, and asked feebly: "Have you finished today's homework?"
Two boys, one tall and one short, stood on the right side of the wooden bed, looking at their sister's miserable state without saying a word.
"Asking you" Rui said again.
"Who hit you?" Sonny asked, his voice shaking with uncontrollable anger, "Tell us all their names."
Harold no longer had his previous mother-in-law. He clenched his fists and his young voice was full of determination: "Just wait, we will grow up."
"He's going to do his homework" Rui closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to see them like this, didn't want to see thisTsk, and seemed to not want them to see her tears, she cursed in a tearful voice: "Did I tell you? Damn it, gogo"
Suddenly, more viewers had tears in their eyes.
Rui finally lost her leadership over them. They no longer listened to her. They had their own obsessions: growing up and taking revenge.
Sonny and Harold finally have to grow up to be Jesup and Tears, because they love her and they can't stand her being beaten like this by others. They can't stand it.
Their mouths were all broken open, their skins that protected them from the wind and cold were peeled off alive, and their hearts were hollowed out, leaving only a bloody corpse.
On the screen, the two boys looked back at Ruidi leaving the room, while Gale and Songya walked in. Songya said hello to Sonny, who passed by without paying any attention. They walked to the bed. Songya picked up an orange plastic bottle in her hand and said to Rui: "Hey, Rui, I brought you some painkillers. I left them after my last hysterectomy."
"Thank you." Rui said. Songya turned to Gale and said, "Give her two slices first."
Gale took the medicine bottle and asked doubtfully: "Only two pills?"
"She will ask for more, but just two tablets at first, and then slowly add more until she can fall asleep." While Songya spoke, Gale sat down on the left side of the bed, took a glass of water and two tablets from the bedside table. A pill was handed to Rui's mouth.
A close-up shot from an elevated angle shows Rui swallowing two pills with water and an expressionless expression.
Of course she will still want it. As long as she continues to participate in this struggle about women's rights, growth environment, and life, the more she knows, the more she thinks, and the more she struggles, the more painful and painful she will become. The more I can't sleep peacefully.
Or, like Songya, remove the uterus and stop being a woman. The long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain.
Or be like Victoria, accept your fate and be a happy little woman.
Or be like April and be a bitch.
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Or it will just hurt all the time.
It¡¯s like the ant in the opening scene, struggling to walk around, being stepped on, unable to die, but still unable to leave the dead branch.