The film takes people as the theme and depicts two kinds of people in the rivers and lakes, Brother Bin and Jojo.
The director clearly told us in the play that the so-called Jianghu is the way of doing things between people, and knowing how to be a man is the basic rule of Jianghu. In other words, people who behave with Jianghu morality are Jianghu children, and those who abandon them are no longer Jianghu.
Brother Bin and Jojo correspond to these two kinds of people. Brother Bin walked out of the Jianghu and entered the Jianghu skillfully.
The film is set in Datong, Shanxi, 200 1. Jojo and Gang Brother Bin are lovers. Brother Bin calls his friends outside every day. Jojo hopes to enter a stable marriage. The turning point of fate was that Brother Bin was attacked by his opponent in the street. Jojo shot in the street to protect Brother Bin and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Jojo just shot and didn't hurt anyone. The police repeatedly asked who the owner of the gun was, and Jojo replied that it was his own, which was equivalent to taking the lead for his lover.
Since Jojo defended her lover, Jojo's road to rivers and lakes has been opened, which is also the beginning of her tragic fate.
After five years in prison, Brother Bin has never been to Jojo, but Jojo never gave up hope.
Looks like an adult, sophisticated Jojo, is the woman of Brother Bin, the underworld boss.
In fact, she is just a child, and her life revolves around Brother Bin. She doesn't have her own life circle, and her world outlook and outlook on life are all shaped by Brother Bin.
In the mahjong room, Brother Bin moved out of the statue of Guan Gong, which resolved the contradiction between the brothers and made Jojo sprout a worship of Jianghu morality.
So she always believed in her lover. After being imprisoned for five years, she found her lover and said to him, "Let's go home and find a place to live."
"Inconvenient", although it completely broke the Jianghu view in Jojo's mind.
Innocent as Qiao Qiao, you can put down your guard in front of strangers and leave your important things at home; You can also see the bumpy road and draw your sword to help each other; She can also use the Jianghu to cheat money for herself. After she is released from prison, she can completely walk into the Jianghu and keep the most important morality in the Jianghu. These are her values.
Take an interview with the director to see what Jianghu is. The traditional meaning of rivers and lakes is that in the past, because of war, famine and poor living environment, the bottom people organized together, had their own beliefs and rules, and used various methods, including violence, to safeguard their own justice and solve problems. For example, the water margin, all kinds of martial arts novels are like this.
The previous generation in Jianghu has its own rules, and the previous generation never knows how unexpected the next generation is.
Brother Yong Er was also an all-powerful figure in his early years. Now he is focusing on real estate development. Now he has to find a new big brother like Binbin to solve every little thing on the spot. As a result, in unknown so's case, he was stabbed to death by an ignorant kid in the parking lot.
Such a big brother with deep pockets is still loyal to the Jianghu, but he is easily disintegrated by a group of new Jianghu forces. The new forces in the Jianghu have their own rules and morals, and will not take the old Jianghu rules seriously. With the growth of such new forces, this old Jianghu is also constantly disintegrating. This is also the root cause of Brother Bin's tragedy.
At the end of the story, Brother Bin was severely disabled and returned to Jojo, who had passed middle age. If Jojo is cruel, he will hate it. After all, he was hooked by this man for five years, but he still took in the down and out brother Bin.
Jojo entered the Jianghu and always abided by the Jianghu rules. The morality in his heart is that he is willing to take care of Brother Bin because of morality, not kindness.
At this point, Jojo really completed the independence of thought and personality. Jojo was happy in his heart, but Brother Bin's heart was distorted all his life.
Being in the Jianghu, how can you not obey the Jianghu rules?