Film Review of "I'm Not the God of Medicine": Face the Real Problems Directly and Leave Room
The movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" adapted from the real case "Lu Yong Case" is the most popular film in recent years. A rare masterpiece of domestic realism. The film uses comedy techniques to illuminate reality, making people laugh with tears, and yet lose warmth and hope despite the heaviness.
1. Plot
The story is very simple. A drug called "Glenin" is a life-saving drug that leukemia patients rely on to survive. It is also an extremely expensive drug with a patent monopoly. The price in China was once as high as 40,000 yuan a bottle, which ordinary people cannot afford. , can only sit and wait for death or even commit suicide.
However, there is a generic drug in India that has basically the same effect and sells for only 2,000 yuan. However, this kind of generic medicine is still an unlicensed "counterfeit medicine" in China. If you want to buy it, you can only smuggle it.
Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, is a small business owner who sells Indian sacred oil and health care products. His business failed and he could not pay the rent, and he was facing the separation of his wife and children. One day, leukemia patient Lu Yiyi, played by Wang Chuanjun, approached him and asked him to smuggle the generic drug "Gollenin" from India. At first, Cheng Yong rejected him because he was afraid of breaking the law. Later, because his father was seriously ill and needed money for surgery, Cheng Yong had no choice but to take the risk and decided to give it a try. He slowly discovered that this was a huge business opportunity, because life is money, patients want their lives, and he wants money.
Cheng Yong got the medicine and sold it for 5,000 yuan a bottle in China. By chance, he met Liu Sihui (played by Tan Zhuo), a single mother who has a sick daughter, Pastor Liu (played by Yang Xinming), and Huang Mao (played by Zhang Yu), a rural boy who did not want to drag his family down to work in the city. Together with Lu Yiyi, so far A small team is formed.
Up to this point in the film, the little character Cheng Yong is still in the profit-seeking stage. You want your life, I want money. He does not realize how much his actions mean to the leukemia patient, and he is even a bit coercive. Tubaodi wanted to develop some super-friendship relationship with Liu Sihui, but gave up after seeing her sick daughter. It should be that a single mother's sacrifice for her daughter touched him. In the face of this deep maternal love, he could not cross his bottom line after all. This reflects Cheng Yong's conscience and kindness for the first time. Later, Lu Youyi took him to his home and looked at his infant child. The happy eyes that rekindled the hope of living made Cheng Yong begin to understand the patient's plight. Later, Lu's wife's sincere gesture of gratitude strengthened this understanding.
After exposing the scam of illegal drug dealer Zhang Changlin (played by Wang Yanhui), he was targeted by him. Faced with the threat of illegal drug dealer Zhang Changlin (played by Wang Yanhui), Cheng Yong chose to hand over the drug sales channel to him. . After the team broke up for dinner, the conflict finally broke out. The patient's desperate plight as he cannot afford the sky-high price of medicine, and Cheng Yong's worries about his superiors and subordinates, as well as his fear of going to jail, powerfully express the plight of human nature in reality. It makes people feel depressed and suffocated. The film begins to take an unexpectedly heavy turn.
A year later, Cheng Yong used the money he earned to open a textile factory. One day, Lu's wife came to him in embarrassment and asked him for medicine. It was like a big stone hitting the calm lake, and Cheng Yong's heart began to surge. Seeing the haggard look on Lu Yiyi's face, he still offered Cheng Yong oranges as friendly as when they first met and got along. The heaviness in Cheng Yong's heart was as empathetic as the dark clouds covering the sky. Listening to Lu Yiyi's screams in the corridor, Lu's wife's lifeless eyes as if they were walking zombies, and Cheng Yong's unbearable constant adjustment of his sitting posture, all made people's hearts twitch. The brewing of this moment was suffocating. Finally, Lu Yiyi, who had suffered so much pain and despair, chose to end his life one night. Before going out, he glanced at his sleeping wife and children with a smile, showing deep attachment and determination. At the funeral, after Cheng Yong gave money to Lu Yiyi's wife and was rejected, he came out dejectedly and saw the eyes of the patients who were seeing Lu Yiyi off in the corridor. He could only walk through the crowd in silence and saw the people beside him in the corridor. Huang Mao, who cried while eating oranges, deeply touched Cheng Yong's heart.
Finally, he chose to do something. First, he sent the child out to solve his own worries, and then reorganized his team to sell medicine. This time, the price was only 500 yuan, helping patients without making any money. At this point, Cheng Yong began to redeem himself.
Later, Huang Mao died for some reason, which deeply affected him. Coupled with the closure of Indian pharmaceutical factories, he could only provide him with supply through recycling and retailing. The price also soared to 2,000 bottles, making the situation of drug procurement even more serious. However, He did not hesitate to put in his own money and still insisted on selling the product for 500 bottles. At this moment, the brilliance and warmth of humanity shone brightly.
In the end, as expected, he was arrested. In court, he made a statement about the unreasonably high price, and the sentence "I believe it will get better and better in the future, and I hope this day will come soon." "We'll be there at one o'clock" expressed his attitude towards practical issues very restrainedly. The line "Tell Xiaoshu that his father is not a bad person" when he was about to board the prison car further enriched the character of Cheng Yong. The patients who stopped to see each other on both sides of the road not only increased the appeal of the film, but also expressed their deep aspirations.
2. In the film, every character shines with the beauty of humanity
Cheng Yong’s responsibility and love for his father and children, and when fate and coincidence push him to the top of the wave , but dare to give up the responsibility of the small self to achieve the greater self.
Single mother Liu Sihui pole dances in a nightclub for her daughter. At the team-building party, when Cheng Yong helped Liu Sihui block a fight and spent money to get the manager to dance to help her vent her anger, Liu Sihui used Jiu Jin's loud and happy cheers and the twinkle in her eyes to express her inner anguish and pain contagiously. Depressed. Later, when Cheng Yong tried to develop a super-friendship relationship with her by "repaying a favor", she reluctantly agreed. A large part of the sacrifices involved were due to her daughter. Fortunately, Cheng Yong was able to pull back from the brink. But this heavy and holy maternal love makes this character full and tense.
Lao Liu is a pastor who is loyal to his faith and philanthropic. In order to help sick believers, he does not hesitate to break the law. When he encountered unscrupulous drug dealers who were defrauding and harming people, he had the courage to stand up and fight against the scammers. He was a kind-hearted and philanthropic person with loyal beliefs.
Huang Mao ran out to work alone in order not to drag down his family. He has a stubborn temper, values ??friendship, and knows right from wrong. He doesn't talk much, but he cares and helps others with practical actions. It's very simple and touching.
Lu Yiyi is an ordinary person who unfortunately gets sick and cannot afford the medicine. But he is a kind man. From the beginning, he wanted to die every day and did not want to harm his family. Later, when he met Cheng Yong again after the gang broke up, he was still kind and kind. It all shows that he is a kind person.
As a law enforcement representative, police officer Cao Bin (played by Zhou Yiwei) is a warrior who defends the law and dares to fight against evil forces. He has a strong sense of mission and forgets to eat and sleep when working. After suffering deeply for a long time, in the end, in order to safeguard the vital interests of the people, he dared to bear the punishment and was a good and selfless policeman.
Zhang Changlin, an unscrupulous drug dealer. What he did was disgraceful. But even so, Cheng Yong was still not confessed after being caught, which is quite commendable.
3. About reality
A short story reflects the problem of high drug prices, but it is not just a problem of high drug prices. Several lines in the film are impressive:
"Life is money."
"There is only one disease in the world, the disease of poverty. You have no cure for this disease, you It can’t be cured.”
“I took medicine for three years, which cost me my house and my family.”
“It’s like this without medicine. "
"He is only twenty years old, and he wants to live. What is his crime?"
The question has been raised. The movie environment is very complicated, so some plots are dealt with. reserved and downplayed. The reality is more complex, so we are still a long way from solving the problem. But as said in the film, "I believe it will get better and better in the future." Not only a movie environment, but also a sensitive issue in reality.
4. Movie titles
From "Chinese God of Medicine" to "Indian God of Medicine" to "I am not the God of Medicine", they contain the creator's meticulous ingenuity Spirit.
So this is a movie polished like cobblestones, smooth and smooth on the outside, hard and realistic at the core. He faced the problem head-on and left room for it, making him a pioneer in the realism film market. I hope there will be more and more films like this so that domestic films can go further.