The price of madness, which was born in 1988, is the first naked exploration film in New China. Director zhouxiaowen triggered a chain reaction through a rape case of a young girl, which not only boldly challenged the censorship scale at that time, but also revealed the scale of human nature. It seems that the plot of an entertainment film is loaded with a heavy and profound theme!
After Lan Lan, a young girl, was raped by hooligans, her sister Qingqing vowed to take revenge for her sister. She ran around looking for clues and catching the real murderer. In addition to exploring the criminals’ own morality and primitive impulse, Zhou Xiaowen and reed also reflected on the social atmosphere at that time. The story was arranged in an orderly way.
At first, the two sisters took a fuzzy bath together. Lan Lan cried and asked her sister, “sister, what’s wrong with me?” The elder sister explained, “Lan Lan is not afraid. Every girl will grow up like this. Lan Lan has grown into a big girl.” In fact, it was the menarche of young girls, which showed that “sex education” was backward when desires were rampant.
Qingqing and LAN LAN, the two sisters, have long been divorced from each other. One of them went to Shanghai and the other to Beijing to form a new family. Therefore, the two sisters are dependent on each other. The elder sister takes great care of her sister’s physical and mental growth, so that Yu Lan sighs: “I feel like I was born to my sister.”
One rainy night, when Lan Lan came home from school, she met a young man who splashed her school uniform in his car. He got on the bus with him. As a result, the sheep accidentally entered the tiger’s mouth and was raped by the bad prostitute!
Then the policeman asked Lan Lan again and again, “what accent does he have? What are the features of his face? Did you bite his hand badly?”, Make it difficult for the violated girl to speak. When the melon eaters saw the sisters in the car, they were talking: “who was raped?” was it the small one or the big one
After all, it was in the 1980s. The monitoring probes were not popularized, and the detection technology could not keep up. The police solved cases by relying on manpower and crowd tactics, that is, asking and inquiring one by one. The only clue is that criminals can drive and have bought pornographic books and magazines in the bookstore opened by the heroine’s suitor.
In the “Qingqing bookstore” opened by Qingqing’s boyfriend, the bookstores are full of world-famous works, but no one cares; On the contrary, the bookstall selling pornographic books at the door has been flooded with buyers, which shows that people have misunderstood the choice of desire and spiritual food. All this is due to the extreme lack of sexual knowledge and the naked temptation in pornographic books!
Posters posted on the wall are also full of temptations, such as: take off your gauze skirt, men and women living together, rent your man to me, early withered flowers
Li Changwei, played by Xie Yuan, seems to be a wily and glib bookshop profiteer, but he has his own principles and clear thinking. It’s like he fell in love with the heroine and moved her. In the face of the female police shelling and selling pornographic books, he said that the other party had read more than 100 of his own books and nothing had happened, which showed that the brutality of crime was due to everyone’s self-control!
Lichangwei taught his girlfriend Qingqing how to take photos, but he was also deeply dissatisfied with the latter’s efforts to track down the murderer and force LAN LAN to identify the photos he took. He also stopped Lan Lan from reading adult books and magazines with a hook and kind words. Xie Yuan’s wonderful performance was penetrating and impressive.
Qingying, played by wuyujuan, is a pretty doctor who is a bit stubborn and reckless. After all, her sister has been abused. She has also seen too many women’s suffering, society and men’s indifference to women in obstetrics and gynecology. She is deeply dissatisfied with the desolation of the world caused by the patriarchal society.
There is a line: “there are three kinds of jobs that people know the most about – Obstetrics and Gynecology, courts and funeral homes.” As long as the mother was born a boy, the relatives came excitedly to thank Qingqing, saying that she was sending her son Guanyin. Instead, the baby girl was born and was not paid attention to.
On one occasion, the baby boy died prematurely, and Qingqing was about to suffer. While being beaten, her family shouted: “kill her, kill her, and return my grandson!” “Murder! Murder in the hospital! Isn’t that what I’m doing now?”
Chang Rong’s villain is a muscle man who is idle. After raping LAN LAN and throwing away the stolen car, there is no sense of guilt. He hid in his brother’s house and thought about going out of the city every day. One day, he rolled on the ground and shouted “can’t stand it”. It can be seen that he has no self-control over his body. His brother hopes that his brother can go outside to avoid the wind and come back again.
Qingqing sees the injustice caused by gender to women and the violation of her young sister. She is angry but can do nothing. Once she was beaten to a bloody nose and silently endured pain. She took pictures everywhere to find the prisoners, forcing her sister to identify them, but the sister never thought about the injured child.
Due to the lack of parents and the over protection of her sister, every time she identifies the photos, it is like a knife edge stabbing the scar again and again. Her sister also stimulates the hazy consciousness of adult women. She applies lipstick, falls in love with blowing bubble gum, and hides in the bookstore to peep into pornographic books.
However, when little Lori’s spirit was near the edge of collapse, the escaped criminal patronized the bookstall again and met LAN LAN in the window of the bookstore. It was very lively.
When the exposed criminal broke out, he must have wanted to drive away. In a hurry, he killed the hero. However, Qingqing was desperate to pick up his car and was thrown out. The police car and the criminal’s car launched a fierce chase, during which a bus overturned and many cars collided, which was also a spectacular and exciting scene in the 1980s!
The criminal’s brother was arrested, and his brother took Qingqing with a gun and went up the tall tower. He was easy to be caught by the police. Qingqing angrily kicked the criminal, causing him to fall from a high place and die!
In the 1980s, director zhouxiaowen was already ahead of schedule and bold in making such a masterpiece of mainland crime. Just like the blurry scene of naked bathing at the beginning, it has been harmonious by CCTV film channel. Zhouxiaowen and linyongjian in the period of small fresh meat also played supporting roles, which made people enjoy talking about it.
Under the leadership of wutianming, Xi’an Film Studio at that time followed the example of Hollywood in making large-scale feature films, boldly produced excellent works such as back-to-back, face-to-face, the price of madness, and living, and made a valuable breakthrough. Unfortunately, the subsequent tightening of the censorship system has already brought them to a standstill.
The whole film explores how people control their desires, as well as social problems such as gender inequality and selling pornographic books. Traditional parents talk about “sex” for their children, but how to educate and guide them is not enough! The villain who raped his sister and killed the hero and his sister committed crimes on impulse. The “price of madness” is very serious, but it will not end here!
