Sunshine, which was born in 2019, won the best feature film, best director, best actor, best supporting actor, best editing and other awards in Taiwan. The film continues Taiwan’s bleak realism style. The story is related to two death events. It is cruel and gentle. The dark end also hides moving details. It is worthy of being a classic!
Although it is the title of the literary film, at the beginning, in the melodious and soothing music, there was a heavy and fierce hand cutting play of the young people in raincoats, and the broken hands slowly floated in the hot soup. This shocking tension opened the “sunshine”!
Ah he, who was so angry because he was bullied, asked the vegetable head to help teach him a lesson. Unexpectedly, the vegetable head cut off one of the other’s arms. Since then, ahe and caitou have been arrested. Ahe, played by Wu Jianhe, has been sentenced to three years of reeducation through labor in the juvenile detention center, but it is already common for him.
Ahe went in. Xiaoyu, who claimed to be his girlfriend, found the door. She was pregnant! Her mother came with her pregnant daughter to find ahe’s parents and asked for an explanation. Ah he’s mother can only take in Xiaoyu, an unmarried girl who is pregnant first. It’s really a leaky house, but it rains every night!
Chen Yiwen plays ah he’s father, ah Wen, who is a driving school coach. His philosophy of life is to follow the driving school motto of “grasp time and direction”, and to demand his family, so he is naturally disappointed with his little son, ah he, who was arrested.
When he learned that his son had been arrested, he immediately put down a sentence: “I hope he will be locked up until he is old enough to die.” Instead, he placed all his hopes and pride on his eldest son, AHAO. Whenever people asked him how many sons he had, he answered firmly, “one!”
A Hao, played by the famous handsome Red Star xuguanghan, is a good son who is obedient, sensible, hard-working and does not disappoint the whole family. He is very good to his brother and girlfriend. Now, he has not been admitted to the hospital department of the first volunteer, and he is also preparing to retake the exam. No one expected that such a “good brother” + “good son” would jump off a building and commit suicide without warning!
The youngest son ahe got out of prison a year and a half early because of his good performance in prison. He has to work two jobs a day. Although his work is hard, he has finally settled down! However, the relationship between father and son is still alienated and indifferent, and occasionally they meet without words!
No one expected that after caitou was released from prison, he retaliated against ahe, who was “treacherous”. He not only came to ahe for trouble, but also asked him to help him do things that broke the law! This kind of hooligan scum not only wants money, but also threatens the life of the hero’s family all the time!
After all, Cai tou was obviously a brother, but he was thrown out of the pot. He was so arrogant that he dyed a yellow hair and was very unconvinced. But no one expected that ahe once worked for caitou. The latter disappeared mysteriously, and then caitou was killed. Such suspense touched people.
Why did a Hao, a young sunny boy, commit suicide by jumping from a building? Why was the local ruffian and rogue caitou mysteriously killed? Hold the audience’s eyes tightly. The tragedies of the two deaths proved that the stronger the sun is, the deeper the shadow is.
A Hao once said about another dark version of Sima Guang smashing the VAT. It was clear that all the “ghosts” in hide and seek had been found, but Sima Guang said that there was still one missing. A group of people walked along and met a vat. Little buddy cheers: then he must be inside. Sima Guang raised the stone and smashed it into the VAT. Bang! There was a man in the jar. Who? Sima Guang himself!
A Hao didn’t agree with his father’s education of “mastering time and direction”, but he quietly collected the notebook sent by his father for many years.
As for the cause of his suicide, the screenwriter made it ambiguous. In fact, judging from the lines of the crowd and the things written in his notebooks, ah Hao also has loneliness and pressure in his heart. He can’t get rid of the cage and shackles. Maybe if I feel dead, my brother can be treated well by his parents!
At the end of the film, Arvin and his wife hold each other, and the husband reveals that he has cleared away the obstacles for arwa in the way of violence. It turned out that he only thought about bearing the crime for his son, but he didn’t think about the consequences of the incident and ignored the existence of the law.
At this time, Chen Yiwen and Ke Shuqin were crying to the point of exhaustion. Their husband and wife hugged each other closely. Not only did their acting skills burst apart, but they were also very particular about photography and music. Light and darkness, warmth and coldness, are all instantly integrated under the dark cloud covering the sun.
At the end of this masterpiece to expose realism, there is an ingenious stroke of “three wrong Outlooks” — ahe went out with his mother. He pried a bicycle lock and drove her all the way. As a parent, the latter didn’t care?
The two men’s car passed through the mottled shade of trees, and the bright sunshine fell a little. Everything seemed warm and moving, but dark and speechless.
The Arvin family is the tragic epitome of the bottom family in the traditional society. My father thinks that he “pays for love”, which is actually an injury in the name of love. It was he and his wife who had serious shortcomings in the education of their two sons that led to two murders! In the words of actor Chen Yiwen, it is “father’s love is like sunshine and shadow, one body and two sides.”
As a representative figure of Taiwan’s rising star, director zhongmenghong has made works such as parking and waterfall to face the devastation of the current Taiwan society and the spiritual crisis of modern Taiwanese people. His “image construction” and “spiritual expression” both reflect the wasteland consciousness. He pays attention to the dark corners of human nature and exposes the impatience of the sun in the sky.
Back in “the sun shines”, a Taiwanese masterpiece, Chen Yiwen and Ke Shuqin played a very touching role in the hearts of their parents who were facing disintegration but were unable to recover. Wu Jianhe, liuguanting, xuguanghan, and Wen Zhenling of the younger generation have performed in a neat and eye-catching manner, which is no less impressive!
Hiding in the shadow of crime can make people live in peace of mind? In fact, it seems that the sun shines, but it is even more desperate! The large-scale crime film “sunshine” reveals the tragic cycle of traditional Chinese families, which is shocking!