The bullets are flying, can you keep up?

Source: Guo Pengjie’s diary (reprinted for my classmate, many people didn’t understand.)

For 130 minutes, the bullets flew to the end and did not stop.

In Jiang Wen's Let the Bullets Fly, there is no "peeing spot" in the 130 minutes, let alone going to the toilet. If you are not careful, you will miss the key plot. The compact plot design, bold style, and soul-stirring scenes made people completely immersed in Jiang Wen's world for more than two hours. That's the magic of making bullets fly.

However, due to instinctive considerations and perhaps professional inertia guided by a biased world view, I saw a bold and exaggerated world in it.

"Let the bullets fly for a while" begins with a tense and exaggerated scene, a train pulled by galloping horses, carrying a group of songs played by characters of desire and greed. . They are the purchased county magistrate, the flirtatious master, and the coquettish county magistrate's wife. These three characters represent three hated professions - hypocritical officials, unscrupulous scholars, and villains who are greedy for wealth and power. It is these people who are singing and dancing on the train. Because they are the biggest beneficiaries of this train, they can eat hot pot, listen to songs, and have fully armed soldiers escorting them.

However, here comes the problem. The train can only be a false prosperity, just like a country with false prosperity. The train does not move by itself, but relies on a few galloping horses. The most primitive method of using this kind of horse-drawn train , the lowest way to maintain this illusion of wealth. And on the train, there are those with vested interests, namely: the county magistrate who bought it, the master who flattered him, and the villain who succumbed to the influence. Such an obscure beginning makes us laugh at Jiang Wen's funnyness and Jiang Wen's genius, but it doesn't make us think about what kind of reality is reflected behind this scene.

Then the bandits appeared. He robbed the county magistrate's train of false prosperity, and also robbed the county magistrate's wife. However, the county magistrate not only was not angry, but also wanted to continue to get promoted and make a fortune, and continued to exploit the poor. With clever names and good intentions, officials teamed up with local wealthy people to exploit the poor through deceptive means, thereby achieving the goal of promotion and wealth. The arrival of the bandits disrupted the established path to promotion and wealth, and completely confused the bought monk Zhang Er, the county magistrate. "The bandits don't steal money, but they still give it away?" This has been a question that the county magistrate bought has been thinking hard about. The bandit said: "I don't want the poor's money, I only want the rich's money." This is a bit interesting. Is this really a bandit? He is obviously a "chivalrous bandit" who kills the rich and helps the poor. Jiang Wen became the spokesperson for this "chivalrous gangster" image.

The picture of the Republic of China, in which officials and businessmen colluded, cleverly created names, and the common people were the slaves of the people, makes it impossible for those of us born in modern times to taste any of the vicissitudes of history, but rather to empathize with it. The sky-high housing prices are almost equivalent to robbery by bandits, leaving us with no fixed place to live; poisoned milk powder, gutter oil, Li Gang's father, and fishing for law enforcement. . . It seems that these are the things Jiang Wen tried his best to make people understand in the movie, but in the movie, these are called "bandits" in Huang Silang's mouth. Bandits are caused not by poor people, but by local wealthy people like Huang Silang. They force good girls into prostitution. They separate many intact families in the fish and meat countryside, and then go up to the mountains to become bandits.

Immediately afterwards, the bandits began to fight Huang Silang in a battle of wits and courage. During this period, Huang Silang killed the sixth child, the county magistrate's wife, the third child, and the county magistrate, and the bandits finally defeated Huang Silang. Want money? Find rich people. The rich took their money back and aroused the desire of the people. Do you want revenge? Give guns to everyone.

But the problem comes again. Even if I have a gun, I still don’t dare to shoot. He was hiding in the corner and watching, watching who would win. "Help whoever wins," the bandit's words highlighted the inertia of this group and satirized the servile mentality of China's small citizens. They want it but don’t dare to fight, they don’t dare to snatch it, they have a gun, but no one is brave enough to pick up the gun to fight for their own interests. This is the hardest problem to solve. Jiang Wen's method was to catch a fake Huang Silang and kill him in public. At this time, the public's desire and courage came, and they rushed into Huang Silang's bunker like crazy and got what they wanted back.

In fact, here, Jiang Wen had to use deception to make the ignorant and servile people dare to stand up. But this method does not rely on enlightenment, but on deception and temptation. Relying on deception and temptation, the poor defeated the rich Huang Silang. Who is not like this? In today's society, do you dare to stand up even if you have a gun? Do you dare to shoot someone who comes to your house to demolish and take it? Most people don't know how to do it, and they will even act as lackeys, acting as advocates of power, and then get the charity they get from their masters and gentlemen by "being dogs".

In the end, Huang Silang was knocked down. The poor turned around and became rich, grabbing what was theirs. They had bicycles and no longer followed the bandits. In their words, "Following you is boring." Then, they planned to go to Shanghai to enjoy what should be theirs in the richest place. Not thinking about how to continue to defend what you have gained. So, in the end, Jiang Wen continued to repeat the scene at the beginning, where a train continued to be pulled by running horses, carrying a group of poor people with no sense of citizenship and no self-awareness, heading to Shanghai, heading towards their so-called prosperity.

It can be seen that Jiang Wen is also very disappointed and helpless with them.

The lack of enlightenment of the public, even if they have stolen their own things through deception, still do not know how to keep this wealth. Therefore, their cars, like the purchased county magistrate, can only be false prosperity and wealth, and can only be a short-term joy. But Jiang Wen, like a helpless old man, continued to sit on his horse, following this funny train, waiting for his next demise.

It can be said that Jiang Wen, in the movie, taught us how to look at reality, how to appreciate the vicissitudes and helplessness of reality in historical textbooks, and finally gave us the most direct way. That is: a gun for everyone. However, if the people who have guns lack rational consciousness and civil concepts, the result will ultimately be a group of thugs and accomplices who follow the people like martial arts practitioners.

Jiang Wen’s bullet flew away and still did not fall after 130 minutes. Just like Jiang Wen's absent-minded eyes at the end are considering the audience's glasses and souls.

The fairness in Jiang Wen's eyes may come the moment the bullet hits the ground. But, can you keep up with this seemingly ordinary bullet?

I hope you go and see it before the old man comes to his senses and don’t let the old man confiscate our bullets.

In fact, there is a flaw in the movie. Jiang Wen said that he was 17 years old when he was in the pistol team of Cai Songpo (also known as Cai E). However, according to the year, the story took place around the eighth year of the Republic of China, which should be 1919. Cai E's National Guard Army also happened in 1916 (the first year of Hongxian). During this period, it was greatly inconsistent with Jiang Wen's vicissitudes such as his 40-year-old status.