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After "Dying to Survive", I once thought that Xu Zheng would never be able to make such a brave movie again.

Unexpectedly.

"Reverse Life" is here.

Similar realism, the same courage, and the same calls for action.

He went through fame, wealth and power, and in the most vulgar life, he turned the director's baton to the unknown people and filmed a story of mixed sorrow and joy.

The hardship and tenacity, the encirclement and breakthrough, the cracks and the light...all make people cry.

My friend asked me, “Does it look good?”

I thought about it and said, "Using the word 'good-looking' is a bit frivolous.It is responsible。”

In the current environment, it is not easy to tell the truth.

Those who understand will understand.

However, being able to tell the truth on the big screen in theaters, in front of tens of millions of viewers, with all your strength, on behalf of all those who have been silenced, is exponentially more difficult.

Only a stubborn person would insist on telling the truth.

Only a fool would give up songs of praise, poetry, and love, and plunge into the depths of a harsh life, using a needle to dig a well.

It's like searching for light in the abyss.

It's like a mayfly trying to shake a tree.

You ask me, is there any hope for Chinese films?

I have no idea.

But there is a Xu Zheng.

You ask what "Reverse Life" is about?

If it's false, I'll tell you,It talks about death and life under algorithms.

If I tell you the truth,It speaks of us.

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The protagonist of the movie is a middle-aged man.

His name is Gao Zhilei.

Opening with a trump card in hand——

A top student at Tongji University, an algorithm engineer, and the leader of a development team at a large Internet company.

Buy a house, invest in property, and have children in first-tier cities.

My wife is considerate, my daughter is smart, and my parents are by my side.

It’s almost a perfect template for middle-class life.

However, from being middle class to being decadent, there was only one morning that was no different from any other.

That morning, he took an insulin injection, listened to his wife's nagging, rushed to the company, turned on the computer, and ordered an iced American takeout.

When he heard that his subordinate had discovered a bug, he took the blame as usual.

In the trajectory of middle age, everything and everyone seems to be running smoothly and steadily.

Unfortunately, everything went off track after just one conversation.

He heard a piece of news:

Layoffs!

To be precise, the older Gao Zhilei was laid off!

He smashed the glass partition and also smashed his dignity.

The partition was broken.

On this side are the leaders who are pressing forward step by step, and on the other side are the colleagues who are watching the fire from the other side.

Angry and embarrassed.

Even more sadly, heThe reason why he was included in the layoff list was the result calculated by the algorithm program he wrote.

The bullet fired many years ago hit him right between the eyebrows.

At this point, Gao Zhilei discovered thatHis overworked and fat body could not squeeze through the narrow gate to complain and cry out for justice.

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Seeing this, you must have discovered thatXu Zheng picked up those taboo topics one by one.

Afraid it will be difficult to pass the review?

He is afraid too.

But he wants to speak.

Afraid of being questioned?

Of course I am afraid.

But he wants to hold up a spiritual mountain for those who are crushed by the times.

In this movie, you will not only see layoffs in large companies, unemployment among the elderly, the collapse of education and training, financial crises, plummeting housing prices, and falling back into poverty due to illness.

We will also see that life is getting worse and worse, there is a midlife crisis, and algorithms are eating people.

The frustrated people are all present.

Out of control life ukiyoe.

The film tells the deep struggles of the times with rare courage.

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The suffering of the times can be summed up in just one word.

But when this word falls into a person's life, it becomes a collapsed building or a derailed train.

When he was "off track", Gao Zhilei had no choice.

The choice before him is either to start a business or to find another job.

My wife lost her job, my father had a stroke, my mother closed her shop, my daughter had high tuition fees, and my mortgage was 15,000+ per month. With heavy expenses and a meager financial situation, we couldn't afford even the slightest risk.

I can only find another job.

In two months, I submitted more than 1,000 resumes.

There was little response.

The only interview was caused by a mistake made by the young HR.

The plot was almost a black comedy, but he only felt the darkness and not the humor.

In order to hide it from his family, he went out early and came back late for two months, pretending to be still at work.

In desperation, he tried every possible means to seek medical treatment, but was defrauded of 30,000 yuan by the intermediary.

In order to recover the 30,000 yuan, he chased the agent across half the city.Finally, he was stuck on an iron door, unable to get in or out.

This scene can be called a metaphor.

Middle-aged people caught in the unemployment crisis can neither move forward nor backward.

This embarrassment is like the elephant in the room. Everyone sees it, but no one says anything.

Xu Zheng told us loudly:

It's there!

Go see them! Go see them!

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After being slapped several times by reality, Gao Zhilei was left with nowhere to go.

He appeased himself toward life.

Become the delivery man that you used to look down upon.

Stumbling and rushing around in the city.

He thought that the elites from big companies delivering food was a dimensionality reduction attack.

Little do people know that in the world of algorithms, everyone is an ant driven by data.

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Therefore, in the following plots, topics that are even more afraid to be discussed in public continue to unfold.

For example, the deliverymen who are running around in a panic and exhausted under the algorithm are swallowed up again and again by the city’s road network.

Lao Kou was hit by a car;

Dahei's friend only had one leg left;

Gao Zhilei was in a car accident on New Year's Eve.

Who is to blame?

algorithm?

Or transportation?

Or a delivery man?

The panic of an individual is, after all, just the struggle of a trapped beast.

The ruthlessness of the algorithm has caused the thousands and thousands of people trapped in it to run around in exhaustion but still end up with nothing.

So you will find that -

Why do they work so hard but none of them can live a good life?

Who will answer?!

Who dares to answer?!

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The answer is floating in the air and cannot land on the ground.

The person responsible for the suffering has never shown up.

No one dared to discuss whether there was something wrong with the rules of the game.

so--

Is this the only way?

Of course not.

If you think that "Reverse Life" is just a reproduction of reality, I want to say,Classmate, you may not understand Xu Zheng.

He did more than see.

He was also in it, pointing out a possibility.

When fate is like a huge rock pressing down on your head, and when the striver is like Sisyphus, pushing the rock up the mountain day after day, there is only endless retrograde and unsolvable fate.

But Sisyphus never bowed his head.

He walked forward proudly, defying the provocations of the gods, and in the process of resistance, he experienced a flickering happiness.

Happiness is not enjoyment.

It is victory.

Yes to obtain.

It’s the words “I did it” when you stand on the top of the mountain.

In "Reverse Life", every worker who strives to move forward also turns to a shining chapter in the big book of life.

for example--

The ragged old man was so gentle in front of his wife and children that it made people cry;

A single mother delivery girl with a baby waited for a raincoat on a rainy night;

After the fight, Dahei, who was desperate to run away, cried and said:

“I just want to have a better day today than I did yesterday.”

Yes.

Beside every hidden tree hole, there is someone crying bitterly.

But when dawn came, people wiped away their tears and continued running towards the sun.

They may not get the medal.

There was no applause either.

But after reaching the end of the road, everyone will see a bunch of flowers, a piece of rain, and a home at the corner.

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The world is in tatters, but there are always people patching it up.

The rainstorm of life will eventually stop.

The New Year will eventually arrive.

When time restarted, Gao Zhilei became the single king.

In that golden and glorious moment, there was thunderous cheers, and the whole world seemed to applaud him.

You see, even in the most depressed life, there are still glimmers of light. Even in the most silent life, there are still deafening joys.

He did not escape his fate.

But he outdid himself.

As the oldest single king, he was filled with mixed emotions on stage. Thousands of words finally turned into just one sentence:

Thank you to each of us for our efforts.

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After the movie was released, some people said: This is a rich person playing a poor person.

This negates the meaning of the film.

This is biased.

A real movie is not one where rich people play rich people or deliverymen play deliverymen - if that were the case, all the stories of the poor would not be presented in theaters.

What is a good movie?

I have always believed that good movies are powerful.

You can feel a strong belief running through the whole film like a bone;

I can also feel the vast compassion, and persistently care for the silent majority.

It shines on the earth through the hands of art.

If I were to use one sentence to summarize "Reverse Life".

I would say:

“It passed by suffering and did not turn away.

It stopped, delved into its trapped fate, and restored the slightest whimper and resistance.

Then tell the world:

Suffering is not an illusion or an adjective, it really exists. Please go through the screen and see it. "

In fact, controversy is the fate of this movie. After all, it is too realistic.

But what does it matter?

Seeing is presence, and controversy is power.

Compared to singing heroic epics in a steady manner, writing a life battle song in the muddy world dedicated to all those who live in pain shows more responsibility.

Perhaps, in this unpredictable life, we will also encounter adversity.

You may not be able to get out.

Maybe change will never come.

It doesn't matter.

To stay alive means infinite vitality.

Dostoyevsky said it well:Only by moving forward unyieldingly can suffering have value.

Finally, a little selfishness——

I hope that after watching the movie, we canDiscrimination by the mainstream, expelled by lifeWorkers, be more gentle.

I also hope that the unknown people who are trapped in algorithms can eventually sing their ordinary songs in the maze of life.