It didn't take long for significant progress to be made. A fish pond in the suburbs released water, and the villagers found that there was a taxi in the pond, which was the one Yu Xinliang drove before his death. After Lao Huang arrived, he asked someone to check the relevant information of the villagers in several villages around the reservoir. It didn't take long for a file to catch his attention.

On the day of Yu Xinliang's death, Lao Huang and Xiao Cui sent wreaths over and stayed in the mourning hall. At two o'clock in the morning, a young man with long fish bubble eyes walked into the mourning hall and walked straight to the front of Xiao. At that time, she fell asleep on her lap, and the fish bubble eye woke her up and called her out to talk.

The person on the file is the person who called Xiao Xiao out that night, named Pi Wenhai, nicknamed Pi Fei, thirty-two years old, and has a record of stealing and going to prison.

Lao Huang didn't know what the relationship between Xiao Xiao and Pi Fei was, and planned to find an observation point in the building opposite the barber shop to secretly observe and see who Xiao had contact with. When they got to the bottom of the building, they saw an advertisement on a telephone pole for a lease on the second floor of a unit smaller than the one across the street from the barbershop.

In the process of looking at the house, the landlord chattered about the previous two tenants, not to mention the arrears, and slapped his ass and left, he scolded the two tenants for being scum, and even seduced the dumb people on the other side of the street, and did it in the house every day.

Lao Huang's eyes lit up, and he immediately showed his work card, and showed a photo of the stumbling, and asked, "Is this the person?" the landlord glanced at it and nodded wildly. Lao Huang immediately asked, "What does the other person look like?" The landlord was a little dumbfounded: "Every time I pay for the house, this person pays for it, and I haven't seen the other one." ”

After a few days of observation, Lao Huang found that Xiao Xiao had recently changed people, she went to sign language school to learn dumb language, and also went to other people's stores to do fashionable hairstyles, and the whole person had a bit of intellectual femininity. It's just that she has a very thick melancholy on her face, and she can't get rid of it. Lao Huang could see that she should have fallen in love with a man, but now that the man is gone, she is so sad.

Many stars present were shocked by Zhang Jingchu's excellent performance, Zhang Jingchu acted very well before, it almost made people forget that she was Zhang Jingchu, and felt that she was really dumb, and the scene after the separation of less than and steel slag was even more surprising, less than or that less, but it felt like a different person, and the whole level of performance was very clear.

The sense of hierarchy is a thing that is difficult to grasp when performing, Tony Leung can be said to be one of the best actors in China, but his performance in "The Grandmaster" is a bit of a problem, Ip Man did not open the level before and after Xiangjiang, Ip Man when he was young and Ip Man who has experienced vicissitudes of life are exactly the same, and there is not much difference. Relatively speaking, Zhang Ziyi's palace second level is clearer.

The actors present all had a feeling that Zhang Jingchu had completed a breakthrough and truly stepped into the ranks of top actors!

In order to talk to Xiao Xiao, Lao Huang thought of a plan, found his friend Lao Fu, who could sign language, and went to Xiao Xiao's store together. After the haircut, they left without panic, and sat down to talk with Xiaoxiao.

The old man looked at Xiao Xiao and asked, "Is it because some friend has left, so he can't be happy?"

His eyes lit up and he nodded vigorously.

The old man said: "You take out his photo, hang it on the wall, and look at it a few times a day, so that it will feel better." ”

Xiaoxiao's expression was a little gloomy, and he gestured: "No photos." ”

The old man said: "I have a friend who can make photos, as long as you have the appearance of this person in your head, he can draw pictures of the memories in your head." ”

Xiao Xiao nodded again and again with excitement, feeling that he had met a good person.

The next day, Lao Huang and Lao Fu brought the portrait puzzle experts of the city bureau with them. According to the description of Lesser, the puzzle gradually takes shape, and the face of the steel slag slowly appears in front of him. When the puzzle was finally finished, Less than laughed. In her opinion, this spelled out avatar was simply taken by the steel slag herself with a camera.

On the screen, the portrait of the steel slag overlaps with the face of the steel slag, and through dissolving, the time is pulled back to more than half a year ago. The third line of the film unfolds, telling the whole story from the perspective of steel slag.

Across the street from the dumb barbershop, there is an old-fashioned brick house with steel slag and leather stumbling rented in a suite on the second floor. Steel slag sat upstairs, staring out the window, his eyes were a little confused, and behind the confusion was infinite loneliness.

At this moment, almost all the audience felt it, whether it was Lao Huang, Xiaoxiao, or steel slag, or even the dead Yu Xinliang, their eyes were very lonely, and they were all lonely people.

Across the street is a barber shop, steel slag sitting in front of the window always see less than dangling in front of his eyes, so he slowly moved his mind. One day he walked into the shop and quickly got into her mess with her.

Steel Slag was originally a demoman, but because the mine was closed, he went into the city to join his friend Pi Fei. He had a hard life, but he couldn't let go of his face and picked up the rags like a leather stumbling block. Once, after drinking, he said cruel things that he was going to rob a bank. After hearing this, Pi Fei became serious and said that he would give him a hand. Steel slag was embarrassed to say that it was a wine talk. After a few more talks, the matter of making bombs and robbing banks became clearer and clearer, and from drinking words to concrete actions, steel slag really began to develop bombs.

Early one morning, Xiao Xiao took the initiative to come over and make out with the steel slag, and then told him that he was going out for a few days. The child awarded to the ex-husband after the divorce was sick and asked for a lot of money. She didn't have much money on hand, so she had to send it all. She herself wants to guard the child and take care of it for a few days. After all, it was the meat that fell from her body, and the family relationship was constantly cut after the divorce.

In the days that followed, the steel slag did not see the small opening of the store. He sat in front of the window and sighed from time to time as he looked at the barbershop across the road. He really wanted to have a sum of money to help him, but he really didn't have any money.

At this time, Pi Fei discussed with him that the bomb had not been ready, so it was better to do something else first. Pi Fei suggested to grab a taxi, as long as he compared the knife, the taxi driver would honestly hand over the money.

Steel Slag was also trying to get a sum of money to help Xiaoxiao, and thought it was a good idea to grab a taxi, so he nodded and agreed.

That night, steel slag and leather stumbled on Yu Xinliang's taxi and committed a robbery. They all had beards sticky to their faces, just to not kill people. But after succeeding, the steel slag found that his hat was missing, and it was supposed to have fallen out of the car window. He had several scars on his scalp and a cinnabar-colored birthmark on the top of his head. The steel slag was worried that the marks on the scalp on his head would be seen by Yu Xinliang and leave clues for the police to solve the case, so he made a ruthless move and killed Yu Xinliang.

It's just that the steel slag never dreamed that it was such a coincidence, and the person he killed turned out to be his lover's own brother. At the time of the killing, he looked at the driver's face, and there was no way to connect with the driver.

The audience was all stupid when they saw this, the whole incident was even more tragic than they imagined, the steel slag wanted to help Xiao Cai grab a taxi, but he killed Xiao Xiao's brother because of this, this is really sad!

The steel slag killed someone, but the audience in front of the screen did not have the slightest hatred for him, but was full of understanding and heartache, especially at night, when the steel slag went to the place where the spirit stopped, and asked Pi to trip in and bring Xiao out. Under the street lamp, he hugged Xiao Xiao tightly, and when he couldn't stop saying "I'm sorry", the audience was very moved, and even many female viewers were wiping their tears.

A few days later, in the morning, Steel Slag saw Lao Huang and Xiao Cui coming upstairs with hats to find Xiaoxiao, and keenly felt that the police were coming at him, and knew that he had to leave. That night, the steel slag dragged Xiao Xiao to the rented house and tossed wildly on the bed. After the incident, he turned on the light, hugged Xiao Xiao and put it on the chair, and said, "I have something to deal with, and I must leave for a while." ”

Xiao Xiao realized that the time of the steel slag would not be short, and if it was two or three days out, he would not say it at all. But the difference between the previous two or three days was enough to make Xiao Xiao heartbreaking. There was no sound in her world, especially empty, and she didn't want to leave the man in front of her for a day. Xiao made a gesture and asked him anxiously: "You tell the truth, will you never come again?"

Steel slag also has this suspicion, after all, he was involved in a murder, who knows if he can come back this time? But he didn't want to disappoint Xiaoxiao, so he said: "It may take a long time, but I will definitely come back." ”

Xiao felt that the steel slag was a little insincere, a little collapsed, choked up, and gestured to ask: "Then when will you come back?" ”

Steel slag thought about it, made a decision, and gestured: "Spring Festival!" He smiled when he saw Xiao Xiaopo, and gestured: "On that day, you dress up the store beautifully, hang lanterns on pairs, and prepare some firecrackers." I'll come back to see you then!"

Steel slag and stumbling were relocated that night and moved to the Southbank district.

Zhang Yimou is not the kind of director who is particularly good at storytelling, Zhang Ran admits that he has strong storytelling ability, even if it is a very simple story, he can tell it wonderfully, at this point, Zhang Yimou admires Zhang Ran very much, and even envy a little. Now when he sees "One Person's Lights" and sees this, he admires it even more.

Soon after the story began, Xiao Xiao and steel slag appeared on the stage, and even the steel slag made a bomb. But it can be written like this, but if the movie is filmed like this, it will seem flat and straightforward, lacking suspense, and the whole story will be very bland, so Zhang Ran adjusted the structure of the whole story and changed it to a three-line narrative, like peeling an onion, peeling off the story layer by layer.

The first line of the movie is based on Lao Huang as a clue, talking about the relationship between Lao Huang and Xiao Xiao and Yu Xinliang, and the second line is from the perspective of Xiao Xiao, mainly talking about the love affair between Xiao Xiao and steel slag, and this line leads to the key props hat. Xiao bought a hat for steel slag, but at the scene where Xinliang was killed, Lao Huang found the hat, so that there was suspense. As Lao Huang tracked down the hat, the audience's emotions were constantly mobilized.

After Lao Huang and they locked on the steel slag, the third line of the story unfolded, this line uses the steel slag as a clue, while presenting the audience's interaction between the steel slag and Xiao, the audience knows that the steel slag is still making bombs and preparing to rob the bank. So, a new suspense immediately arises, will they really rob the bank? Will they succeed?

In the interweaving of the three clues, the storyline gradually unfolds, telling an originally simple story very vividly and deeply, and these three lines bring out a series of characters, showing the deeper cultural content such as society and interpersonal relationships behind it, making the whole movie have strong practical significance.

In Zhang Yimou's view, there is a special place in these three lines, from Lao Huang's point of view, Xiao is a simple and beautiful, enthusiastic girl, but after the second line comes out, everyone knows what the real Xiao is like; In Xiao Xiao's view, steel slag is a man who really understands himself and is a gentle man; and when the third line is unfolded, the audience knows that he is making a bomb and preparing to rob a bank. The characters in the movie, even if they are friends, lovers, or even relatives, but they know each other one-sidedly.

In this way, Zhang Ran illustrates that people are full of estrangement, and it is difficult for you to really understand others, which further shows that the essence of human beings is loneliness!

Zhang Yimou glanced up at Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran reached a new realm through this movie, which was the realm he had worked hard to achieve, but had never been able to reach!