＂Li Mi’s Conjecture＂： All men who play missing are scum

1905 movie network feature 　How long are you willing to wait to love someone? One year, two years, three years, or four years…

　

If your loved one suddenly disappears, will you still be waiting for them?

　

In the movie "Li Mi’s Conjecture," Zhou Xun, a female driver who is crazy about love, drives a taxi while searching for her missing boyfriend Deng Chao for four years. After she was kidnapped by two drug dealers and survived, her missing boyfriend Deng Chao finally showed up.

She always recited a string of mysterious numbers, which were her clues to find her boyfriend; she always took his picture and asked the passengers in the car, have you seen this person?

Taxi passenger BoBo combination: Jing Boran, Fu Xinbo disorderly entry

She was wearing a loose men’s shirt, with a key chain hanging from her chest, smoking a cigarette, and her hair was messy. She looked lean and capable, with a sense of exhilarated exhaustion and a little nervous.

Zhou Xun driving and talking to himself

In the four years that her boyfriend had disappeared, she had only received 54 letters from him, and that was her only contact with him. Other than that, there was no clue, no city, no address, no phone number, nothing. She didn’t know where he was, but she knew he was always there. This is the most maddening part.

Zhou Xun "fights to the end" to find his missing boyfriend Deng Chao

What does it feel like to go crazy "looking for your missing boyfriend"? Zhou Xun said in an interview before: It’s like a flight being temporarily cancelled, and people tell you that the next flight will definitely fly, but they never tell you when it will fly.

　

"Li Mi’s Conjecture" exudes such a desperate atmosphere that makes people "want to curse".

　

Zhou Xun, who was driving a taxi, said viciously: Do you know what I want to do the most? What I want to do the most is to find him and yell at him, why don’t *** die!

A passenger advised her: Don’t read those letters, ignore him, or move. Zhou Xun said: I don’t, I have to scold!

The female driver Li Mi played by Zhou Xun has such a ruthlessness. As the heroine of this film, Zhou Xun’s performance is almost perfect. There is a huge energy hidden in her small body, which will explode at any time, hysterical but full of power.

　

Therefore, "Li Mi’s Conjecture" won several Best Actress awards for Zhou Xun, including the Golden Rooster Award, the Asian Film Award, the Chinese Film Media Award, and the Best Actress of the Beijing University Film Festival.

Deng Chao went missing as a drug dealer

The male protagonist of "Li Mi’s Conjecture" is Deng Chao, who is Zhou Xun’s "scum" boyfriend who has been missing for four years.

In the movie, Deng Chao shaved his small flat head and had a cold expression. On the one hand, he had the extremely calm temperament of a criminal when he committed a crime, and on the other hand, he missed his girlfriend Zhou Xun deeply, but also pretended not to know her in front of her. Extreme restraint.

Deng Chao pretended not to know Zhou Xun

He and Zhou Xun fell in love early, fell in love in middle school, and have been together ever since. Both of them did not get good grades in school and did not go to college.

He only had two hobbies: watching martial arts, and falling in love with Zhou Xun. Later, Deng Chao drove a taxi, and the woman’s parents disliked him for having no money. In order to marry his beloved girlfriend, he became a drug dealer and disappeared into Zhou Xun’s world.

During the four years of his disappearance, Deng Chao never showed his face, but he had been hiding from a distance, secretly observing his girlfriend’s life. He said he wanted to make money to realize Zhou Xun’s dream of opening a supermarket, but he didn’t understand that this dream was to open a supermarket with him. Without him, where would the dream come from.

Deng Chao let Zhou Xun find him for four years like this, and made her miserable, anxious, and desperate for four years. Ruthless enough, and scumbag enough.

Deng Chao and the film’s director, Cao Baoping, are old partners. In 2015, their third collaboration, "Burning Sun", won Deng Chao the best male lead at the Shanghai International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Award.

In addition to the two protagonists, the performance of the film’s supporting characters is also outstanding.

Zhang Hanyu fights drugs while getting a divorce

In the movie, Zhang Hanyu was a police officer who caught drug dealers. Zhou Xun, a taxi driver who was accidentally involved in a drug trafficking case, and Zhang Hanyu had a lot of rivalry. Zhang Hanyu was rational and calm, while Zhou Xun was crazy and impulsive.

Zhang Hanyu asked Zhou Xun to the end, and Zhou Xun finally couldn’t help but yell at him: My boyfriend is missing, I have been looking for him for four years, but I haven’t found him yet! What else do you want to know, do you want to know who I have slept with in the past four years, no one.

Zhang Hanyu countered, I’m getting a divorce. (As if to comfort her, who hasn’t had a problem yet…)

Wang Baoqiang kidnaps female driver, "human body poison" for marrying village flower

Another supporting actor, Wang Baoqiang, took the "stupid root" route. In order to save 10,000 yuan to marry Xiaoxiang, his first love who was a migrant worker in the city, he foolishly embarked on the road of "human body poison".

In the process of human drug trafficking, hijacked the female taxi driver Zhou Xun, because the chat made a friendship, and then secretly released her from the boss.

The entire story of "Li Mi’s Conjecture" was born out of a real-life incident like the "kidnapping of the female driver": a female taxi driver was kidnapped by two desperate people. During the process of getting along, the two kidnappers were moved by the female taxi driver and gave up the idea of killing her… In the end, the female driver and the kidnapper became friends.

In the movie, two poor people at the bottom hide poison in their bodies for money. Deng Chao, who goes to the overpass to find a connector, takes a plane ticket to fly to Guangzhou, but finds the wrong person.

Cornered, they had a plan to kidnap female taxi driver Zhou Xun and ask her to buy them plane tickets.

With the help of the soft-hearted Wang Baoqiang, Zhou Xun escaped death. Two drug dealers were also arrested, and the anti-drug police Zhang Hanyu followed the lead and found the hidden drug dealer Deng Chao. Because Zhou Xun cooperated with the police investigation, he finally met his boyfriend Deng Chao, who had been missing for four years, in the police station.

Just like the two works directed by Cao Baoping, "The Hunter" (2016) and "The Burning Sun" (2015), the movie "Li Mi’s Conjecture" (2008) also has a temperament of not letting go and fighting to the end.

Director Cao Baoping’s works "The Hunter" and "The Heart of the Burning Sun"

Love, suspense, and comedy, these three elements are combined to present the unique style of director Cao Baoping:

The little people at the bottom struggle with twists and turns in a not-so-complicated story, and their fortunes begin to wander due to a coincidence.

The plot of the film is usually very tight, interlocking, and the conflict is fierce. The down-to-earth comedy elements add some lighthearted atmosphere to the film’s heavy suspense and crime atmosphere at the right time. In the love elements, the female images he portrays are the kind of ruthless characters who are determined, ignore it, and do not calculate the consequences.

His films prefer to depict the humility and desperation of the little people at the bottom, exploring the helplessness and desperation behind their crimes.

This movie released in 2008 is not outdated and shocking enough today. Director Cao Baoping said: What reaches people’s hearts will always be good. Just like the classics of 30 or 50 years ago, the medium and means are different, but the human nature and human emotions can still be preserved.