The film Love For Live is based on a novel called Dream of Ding Village written by Yan Lianke, directed by Changwei Gu and script-written by Changwei Gu, Weiwei Yang and Laoshi Yan released on 10, May, 2011 in China (Douban.com). The story of this film is Zhao Qiquan who is running illegal blood trade business in his villages cause lots people infected with HIV and his twelve years old son was killed with poison tomato from revenge and the killer was not found and everyone in the village thinks he deserve it. After grief funeral, the father of Zhao Qiquan beg the village people to give him a chance atone for his son's crime by take care of infected people in empty village school for the sake of his younger son Zhao Deyi who also infected with HIV. After few days living in village school, Zhao Deyi meet a new girl Sang Qinqin who is kick out and sent to village school by her husband because she infected with HIV. Here the love story comes in, a man and a woman both been discriminated by the world fall in love in this little non-discrimination new world. Sang Qinqin's red jacket been steal cause the harmonious of this new world fracture and the death of illness cause people panic finally, Shang Qinqin's husband caught Shang Qinqin and Zhao Deyi in bed break this little new world apart. Through all the suffering of being together, they still can not run away from the illness, Zhao Deyi suicide after Shang Qinqin dead.
When I first watched this film three years ago, I was struggle to conclude the film good or bad. On the side of framing, camera angle and color use is an artistic cinematographic style which is so good on my point of view. Frist, the film used a super long shot from sky in the begging and the end of this movie to give the idea of present life and after death life in traditional Chinese culture which match with the dead twelve years old boy as the voice of god telling the story about after his death. The long shot on street in the film always give the depth of field. On the scene of infected people been discriminate by neighbor on street, the infected people been placed on the intersection and everyone walk by from left to right not dare to have any physical contact with these people shows how much the infected people been left in the world just in one long shot. The middle shot on attempt hang them self scene, used the reflection on mirror gives a long shot effect but more attention on the characters. The color used of red is the most impressive thing to me. On the Shang Qinqin's first scene, she came out in red give the dark death word a feeling of warm, the married with Zhao Deyi scene, the red bring the contradiction of happy and sad, the happy of their expression that they been married and the sad of Zhao Deyi start to have symptom on his body which means he is not far from death. In the end, the suicide blood from crack between door and floor gives the death of red.
However, with all the good of footage the film is still bad on the side of story structure. From the begging to the village school the structure of this film is polyphonic narrative which tells the story of different people when they have AIDS and story is about humanity. Most of people shows the ugly side of humanity;the worship of money. Zhao Qiquan bring the village people HIV for money and in the village school he tell the infected people that he will sell them coffin with discount. The two infected people help Zhao Qiquan cut village trees for two luxury coffins. The infected thief steal Shang Qinqin's red jacket and the cooker steal rice. All of these ugliness tells the audience the humanity of pursue benefit even at the end their life. Zhao Qiquan's father here plays the good side of humanity, take care of infected people because the guilty of what his son did even his grandson dead. He is also a represent of traditional moral value which we can see from the scene of caught in bed, his younger son and Shang Qinqin was locked in the room that they have sex by Shang Qinqin's husband even she is kicked out by his husband but they have not divorce yet. So everyone around did not stop the beating on Shang Qinqin and he is feel guilty again result in he can not stop the falling apart of village school afterward. After the village school part the film suddenly put all the attention on the Shang Qinqin and Zhao Deyi and all the things are about classic love story that two people suffered all the difficult and being together. Although, the love story of two infected people is touching but it did not match up the early part of the film.
Because of this assignment, after research of this film on internet I find the reason, that full version of this film is 150mins and the blood dealer Zhao Qiqun is the main character, the story was about two brother's different life. The 101mins version released in China is because of cinema can not take 150mins and too sensitive says by director (163.com. Para,4.). The film may be great in full version.
When I first watched this film three years ago, I was struggle to conclude the film good or bad. On the side of framing, camera angle and color use is an artistic cinematographic style which is so good on my point of view. Frist, the film used a super long shot from sky in the begging and the end of this movie to give the idea of present life and after death life in traditional Chinese culture which match with the dead twelve years old boy as the voice of god telling the story about after his death. The long shot on street in the film always give the depth of field. On the scene of infected people been discriminate by neighbor on street, the infected people been placed on the intersection and everyone walk by from left to right not dare to have any physical contact with these people shows how much the infected people been left in the world just in one long shot. The middle shot on attempt hang them self scene, used the reflection on mirror gives a long shot effect but more attention on the characters. The color used of red is the most impressive thing to me. On the Shang Qinqin's first scene, she came out in red give the dark death word a feeling of warm, the married with Zhao Deyi scene, the red bring the contradiction of happy and sad, the happy of their expression that they been married and the sad of Zhao Deyi start to have symptom on his body which means he is not far from death. In the end, the suicide blood from crack between door and floor gives the death of red.
However, with all the good of footage the film is still bad on the side of story structure. From the begging to the village school the structure of this film is polyphonic narrative which tells the story of different people when they have AIDS and story is about humanity. Most of people shows the ugly side of humanity;the worship of money. Zhao Qiquan bring the village people HIV for money and in the village school he tell the infected people that he will sell them coffin with discount. The two infected people help Zhao Qiquan cut village trees for two luxury coffins. The infected thief steal Shang Qinqin's red jacket and the cooker steal rice. All of these ugliness tells the audience the humanity of pursue benefit even at the end their life. Zhao Qiquan's father here plays the good side of humanity, take care of infected people because the guilty of what his son did even his grandson dead. He is also a represent of traditional moral value which we can see from the scene of caught in bed, his younger son and Shang Qinqin was locked in the room that they have sex by Shang Qinqin's husband even she is kicked out by his husband but they have not divorce yet. So everyone around did not stop the beating on Shang Qinqin and he is feel guilty again result in he can not stop the falling apart of village school afterward. After the village school part the film suddenly put all the attention on the Shang Qinqin and Zhao Deyi and all the things are about classic love story that two people suffered all the difficult and being together. Although, the love story of two infected people is touching but it did not match up the early part of the film.
Because of this assignment, after research of this film on internet I find the reason, that full version of this film is 150mins and the blood dealer Zhao Qiqun is the main character, the story was about two brother's different life. The 101mins version released in China is because of cinema can not take 150mins and too sensitive says by director (163.com. Para,4.). The film may be great in full version.