Dying to survive

The film is a great movie, and it puts out a very close death, which is extremely rare in a domestic film. This is a film that does not have to worry about being revealed. Its real depth and connotation is not the outline of the story, but the continuity of all the main lines and details, and a sense of reality beyond the story.

While each of the characters on its promotional poster is beaming, ning hao and xu zheng, co-producers of a shell that looks like a comedy, are actually talking about a very dead nuclear.

It's difficult, expensive, and impoverished. The film takes the symptomatic drug of chronic myelogenous leukemia, "Lenin", as the gateway to the very sick situation. In 2002, the average price of a house in Beijing's second ring road was less than 10, 000 yuan, but a bottle of "Lenin" costs 40, 000 yuan and can last only a month. Ordinary patients who cannot afford this medicine have no alternative but to die. Life is money.

There is no end to the road. There are drug companies in India making a generic drug with similar effects. The key is: cheap. Cheng yong (xu zheng), owner of an essential oil store in India, smuggles the generic drug from India and sells it to patients for 5,000 yuan a bottle. It's a win-win business, the drug dealer wins the money, the patient wins the life. However, this chess game is mixed and complicated, destined not to let the two players steady symbiosis.

There's one thing the movie doesn't cover, but I think it's very heavy

There's one thing the movie doesn't cover, but I think it's very important. We must be clear that there can be no generics without the original, and that the original is not from heaven. The research and development of new drugs for serious diseases is an extremely costly behavior, with a long investment period and the risk cost of hidden failure rate. The research and development costs are often in the billions of dollars. Some technological advances depend not on the public good but on profit-driven capital.

This is the game of the world, or a common order. If this public order is broken, new drugs with high costs are sold at par, and the risk-return rate of capital investment becomes less valuable, then drug research will be basically abandoned and halted.

Desperate patients in the film ask, why are they so expensive?

If we have to answer, it is based on the basic law that only when the public order is maintained can a virtuous cycle of drug development be formed and new drugs may be developed in the future. It's easy to see that pharmaceutical costs are raw material costs, a simple concept. It is easy to overlook the cost of technology input, time cost and risk cost in the process of development. Of course, when it comes to imports, there are tariffs, channel fees and costs that you don't know how to name.All of this is going to load the bottom of the food chain.

Generics are cheap because they steal the highest r&d costs of legitimate drugs, generally covering only the cost of raw materials and the cost of crimes against the law.

The symbiosis between drug trafficker cheng yong and civilian patients did not last long. Although the legitimate drugmakers and the public order enforcers would sooner or later join in and break the scene of the "harmony of the night", the real role of the first to upset the situation, is a bloodthirsty profiteer.

Bloodthirsty profiteers

To tell you the truth, in the human world, as long as there is huge profits to be achieved, numerous greedy vampire swarms are inevitable events, this is also objective law. Let's call cheng yong's drug generic no. 1, which is a real generic for healing. Because of the role of bloodthirsty profiteer, the market soon grew up with the generic drug number 2, a total fake drug that could not cure the disease.

In the generics era 1, money was not the only goal, so cheng yong, a drug vendor, was first not to raise prices (even when demand was in short supply) and second not to make a high profile (or even dared to sell it outside the province). After the generic drug no.2 broke in, it was too aggressive and familiar, fake experts + childcare + publicity + cheap promotion, knives and knives to distinguish the ability of patients, especially vulnerable elderly people.

It works like a shit-whipping stick, breaking the market harmony of generics no. 1. The good word of mouth on generics is being broken first, and the harm done to the public will prompt public order enforcers to step up their involvement in the generics market. When the public order is completely maintained, generics 1 and 2 are at the end of the road at the same time.

A bloodthirsty profiteer is also an outlaw. Dishonest trade representative zhang changlin to find cheng yong, by all means to threaten him, this kind of profiteering business is not a civilian businessman down, you will not be a savior.

The savior

There is no shortage of people who want to be the savior of the world.

From the beginning, the civilian businessman cheng yong did not want to be a savior. However, there is no market for the old Indian essential oil, the son needs to be raised, the old father is in urgent need of surgery, he walked into a blind alley called poor disease. At this time, lu li, a leukemia patient (wang chuanjun), opens a window for him to say, "you smuggle generic drugs from India, I want to live." This pair of mutual aid two groups is almost inevitable, a hit - off.

Do you want to be a savior? Cheng yong did not hesitate to blurt out, no, I just want to make money. Having said that, cheng yong is the savior in the eyes of a patient who has regained his vitality.

This is the savior of the lowest dimension, and the wind blows the grass and it disappears. Under the threat and lure of dishonest businessman zhang changlin, cheng yong quickly quit the role of savior, handed over the fake medicine channel, and returned to his own status as an outsider.

A bloodthirsty profiteer is not going to be a savior, even the "passive savior" of the lowest dimension. The counterfeit drug market led by zhang changlin was driven to seek only profit, and soon the harmonious symbiosis between the patient and the drug dealer was completely broken up, and the drug dealer was wanted, and the imitation drug was completely cut off.

The patients are back to the dilemma of waiting to die. In the film, this bleak predicament awakens cheng yong's "messianic consciousness". He rose to the level of "active savior," and he resumed smuggling counterfeit drugs. This time he did not want to profit, only to bear the cost of crime. When such a savior appears, can the situation return to the original harmonious coexistence?

No, there is a public order to maintain. It is impossible for local saviors to exist rationally if they are in a global sense contrary to public order.

When the public order is maintained and pushed forward, there is a man who is willing to save the world. This man is criminal policeman cao bin (zhou yiwei). However, people are not able to save the world, what cao bin can do is only to his own power, extremely limited to delay the advance of the public order, for the whole situation is insignificant, even a drop in the ocean. Similarly, the heart to save the pastor liu is the same, the heart has many good ideas, also cannot change you have no ability to save the reality.

Finally, cheng yong exhausted strength, became a "moth to the fire type" savior. At the end of the film, there are some data and words expressing social progress, which affirm the meaning and value of "savior". However, those who look good and progress, but do not let a sigh of relief, but by the sad.

I particularly wanted to ask, when the savior went to prison, who cared for his old father in his hospital bed? Has the savior thought about this? People live in this world, life is not their own people, mortal want to be the savior and go to hell, his relatives and why to accompany the hell? Is the priority of innocence before intimacy, or before oligopoly, and if it is money before, is it fair on one dimension?

Dying to survive, with a kind of paradoxical inquiry, tore apart a lot of violence. What do you think of the choice between life and death to live beyond the law? Don't forget that people today have a choice because there was a public order. This is a sick situation.

The real value of film art is to open a corner of the world, to see what you haven't seen, to think what you haven't thought. While I don't know if the world is getting better, I believe it makes sense for a wide range of "outsiders" to focus on the world of "insiders."