Coquettish Rebirth

While Director Tao was arguing with the old theater managers, Jia Hongjian and Ye Jing were very leisurely watching domestic movies with the old man Spielberg.Spielberg hadn't seen any domestic Chinese films before, at most they were Chinese films like "Raise the Red Lantern" that have won international awards.But for these Chinese films, the time points chosen are basically not modern, and from a certain perspective, they all reflect the ignorance and backwardness of the Chinese people, so Spielberg actually has a good understanding of modern China. Still very interested.

Since Spielberg was interested, Jia Hongjian naturally had to satisfy the old man, right?So he took the old man around in the audio-visual store, and finally bought a bunch of genuine CDs - he, Jia Hongjian, is now one of the cultural businessmen, he can't hate pirated copies for taking away his profits, and at the same time Use pirated version again?And there are foreign friends here!Moreover, with Jia Hongjian and Ye Jing's family background, it is absolutely unambiguous to buy genuine discs, and there is no need to get any pirated copies. Besides, the pirated versions don't have English subtitles, right?

The piles of Chinese movies I bought here are all genuine, and each of them has Chinese subtitles-although the subtitles are placed below the Chinese subtitles and are a bit small, they are still watchable, which saves Jia Hongjian and Ye Jing was doing the simultaneous interpreting beside her when she was fine.

The movie they were watching at this time was the best-selling local movie in China in the past two years - "The Days of Leaving Lei Feng".This film can be said to be the best performing Chinese film in the market in recent years, and it is not the kind of dark topic that expresses such things as rural areas, girls, and men.It's a kind of thing that reflects changes in society and people's minds in a documentary mode.To put it a little bit exaggerated, this film is very much in line with the realistic criticism of Mao Zedong, and it also fits the literary style of realistic criticism popular in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.This kind of film is combined with a documentary-like mode. It can be said that while telling a touching plot, it also shows the changes in China over the past few decades.

Spielberg likes to watch this movie very much. He himself is very curious about China's previous era without reform and opening up, and this movie can be said to just give him a context of China's changes.At the same time, this film is also in line with his taste for documentaries.But looking at it, I saw that Lao Qiao drove into the old man and was injured, and after sending the old man to the hospital.When it was discovered that the old man's family and the old man had joined together to identify Old Qiao as the murderer of the assault.Spielberg suddenly seemed to be touched.

"Little pumpkin, pause!" Spielberg asked Ye Jing to pause the video, and then he kept silently looking at the screen thoughtfully, as if some string in his brain had been touched.At this time, Ye Jing was looking at Spielberg in bewilderment.Then he looked at Jia Hongjian again.But Jia Hongjian shook his head slightly.At this time, Spielberg suddenly asked Jia Hongjian. "Hung-chien, why does the old man and his family slander the protagonist as a criminal who assaulted others? Is it because the old man has no medical insurance?"

"Well... almost. In China, due to the lack of national financial resources, the medical insurance in rural areas is not in place. We are now public-funded medical care. A worker in a state-owned enterprise can not only ask the company for reimbursement of medical expenses, but also Let his family and children also be reimbursed partly. So a lot of medical finances have been used in this place... and because of the large population in rural areas, there are often only some small rural medical centers that can provide medical insurance for minor diseases, and serious diseases I can't help it..." Jia Hongjian is actually not very familiar with the medical insurance these days, but he still understands the general situation, so he just added a little bit of his own imagination.

Spielberg is not incomprehensible to what Jia Hongjian said.Lao Si knows that Canada, the cousin of the United States, is a place that pays attention to public medical care. Many times, Americans will even go to Canada, find a Canadian friend to take him to the hospital, and then he can see a doctor for free, even except for round-trip gasoline. No fee, just a penny!And he has even heard that if you go to the UK, you can go to a public hospital to see a doctor. Not only can you see a doctor for free, but the hospital even pays the patient to take a taxi home!

This kind of medical welfare is of course good, and it makes Americans envious—compared with Europe and even Canada, the level of welfare in the United States is actually quite low, but as an American, Spielberg also understands, This kind of public medical treatment will greatly increase the financial pressure, and in Canada, Britain and even some other countries with public medical treatment, sometimes the biggest problem is queuing - I have a toothache, and I may actually be able to see a doctor from registration to the end. You have to wait in line for a week, and by that time the toothache will be gone...

The problem is that the poor in a country must be the majority. If medical care is completely free, it will be inefficient, because a large amount of medical resources need to be used to meet a large number of basic needs, and there is no way to get some high-tech things. Come out and open the grade to optimize the configuration.However, the medical model in the United States is not a panacea. In the United States, it costs 100 dollars to buy a toothbrush in a medical clinic, and the original may only be a mere few cents!Why is medical care so expensive?Is it because of the commercial medical insurance system?

The simplest thing is that the doctor sees that the patient has commercial medical insurance when he treats the disease, which means that the patient does not have to pay for it himself, and the insurance company will cover most of it, so the doctor can charge a large price without feeling uneasy.And in this way, patients still feel that they have received excellent medical services, and they feel that they have taken advantage of it, at least using things that they could not afford before.In the end, when the insurance company wants to pay, as an insurance company, it is impossible to pay honestly like ordinary patients—they can still bargain with the hospital, after all, so many "consumers" under their banner spend a year There are so many visits to a certain hospital, and finally their insurance company is also a big "customer" of the hospital!

So, after the insurance company bargained with the hospital.The price they pay is not really the medical sticker price!And doing so will result in false medical prices. As long as ordinary people spend a certain amount of money on commercial insurance, they can use very expensive medicines and medical services, but in fact these medicines and these medical services are not so expensive. Who suffers from such a result?Suffer the poor, especially those without health insurance!If a person does not have medical insurance in the United States, his life will be very sad!

So after Spielberg saw the plot in "The Days of Leaving Lei Feng", the first thing he thought of was that the old man had no medical insurance, and after hearing Jia Hongjian say that there was indeed no medical insurance in the countryside.He understood it at once-if the old man admitted that it wasn't that Joe who hit him.Then he can't catch the real criminal, and he may have to pay for the huge medical expenses in the end, which must be quite stressful for him.On the other hand, if he falsely accused Joe.Then his own loss must be transferable.And Joe suffered an injustice.But relatively speaking.Joe can afford the money again...

So in the end, this matter became a situation similar to a moral paradox.Ordinary people may think of this and criticize the old man or something.But Spielberg didn't. At this time, he was thinking about this story with great interest, and he suddenly found that this story was very interesting!

"This story is really good. I have to say that there are so many good stories in your country. My previous "Saving Private Ryan" was inspired by a story that Hung Chien told me. The plot we are seeing now , gave me the urge to make a movie again..." Spielberg said with a smile.

"Make a movie?" Ye Jing was stunned for a moment, but Jia Hongjian responded quickly and asked directly, "Do you want to make a story like a rescued person who is rescued by a rascal and a prisoner?" "Yes! Hung-chien, it seems that you also have a talent for making movies!" Spielberg said pleasantly, "However, it is not enough for such a story to be directly put on the Hollywood screen, we need to add more dramatic content... ..."

Just when the old man was talking about this, Jia Hongjian suddenly interjected, "For example, put the scene in the morning rush hour. During that rush hour, a bus or something arrives at the station." Then everyone hurried down to go to work. At this time, an old lady fell down. Her hip bone was broken. Then a young man took her to the hospital. The old lady said that the young man hit her. The young man immediately felt wronged, and even went to the media to appeal for his innocence, but no witnesses could be found to prove who did the collision. Finally, the court pronounced...it was the young man who hit him, and then the society was in an uproar, and the media slammed Criticism... But in the end, no one knows, the real situation is that the young man bumped into it..."

Spielberg was stunned!He never expected that Jia Hongjian would actually come up with such a dramatic reversal in such a short period of time!This is comparable to the structure of O'Henry's novels - O'Henry, the author of "The Police and the Hymn", likes to make this kind of big ending when the plot is reversed. I went to the prison to eat free food, but no matter how bad I was, I was not caught.In the end, the protagonist felt that he should have received a revelation from heaven—don't keep thinking about going to prison, but live a good life.As a result, when he was thinking this way, a policeman came to check him, thought he was a homeless man, and then took him to prison...

Isn't Jia Hongjian's story structure very similar to O'Henry's?It is a kind of intentional misleading of the readers in the first 90% of the range, and only in the last 10% of the time, the misleading is resolved, which makes people feel like a big reversal!This design is quite delicate!Even Spielberg felt a little itchy, and couldn't help but want to make such a fun movie to show off!

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By the way, according to the news, among the shipments of iphone5c, the shipment of yellow is the largest, and it has already reached 100 million units a day.But there is a doubt about the orange, isn't the yellow one a banana?It's strange to have a bitten apple printed on the yellow back shell, it should be printed with a bitten banana! (To be continued..)