More than twenty years ago, there was a sensational childhood shadow TV series " Don't Talk to Strangers ".
This domestic drama has set a precedent for paying attention to domestic violence themes, especially the textbook-like acting skills of An Jia and created by Feng Yuanzheng and have become a nightmare for countless teenagers!
not only domestic violence, but also peeks at his wife's daily life and prevents her from contacting the outside world. His crazy behavior makes people chill.
Therefore, although this drama has been around for more than 20 years, it is still regarded by many viewers as Children's shadow .
But in fact, film and television dramas that reflect domestic violence themes are not uncommon in the Chinese film and television industry.
As early as 1993, Hong Kong director Zhong Shaoxiong made a strange case film "Love of Abuse". The film invited the goddess Li Meifeng, a girl from Hong Kong, to break through the drama and subvert the role. The plot can be called "scaling" that has been increased ten times the "scaling" has been increased.
This issue of " Forgotten Cult Movie ", let's take you to learn about this movie 29 years ago -
"Love of Abuse"
Love to Kill
To talk about this movie, we have to start with its starring and behind-the-scenes producer, the famous Hong Kong actor Lee Xiuxian .
Lee Xiuxian joined Shaw Brothers as an actor in the 1970s. With his active and agile skills, he was appreciated by the great director Zhang Che and was appointed as the male lead in his work. In the mid-to-late 1970s, he was highly praised by Shaw Brothers and starred in many leading actors in movies, such as "China Superman" and " Orangutan King ", which had a lot of investment special films, but these failed to break the show.
In order to seek career breakthroughs, in the late 1970s, Li Xiuxian began to actively participate in behind-the-scenes work, learning behind-the-scenes work such as director, editing, dubbing, etc., and opened an independent producer company in 1978. During this period, I made many attempts and finally took police and gangster films as the positioning.
1984, Lee Xiuxian wrote, directed and acted in the movie " Public servant ", and won the double best actor in the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards. Since then, Lee Xiuxian's image as a police detective has gradually been frozen. In 1986, Lee Xiuxian founded Universal Film and began to specialize in shooting various police and gangster action films. In the 1988 " Pili Pioneer ", Lee Xiuxian discovered the acting talent of Stephen Chow, and thus became a mentor on the road to performing arts in Stephen Chow.
Lee Xiuxian's universal film industry was originally backed by Princess Jin, but after entering the 1990s, the box office was mediocre. The only top-notch movie was based on Stephen Chow who became popular and filmed comedy films such as " Love Saint " and " The Heir of the Dragon ". At that time, when the inspection was released, Li Xiuxian followed the trend and added elements of curiosity and exploitation to the police and gangster films he was best at, and specifically filmed various strange cases.
The transformational work " Lamb Doctor " sold 12 million Hong Kong dollars. Lee Xiuxian then took Universal Film and switched to Liandeng Investment Company, a subsidiary of Taiwanese film company Yang Dengkui , and started filming "Eight Immortals Hotel" and sold 15 million Hong Kong dollars again. After tasting the sweetness, Lee Xiuxian continued to release the third crazy film, which was this "Love of Abuse".
The starring roles of the film are all from "Eight Immortals Hotel". Lee Soo-hyun still plays the detective of the Crime Squad in the movie, Anthony Wong still plays the cruel and crazy villain, and the role settings of Li Huayue are basically unchanged, and he still has not escaped the villain's abuse.
The heroine of the movie is the actress who was born in Miss Hong Kong Li Meifeng . Li Meifeng participated in the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant in 1987 and won the honors of " Miss Hong Kong runner-up" and "Miss Photographing Miss" in 1987, and has since entered the entertainment industry. By the way, there is also Qiu Shuzhen , but Qiu Shuzhen withdrew from the competition halfway.
Li Meifeng has developed in the film industry in a mediocre way. Although she is called the "electric beauty" by the media, she can only play some vase roles in the movie. She leaves a little impression on people: the Nine-tailed Fox in " Immortal " and Wen Yi in "New Blood Sword".
At that time, the popular actress in the Hong Kong entertainment industry transformed. Seeing that Ye Yuqing won 30 million box office in one month, Li Meifeng also decided to break through her image and subvert the role of "Love of Abuse". Unfortunately, after the release of this film, the box office and reputation were both bad, which made Li Meifeng fall into the forefront of public opinion and could only announce her withdrawal from the entertainment industry.
Let’s tell the story again, it can be summed up in one sentence:
The desperate revenge of a wife living in the shadow of domestic violence.
Huang Senwei is a successful lawyer, he also has a beautiful and beautiful wife Ayu (played by Li Meifeng) . The two have a son together. In front of outsiders, Huang Senwei is polite and loves his wife very much, but in fact, Huang Senwei is an absolute sadist in private.
Honey Huang Senwei is extremely jealous and has an extremely paranoid desire to control his wife Ayu. Therefore, as long as any man approaches his wife Ayu, even if just a greeting will trigger Huang Senwei's revenge.
One day, Huang Senwei took his wife Ayu to have dinner at the food stall. A diner glanced at Ayu a few times. After the diner left, Huang Senwei hid in the abortion on the street and injured the man with a fork.
Not only that, Huang Senwei also has a perverted hobby. He was at home with his wife at night, and his wife Ayu was unable to bear the torture and almost suffocated to death. Ayu struggled desperately before escaping from the house and braved the wind and rain to the street.
As a result, Huang Senwei chased out and beat his wife in the street. It happened that the detective of the serious crime team, xiong sir (played by Li Xiuxian) drove by, held the fight, and beat Huang Senwei, a scumbag husband who used domestic violence, and took Ayu to the police station.
Huang Senwei was taken to the hospital after being injured and threatened to accuse Xiong Sir. He implicated Xiong Sir and was scolded by his boss and angrily scolded him for meddling in other people's business.
Although Ayu was grateful to Xiong Sir for saving her, she did not dare to resist her husband in person. It was just because her mother was sick and lived in a nursing home. She had to rely on special medicines given by Huang Senwei through relationships to treat and relieve pain. As a result, Ayu could only swallow her anger and silently endured Huang Senwei's abuse.
painful Ayu wanted to commit suicide, but was rescued by Xiong Sir. He was kind-hearted and wanted to help Ayu, so he let Ayu take the child with him and temporarily live in Xiong Sir's girlfriend Jenny (played by Li Huayue) 's home. During
, Xiong Sir tried to ask whether Ayu had encountered difficulties, but Ayu dared not speak out about her husband's evil deeds.
Because Ayu was deeply influenced by the old-fashioned family education, she thought she should take care of her husband and children after getting married, and she was even more afraid that she would not be able to live after leaving her husband. In addition, her mother was controlled by her husband, so she has been tolerant.
After his wife Ayu ran away from home, Huang Senwei once went to the police station to ask Xiong Sir, but Xiong Sir refused to reveal Ayu's whereabouts.
When Ayu moved into Xiong Sir's house, Xiong Sir couldn't help but feel good about the beautiful and gentle Ayu, and couldn't help but think about it. At this moment, Xiong Sir's real girlfriend Jenny returned home and couldn't help feeling jealous of Ayu who was at home.
However, Huang Senwei followed Ayu who came to the hospital to take care of his mother and found that his wife and Xiong Sir were walking together. Huang Senwei thus determined that his wife had cheated, which was an unforgivable shame for him.
It turned out that when Huang Senwei was young, he witnessed his father killing his husband's mother who was stealing the man. Afterwards, his father wanted to pull Huang Senwei to hang himself together, but Huang Senwei survived by chance. However, the tragedy of his father's murder left a huge psychological shadow on him.
From then on, Huang Senwei became paranoid and crazy, and he would never allow his wife to have an affair with others.
When he found out that his wife Ayu was protected by Xiong Sir, Huang Senwei quietly went to the hospital to take Ayu's mother away, and then threatened Ayu to see him. For the sake of his mother, Ayu had to bow his head and admit his mistake. As a result, Huang Senwei became more and more serious and used all kinds of inhuman torture to take revenge on his wife.
A Yu had to cooperate with her husband, but when her husband recalled her father's shadow, he suddenly lost control of his emotions and actually hung A Yu on the beam of the house.
Xiong Sir was worried that Ayu would be taken away by her husband, so he took the initiative to question Huang Senwei. However, Huang Senwei deliberately angered Xiong Sir and lured him into a trap to beat him in public, resulting in Xiong Sir being punished by the discipline department and was suspended.
After the incident, Huang Senwei found Xiong Sir's girlfriend's home and planned to force his son away.
Xiong Sir's girlfriend Jenny wanted to stop it, but was retaliated by Huang Senwei, which led to Jenny being abused by Huang Senwei and eventually became a vegetative person.
At this time, Huang Senwei was already infatuated. He took his girlfriend Ayu, his son and Ayu's mother to an abandoned villa in the suburbs, intending to execute all his family like his father after his birthday.
In order to delay time and fight for the opportunity to save himself, Ayu had to tempt her husband. When Huang Senwei was unable to control his feelings, he defeated him with a wooden stick. After that, Ayu called Xiong Sir in panic and released his ties for his son and mother.
Unfortunately, Huang Senwei quickly woke up and killed Ayu's mother frantically, and then began to chase Ayu and his son.
After a villa battle royale, Ayu lured her husband Huang Senwei to the broken glass on the window and finally killed her husband.
At this time, Xiong Sir took the lead in rushing to the villa. After witnessing the crime scene, Xiong Sir took the initiative to help Ayu cover up and wanted to help her escape from her crime.
But facing the tragic situation of family destruction, Ayu could only cry helplessly...
The story of the movie ends here.
After the release of the film "Love of Abuse", the box office only received HK$2.9 million, far lower than the "Doctor of the Lamb" and "Eight Immortals Hotel" produced by Lee Xiuxian before . The main reason is that this film has a theme of resisting domestic violence to make gimmicks, but the content of the film itself is not very good, and both the production and the story are mediocre. Zhong Shaoxiong, the director of the
film, is a typical third-rate director. He has been involved in the low-cost commercial film since he entered the industry. He has been involved in various types, but none of them has achieved results. The slightly better one is the ghost film. He once made a low-cost B-level horror film " Ghosts Please Watch The Drama ". In recent years, he has mainly filmed TV series.
The producer of this film is the famous "Beast Director" in the Hong Kong film industry Huang Zhiqiang . He is famous for his bold and vigorous filming. This film undoubtedly inherits the style of Huang Zhiqiang's films. He is not shy about violent exploitation scenes. The plot is suppressed and dark, and the character is extremely distorted, which makes a very excessive display and portrayal of the trauma of domestic violence.
One of the highlights of the video is naturally the subverting image Li Meifeng . He changed the noble and gorgeous image of Miss Hong Kong, and resolutely rushed to Ye Yuqing's same fate. Hong Kong media reported that in order to make this film, Li Meifeng did not hesitate to play some outstanding roles, but she regretted it afterwards. She tried every means to prevent those scenes from being exposed, and the film was deleted and released in the theater.
Unfortunately, Li Meifeng's subverted performance did not get any reward, but instead caused Li Meifeng to fall into public opinion controversy and her career suffered a great setback. A few years later, Li Meifeng married Taiwanese businessman Zheng Xiangzhong and used her financial resources to buy back the negative film she bought back at a high price from the production company .
Watch this movie now, the greatest value may be to explore and reveal the issue of domestic violence in Hong Kong society. In the 16 years after the film was released, Ann Hui, with the support of Wang Jing, invested in the film " Days of Water Wai Night and Fog ", becoming one of the few excellent films in Hong Kong films with such themes.
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