What kind of story does the movie Teahouse tell?

Teahouse is a rare classic black-and-white movie in China. It was shot by Beijing Film Studio 1982. This film is adapted from Lao She's classic drama of the same name, directed by Xie Tian and starring Yu Shizhi, Zheng Rong, Lan Tianye and Huang Zongluo. In old Beijing, the teahouse is a public center and a microcosm of China society. With a typical teahouse as the background, Lao She described the sufferings and social collapse of China in the early 20th century, and reflected the dark social background at that time from the perspective of the market.

The main plot of the movie Teahouse: The story took place in A.D. 1898, and the corrupt Qing Dynasty was crumbling. However, in a big teahouse in Beijing, Yutai Teahouse presents a scene of "prosperity". You see, those caged birds play with crickets, sell antiques and jade, and tell fortune. The escort is talking about martial arts, and the wrestler comes to make peace with the "enemy"; Master Qin, the rich man, wants to open a factory to "save the country through industry"; The waiter ran back and forth with his face in his hand, and Wang Lifa, a smart young shopkeeper, took good care of him, making ends meet and appearing prosperous.

In fact, the big teahouse in the movie is a small society. Behind this seemingly prosperous, there is a suffocating dark side: foreign goods flooded the market, the countryside went bankrupt, "five catties of white flour was replaced by a child", eunuchs wanted to marry, patriots were arrested, and even the county grandfather was burned to death by priests hanging in the church. This is the "rise" scene after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898. it

The time in the film is the early years of the Republic of China. After Yuan Shikai's death, under the instigation of imperialism, the warlords became independent, and the civil war continued year after year, making the people miserable. All the famous teahouses in Beijing are closed, and only Yutai Teahouse is ready to open after being "improved" by Wang Zhanggui's painstaking efforts. A phonograph was put in the teahouse, and the backyard became an apartment where college students lived. Social unrest worried Wang Zhanggui. The soldiers took his money and even the tablecloth ran away. The refugees were blocked at the door; Two "regulars" of the detective team blackmailed him; What makes him even more depressed is that two soldiers are going to marry a woman, and this kind of "business" actually goes to his teahouse to discuss. This is also a change made by a small society in order to adapt to the big times.

At this time, Wang Zhanggui in the teahouse was very confused. I don't know what will happen if the world continues to make trouble, and how can he survive ... Time has passed for another 30 years, and Wang Lifa has come to the end of his life, still struggling to support the old name "Yutai". After the Japanese invaders surrendered, the Kuomintang and American imperialism brought more disasters to the people: jeeps were rampant, spies colluded with reactionary society, and patriotic students and people were brutally suppressed; 17-year-old girls are forced to laugh; The rogue spy wanted to occupy his teahouse, which highlighted the attitude of the bottom of society to the changes of the times at that time.

At the end of the film, Wang Lifa was completely desperate. Before he left this world, he wanted to find some intimate people to talk about. Just then, grandpa four, who was arrested by the Qing government fifty years ago, came, and grandpa Qin also came, and finally collapsed in business. The three old people talked and laughed and exposed the cannibal society with their personal experiences. The three took out the paper money they found and marked their "funeral" in advance. They stepped back and shouted around the table, and the sad voice echoed in the air for a long time ... Finally, Wang Lifa was left alone. He picked up his belt, went into the back room, looked up at the roof, and then hanged himself-safely ending his life, which implied the story that society was like a black fog at that time, hanging over every little person all the time and eventually leading to its collapse.