＂I Am Not Pan Jinlian＂： The Story of Li Xuelian and Five Women

　 　 1905 movie network feature Li Xuelian, the heroine of the work directed by Feng Xiaogang. She is a rural woman who owns a beef bone soup shop. She and her husband Qin Yuhe divorced, but this divorce was a fake divorce, and the two had other purposes. But after this divorce, the husband no longer remarried with him, and the original purpose of the two was lost.

　 　 On the other hand, the documents in black and white turned the fake divorce they had agreed on into a real divorce in the process. The reason in Li Xuelian’s heart could not be avoided. She decided to petition, hoping to overturn the case. Who knows, this case was not overturned, but it caused more cases.

　 　 One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the case led to thousands of pictures. Although there are 28 men in the film, only Li Xuelian, played by Fan Bingbing, is a woman, but Li Xuelian in the film has a little connection with five other women invisibly.

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1. The first woman: Pan Jinlian

　 　 Obviously, the most crucial character involved in the film "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" is Pan Jinlian. Pan Jinlian is a very famous figure in history, known to everyone because of the novels "Water Margin" and "Golden Bottle Plum".

　 　 Pan Jinlian was the maidservant of a large family and married Wu Dalang, who sold cooking cakes. Wu Dalang was short and slightly wretched, while Pan Jinlian was rather beautiful and a little slutty. After several attempts to hook up with Wu Song failed, he hooked up with Ximen Qing and committed adultery. After being caught and told to Wu Dalang, Wu Dalang was kicked in the chest by Ximen Qing and fell ill in bed. Later, Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian joined forces to poison Wu Dalang.

　 　 The prototype of Pan Jinlian is different from the one in "Water Margin". Her prototype is a very virtuous wife in the Northern Song Dynasty, who keeps her duty with Wu Dalang and grows old together. However, the Pan Jinlian involved in this film is obviously the one who is married and has an affair.

　 　 More directly projected into the movie, it is the sentence that her husband Qin Yuhe said to Li Xuelian in public: "Are you Li Xuelian? Why do I think you are Pan Jinlian!" This sentence is actually a sentence for Li Xuelian at the moment. Pan Jinlian had an affair with Ximen Qing after marriage, and Qin Yuhe talked about Pan Jinlian because Li Xuelian was no longer a virgin when Li Xuelian and Qin Yuhe got married. These are two different things that have nothing to do with each other, but because Qin Yuhe’s absurd sentence is linked together. And because this sentence is said in public, and it is passed down from person to person, this sentence becomes true.

　 　 Li Xuelian wanted to prove that she was not Pan Jinlian, but only Li Xuelian because of such a sentence. But in Li Xuelian’s mind, all the sources were in the original divorce. If this was not resolved, the following series of problems would be like dominoes, all wrong.

　 　 Ten years later, Guo Tao’s Zhao Datou (also known as Zhao Jingli) and Zhang Yi’s court president Jia Mingming staged a play. Zhao Datou got Li Xuelian to avoid Li Xuelian from complaining again to Beijing. Jia Mingming helped Zhao Datou get his son’s job, and both parties benefited. Zhao Datou and Li Xuelian went to Huangshan together, and they had a relationship.

　 　 Later, Li Xuelian, who learned the truth, found out that she had been deceived and was very angry. She was angry that the hurdle in her heart could not pass, and she might become the Pan Jinlian in her husband’s mouth forever.

　 　 However, Li Xuelian and her husband had already gone through legal procedures to divorce, and at the same time that she had a relationship with Zhao Datou, she was no longer married. It was just that in Li Xuelian’s mind, the fake divorce discussed by both parties was a fake divorce, even if it was written in black and white.

　 　 Li Xuelian is a woman with a special axis. Her thinking is like the circle in the frame size of the film. It is a circle without an exit. If other people’s words cannot enter, she will never listen. She only cares about proving that she is not Pan Jinlian, and it will take more than ten years.

　 　 Unexpectedly, before she could reverse the case and prove that she was not Pan Jinlian, Qin Yuhe died, and she would forever become the Pan Jinlian in everyone’s mouth.

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