At this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, one film won eight nominations in one go, and was praised by the audience as "the biggest dark horse of Hong Kong films this year".
The cost is only 3 million, the shooting took only 18 days, some people say that it is the Hong Kong version of "Jin Zhiying born in 82 years", and some people say that it is the Hong Kong version of "Marriage Story".
In short, it focuses on the topic of marriage between men and women, and also unveils the unbearable ones in the life of husband and wife.
The name of the movie is "Golden Capital".
The film's director, Huang Qilin, transformed from a screenwriter, which is her film debut.
The heroine Deng Lixin, who changed the image of the pure and lovely public lover before, starred in a woman Who was silent and quiet on the surface, but in fact, the undercurrent was surging and was not willing to be bound.
Waldo refers to the Gemdo Building located on Prince Edward Station in Hong Kong.
Here is the famous "one-stop wedding" shopping mall, from the wedding planning, to the selection of happy posts, to the wedding dress and so on, everything is available.
Huang Qilin once talked about the creative inspiration in an interview:
"When I was a child, I thought it was very dreamy, and I thought about which dress I would wear if I got married when I grew up, but when I reached the marriageable age and accompanied my friends who wanted to get married to visit the Jindu Mall, she found that the process of getting married was actually very troublesome, there were many practical problems, not as simple as she thought before." 」
Just as not many young people are willing to visit the Waldo Building today, people have different views on "marriage".
As the poster suggests: the word "囍" was originally composed of four "bitter" characters.
Zhang Lifang, a girl with a straight face, works in a wedding dress shop in Jindu.
Unlike the beautiful depiction of the wedding dress shop in general film and television works, the scenes that appear here are not very beautiful.
For example, when a girl tries on a white wedding dress and wants to try the pearl color again, the old aunt next to her opens her mouth: "Wearing white means that the bride is a virgin; wearing pearl color is not." ”
Li Fang is also old enough to wear a wedding dress to get married, and her boyfriend is Edward, the owner of a wedding photography shop in Jindu.
Two people have experienced a full seven years of love run, the finish line is in front, and the prison door of marriage has been vaguely opened.
Li Fang, as for her, is a relatively quiet girl, she is not very good at rejecting others, and her personality is a little weak.
For example, she stood in front of the turtle shop and said to the boss, "Your turtle is the other way around."
The boss thought she was going to buy it, and immediately took a turtle and put it on her.
Li Fang saw the situation, muttered two sentences, and did not refute it, and could only spend money to buy a turtle that she did not want originally.
Edward, on the other hand, is a person with a strong desire to control.
How strong is it?
The collar of the girlfriend's dress was slightly wider, and the shoulder straps would be exposed if they were not noticed, so he repeatedly used his hands to help her pull the collar up.
If only this one is still quite warm, but this man's desire to control is terrifying.
Casually flip through the girlfriend's mobile phone, secretly open the girlfriend's mobile phone positioning, a phone call and a message did not return in time, then it began to bombard all kinds of wild bombing, and even threw away her hot pants without Li Fang's consent...
This and this, run!
What's even more terrifying is that Edward is still a mommy boy, and he has to take care of everything.
Can't buy a house, where to buy a house, what is in the refrigerator at home, how to paste the words when you get married, what clothes to wear when you get married...
The home of her son and daughter-in-law, she wanted to go in, without saying hello at all.
For example, regarding whether to hold a banquet at the wedding, Li Fang said at the beginning that she wanted to travel and get married, and Edward's mother agreed.
But gradually, things tend to move from setting up a table of wine, to inviting many people, to picking wedding dresses... Isn't this still a banquet?
In the back, Edward's mother threw away her turtle without even Li Fang's consent, on the grounds that "Mr. Feng Shui said that the south side is a fire, you can't put the turtle, let it go, my son's health will be bad." ”
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The most terrifying thing is that mother and son have no sense of boundaries at all.
The bank account was jointly signed, Edward's check was handed over to his mother for safekeeping, and the man could not even get out of the checkbook during the quarrel.
But such a man seems to have eaten Li Fang.
At that elaborate marriage proposal, he took the elevator "down from the sky," dressed in a suit, holding flowers, and holding a ring.
He didn't even ask Li Fang if she wanted to marry him, so he put the ring on her finger.
At this time, the crowd of onlookers were laughing, clapping and coaxing, but the expression on Li Fang's face was twisted as if she had swallowed a dead mouse.
When Li Fang first bought the turtle, Edward said, "You (bought the turtle) and managed to trap it from one tank to another." ”
Li Fang is the turtle, and Edward is the glass jar.
In this love, Li Fang is struggling in the invisible jar.
Fish tank-like small house, the sound of decoration can be heard clearly, quarrels will immediately attract neighbors, pull a will be full of incense...
The boyfriend's mother comes whenever he wants, and the boyfriend controls himself if he wants to.
All of this made Li Fang breathless.
Here Edward and his mother urged to get married, and Li Fang had to worry about one thing: ten years ago, in order to move out of her home and live alone, she found a mainlander to fake marriage.
In this way, she can help the other party get a Hong Kong identity card, and she can also get a reward of 100,000 yuan.
Ten years have passed, the intermediary has been arrested, the "fake husband" cannot be found, the marriage cannot be separated, and it is about to be revealed.
Dramatically, at this time, Li Fang's mainland "husband" Yang Shuwei suddenly appeared.
This time, as long as Li Fang helped him get a Hong Kong one-way permit, he immediately divorced her and let her marry her boyfriend.
Yang Shuwei, although he is a fake husband", changed Li Fang's life.
He longed for freedom, and used to apply for a Hong Kong identity card for the convenience of future travel.
He added that mainlanders were able to squat on the ground on their heels because "we evolved from a flightless bird that yearns for freedom." ”
It was also he who kept telling Li Fang that her boyfriend was a madman, that when he got married, there was no freedom, and only stupid people would rush to get married...
But in the end, Yang Shuwei, who longed for freedom, squatted with milk powder in packs of packages, gave up the one-way permit, and quickly divorced Li Fang.
It's all because his girlfriend is pregnant and he's married.
How ironic!
Yang Shuwei chose to enter marriage, but Zhang Lifang suddenly began to wake up.
As the wedding date draws closer, Li Fang becomes more and more aware that Edward is not suitable for herself, and she finally resists and rejects the feelings that seem to be in a fish tank.
She hissed and said to Edward:
I don't want to be stuck in Jindu for the rest of my life
I don't want your mother to tell me to do things
I don't want you to always say something clever about me
I don't like it when you check my phone
I don't like it when you send crazy messages bombarding me
I don't like it when you care what I wear
......
When Zhang Lifang questioned Yang Shuwei's inconsistent behavior, he tried to defend himself: "We are all monkeys evolved, not birds evolved, is there freedom without marriage?" What do you want to do? So where do you want to go? ”
"Is there freedom without marriage?"
This is What Yang Shuwei asked Zhang Lifang, what the director wanted to ask the public, and it is also the title of "Jindu".
"Jindu" ostensibly tells about marriage, but in fact, by telling a story about choice, it unveils the most unbearable side of couples' lives after irrational marriage.
In fact, whether in the film or in real life, most people enter marriage just to make choices with the current and live together.
"Everyone else is like this" "It's time to get married" "Parents are in a hurry"......
Public opinion has been exporting marital anxiety, but more and more young people are beginning to learn not to compromise.
The development of science and technology in today's society can provide a basic guarantee for living alone, marriage should not be to complete the task of the elders, and it should not be to find a nanny who serves to eat and drink Lasa, but I want to live with you, we are very happy together.
Just like the Japanese marriage company advertisement that speaks to the hearts of countless young people: In this era when you can be happy without marriage, I choose to marry you.
Of course, the film does not advocate that everyone should not get married, but wants to let the audience think calmly before making a decision.
It is important not to be pushed by others, but to think clearly before leaving. In this way, whether you are married or not, you can live your life well.
Only in a social environment that no longer judges others by "whether to marry and have children" can young people truly understand the meaning of married life.
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