How long can you concentrate? Is it easier to concentrate than before, or is it harder? Chen Danqing once said, "When people's attention becomes less and less, people's lives become shorter and shorter." ”
In the age of fragmentation, high concentration is a state that needs to be learned. "N times the speed" and "X minutes to see XXX" have changed the habits of a generation of people absorbing information, a new human being is being born, and an old experience is fading.
To slow down the pace of daily life and find the "slow" pace from the rush, why not try again in a more relaxed way, and use a "slow pace" movie this weekend to open 0.5 times the speed of time
No.1 We are all cannon fodder of time
"Children of jianghu"
China / Plot
The story begins in Datong, Shanxi in 2001, QiaoQiao (Zhao Tao) and Bin Bin (Liao Fan) have been in love for many years, Qiaoqiao hopes to be able to start a family with Bin Bin and live a stable life, but Bin Bin, as a local gangster, has his own lofty ambitions. In an accident, Bin Bin was secretly calculated to be in danger, and happened to take Bin Bin's secret pistol to save Bin Bin, but he was sentenced to five years in prison for illegally holding a gun.
Five years have passed in a flash, and after she was released from prison, she found that the whole world had undergone earth-shaking changes, and the only constant was her sincere feelings for Bin Bin. Qiao Qiao waded through the mountains and rivers to find Bin Bin's whereabouts, but at this time, Bin Bin had already lost his former sharp edge, and he already had a new girlfriend around him. Penniless qiaoqiao relied on his wisdom to climb and roll, and finally earned himself a piece of the world.
Reasons for recommendation
For a good movie, the stronger the sense of the times, the more it can surpass the times, because it is rooted in the people and things of that era, and those who have experienced it will understand, and those who have not experienced it can understand the appearance of that era in the future. The four seasons in the film are very clear, and between the specificity of the era and the eternity of the four seasons, this story is sure that you will understand.
No.2 See the glory days of a generation
"Lonely Taste"
Taiwan / Family
"Lonely taste" means that the restaurant only specializes in one dish and strives to make this dish the best. Many snack bars in Taiwan simply write the name of a dish and use it as their signature. In the short film "Lonely Taste", Lin Xiuying, as one of the protagonists, has a line that says: "No matter what you do, you must concentrate and be careful, so that everything will go smoothly, which is called 'Lonely Taste'." ”
The movie "Lonely Taste" begins with the death of a long-lost father, explores the emotional conflict in the family through the perspective of three generations of women, and delicately presents the life of Taiwanese women. Wu Mingxian, the first investor of "Lonely Taste", once said in an interview: "When I saw "Lonely Taste", I saw my life experience, that is, these women around me, these stories seem to happen in our family. "'Lonely Taste' tells the story of not only a single Taiwanese family, but perhaps the epitome of many families in the past era.
"Everyone has a fragile and resilient side." Xu Chengjie said. Just like "Lonely Taste" takes the Japanese title as "Weak くて強い女たち", that is, a weak and strong woman. The English title is "Little Big Women", which is about women large and small, big women have a small woman's side, and small women also have a big woman's hidden side.
No.3 Love and friendship of middle-aged women
The Story of Autumn
France / Love
"Autumn Story" is the finale of French director Eric Houmai's "Four Seasons on Earth" series. In the film, Margaret, who has been widowed for many years, lives in the countryside, takes care of a vineyard, and is estranged from her son. Her good friend Isabella, a bookseller, did not want to see Margaret die alone, so she advertised in the newspaper for marriage in her name, successfully attracting the applicant Gérard.
Meanwhile, Margaret's son Leo's girlfriend, Rossin, plans to introduce her philosophy teacher, Atien. The intricate emotional entanglement between the three women and two men is intertwined like vines during the season when the grapes are ripe.
The film maintains Houmai's usual lazy and idyllic narrative style, full of beautiful pastoral scenery in the French countryside and large lengthy, chattering and chattering dialogues. I've seen a brilliant review in the past that best describes Houmai's films: "There are no stories, there have never been stories." There is only a situation without a head and no end, with no beginning, no middle, and no end. Only life flows on the screen. ”
No.4 We have all been injured
In order to become the warm sun for each other
"Sunshine"
In this world, the fairest thing is the sun, regardless of the latitude, each place accounts for half of the time of day and darkness throughout the year... 24 hours a day, bright and warm, the sun shines.
- The movie "Sunshine"
The ordinary family of Ah Wen (Chen Yiwen) and Qin Jie (Ke Shuqin) have two sons. The rebellious youngest son Ah He (Wu Jianhe) and his friend Cai Tou (Liu Guanting) slash and injure people into the juvenile nursery, but Ah He's girlfriend Xiaoyu (Wu Dailing) comes to the house with her pregnant. Despite Ah Wen's objections, Sister Qin left Xiaoyu to take care of her. At this time, the families of the slashed people also came to Arwen for huge compensation, and Arwen couldn't stand his younger son, who always brought trouble, and pinned all his hopes on the eldest son of the gifted student, Ah Hao (Xu Guanghan), but he didn't know that the warm and kind Ah Hao also hid a secret that no one knew.
This family is a microcosm of the traditional family: the next generation looks up to the previous generation, heavy and helpless; the previous generation looks down on the next generation, full of expectations and powerlessness.
The film uses 155 minutes to patiently depict what a "home" should look like: if there is sunlight, there must be shadows, and shadows are the best proof of the existence of sunlight. No one is perfect, we all have our own dark side, but because of this, we can be each other's sun.
No.5 Every parting of life
Hope has gathered enough courage to say goodbye
"The First Parting"
China / Family
As the name suggests, this is a film about the theme of "parting". To tell the growth story of a Xinjiang Uyghur teenager Isa, in the process of growing up, experienced his mother's illness, lost language function, experienced the departure of his brother from college, experienced the farewell of his little friend Kelly, and also experienced the loss of the lamb.
In Isa and Kelly, we seem to see our own childhood: the move of the green plum bamboo horse, the transfer of schools at the same table, the disappearance of pets, the death of relatives... Like Isa and Kelly, we are also in sadness and reluctance, a little bit pushed by time to grow up...
In people's lives, gathering less and leaving more is the norm, so when they can still accompany each other, they should cherish it. The parting in the film may not contain all the partings in life, but at least it makes us more aware that the attachment at the time of farewell is not exactly the same, and each farewell is like a baptism of growth, allowing people to jump out of the inherent warm house and comfortable environment, striding forward to face a more complex, changeable and cruel world.
No.6 We warm each other
Every time there is a new feeling
Family of Thieves
Japan / Home
Literary and artistic films that talk about human nature are half about the ugliness of human nature, and half are about the warmth of human nature, and the Japanese movie "Thief Family" belongs to the latter.
The family consisted of 6 people who complained and took care of each other. Grandma Hatsue (Kiki Shirin) is the family's main source of income, with a fixed pension every month, the house of 6 people is her ex-husband's inheritance; her father Shibataji (Masaya Nakagawa) is a construction worker; mom Nobuyoshi (Sakura Ando) works at a laundromat; sister Aki (Matsuoka Mosuke) works at a custom shop; younger brother Shota (a castle juniper) does not go to school and steals something with her father to subsidize the family; and her younger sister Shuri (Miyuki Sasaki) learns to steal things with her brother.
Like a quote that Liang Wendao said:
Life is so lonely that we need to share it too much. Love is something very important that people live in the world and make us feel less lonely.
Because of this need, we are willing to take risks and make the most irrational investments in the world. So love is a very important thing that makes people become people, and almost surpasses people.
This is also one of the ideas that "Thief Family" wants to convey to everyone: love, let us become us; love, let us be more vivid; love, is also one of the meanings of our lives.
No.7 Than being loved
You need the ability to love even more
"We're All Dressing for Bill"
France / Documentary
There is an old gentleman who is a special presence in the fashion industry, he is known as the "originator of street photography", he has been pursuing fashion all his life, and the fashion industry has become meaningful because of his presence.
He is Bill Cunningham, who has been photographing passers-by on the streets of New York since 1966, and he has been doing it for decades, rain or shine. Even if he insisted on one thing for decades, his eyes were still full of light. This documentary documents bill's daily work and bill's views on fashion, and thanks to the existence of this documentary, we can walk into Bill's life again today.
Being able to do what he loves, he feels like a millionaire. "To me, fashion is like a refuge from real life, and I can't imagine my life without it. If there were no fashion in my life, it would be like human civilization did not open. ”
In contemporary society, most people may feel dissatisfied only because their desires are too big and their abilities are too small. Therefore, compared with the title of "Emperor of Street Photography", Bill's free soul of physical and mental immersion is even more precious.
When it comes to slow-paced movies, everyone's first feeling is that there is drowsiness resistance. Compared with the exciting fights, undulating plots, and decibel shouts, it seems that the narration of the long stream of thin water is not able to mobilize adrenaline. Some movies even need to be reviewed after watching them to understand the deep meaning.
The truth and cleanliness of the pictures in the film, the narrative structure in the form of documentaries, the poetic picture, the appropriate soundtrack and the switching of cameras between near and far... The slow-paced life-oriented film just enlightens us that by adding its own filter to the ordinary life, life becomes steaming, and this freshness is both in the joy of daily triviality and "poetry and far away" in the cement forest.
Starting from life and sublimating, this is perhaps the most attractive place for slow-paced movies.