Love movies are always the market demand. Especially at the end of the year, this festive atmosphere is a day, we need a good love movie. Unlike other romance films, the upcoming "Love Myth" to be released this weekend is no longer a love movie for "little couples", but focuses on the mature age people, who have a decent life and a good income, but also face the drama of "maturity crisis" and "emotional crisis".
Even if it is draped in the skin bag of "old Wenqing", it is just a diet man and woman, struggling between morality and desire... "Love Myth" brings us the freshness and pleasure that domestic love movies have not provided for a long time, and constitutes this Shanghai style men and women's picture book.
1 Wu Nong soft language Shanghai style
Every city has its own temperament. Shanghai is a blend of tradition and modernity. Also urban well, also international. Shanghai writer Zhang Ailing wrote in "In the End of Shanghainese", "Shanghainese are traditional Chinese coupled with the tempering of modern high-pressure life." The exchange of deformed products of old and new cultures may turn out to be unhealthy, but there is a strange wisdom here. ”
"Love Myth" takes Lao Bai (Xu Zheng), an art teacher who has been divorced for many years, as the entry point, and borrows the love myth of his old friend Lao Wu (Zhou Yemang) to show the emotional feelings and humanistic atmosphere in the life of Shanghai Well. In the movie, Lao Bai is an authentic Shanghainese, retired, loves to cook vegetables, has a funny conversation, and chases romantic friends Lao Wu all his life.
Miss Li (Ma Yili), who wants to chase a very "ta" with her daughter living a single life, but it is inevitable that her ex-wife Bei Bei (Wu Yue), who is very "good", and Gloria (Ni Hongjie), a very "crazy" admirer, are also "mixed" in it.
A few meals made the living room of the old white family a meeting point for everyone. Three women and two men, in the modern capital of Shanghai, with wisdom and humor, depict a variety of fireworks in the city. So, following the footage of the movie, we passed the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, passed the Wuzhong Road Vegetable Market, passed the Wuyuan Road Bungalows, passed the exquisite cafes, passed the leaves-covered streets, and also passed the Bund.
Following the footage of the movie, we follow a group of mature men and women to watch dramas, drink coffee, watch exhibitions, or cook a table of good dishes at home for a good friend, pillow the moonlight, and chat in Shanghainese for a long time. Shanghai's fireworks and the wisdom of interpersonal communication are fully displayed in the old Bai family's dinner table, and the coffee time of the little cobbler (Ning Li) and the life tips of the vegetable market are the norms of life in the city.
In order to match the Shanghai flavor in the movie, the film has also made great efforts in the selection of actors, Xu Zheng, Ma Yili, Wu Yue, Ni Hongjie to Zhou Yemang, Ning Li... Looking at the resumes of these actors, they are either authentic Shanghainese or have the experience of living and studying in Shanghai. They not only chatted in Shanghainese, but also lived in the movie in Shanghainese.
In addition to the texture of real life, the entire narrative of the film has some unhurried emotional stories, which emphasize not to strengthen the fate of the characters in a dramatic way, but to follow some trivial daily life, gossip, and then slowly weave out the different psychological activities of several characters.
2 The romance and plight of the middle class
In some ways, "The Myth of Love" is reminiscent of Woody Allen's films. They have a decent life, chatter, humor and quite romantic. Similarly, the camera is focused on the love trivia of the urban middle class and intellectuals,
But Woody Allen is looking for life, so he constantly laughs at himself, mean and nihilistic. The men and women in "Love Myth" are gentle and reserved, trying to maintain decency. They were all cultured, well-tasted intellectuals, talented, a little eccentric and a little clever, with their mouths open to Fellini and their mouths shut by Sophie Aloran. The upper can quote the scriptures to talk about the profound philosophical propositions of love and death, and the lower can talk about the relationship between men and women, and the social issues are fresh and unconventional.
Most of them are grumpy, self-deprecating and neurotic, saying something mean and witty with "book bags". The film shows the two most typical kinds of men in Shanghai, one is the old Koehler of Shanghai, one is a good man of Shanghai, and there are three different images of Shanghai women: old spirit, old independent, and old man.
The most impressive thing is that the five-person dialogue between the ex-wife, the crush, the red face and the old friend at the wrong dinner table is absolutely high-energy, which can be called the social cultivation field of modern men and women, which seems to be in the same room and is happy and harmonious, but hidden behind it is the undercurrent of "needle tip to Mai Mang". Paired with Shanghainese performances, it is very interesting. First of all, the ex-wife teased Lao Bai: "Lao Bai has been with me for more than ten years, no one has ever paid attention to it, and now it is separated, oh yo, it has become a sought-after commodity." ”
Miss Li answered: "Rush to eat." Then Miss Li, Bei Bei, and Gloria debated the topic of "how can a woman's life be complete", Lao Bai's ex-wife Bei Bei believes that "a woman has no children in this life is incomplete", Gloria, who is a rich woman, believes that "a woman has not dumped a hundred men in this life is incomplete", and Miss Li, a single mother, believes that "a woman has not earned a million incomplete in this life".
The lines like a cannon are constantly thrown out, and each person's expression, tone, and reaction can make the audience figure out the deep meaning under the sentence.
3 "Love Myth" Tribute to "Love Myth"
Regarding the title of the film "Love Myth", this title is the same as Fellini's 1969 film, but it is also Lao Wu's "love myth".
At the second five-person dinner, Lao Wu told a love story that could be called his "personal experience". Lao Wu was stationed in Europe to work for many years, and had a romantic Roman encounter with a female star, and the two once met to see Fellini's "Love Myth". "He gave her his first, and she gave him the whole of Rome." In this story that is difficult to distinguish between reality and reality, between the conversations and laughter of old friends, Lao Wu finally said "I made it up" but deep inside is an eternal gaze that lingers.
This ingenious parody makes Fellini's "Love Myth" a MacGuffin in the past in this "Love Myth".
Some people may say that the love of young people is the mainstream of the big screen. But then again, who stipulates that the mature age group is not eligible for love?
The 112-minute movie has no bitter vendetta, no broken boat, no hysteria, not even the most common chicken and dog fragments in the life of the city, some are the ups and downs in the eyes, and the words between the words shine together.
The ending subtitle rolled over, and all the audience watched Lao Bai and Miss Li's WeChat chat and smiled happily. Because everyone knows that love is coming.