If you like to walk into the cinema on weekends; if you like to browse the public number that suits your taste in your spare time... So these days, more or less have heard about the movie "Love Myth".
When it comes to domestic romance films, what do you think of? Those years of missed heavy rain? Those decisions that betrayed the world? Or a meteor that streaks across the sky?
When it comes to domestic middle-aged romance films, what do you think? A romance film dressed up in the workplace and continuing to overbear the Mary Sue kernel? Three views of the five senses take off, confusing drama?
If you only take a second to glance at the name "Love Myth", you probably don't have the desire to buy tickets. Love, myth, these two words superimposed together always make people feel afraid that it is not what Cupid's arrow is a strange nonsense comedy movie. But if you take another look at the cast list, the names of Xu Zheng, Ma Yili, Wu Yue and Ni Hongjie immediately make people interested, thinking that the films of these leading actors are worthy of the ticket price.
I printed out a paper movie ticket from the automatic ticket machine and found my corresponding position in the faint light. The lights go out and the drama comes out.
We are not all native Shanghai girls who are soaked in the water, nor are we necessarily women who have stepped into marriage, so it is difficult to say that there will be resonance when we are in the field to watch a middle-aged middle-aged emotional group drama that occurs in Shanghai. But in the film, the bushes of greenery on Wukang Road, the coffee shops and grocery stores at the end of the alley... I still can't help but want to tell the story of "Love Myth" from my own point of view.
As Ma Yili said, there is no such thing as middle-aged love, it is the love of adults.
"Love Myth" is actually not related to mythology. At sunset, the skyscrapers along the Huangpu River become far from a dim intercity line, and nearby are "elderly" lane houses, so the elements of such a fragmentation do not seem real, but in Shanghai, a city with a special historical trajectory, they are fused together, and the stories of all Shanghainese and foreigners are blended together.
The protagonist of the film is Xu Zheng, who plays a middle-aged divorced man Lao Bai, who likes food, painting, drama, poetry, and calls himself a "miscellaneous family".
He and Wu Yue's ex-wife Bei Bei have a son who is in his youth and likes to make up, and Lao Bai's first marriage ended in failure because Bei Bei made a mistake that men all over the world make.
Many years later, Lao Bai finally regains his confidence and begins to pursue Miss Li (Ma Yili), who lives in Shanghai with a mixed-race daughter after divorcing from the British.
However, in Lao Bai's painting class, gloria, a student played by Ni Hongjie, pursues him feverishly, and with the label of "her husband is missing" as a rich woman, she adds weight to the madness of this emotional drama.
Love, divorce, and even one night stand are not a new topic in today's emotional dramas, but the most surprising thing about the film is that although Lao Bai occupies enough roles as the male protagonist, the audience can fully feel that this is a rare "equal rights for men and women" film.
In this film, women are no longer the "other" portrayed in Beauvoir's pen, and women can finally get rid of being stared at, defined, and truly told in the story.
Zhang Ailing wrote in "Red Roses and White Roses":
"Maybe every man has had two women like this, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red changed a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, white or the bright moonlight in front of the bed; married to a white rose, the white is a grain of rice stuck to the clothes, but the red is the cinnabar mole on the heart. ”
In "Love Myth", the highly saturated rose red projection is projected on the white wall of the gallery, where Miss Li and Gloria sit face to face, and on the wall, the shadow of the old white stands in the middle. These two women who had spent a night with Lao Bai were placed in the center of the picture, and Lao Bai was really startled.
However, the two sisters looked at each other and smiled, and asked Lao Bai domineeringly, "Is this place enough for you to hold a painting exhibition?" ”
Lao Bai was surprised and immediately began to find words to maintain his self-esteem as a man, and the exhibition that he had no money and no place to almost go bankrupt was easily handled by Miss Li and the rich woman Gloria, who were engaged in advertising planning.
Audiences who have been cultivated by domestic idol dramas for many years are afraid that the next second will be a drama of two women competing for a man and pulling their heads.
Who knows, Ni Hongjie performed with a thousand styles - after a night, Gloria, who would not say goodbye with a trace of emotion, asked Lao Bai: "Is it in the eyes of men, especially in film and television dramas, there are only two kinds of women?" "One is so bad that men can't control it, and the other is as good as his mother."
This asked Lao Bai, but also asked all the audience in front of the screen. What are men in the story? He is a hero who strategizes in the history books, a genius who has come back to life in the clouds and rain in the business war, and a prodigal son who is flowing and fragile in romantic stories...
But we rarely, and it is difficult to understand, a real plump female character in film and television dramas. She must be virtuous and just right, not like Bei Bei, enjoying the care of her husband but making the mistake of cheating; she must be gentle and just right, not like Miss Li, who is fierce in the workplace but cannot handle family affairs well; she must be reserved enough, and she cannot squander money and vow to dump a hundred men like Gloria.
Anyway, women can't be too strong, men can't control it is not good, women can't be too widowed, and men feel bored and not good.
Netizens commented that women, as the gazed and tamed others, put aside the perspective of pleasing men, and have no idea how to give the word "beauty" a completely feminine definition.
Lao Bai said in the film, "I apologize to you on behalf of all Chinese male directors. ”
What is more meaningful is that this apology comes from the exquisite design of Shao Yihui, the post-90s female director of this film. She is a Taiyuan girl who graduated from the Literature Department of the Beijing Film Academy, sold e-cigarettes, liked Wang Xiaobo with a high probability, rejected many online dramas and still has been writing novels, and her life is somewhat embarrassing. The reason why she can humor Chinese male directors fiercely is that she was appreciated by Ma Yili at the film festival.
Unmarried women do not have to worry about improving themselves, constantly anxious about their own inadequacies; women after divorce are not abandoned wives or remarry rich and handsome according to the Mary Sue plot...
Women, no longer the incomplete circle in the metaphor, can find the right person to be perfect. What makes people perfect is never love, but their own independence and the sea and the sky.
"A woman's life without children is incomplete."
"It's incomplete for a woman not to make 1 million in her life."