If you want to watch a movie with someone you like on New Year's Day, then I would definitely recommend you to watch "Love Myth".
This movie, which was released at the end of the year and rarely paid attention to before, became a dark horse that could not be tied up as soon as it was released, and the Douban score was 8.1, and now it has risen to 8.3. Many netizens brushed two or three or even four brushes, and many stars such as Yang Mi, Huang Bo, and Zhang Yi were also forwarding support.
It is worth mentioning that this acclaimed film is not from the hands of a big director, but the debut of a new director Shao Yihui. The year before her proposal "Love Myth" was selected for First Venture Capital, the judges described her as "less than a page of story outline to present a different texture", as the final judge Ma Yili decided to participate on the spot, and later the script was seen by Xu Zheng, he also decided to act as a producer and participate in the performance, and then Wu Yue and Ni Hongjie joined.
As the title suggests, "Love Myth" is about love, but it is completely different from the familiar romantic comedies of the past. It has neither the love of "the prince and the princess will live happily ever after" nor the myth that "the person I love will step on the colorful clouds to pick me up." There is only a group of middle-aged people who are half-broken about the red dust, living seriously in the cracks of life, while trying to meet love and understand love. Those sincere, pyrotechnic, and accessible loves are thus infinitely resonated.
Xu Zheng plays the reliable painter teacher Lao Bai in the film, Ni Hongjie plays his student Gloria, Ma Yili plays his favorite date Miss Li, and Wu Yue plays his long-divorced ex-wife Bei Bei.
At first glance, it is the story of three women surrounding a man, but in fact, if you look closely, you can understand that the puppet line of this game is in the hands of three women. They are no longer passive parties waiting for men and love to be rescued, but free-spirited people who are free in the relationship between men and women.
Miss Li, played by Ma Yili, is a typical white-collar worker in the workplace at a glance, with a small career, exquisite appearance, and a mixed-race daughter who is smart and cute; she retains a touch of literature and art in her heart, but she has a kind of single-minded and straight-forward stability for men, and leaves after sleeping; behind the shrewd and decent measure, she still retains the courage and sincerity of a lover.
The man who was "single-handedly" slept by Miss Li was Lao Bai. Sitting in a small Western-style building in a middle-aged literary and artistic age, there is no great ambition, but there are a bunch of small interests in life: the most important thing is three meals a day, roadside coffee, and two sips with old friends. Usually teach people to draw, students learn casually, teachers draw at will, the important thing is that everyone is happy.
So Lao Bai stalled Gloria, a student with bright eyebrows, daring to love and hate, rich and idle. I don't know how to learn the painting, and after three rounds of drinking, I put the teacher to sleep first. After sleeping, he found a proper way to transfer a sum of money to Lao Bai, waving his hand without leaving a cloud.
On the other hand, her ex-wife Bei Bei looked at her coldly, which was worse than Miss Li, who fell asleep straight to sleep and then walked away ruthlessly, and Gloria, who transferred money after sleeping. Talking about the reasons for her divorce from Lao Bai, she said coldly: "I just made the mistake that men all over the world make." The audience burst into laughter.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the departure from the traditional clichéd love narrative that the real and unique female characters have emerged. Just like every woman you and I witness in reality, use wisdom and life to turn dry into jade.
"Today's male directors shoot women, there are only two kinds, one is a woman with a variety of styles, and the other is a woman who is good everywhere and is dead set on the male protagonist."
If this film must choose a central golden sentence, it must be this dialogue between Gloria and Miss Li in the art museum. Two women who seemed to be lovers sat down face to face, swords in the middle of a sharp turn, and slapped the male perspective with a slap. So much so that Lao Bai could only come out and bow and apologize in place of the male director.
In the traditional film shaping, female characters are not delicate and pure weak, waiting to be saved by love and men; they are big heroines whose eyeliner and personality are blackened together. Jumping between the little white flower and the black mandala repeatedly; or for a man to turn against each other, thus opening the way for female characters to tear their heads.
Surprisingly, this old-fashioned bridge section is hidden far away from "Love Myth". For example, Miss Li and Gloria, originally thought that they would tear each other apart, but they did not expect that the two would go to the drama in a harmonious manner, and after watching it, they also solved the problem of the venue of the old White Art Exhibition. The café of the old white painting exhibition was raised from the lane restaurant to the Bund No. 18 Gallery. People can't help but want to sigh: when women are strong, there is nothing for men.
Back to the highlight group scene at the beginning of the film, almost everyone who has seen it has received rave reviews.
A discussion of "what it takes for a woman to be complete in her life".
Bebe said: "It is incomplete for a woman to have no children in this life. ”
Gloria countered: "This is a deception, and I can make it up." A woman who has not lived for herself in this life is incomplete. ”
Miss Li took the opportunity to answer: "A woman has not earned a million in her life, which is incomplete. ”
Finally, Lao Bai came out and played the round field: "A woman who has not rebelled is incomplete." ”
Perhaps this sentence of the old white points to the essence. For women who have been imprisoned for too long, the most important thing is to break the rules and regulations first, jump out of the shackles to see the world, and meet a better self in the vast world.
Ni Hongjie, who plays Gloria, has previously called for more opportunities for actresses. And "Love Myth" not only gives actresses the opportunity, but also provides new ideas for the expression and creation of many female characters. In the interview of "Positive Connection", Ni Hongjie said: "The director is really a modern woman, and the post-90s generation has given us a lot of new thinking logic. It makes sense, why should I follow the path taken by those in front of me, why can't I take my own path. ”
This is probably one of the wonderful things about this movie, through the shaping of the characters, we can see a different gender rights relationship. This not only broadens the imagination of the film and the creators, but may also allow the audience in front of the screen to get different inspirations. As director Shao Yihui said in an interview, she made "Love Myth" to tell everyone that women can try to understand men, and men can also try to understand women.
"No matter how old you are, long live love" is the copywriting in the promotional poster of "Love Myth". In a way, this sentence is indeed very much in line with the spirit that this film wants to convey.
"Love Myth" rarely pays attention to the emotional world of middle-aged people. For a long time, most of the middle-aged people in the screen image have appeared as parents in family dramas, and they are diligent and earnest every day just so that their children can get ahead as soon as possible. Over time, people have the illusion that after the age of 40, the middle-aged people on the screen have no hormones and no love, but they have a chicken feather life and divorce agreement. However, the human pursuit of love does not lose with collagen, and we cannot judge a person because he loses the tight jaw line and he loses the right to pursue love.
In the film, these divorced middle-aged people are still looking for hearts after experiencing marriage, divorce, and being hurt by love. Just like many ordinary people around me, they sincerely and enthusiastically pursue the romance in life. Perhaps for them, for us, for countless ordinary people, there is no lofty ideal in life, all we can do is seize every moment and cherish the warmth and heartbeat that are wrapped in daily trivialities. Just like the shoemaker in the film who sits on the street to mend his shoes and insists on leaving himself three minutes of coffee time no matter how busy he is, the days are ordinary, but as long as there is a heart, romance can be encountered everywhere.
Romain Rolland said: There is only one kind of heroism in this world, that is, after recognizing the truth of life, I still love it. And "Love Myth" tells us that there is also a kind of heroism in the life of adults, that is, after seeing each other's mutilated souls and recognizing the chicken feathers of life, they are still willing to embrace each other and open up a warm and loving way forward with exuberant vitality.
Young people believe in fairy tales, while middle-aged people who have experienced the world believe in their own heroism.
Edit: Sibe
Written by: Cher
Fine Arts: Roland