The Myth of Love gives me a wonderful feeling. There were no quarrels, no misunderstandings, no hoarseness. There is no female competition when women gather, and there is no stereotype when men gather.
There is also a strong sense of urbanity + fireworks.
It feels like a trivial little thing, but it's exciting to watch.
The story mainly tells the story of two middle-aged men and three middle-aged women and their relatives and friends. The story takes place in the 21st century between the Shanghai Mansion and the Lane, where everyone communicates and speaks Shanghainese.
At first, I thought it was Xu Zheng's work, because he had loved to shoot the lively stories of Shanghai over the years, but later I found out that the director was not him.
But Xu Zheng said a very shocking sentence in the movie - I apologize to you on behalf of Chinese male directors!
This sentence makes him really super subtle.
Xu Zheng also said - women are men's colleges, ah I live to learn from old age, and strive for progress
Yes, this is a film with a strong female perspective, director Shao Yihui
When I saw the name, I thought it was a male director, but after watching the movie, I thought: Male directors should not be able to make such a movie.
Sure enough, Shao Yihui is a female director.
Not only did she direct the film, but she also wrote the script.
She said, "In the past screen, there were too many sad women, holy women, scorpion women and troublesome women, and I wanted women to no longer be objects of gaze, no longer symbols in the traditional male imagination." ”
She did it, and she not only molded women well, but also did not ignore men.
The following contains spoilers
Lao Bai is a middle-aged man, his wife is divorced, his son is an adult, and he lives in a small two-story building with a pavilion and a small courtyard. The daily life is very leisurely, cooking, buying vegetables, collecting rent, and teaching people nearby to draw in his own courtyard.
It's really chic.
Recently he was on a blind date with a single Miss Lee. Miss Li is a 40+ woman with very rich literary and artistic cells, and the drama that Lao Bai can't understand has inspired her infinite sorrow, so she went to Lao Bai's house for the night very adultly.
One night at spring supper, just as Lao Bai was preparing a loving breakfast full of expectations, Miss Li sneaked away.
But Lao Bai liked Miss Li very much, and when he had a hard time reconnecting with Miss Li, a rich lady in his painting class broke into his house uninvited.
This rich lady has an English name called Gloria, which is very powerful. Rich and idle, the husband is missing.
She is bright and generous, hot and sexy, and her mouth is very smooth, which makes people involuntarily follow her train of thought.
Lao Bai had not yet figured out the reason, and his ex-wife Bei Bei also joined the dinner.
Three women in a play, this is hilarious
Lao Bai was miserable, and it was frightening to think that they were sitting together.
Who knows, these three women actually communicated very harmoniously, as if the old white was not their contradiction at all. A meal was eaten to the fullest, and a shallow friendship was reached.
This is the film and television image of three middle-aged women who are very "anti-routine", which is very rare in previous film and television dramas.
They jump out of the conventional image of being entangled and manipulated by routines, showing a kind of self-control over life.
The ex-wife Bei Bei is a divorced woman. The reason for the divorce was that she cheated first.
But she said to Lao Bai with a straight face, "I just made a mistake that a man can make, why can't you forgive me", "Ah, although I have played outside, but I always put the family first."
This is very magical, obviously she is the wrong party, but she is so stalking the neck and saying, you will feel, yes, why men do these things, saying these words is very normal, you can be called the prodigal son back to gold and not change. Why can't women?
And She can't be considered a "scum" because many details show that she is somehow virtuous. For example, her ex-mother-in-law, Lao Bai's mother, has always wanted them to remarry, and the two can still go shopping and laugh together. For example, their son has a gentle and assertive personality, and there are traces of mother's education.
And Bei Bei's cheating should be really a momentary confusion, the girlfriend her son made was a northern girl, she frowned and said inappropriate, "I am used to eating southern food, I will not really like it." This should be an allusion to the object she was.
It can be seen that Bei Bei has an old love for Lao Bai and is happy to repair the old with her husband. But she also did not do a small prostrate to repent, to accommodate. Instead, he held his head high, occasionally ran to Lao Bai and dangled it, and got along with him with a familiar attitude.
It is similar to a posture of achieving success, not succeeding, and not demanding.
Also, when people reach middle age, they live thoroughly. There is guilt, and there is no way to cry and weep to redeem it.
Gloria, that is really a very dashing little rich woman, doing things according to her heart's hobby.
In her words, her husband is a waste snack with great ambitions and talents who can't do anything, and he wants to do whatever he wants to make money, and he loses whatever he wants. All her efforts were adrift, and the two of them didn't even have a child at 40+, so they simply threw away their hands and ignored him. Then the husband simply disappeared inexplicably.
In the past routine, when people reach middle age, their husbands are incompetent, they have no children, and they can't find anyone. That must not be anxious, collapse, be at a loss
She didn't, she had fun finding herself.
Next to the big aunt said Oh, if your husband runs out to find the little girl Bai Xiang can do it, she immediately said ah cut ah, he can find the little girl I can't find a little handsome guy, who cares that the man can't go home. He loves to go back, if he doesn't go back, he won't go back, and the old woman doesn't live by him.
It was said that "a woman without children is incomplete", she said oh this kind of SB words do not believe it, I also said that a woman has not dumped a hundred men is not complete.
Gloria has affection for Lao Bai, her husband was later kidnapped by legend, the kidnappers asked her for ransom, but she took the opportunity to run to Lao Bai to cry, that is, she refused to pay the ransom or call the police.
only...... I feel that the kidnapper may be a telecommunications fraud, linked to her husband's identity as a Taiwanese, or maybe her husband spent all his money outside to ask her for money, so she is not in a hurry.
The "kidnapper" asked her for twenty-five thousand yuan, and she bitten her to death and did not give it. Then I had fun with Lao Bai and casually transferred it to Lao Bai on WeChat for twenty-five thousand.
But she cleverly found that Lao Bai liked Miss Li, so she grinned and said to Lao Bai, Oh Yo Teacher, you must not fall in love with me.
Although slightly sad, but decent withdrawal.
Miss Li's situation, in the previous film and television image, was a capitalized defeated dog.
When he was young, he fell in love with a foreigner, although it was a foreign-related marriage, but the foreigner was a poor ghost or a miserly ghost. In short, their marriage ended in failure, and Miss Li could buy two houses with the money posted upside down.
Marriage failed, men went to England, Miss Li herself with children to live, they live in a forced and dark little suite of Mother Li, Mother Li nagging and complaining, every time she thinks about how good so-and-so's daughter is married, so-and-so's daughter bought her a house, and so-and-so's daughter works a lot better. Miss Li is always silent at home, she and her daughter are crammed into a cubicle where it is difficult to turn around, and every day they have to help the lively children write homework.
What a typical image of a resentful middle-aged unmarried woman.
But Miss Lee is not a resentful woman. She lives very actively, always dressed exquisitely, pursues fashion, and the shoes under her feet are more than 10,000 famous brands. She would drink coffee by the window and shed tears for delicate works of literature. Even if she is betrayed by love, she still embraces love, still gives her children the best education, and does not hesitate to prepare for her children to study abroad (in fact, her daughter is only in elementary school). By the way, she told her child that her mother would always be 38 years old.
Lao Bai is a man with good conditions, has a certain wealth, has a son who is already independent and uncommon, and has a single-family cottage. More importantly, Lao Bai has a generous temperament, pursues her warmly and politely, and is willing to take care of her daughter.
It's just that Miss Li doesn't want to remarry on vague good terms. She occasionally talks about her studies and employment. There are dreams and will not be separated from reality, this road can not do the best, just change the road. Although she laughs at herself that she is going downhill, she works conscientiously and responsibly.
She longs for love and does not indulge in love. When Lao Bai said that she could clean up the upstairs cubicle for their mother and daughter to live in, and the rent could not be collected, she decisively rejected Lao Bai and said the words of breaking up.
In fact, it is because Lao Bai chased too tightly, giving her pressure, she was uncomfortable with this pressure, and simply broke off this relationship.
This is really unexpected, if you are in the side of the play, you will probably feel that this woman is pretentious, you are in your forties, divorced with children, financial constraints. Now from the sky such a good man is willing to accept you, you don't think about yourself, you think about your daughter for your mother. Do you think you're still a twenty-year-old girl, you're too lazy to get along a little tired, the sheets are rolled over, you're not happy.
But Miss Li gave up because she was so uncomfortable.
As for the two people who came together again, it was also because in the state of holding a painting exhibition, they naturally communicated for a while, and Lao Bai also experienced Miss Li's delicate thoughts because of the pair of Jimmy choo shoes.
These three women are middle-aged women who are independent and economically independent, and they also pursue love, but they are not blind. They sit together leisurely and open-mindedly, without competition that can trigger moral criticism of human nature, and there is no favorite tearing house fight drama.
It turns out that women do not tear X is also very good-looking, ah, the original middle-aged women's emotional life can also be filmed so fun and good-looking.
Lao Bai this man is also a rare film and television image. He is generous, peaceful, and does not look at those around him with various conditions and calculations. But it may also stem from his comfortable life since he was a child, as well as the confidence given to him by the city of Shanghai.
The film highlights a very elegant Shanghai culture, not the lights and green high-rise buildings, but the fireworks, the parents are short. Lao Bai and Lao Wu are both men who can personally handle shopping and buying a table of food and know etiquette and care, even the small cobblers on the street, even if they squat in a greasy shop in a big apron, have their own coffee Time every day.
Therefore, Lao Bai can deal with all kinds of characters around him very freely, and will not look down on them or distinguish between them. The middle-aged man in the alley sent his elderly demented father to his yard, and he said okay, let his uncle paint here. Foreigners who cannot afford to pay the rent can also be exempted from rent and invited to dinner from time to time. So the fiery thirteen-point Gloria, the ex-wife who was cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and the exquisite and elegant Miss Li could eat with him. Therefore, the eccentric old Wu is only a friend like him, probably because the two of them are very primary school chickens when they quarrel.
In the film, Lao Bai is summoned to the Bund Eighteen and sees Miss Li sitting opposite Gloria, and the two women who have been related to him are saying hello in unison with him
At that moment, he thought he was going to be tied up to the execution ground, but the two women laughed at him one by one.
Later, I learned that they worked together to find a place and channel for Lao Bai to hold a painting exhibition.
The light and shadow composition of this scene is really wonderful, and the silhouette of the woman is very large, occupying the absolute initiative in the background of red tongtong. Lao Bai silently bowed his head under the composition and was disciplined.
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A kind of amorous woman, a pure woman, a bad woman who has hurt him, a good woman like a mother. And in the end, no matter what kind of woman, you have to find an honest man to marry.
So Lao Bai could only say with encouragement,
On behalf of the male directors in China, I apologize to you.
The female director of this movie simply said what I had in mind, especially looking for Xu Zheng, it was really hahahahahahahaha
If the only drawback of Lao Bai is the incomprehension of the boy's "mother cannon".
For example, every time he saw his son, he felt that the dress was too delicate.
But the son just loves makeup, he was topped several times and silently accepted, well, well, as long as he is a grandfather in his heart.
Look, that's the man.
The little cobbler on the street talked about the relationship between men and women, and he was not married in his forties, and when he asked, he felt that he had not met the best, even if it was done.
Old Wu has a strange temperament, every time the clothes are exaggerated to show off their own merry life, in fact, doing things very unreliable, every day said that he and Sophia Roland have an old love, heard the news that Sophia Roland was unconscious on the set, sighed and said his youth in France in France to Sophia Roland's amazing glimpse and brief encounter.
Then he carried this throbbing in his arms, and he was alone for a lifetime.
Speaking of this, I feel that the men and women here are indeed like fairy tales, so free, so transparent, even if they have experienced all kinds of hardships in life, they still choose to believe in love.
But you don't feel that all this is unreal, because the human fireworks in this, the laughter and anger in it, make you feel that this is all true.
Sometimes imagine, maybe now, the middle-aged people after the 70s and 80s believe in love more than the young people after the 00s, and they feel particularly reasonable to fall in love at this age. It seems that the love story of young people has become more and more fake, to bump sugar, to dominate, but in reality is 996, big layoffs, they can't afford to buy a house, they can't afford to fall into the house, they roll up every day, they won't entertain friends to watch old movies together in order to reminisce about a person. Talking about the male gods and goddesses in front of the screen, there will be no beautiful fantasies, they will only think about whether she is open for live broadcasting, what is the endorsement, one or two times.
Not as good as the old man in this play, the old white, although Nagging, but not willing to live with his son. Found that Lao Bai has a girlfriend, the first thing to ask Lao Bai to transfer the house to his grandson, Ha this house is your grandfather left to me, I will pass it on to you, you want to remarry to solve the ownership of the house problem, I don't care about you! Very nice, very Shanghainese woman.
But the director still warmly gave the young man and woman a good wish, the old white son, and his crisp and sharp girlfriend. In love, girls become more and more transparent, and boys will learn to be considerate.
The end of the film is interesting, several people get together to open Sophia Roland's old film "Love Myth", and it is not long before they are drowsy by the light of literature and demand fast forward. Miss Li silently sent a circle of friends, saying that such an ugly film I actually looked at and liked, and then tacitly began a dating plan with Lao Bai.
But the best part is that Miss Li still has the initiative, and she says she doesn't care about the MOVIE's BE. The old man said, you really... You are so cute.