For a long time, I didn't know how to introduce this vulgar independent film.
"Beautiful Sister" tells the story of a little boy's growth and transformation from ignorance to growth, from ignorance to sentientity. When she was young, she was obsessed with meijie, who studied drama at home, and when she grew up, she successively entangled with meijie's three daughters. The narrow geographical space of Jinshan and Mongolia and the spanning narrative rhythm make the audience deeply feel a different humanistic environment, closed and wild, impulsive and restrained.
From the first shot, this film has established the image style of the whole film from the simple to the extreme. According to the director, this is due to insufficient budget and too much of an alternative, so the photographer is too lazy to cooperate, so he lets the already earthy and vulgar story simply go to the black and vulgar to the root.
From today's market-oriented perspective, Hao Jie's "Beautiful Sister" has neither the glamorous beauty of urban life nor the commercial blessing of traffic stars, and the whole film except for one heroine, other actors are shown to the audience with the rough skin of real life.
In addition, at the intersection of Jin, Shaanxi and Mongolia where the story is located, the accent, customs and art forms are relatively unpopular, so it is bound to be niche and niche in terms of audience, and it is absolutely biased.
The communication of the protagonist in the film is often expressed through folk songs or local operas. Local drama stalls in Inner Mongolia and other places in northwestern Jinbei serve as a medium for the protagonists of the film to communicate and talk. The countrymen of Mune can only boldly express their love and love in high-pitched and bright, or low-pitched and tactful words.
The story in the play, the people on the stage, often a single action or eye, can break through the layer of window paper, as if the hazy feelings of the cloud covering the moon are instantly clear.
Different from the shy expression of love for men and women in Jin, Shaanxi and Mongolia in most movies and TV series, "Beautiful Sister" is more popular, popular to the beauty of sister and her husband on the kang, iron eggs and big women drilling vegetable cellars, three women directly to the brother-in-law frankly meet each other and many other "shocking" shots are overwhelmed.
There are also small troupes going to the countryside iron eggs to be thrown by the village hostesses, men dressed as women's Danjiao'er tigers and tigers are surrounded by big and small guys to touch and kiss and other vivid performances, this kind of love is fierce and fierce wrapped in Hao Jett has black humor to face the audience, which makes people laugh and at the same time sigh very much: this is really wild.
A good story will definitely make people enter the play, the content of the explanation is complex but clear, and the story line is meticulous and evocative. "Beautiful Sister" did it.
From before the Cultural Revolution to the reform and opening up, from the first sight of the iron egg to fall in love with the beautiful sister, to the beautiful sister's family with three daughters and the iron egg family to form an indissoluble relationship. In 92 minutes, the character is perfectly shaped, and the character can stand up and scream.
Feng Si, played by Iron Egg, is a local folk artist in Inner Mongolia who has his own troupe touring the countryside and villages all year round. The special environment in the north has created his special character temperament, and the unique folk charm of the local area has given him an identity that is difficult for others to control.
So, we see an old-looking, but tender iron egg. I saw an iron egg that seemed to be loyal, but dared to fight for love, and saw an iron egg that came with a two-person platform open mouth, but clumsily mouthed in the love world.
A large number of bizarre plots in the film seem to the city people to have a sense of curiosity. Mobile caravans, popular performances, wandering artists, from an artistic point of view, starting from the needs of the people, the interaction between the stage and the stage seems to be funny, but there is no deliberate embellishment, the impact of the commercial market, but also forced them to change the singing voice and content to meet the needs of today's audience.
Audience interaction or improvisation after the truck, photographers often complete the creation of stream of consciousness in the absence of a director, and believe in the reins and take materials at any time. This kind of laissez-faire camera performance is even more pure than today's Jia Zhangke, and the character modeling is more realistic.
Iron Egg is a layman. When you are young, you love beauty, love beauty, and love beauty sister.
Therefore, he boldly broke into the house when meijie and her husband were intimate, and wanted to marry meijie, who was the same age as his mother, to marry him in the future. After adulthood, he quickly fell in love with the eldest daughter of the beautiful sister and stole the forbidden fruit, and his silly appearance contrasted with the bold and direct action, which was really not to be underestimated.
His behavior (sexuality) with Meijie's eldest daughter left a deep impression on Meijie's third daughter. It can be described as shocking and romantic. And as compensation, the marriage between the second daughter of the beautiful sister and the iron egg is like any arranged marriage in the world, ruthless and boring, loveless and powerless. On the contrary, many years later, the third daughter of the beautiful sister took the initiative to find her brother-in-law to dedicate herself generously, and she wanted the style of the big woman of that year, and even more than that.
The love between the iron egg and the big woman is the love of a primitive and simple man and a woman. You love me, you don't give me. It is like an iron egg roaring a folk song at the wild, letting the fiery emotions in the heart go around in a large circle through the empty earth and then enter the ears of the sweetheart.
The love between the iron egg and the three women is like a falling flower intentionally flowing water, and the flowing water has no intention of falling flowers, and it is mixed with the responsibility of the iron egg to his wife and the "loyalty" to the former big woman. Even if the three women dared to "dash away" and fiercely put a kiss on the brother-in-law's face, the iron egg under the calm finally chose to escape and returned to the family.
Many people commented that the work "Beautiful Sister" has a wild temperament of freedom and looseness. The hero is fierce, direct, and bold. The heroine is healthy, plump, dare to love and dare to hate. The interaction between local folklore and drama species gives more audiences who are not familiar with this hot land the opportunity to appreciate the unique tone of the Loess Plateau.
When watching this film, I have a vague sense of déjà vu, as if this film is another version of "Yellow Land", "Xiao Wu", or "Wushan Cloud And Rain". Only in this land that belongs to them can the protagonists of the story have such a life and show such love and love.
In addition to the directing skills and shooting characteristics, the story and people return to the symbiotic relationship between people and the land. The iron egg's love and affection for the beautiful sister, the big woman, and the persistence and enthusiasm for the duotai are actually attached to this land. Beauty is like beauty, art is like a company.
Director Hao Jie also said that he originally envisioned that iron eggs simply had a relationship with his sister-in-law and died suddenly in the climax. If that were the case, it would really be a disaster to Mei Jie's entire family with his own strength. In the end, the director chose to abandon that setting and let the little rich iron egg return to his wife.
Any man is the same, he has a full-fledged life, and he is also a powerful twilight. The iron egg under the vicissitudes of the world has long lacked the sexual impulse and enthusiasm of drilling the vegetable cellar, and it is also very good to return to the hot kangtou in a down-to-earth manner, although there is nothing to say (can) with the daughter-in-law, but his children are growing up, and they are continuing his bloodline, waiting for their unknown future in this land that belongs to them.