Whether dog thirteen is retroactive thirty years or re-released in the next ten years, it will be one of the most dimensional realist films in the era we have experienced.
According to the creative timing, "Dog Thirteen" is actually Cao Baoping's third film, before "The Burning Heart of the Sun" and "The Pursuer", after "Glorious Anger" and "Li Mi's Conjecture", it was Cao Baoping who did not have too many commercial resources to interfere, and the "Li Mi's Conjecture" with countless awards made him calm, so this time the lens language was more simple, the individual expression appeared sharp and sharp, and the insight into reality was more dimensional.
The film tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose parents remarry and lives with her grandparents from childhood to adulthood. No, according to the logic of our secondary education, it should be stated like this: the central idea of "Dog Thirteen" is about the growth of girls, and the story line revolves around the girl Li playing from getting a dog, losing a dog, looking for a dog, to getting a dog again, abandoning a dog, holding back a dog and losing a dog again, and finally refusing to recognize the dog to make an article, through the gains and losses of a young girl and two dogs named Albert Einstein, reflecting the experience and growth that life must go through. The elders' reference to deer as horses is not mentioned in the syllabus and examination questions.
However, the father's finger deer as a horse is exactly a stroke of the golden section in the fission of the young girl Li playing, and it is also the most reflective and realistic stroke of this movie. Cao Baoping used a God perspective to let the audience overlook this family in the world - "retrieve" the dog, no matter in appearance and temperament, is obviously not the original dog named Einstein, but the stepmother insisted that it was Einstein, and the grandparents also said yes, the cousin originally played a trench with Li and said no, the grandmother had a look, immediately turned the camp, the elders' persuasion was sandwiched with hard plugs, the care was attached to the authority, Li played only to calm things down, a play of pointing out deer as a horse, so absurdly sang round on this family.
The girl Li Play, played by Zhang Yingxue, has experienced what most of our youth have experienced. We have set out innocently, experiencing all kinds of unpredictable and even unbearable fission on the road, such as family conflicts, such as the divorce of parents. In the face of schoolwork, we don't know what choice to make, so we are always chosen, chosen to learn this and that, and choose to learn so and that. Li Play is obviously fond of astrophysics, you said that she chose phobia or not, used to not choosing, in short, she was chosen to participate in her own short English interest group, and as a result, she was ugly in the speech contest in the city.
For a long time, our family education has pursued a "sensible" education, and "sensible" is the highest standard for measuring children. As for the meaning and standard of "understanding things", it is nothing more than obedience and good study, and as long as the study is good, even if it is not so obedient like Li Play, it can also be included in the category of "understanding things". Puppy Einstein was lost by grandpa, Li played stubbornly looking for a dog, is "not sensible", the stepmother bought another dog back to say that he found Einstein, Li play did not recognize is also "not sensible", the father missed the astronomical exhibition time with wine, Li played a urge is "not sensible". "Sensible" or parents to measure the growth of their children, Li played the physics competition provincial awards, can guarantee high school, is the biggest "sensible", "sensible" will grow up, must feast guests to celebrate.
The story mainly focuses on the daughter Li Play, who occasionally takes time to look at the parents, using an understated idle pen, but each stroke is like a knife. For example, the elders hid that they had remarried to Li Play and gave birth to a younger brother, afraid that she would not be able to accept the secret and not announce it until the brother's second birthday. Another example is to buy a dog for Li, buy roller skates, and take her to see an astronomical exhibition, each time with a secret purpose behind it, including planning the dog recognition drama that points out the deer as a horse, including the daughter's celebration banquet that was held as a social banquet at the end of the film. Parents do not love their children, but they pursue the pedantic concept that beating is kissing and scolding is love, and their love carries too many selfish and distracting thoughts, and for the children's opinions and struggles, they are always coercive and seductive. In fact, the reorganization of the family itself is not sad, the sad thing is that everything must be hidden, and the truth is always twisted and turned. And the companionship of parents, like the dog named Einstein, lost it, and then made a fake patch.
Father said that Li Play "understands things" and grows up, but what is growth? For Li Play, growing up is not that she won the physics competition award, but the dog meat she forced herself to eat at the celebration banquet, and the family rejoiced. When they grow up, innocent children really grow into what their parents want, and when they grow up, they grow into what they once feared.