"Love Myth" is being screened, the cumulative box office exceeded 200 million, Douban 8.3 high score, this is a Shanghainese film, Shanghai elements are many, even if you can't understand Shanghainese, you can't understand the love myth of middle-aged people, but it is still desirable.
In Shanghai, in Puxi's Hengfu style area, there are street cafes, imported food shops, narrow alleys, fashionable uncles, small dessert houses, city-like fruit stalls, and bicycles passing under plane trees. The coexistence of the city and the haipai is the poetry and distance of many people.
The attitude of several protagonists towards emotion and life also reveals a unique "Shanghai style": it is elegant and ritualistic; it pays attention to face, no matter how it is, it always has to look good on face; it has the tackiness of a small citizen, and it is sentient and righteous; it is "indulgent", drunken and obsessed, indulging in color, but also longing for true feelings, loving human fireworks...
After reading "Love Myth", Shanghainese will say a sentence of "Ta Eun", so where is Shanghai?
01 The little cobbler's coffee time
Director Shao Yihui said in an interview: Shanghai is the city with the most cafes in the world, with about 8,000, which is the first in the world. Therefore, whether it is a local or a foreigner, drinking coffee has long become an element of life. With a familymart membership card, you can go to the whole family every day to drink coffee, 10 yuan a cup of American, just like you drink soy milk as normal. You can drink 10 yuan or 15 yuan, you can also drink more expensive, it is a very normal state of life, and there are many open-air cafes in the film.
But when you see the little cobbler of the nongtangkou shoe repair shop, speaking a "pidgin" Shanghainese dialect, can recognize Jimmy Choo at a glance, and will also chat with Lao Bai in English about philosophy, while repairing shoes while concocting a cup of hand-brewed coffee, to enjoy a fixed coffee time, you will still be surprised that coffee culture has been carved into the marrow of Shanghainese. From the simple dialogue of the little cobbler, it can be seen that he lives very thoroughly, and enjoying life is not directly related to matter. Even if he does less business, he must insist on what he loves, and this kind of exquisiteness, integrated with the surrounding garden houses, has a tone that is not deliberate.
02 Elegance and pyrotechnic coexistence lifestyle
"Love Myth" shows the lifestyle and attitude of life, which is both elegant and exquisite and pyrotechnic. Even if you don't have money in Shanghai, you can live a very decent life, but the petty bourgeoisie does not worship gold, and the literature is not pretentious.
Divorced Shanghai's grandfather Lao Bai has money and leisure, lives in a small bungalow in Shanghai, likes to paint, cook vegetables, play drums on weekdays, and is a miscellaneous family. Lao Bai will ride a bicycle to buy discounted goods from imported food shops on weekdays, know how to burn braised pork to add beer to life tips, will also personally prepare exquisite French breakfast and luxurious dinner for Miss Li, resolutely buy that pair of shoes of more than 10,000 and want to return to her, all reflect the shanghai man's thoughtfulness, gentleman and careful traditional characteristics, these small details, but also the shanghai well middle-aged young man's life norms.
Miss Li, a producer of an advertising agency, a single mother with a british little girl, and a very delicate Shanghai woman. After losing two houses in the previous foreign-related marriage, he could only take his daughter to live in the dilapidated old house of his mother's house and listen to his mother's broken thoughts every day. However, the awkward family life did not make her give up the elegant quality of life, and she still dressed carefully when she went out, wearing a pair of nearly 20,000 high heels to send her daughter to an international school. Shanghai women, even if life is difficult, will make themselves look bright.
03 Multicultural inclusion
The film was filmed in the most authentic Shanghai "upper corner", accurately conveying the lifestyle of Shanghai's old town. Different from the modern fashion of Lujiazui and Xintiandi, the old towns of Xuhui and Jing'an have a more pure Taste of Shanghai, which is the soul of Shanghai culture, and also presents the life of new and old Shanghainese and the openness of an international metropolis.
Only here, making a Western breakfast is not deliberate, drinking coffee is a memory carved into the bone marrow, the English is not good and not obtrusive, the Italian Shanghainese thief is particularly normal, even the roadside shoemaker can say two words armstrong and philosophy. Any kind of person can live comfortably here.
The tolerance of multiculturalism forms the cultural characteristics of Shanghai and is also a Shanghai accent.
The Tone of Shanghai is the attitude of Shanghainese towards life. Even if life is hard, they must not live hard, they can always find some fun in the embarrassing life, and use humor to resolve the boredom. The life of middle-aged people is not only a chicken feather or a chicken and a dog, but also can be very beautiful.