The Spring Festival has officially begun, and the footsteps of the New Year are getting closer and closer.
There is also a package of Chinese New Year movies.
"Chosin Lake" sequel "Water gate bridge", Yi Qianxi and Wen Muye first collaborated on "Miracle Stupid Child", Han Han continued the small town youth series "Four Seas", Zhang Yimou "Sniper"...
It felt like another battle.
The New Year stall is not only a must-fight place, but also the easiest to overturn, this year's who is superior and who is inferior, the film review of the drift will then arrive.
But today, I want to talk to you about one of the most alternative Chinese New Year movies in history.
Released on February 12, 1991, that is, the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month of that year-
《New Year' Day》
Director Huang Jianzhong can be crowned a god by relying only on one "Fission of the Great Qin Empire".
The lead actor casually picked out one, which also made people feel the joyful atmosphere.
With this film, she became the first teacher in China to win the best actress in the international A-category film festival (Tokyo Film Festival).
Ge You, who also won his first award in his life (Best Supporting Actor at the 15th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films) by this film.
Ding Jiali, the actor of the middle-aged Bao Yumei in "Hello, Li Huanying".
"Divine Doctor Joy" Li Baotian.
And the six-year-old child who had just finished filming "Journey to the West" at that time.
Looking at the title, looking at the actors, looking at the release time, do you think that "New Year" is a family comedy movie?
Then you're really wrong.
The movie "New Year" directly uses a cold ice knife to cut the surface of the Chinese family's warm pulse of affection, showing us the huge contradictions and entangled interests that are surging under the relationship between relatives.
In "New Year's Day", you don't see a happy and happy New Year's weather, on the contrary, it is as intense as a war movie.
Some people may be shocked after reading it, but some people just sigh after reading it:
"That's the norm for my family's New Year's Eve."
This is the way to talk about the Chinese go home for the New Year.
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If you let young people vote for the top ten troubles of the New Year.
"Relatives hate" this article, must take the lead.
There are always people you don't want to meet, and because of the sense of ritual of the New Year, you have to get together at a table to eat.
Grumpy, you can argue on the spot.
"New Year's Eve" filmed, it is such a Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
It's the annual Chinese New Year's Eve again, and the fireworks outside the window are brilliant and joyful.
Although the old couple of the Cheng family had given birth to five children, tonight only they sat down to eat.
It turned out that none of the five children had returned.
In Lao Cheng's complaints, we learned that last year's Chinese New Year's Eve meal almost killed people.
But that being said, the old couple is still looking forward to the child's return.
When the first year of junior high arrived, the first to come back was the second son.
The second son was admitted to graduate school and made a girlfriend from a high-ranking family.
Lao Cheng's two sons have always felt that they are gao pan and are not very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, but the eldest New Year's Day will also endure.
As a result, the second son said that he was going to go to the south with his girlfriend and needed sponsorship fees.
The purpose of asking for money was too obvious, and the second elder, who had just smiled a little, suddenly froze his face.
The second to come back was the eldest son's family.
In lao Cheng's words, this eldest son is also a breed.
Middle school chemistry teacher, found a section chief daughter-in-law, but the character is honest and honest, and she is not in contention.
His daughter-in-law gave him a position as the director of education, worked for 27 days, and resigned.
Therefore, he is also accustomed to the daughter-in-law being fierce and arrogant, compared to the strong men and women of other people's families, his family is actually a wife who abuses her husband.
Last year Chinese New Year's Eve a big fight with the eldest daughter-in-law, which shocked the old couple for a whole year, and they could avoid it every day.
So this year, it is not that they took the initiative to come over, but the old two people visited the temple fair and met the eldest grandson, and they could not walk.
The grandchildren were playing, and as soon as they turned their heads, the eldest son and the eldest daughter-in-law had already bought gifts and stood at the door of the house.
The weasel gave the chicken a New Year's greeting, and did not have a good heart.
Sure enough, as soon as she entered the house, the eldest daughter-in-law stared at her mother-in-law's gold ring.
First of all, I said a cliché, and when I saw that my mother-in-law didn't make a sound, I went straight to hard.
As a result, the ring was worn on the hand for decades, and the daughter-in-law hung her face.
How to solve it, we will talk about it later.
The third to return was the eldest daughter's family.
The eldest daughter, like the eldest son, is a person who can't fight back and scolds and doesn't fight back, but as a result, she runs into a husband who is a scoundrel who is messy and morally deficient.
No, before I got home, I met my second son and his girlfriend on the road, and the eldest son-in-law took the hand of his younger sister and did not let go.
The next person who came back was the youngest son.
Another piece of crap, twenty-something, not doing business, coveting pleasure, and finding a girlfriend who loves to play just as much.
Watch a movie all night and take a private room.
Go back from the cinema, you have to play.
But to say that the most headache for Lao Cheng is his most beloved second daughter.
At that time, because he had to fall in love with a shelf worker, he ran away from home, although he was in a village, he had not entered the house for many years.
This year, seeing that the second daughter was pregnant, I let them in.
What I didn't expect was that the second son-in-law that Lao Cheng hated the most was the most successful one.
From a shelf worker to an engineering captain, built a small western-style building, color TV refrigerator motorcycles have everything.
As soon as I entered the house, I was polite enough to give everyone a meet and greet gift.
Seeing that the eldest sister-in-law was trying her best to remove the gold ring, she went out of her way to buy her one.
Even so, in that era, the upstart still could not be regarded as the right way, so the old man was still not at ease.
A family of five children, none of them made Lao Cheng's two sons happy.
And given last year's experience, I don't know what will happen to tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
So although it seems that this big family is festive and peaceful, in fact, everyone has their own calculations.
As Tolstoy said, "Happy families are all the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes." ”
In fact, unfortunate families are much the same.
Leaving aside the pain of being dragged down by illness and poverty, more misfortune actually comes from the mutual understanding of family members.
For example, the Cheng family in "New Year", the personalities of the five children are different.
It is because after the reform and opening up, the collision of the social atmosphere and traditional concepts that more and more pursuit of material supremacy has formed a temper of a generation of hard-working and a generation of people coveting pleasure.
As long as they do not understand each other for a day, they will certainly have no peace for a day.
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Sure enough, Chinese New Year's Eve the meal, and without eating a mouthful of food, the fox tails of several children were exposed.
The eldest daughter-in-law reminds the children to pay homage to the elders one by one, which is actually to ask for red envelopes.
Wave after wave, wave after wave.
The wine was just full, and the younger son said that he and his girlfriend were getting married, but he had no money on hand.
So I learned to collect donations for the Asian Games, made a fundraising box, and hoped that my family would give a few copies of sponsorship.
The crowd was silent, and the eldest daughter-in-law began the second round of operations.
Seeing that the brother-in-law said to buy a gold ring, he was generous and busy toasting a glass of wine.
"My sister-in-law's life is difficult, and where it will be useful to get in the future, don't give a cold face."
This side has just finished paying tribute, and the second son over there has also made a calculation.
He said that he wanted to go to the south with his girlfriend and had to borrow 1,000 yuan from his father.
As soon as the words fell, the younger son could not look at it anymore, and he accused the second brother of borrowing money purely for sightseeing.
But the second son also feels that the younger son does not even have a job, and he does not say that he will use the family's money to get married.
The two men quarreled on the spot.
For the sake of family harmony, the second son-in-law interrupted busily, saying that the matter of the two people in the future was wrapped up by himself.
But at this time, the old man who was sitting on the side and did not move his chopsticks was in the mood to eat.
He got up and went out, and then put the 4,000 yuan he earned this year on a plate and brought it to the table.
This is the dish that everyone wants to see at the Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
The first few dozen minutes of the film are busy with money, all to pave this scene.
This is not the end, the dishes are served out, and someone must eat it.
But before everyone could speak, there was a knock at the door.
We learned that the eldest son-in-law cheated again, and in order to get angry for his sister, the younger son fought with his brother-in-law on the spot.
And just when everyone was out to fight, the eldest daughter-in-law saw the eldest son sitting alone drinking, and the money on the table was gone, and she asked where the money went.
The eldest son, who is usually cowardly and honest and obedient, can't bear it after drinking.
Seeing that everything had become like this, this person still thought about money and slapped it in the face.
Two people started fighting.
The farce repeats itself.
Last year Chinese New Year's Eve mirror that had not been smashed was completely smashed by the eldest daughter-in-law, and the Chinese New Year's Eve rice that had not been eaten was also overturned.
The whole house was smashed to pieces.
So, another New Year passed.
But then again, just when everyone is crazy about money, there are also two people in the film who don't care about money.
First, at the beginning of the film, Lao Cheng, who has worked hard for a year, piles the money he earns on the table and says to his wife: "It all belongs to you." ”
Another show is the generosity of the second son-in-law.
When he bought a meeting gift for everyone, saw that the eldest sister-in-law asked for a gold ring, and the two younger brothers scolded for money, they took the initiative to use money to alleviate the contradiction.
We can understand the former, husband and wife have been together for many years, and the love and affection of half a life make them naturally not distinguish between each other.
But the latter, Oikawa is just a son-in-law who has just met everyone, why don't you care?
He told us in a passage.
It turned out that he was lonely and bitter since he was a child, but he was more eager for family affection than money.
The hope of lack of love, the begging for money without money.
However, this indissoluble family really has no family affection?
Actually, there are.
Usually, the younger son of Hanger Langdang saw that his brother-in-law had someone outside and beat his brother-in-law for his sister.
This is the younger brother's maintenance of the older sister.
When the second daughter ran away from home for a man, this time her parents not only did not have any complaints about her, but after knowing that the son-in-law did a good job, they were sincerely pleased with their daughter.
This is the love of parents for their children.
The eldest sister-in-law is a fierce and fierce tigress who loves to compare, although everyone has quite a complaint, but looking at the face of the eldest brother, she will put up with it.
This is the tolerance of relatives to each other.
In fact, it can be seen that the family is still caring for each other.
It's just that in the face of interests, family affection is ranked behind them.
Here, money is more like a mirror that reflects everyone's inner thoughts.
It is also a yardstick to measure the value ranking in everyone's heart.
For people like the eldest sister-in-law who love money, money is higher than the sky.
But for a person who lacks love like the second son-in-law, he is willing to exchange money for temporary affection.
Money, to put it bluntly, is profit.
When family affection fails to become the main axis in a family, "interests", this most instinctive desire of human nature becomes the only purpose of family members to communicate.
It's just that they don't know that family is the last place they should be concerned about.
Where there is calculation, there will be gains and losses, and where there are gains and losses, there will be resentment.
There is resentment, and it also separates family affection.
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This movie is not bold to watch today.
The most covered and helpless side of family affection is placed at the moment of family reunion.
Why choose New Year's Eve?
We all say that "every festive season is a time to think of relatives", and the New Year's Holiday is the moment with the highest emotional concentration Chinese.
But when the concentration of family affection is the highest, it is sometimes also the moment with the highest concentration of contradictions.
Between the two sides, relatives communicate not only feelings, but also material things, but also circumstances.
The distribution of red envelopes and gifts, the number of firecrackers and smiling faces, and the attitude of greeting and sending away all show the degree of affection in the relationship between them.
Although these behaviors are also common in daily life, the sense of ritual of the New Year makes the quantitative change lead to the qualitative change, and it is thrown to the extreme.
Therefore, if Ang Lee in "Eating Men and Women" is to use Chinese food to show people's great desires.
That "New Year", that is, the director uses reunion to stimulate emotional contradictions.
In Chinese the most solemn festival, showing the ethical conflict of the gradual disintegration of the traditional Chinese family.
In addition to the undercurrents and eruptions in front, there is also a magic stroke in the film.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve meal was overturned, the house was in a mess, and the second daughter and the second son-in-law had to clean it.
Mrs. Cheng hurriedly stopped her, saying:
"Don't sweep, you're going to sweep away your wealth."
The traditional customs that arise for the sake of family harmony, at this moment, force the family to put the most unbearable side naked on the surface, and can not be touched.
How ironic.
And the satirical picture of "New Year" is more than this one.
Seeing that Chinese New Year's Eve meal was finally thrown into a mess, we all thought that our parents were the biggest victims.
In fact, they are not "let go" in the movie.
On the contrary, several plots have been deliberately designed to suggest that the ignorant traditions that parents cling to are the most fundamental reasons for such a bad idea to be passed down from generation to generation without self-knowledge.
One is that the eldest sister was abused by her husband and was persuaded by her mother to go home, and in the words we learned that Lao Cheng was also like this when he was young.
She was persuading her daughter to endure until she was old.
One is that the eldest sister-in-law instructs her son to kowtow to the elders to press the old money, which actually corresponds to the younger son directly asking for money from everyone at the dinner table in the name of marriage.
Reaching out for money is like begging for food.
And the whole film of children naturally asking their parents for hard-earned money is not necessarily the lack of education for the two children of Lao Cheng.
Therefore, "New Year's Day" is a very wide-ranging blow, and it accuses the shortcomings and conflicts of traditional Chinese family concepts.
And it's not just the movie, but even the sketches of the year are full of this irony.
Teacher Zhao Lirong.
In fact, when we look back at her sketches now, most of them are ironic.
"A Day in a Heroic Mother" satirizes the forced value of television stations on ordinary people, "So Packaged" satirizes the erosion of traditional culture by popular trends, and "Migrant Work Adventures" satirizes the false marketing of social catering.
But now, let's say that Jia Ling and Zhang Xiaofei played the sketch "Mother-in-law Mother".
The same is the plot of family conflicts.
The mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are not in harmony, there is a lot of content worth talking about, and the result is just to consume family emotions like an itch.
In front of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in front of their sons to pretend to be intimate and pile up jokes, and later by helping outsiders to quarrel, it is refreshing to watch.
Finally, the two men after the great war suddenly had an epiphany and said a sentence:
"But after the fight between the two of us, the relationship between the two of us became good."
Just reconcile.
Nothing had been resolved before, and I don't know why they were reconciled.
But "New Year" is different.
It clearly tells us that as long as the contradictions are not solved and we do not understand each other, no matter how many years and how many quarrels, we cannot achieve true reconciliation.
"New Year" is actually a re-examination of the traditional Chinese family model by that generation of filmmakers.
In the past, family has been tied to words such as warmth, beauty, and unity.
But in fact, family members are also people, and the feelings of selfishness, hypocrisy, treachery, and jealousy in those human beings will also appear in the family.
But these emotions have always been ignored, rejected and whitewashed by us.
This is undoubtedly a kind of ear-covering.
Why don't some people like the New Year?
It's not so much that I don't want to go home and hate to see people.
Rather, it is an unwillingness to see all kinds of discordant factors in a family that should be warm.
I am also afraid that in the family gathering, I will be compared according to grades, income, and occupation, and who will be divided into who has a job and who is mixed up.
Face, materiality, and social status have all become factors that override family affection.
And these factors have always been ignored, and even taken for granted.
But neglect and forbearance can only fuel contradictions.
Just like the "New Year's feud" accumulated by many families, it was only skipped at the time, but in fact, a knot was left in the heart.
A phrase "big New Year's Day" can stop for a while, but not a year.
This movie from thirty years ago is like a shot in the pan.
Let everyone who takes it become sober after facing these embarrassing scenes.
Realize that --
Only by facing the contradictions head-on and understanding each other is the only way to resolve family conflicts.