There is a domestic film, the reputation is too good to say, douban score as high as 8.3.
There is no bad plot, no grand narrative, and no water injection plot and tiger tail.
A debut film written and directed by a newcomer director is unique, humorous, and highly completed, shooting a love story of a middle-aged man and woman full of Shanghai characteristics and cultural memories.
This is the "Love Myth" directed by Shao Yihui, a new female director after the 90s.
In the film, Lao Bai, played by Xu Zheng, as the core character role, strung together all the character relationships in this film: Miss Li, the object of pursuit, Gloria, a student of the painting class, the ex-wife Bei Bei, the best friend Lao Wu, the son Bai Pigeon, the white pigeon girlfriend, Lao Bai's mother and so on.
Let's take a look at the men and women in this "Love Myth".
In the old white love, there is no myth
Lao Bai, played by Xu Zheng, a middle-aged divorced man, lives in Wuyuan Road, Shanghai, the real estate left by his ancestors, burns a good dish, and teaches uncles and aunts to paint in his own courtyard.
Lao Bai is pursuing Miss Li, played by Ma Yili. The two watched the drama together, Miss Li burst into tears, while Lao Bai was sleepy. Miss Li, there is a world that the old white does not understand but respects and cherishes.
After a round of greed, Lao Bai carefully prepared breakfast for Miss Li, the heart-shaped egg was a meticulous footnote, and the heroine fled into the wilderness after waking up, and broke the heel of a high heel.
Lao Bai liked Miss Li in his heart, carefully edited his three-line poem, sent a circle of friends, and secretly rejoiced after seeing Miss Li's praise.
Although I couldn't understand Miss Li's crying drama, I still went to buy the original novel and gave it to Miss Li.
A man of Lao Bai's age is no longer impulsive and rash, but gentle and appropriate, helping to pick up Miss Li's daughter Maya from school, tutoring homework, helping to repair light bulbs and high heels that have fallen off.
But he was not Miss Li's dish, and Miss Li's refusal was also euphemistically hidden in the words, saying that she wanted to break away, just like the broken high heels were lost and lost, and wearing it could not get to where she wanted to go.
Lao Bai's answer is very interesting: where are you going, oh, too difficult to go.
In Lao Bai's words, there is both a heartache for Miss Li and a sense of pity for the same disease.
Lao Bai did not dare to claim to be an artist, he could only claim to be a miscellaneous family, who knew a little about everything, but was not refined. When I was young, I didn't have the ideal of art, but in the years, I gradually learned to compromise, accepted my own mediocrity, and let go of the distant dream.
But he saw that Miss Li had not yet let go, although she had experienced the cruel whipping of life, had been cheated by her foreign husband into two houses, and took her daughter to live in her mother's house that complained all day, and her life was very embarrassing, but she had not given up and wanted to go where she wanted to go.
This is the difference between Lao Bai and Miss Li, and it is also the reason why Miss Li feels that Lao Bai is not suitable for her.
The emotional confrontation between middle-aged men and women is no longer as intense, laissez-faire, and wanton as when they were young, but always convergent, sleek, and will not tear the skin of the face and will not hurt the bones.
In the blade of the words, you come and go, you push me to block, a few words down, this general meaning, both sides are clear, and no longer approach a step, saving each other from embarrassment.
Lao Bai's middle-aged love, gentle and courteous, careful and considerate, is reflected in the specific daily life of love breakfast and crucian carp tofu soup, which is the appearance of ordinary life. Even if rejected, it is a decent friend.
Old U's love utopia, in Rome
But Lao Wu is different, Lao Wu's love is not in daily life, not even in this Wu Nong soft-spoken Shanghai, but in Rome in a foreign country.
Single Lao Wu, living in the apartment building opposite Lao Bai's house, fights and chats with Lao Bai on weekdays, and the two big men will ignore each other when they disagree. But, they are all each other's best friends.
Old U loves to brag and tell the love history of his youth, the United States, Russia and Italy have it. Everyone laughed and laughed, and they didn't take it seriously.
In Lao Wu's love story, the most colorful thing is the short-lived love between him and Sophia Roland.
This is a mysterious meme in the film.
At the dinner where everyone gathers, Lao Wu tells the story of his encounter with Sophia Roland.
Zhou Yemang's drama skills have also come into play in this scene, and the women present and Lao Bai's son Bai Pigeon have all been brought into Lao Wu's affectionate narration, and tears have unconsciously wet their cheeks.
At that time he was a Chinese student studying in Europe, and when he met the woman he had glimpsed in his life, he gave her his first time, and she gave him the whole of Rome.
They never saw each other again in this life. This love has become the longest remembrance of Lao Wu's life.
That day, the news of Sophia Roland's death came, and Lao Wu was a little excited, drank some wine, and told everyone this story.
After the speech, the crowd asked him, and he laughed and denied it, saying it was false.
However, early the next morning, Lao Wu suddenly fell ill and died. In front of Lao Wu's tombstone, his friends brought newspapers with the news that Sophia Roland had been rescued from the dead.
Is the love myth of Lao Wu true or false?
One second Lao Wu spoke of tears, and the next second he smiled exaggeratedly and said: Fake, do you really believe it?
Lao Bai was tired of listening to this story of Lao Wu, and he was familiar enough to connect with Lao Wu. He always thought it was fake, because Lao Wu was already more than 800 degrees of myopia when he was young. Maybe there was such a European woman, but it wasn't necessarily Sophia Roland.
Lao Wu said that it was false, but he died suddenly because of a piece of news.
Gloria said she believed it was true. Perhaps the emotional female intuition can hear the truth and strangeness in it.
Lao Bai's friends, at the memorial service for Lao Wukai, watched Fellini's "Love Myth" together, from the beginning of the sitting in danger, to the later east and west crooked, yawning yawn, playing mobile phone play mobile phone, everyone has complained, what is this drama, ah, can't understand.
The love myth of Lao Wu was thus beautifully and magically constructed, and it was easily dissolved.
The myth of Lao Wu's love is not here and now, but far away in Rome, and stays in his youth forever, with a lifetime to remember.
And here and now, in the love of middle-aged people, there is no myth.
After 2 men finished speaking, look at 3 women again.
It is said that 3 women are a play, in the film, 3 women meet by chance in the old White house, the discourse machines on the dinner table meet, the sword and light sword shadow, is a very good-looking play.
Lao Bai's ex-wife Bei Bei said that a woman who has not had children in her life is incomplete.
Gloria smiled slightly: I will also say that a woman has not dumped 100 men in her life, it is incomplete.
Miss Li is not to be outdone: a woman who has not earned 1 million in her life is incomplete.
The 3 female characters in "Love Myth" have a distinct image and a full personality, which is very colorful.
Miss Li: A woman who has not earned 1 million in her life is incomplete
Miss Li is an independent working woman, a literary and artistic fan, who loves to watch dramas or movies that ordinary people can't understand.
At the age of 44, he was cheated by his ex-husband into two apartments, leaving behind a mixed-race daughter and living in his mother's small house.
In this life, Miss Li has lost touch with her most wanted one many times, and she did not enter Tongji after a 3-point difference in the college entrance examination, and later almost did not enter New York University, and returned to Shanghai to become an advertising producer.
But she does not admit defeat, and is always pursuing what she wants and taking the path she wants to take.
From this point of view, although Miss Li and Lao Bai also have a down-and-out situation, in terms of mental strength, Miss Li and Lao Bai are not the same passers-by.
But Lao Bai was hoping that Miss Li could perceive the similarities between them, hoping that she could look back and see the warmth of ordinary life, and he was also hurting Miss Li, and he didn't have to work so hard to pursue the more difficult road, so he said, where you want to go, too difficult, don't go.
However, with Miss Li's heart, she may briefly need the warmth of Lao Bai here, but the sea of stars she wants is still ahead.
Miss Li's independent and stubborn personality determines that even if she is embarrassed for a while, she will not seek perfection. In the film, Miss Li's mother nags that Miss Li has been cheated out of two apartments, and it is speculated that most of them are the ones she gave up the property in order to divorce, which has led to the current embarrassing situation.
Therefore, when Lao Bai saw that Miss Li lived in the attic of the narrow and dilapidated old-fashioned lane, and was complained by the old mother, he proposed that after Alexander moved upstairs, Miss Li and her daughter could move over and live without rent, which would not only not enhance Miss Li's good feelings for him, but would make her feel angry and decide to "break away" from Lao Bai.
Unless Miss Li has a true feeling for Lao Bai, a woman like her will not emotionally wronged herself in order to get rid of a temporary embarrassing life.
Miss Li said that a woman who has not earned 1 million in her life is incomplete. This is her philosophy as a working woman, and work is very important to her, on the one hand, it supports her to live an economically independent life without being attached to men, on the other hand, it is also an important support for her personality independence.
Even if Miss Li ridicules that she is going downhill, she will not be worse, because she has seen the eyes of the world and the ability to work independently, so that she can still live bright and confident even when she is down, without losing the taste of life and art, and there is no shortage of suitors.
She still has the confidence of refusing to have multiple properties, and in the face of emotions, she maintains the sobriety and independence of a mature woman, and at the same time is more cautious because of past experiences.
Gloria: A woman who has not lived for herself in her whole life is incomplete
Gloria, played by Ni Hongjie, learns to draw with Lao Bai, has a warm personality, and shouts one by one.
Gloria is a unique female character in the film.
In the film, her life is not too much explained, and the audience looks at her, revealing a little sense of mystery, hazy, only that she is rich and idle, her husband is missing, and she is living freely.
Ni Hongjie is not bound by worldly prejudices, when Bei Bei said that it is incomplete for a woman not to have children in her life, she laughed and said that a woman has not dumped 100 men in her life, which is incomplete, and gently and skillfully impacts Bei Bei's stereotypical concept of using it to suppress her.
Gloria stayed at Old White's house, and the next morning, Old White woke up to hear Gloria's voice coming from downstairs, and his face was panicked.
Gloria was generous and bought an early breakfast for Lao Bai and Alexander to eat, and Alexander was chased upstairs by Lao Bai, and before leaving, he smiled and said to Gloria in a foreign tone, "Very delicious."
Lao Bai did not know what happened last night, as if he was facing a great enemy, but Gloria was understated, and enthusiastically wanted to pack up and buy the paintings that Lao Bai hung on the wall. Old Bai said to send her, turned around Gloria and transferred 25,000 to him.
Lao Bai was still an old and good man, and felt that this had happened, and could not be treated as if it had not happened, and lent Gloria the opportunity to send a painting, telling her that he would help her fly to Turkey and solve the problem of Gloria's kidnapped husband.
The result was once again lightly resolved by Gloria, so that Lao Bai did not have to be so serious, and did not forget to ridicule Lao Bai: I am very dangerous, oh, don't fall in love with me.
Sending away Lao Bai, the moment Gloria closed the door, her expression was momentarily lonely, and when she looked up, she was smiling brightly and returned to the box of Hi Song.
The role of Gloria, on the surface, is full of flowers and flowers, living freely, but there is also an unknown loneliness and loneliness behind it. But she never showed these things on the outside, but also through the heart, understanding that the old white love is not on her, turning around she is still bright and beautiful, happy.
Bebe: I just made the mistakes that men all over the world make
Lao Bai's ex-wife Bei Bei, played by Wu Yue, is also an interesting character.
When she said that sentence on the big screen: I just made a mistake that men all over the world make, obviously with a bitter face, but with extraordinary humor and ridiculous effects.
Bei Bei still feels wronged, just because of this mistake, Lao Bai left him, men can be forgiven for making mistakes, women can not be forgiven? But she always puts her home first.
Although divorced, There is still contact between Bei Bei and Lao Bai, first because of her son Bai Pigeon, and secondly because Lao Bai's mother takes some things from lao Bai's family from time to time and gives them to Bei Bei, and also points out that the two of them can remarry.
Bei Bei is separated from Lao Bai, but psychologically she will probably feel that Lao Bai is her person.
At the dinner table, the spicy Bei Bei did not shy away from sneering, leftovers and wild cats to grab? In a word, at the same time choked on Lao Bai, Gloria and Miss Li three people.
The relationship between Bei Bei and Lao Bai is the kind of familiarity that has been familiar with each other for many years and can open their mouths and fear each other without going to the heart, and the relationship between the two people after the divorce is still relatively good, basically this state.
When Bei Bei heard that Lao Bai was going to hold a painting exhibition, she immediately said: You painted my paintings, don't take them to the exhibition.
Old Bai said, you think too much, I threw away your paintings earlier.
The role of Bei Bei is also very stable, straight-talking, full of confidence, dare to think and dare to do, love to dance tango, and is also very witty between words, this married and child-cheated divorced woman, is also living out of herself.
The 3 female characters in "Love Myth" are all brilliant, showing the independent and free side of women, although they have experienced the ups and downs in marriage emotions, they are still alive and vigorous, and strive to grasp the autonomy of life.
Lao Wu and Lao Bai, 2 male characters, represent two completely different concepts and attitudes of men to love, one is a love myth that they have to remember with their lives, and the other is: there is no myth in love, only the warm and considerate water in the current life.
3 women and 2 men, holding up this quite Shanghai-style table of rice, a drama, the humor is constantly sharp, making people think deeply, and the aftertaste is endless.