American film critic Roger Ebert wrote in "I Know You're Here Again!" The book specifically complains about the routines in Hollywood movies, and one of them is called "based on the true story" (based on the true story). "Based on a true story" is a Hollywood phrase that really means "depressed, morbid, miserable, with so many so startling or lascivious scenes that no normal producer would dare to put it into a movie without explanation—unless it's an excuse that they actually happened." ”
This complaint is not universal, and it is too easy to find enough counter-evidence to overturn it. However, it is worth noting that "based on real people and real events" can indeed be used as a powerful excuse to explain the irrational phenomena in some movies. For example, why did the Japanese movie "The Bride Spanning 8 Years" starring Ken Sato and Taiho Tsuchiya be made into a running account? Because in real life, blandness is the truth.
"The Bride Spanning 8 Years" is originally based on real people and real events, almost no dramatic elements are added to the re-creation, the main performance of the "film art" characteristics is to greatly improve the appearance of the characters in the story - even if the stars are much better looking than ordinary people, it is still inevitable that many viewers feel that Tsuchiya Taiho is not beautiful enough. For many viewers, the so-called "miracle" in the movie is not that the eight-year-long care allows a sick adult woman to learn from scratch from the state of toddler and finally retrieve the memory, but to have a good-looking, gentle and loyal boyfriend like Ken Sato in the movie.
Although the story of Naoshi Nishizawa and Mai in Nakahara in reality is very touching, the audience is only willing to spend eight minutes to understand it, and eight years of waiting to be replaced by a handsome man and a beautiful woman can spend two hours with the audience. The length is not a problem, the problem is that "The Bride Spanning 8 Years" does not make like a movie.
To illustrate this, let's review what happened to the "real people and real things".
In 2005, when the then twenty-four-year-old Mai Nakahara met with the twenty-six-year-old Naoshi Nishizawa, the man liked the woman's smile and began dating, and a year later decided to marry on the anniversary of the engagement in mid-March of that year.
Unfortunately, shortly before the wedding, Mai had physical problems, mainly manifested by the loss of memory and soon fell into a coma. The wedding was forced to be interrupted, and after a medical diagnosis, Mai was diagnosed with "anti-NMDA receptor antibody encephalitis". This disease may cause tumors, especially ovarian teratomas and other conditions, and Mai has complications of ovarian tumors. In addition to complications, this type of encephalitis can also trigger prolonged coma in patients. While fatalities can occur, there are also a large number of recovered cases. After the patient is released from the coma, amnesia or neuroseschiosis may occur, which is accompanied by symptoms such as hyperexcitability and hallucinations. Some medical scholars believe that the patients who are possessed by the devil in the classic horror film "Exorcism" actually suffer from this kind of encephalitis.
In addition, this disease has an incidence of 1 in 10,000 in Japan, and the incidence is still quite high. Probably because of the high incidence, one in 10,000 people are facing diseases that are like being possessed by the devil and may cause death, and they will be eager to have someone at such a time, staying together, the social response after the film was released in Japan was good, and won the Four nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Soundtrack from the Japan Film Academy Awards, which was very successful.
After Mai suffered from encephalitis, her parents had persuaded Shangzhi and Mai to break up, but Shangzhi did not agree, and he insisted on visiting the sick every day before Going to work before Mai woke up, and taking a weekend off three times a day. After a year and three months, Mai wakes up and gradually regains consciousness, but is not impressed with Shangzhi. After eight years, Mai finally recovered almost completely, and although she still needed wheelchair assistance at the wedding ceremony in 2014, her life was basically unaffected. The two children were born safely at the time of the film's release, and the visible complications did not cause further impact.
The film was well received when it was screened at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, it has a bland warmth and creates a gentle boyfriend who is good-looking and good-hearted that most women dream of in real life, insisting that it is as plain as water and cannot move the audience, and seems to underestimate the empathy ability of some audiences. However, returning to the film itself, if it wants to win the hearts of more audiences, it may also need to make efforts in film shooting technology.
"The Bride Spanning 8 Years" is a spoiler-by-spoiler and spoiler-to-the-sky movie, the audience knows from the beginning that this is a story of a lover who eventually becomes a family, and its keywords are love and protection, which correspond to the first half hour of the movie and the second half hour of the movie. In "Real People and Real Events", Shangzhi and Mai only talked about love for one year, and the touching part of the story is actually that Shang Zhishou's eight years, which can be put into the movie, and the proportion of the story that shows one year and the story of eight years is not equal, which shows from one side that the "guardian" part of the movie is not performed well.
Even if the part of the interaction is reluctantly explained as the cause of the protection, the story of ordinary men and women meeting and falling in love is made plainly, without the vigorous and unforgettable feelings that the audience can experience, and it cannot convince the audience that this love is worth guarding and waiting for eight years for the role played by Ken Sato. Then to the hasty illness, hasty recovery, nearly an hour in the "Reason I Can't Get Married", "Not Married", "Penultimate Love" and other subtitles composed of repeated entanglements, if you can play at one point five times the speed, with Ken Sato in line with the small video era of the material accumulation method, but can be used as a move to Japan's top ten characters VCR broadcast and not hypnotic.