A movie, if paired with a strange name, either arouses the audience's strong curiosity, or it is counterproductive, such as anyone with a "囧" word, "Tai 囧", "Hong Kong 囧", "people in 囧途" can dominate the film world, and some cheap network movies in order to rub the popularity of the "囧" series are very disgusting.
Today's movie, originally thought to be rubbing the "囧" series of heat, but this movie was completely delayed by the title, resulting in only 830,000 box office when it was released.
This movie is " Almighty Daddy " .
I believe that most people see this name, they think it is a bad film, but this is a low-cost, grounded domestic masterpiece, so far the Douban score is as high as 7.8 points, better than 80% of the feature films, but only more than 4,000 reviews.
"Almighty Daddy" won the Best Director Award and the Best Actor Award at the 7th Newcomer Film Festival in 2014, and even appeared as an exhibition film at the 27th French Angers Film Festival in 2015, although it is a Chinese comedy, but the language does not constitute a barrier, the French audience in the field laughs continuously during the film screening, and when it comes to the warm period, the audience is in deep thought, one of the audiences said: "Although I don't understand some of the bridges, I can read the character stories inside, and the actors can make people feel empathy through performances." ”
At the beginning of the story, the picture is fixed in the ancient city building of Xi'an, with a lively and playful sound, which also sets the overall tone of the film - a simple and simple story.
Subsequently, the background of the ancient city building gradually blurred, and the two words "囧 Papa" suddenly popped out of the scream.
The protagonist of the movie is named Li Guofu, a native of the countryside, who has no culture but loves music, and usually makes a living by picking up rags.
He has a son, named Pingwa, who has a speech impairment and lives with a hearing aid on weekdays, and is not very articulate so he doesn't talk much.
Once the waste station collected illegal items, the police copied Pingwa who pulled her leg and ran away, Guofu desperately pleaded with the police, and the only person he cared about was his son.
What Guofu needs to solve most is Pingwa's inferiority, Pingwa will be looked down upon wherever she goes, and he even proposes not to go out of the house again, he is afraid of leaving his father's "safe haven".
So in the police car, Guofu asked for a pair of sunglasses, he asked the police to send them home, and greeted the neighbors along the road.
Back at home, Guofu has been instilling a thought in his son, "The police car we took today came back, you said that our grandfather and cow X are not", he repeatedly asked his son to say the two words "cow X", kept saying, loudly, until the son could confidently shout out the two words "cow X".
Once, Guofu came into contact with a courier and learned that it did not require any academic qualifications to deliver couriers, and that in his countryside, couriers were a rather cattle profession.
So he decided to fight for this job for his son, and the next day he came to the office of the manager of the courier company with a gift, and opened his mouth to get to know the leader.
As a result, he was rejected by the manager's righteous words, and even his son looked down on him, thinking that others would not look for someone like him as a courier.
But Guofu didn't care so much, no matter how embarrassed he was, no matter how discouraged his son was, he must get this job for his son, so he started the stalking mode.
For example, when going to the courier company to experience the parking place squatting, others driving away he rides the bicycle to follow, others eat he helps pay the bill, etc.
The manager also couldn't stand the stalking of Guofu, and finally promised to let Pingwa try to work for a while, but there was no salary during the probationary period, even so, Guofu's face was full of smiles, and he finally found a job for his son.
However, after worrying about his work, Guofu began to worry about his son's lifelong events, and after the matchmaker introduced him to a fat girl with a better family, he insisted that his son go on a blind date.
Pingwa had no choice but to go hard, but the blind date process did not say a word, not that he did not look up to the other party, but that he already had a sweetheart in his heart, and the other party was the hair-washing sister of the barber shop on the corner.
After finding a job, Pingwa's self-confidence also rose a few points, he polished his own car, and then proudly showed it to the hair washer, and took her for a ride, he still didn't say a word in the layer, but the pure smile on his face explained everything.
At the same time, he did not forget his father, who rode a battery car and pulled his father with sunglasses sitting on a tricycle with a rope, and no one could appreciate the pride in the heart of guofu.
Pingwa was ready to use her first salary to buy a skin care product for her shampoo sister as a gift, but when the salary came, everyone had a salary and he did not.
Although her father still sent the money after communicating with the manager, Pingwa thought that the money was given to her father, and he cried to her father: "I am a countryman, and I am a disabled person, I can only farm in the countryside, I can only pick up rags in the city, and I don't lose people everywhere in the future." ”
Pingwa's self-confidence, which was hard to find, was destroyed into pieces at this moment.
When Guofu heard this, he was usually not easily angry, and he was also angry: "Farmers, I blow and play music, and everywhere I go, others look up to me." ”
However, Pingwa did not appreciate it, followed the hair washer out to sing with the customer, drank tinctures at the wine table, and when she fell drunk on the bed, she suddenly sang a mournful tune in her mouth, and his ambiguous voice was mixed with dissatisfaction with life.
Seeing this look of his son, Guofu went out, wasn't it on TV?
So he took the "Eighteen Martial Arts", one person playing whistles, fighting drums, playing electronic keyboards, singing rock and roll, successfully impressing the audition judges, and his grassroots image is very much in line with the theme of the show.
So Guofu successfully broke into the second round and was invited to tv.
He wore that pair of sunglasses, the lights shone, like a rock star Fan, on the stage he sang Wang Feng's "Light", the height of the scream, with the vicissitudes of the hoarse voice and the fierce typhoon, not losing the real star at all.
Outside, Pingwa was surprised to see her father appear on TV, and when her father finished singing, she finally said the two sons clearly and proudly, "Cow X".
"Almighty Daddy" is generally a film that shows the love of the father, the struggle between a strong father and a cowardly son, but the whole movie is not mainly about the language conflict, but the silent silence between the father and son, which contains all the sadness and joy of the father and son.
For example, there are scenes in the film where two fathers ride a tricycle late at night, the first time is when the father's tricycle suddenly turns off, and the son jumps off the cart without saying anything, which is when the father and son have a good relationship.
The second time the father and son had a conflict, the son did not say anything and jumped, but he stood in the same place for a long time, allowing his father to ride farther and farther away, and his relationship with his father became more and more distant.
This silent silence is more contagious than direct expression.
The name "Almighty Daddy" is probably to cater to this real, grounded style, but the effect is counterproductive, although this movie will touch the hearts of many people, but its attention is far less than those fast food movies.
Most realistic themes, such as "The Piano of Steel", "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", "Beautiful Sister", etc. are drowned in the wave of commercial blockbusters, but like "Almighty Daddy", their value is by no means limited to the present.