01
Jia Ling's directorial debut " Hello ! Li Huanying" from a business point of view, is undoubtedly successful.
As of this morning, it has been released for 6 days and won more than 2.6 billion box office, which is only worse than the classic IP "Detective Chinatown 3". As a low-cost film, Jia Ling, a sketch actor who is a director for the first time, has undoubtedly been the most successful in this attempt.
Just like in the film, Jia Ling's mother expected her, in reality, today's Jia Ling can achieve such results, which should also be regarded as a certain degree of completion of her mother Li Huanying's expectations of her, rather than only one adult university acceptance letter like in the film. Jia Ling self-directed and self-acted such a film, because of the strong and hot affection for her mother, ordinary audiences can easily resonate.
It's real, but it's only one advantage.
02
Crossing back to the setting of meeting his parents when he was young, the previous Chinese movies have appeared in "Riding the Wind and Waves" and "New Difficult Brothers", which are also similar to this film in setting, with both funny and family affection.
Therefore, this design is not special in Zeng Xiansen's view.
The biggest problem with Jia Ling's debut work is that it is not to cook the thick chicken soup of family affection, more exquisitely and carefully, to those who are eager to cry on the big screen, at least Zeng Xiansen himself cannot feel it. In short, the film provides a certain truth that seems to be expected, but it loses the touching people outside of reason. Jia Ling cried several times, but in Zeng Xiansen's view, only once was effective. It is the following scene, Li Huanying said to Jia Ling, "My future daughter, I just want her to be healthy and happy."
What we see are the emotions of the fragments of division, and the sincere and heartfelt nostalgia for the mother.
Of course, emotions are real, of course, the age is nostalgic enough, and crying is also real. But the story of all this pieced together is not strong enough, not calm enough.
There are two core relationships that are not handled well.
The first relationship is between the daughter and the mother.
This is the most important place in the closed loop of character logic, involving emotional preparation, but Jia Ling, as one of the screenwriters and as a director, has ignored it. In this self-proclaimed touching story of director and lead actor Jia Ling, we do not see more space to show the dedication, love and intention of mother Li Huanying, nor can we see how the mother-daughter relationship is superimposed from shallow to deep rings, and then to the loss of life and death, and without such cooking process and emotional brewing, the tears in the last moment of the film are raining down, and the deep affection is soothed, all of which have lost their luster. In addition, the fragments created in the story to depict this relationship are actually about the intimate relationship between mother and daughter who hurt each other and contradict each other.
And this kind of real, common parent-child relationship in traditional Chinese families is that the mother says "I just want my daughter to be healthy and happy", but the parents who are called to the back still say to their daughters, "When can you make me grow back to my face". Ling Er wanted to make her mother happy, so she made a false certificate, which led to her mother's public face at the celebration banquet, and finally an accident occurred.
This commonplace Chinese refinement of the mother-daughter relationship is typical, but not specific enough.
The fragment of the story about her mother Li Huanying is actually more funny.
Moreover, in addition to the above-mentioned well-designed paragraphs, the main story line is not placed on the mother-daughter relationship, but on finding an object for the mother, Ms. Li Huanying. It is understandable that when Jia Ling racked her brains and tried every means to form her own mother to marry other men.
Watching movies, rowing boats, performing shows, and abandoning her father in reality in order to make her mother like other men. We can certainly understand that this may be for some comedic effect, but it doesn't really work for the mother-daughter relationship.
Therefore, when Jia Ling cried loudly at the end of the film, Zeng Xiansen thought that this was just her personal catharsis, and it was difficult to infect more people's soft hearts.
The second relationship, the time comparison that crosses.
What is different from similar genre films such as "Riding the Wind and Waves" and "New Difficult Brothers and Brothers" is that Jia Ling, as a director, directly chose a fantastic way of crossing, crossing if she wanted to, anyway, she had thoughts and family affection as a backing.
Without rational measures to deal with it, the loopholes cannot be ignored.
To give just one example, why did Jia Ling cross back and still look the same look and age, but her mother Li Huanying has become a young man? In fact, that's because the length of time to travel back accounts for a large proportion of the film, find a young actor to play Jia Ling, one is that it is difficult to find such a body shape, and the other is that the lead actor Jia Ling will seriously shorten the appearance time.
03
As one of the best-known films in the Spring Festival file at present, Jia Ling's directorial debut, with a rare resonance, deceived a large number of audiences into tears.
But this comedy movie with the family card is just an exclusive hymn of Jia Ling full of affection, only vague, sensual, cloudy affection, and even other parts, are too fake.