In 2019, "My Motherland and Me" was released.
At that time, as a petty bourgeois Wenqing, I had no expectations for the main theme of the work.
As a result, several of the stories in it are still unforgettable to me.
Especially Xu Zheng's "Win the Championship" -
When Dong Dong looked at the departing Xiaomei and resolutely turned his head and chose to repair the TV, his mood was extremely painful.
At the moment when the women's volleyball team won the championship, the surrounding neighbors were happy, and the atmosphere was more festive than the New Year.
But no one knows that there is a sad boy who almost sacrificed his love for the sake of his family and country.
In 2020, with a good feeling for the previous work, I took my parents to see "My Hometown and Me".
As a result, before he left the theater, he was already in tears.
Especially the "Last Lesson" directed by Xu Zheng ——
Thirty years ago, Teacher Fei wanted to paint the school where Jiang Xiaofeng painted, but accidentally stained the land and rivers.
Thirty years later, when Teacher Fei returned to the countryside where he volunteered to teach, he saw with his own eyes the colorful colors that Jiang Xiaofeng imagined.
At this moment, both Teacher Fei and we entered an indescribable state in our hearts.
We wanted to laugh, we wanted to cheer for this happy ending, but we laughed and laughed, and we couldn't help but shed tears.
In September this year, the third work of the "National Day Trilogy" opened for early screening.
As a fan of the first two films, I grabbed 5 positions by fighting for hand speed.
This time, in addition to my parents, I also brought my eldest aunt and second aunt.
You ask about the movie-going experience?
There are no important spoilers below
"My Father and Me"
Four stories, IMAX Auditorium.
Like the first two works —
"My Father and Me" is another unique, Chinese-style family movie.
However, unlike in the past, my favorite story this time is not from Xu Zheng.
Instead, it sets a magnificent tone for the whole work, Wu Jing's "Riding the Wind".
What kind of story is this?
In 1942, a group of croppers were harvesting grain in a field.
Suddenly, an explosion broke the tranquility of the croppers.
But the croppers are not easy to mess with.
As soon as the camera turns, the croppers mount their war horses and immediately become the "Jizhong Cavalry Regiment".
abrupt?
This kind of setting and description is actually quite realistic.
Because, for thousands of years, China has been operating like this for most of the time.
As an agrarian nation, before New China, our ancestors were almost all wartime anti-towers and grew vegetables in their spare time.
It was precisely because of this that our industrial development lagged behind that of foreign countries, which made the situation at that time extremely difficult.
At that time, Japan, which had experienced the Meiji Restoration, had developed the world's top modern weapons.
We, on the other hand, still use World War I-era rifles and horses.
In the face of such a huge disparity in equipment, how should we meet the enemy?
The method is simple and violent -
Use the human body as bait.
Blood in exchange for timing.
Shoot down steel machines at the cost of your life.
yes.
It is completely different from the anti-war dramas we usually see on TV.
"Riding the Wind" confronts history and restores a cruel and real anti-Japanese battlefield.
On this battlefield, the Japanese army is not only as brutal as a tiger and a wolf, but also as clever and cunning as a fox.
After shooting down the enemy plane, the Jizhong cavalry regiment found a place and luckily escaped the village of the "Great Sweep".
Ma Renxing (Wu Jing) orders the cavalry regiment to take all the villagers to the rear.
However, it was ambushed by a large japanese army.
If you force your resistance, you may not last more than thirty seconds.
Is it to die with the enemy?
Or do you leave the old and the young to escape alone?
I don't spoil.
All I can say is that this plot reminds me of a piece of history.
During the Three Kingdoms period, in the face of Cao Cao's army, which was difficult to resist, Liu Bei outside Jingzhou could only escape.
However, on the way to Liu Bei's escape, the nearby people have turned to him, and the number of people has reached more than 100,000.
Someone advised Liu Bei: "These people have no combat effectiveness, and with them may be completely destroyed, you should go first." ”
Liu Bei said: "To achieve great things, it must be people-oriented, and now that so many people are following me, how can I bear to abandon them!" ”
Ma Renxing, just like Liu Bei under Dangyang City.
For the villagers, for the people-oriented, for the new generation of children...
What he sacrificed was more precious than his own life.
What, you ask?
I still don't spoilers.
All I can say is —
If Chinese culture is like Liu Bei, then Japanese culture is like Cao Cao.
When the Chinese warriors faced the dripping blood, the Japanese army also gave them formal respect.
Of course.
Regardless of form, if we want to have a real sense of dignity, we have to rely on ourselves to fight for it.
In my opinion —
Although "Riding the Wind" is not long, even if it is taken out alone, it is enough to call it a war drama.
Whether it is the control of movement, rhythm or audiovisual language, it has reached a fairly high level.
On the other hand, it also laid a foreshadowing for Zhang Ziyi's "Poems".
Why is the War of Resistance Against Japan so difficult to fight?
In modern history, why has China been oppressed by great powers?
This answer, "Riding the Wind" has already told us.
Because the industrial level is backward, the level of science and technology is at the bottom.
Therefore, in the face of artillery and aircraft, we can only use flesh and blood to resist.
Therefore, after the founding of New China, it is necessary to develop industry and science and technology at all costs.
The two protagonists in "Poems" are a couple doing space work.
Unlike the "wind-riding" who cross the mountains and rivers on horseback and carry guns to protect the country's territory -
In the barren Great Northwest, they used knowledge as a weapon and threw themselves into another battle.
What kind of battle is this?
Since there is no camera, the point of failure cannot be detected at all when the device explodes.
Therefore, in order to make the Long March 1 rocket smoothly go to the sky, only professionals can be arranged to see it with the naked eye.
At this point, some people may ask: Is aerospace not the job of science students, and what does it have to do with poetry?
I would like to say that in "The Legend of the Demon Cat", Bai Juyi, played by Huang Xuan, wrote poems with pen and ink.
In this work, the father played by Huang Xuan wrote poetry with his life.
Poems written in pen and ink are either ethereal, or romantic, or evocative.
Poetry written with life is realistic enough to have the power to change a person's life.
Years later, when the father and mother (Zhang Ziyi) burn themselves up, something flies out of the earth.
Not Long March 1.
It's the poems they co-created.
At the end of the story, when the poem is recited—
For director Zhang Ziyi, I went from being skeptical at the beginning to being impressed.
My child, if I can, I want to tell you...
Fuel is something that ignites oneself and illuminates others
Rockets, for the sake of dreams, throw away their own things
Life is something that is used to burn
Death is something that verifies life
In order not to affect everyone's viewing experience, I will not spoil too many spoilers in this article.
Overall, "My Father and Me" still continues the standard of the "National Day Trilogy".
There is still laughter, there are still tears.
Still family fun, still suitable for taking the elders to watch movies.
There are still complex emotions that belong to Chinese.
At the same time, as new directors, Zhang Ziyi and Shen Teng also brought some different feelings from the past.
For example, when we look at those stories in the past, the emotions we receive are mainly nostalgia for the past.
In this film, Shen Teng used a comedic approach to shoot a science fiction story about the future.
And this science fiction story "Young Walk" also made me have two special experiences.
One: When Xing Yihao (Shen Teng) has no expression, I smile.
Two: When Xing Yihao smiled, I cried.
Looking at China, these two special experiences, in addition to Zhou Xingchi, probably only Shen Teng can do it.
If we say that in "Riding the Wind" and "Poetry", the fathers shed blood and sacrificed in order to let the next generation live well.
Then, when it comes to "Duck Prophet" and "Young Walk", the fathers want to let the next generation live a better life.
After walking out of the theater, Xing Yihao's words made me fall into contemplation:
"Your son's dream is to make a machine learn, but you let him make a machine that only learns."
This sentence reminds me of 2016, the intelligent robot Alpha Dog, the world Go champion Lee Sedol.
At the end of the first game, Lee Sedol lost, and he said: It feels like you're playing chess with someone.
At the end of the second game, Lee Sedol lost again, saying: It feels like playing chess with God.
But, is the Alpha Dog really a god?
The alpha dog's way of learning chess is to look through and study all the chess pieces in human history.
To put it bluntly, in essence, it is just a bully who has learned the tricks of all the go masters in ancient and modern times.
Therefore, after the start of the fourth game, Lee Sedol broke away from the conventional routine and sacrificed the "hand of the gods" that had never been seen before.
So he finally took back a city for mankind.
In 2017, a new generation of intelligent Go robots, Alpha Yuan, was officially born.
Unlike my brother Alpha Dog —
When Alpha Meta learns chess, it does not refer to any human chess score.
It just learns the rules of Go and then studies itself over and over again.
outcome?
Alpha dollar, won the alpha dog.
The score is 100 to 0.
Didn't find it?
From being oppressed by humans to delving into human chess.
From defeating humanity to independently creating new chess paths.
The history of artificial intelligence is like the life of a generation of grandmasters.
Just like a big country, from scratch, from existence to refinement, from refinement to new development process.
If you don't understand what I'm saying, take your parents and watch "My Father and Me."
After reading it, I believe you will understand it.