The 2020 "National Day File" is coming strongly, and many movies have feasted on long-awaited audiences with rich genres and luxurious lineups. Among them, "My Hometown and Me" and "Arriving Home at One Point" cut into different regions and use comedy to show the sincere feelings of homesickness and homesickness of wanderers.
At the same time, another film that reflects the era model Huang Wenxiu's return to poverty alleviation is also being released.
"Hometown", as the key word in this year's "National Day File" movie, has touched the nostalgia in the hearts of countless audiences, and showed the gratifying results of poverty alleviation through the lens. The story of the return of the beautiful girl Huang Wenxiu in the movie "Beautiful Life" also deeply touched the audience.
On October 2, the Weibo topic #Huang Wenxiu's last message before his death # appeared on the hot search list, and the number of related videos played exceeded 10 million, Sabine said "I dare not look at this sentence", and netizens spontaneously remembered Huang Wenxiu.
The guest who came to the studio of the "Today Film Review" National Day special planning series "Light and Shadow Praise China" today is Li Zhen, associate researcher of the China Film Archive. He will lead us to focus on the "poverty alleviation" theme movie "Beautiful Life" - "youth + poverty alleviation = hope" equation can be established?
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"My Hometown and Me", "Arriving Home at One Point" and "Beautiful Life" can be called the "troika" of poverty alleviation movies in the National Day period. However, although they go hand in hand in one direction, it is clear that the character forms and story types on the "troika" are not the same, "these three films have their own characteristics," Li Zhen said.
"My Hometown and Me" has a relatively concentrated dramatic conflict, a higher degree of typology, and a stronger emotion; "Arriving Home at One Point" is a story of poverty alleviation and struggle of young people with romantic and even comic colors.
And "Beautiful Life" is very different from the first two works, Li Zhen summed up this film has three beauty - "human beauty, scenery beauty, spiritual beauty". He added, "Its greater charm is to let the audience see that we have such a young, seemingly weak girl in China doing such a great thing, which is inexplicably generating a sense of pride."
It can be said that in the "National Day file", this movie is the most realistic poverty alleviation masterpiece.
"It is very difficult to make such a movie, because it does not allow too much fiction," Li Zhen analyzed, "it respects the archetypal characters very much, does not render emotions, does not have great sorrow and joy, and does not carve too much of a character, Huang Wenxiu as the protagonist is like a child next door."
Therefore, "Beautiful Life" is real and full of the times, "her speech and demeanor, her temperament and personality are in line with the typical image of today's Chinese youth," Li Zhen said.
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Because director Miao Yue is particularly good at following the shooting, there are several scenes in the movie "Beautiful Life" that will lead the audience to follow the character of Huang Wenxiu into some spaces, and the sense of substitution and immersion is greatly enhanced.
In the film, the action of the characters is also very strong, "this may also be a concrete embodiment of the vitality of the current 'houlang' young people, it is artistic, but it is also real," Li Zhen said.
Coincidentally, there are very cute young people in the three works, and their youth stories and youthful atmosphere are full of film, "youth plus poverty alleviation equals the answer later, it must be hope." When Huang Wenxiu's car drove by the farmland in the countryside, a high-speed rail on the viaduct was speeding past, which was not a simple camera picture, but a very allegorical scene.
"It is better to recommend that you go to see "Beautiful Life" before watching "Home at One Point" and "My Hometown and Me", and may understand these two films more thoroughly," said host Zhang Xiaoli.
This time, "Today's Film Review" also exclusively interviewed Miao Yue, the director of the film "Beautiful Life", to listen to her creative experience.
"From the filming of "Eighteen-Hole Village" to today, poverty alleviation and accurate poverty alleviation have become a hot topic in the whole society, the title of our film is "Beautiful Life", this 'show' is 'show'", director Miao Yue introduced the meaning of the film title to everyone.
"In fact, in today's pluralistic era, every soul has a steaming expression, and Huang Wenxiu and her poverty alleviation team also have a particularly good name, called 'the strongest team on the surface', the surface is close to the land, and such an infectious name also fully reflects the life show of Huang Wenxiu and her friends," Miao Yue said.
"I think Miao Yue is the director with the highest achievements in rural themes, especially poverty alleviation themes in recent years," Li Zhen commented, "Her success comes from her sincerity, because some things have not been personally experienced, I really don't know how much the cost is, I was fortunate to participate in poverty alleviation work for a short time, I knew what the concept of no road is, in the case of bad geological conditions, the possibility of danger is very large."
"Therefore, in today's era, it is a truly remarkable thing for Chinese youth represented by Huang Wenxiu to have such a responsibility to change it," Li Zhen sighed.
If you use one word to describe the praise of the film "Beautiful Life" to the motherland, Li Zhen chose "youth is invincible".
Li Zhen said that the word has two meanings, "one is that our country has such a group of aspiring young people doing very meaningful things; at the same time, our country is still young, and we have the strength to create a better future."