"The Doctor is Here" is a warm and cute French comedy sketch, if the new meaning theory breaks through the sense of heaviness, it may not be able to kill the blood in many similar works, but as far as the "warm comedy sketch" is concerned, it is still a warm work suitable for killing time.
A busy expatriate doctor (Michelle Brown) who stumbles upon a hairy, silly courier (Frank Gaston Peter). The old doctor was exhausted and asked the delivery staff to help "pretend to be himself" to visit the patient, which was originally just a one-time accident, but because of the chain reaction, it developed into a series of fake scenes.
The doctors and delivery workers in the story are at the poles of rich and poor, cold and warm, old and young, and it is difficult to become friends from any realistic dimension.
Like the protagonists in a series of similar films, they are both in very opposite poles.
The elegant, highly educated black musicians of The Green Book, and the rough, low-class white "big guys" who run around bars;
The young, poor, healthy nannies in "Out of Reach", and the old, wealthy, and sick employers;
The rich, grumpy, lonely capital predator in the Bucket List, the poor, humble, and happy poor father.
No, the contrast is stark.
In the conventional context of daily life, it is difficult for them to clash with the barriers to become best friends, but due to special business, due to the special situation of death and illness, they accidentally cross the invisible wall and become brave and warm interlopers in another set of value aesthetic systems.
The same is true in "The Doctor Is Here".
The courier once had the dream of becoming a doctor, but in reality he could only deliver couriers at night, drive a ride during the day, and work hard to survive.
The lonely old doctor, in a formulaic busy gyro schedule, hides the pain of losing his old man's son; the silly young delivery man refuses to admit that his job is to run errands to deliver the courier, and claims to be an entrepreneur who is developing a delivery software. Talking about his and his brother's great cause of saving money, the future plan is like a daydream.
On the one hand, there is the lifeless old age of Xiao Ser, and on the other hand, there is the exuberant youth who has no way out.
The two are mixed together by accident, and although the origin of the story and several encounters are suspected of abusing coincidences, the process itself is still warm and healing.
The courier changed into the doctor's equipment, replaced his name, ran errands for him, listened to his instructions in the headphones, experienced the hardships and difficulties of this line, bumped into the contempt and narrow view between peers, and finally experienced the greatness and value of the doctor.
Under the guise of a doctor, he knocked on the doors of one mansion after another in the name of a doctor. When he was a delivery man, he could only wait outside the door, never having the opportunity to see the magnificence and splendor inside the door.
In the story of this "one-night doctor", he experienced the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty of this line like a marquee.
In just one night, in the panicked scene where the busyness was almost punctured, the takeaway brother really got the warmth and importance of the doctor's benevolence.
It's not about money and social status, it's about life itself.
At the beginning, the silly silly boy did not strictly implement the doctor's instructions in the headphones, and promised the patient who could not defecate "I will help you see", without knowing what he promised, and the picture was too "tasteful" to remember.
Since then, the stupid boy mistakenly hit and found that the suspected food poisoning was actually carbon monoxide poisoning. He saved the lives of a family and a cute dog in time, and became a hero in the media's rush to interview.
Eventually, the silly boy delivered a newborn baby with the old doctor. Fake doctors almost wear gangs several times, drive without a driver's license and are almost found by the duty personnel, cope with hospital telephone examinations, and other endless troubles, all of which cannot withstand the indescribable impact and happiness of delivering children and being baptized by the light of life.
Delivering this bridge section, the film is very imaginative.
When the delivery brother entered the door, the pregnant woman was not pregnant, the abdomen was still flat, and suddenly the amniotic fluid was broken, completely jumping out of the narrative framework of the real story.
The delivery brother delivered the baby hard, just saw the child's head, he was frightened and fainted, very expressionist exaggeration, paying attention to allegorical symbolism and comedy far more than the details.
Such unrealistic methods are somewhat abrupt and catch people off guard.
In addition, it is worth complaining that the film still has the suspicion of abusing coincidences.
The old doctor's son died unexpectedly while skiing, and a few years later, on Christmas Eve, his son's former girlfriend was still difficult to get out of the nightmare, taking a large number of sleeping pills and almost dying, the doctor rushed to the door to help in the busy expatriate schedule, and met the delivery brother who came to deliver sauerkraut fish.
Because of the hurry, the doctor "forced" the brother to deliver medicine for himself and began the first cooperation.
Soon, the doctor and the delivery brother met again on the road and crashed into a car accident, which was too dependent on non-inevitable coincidences.
Sending the brother to help the doctor inject, between the wrong places, causing him to be unable to move, and he had to "kidnap" the whole night to induce the brother to impersonate himself and complete the work of sending a doctor.
What makes people want to complain even more is that the ex-girlfriend of the delivery brother and the doctor's late son inexplicably has a vague emotional line, and scenes such as the reunion of the three people and eating together also make people feel that it is unnecessary.
The old man and the little brother's map of rich and poor, the staggered presentation of reality and ideals, is a neat and meaningful counterpoint presentation, and the mixing of the girl's emotional line leads to a bit of deliberateness in the story, and even a hint of dog blood.
Although the arrangement of coincidences in the course of events is not convincing enough, and although the absurd and surreal bridges in the story are somewhat abrupt, the overall appearance of the film is still quite regular, and the emotions and textures conveyed are still warm, and they also reflect the intelligent but not mean irony and reflection.
Ironically, no one looks up to him because of the enthusiasm and kindness of the delivery brother, and people's attitude towards him is mostly determined by his false coat and social professional shell.
A very important "passerby role" in the movie, three times online, the attitude is very representative.
The first time he was confronted with an ordinary delivery man, making a very disrespectful joke, playing the delivery man as a monkey, feeling that he was playing very high, not caring that the other party was scared out of a cold sweat; even when the other party left, he asked the other party to help him take the garbage and dump it.
The second time he saw the male protagonist, at this time the male protagonist changed his outfit and came to the door as a doctor. His attitude toward the delivery man and the doctor was completely judgmental, arrogant and playful toward the former, and almost blind to the latter.
The third time he saw the male protagonist again, this time the male protagonist did the work of driving a hitchhiker. The other party is very stylized after greeting, after getting on the car to do their own things, even a look is too lazy to give the driver.
The same person, changing three different sets of clothes and using three different identities, gets three completely different attitudes of the same person.
This should have been a very symbolic theme, but the film directly filmed this difference in a very intuitive way.
The other side of this story may be the bottom of the professional value.
Although the income is hugely disparate, but the doctors or the takeaway are also valuable and contributing, the important thing is not the appearance of the brilliance, but the essence of the search. What matters is not "whether your profession is expensive" but "whether you have become a truly kind and useful person".