"The fireworks in the world are the most touching to the hearts of mortals", this is my biggest feeling after watching the realistic movie "Follow Me". The audience of this film is always able to accurately locate it, a warm and healing film.
Director Liu Guochang is a staunch advocate of realism, and although he occasionally deviates from the track of realism, he will always get lost in the end.
"The Boy Party" is Liu Guochang's first film, and he borrowed from Hong Kong's TV shows for many years, similar to "Sonorous Collection", coupled with his live broadcast method, making "The Child Party" an almost documentary drama film.
After this, Liu Guochang implemented his realist style all the way and contributed a number of excellent film works, such as "The Queen of Temple Street" and "The Biography of Inspector Leiluo".
"Follow Me" is Liu Guochang's lost work, because his last film, "The Finale under the Thunderbolt on a Sunny Day", completely deviated from his realist style, which was biased toward dramatization and even crazy comedy.
"Follow Me Again" implements Liu Guochang's realism and tells a story of father and son recognizing each other.
Although the plot of the story is quite old-fashioned, the rare thing is that the film pays attention to the plot rather than deliberately sensationalizing, and it is like a reply to Liu's realism in the 1980s.
Writing love is the biggest feature of this movie.
In the summer when cicadas are chirping, the air seems to be a little humid, the weather has not become very hot, Ma Bencheng (played by Zhang Fengyi) is still wearing a shirt outside his vest, and Du Xiaozheng is still wearing his school uniform jacket.
Two people, one big and one small, walked side by side on the country road, and the picture was particularly warm.
Ma Bencheng, who smuggled from the mainland to Hong Kong, killed the foreman by mistake while asking for wages and squatted in prison for seven years.
Ma Bencheng, who had suffered seven years in prison, was not disconnected from society, and seven years ago he had a happy family with a family and a wife, but seven years later his family was broken and his wife was separated.
The huge gap makes Ma Bencheng no longer have hope for this society, and the only belief in his survival may be his son, who has never met.
The former brother-in-law (played by Yingda) told Ma Bencheng that when his son died of congenital heart disease when he was more than one year old, Ma Bencheng was struck by lightning.
At this time, the last bit of hope left in his heart was gone.
In the next shot, the director vividly expresses this despair: in the dark night, it rains in the sky, although it is not big, but it is very urgent, as if people are shedding tears.
Ma Bencheng limped in the rain, letting the rain hit his face, and before he could take a few steps, he collapsed in the rain.
In a close-up, Ma Bencheng is lying on the road, the rain is flowing on his face, his lips are open and closed, and he wants to cry but can't cry.
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When night fell, Ma Bencheng saw Du Xia's family eating in the room, and the picture was very warm.
In the face of Ma Bencheng's voyeurism, the former brother-in-law found several people to beat him up and threw him into the street. So Ma Bencheng decided to "kidnap" Du Xiaozheng and go to his hometown.
When Du Xiaozheng was out of school, Ma Bencheng took a funny little monkey at the school gate and tricked Du Xiaozheng into hand.
After this, we can see that Du Xiaozheng is willing to follow Ma Bencheng.
Not only because of the little monkey, nor because Ma Bencheng said that he was his father's subordinate, but more likely because they had a real blood relationship, and the blood thicker than water family affection could not be given up no matter what.
Throughout the film, Ma Bencheng shows his obsession with his son, unprecedented and from the beginning, he has indeed believed that his son has long left him, but he has never seen him.
"I always felt that our child was hidden in the sewers, and I had to dig him with a digging head, and although I hadn't seen him, I recognized his bones."
In this journey, Du Xiaozheng is not like a kidnapped hostage, but more like Ma Bencheng's son.
Along the way, Ma Bencheng always patiently taught him and confided in him his pains and difficulties. All this is because he does not know that Du Xiaozheng is his son, and if he knew that Du Xiaozheng was his son, I think he would not have said this to him.
Teaching Du Xiaozheng is like teaching his own son, eating dumplings can not eat dumpling skin, people are thirsty even horse urine drink, hold anxious to urinate everywhere.
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Ma Bencheng took Du Xiaozheng to pick up the rags together, and finally sold thirty-two yuan and two cents. Du Xiaozheng ran to the side, seriously planning the distribution of money.
He said to Ma Bencheng: "This is your half, twenty yuan", Ma Bencheng also shook his head solemnly and said: "Twenty yuan is not enough for me to spend", Du Xiaozheng had to pout and give him all the money.
On the way, Du Xiaozheng said that he was very thirsty, and it happened that Ma Bencheng saw a watermelon field.
In the watermelon field, Ma Bencheng shouted a few words and no one responded, so he picked a watermelon and ate it, and before he could eat two bites, a huge watermelon fell from the sky and smashed Ma Bencheng's seven meats and eight vegetarians.
Ma Bencheng came out of the ground with a few pieces of broken watermelon, tricked Du Xiaozheng into saying that it was an eggplant field, Du Xiaozheng asked what was on your head, Ma Bencheng took a piece of broken watermelon on his head, handed it to Du Xiaozheng and said you eat it, But Du Xiaozheng said, I don't eat eggplant.
In this journey, through the small things, the tacit understanding between Ma Bencheng and Du Xiaozheng is getting higher and higher, and even with a look from Ma Bencheng, Du Xiaozheng can understand what it means.
As the journey gradually deepened, Du Xiaozheng's dependence on Ma Bencheng became more and more intense, and he took the initiative to apply a towel to Ma Bencheng, who had a nosebleed.
One day, when Ma Bencheng woke up on the boat in the morning, he found that Du Xiaozheng was missing, so he returned to look for it, and as the ship sailed, Ma Bencheng found Du Xiaozheng.
At this moment of encounter, the camera constantly switches between the two, Ma Bencheng's original anxious expression gradually reveals a smile, the tight frown is gradually relaxed, and Du Xiaozheng is cheering.
When the two faced each other, Du Xiaozheng thought that Ma Bencheng did not want him. Ma Bencheng picked up the tearful Du Xiaozheng, and after a fixed shot, two people, one big and one small, walked forward side by side, gradually moving away from the camera.
The young Du Xiaozheng did not understand the world, he only wanted to take the experience of this time as a trip, perhaps he knew in his heart that this was a kidnapping, but there was always a thought in his heart that the uncle in front of him would not hurt himself.
During the trip, Du Xiaozheng witnessed the soft side of Ma Bencheng, who told Du Xiaozheng about his father's death, which had a great impact on Du Xiaozheng.
At the same time, Du Xiaozheng also witnessed the hot-blooded side of Ma Bencheng, in order not to lose face in front of Du Xiaozheng, Ma Bencheng was beaten by others, and finally relied on the alarm sound of the electronic toy gun in Du Xiaozheng's hand, Ma Bencheng was able to escape.
If a good movie is a good story, then this movie is a good movie. A pair of fathers and sons who did not know that the two people were father and son, on the way home, ran around, and several interesting things happened, simple and clear.
However, simple is often more realistic, and a seemingly simple movie often has the most powerful power. This film needs to be carefully thought out.
Text/Ah Hui