On February 3, Wen Muye's new film "Miracle Stupid Child" has grossed more than 350 million yuan, and four years ago, his feature film "I Am Not a Medicine God" became a hit that year with a box office of 3.1 billion.
"I am not a medicine god" pays attention to the practical dilemma of leukemia patients who are difficult to buy drugs, profoundly reveals the helpless life of special low-level people, and touches on the pain points of the public. This time, Wen Muye still uses his delicate display of reality to reproduce Shenzhen in 2013 , an era full of opportunities , paying tribute to every strivers on the way forward in the new era.
As a Spring Festival movie, it is still an inspirational film, before entering the cinema, I know that the protagonist will experience various difficult story modes, and I have already imagined the scene where he will finally become famous. I've never been passionate about any success studies, and I don't need touching sensational dramas to vent my emotions in the near future. But the healing feel of this film surprised me.
(The following contains spoilers, be careful)
Shenzhen in 2013 is bustling, with high-rise buildings and busy traffic; it is also shabby, gray and dark, and mixed with fish and dragons. "Stupid kids" aren't the only ones, either.
In the big times, the steps of small people are difficult, and money and life are closely related. The 20-year-old Jing Hao (Yi Qianxi) died of his mother, leaving him alone in Shenzhen with his young sister with congenital heart disease. Living expenses, rent, sister's tuition, and medical expenses all fell on the shoulders of this teenager. He relied on his excellent mobile phone repair technology to open a shop, open a small shop, barely make ends meet, and make a living.
Someone else's 20-year-old may be able to sit in a college classroom and not have to worry about eating or not eating. Jing Hao, 20, also wants to finish his studies in college, he is also a fan of Guangdong Hongyuan, and perhaps he was also a teenager who could sweat on the basketball court in the jersey of his beloved team.
But now he, all his dreams and interests are all forgotten, because his identity is not a child who has someone to shield the wind and rain, but a brother who shields people from the wind and rain. During the day, he is a mobile phone repair vendor in an orange shop uniform, often wearing the green Polo shirt that is old to white, talking with people about maintenance with ease, looking like a teenager. At night, he wore a white grandball suit and removed the mask of the day, just like his simple heart.
Although the brothers and sisters are poor, they can get by. However, her sister is 6 years old, she has a congenital heart disease, she needs to complete heart surgery before the age of 8, in order to at least 300,000 operating expenses, in order for her sister to be able to live a normal child's life, Jing Hao can only choose to gamble with time and fate.
By chance, Jing Hao got an opportunity, originally thought that he had "picked up a mountain of gold", but unexpectedly suffered a heavy blow, and all the materials in the mobile phone repair shop could only be mortgaged. Under the compulsion of life, he once again took risks, desperately racing against time, winning an opportunity and once again desperately trying.
After becoming a young factory director, a pile of troubles also followed, whether it was Wang Jie's picking quarrels, or alchemy to steal mobile phone inventory, and then Jing Hao could not earn money due to fractures and could not pay the rent, all of which made people feel that Jing Hao's life seemed to have opened a difficult mode of fighting monsters. But the problem arises, life is inevitable, crying and mourning are useless, can only try to solve. This is also what I like - the protagonist does not have a gold finger, but creates his own life with his own efforts and hands.
Works with realistic themes really touch people's hearts first and foremost rely on details. There are 6 small details in the film, detail 1: the old to the whitish Polo shirt. It can be seen from the clothes that Jing Hao is not willing to spend an extra penny for himself, and this Polo shirt is washed and worn.
Detail 2: The means of transport, which is also a broken electric car, this electric car accompanies him through the streets and alleys, and there are many bump marks on it.
Detail 3: The real Shenzhen was also the same repair shop. Jinghao opens a mobile phone repair shop, in Shenzhen's Huaqiang North, like Jinghao's maintenance stalls, five steps a.
Detail 4: Nails and posture. Because it is convenient to buckle and press the small parts on the mobile phone, the thumbs of Jing Hao's hands have left half crescent nails, and repairing the mobile phone is a very meticulous and time-consuming work, and it is often necessary to sit there motionless, and Jing Hao's upper body is somewhat hunched.
Detail 5: Tenderness in front of the sister. Every time Jing Hao went to the school's communication room to pick up his sister, he would tap the window glass. When his finger was broken, he would hide his hand in pain because he was afraid of being seen by his sister.
Detail 6: The boy has tears and does not flick. When Uncle Liang promised Jing Hao to be the director of the workshop, Jing Hao was moved to tears, and after being seen by Uncle Liang, he bounced a few drops of water on his face to help Jing Hao cover up the tears.
Secondly, if you want to touch and impress people, you must rely on warmth. Jing Hao's brother and sister rely on each other, the younger sister is young but very sensible, she is also worried that she will die like her mother, so she will be very afraid of what her brother will do alone. Children are playful nature, but the sensible Tong Tong will take the initiative to say hello to the street neighbors and the doorman grandfather, and if the brother does not come to pick her up on time, she will wait quietly in the doorman's room. After watching the movie, I flipped through the comments on the Internet, and many netizens said that they would have such an angelic daughter in the future.
There is also a part of the warmth, which comes from the people on the edge of the group to warm up and foam with each other. Shenzhen in 2013 is already a fast-paced modern metropolis, with high-intensity and fast-paced work methods, creating many expressionless "hit workers". Manager Li, played by Wang Chuanjun, is such a person, in the face of Jing Hao's entrepreneurial ideas, he only feels that it is nonsense, and he only has a flattering smile for his boss, and treats others with a cold face.
Jing Hao did not bow his knees to Manager Li, but directly replied: "What does this have to do with my age?" "Don't you also work?" "You're not a subsidiary." It was really Jing Anti-PUA Hao, applauding him.
There is also a distinction in the use of light, the urban scenes of high-rise buildings are almost all cold tones, and when Jing Hao gets together with friends in the nursing home and workers in the Haojing Factory, the picture will always be warmer. Whether it is Uncle Liang, grandpa sun of the janitor, or other members of the Goodview Factory, they are all people who are single in society, and they are also "not in the flow", and it is easiest to understand the difficulties of foreigners outside.
"Internet café gods" and "wind-chasing teenagers" in 13 years is indeed a common existence, many young people in the Internet café all night, cut a non-mainstream oblique bangs hairstyle that was very popular at the time, and also with some middle two languages, they caused the audience to laugh as soon as they appeared. The actors of these two are comedians Xu Juncong and Wang Ning, and the sketches "Very Negotiated" and "Audition" are played by them. There is also the "role inversion" when Jing Hao was asked for accounting, and the confident speech of Mr. Zhong, which pulled the atmosphere from dull to joyful at once.
On February 3, "Miracle Stupid Child" also released 5 new concept posters, with the themes of "Looking Up Side by Side", "Sea of Opportunity", "Going Up Against the Current", "Ants Worshiping Mountains" and "Protecting Dreams with Hands", which are related to the details of the movie. The image of "who these posters correspond to, ants" represents, I believe you should have a preliminary conjecture in your mind.
"Miracle Stupid Kid" did not lose money.