In the 6 days of release, the box office broke 600 million, the Douban score was 7.4 points, and the Spring Festival file reputation list ranked second.
"Miracle Stupid Child", Wen Muye's second realist masterpiece after "I Am Not a Medicine God", is worthy of the director who made Huang Xiaoming express his willingness to post money backwards, and was excited to the point of "exploding foul language" at the movie viewing meeting: "Too TM Cow X! ”
Starring Yi Qianxi, "Miracle Stupid Child" tells a story of struggle that takes place in Shenzhen:
Jing Hao (Yi Qianxi), a 20-year-old who lives alone in Shenzhen with his 6-year-old sister, has to bet everything on his sister's surgery to treat a heart disease. Fate has repeatedly hit him hard, and can the ordinary life of the brothers and sisters in trouble create a "miracle"?
Jing Hao has an "unfortunate" life in the eyes of others: his mother died of illness, his father abandoned his wife and children, and he had to give up college in order to take care of his sister who was born with heart disease.
Struggling under the "trampling" of fate, he was so lucky because he met a group of "stupid children" who experienced similar to his experience, the same misfortune, but gave him warmth and strength.
Remember in "I am not a medicine god", the temperamental "yellow hair" Zhang Yu, and Tan Zhuo, who was forced to "dance pole dance" in order to save his daughter?
"Miracle Stupid Child" also depicts a vivid and vivid group portrait, and director Wen Muye this time portrayed a "miracle squad" composed of people from all walks of life who "can't find a job".
"Workshop Director" Tian Yu, "Guild Brother" Xu Juncong, "Melancholy Boxer" Gong Lei, "Bao Su King" Wang Ning... Each has its own ups and downs, but they all have a gentle heart.
In this group portrait, it is necessary to mention four actresses: Qi Xi, Huang Yao, Wang Lihan and Chen Halin.
Among them, there are international film festival queens, there is the best actress of Magnolia, and the female image they have created, although there is no halo of gorgeous clothes and Mary Sue, and there is no domineering president to "sweet pet", but brave and tenacious, Happy and warm.
"I saw the image of a woman who has been missing on the big screen for many years," an audience member excitedly said at a recent movie viewing party why he loved the film.
From left in the picture above: Wang Lihan, Qi Xi, Chen Halin, Huang Yao
01 Qi Xi: A flower in a good scene, so optimistic and so brilliant
Actor background: 5 Best New Actor Awards including the 49th Golden Horse and the 7th Asian Film Awards.
Jing Hao's mother died early, but the role of "mother" is not missing, and Wang Chunmei, played by Qi Xi, is the "good mother" in many people's hearts.
Brave, tenacious, in the face of setbacks and tribulations, always straighten the waist bar.
Wang Chunmei's "good scene is a flower", the scene in the film is not much, but it is enough "highlight": she broke her ears due to work injury, so in order to protect the interests of more workers, she sued unscrupulous manufacturers.
When the little came to the door and forced her to withdraw her lawsuit against the unscrupulous manufacturer, Wang Chunmei, who refused without saying a word, was slapped by the little asshole!
The strength of this slap is so great that it breaks the hearing aid! The hearing aid was bought by her son after saving a year's breakfast, and Wang Chunmei did not admit it, and she slapped back hard.
This scene was filmed for two full days, the number of shooting times was too much, Qi Xi's face was not only swollen, but the bite of her tooth crown could not bite for half a month, and she could only eat it.
"For this scene, their faces were all swollen, and after they entered the mood, they couldn't take their hands, they really started to fight, and after playing, the two actors hugged each other very apologetically and said sorry." Wen Muye revealed on the tour.
This scene is also the "Miracle Squad", the first group play that can be called a climactic scene.
Not accustomed to Wang Chunmei being beaten, Jing Hao, Zhang Longhao, and Uncle Liang "participated in the war" one after another, and they were bitterly flattened.
After "this battle", this Haojing Electronics Factory, which is composed of various "strange people", is finally no longer a mess and has cohesion.
Qi Xi said that Wen Muye told her that Wang Chunmei's background color was "lotte" and "brilliant", and she loved to smile, like a flower blooming in suffering.
So after getting the script, Qi Xi made a character biography for the first time, and designed three kinds of "laughter" for Wang Chunmei: at the beginning, it was unconfident and flattering laughter, and in the middle it was silly, heartless and lungless laughter;
After the "Miracle Squad" supported each other again and again, at the end of the film, her smile was so confident, frank, beautiful and bright.
Worthy of being one of the favorite actresses used by literary and art film directors in recent years, Qi Xi does not play much in "Miracle Stupid Child", nor does he have too strong a major play, but he uses enough details to make the stubborn mother of "Wang Chunmei" have vitality.
Born in 1984, Qi Xi debuted as the heroine of Meng Jinghui's "Rhinoceros in Love", and the first generation of the role of "Mingming" was Wu Yue and the second generation was Hao Lei, all of whom were powerful actresses.
Later, the two generations of "Ming Ming" cooperated in "The Mystery of the Floating City", and Qi Xi won the 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, the 7th Asian Film Awards, the 13th Chinese Film Media Awards, and the Five Best Newcomer Awards in the 2010 Youth Film Handbook.
"Spring Wind Ten Miles, Not as Good as You" and "Whistleblower" have made people aware of different aspects of Qi Xi, and now in "Miracle Stupid Child", she has added a warm bright color to the film with her divine acting skills.
One audience member said it best: "Who says women are vulnerable?" Wang Chunmei is brave and strong. ”
02 Huang Yao: Lori opened the heavy machine, so cool and so amazing
Actor background: The 27th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for Best Supporting Actress Award, the 2nd Pingyao International Film Festival Fei Mu Honorary Best Actress Award
"She is the wheat seedling in "Mountains and Seas"?"
If you don't prompt, many viewers don't recognize that in "Miracle Stupid Child", the woman who married Wang Ning in a red dress and turned on the heavy machine with a cool smile is Huang Yao, who just won the best supporting actress of Magnolia.
Born in 1994 in Foshan, Huang Yao graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama.
With "Over the Spring" breaking into the audience's field of vision, she starred as a 16-year-old high school student at the age of 24, fresh and rebellious, without any sense of violation, but also made people deeply remember her "face with a story".
Subsequently, Huang Yao won the Best Supporting Actress Award for Magnolia with the brave and resolute "Mai Miao" in "Mountains and Seas", and has since had her own high-scoring masterpiece.
This time in "Miracle Stupid Child", Huang Yao's role is not much, adding up to no more than 10 minutes, but the "Wu Xiaoli" she portrayed has become a surprising and stunning symbol.
The first appearance was at the wedding of Wu Xiaoli and Liu Hengzhi, there were no extra lines, a smile more moving than a bouquet in his hand, and he said his heartfelt joy.
The second appearance, she is like a "heavenly descending divine soldier", the typhoon blew Jing Hao's electronics factory, Wu Xiaoli turned on the heavy machine!
Without much effort, she piloted the heavy machine, lifted the blown tin roof, smiled back, like a spring breeze, and also blew away the haze in the heart of the miracle squad.
Some viewers said: "Xiaoli sat on the heavy machine, looking back and smiling is really beautiful to me." ”
Indeed, who said Lori couldn't drive a heavy machine? Who says women have to rely on others to save them?
Seemingly ordinary life can still be a "Wonder Woman" sitting in the cab, and everyone's life can be written as a miracle by themselves.
03 Wang Lihan: The film queen plays "nurse", so warm and so healing
Cast background: Best Supporting Actress at the Prague International Independent Film Festival, Best Actress at the Seoul International Independent Film Festival.
In the movie, Aunt Liang, a nurse working in a nursing home, does not feel very familiar?
Born in 1978, this powerful actress graduated from Chinese opera. He has starred in the spy drama "Cold Arrow", the urban drama "Old And Dependent", "The New Girlfriend Era", as well as "Emergency Department Doctor", "Breakout", "Parental Love" and so on.
The most familiar role for the audience should be "Mo Yanshitai" in "The Biography of Zhen Huan".
In 2020, Wang Lihan won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2020 Prague International Independent Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the 2020 Seoul International Independent Film Festival for "In the Name of Letter".
In "Hello, Li Huanying", she played Jia Ling's teacher, and repeatedly led to a tear-jerking plot through the way of "calling parents".
Wang Lihan has excellent acting skills, which can be dignified, gentle and kind, or spicy, like a "chameleon", perfectly hidden in each role.
In "Miracle Stupid Child", Wang Lihan plays the wife of Tian Yu's character "Uncle Liang", a nurse who does not have many lines, but her eyes are bright and her eyes are full of happiness and love.
However, Wen Muye strives for excellence, although Wang Lihan's scene in the film is less than 5 minutes in total, but it is a shot of the old man doing massage, filmed more than 40 times!
The role of "Aunt Liang", like a group of people we come into contact with every day, is ordinary and everyday, but silently heals the depression and anxiety of many people.
"Miracle Stupid Child" has few strokes, but there are "group portraits" with expressive brushstrokes, which is how it came.
04 Chen Harlin: 6-year-old little angel, so fragile and so strong
Actor background: Starred in "Let Go of My North Nose", this film debuted for her film
Harrin plays "Jing Tong", a role that looks simple and is actually difficult to play.
A 6-year-old girl with congenital heart disease who has lost the protection of her parents, only her 20-year-old brother is her "big tree".
When her brother was running for her 300,000 surgery fees, pouring out his family property but being tricked by fate again and again, what was this sick little girl thinking?
In the past domestic films, such a child was set as a functional role, and only needed to cry and cry.
But Jing Tong in "Miracle Stupid Child" hardly cries, except that she needs to eat white pills on time like three meals a day, and she is no different from other children.
She even seems to be extra sensible, she writes her own homework, does not need to coax food, and when her brother is tired and asleep on the bus, she will sensibly help his brother wipe his saliva.
Only on the night of the pouring rain, when her brother was once again late to the school to pick her up, did the uneasiness and fear in her heart leak out a little.
"Have you always been there?" "I've always been there".
This dialogue between the brothers and sisters is one of the tear points of many viewers to break through the tears.
Because he had no money to pay the rent and was driven away by the landlord, Jing Hao had to take his sister to live in a factory without air conditioning and no shower, and his sister did not cry or complain, but only asked the above sentence.
At that moment, Jing Hao knew that his sister was both a weakness and an armor for himself.
At the time of filming "Miracle Stupid Child", Harlene was only 8 years old, and the most rare thing for an actor at this age was "true".
And Harrin, with her innate sense of performance, performed the crying scene that director Wen Muye felt was "the most unexpected".
"They were driven away by the landlord and moved into the factory. In that scene, her brother coaxed her to sleep, and as a result, a 6-year-old child closed her eyes and a tear flowed directly from the corner of her eye, and I was shocked! ”
Jing Tong in the play is the "little angel" who desperately protects her brother's life; Harrin outside the play is a "little genius" in the eyes of the director and photographer.
Interestingly, when Harrin was shooting on the set, she almost lost the scene because she lost several teeth! Later, he also used special effects to "fill his teeth" for his sister.
epilogue
"The heart is better than the looks, and the understanding is more important than the love", some viewers summed up the four female characters in the film.
Indeed, for a long time, I have not seen such a stereotypical, so brilliant and acclaimed female group portrait in a domestic film.
Their smiles, their hard work, their gentle and generous hearts in the face of adversity, even in the face of injustice.
It is no exaggeration to say that Wang Chunmei, Wu Xiaoli, Liang Auntie, and Jing Tong are the "light" of the whole movie.
Director Wen Muye, don't shoot a woman scene in the next movie! After watching "Miracle Stupid Child", the expectation value has been full of you.