Many people know Dong Jie, that is, from the beginning of Leng Qingqiu in "The Golden Powder Family", cold as frost, I see pity, since then Dong Jie has attached a pure label.
However, the subsequent events completely ruined the pure image she left in the hearts of the public, and her career also plummeted, and after many years of goodbye, she has become the "mother" of the 35-year-old actor.
"Hello, Mother"
"Hello, Mother" tells the story of an ordinary mother and son spanning thirty years of half-life trajectory, 41-year-old Dong Jie plays the mother Ding Biyun, and 35-year-old Yin Fang plays his son Ding Xiaojun. After the drama was broadcast, the Douban film review area was full of one star, most of which came from dissatisfaction with Dong Jie, mocking her for what qualifications she had to play a good woman, but putting aside the prejudice against actors, this is a good drama with a heart.
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"Hello! "Mother Adult" is adapted from the writer's high-scoring best-selling essay collection "On the Clouds: 99 Little Things with Mother", and the whole story is like a delicate and vivid prose poem.
The director is Cao Dun, who came from photography, and has directed masterpieces such as "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" and "The Tale of The Sea Muyun", and the picture continues the consistent film texture, and the tone, art, and scene can match different time and space.
The story unfolds in the form of flashbacks, opening with Ding Xiaojun live- and the host, as the author of the past scar literature, is aggressive in the interview, questioning his feelings for his mother.
In the face of the host's offensive questions, Ding Xiaojun recalled the past bits and pieces of the mother and son, from here, the screenwriter adopted a narrative structure of "different time and space, three parallel lines", three different timelines interspersed with each other, with the lens blending.
(1) Mother's past
The first line is the mother's past, which begins in 1984 and tells the story of the mother's two love that ended without illness, reflecting the sacrifice and dedication of the mother.
My mother lived in a small town in northern Jiangsu, the second oldest in the family, and dropped out of school at the request of her family in order to support her brother in the year of resuming the college entrance examination.
After dropping out of school, her mother was arranged by her family to go on a blind date, but she carried her parents behind her back, got along with Ding Xiaojun's father, stole the family's household registration book, and Ding Xiaojun's father received a certificate.
After marriage, the father's nature was exposed, eating, drinking, gambling and sampling, and the mother became more intense after giving birth to the child, directly taking the little three home, and the mother would rather leave the house than take the child to divorce.
After the divorce, her mother faced setbacks in life by hard work and tenacity, taught herself Japanese, faced setbacks in life with diligence and tenacity, and then coincidentally became an employee of Meizhong Factory.
As contact increased, two single men and women who admired each other crossed nationalities and statuses, developing hazy feelings, but were rumored by female employees in the factory, and Mei Zhong was sent back to Japan.
The mother plucked up the courage to pursue love and decided to go to Japan with Mei Zhong to form a new family, but the son deliberately obstructed it, and for the sake of her son, the mother gave up her love.
(2) The son's past
The second line is the son's past, which begins in 2003, telling the son's rebellion in his third year of high school and his forbearance in college, reflecting his son's growth.
Ding Xiaojun grew up in a single-parent family, developed an inferior and sensitive personality, did everything carefully, for fear of upsetting his mother, and ushered in a belated period of rebellion under long-term repression.
At the age of 18, Ding Xiaojun made a bold decision, against his mother's wishes to let him apply for the normal college at his doorstep, and filled in the volunteer to Shanghai, freeing himself from his mother's shackles.
Ding Xiaojun thought that he could regain his life by going to Shanghai, but the imprint of his original family could not be erased, and although he wanted to break through himself, he was always incompatible with everything around him.
When his roommate of the second generation of the rich invited him to go out to play, his mother's teachings always rang in his ears: to study well, to be active, to join the party, to have a career.
Knowing that it was not easy for his mother to make money, he went part-time, sold phone cards to people, and stood in the crowded streets hungry for a day, spending every penny with extra care.
After graduating and joining the company, in order to save money, he went to rent the cheapest group rental house, and commuted for several hours a day, which caused dissatisfaction from his girlfriend and wanted to break up with him.
(3) The last days of mother and son
The third line is the last memories of the mother and son, starting in 2010, telling the process of the son accompanying his mother to see a doctor, and the grown son reaches a reconciliation with the mother in his interaction.
In order to keep his girlfriend, Ding Xiaojun gritted his teeth and spent 3500 to buy a diamond ring, wanting to give his girlfriend a surprise of marriage proposal, but fate joked on him, and his mother came to Shanghai to seek medical treatment because of cancer recurrence.
Ding Xiaojun and his mother have been dependent on each other since childhood, naturally smashing pots and selling iron also have to treat diseases, he is afraid of dragging his girlfriend, he chooses to take the initiative to break up, he chooses to work hard, just to raise more medicine.
While Ding Xiaojun was doing her best, her mother was unhappy, not from the torment of illness, but because everything in Shanghai made her unaccustomed, and everything she was worried about was in northern Jiangsu.
When the doctor told Ding Xiaojun that his mother could only be treated conservatively, Ding Xiaojun decided to resign, give up his low-hanging fruit, and accompany his mother back to northern Jiangsu, back to the courtyard where he grew up, and also back to the past time.
In his mother's last years, Ding Xiaojun began to try to understand his mother, understand his mother, and reconciled with his mother in guilt.
The three-line parallel setting makes the information continue to increase, the emotional level is gradually full, and it does not do violent sensationalism, but gradually drives the audience's emotions with events and details, so that the audience can carefully experience.
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After "Hello, Mother" was launched, the drama side tried to market the mother-son relationship between Dong Jie and Yin Fang, but most netizens did not buy it, mocking the two as not like mother and son.
To be fair, although the two are only 6 years apart, there is no sense of violation of standing together to play mother and son, except for the bonus of makeup technology, which is inseparable from the superb interpretation of the two.
Ding Biyun is the most difficult character in the play, the role from youth to middle age, the time span is as long as more than 20 years, but Dong Jie will be different periods of the state, very accurate.
When Ding Biyun was a teenager, when she fell in love, she smiled like a flower and was full of the delicate feeling of a girl; Ding Biyun, who had just become a mother, had rounded and full cheeks, bright eyes, and the motherhood and gentleness of a happy young woman overflowed the screen.
After the divorce, Ding Biyun is smart and tenacious, confident and stretched, mature and attractive; Ding Biyun, who is middle-aged, has a sallow complexion, is mentally tired, and has a sick face.
Relatively speaking, Ding Xiaojun's space is small, and Yin Fang's performance is qualified, from a high school student to a college student, and then to a worker, showing the growth process of a child to a man.
Putting aside the actor factor to watch the whole play, "Hello, Mother" is more like a knee-jerk long talk between mother and son, depicting a typical "Chinese mother-child relationship", wanting to escape, but unable to give up.