On May 28, the movie "Strange Flowers" was launched on Tencent Video. The film is based on the story of "Liaozhai Zhiyi", starring young actors such as Mao Zijun and Xu Muchan. Because among the online movie themes, there are too many works adapted from "Liaozhai Zhiyi", so this "Strange Flower" cannot effectively attract the attention of film fans in terms of material meteorology. Even people like the old editor who have read countless films, only look at the materials, they also feel that "Strange Flowers" is another bad film.
However, after watching the whole film, I think that "Strange Flowers" is a relatively good film adaptation of "Liaozhai Zhiyi". It is relatively good, not how exquisite the special effects presented by the picture are, nor how exquisite the acting skills of the male and female protagonists are, but the story content of the work itself, which is inherited and transferred, in line with the requirements of the script, and the emotional core of the work is also "piercing". The basis of a good work is to "pierce people" and make the audience feel the stinging pain. As of now, the film is in the short evaluation area of Douban, which can be described as a five-star praise.
Although this "Strange Flower" is still the content of the chat of the ghost and fox, there is a lot of emotional story richness on top of this basic content. We may wish to enter the story of "Strange Flowers" to see where this work can sting fans. According to the timeline of the film, the initial story should start from the fallen student.
The male protagonist is a depressed reader and has no money to enter Beijing to take the exam. The heroine is a young lady in the local town. She took out her own gold noodles, gave it to the male protagonist of the school, and committed herself to the male protagonist, and the two had a substantial relationship. Then, the male protagonist of the school went on the road and entered Beijing to catch the exam. And the heroine's little sister, left in the country town. But who knows, with a pregnancy in her belly, feudal etiquette eventually crushed this little sister, resulting in the tragedy of changing from a human to a ghost. The story of "Strange Flowers", up to this point, is actually more like a love tragedy, satirizing feudal etiquette and so on.
Later, the male protagonist of the school went to Beijing to take the exam, although he was already in high school, but after he was not famous, he could only be replaced by people, and he was out of the day and fell on the street. At this point in the film, there is a satire of the fraud of the imperial examination. Later, the disgraced scholar was taken in by a family of officials and eunuchs, and asked him to join his family. Only by joining the family can the official eunuch family give more help to the student in his career and let him re-enter high school. This is actually just a typical feudal society official eunuch family marriage strategy.
On the one hand, it is the love and promise of the old lady, and on the other hand, it is her own career and glory. The male protagonist finally chose the latter. For him, this is actually a tragedy. In our lives, how can we not encounter such a choice? Therefore, the film can still effectively sting fans here. Especially when the students choose to marry, although they have already lived a small life in their careers, they worry about the little sister of the town day and night. This is the story of white roses and red roses that teacher Zhang Ailing said.
In order to make the male protagonist forget this kind of worry, the male protagonist's father-in-law made a "sending proposition" of choosing one of the two. Otherwise, he will give up his career, but he will kill the entire village of the heroine. Otherwise, stay in your career and go back to kill the heroine. The male protagonist chose the latter again. The interesting thing about "Strange Flowers" is that the whole story actually starts from here, and at the beginning, it does not tell fans the real purpose of the male protagonist's return to his hometown.
After returning to her hometown, the heroine has died and become a demon, but she is still obsessed with the male protagonist. The male protagonist also cannot bear to kill the female protagonist. Eventually, their "intolerable heart" brought disaster to the town, and various conflict modes began. In the end, the male protagonist protects the female protagonist, and true love returns. And the female protagonist, in front of true love, died for the male protagonist. Everything, back to calm. In the last story, there are some netizens who say that they love and abuse.
The reason why the movie "Strange Flowers" has a high praise from the audience is mainly because there are many points in the story that can sting everyone. In particular, the choice between worldliness and love is faced by many people. Of course, not all of our lives will have this choice, but once love encounters the world, it is always "a hundred times". How much love, in front of the world, will eventually collapse into the sand. And how much emotion, in fact, are hidden in a story of Liaozhai.
This movie, in terms of love content, can make many fans realize empathy. And this empathy seems to require "similar experiences." A good movie needs more life experience. However, such a worldly and love experience, the old editor believes, is still not experienced well. Speaking of this, some readers may ask, how old are you? Yes, "there is a girl in the village named Xiaofang", which is the love of our generation. This "Strange Flower" is exactly the emotional content of "Xiao Fang". (Text/Ma Qingyun)