This year's May Day is a bit special,
More than half of the cinema films withdrew from the "May Day file" in advance.
Theaters in many places were closed, and the box office on the first day was one-tenth of last year's May Day.
We are for everyone,
Carefully selected a May Day viewing guide,
You can also watch good movies at home.
Douban 8.0 or above the global good drama,
Urban weirdness, sci-fi thrillers, youth, hilarious comedies,
There's always one for you.
Solid documentaries and variety shows for the next meal are also listed.
May you spend a pleasant May Day holiday even if you are at home!
Written by Lu Yuhan, editor-in-charge ni Chujiao
Tips: The order of the sheets is as follows, and you can swipe back according to your interests
01 "The Wind Rises in Longxi"
02 "Dear Child"
03 Golden Night Building 2
04 My Liberation Journal
05 Twenty-Five, Twenty-One
06 Pinball Games
07 "Kentaro Hiyama's Pregnancy"
08 "Life Cutting Season 1"
09 My Genius Girlfriend Season 3
10 "Sound Never Stops"
11 Welcome to the Mushroom House
12 "Spring Leaves Again"
13 The Everyday Life of Literature Season 2
14 Dynasty Season 2
15 Tinder Scam King
16 Mom! 》
17 "Pepper Ma Tang Hui"
18 "Hidden in the Dust"
19 "Youth Transfiguration"
20 "Hearing Girls"
A recent masterpiece of Chinese dramas
Chen Kun and Bai Yu's opponents are full of tension
Lu Yang, the director of "Assassination of a Novelist" and "Embroidered Spring Knife", directed a TV series for the first time, Ma Boyong's original work, starring Chen Kun and Bai Yu, has such a strong creative lineup, "The Wind Rises Longxi" once broadcast, it has landed on the top of the list of popular new dramas.
This is a "infernal affairs" of the Three Kingdoms period, and the film-level production level, high-level tones, costumes and lens language render a hair-trigger tense atmosphere. Ma Boyong looked at the praise: "Director Lu Yang shot the kind of slaughter, oppression and slightly melancholy spy temperament in my mind. ”
The series has made a proper adaptation of the original book, the lines are densely informative, the rhythm is tight, and those who like brain-burning spy movies should not miss it.
The just-concluded "Dear Child" is an atypical family ethics drama.
The first three episodes of the show detail the mother's experiences during pregnancy, childbirth, confinement: pregnancy spots, incontinence, postpartum anxiety... Some netizens said that this is the first time to see the real pregnant belly covered with purple stretch marks in the domestic drama.
Ren Suxi's acting skills show the production process
After the birth of the child, the mother once again fell into parenting anxiety, and the father's frequent absences exacerbated the contradictions between the two, and eventually parted ways.
Hu Kun, who was involved in the creation of the scripts of "The Hidden Corner" and "Eight Hundred", wrote and directed himself this time, and he mentioned in the interview that these details came from his observations on the physical and psychological changes of his wife after he became a father, "I chose to face the truth, and I also believe that the audience has courage and wisdom." ”
After the episode was broadcast, it did trigger a discussion about women's fertility on the whole network, and it was on many hot searches. As Douban netizens said: This drama is not "adding anxiety", but "recognizing reality", "If you can't face reality, why talk about fighting anxiety?" ”
"In ancient times, there was "Liaozhai Zhiyi", and now there is "Golden Night Building"." The paradoxical "Golden Night Mansion" has opened again.
The prototype of the Golden Curtain Building is the Champagne Building in Hong Kong, known as the "Fierce Ghost Building", in the director's vision, the Golden Curtain Building is the "protagonist" of the whole drama, which has the ability to change time and space and people's destiny. Strange things happen here, and each occupant has their own hidden secrets.
The first season aired three years ago and more than 60,000 people scored a high score of 8.4. The second season continues the supernatural theme and unit drama form, between 10 urban strange talks, but also interspersed with the main plot of time and space confusion, Douban 8.1 points, breaking the curse of TVB sequels must be rotten.
Even more frightening is that every seemingly impossible story has staged similar events in real life. "The Golden Night Building is like a person, who can think and experience life."
Overseas fantasy drama list
"My Liberation Journal" is one of the highest-rated episodes on Douban recently, airing to the sixth episode, and the rating has risen from 8.6 to 9.1.
The three sisters and brothers of the Lian family living in the countryside, Changxi, Jizheng and Meizheng, have experienced the "mourning" that all young people are familiar with: introverted but forced to socialize, wasted their youth on the commuting road, have no plan for the next 60 years of life, want to escape from repetitive and boring life, but do not know where to exit...
The line "Real on Earth" in My Liberation Journal
These details caused a wave of resonance, and some people joked: "My soul hid from me to star in this play." ”
Screenwriter Park Hye-young was once the screenwriter of "My Uncle", but unlike the gray depression of "My Uncle", "My Liberation Journal" still has a little bit of light. The heroine Mei Zheng and her colleagues who have the same disease have formed a "liberation of the same good club": "Although I don't know where I am trapped, I want to break free." ”
Many viewers said that the series cut a lot of pain points, so when watching the movie, it was like a dialogue with their own hearts. It gives us the opportunity to look at our own lives through the eyes of a bystander.
The story of "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" is set in 1998, South Korea has just experienced a serious financial crisis, social unrest, and the wave of change has also affected young boys and girls in their 20s.
Unlike the low-saturation retro filters of other period dramas, Twenty-Five, Twenty-One boldly uses high-saturation vivid colors to render a fairytale-like atmosphere.
It was a beautiful youth, although facing the difficulties of the times, the protagonists still had their own love and perseverance. With ignorant love, sincere friendship, and implicit family affection, they support each other and grow together.
As the heroine reaches adulthood, the fairy tale filter slowly breaks down and is replaced by brutal adult fables. Kim Tae-ri, who plays the heroine, said in an interview that the TV series started out like a fantasy comic and finally stepped into reality, "If the end of the fantasy comic is a shining memory of first love, then the end of reality is that everyone has a parting memory." ”
"Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" not only makes us nostalgic for the campus, but also allows us to examine our own growth path, and those confusions and regrets may be reconciled in this play, so that you can find the healing of "Please Answer 1988" again.
After "Parasite" and "Squid Game", another Korean work has entered the international stage. "Pinball Game" tells the story of Korean immigrant families that have spanned four generations across South Korea, Japan and the United States.
Despite its grand historical background, it is willing to delicately portray parting and returning home with "a bowl of white rice", slowly telling the story of a woman who is still strong when she is forced to go to another country and abandoned by her lover.
The film has a strong cast, one of the protagonists, Yoon Ru-jeong, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress last year, and the actor Lee Min-ho contributed a wonderful performance.
It is worth mentioning that the budget of a single episode of "Pinball Games" is as high as $13 million, which is almost the same as the highest budget record of $15 million set by "Game of Thrones" in the eighth season, which is enough to see the confidence of the producers in it.
If you like "civilian epics" like Man in the World, Pinball Games won't let you down.
As soon as the preview of the Japanese drama "Kentaro Hiyama's Pregnancy" came out, netizens boiled over: the long-awaited "male mother" finally came.
It's an alternate world where both men and women can get pregnant. The male protagonist, Kentaro Hiyama, accidentally became a "pregnant husband" when his career was on the rise.
A series of dilemmas he encountered during pregnancy, women who have given birth to children are not strangers, such as sudden milk spillage during meetings, abandonment by leaders, deformation of body shape, physiological changes, and face strange eyes in society... After the gender reversal, these encounters are even more absurd.
The show consists of eight episodes, each 25 minutes long, with a light-hearted comedy tone and no excessive serious preaching. In the bridge section that makes people laugh, there is also room for reflection.
If there is a technology that can completely separate work and life: in the company, only the memory of work; after leaving the company, only the memory of personal life, as a "hit worker", are you willing to try?
Douban's 9.1 points of "divine drama" "Life Cutting" is based on this background.
The picture of the play is a must, when the full picture of Lumont's company appears, this huge, cold building, like a cross-section of the human brain. The symmetrical composition and clean cool colors also allude to the alienation of people by absolutely accurate high-tech.
If you're at home on vacation and still at work, check out this show. Follow the awakening of the characters in the play and rediscover the meaning of their work and life.
The "My Genius Girlfriend" series is adapted from the world-selling "Neapolitan Quadrilogy", with a Douban score of 9.3-9.5 in the three seasons, and four novels have long been in the Douban Books Top250.
Douban netizens commented: "How good is this masterpiece?" It felt like someone was caring and touching my childhood. ”
Set in a poor neighborhood in Naples, Italy, the story tells the story of two girls who have crossed most of their lives in friendship and fate.
"My Genius Girlfriend" is a very thorough dissection of marriage
Female friendship, sexual experience, the mother-daughter relationship in the original family, the discussion of pleasing others and self-identity run through the story. After coming to the third season, the topics covered have become richer and more realistic:
After making the leap of class, becoming a well-known writer, and having her first child, Lennon found that marriage was ruining herself, her inspiration was being drained in chai rice oil and salt, and the books she had read and the achievements she had achieved could never change her origin and nature.
Lila, who started even lower, finally escaped her violent husband and family and confinement, and became the free, sensitive girl, and even began to teach herself advanced computer technology.
Compared with books, episodes are faster paced and more densely informative. If you are not used to watching Italian dramas, you can also read the original. Author Elena Ferrante's writing is smooth and natural, the plot is fascinating, and it is not a problem to read it in one breath.
Next meal variety show
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and Mango TV's "Singer" team joined hands with TVB to do a music variety show that belongs exclusively to Cantonese songs for the first time.
The program gathered 16 powerful treasure singers from the two places who loved Hong Kong music, divided into two teams of men and women, and reviewed the history of Hong Kong music through the confrontation of six theme performances. The word of mouth exploded on the first broadcast of the show, the classic songs of Eason Chan, Beyond and Faye Wong were reinterpreted, and Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen appeared, which brought everyone back to the golden age of Hong Kong music.
2007 fast man's "re-employment boy group"
For the post-80s and post-90s, "Welcome to the Mushroom House" is not only a meal drama, but also a memory kill.
In 2007, six of the top 13 "Happy Male Voices" came to the Peach Blossom Mushroom House together and ate and slept together for two days and one night. They once became popular all over the country, but they quickly "passed", and now they are middle-aged, self-deprecating that the show is "re-employment".
After many years, when there is a chance for old friends to reunite, they seem to be back to their youth. After dinner, he took the guitar and sat around the table, singing each other's main songs, and telling the experience of the past 15 years with improvised songs. Even when I slept, I had to squeeze into a bunk...
Some netizens commented that they are a group of "lonely and arrogant people", and Chen Chusheng's sentence "Do what you like, why are you not happy" has also touched the hearts of many people.
As a warm-up program of "Longing for Life", "Welcome to the Mushroom House" exploded, becoming a dark horse with no publicity, low cost, and relying on "tap water" to fire out of the circle. Netizens called on the program group to "weld these 6 people to death on this variety show.".
If you like last year's variety show hit "Goodbye Lover", then don't miss the "Spring Day Delay" created by the original team.
Different from the regular love roundup, "Spring Day Late Departure" is filmed as "the realist love of adults". Eight single men and women who have not yet recovered from the pain of a previous failed marriage began a "limited trip" for four consecutive weekends.
Talking about the last marriage guest can't help but shed tears
"Why do you have low self-esteem in your emotions?" "How to deal with parent-child relationship after divorce"... The show sparked a lot of discussions about issues. One of the bullet screens said: "I just want to see how this group of people fall in love, and whether they will go into marriage again." ”
As observer Li Songwei put it, a person can also live well, but "may still desire a long-term, certain relationship." It is not a need to survive, nor is it a real need, but it will continue to bubble up from the depths of our hearts. ”
documentary
Liu Liangcheng and Hong Qi
The five-day vacation is also an opportunity to sink your heart and absorb nutrients. The second season of "The Daily Life of Literature" was launched, and it is still the form of a friend visiting a well-known writer, through their dialogue, cruising, and observation, to present the daily life and spiritual world of literary giants.
The protagonist of the first episode is Liu Liangcheng, who is known as "the last essayist of the 20th century". In his pen, the rise and fall of the sun, the wind after wind, even a cloud, a grass, an ant, have the meaning of life.
After writing "One Man's Village", which has been selling well for 24 years and touched 80 million people, Liu Liangcheng retired to his hometown of Rapeseed Valley Village in Xinjiang, this time bringing folk singer Hong Qi here.
For 8 years, everything in the village has been integrated into his life, and he is busy growing vegetables, ploughing the land, and doing carpentry every day. These everyday lives may not be written into words, but they are part of his literature.
Yu Jian, Li Xiuwen, Shuang Xuetao, Li Er, and Chen Yan will also appear on camera one after another, following them and letting the soul travel far.
In 2018, the BBC's "Dynasty Season 1" turned out to be a high score of 9.5 on Douban. After waiting for three years, "Dynasty Season 2" returned in March this year, the picture is still stunning, and the story is even more exciting.
This time, the protagonist is the "female" of the group, a single-parent cougar mother, fighting with the male lion who is much stronger than herself in order to protect her four children; the female elephant leader of the elephant family, struggling to protect her twin babies and other baby elephants; and the battle for the throne between the two queens in the spotted hyena group...
This is not only a nature documentary, but also an animal version of Game of Thrones.
Scam King Simon's social media is full of photos of his own high life
A man named Simon, disguised as an Israeli diamond merchant, on social software, by virtue of the gentlemanly demeanor and fashion image packaged, defrauded multiple women of money, and made a cumulative profit of more than $10 million in 6 years, which is the story recorded in the documentary "Tinder Scam King".
Cecily, one of the victims, decided to fight back, she sent all the chat records, photos, and intimate videos to the media, and found the same deceived victims, the documentary was born, and once it was released, it became a hot topic of discussion around the world.
Why are these women so easily deceived? Director Felicity Morris said that Simon was very attentive in his "relationships" with these women, "he remembered everything, the girls' birthdays, their jobs, their parents..." and would describe a wonderful future to the girls.
And Cecily grew up watching Disney love stories, and has expectations for the love of "prince and princess", and like most girls, she has been disciplined since childhood: being loved is the value of women. In addition to beingware of similar scams, this issue is also worth noting.
Easter Eggs: Movies to look forward to
As the last of director Yang Lina's "women's trilogy", "Mama! " is something to look forward to.
It is scheduled for Mother's Day on May 8 this year. The film is related to Alzheimer's disease, but this time it is the 65-year-old daughter who is sick, and the 85-year-old mother has become a caregiver. Less than 2 minutes of trailer, watch a crying audience.
Director Yang Li Na is actually an actor, was once the second female number one of Jia Zhangke's "Platform", turned to directing in 1999, filmed the first DV documentary "Old Man" in China, won a circle award in the world, and thus became the first female director in China to shoot an independent documentary.
The first part of the "Women's Trilogy", "Spring Dream", was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards and was excited by Ang Lee, and the second "Spring Tide" was based on her real experience, "Literary and Art Goddess" Hao Lei and "Supporting Role Queen" Jin Yanling played a mother and daughter, living under the same roof, loving each other but quarreling continuously.
Mom! "" is Yang Lina's further exploration of women's psychology and destiny, starring 84-year-old Wu Yanshu and 67-year-old Xi Meijuan. In the words of Douban netizens: "On this theme and such a double female protagonist of two age groups, it is too rare in China." ”
Douban 9.1 points, I have not seen a domestic movie with such a high score for a long time. Some people assert that Qiu Jiongjiong's "Pepper Ma Tang Hui" locked the best of the year in advance.
Qiu Jiongjiong said in an interview: "It is a personal history of me, a family history, a century-old life history of a Sichuan opera troupe; it is also a travelogue, where people of all colors walk and sing in unison in the yang and hades." I am a descendant of them, and this travelogue is my prequel. ”
This is Qiu Jiongjiong's first feature film, and before making the film, he was an artist, creating paintings and videos.
At present, "Pepper Ma Tang Hui" has been screened offline at more than twenty film festivals, identified North American distributors, and received praise from many film media: "This is a film that we will continue to mention for years to come." ”
With "Hidden in the Dust" nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Film, director Li Ruijun also became the first post-80s director in the history of Chinese film to be selected for the main competition unit of the three major European film festivals.
In the words of the director, "Hidden in the Dust" is a film that is "cultivated from the land". In the northwest countryside, two middle-aged people who stayed behind in their homeland cultivated the land and established a home together, giving each other love and dependence.
This is a film that spans all seasons of the year, and Li Ruijun uses an extremely clumsy and honest shooting method: as long as the movie passes, it will be filmed as long as it is in reality.
Haiqing's appearance as a peasant woman in the movie
Most of the films are ordinary actors, the male protagonist is Li Ruijun's uncle, and the only professional actor is Haiqing, who plays the heroine.
Li Ruijun put forward almost harsh requirements for Haiqing: it is necessary to experience life in the whole dialect at least one month in advance, and the second to fifth shooting still has to go to the village half a month in advance. In each stage of filming, no leave of absence is allowed, and cross-scenes are not allowed.
Haiqing agreed, and she spent a year integrating into the land of the northwest and contributing a subversive performance.
The Metamorphosis of Youth is Pixar's first Chinese-starred work and the first animated feature film directed by an Asian woman.
Xiaomei, a 13-year-old girl, has always been a "well-behaved girl" in front of her mother, because of the restless accident of adolescence, Xiaomei suddenly turned into a red red panda, thus revealing the family's secrets.
Another of director Shi Zhiyu's masterpieces, "Bao Bao", also aimed at East Asian family relations, tells the story of how an empty nest mother let go of her obsession with her son, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The English title of "The Metamorphosis of Youth", "Turning Red", also metaphorically refers to the girl's menarche and adolescence, and many of the details in the film come from the growth story of Ishi no Yu. For example, on the first day of middle school, her mother sneaked to school, wore sunglasses, and hid behind a tree to observe her, a scene that was 100% recreated in the movie.
If you are interested in the film behind the scenes, you can also watch its production documentary "Embracing the Red Panda", and the work of Pixar's first "Girl Scout" team is equally exciting every day.
Finally, how can you miss this year's Oscar for Best Picture, "Hearing Girls"?
Born into a deaf-mute family, Ruby is the only person in the family with normal hearing and a link between her family and the outside world.
The film is not deliberately sensational, but "wave after wave of tears". When Ruby sang on stage, the family in the audience could not appreciate it, but they knew that the little daughter of the family was finally radiant. In another scene, father touches Ruby's throat and feels her singing voice by feeling the rise and fall of her vocal cords.
His father's actor, Troy Cortsoor, is a deaf-mute man who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film. He hopes that he and the film can inspire more hearing-impaired people and never set limits on themselves.
Finally, I wish you all a happy May Day and look forward to seeing more good films on the big screen after the epidemic has passed.
Source: "My Liberation Journal" Propaganda Pictorial