A "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" created a miracle with a box office of 5 billion+.
This story about a Chinese-style mother has won a warm response from the market at a small cost, and has also stimulated the barbaric growth of works on the theme of family affection.
In fact, the theme of family affection is very similar to the test in the test, as long as the format is neat, the tear point is enough, even if it is a smorgasbord, it can also get a good box office result.
But it is not a coincidence that you will be able to please, and sometimes movies that are too good to cry are uncomfortable.
"All About My Mother"
The film is adapted from the original case of the story "The Most Beautiful Parting in the World", starring Xu Fan, Zhang Jingyi and Xu Yajun.
The warm parent-child theme of eating, the old drama bones and popular small flowers that are exempt from inspection, plus the bonus of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday file,
Successfully sent the film into the seat of the 100 million yuan box office.
Ji Peizhen, played by Xu Fan in the film, is a typical Chinese mother.
It is said that the Chinese mother is the most reclusive creature under the heavens.
And Ji Peizhen also fits this statement, working hard all her life,
Finally, she became a mother who was bored with her children, a wife who was neglected by her husband, and a daughter-in-law who was relied on by the elderly.
At the beginning of the movie, Ji Peizhen made a hot meal as usual, Zhang Luo's family to eat,
But her husband, Li Wenfang, sat at the dinner table reading the newspaper, and even the kitchen pot was too lazy to raise his hand to close the valve.
Li Wenfang is a doctor who was transferred to the emergency department because of a medical error a few years ago, and he has not been able to go to the operating table.
The husband did not care about the family affairs and immersed himself in his own world, but Ji Peizhen felt unwilling.
She argues for her husband's work and runs to the hospital to find her husband's leader, because honest people should not be bullied is the principle she follows.
The mother-in-law has brain degeneration and suffers from Alzheimer's disease, which makes her unable to take care of herself.
The old man sometimes makes a mess of the house, and even throws persimmons everywhere,
And Ji Peizhen has always been patiently coaxing, coaxing her mother-in-law to feed like a child, and cleaning up after her ass, which is more attentive than kissing her daughter.
Ji Peizhen manages the heavens, the earth, and the air in the middle,
She is not only the soul of her own family, but also the master of her brother's family.
Her brother took drugs and went to prison in his early years, and after he was released from prison, he became a gambling apprentice, in debt and caused trouble, and the old man still needed the help of his sister.
What made Ji Peizhen even more cold was her own daughter.
In her heart, her daughter will always be the best.
But as everyone knows, in the heart of her daughter Li Xiaomei, how annoying she is.
The mother's meticulous care and affection became a claw-like desire to control in Li Xiaomei's eyes.
As she grew older, she became more rebellious.
In order to avoid her mother, Li Xiaomei fled to Beijing to go to school and work, and even knew that she was three and fell in love with a married man.
In the eyes of outsiders, Ji Peizhen is a people's teacher who is about to retire with a stable job and a happy family.
Worrying about her daughter's life, taking care of her mother-in-law's living, worrying about her husband's work, and cleaning up the mess for her indisputable brother are her real life.
These things are not a burden but her own responsibility in her eyes.
However, in the eyes of her family, her hard work and dedication seem to be taken for granted.
For the sake of his family, this teacher who once loved geography gave up the opportunity to go to Antarctica for scientific expeditions, and gave up the larger world.
I chose to spend half my life in a house of more than 100 square meters.
She lived her life in an orderly manner, as if she was worrying about others every day.
And the only thing that doesn't exist is yourself.
It was hard to retire, and a more cruel truth was in front of her - cancer.
Ji Peizhen was diagnosed with stage IV cancer and has spread, and her life is only four to six months left...
After learning of her illness, she behaved calmly, and the first thing she thought of was still to arrange everything for the child.
After learning of Xiaomei's love affair, Ji Peizhen found the other party, she knew that the man was not worthy of her daughter's trust, so she secretly helped her daughter end the relationship.
Then, Ji Peizhen pretended to be the audience to the scene of her daughter's work.
Li Xiaomei is a program director, but this is not a profession she really likes.
Ji Peizhen originally thought that her daughter had unlimited scenery in Beijing, but what she actually saw was Li Xiaomei doing chores and being scolded from time to time.
The interview program planned from beginning to end is scripted and has nothing new to say.
Li Xiaomei knelt on the ground and copied the prompt card for the interviewed artist, and as a result, because the writing was smaller, she was viciously told by the director on the side.
Seeing that her daughter was wronged, Ji Peizhen stood up again like she had defended her husband.
She criticized the various ways directors and artists had, and firmly told her daughter: "Girl, don't give your life to ignorance, mediocrity and vulgarity." "
At the end of the film, the family accompanied Ji Peizhen on the last journey.
The daughter had an epiphany overnight, she lay in her mother's arms and embraced and reconciled, and all the contradictions and quarrels in the past disappeared at this moment.
Her husband took her to the beach to dance with affection, and when Ji Peizhen asked Li Wenfang, "Will you miss me later?" " time
Li Wenfang also replied affectionately:
"Yes, when I go out in the morning, when I come back into the house at night and turn on the lights, when I eat a bad meal, when I eat a delicious meal, when I sleep, when I wake up, I think of when you are nagging in my ear, when I Chinese New Year's Eve making dumplings, when my daughter is married." Thank you, for the rest of your life. ”
Maternal love is a gentle light that is easily ingested into a person's heart.
The film uses the emotional fate of the mother, which no one can escape,
Stir up hard and then command you, cry, cry to me.
I have to admit that this is indeed a very good crying movie, but is it good to say? Little Sister didn't think so.
Rather than "Everything About My Mother," the film would be more appropriately titled "I Am the Mom of Everyone But Me" or "The Life of a Woman Who Was Eaten Dry."
At the end of the film, "Mother is dead" is used to whitewash this human warmth,
The flattering way of singing the image and behavior of the mother's selfless dedication earned enough tears from the audience.
After all, how many people can laugh at life and death?
The dilemma of the mother's job, on the one hand, after the woman became a mother, objectively encountered an all-round decline in personal development.
On the other hand, we seem to be accustomed to overly sacralizing the understanding of the word "mother",
In the end, the mother trapped herself in this role, constantly self-motivated, self-torturing, self-sacrificing.
The Chinese mother is a life of losing herself and not seeking anything in return, completely basing her happiness and sadness on her husband and children and forgetting to love her life well.
But we don't need heroic mothers, superhuman mothers, and film and television works should also give them the right to take off their battle robes.
No one should solidify a mother's love into an obligation.
A woman stubbornly carried everything in the family, worthy of admiration,
But there is no need to sing, because the praise has been sung for so long that it has become a shackle for more women.
I hope that all the hard-working mothers can find their own life direction and find their unfinished life goals.
I can live more selfishly and more comfortably.