This year's Spring Festival movies, the genre is very rich, 7 films, from costume suspense, science fiction, animation, comedy to sports movies, can be said to be not lacking.
However, the only movie that really suits the Spring Festival, a family reunion and a happy festive atmosphere, is this one: "Exchange Life".
As early as two days ago, I was thinking about which movie the family would watch on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and after thinking about it, I decided to choose the family movie "Exchange Life" that best suits the atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
As it turns out, I picked the right one!
The length of the 110-minute film, the old people and children can also sit still, during the movie, I did not take out my mobile phone once, and I hardly lost my mind.
"Exchange Life" is a comedy, but it is not the kind that makes you laugh the whole time, laughing from beginning to end, but has both funny plots, warmth and touching, which can make you laugh with tears, in the Spring Festival, a day of reunion with family, feel the warmth and preciousness of family affection, feel the beauty of love, and what is not satisfied.
(There are a few spoilers below, please read them as appropriate)
01 Lei Jiayin is undoubtedly the soul of the film, one person plays two roles, once again let us feel the excellent acting skills of "Big Head"
At the beginning of the film, the audience is first introduced to the three "families" that appear in the film.
One is Lu Xiaogu's family. There are five people in Xiaotani's family, father, mother, grandmother, sister and Xiaogu, which is a very ordinary but very warm big family.
Jin Hao's family is a typical single-parent family, only Jin Hao and his mother.
And Zhongda, played by Lei Jiayin, is alone. From his memories, we can know that when Zhongda was a child, his parents divorced, his mother was addicted to playing mahjong, and his father had a daughter after remarrying, so he was an ignored existence.
Therefore, after Zhong Da became a lawyer, he would unscrupulously earn black money, in order to offset his inner loneliness and insecurity.
As soon as Lei Jiayin appeared, there was a funny smell. I also want to laugh when I see him standing in the courtroom in a suit and leather and making a generous statement.
And the really funny plot appeared after Zhongda and Xiao Gu exchanged bodies, Xiao Gu's soul, Zhong Da's body, after waking up in the morning, a series of misunderstandings occurred.
When the obese middle-aged man Zhongda, wearing a thin Xiaogu's ill-fitting T-shirt and shorts, walked downstairs, rushed into the bathroom, and then looked in the mirror and burst into an unexpected frightened scream, the film's first high-energy hilarious clip began.
After that, Lei Jiayin called Liu Mintao "mother" and Sha Yi "dad", but Sha Yi said, "You are my brother, you go quickly", took the hammer and drove him out, when watching this paragraph, the audience in the theater burst into laughter.
Lei Jiayin is an actor with a sense of joy. In the film, one person plays two roles (actually one body, but the soul is two people), Lei Jiayin once again proved his superb acting skills to us.
From Zhongda, an unscrupulous lawyer with a black belly and greedy for money, to Xiaogu, an 18-year-old boy who dislikes a dull life, longs for distant places, and has a secret love for the goddess Jin Hao, Lei Jiayin switches seamlessly, although the person is still him, but you can intuitively feel which is the real Zhongda, and which is the Zhongda whose soul has become Xiaogu.
Unexpectedly, the 40-year-old Lei Jiayin can really interpret a sense of youth, and it is not greasy and makes people laugh.
In order to make Jin Hao hate Zhongda, so as to defeat the "love enemy" and become Xiaogu's Zhongda, he followed the advice of his good friend Xiao Chu and invited Jin Hao to eat at a high-end restaurant, deliberately saying ugly things to stimulate Jin Hao, and Jin Hao unfortunately "collided" with the big lobster, and was degraded by Zhongda (Xiaogu) to the point of self-esteem and left in shame.
In this paragraph, Lei Jiayin brilliantly interpreted Xiao Gu's "pretend to be an adult" and "angry goddess", plus Zhang Xiaofei and Yang Di (as a waiter), and a large lobster to help, another high-energy funny clip was born.
From a middle-aged lawyer who is full of words to an introverted and shy teenager Xiaogu, the transformation and contrast in between, Lei Jiayin interprets very naturally and vividly, worthy of being a middle-aged powerful actor.
02 Zhang Xiaofei and Lei Jiayin, 1+1>2, the old drama bone Wu Yanshu is still a surprise
Zhang Xiaofei, with a "Hello, Li Huanying", successfully won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.
But even after watching "Hello, Li Huanying", Zhang Xiaofei is still not an actress I particularly like.
But in "Exchange Life", the hometown combination of Zhang Xiaofei and Lei Jiayin, to be precise, is a fellow actor partner from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, giving people the feeling that they are strong and strong, 1+1>2.
Lei Jiayin is the soul of the film, Zhang Xiaofei is not weak, can be funny, can also show the stubbornness and arrogance of an older young woman.
In the colliding with the big lobster, Zhang Xiaofei fully showed her side as a comedian.
Jin Hao and Zhongda (Xiaogu) got along very happily for a day, unconsciously hugging Zhongda's body, but was violently pushed by Xiaogu's soul, planting onions upside down, and directly inserted into the grass head-down.
Unconsciously out of the ocean, the goddess demeanor is lost, Zhang Xiaofei acted without baggage, and he was completely unleashed.
A large hurdle over the railing section allows you to get a goddess on the surface, but the demeanor of a female man in the heart.
Jin Hao talked with his mother, hoping that his mother would not urge marriage, and lamented that the more he grew up, the more difficult it was to please his mother, and the frustration and failure were vividly written all over his face.
And as soon as the refrigerator door was opened, the refrigerator door fell down entirely, and Jin Hao held it in his hand with a confused expression, which was really funny.
85-year-old "national grandmother" Wu Yanshu, who played a supporting role in "Exchange Life" this time, still brings us surprises.
Wu Yanshu and Yang En, this old and young, two eccentric and aura-rich actors, have become the golden supporting roles in the film.
In the movie "Life Events" with Zhu Yilong in 2022, Yang En let me see her acting talent and aura again.
It's a pity that in "Exchange Life", she was not given more room to play. However, a few small clips can still let us see the cute and flexible of this little girl who is less than 10 years old.
At the end, Grandma Xiaogu, played by Wu Yanshu, faces the family and the audience, and the words she said are the title of the film and one of the highlights of the whole film.
Smooth and infectious lines, stable and free acting skills, Grandma Wu Yanshu can surprise and move us every time, as well as a sense of confidence and humor from the elderly.
There is also Yue Yunpeng, who only appeared once, and also dedicated a essence clip to the audience.
Yue Yunpeng plays a taxi driver in the film, after Jin Hao got into the car, he saw that Jin Hao was not happy, so he said a long paragraph, and the last sentence "Seeing that you are not very happy, let's go", that look, that tone, successfully amused me.
There is also the phrase "Wow, love", which successfully portrays the gossip psychology of a taxi driver who loves to watch the excitement.
03 Laughter and tears fly together, a real family comedy movie, but of course there are flaws, but the flaws are not hidden
"Exchange of Life" is a comedy, but it's not just a comedy.
Although fantasy memes such as "exchange body" and "exchange soul" are a little old-fashioned, Xiaogu and Zhongda, the process of exchanging bodies, the details are not so worthy of serious scrutiny, but comedy, the most important thing is the word "happy".
It's rare to be able to let a family walk into the theater, eat popcorn together, and laugh happily.
What's more, the core of the film is actually not funny, but warm and healing.
The comfort of family affection, the warmth of the big family, the beauty of love, the trust and encouragement of friendship, are all so warm and full of warmth.
Xiao Gu in the film, at first, was very eager to escape this warm but plain home and see the distance, but when his body was occupied by others and he could no longer return home, he was extremely afraid and resistant.
If you could trade your life with someone else, but you lost your loved ones and family, what would you choose?
I believe that everyone already has the answer in their hearts.
Actor Zhang Youhao, who plays Lu Xiaogu, feels a lot worse than Lei Jiayin's acting skills.
When showing the plot after exchanging bodies with Zhongda, the force was a little too strong, and there was a feeling of forcibly playing cool, looking at his cruel face and bad smile, I thought he had swapped bodies with a black boss.
You know, Zhongda is a lawyer, although he was unscrupulous and black at the beginning, he was not a black boss.
In the movie, Lei Jiayin's part is well interpreted and more delicate and vivid, but the part involving Zhang Youhao, firstly, his acting skills are worse, and secondly, it may be due to fewer scenes, or the advancement of the plot is not sufficient, I feel that this line could have been shown better.
Zhongda was originally a man who lacked love and security. After he and Xiao Gu exchanged and entered the Lu family's family of five, he should fully show his transformation from boredom to habit, and then to enjoyment, reluctance to this kind of family affection, but unfortunately, although this transformation is in the film, there are not many.
There is also the sudden harmony of the relationship between Jin Hao and his mother, who suddenly changed from a person who drilled into the eyes of money to a "hero" who was willing to testify in court, and the transformation in between also lacked the necessary transition and explanation.
Of course, limited by the length and length of the film, it is understandable that it is impossible to do everything in detail and thoughtful everywhere.
However, after almost losing his family, Xiao Gu changed back to himself and returned to the part of the big family, and it can be seen that Xiao Gu knows how to cherish family affection and sincerely feels the preciousness of "home".
Therefore, the flaws are not hidden, the film is generally a New Year film with tears in laughter and tears, bringing the audience to move and think.
I believe that many people, like me, in the process of watching the movie, after watching the movie, feel the preciousness of family affection, and the importance of family warmth for a person.
In this New Year, take the hands of your family, walk into the cinema with your family, watch a "Exchange of Life", laugh at the same time, feel the warmth of home, and promote the feelings and exchanges between family members, why not!
(Text/First Dewdrop)