Reunion, after three years, has become the biggest theme of the Spring Festival.
This year's Spring Festival file urgently needs a family comedy to wash away the haze of the past.
Lei Jiayin, Zhang Xiaofei, Zhang Youhao, Sha Yi, Ding Jiali, Wu Yanshu, Yang Enyou, Yue Yunpeng, Yang Di, Xu Zhisheng... If you see the cast list of "Exchange Life", you can understand that this one is something that even parents will like.
As a rare family comedy in the Spring Festival file, I really didn't choose the wrong one. The length of 110 minutes is just right, and I feel the ease and happiness of a long absence.
There are no bad things, only lightness and comfort.
It is also a movie dedicated to the family, a lot of things I want to say to the family, the movie has expressed, very suitable for the whole family to watch during the Spring Festival.
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The story it tells is simple and easy to understand.
Zhongda (played by Lei Jiayin) is a golden-rich and mercenary lawyer, and Jin Hao (played by Zhang Xiaofei), who is nagged by his mother, is a blind date, and accidentally swaps bodies with Lu Xiaogu (played by Zhang Youhao), a teenager who secretly loves Jin Hao.
Swapping bodies is not new, and we have seen a lot of various male and female swaps. However, "Exchange Life" still plays the exchange fresh this time. The story is an exchange between an uncle and a teenager, and the differences in age, identity, and family background all make the story interesting.
In the past, many film and television dramas with exchange themes used to focus on personal changes, and ignored a problem:
When lives are exchanged, what about the original family?
This film puts this question in front of us.
"Exchange of Life", the English title is "Five Hundred Miles". This is a very classic American ballad, most people have heard it, and together the melody knows which song it is.
Its lyrics are simple, with only two lines to the effect of looping:
"You listen to the whistle that stretches for a hundred miles, and drive me away. A hundred and a hundred miles, never to return. Before I knew it, I was 500 miles from home. ”
"I'm in rags and penniless, how can I go home like this?"
The lyrics can hit too many people who are adrift. If you achieve nothing and have nothing, you will be afraid to go home when you feel homesick.
And forget that home is a place that tolerates and welcomes you whether you have money or not.
Everyone's family situation is different, and the film shows three family models, but the same is the need for family and the thirst for love.
Happy families are always similar, Xiao Tan's home is a condensed version of the happy home sample, parents love each other, family members care about each other's emotions, not afraid of trivial trouble.
Warm and loving, lively and full of laughter.
The so-called happiness of home is expressed in every meal, in a comedic way, which is the appearance of a desirable home.
But Xiaotani always feels bored and bored of life, and wants to change his life, until he loses it, he understands the preciousness of home.
Zhongda is a loner, without the care of his family, a warm home is what he longs for and cannot obtain, and his memories of home are only snubbed and rejected when he was a child.
So the last confrontation between the two was to use their families as bargaining chips.
The moment you want to escape may be the happiness that others dream of.
Jin Hao lives with her mother, and although the mother and daughter are funny every day, they are also firmly dependent on each other, dependent on each other and deeply in love with each other.
No matter how solitary Jin Hao is outside, when he returns home, he can be a little girl again, or a little crying bag. No matter how old it is, it will always be a child in the eyes of parents.
Three different family models, the core is the preciousness of home.
When called "Dad" and "Mom", having a response is happiness.
Home is also knocking you when you do wrong things, don't let the complex world change you.
Exchange is just a formality, the essence is to let people see what is the most precious thing. It's my family, it's my original intention.
That's why the beginning says that this movie is perfect for the whole family.
Working hard outside, reporting good news without worry, rushing home for tickets, and running thousands of miles in the crowded Spring Festival are all expressions of love for the family.
But we rarely tell our families how important they are.
And movies happen to express our emotions. Whether it is the plot or the core, it is a good choice for the family moment of the Spring Festival.
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The whole story unfolds from the perspective of a teenager, full of simple sincerity.
The laughter is straightforward and simple, and the old people and children can understand it. There are no bad terriers, and the whole family will not be embarrassed to watch.
Middle-aged people play teenagers, it is easy to overdo it if they do not grasp the degree, and the cuteness of the actor itself and the popularity of the audience are very important.
Lei Jiayin played just right, he brought a special sense of joy from the combination of mourning and humility, and he also exuded a sincere energy.
Looking at this look, no matter how absurd things are, people want to believe him.
What are the benefits of exchanging bodies with uncles? For Xiaotani, it was a wish.
On the surface, it is an unobtrusive date, but in fact it is a special blind date.
It's "I have to become another way to dare to stand by your side". What kind of alternative "Sister Dog CP" plot is this!
This is also the first time that Lei Jiayin and Zhang Xiaofei have partnered, and I didn't expect that their auras were very compatible. Both of them are actors with their own sense of joy and have a cute magic.
What they have in common is that they act sincerely and make people believe in their roles. The last time I saw Zhang Xiaofei in the Spring Festival stall, I was still "Fei's mother", and this time Zhang Xiaofei appeared as a goddess with her own halo.
However, the beauty is only three seconds, and it does not change the true color of the comedian.
Following Jin Hao in the movie, I once again felt the joy of falling in love when I was young.
Not to some elegant place, but to the arcade battle. It's not a high-end restaurant to eat, but a roadside fried skewer.
I thought it would be a cliché emotional drama next, but I didn't expect that the apparent romance would come to an abrupt end in another way - push away.
This was followed by a series of "rejection" dramas, exhausting all their might.
Successfully let Jin Hao avoid it, and completed "hot love" to "lost love" in two days. This is the ultimate romance, right?
This is also where I think the emotional drama of this movie is handled cleverly.
The teenager's liking is with the ignorance of the beginning of the emotional sinus, and the yearning for other people's lives, if you directly use the routine of emotional drama to develop, it is tacky.
"Sister Dog CP" is a surface BE, but it is actually another HE.
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The moving part of the story is that it is full of healing.
In the movie, Jin Hao's setting is that she works in general, her mother owes a huge debt, and she has to listen to her mother and go on a blind date with the object her mother thinks is suitable.
At first, the date that was not hopeful, because it became a day of stress relief when I met the teenager Xiaotani, and did childish things instead gained simple happiness.
The atmosphere of the whole movie is relaxed and fun, like straying into a game and having a fairy tale dream.
Jin Hao's dream is to be happy with the teenager, vent his emotions, and continue to work hard to live his life.
Xiao Tani's dream is to feel another life, and then know the preciousness of his own life.
There is a scene in the movie where Lei Jiayin and Zhang Xiaofei are on the rooftop of the building, shouting "get out" into the distance.
This is also the true voice of many people. Say goodbye to bad memories and things from the past and welcome a new year.
Isn't it the best look of the Spring Festival to be able to sit with your family and chat about some things or not, watch a relaxed and comfortable family movie, and have no serious and annoying topics?