Escape from a tired life! "Exchange of Life" has a miraculous effect on healing childhood

Swapping bodies, life comedy, family fun, female directors... In the Spring Festival stall, which is full of slaughtering power and family and country feelings, the existence of "Exchange Life" can be called a small dish of porridge that adjusts the appetite and refreshes the heart.

Unlike director Su Yan's last "Living Together in Time and Space", love is not the main element of this film, family and the inner sense of belonging represented by the family is.

Therefore, "Exchange Life" not only has men and women, but also old and young, there are not only adventures here, but also a happy family atmosphere. If you are worried about "what to watch with your elder children", then this film is a good choice.

But in the hip-hop family fun, there are not only praises to the family, but also the troubles of teenagers' growth, and the helplessness and confusion of adults in the face of reality.

What if you don't know where to go? This may be able to give you an answer.

Lei Jiayin & Zhang Xiaofei

Behind the change of love rivals: "I, what do you want?" ”

Swapping bodies is an unconventional joke, and the people in the bureau think they have been fired, but in fact they have just fallen into the vortex of desire.

It is as if a big hand falling from the sky has pushed down the of reason and reality, allowing the torrent of desire to gush out, seemingly hearty, but in the end it will become more and more uncontrollable.

This uncontrollable and unknown is where the fascinating drama lies.

The higher a person's dissatisfaction with himself and his life, the easier it is to get carried away in this game, until he goes deeper into loss and even destruction, isn't Charlotte a typical example?

Back to this film, before the "transformation", the protagonists' dilemma was not the same as Charlotte's.

Zhongda (played by Lei Jiayin), a middle-aged successful man, a sharp-toothed barrister, lacks a sense of right and wrong, does not have a strong sense of morality, only recognizes money, and is like a cold-blooded animal walking in the jungle of society.

Lu Xiaogu (played by Zhang Youhao), an 18-year-old boy, cowardly, clumsy, and even a little stammering, he was born in a warm family that is not rich, and he fantasizes about going out of the alley and rushing to the world every day.

Jin Hao (played by Zhang Xiaofei), who has a close relationship with these two men, is a woman who has not transformed but is also involved in this game, she comes from a single-parent family, and her mother depends on her life, and she is thirty years old, career and love are empty-handed, she stands at the fork in her life who does not know whether to make a living through marriage and change her life.

Among the three, Lu Xiaogu's wish is the most clear and direct - to become an adult with a productive life. So the game started with him, he became Zhongda, yes, the teenager became an uncle.

The new skin bag is bold, and he wants to rely on his new identity to pursue his crush's big sister - Jin Hao.

No coincidence is not a book, Jin Hao's nominal boyfriend is Zhongda, in fact, she has no love for this boyfriend, just for money, but she can't live in her heart, and she can't agree with the fact that she is about to become a "hypocritical woman".

She is so entangled and contradictory, and behind the entanglement and contradiction hides such a secret wish - how good it would be if bread and love were both!

Then, the new Zhongda of "uncle face, young heart" appeared, and the domineering president suddenly turned into a soft and clumsy licking dog-style boyfriend, taking her to drink, sing, play games, and ride a carousel, which is called a happy and cheerful - isn't love coming? The dream of a 30-year-old single girl has come true!

This fantasy game that breaks the laws of nature is a backdoor for Xiaotani and Jin Hao to escape reality and true self.

It seems that they have really used this to strip away their cowardly self, their greedy self, and their failed self...

But that's just an illusion, jokes are not salvation, and in some inadvertent moment, they will still be beaten back to their original form.

Lu Xiaogu, who was dressed in Zhongda's body, successfully moved Jin Hao with a piece of sincerity and innocence, but he was afraid that after the game, Zhongda would take advantage of this for nothing - aren't they and Kazumei themselves even more out of drama?

So he deliberately "self-destroyed the image", so that Jin Hao was convinced of the fact that "Zhongda is the lower man", so that he would have the possibility of ascending to the position in the future.

His behavioral logic tacitly acquiesces: a person's body determines who he is, and women will only fall in love with the same body, the same face, not the soul within the body.

This logic automatically obliterates the uniqueness of "me", thinking that it is ethereal and small enough to be easily recognized by changing bodies.

It was hard to move the sister I liked, but I didn't dare to arrange more dates and spend more sweet time in a limited time, but I wanted to quickly eradicate the budding of love in the girl's heart, which is a subconscious sense of unworthiness.

But how do you know that if you confess everything that is absurd and bizarre, she will not believe you?

Super super super, super large cup of milk tea

Xiao Gu is still cowardly, still inferior, and does not feel that he can bear and enjoy this love. So when I first saw the results of the battle, I turned around and ran, so that the beauty could stay in the memory forever, and it was not so humiliating to say, anyway, I wanted the girl to retreat, not be dumped.

The so-called preemptive strike is actually defending against inner wastes and losers.

And Jin Hao, from her point of view, that person was obviously a childlike bully yesterday, and today he is picking and momming, and the bread and love are gone!

She was embarrassed and angry, feeling as if she had been played. But as the saying goes, only with your permission can others really hurt you. If it weren't for the high expectations and greed before, how could the voice of the broken dream be so clear and sharp at this time?

It seems to be redemption, but it is actually a joke, do not face up to their weaknesses and problems, even if they change time and space, change their bodies, and have an adventure, in the end they will still be dominated by these weaknesses and problems, and let fate start again and again in a closed loop.

Behind the greed: the scarcity of childhood

Why do they live so screwed and do not accept themselves? Or to find the answer from "home".

I think the best scene shot by Suren in this film is the part where Jin Hao and his mother quarrel in the kitchen.

Her mother, like many Chinese mothers, endlessly urged marriage, hoping that her daughter would be realistic, marry a rich man, gamble for future happiness, and patronize herself to completely ignore her daughter's inner swings and struggles.

Jin Hao weakly retorted: I didn't let me fall in love early, and now I think I can't get married.

The mother immediately took out a gesture of "you are still young, you don't understand", saying that she really regretted that she didn't gamble when she was young, otherwise she wouldn't have lived a life like today.

Kim Hao: You gambled, Uncle Wang, Uncle Lee, Uncle Peter... You just didn't win the bet.

Such a mother is very interesting, saying "for your good", but not caring what you think; On the surface, it is more realistic than anyone, but it automatically blocks out many relevant facts, such as that love also needs to be practiced and cultivated, and for example, it is not so easy to change one's life by marriage.

In fact, she is also running away, trying to live in her own world to escape poverty, ridicule and the inability to make her daughter happy.

Escape is simply their family's "family heirloom".

In addition to escaping, Jin Hao is still an obedient child, and she has to be used as a container to undertake her mother's emotions and fantasies when she is young, for this reason, she is accustomed to depression, has not played to her heart's content, has not dared to love, and will later be moved by the pursuit of an 18-year-old boy, and will not be willing to let go of her expectations for love and make unremitting efforts to improve her life.

Those unfinished things in adolescence, unmet satisfaction will make a person's spiritual core stop in adolescence, 30-year-old Jin Hao is such a big girl, she still wants to play, but also want to love, more difficult than most people to accept the hideousness and cruelty of the adult world.

And Zhongda Buddha-figure (the barrister before his transformation) is also a person who had severe childhood trauma. When his parents divorce and his mother remarries, he either feels abandoned or becomes a transparent person who is isolated.

Since he grew up in indifference, he put away his soft emotions early and became a ruthless steel man who only knows how to pursue interests.

Exchanging bodies seemed to be a disaster for him, after all, he lost an opportunity to make money, but in fact, he also felt the warmth and happiness of Lu Xiaogu's family by mistake, awakening the deep desire to be loved.

Therefore, whether it is Jin Hao or Zhongda, what a person can't stop is what he deeply lacks. And the black hole-like sense of scarcity is, in the final analysis, thanks to the original family.

So is Lu Xiaogu's home perfect? Is he just in the midst of bliss and does not know bliss?

In this regard, the film has made a certain degree of beautification, but in fact, Xiao Tan's troubles are inseparable from his family.

Their family, five people, father, mother, grandmother, brother, sister, three women, two men, they moved their family from the northeast to Shanghai also followed their mother's ideas - watching "Shanghai Beach" fascinated, felt that Shanghai is a romantic city, and then had a later life.

It can be seen that the mother still has more say, and the father has some strict wife control, and the couple runs a noodle restaurant, which in turn leads to their work and life being more monotonous and closed.

Xiao Gu grew up in this family with a strong matriarchal atmosphere, with more than enough warm and delicate care, but insufficient guidance for external exploration.

Women are usually accustomed to taking their children into their arms and keeping him unscathed, a mother + a grandmother, and boys like Xiaogu must be cleaner and more well-dressed than the sons raised by rough old men.

But at the same time, he could not learn from his family, including his father, the fierce temperament and decisive way of doing things, and no one led him to broaden his horizons and expand his own world.

So he can only stay in his own small world, longing and guarding the outside, curious and fearful, wanting to stretch out a foot and not knowing where to go, and over time, he finally developed a cowardly and cowering personality.

Returning to reality, it is difficult for boys like Xiaotani to grow up smoothly into socialized men, long-term closure will make him particularly uncomfortable after leaving school, and habitual withdrawal in interpersonal relationships will make him dare not fight for opportunities and resources for himself.

You don't fight, you don't fight, you are passive, wait for who feeds you? Who let you?

So it is reasonable to let Lu Xiaogu and Zhongda exchange lives, one is not sharp and fierce enough, the other does not understand emotional links, and the two of them can be even.

A short exchange can at least broaden the life experience, promote the renewal and upgrading of the original personality, and provide a vivid growth lesson for the adults who watch the movie.

Just in order to fit the theme of family fun, the movie does not give Zhongda enough humanistic care, or treats him as a villain, on the other hand, it renders Lu Xiaogu's return to the family too warm and beautiful, making it too easy for Jin Hao's mother and daughter to release their previous suspicions.

As an audience, you can't help but sigh: How can there be such an easy reconciliation between two generations~

But this does not prevent "Exchange Life" from being viewed as a light and fantasy urban fairy tale - which is right and which is evil, at a glance, accumulating years of grudges, and writing off, how can it not be regarded as a small relief in a tired life?

Author: Miss Bovary

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