This year's Spring Festival movie, in addition to the somewhat unlucky "Chinese Table Tennis", the most pity is "Exchange Life".
Compared with "The Wandering Earth 2", "Manjiang Red" and "Nameless", which are popular movies that are not lacking in popularity just by looking at the lineup and behind-the-scenes production, "Exchange of Life" looks inconspicuous, but it is the first movie I watched when I entered the cinema on the first day of the new year, because it was the only comedy.
On the first day of the New Year last year, my first choice for watching movies was also the only comedy at that time, "This killer is not very calm", next year's Spring Festival, I will definitely prefer comedy, after all, the big New Year, I want to watch something happy.
Unfortunately, in this year's Spring Festival file, the battle for the head blockbuster is too exciting and too intense, and "Exchange Life" not only failed to become a dark horse like last year's "Killer", but was even kicked out early and became the bottom.
I have to say that the Spring Festival file is a good schedule, and the cinema is overcrowded, but the small-cost film does not have a strong enough publicity, and it is still easy to cannon fodder.
But "Exchange Life" is indeed the most suitable family movie to watch during the New Year, not only because it is a comedy with normal laughter and not lewdness, but also because it is the only movie with the theme of family love and growth.
Yes, in recent years, with the awakening of netizens, the audience has become more and more sensitive to those uncomfortable stereotypes and other issues in film and television works, especially comedy, which used to rely on vulgar memes that could not be separated from the next three ways to make jokes, but now it is not possible.
"Exchange Life" is good in that it is a female director, like the original "Hello Li Huanying", the picture shot by the director and the emotions conveyed are not only delicate and gentle, but also know what kind of perspective is comfortable.
For example, one of the points that touched me the most in the movie was the treatment of the "villain" Zhongda played by Lei Jiayin.
This character, who eventually dies as a goose, is immediately captured by the owner of the roasted goose shop and put in a cage like any other ordinary goose, where he quacks, but no one can understand what he is saying.
It's really "laughing out of the goose", right? It's a big hit, isn't it?
The first reaction was, of course, this.
But after laughing, I began to think in my heart, what will be the final fate of this "goose", killed? Obviously has human consciousness but can not communicate can not prevent their fate of being slaughtered as ordinary poultry, and even have to be cooked and eaten, this is too cruel and terrifying, Zhongda is indeed not a good person, but it is really not a crime.
Then in the Easter egg, the heroine Jin Hao, played by Zhang Xiaofei, bought this "goose" with her mother, of course, at first she planned to "stew the goose in an iron pot", but later saw that the goose was pitiful, and began to consider raising it as a pet.
I really think the director's handling is amazing.
Behind this treatment, in addition to the control of comedy elements, there is also a kind of tenderness and compassion, or care for all life.
Director Su Lun, there are not many works, only two films have been directed before, the most well-known is "Time and Space Cohabitation" starring Lei Jiayin Tong Liya in 2018.
"Exchange Life" actually continues the fantasy and warm style of "Living Together in Time and Space", on the basis of logical self-consistency, there are laughing points, and there are more points that make people think.
The protagonist of the story should be the boy Lu Xiaogu played by Zhang Youhao, who is like countless ordinary people of us, ordinary inside and out, ordinary inside and out - ordinary looks, ordinary abilities, ordinary families, thrown into the pile of people can not be found.
But every ordinary person also dreams and wants to have a different life, such as Lu Xiaogu, who likes Jin Hao, so he wants to become her boyfriend who seems to have a successful career.
In fact, when I saw the title before, I once thought that it was a stereotypical male and female protagonist exchanging bodies and exchanging lives, but I didn't expect that it was actually an exchange between love rivals, and Lu Xiaogu, a teenager who "had nothing", and Zhongda, an uncle who "has everything", exchanged.
At first, I thought, it must be Lu Xiaogu earned, a poor boy, don't work hard at anything, and suddenly become very rich, just like many young people now, every day they think about hoping that life will fast forward to retirement, no more work and no more struggle, how happy!
And Zhongda, thanks to ah, after struggling for so many years, returned to the pre-liberation overnight!
But the more I looked back, the more I realized that things were not what I had imagined.
When we are young, we mistakenly think that we have nothing, but in fact, it is precisely because we are in the blessing and do not know the blessing, do not know how to cherish it, do not know that the seemingly ordinary but complete family, the poor but loving family, is the most precious growth environment, do not know that youth with infinite possibilities is precisely the most difficult wealth to buy.
When you reach a certain age, there will actually be everything, but those lost times, family affection, will not come again.
This is a fantasy film that cannot happen in reality, and those adventures are as dreamy as Alice's wandering in Wonderland, but at the same time, director Suren has filmed the situation and mentality of every character, especially ordinary little people, very realistically.
I also watched a short film "Buy Ears" made by her before, I remember that it was still the most beautiful performance in 2019, when Xiao Zhan was just popular and hot traffic, but in that short film played a hearing-impaired takeaway brother, is really like the kind of takeaway brother common in the streets and alleys, on the one hand, the actor's acting skills and plasticity are good, on the other hand, although the director is in the entertainment industry, he can still really grasp the pulse of ordinary people and capture the most touching points in ordinary people.
Finally, let's talk about the actors.
Lu Xiaogu's family, Wu Yanshu's grandmother, Sha Yi's father, Liu Mintao's mother, Yang Enyou's sister, are all well chosen, this family really feels funny and cute every time I look at it, only Zhang Youhao's Lu Xiaogu Bengu, at first made me feel weird and ugly.
But ugliness is also part of the role, it is because ugly is inconspicuous, so it will be so inferior, will envy others, and even want to become others.
What impressed me was Lei Jiayin, I once felt that his acting skills were very similar, but in "Exchange Life", he played from an ordinary middle-aged greasy man back to a teenager in the shell of an uncle, the acting level is really visible to the naked eye, and when I came to see "Man Jiang Hong", I felt that his acting skills were quite powerful.
The only pity is Zhang Xiaofei, this is her first starring movie released after "Hello Li Huanying", but the focus of the story is on the teenager and the uncle, as the heroine, although her mother-daughter relationship with Ding Jiali is also remarkable, the room for play is obviously not as much as the two male actors.
But in any case, she is already the actress with the most scenes in this Spring Festival movie!