In previous film and television works, the story of road movies running away generally belongs to men.
Whether it is "Easy Knight" and "The Female and Male Thief", the originator of road movies, or half of the "road movie", the most classic big IP in China "Journey to the West", or "Falling Leaves Return to the Roots", which is regarded as one of the most spiritual films of road movies in China, they are all male figures.
It embodies the "rebellious spirit" of the male (male) protagonist's individual consciousness awakening, and they search, redeem, and finally reach self-reconciliation on the highway.
Therefore, "Grandma's New World" has become a kind of existence that is very surprising when filmed.
【1】
"Grandma's New World" is adapted from Kuang Fu's original comic "Elopement Grandma", which tells the story of a middle-aged and late age woman's runaway.
When society constantly expects what women should live like, after a long period of complete and sequential education of ancient beliefs, women also began to usher in a "rebellious period", trying to break the shackles of those shaped.
And in an era where even middle-aged female actors have to repeatedly dress awkwardly in front of the screen, domestic dramas are finally willing to tell the story of middle-aged and late-age women who are not delicate enough, so that they are no longer invisible and vague.
As netizens said: "Before I watched it, I didn't expect that the sixty-year-old lady running away from home was so exciting." "
Because of them, they swallow their anger for a lifetime, and swallow mountains and rivers once in exchange for anger.
In the first half of her life, grandmother was the epitome of a typical Chinese elderly woman, diligent and promised. And this kind of misfortune in life must have the addition of male family members, the husband cheated and died early, and the son-in-law gambled.
When he was young, he brought the baby alone, pulled several generations alone, and became more and more silent in forbearance. Obviously, she has no right to speak, but her daughter will still attribute her "bad life" to her grandmother.
A heart attack, everyone thought that the grandmother was unable to return to the sky, and the portrait was ready, but the grandmother unexpectedly survived.
But this "fraudulent death" was not exchanged for the care of the family, but the daughter's request to make a will: "The house is left to Dou Qi, and the bank password is best written clearly." "
After explaining this, my grandmother, who had been begging for all her life, suddenly "rebellious" ran away from home. The will was made, the luggage was packed, the mobile phone number was cancelled, and I was "dead".
That's five years.
Until five years later, when I got the news of my grandmother again, my aunt (my grandmother's twin sister) pulled my grandmother's granddaughter Dou Qi to follow the clues and began to search all the way.
My aunt, on the contrary, was more like a typical independent woman of the contemporary era, who had never been married or had children in her life, and opened a medical clinic on her own.
Compared to her grandmother, my aunt is more like a cool lady. Speaks English, loves wellness, and pays attention to enriching the spiritual world. The hair is neat and clean, even if the gray hair is thick, he has delicate makeup, and the face is more of the calmness of experiencing Qianfan.
The difference is probably that the aunt is a long-term independent accumulation of charm, while the grandmother wants to go out of the traditional barrier. They represent two very different images of female elders.
The first few episodes of the plot are relatively tight and the story is very smooth. In particular, you will find that the portrayal of your grandmother before leaving is very vivid, like the "her" around her.
"After watching this drama, I thought of my grandmother."
"It's so real, isn't this my grandmother."
"Grandma's personality is similar to my mother's."
The director's original intention is to show us how unknown sadness women have in traditional family life, and then use all kinds of people on the journey to sketch a complete "grandmother image" little by little.
The eight-unit story is about the grandmother's departure, but it covers more social issues and women's topics. It's just a pity that once the character left the painting style changed greatly, the grandmother's personality changed abruptly, no longer silent, but began to be a maverick.
Grandma has changed from a traditional woman who has been suppressed by rules for a long time to a heroine full of courage and determination.
Of course, the play gives a statement that can still be said: grandma's original intention.
It's a pity that the series of behaviors after the departure are too large to undertake, and it is easy to fall into the deliberate intention of being too ideal, which will lead to the story not having realistic reference significance, just a cool female fairy tale.
"Grandma's New World" focuses on the perspective of women in middle and late age must be worthy of recognition, the intention is very good, but the storytelling process has failed, Grandma has not stepped out of the rules and indoctrination, and the director has not either.
【2】
In the second half, the grandmother became a tool person to connect various hot topics, solve workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence, female disabilities, find out the real culprit of cat abuse and so on.
Grandma seems to have her own "hot search" physique, but everything that can be hot makes her encounter intensively.
The point is that these hot spots have a strong sense of purpose, and the women's plight is very empty, and the grandmother's heroism cannot be established.
The girl who was sexually harassed chose a compromise between interests and rights protection, and in the face of girls who only had two faces, her grandmother became a messenger of justice.
What others can't solve, on the contrary, grandma handles it with ease.
But this is not true, blindly pursuing drama, resulting in a primary and secondary imbalance, but has been criticized as "puffy skin scribbling heat" deliberately.
Grandma's strange journey has finally become someone else's story.
In the past, male road films were intended to be the process of "finding themselves" by individuals. Troubled by the unsatisfactory nature of life, they embark on poetry and distant journeys to achieve self-redemption and reconciliation.
The runaway male protagonist of "Daydreamer", going up, climbing the majestic Himalayas, going down, fighting sharks thrillingly, and even stepping on skateboards on the highway wantonly.
No matter how bad it is, it is an emotional journey, and frustrated adults and childlike children are fixed matches. Whether it is the classic "Kikujiro's Summer" or "Rattle" that has just been released in domestic theaters not long ago, it is almost invariably said that it is a two-way emotional redemption in the relationship between old and young.
You see, male road movies are generally intended to "save themselves", and "Grandma's World" finally gave China the perspective of female road movies, but the core is all about "saving others", resulting in the adventure story of Grandma's escape finally falling into another choice of universal beings.
Even if, you can't help but praise "grandma's righteousness". But so what, it's just jumping from one discipline circle to another, inadvertently perpetuating old values.
【3】
Grandma went around to find the new world by going away, and she did not break it, she still kept redeeming and enlightening others, and did not come down on the altar of sacrifice and sacrifice.
If I have to say growth, it is to learn a firm cry from silence.
This time, it seems that I still can't watch it without daddy, and although the original intention is very good, "Grandma's New World" is undoubtedly an invalid escape.