Encounter such a twilight love, this life is worth it!
Yesterday, I watched director Han Yan's new film "I Love You!" , basically laughed in, cried out, and was moved to tears by the love feelings of the two pairs of elderly people in the film.
How many years have I not contributed tears to a domestic romance film! Who would have thought that after watching "I Love You! " once cried back to Ben. From Let's Get Out! Tumor-kun" to "Send You a Little Red Flower" to this "I Love You! , I would like to call Han Yan a "tear gate director", who can always make people laugh and laugh and cry, cry and cry and laugh again.
This new work based on the manga of the same name by Jiang Cao "I love you! " is simply an extremely surprising bomb in this year's domestic romance films, and it has a strong emotional shock for audiences of any age!
In the film, Ni Dahong and Hui Yinghong play an elderly couple, who met and met, and the two staged a sweet twilight love. To be honest, I was a little confused about this pair of CPs at first, but five minutes into the film, I knew as soon as the two actors paired the line - this play is done!
Speaking of Ni Dahong, it is estimated that many friends are like me, and their memories are still stuck in the moment when Su Daqiang "I want to drink hand-ground coffee", and to this "I Love You!" ", Ni Dahong has become a constant warning - a northern old man who can flex and stretch and take responsibility, a good father and a good grandfather. Helping her granddaughter take time-lapse images of the park, helping her daughter pick up her grandson, and opening and closing her mouth are all Internet phrases that young people understand.
Wearing the pink tide T Chang Wei Ring, breaking our existing impression of Ni Dahong, creating a strange and familiar wonderful look, and even more wonderful, I didn't expect that there could be such a good screen chemical reaction between Ni Dahong and Hui Yinghong!
The male and female protagonists, one cynical, the other too tight, the two people from the initial unaccustomed to each other to the beginning of noisy jokes, and then gradually approached each other. It is precisely because of the difference that great emotional tension is formed, and the love game is opened in the middle of your advance and retreat, and even Ni Dahong's northern accent and Hui Yinghong's Cantonese are connected in a logical way, becoming an effective means of shaping characters.
A good director can bridge the differences between actors from the play and shooting, and even make it a feature, director Han Yan amplifies the delicacy and tenacity of Hui Yinghong, and the softness and strength of southern women are vividly presented in Li Huiru, played by Hui Yinghong.
The recklessness of Chang Weiwei and the tenacity of Li Huiru, one south and one north are familiar with each other and constantly close to each other in the confrontation between you and me, and Li Huiru's state has changed from initial vigilance and tightness to relaxation and softness.
With the duo's performance, the characters are given real souls. Everyone gradually forgot their names as actors, and were completely brought into the story, into a pure love.
When I think back to why it is difficult to have a love film that moves me to tears in recent years, I will find that young people have had too much of a hard time, are tightly bound by reality outside of love, and rarely have the courage to love arbitrarily. On the contrary, the elderly, age makes them cowardly but also makes them more courageous, and after recognizing reality, they still have the courage to dare to love.
On the countdown road of life, the love of the elderly has a kind of Jedi bravery, which is more heartless and gorgeous. Judging from the choice of the idea of this story, its connection with "love" is deeper and purer. It is not difficult to understand why I am deeply touched by the love of old people, and even envious in my heart - some people are young but never really love, and some people are still passionately in love even though they are old.
Seeing these elderly people who are passionate and brave to love, I wonder, what is love?
Love should be joy from the heart and the corners of the mouth that can't help but rise. Chang Weijie likes Li Huiru, and every day he can laugh when he picks up bottles behind Huiru in the scorching sun.
Love is a step to retreat, but it is also the courage to move forward. Just like Chang Weijie's hesitation and bravery, like he shouted, "Li Huiru, no matter whether it is disease or poverty, I will not be separated from you!" "This kind of courage, these words, how many young people have the blood and courage to shout now? But the old man often shouted out for the ring. The dislocation of age and courage formed a powerful impact, tears instantly drowned Li Huiru, and also choked you and me in the audience.
This is love!
Young people always think that love is exclusive to youth, but they don't know that old love is a spirit brewed by the years, strong and mellow.
In fact, for me, the beauty brought by this movie is not only that it presents a pure love, but also that its theme choice allows us to see more possibilities of elderly movies.
For a long time, we rarely see movies with the elderly as the protagonists on the domestic big screen, although it is not stated, but our screen does have a tradition of avoiding aging and avoiding death, but this time, Han Yan ended with "I love you!" " as an opportunity, cut into the theme of the elderly in the way of a romance film, let us enter the heart of the elderly.
Chang Weijie seems young and fashionable, full of Internet words to keep up with the trend of the times, but his granddaughter's words broke the fragility under his appearance: "Grandpa, stop pleasing others, please and please yourself." A sentence not only made Chang Weiwei suddenly realize, but also made us in front of the screen empowered - many times, we take our parents' kindness to ourselves for granted, but forget that they have no responsibility and obligation to continue to take care of us as adults. As parents grow old, family power relations gradually change, and the once strong parents gradually slide to the end of the flattering personality.
This film touches on this reality, it bluntly breaks the usual "flattery" and touches the inner life and spiritual needs of the elderly. When Changwei Jiao begins to "unplease" and "love yourself", we also see the needs of the elderly group for love and happiness. Seeing is the first step to change
Some people think that the theme of old age is bound to be associated with "heaviness", and to some extent it is. In the film, the Shange couple played by Leung Ka Fai and Ye Tong earned everyone's tears.
Brother Shan's husband and wife drive a small recycling station, the husband and wife depend on each other, the wife's illness has broken Brother Shan's heart, and the attitude of the children to turn a blind eye to their parents is even more chilling.
There is a plot in the film that Brother Shan gathered his children and grandchildren at a table in the name of the 45th wedding anniversary of the couple, which was a rare reunion dinner, but it was also this meal that allowed us to see the indifference of our children: the son was busy making phone calls, the daughter-in-law took the child to take online lessons, the son-in-law took the mobile phone while gambling and scolding, and the gifts that Brother Shan carefully prepared for his grandchildren were discarded at will, and no one took them away.
Pulling several children to grow up and start a family with difficulty, in the end, only Brother Shan and his wife depended on each other.
Such a desperate couple, without much ink, has pushed the most serious and complex social issues in front of us: child support for the elderly, illness and hospice care. Every time I approach Brother Shan, I take a deeper and courageous step towards these problems, and explore better solutions to these social problems.
Of course, the heaviness of the topic is not exactly equivalent to the heaviness of the tone of the film, it is not difficult to write the theme of old age seriously and heavy, the difficulty is how to write an originally heavy subject matter. In this regard, Han Yan is definitely an expert.
Looking back at his previous directorial works, "Get Out!" Tumor Jun", "Send You a Little Red Flower" and then to this "I Love You! Youth, adolescence and old age, each stage is related to cancer, love and life and death, which has also become an important theme of his films. Such a heavy topic, but in Han Yan's movies, you can always see the background of happiness, joy and warmth.
Let's get out! "Tumor Jun" is the beginning of Han Yan's inquiry into life with images, showing awe and awe for life. In the film, Xiong Ton's struggle with the disease is presented in the form of comics as an escalation of fighting monsters, and the relationship between Xiong Don and the attending doctor also dilutes the heaviness brought by the fight against cancer, bringing laughter and warmth to the film. To this "I Love You! ", Han Yan said that he always wanted to use a movie to answer "what will happen when I am old", and came across "I love you!" When he wrote the original comic, he felt that the time had come.
Like its predecessor, I Love You! " retains the warm and joyful life background of Han Yan's films, always making people laugh when they cry and cry, and laugh and laugh and be moved to tears. Because of love, even in the face of life, death, disease and pain, people will not be lonely and miserable.
Love is the greatest energy in Han Yan's movies.
As he said in an interview: "Before I filmed the story of Bearton 'Get Out! She was about the same age as me, so when I saw her story, I suddenly realized that death was actually very close; Later, I had children, and every time the child got sick, the anxiety of being a parent, I understood the torture of illness on a family and the psychology of others, so I had "Send You a Little Red Flower". Over the next two years, I slowly realized that I was starting to have a little fear of aging. You may escape disease, death may be far away, but no one can escape aging... Our generation seems to have such a collective unconscious pre-aging and pre-aging. The movie is called I Love You! It is about the love of old people. I want to explore that after aging, people's bodies age, whether the spirit will grow old and then we will not have the opportunity to talk about love again. ”
From this movie, we, like Han Yan, have a firm answer - love has no age, and if there is love, there is vigorous vitality. This kind of vitality and vitality is exactly the strength that pokes me the most in the whole film, and it is also the biggest contribution of this film to the theme of old age, which answers how to present vigorous and moving vitality under the heavy theme.
Just like the long whip often thrown out for the ring in the film, "The unicorn whip, the security is good, and the evil is punished and the good is famous." The first three whips, beating the grace will take revenge on the white-eyed wolf, the sharp word is the head to lose the heavenly conscience, the last three whips, beating the heartless, liverless and unfilial son, growing up and forgetting his father's mother. "The long whip is a thunderbolt, his anger and anger are all in it, the whip is the externalization of life force, it is the power of openness and vigor, it is the openness and fearlessness of walking between heaven and earth. For an elderly person, vitality and vitality are the most scarce existence, but they often show a flamboyant and somber vitality.
As Han Yan said, "If I reach that stage of my life, I can still be as brave as I am usual, and I don't think there is anything terrible about aging." ”
I love you! " not only let us see the love of the elderly on the screen, but also let us see a vigorous and brave vitality contrary to aging with the image of a vibrant old man, he makes us no longer afraid, eager to age bravely and freely.
Looking back at the work history of director Han Yan, from "Get Out! Tumor Jun", "Send You a Little Red Flower" and then to this "I Love You! are asking about the meaning of life, and in this part we may see that life itself has no meaning, and if there is, it is the meaning of love. For those who love you, you are a unique and irreplaceable being.
There is no answer to life, and if there is, it is to love bravely without asking the end.