The success of Jia Ling's directorial debut "Hello, Li Huanying" has once again pushed the group of female directors to the public.
Yin Lichuan is one of the few talented female directors in China.
Today's young people may not be familiar with it, Yin Lichuan was originally a writer who wrote poetry and graduated from the Department of Western Languages and Literatures of Peking University.
Moreover, she is also a poet, and the content of her poems is quite bold.
Later, she went to the film industry again. The screenwriting works include "Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and "Hear Her Say", and the directorial works include "Park" and "Cowherd Weaver Girl".
Yin Lichuan is a school of making films, because she has studied at the ESEC Film School in France, even if she is a new director, she is more reliable, less stream of consciousness, and the audience can understand it.
What we are going to talk about today is her "Cowherd Weaver Girl".
The film was completed in 2008 and was shortlisted for the "Directors' Biwealth" section of the Cannes Film Festival, and has never been released in domestic theaters except for three months at the Broadway Film Center.
The film is adapted from Ami's novel "The Story of Li Ai and Haili", and Yin Lichuan changed the title of the film to "Cowherd Weaver Girl", highlighting the dilemma of two women and a man living under the same roof.
The film is set in Guangzhou in the 1990s.
Da Ping, an honest and a little embarrassed northern girl.
She earned money in Guangzhou with her boyfriend Chen Jin from Sichuan by driving a bus, Chen Jin as a driver, and she as a conductor.
When the two people stand together, they look very incompatible.
Chen Jin is good-looking, he is a small posture, and his mouth is as slippery as his brain.
Da Ping is just like his name, saying that it is good to sound simple, in fact, it is a little earthy.
The soil is not good, the key is that the brain is not very bright, in Sichuan dialect, it is, sister.
For example, the bus was moving, and for a person who couldn't catch the car in time, she jumped straight out of the car herself, just to pull this person up.
How can a normal person do this?
The key is that this fall also destroyed the child in Da Ping's belly.
The child who has been full-term, Da Ping is stunned until the miscarriage to know that she is pregnant, you say that you are not embarrassed.
Although Chen Jin looks like a scumbag, he actually has no bad heart, that is, he is too straight, and he usually hurts Daping very much.
After DaPing gave birth, he let her rest in the rental house for a few days and go out to earn money on her own.
On this day, Da Ping was resting, and a woman came in with a high spirit.
After confirming that Chen Jin lived here, she immediately regarded this place as her home, and did not care about DaPing's feelings at all.
You say that when normal people encounter this kind of thing, will they inexplicably get angry again, and then kick this woman out?
Da Ping didn't, she was angry, but she was just silently angry in her heart.
When Chen Jin returned home, she learned that this hot woman was Chen Jin's good friend from childhood, called Zhang Haili, and there was a girlfriend in her hometown, divorced, and came to Chen Jin.
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No matter how good the relationship is, but everyone has a girlfriend, you still have to live in, isn't this what people often call "green tea" today?
In this way, Zhang Haili plunged into DaPing's life like a thorn, making her uncomfortable.
Although the life was not good, it was still smooth in the end. Hai Li came, and Da Ping was so uncomfortable that she was going to die.
Every day, the spicy Sichuan woman's thin body has infinite energy, and the perpetual motion machine can't stop.
Chopping peppers, cleaning up the house, cooking, sweeping the floor, privately taking Da Ping's comb, and Chen Jin drank wine and guessed fists, as if there were endless words.
Chen Jin was also a rootless man, who did not know how to avoid suspicion and did not consider Da Ping's feelings.
DaPing cooked and put more salt, Haili began to point out; Daping northerners like to eat steamed buns, and Haili said that she couldn't be wondered if her brain was bad, because the steamed buns ate too much...
Who can feel better?
But Hai Li and Chen Jin are really frank, and the two are just like children who are playing and playing all day long, as if Da Ping is the extra person.
Later, Haili actually pulled Chen in to sell fake vinegar.
Da Ping couldn't take it anymore, so she went to a good friend and worked as a cleaner at the massage shop where she worked.
Da Ping will also be angry, but only sulking. All her life, she kept knitting sweaters. This is Guangdong, and sweaters can't be worn at all.
So everyone says she' but she's still knitting.
She hates Zhang Haili, but this hatred is also very pediatric.
For example, writing on the toilet door: "Chen Jin big bad!!! Zhang Haili fox essence. ”
It's really a very elementary school chicken behavior.
Later, Chen Jin and Zhang Haili were reported for selling fake vinegar, and when the police came, it happened that only Da Ping was at home, and Da Ping was arrested.
In order to pay the fine, Zhang Haili took out the only few thousand yuan left in her passbook.
On the day she came out of the police station, Daping was also fired from the massage parlor because she was late, but fortunately got her previous salary.
In order to make money, Zhang Haili had to sell yogurt, yogurt was not sold, but she fell ill - a fever.
The stronger the woman, the more painful it is when she falls.
Da Ping stood on Zhang Haili's bed, hesitated for a long time, and finally went out to buy fever medicine for her.
But when she made the medicine for Zhang Haili to drink, Zhang Haili not only did not appreciate it, but also said, "Who knows if you want to poison me?" ”。
Da Ping was on fire, so he poured out the medicine.
From this moment on, the fate between the two women seemed to be involved.
At first, Da Ping desperately tried to pull out Zhang Haili's thorn, but later found that without this thorn, she could not survive.
Chen Jin was afraid of spending money and wanted to throw Zhang Haili out when she was seriously ill, but it was DaPing who stopped him. Later, Zhang Haili finally left and was picked up by her ex-husband.
Chen Jin earned money by driving a black car, saying that he wanted to marry DaPing, but disappeared before he could fulfill his promise.
Chen Jin ran away because of what, where he went, the movie did not say, nor does it matter.
It's like men will always disappear inexplicably.
What matters is the remaining women.
DaPing, who is pregnant again, has no money on her, and her parents can't count on it, so go to be a waiter, and her brain is not good.
People asked her if she had scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and she said no, there were scrambled eggs with spinach and scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
That night, DaPing was swept out of the house by the restaurant owner.
Go sell those fabrics, and squat on the bridge in Guangzhou for a day, only the disgusted eyes of passers-by.
There was no money for the tire, and Da Ping was on the way home, her brain twitched, and she jumped into the big pit next to her.
Only this time, the child did not fall.
Come on, just lie down. Da Ping lay in the pit, looking at the sky with her eyes open, as if dead.
The little couple who passed by looked at her and left, and the landlord aunt who came to collect the rent saw it and hurried to find the ladder.
After a while, the person who came was Zhang Haili.
Zhang Haili put the ladder down, saying that the landlord was in a hurry to watch the TV series, so he let her come, and she listened to the landlord (the mouth was really fast enough), and she waited for her for a day.
Zhang Haili asked DaPing to climb up by herself, and Daping said that she could not get up if her leg was broken.
There was no way, Zhang Haili had to come down and help Da Ping up.
In order to make a living, the two women sold fish in the wet market.
Zhang Haili handled the fish sharply, Da Ping coaxed the child, and both of them wore Da Ping's woven hats on their heads.
While nagging, Da Ping suddenly said, "You were selling fake vinegar at that time, and I reported it." ”
Good guys, looking at Mu Ne, in fact, people don't talk much.
Zhang Haili symbolically hit Da Ping and said, "You dead woman, just say that you are pretending to be honest." ”
Finally, the film is fixed on two women with children at a barbecue stall, urging the waiter to "hurry up and drink" in unison.
Enough energy.
It doesn't matter when Niu Lang comes back, the love and hatred between these two women is wonderful enough.
"Cowherd Weaver Girl" is a unique feminist film, without slogans and bitter vendettas, it is just a detailed depiction of those ordinary lives, women's careful machine and true feelings.
They are not weak and simple or strong and domineering, but full of all kinds of joys and sorrows, love and hate. They have different personalities and different ways of expressing their emotions, but the friendship between them is pure.
Some people's minds are not very simple, and they will understand Da Ping and Zhang Haili as lily love. This is nonsense, and it instantly makes a good feminist movie small.
Another outstanding aspect of "Cowherd Weaver Girl" is the acting skills of the two female protagonists.
Zhang Yi, the actor of Da Ping, is a vegetarian, native English, halfway out of the family, and the performance is very natural and unpretentious.
Zhang Haili is played by Yan Bingyan, this actress has very distinct personal characteristics, and she is very good at playing stubborn and strong women.
In "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", in order to play a good role, Yan Bingyan learned to speak Wuhan dialect, learned to scold people, learned vulgarity, learned to be ugly, and learned to become a "female flat burden" who would never violate the crowd when squatting in the crowd.
In "Cowherd Weaver Girl", she deliberately tanned her skin color and blackened out spots, so as to fit the character setting.
Outside of the movie, Yan Bingyan is also a "tough" woman.
In order to take care of her seriously ill mother, she retired for eight years in the golden age of the actor.
After eight years of frustration and then came back, Yan Bingyan won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress with "The Teeth of Love", and in 2013, "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", it was a god in one fell swoop, winning 5 acting awards.
Although Yan Bingyan is a queen of eight materials, she has high self-requirements, few works, and does not often appear in the audience's field of vision.
She has two different aspects: she does not take on works with a shooting cycle of less than 45 days, and she does not accept non-simultaneous sound works.
According to this standard of taking over the play, the current domestic creative environment can give Yan Bingyan too few choices, so she also has a name, called "Fallen Shadow Queen".
There is a strange person in the world, who does not have to wait for the snow on his head to be born to treat frustration as an untainted ear wind.
It is precisely because of the collision of Yin Lichuan and Yan Bingyan that "Cowherd Weaver Girl" is so moving.
Women inside and outside the film are so beautiful that they make people shudder.
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