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In the nomination list of the 36th Golden Rooster Awards this year, you may not be familiar with the title "Space Exploration Editorial Department", but it won four nominations, including Best Actor and Best Screenplay.
In other words, such a low-budget debut film of a young director with a mediocre box office has a certain chance of giving birth to tonight's "Golden Rooster Actor".
What's even more interesting is that if you search for reviews of the film, even though there are different opinions on the plot of the film, most viewers tacitly agree in the other direction:
"This movie almost made me vomit."
If you haven't seen this movie before, you must be more curious about how magical it is.
But in fact, long before the official release of the theater, "Space Exploration Editorial Department" had already won 4 awards at the Pingyao International Film Festival, including "Fei Mu Honor Best Film", and once scored as high as 8.7 points on Douban.
So why is it such a work that has a good reputation among veteran fans, why does it frequently receive "negative" reviews of "vomiting" after it is officially released in theaters?
This has to mention the personal style of the film's director Kong Dashan - "pseudo-documentary".
"Pseudo-documentary" is a kind of contemporary film shooting technique, which mainly presents the content of a fictional feature film through documentary representation with a strong sense of realism.
As a result, the use of a large number of hand-held lenses, just like the on-site shooting, makes the audience bump and shake the lens, and instinctively produces dizzy adverse reactions.
This is not difficult to explain why some viewers have a love-hate review: "It's true that you like it, and it's also true that you vomit when you watch it." ”
In fact, "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is not the first time Kong Dashan has tried to shoot a "pseudo-documentary".
As early as when he was a student, he once used a pseudo-documentary short film "The Future of the Rule of Law" to gain a lot of retweets on the Internet.
In the short film, he imitates legal news, and ridicules himself for ignoring the commercial market because he is "addicted to self-expression" with the "crime" of "suffocating people in literary films".
And a few years later, when Kong Dashan really embarked on the career path of a director, he still had his own creative persistence.
In the face of "dizziness" questions, he responded:
"Actually, I was aware of this problem as early as the script stage, and I could only minimize its impact on the audience, but I never considered a more secure but more mediocre solution... This style will give the story a more fantastic chemistry. We still want to make a work that will stand the test of time. ”
But it is precisely thanks to his persistence that there is such a special work as "Space Exploration Editorial Department".
Some people say that if "The Wandering Earth" represents the height of Chinese science fiction films, then "Space Exploration Editorial Department" represents the temperature of Chinese science fiction films.
Although it is not accurate to completely define "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" as a science fiction film, as a new director signed by Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth", Kong Dashan uses another surreal method to show the audience a "science fiction" story about finding aliens.
It's realistic, but it's absurd; Sad, yet healing.
It is in such a changeable and complex mood that it brings a different viewing experience from ordinary commercial blockbusters.
The male protagonist of the film, Tang Zhijun, is the editor-in-chief of a veteran science fiction magazine.
But the decline of the industry, as well as the embarrassment of divorce and loss of daughters, did not allow him to have half of the dignity of an intellectual.
So he gradually fell from the young man who chased the universe with high spirits in his youth to an unkempt and frustrated middle-aged.
In the eyes of others, he only knows how to search for aliens all day long, and even surrounds himself with patients in mental hospitals.
But in his own understanding, finding aliens is the only way for humanity to evolve.
So with such an obsession, he and several companions traveled all the way west to Sichuan, and once again embarked on the seemingly unreliable road to find aliens.
He first spent 500 yuan to buy a leg bone left by the so-called aliens, and then found the strange boy with a pot lid on his head in the dilapidated village in the southwest.
The young man named Sun Yitong told him that when the stone lion at the entrance of the village was full of sparrows, it was the moment when the aliens appeared.
This sounds a bit absurd, but Tang Zhijun really waited for this magical moment.
At the end of the story, the alien's leg bone is getting longer and longer in Sun Yitong's hands, and a group of sparrows fly in, enveloping him and flying to a high place to look at the entire universe.
At that moment, he let go of the pain of losing his daughter, and also let go of his obsession, and truly reconciled with the life in front of him.
Some people say that everything is because of Tang Zhijun's fantasy of eating poisonous mushrooms, but in reality he died in that cave and did not see aliens.
But director Kong Dashan affirmed in the roadshow, "Everything Tang Zhijun sees is real." ”
The moment Tang Zhijun stumbled across the river on a donkey, it seemed to overlap with Don Quixote's figure.
Perhaps this is also a beautiful fairy tale for idealists.
What's more worth mentioning is that the English title of "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is "Journey To The West", which translates to "Journey to the West".
In Kong Dashan's conception, Tang Zhijun corresponded to Tang Seng, and Sun Yitong, who held the leg bone, happened to correspond to Sun Wukong. They traveled all the way west and finally obtained the "true scriptures".
Due to the unique style of this niche literary film, the audience has mixed reviews for it.
Some people think that the plot is outrageous and the picture is rough, but it is just a big movie version of "Approaching Science"; But some people were moved by it, and they were cured in it for a long time.
But no matter what the final result of it gets in the Golden Rooster Award ceremony, it is worth you to feel it for yourself.
If you also have romance and expectations in your heart, you will definitely be able to understand the secret hidden in the snowflakes in Tang Zhijun's TV:
"This is no ordinary snowflake spot, this is the afterglow of the birth of the universe."
(Excerpted from the WeChat public account Yi Feifei)