This week's new film only has "Youth Diary", Douban opened 8.6 points, several classmates recommended it in private messages in the background, let's talk about it after watching it on the weekend;
The recently popular Taiwanese film "Old Fox", every year Wanwan will come to several popular masterpieces as an effective supplement to the creative gap in the mainland
"Old Fox" won 4 items (7) last year, the heaviest is the best director, Xiao Yaquan is also an old man in the circle, and has had in-depth cooperation with Jiao Xiongping, Hou Xiaoxian and other bigwigs, and was the deputy director of "Sea Flower", this time Director Hou is also named producer.
I glanced at the plot synopsis before reading it, and the background of the era was the stock market bubble period in the 90s, I thought it was a civic comedy similar to "Stock Crazy", but it turned out to be not .....
The director played an elegy for the old times, with a retro atmosphere everywhere, and the economic bubble where everyone was crazy was just a narrative background.
Liu Guanting's cabbage in "The Sun Shines" is very impressive, people don't talk much, this time it's a completely opposite role, the devil and the angel are at hand, Taiwan really has a group of excellent and hard-working Mesozoic actors.
Old Fox is the nickname of a successful businessman, but he didn't officially appear until 25 minutes, Chen Muyi is a veteran green leaf in Taiwan, and his temperament in the film is very similar to a mixture of Takeshi Kitano and Xu Guanwen.
Around 90 years ago, the world situation was surging, the stock market rose sixfold in two years, and then fell back to the original point eight months later, and the ups and downs of countless people's fortunes were like a roller coaster.
However, in a small corner of Taipei City, Liao Tailai, a single father, lives a peaceful life with his son Liao Jie, and does not notice the wealth storm outside the window.
Just opened 7 minutes of the director's show of skill, the camera assembly scheduling is extremely comfortable, I pulled a film on a small scale, this movie is actually a weak character growth line, and it is better than the atmosphere.
Liao Tailai works as a waiter in a big hotel, and his son does his homework in the store after school, eats in the kitchen, and refines his occupation and class.
Riding a bicycle to take his son home after work, hanging up the saxophone and playing it, he is still an old literary and artistic youth.
The active saxophone kept sounding, the camera turned to the street, the old fox's female secretary was dressed in red clothes and red lips + big waves of the era, collecting rent from store to store, Liu Yier is so beautiful.....
After taking two more steps, he heard the ethereal saxophone, looked up and smiled, suggesting that it was not the first time he had heard it, and that something was wrong with the two!
Liao Tailai is also one of the tenants, and his son Liao Jie likes to call the secretary "beautiful sister", she brought egg yolk crisp and a message that the Shandong brother in the downstairs façade room may want to quit the rent, haven't you always wanted to open a barber shop?
After the secretary left, he settled his son to take a bath, Liao Tailai stepped on the sewing machine in front of the desk lamp, and the passive BGM followed the title of the film, which was vaguely a bit of the tone of "The True Story of A Fei".
The identity, desires, and personalities of the main characters are all explained, and they are all hidden in daily conversations, the audio-visual is accurate, and the transition is like lubricating oil, I know why I won the Golden Horse Best Director, Ang Lee has to praise it when he sees it.
Opening a barber shop was Liao Jie's mother's wish before her death, but my father's current savings are not enough, and he promised that in another three years, that is, 1095 days, we can have our own shop.
The camera turned to the small shop downstairs, listening to the accent should be my fellow Shandong (there were many Shandong soldiers who went to Taiwan back then), a man named Colonel helped him to speculate on stocks, the market has been hot recently, and the uncle can't help but scold his mother and cheer, which is much cooler than doing catering.
The sharp rise in the stock market has also affected the small dreams of ordinary people, Liao Tailai's younger brother earned money and promised to lend it to his brother, and the father and son hugged their heads in the toilet and cried with joy, but when they looked back, the house price was also very long, and the original budget was only enough to buy half a room.....
When he went home, Liao Jie complained that his father was too sloppy, and at this time he met the old fox, the "life coach", and the more he played chess with the stinky chess basket, the more stinky he became, and you have to mix with the strong to become a strong man.
The first trick taught by the old fox is to use the "poor information", the little fat man who bullied you at school, his mother happened to work in my factory, and then said a dirty thing, you can't beat him physically, but you can hurt him mentally, and now you have a handle.
In addition, there is a memory line, Liao Tailai's first girlfriend, and the two chose completely different life paths after graduation.
The ex-girlfriend became Mrs. Kuo who often came to take care of Liao Tailai's business, but she was too instrumental, and she went to the United States to study and married a greasy and rich man? The female characters in the movie are indeed a bit of a tool, and the female secretary has evaporated without explaining, I thought I could be a stepmother or something
There are not many spoilers, let's talk about a few impressions.
"The Old Fox" tells a very heart-piercing core: Why are the unlucky people always honest people in the wind and rain? Liao Tailai is like an angel in the world, taking out the garbage and wrapping sharp objects for fear of hurting people, but he is blown around by the hurricane of the times.
One of the most exciting scenes is in the elevator, many years ago the old fox's mother died, that day to the hospital just when Liao Tailai's son was born, after entering the elevator, he asked his daughter-in-law not to be too happy, because his sixth sense detected that there was a person in the elevator who was heartbroken.
Having a strong sense of empathy can be said to be a curse, so the old fox wants to teach Liao Jie not to learn from your father, they are all failures, just like my mother.
The two characters, an old man and a young character, have an obvious mirror intertextual relationship, which is very exciting, and this section is filmed with single-sided glass.
I'm not very satisfied with the portrayal of the child Liao Jie, I always feel weird, sometimes he is too mature to talk and sometimes he is ignorant and sluggish, compared to one another, it is much worse than Yangyang in "Yiyi".
I like the arrangement of some hidden plots, such as why the old fox insisted on leaving the recycle bin because he wanted to commemorate his mother, which is interpreted by the "betrayal" of the female secretary, which is quite a clever narrative.
The director's final conclusion is: "To be an old fox with a kind heart", both great love in the world and decisiveness, Em..... But it was not supported by any substantive plot, and after more than 20 years, Xiao Liao was already an ace designer who could accurately grasp the minds of the rich, which was quite sudden.
The flaws are not hidden, the whole is very worth watching, I think the end of the film should be accompanied by Luo Dayou's "Sea Flowers": Each of us is a short-term light under the bubble of the times.