The tail of June, in addition to Leo, has the worst films.
When the box office champion "There is a Commissary by the Clouds" was on the hot search with the "ugly" entry,
A lot of people reacted,
In the column of screenwriter and director, Zhang Jiajia is written.
After 8 years, this once used a "Ferryman",
The middle-aged man who pulled a group of bigwigs, such as Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Wong Kar-wai into the ranks of bad movies,
It's back on the big screen.
Speaking of Zhang Jiajia, memory can be pulled back more than ten years ago.
"Passing by Your World" was once a pillow book that many people loved when they were young.
Of the 38 "bedtime stories", half of them are about that love.
And the "golden sentences" of that year, page after page were copied in the notebook.
- I hope to have a person like you, like the refreshing wind in the mountains, like the warm light of the ancient city, from early morning to night, from the mountains to the study, as long as it is you in the end, it will be fine.
- We are in the same time zone, but we have a lifetime of jet lag.
- This world is your will, and I am your only relic.
Zhang Jiajia is still that Zhang Jiajia.
It's just that you who were ignorant and sobbing for youth are no longer you.
"There is a commissary by the clouds" is Zhang Jiajia's most famous new work in recent years.
once dominated the list of the hottest books of the year.
How many people have found themselves in the depressed Liu Shisan,
How many people left their tears to the sassy and warm-hearted Wang Yingying,
was also moved by the bright sadness on Cheng Shuang's body.
Yunbian Town in the novel is a beautiful, warm, and noisy town.
coincides with the trend of "returning home" to find oneself in life in the past two years.
Yunbian Town reflects the imagination of young people standing in a big city and looking at their hometown.
This yearning is worth reading if it brings some healing and comfort.
But when the story was put on the screen, the "core" of Yunbian Town was dispersed.
It's like a delicious piece of rose cake, someone prefers to crush it to pieces and then serve it to you.
The movie has a Douban score of 5.2, and negative reviews are flying all over the sky, which forms a strong contrast with the box office champion Tile.
Some people begged for the whole network to be blocked, and some people cried silently in the movie theater.
Although the reputation is not good, the box office of the movie is still rising.
Curious, on the last day of June, I bought a ticket and walked into the cinema.
The smell of literary and artistic hypocrisy and pain on the face,
Like QQ Space Quotations, when you encounter an online emotional skit, you will rush to you.
It makes this unbearable summer day even more unbearable.
01
The not-so-good-looking town of Yunbian
The movie begins with an 8-minute animated film.
It is said to be a gift to fans of the original work, and the original intention is good.
But at the beginning of the movie, not only did it not pave the way for the plot well, but the painting style jumped too fast and the sense of separation was too strong.
The more I looked back, the more I realized that the sense of separation filled almost the entire movie.
When he grew up, Liu 13 was an ordinary young man full of enthusiasm.
walked out of the town, sold insurance in a big city after graduation, and deceived her grandmother Wang Yingying to live well.
Actually a piece of chicken feathers.
Being looked down upon by the manager of the insurance company, working hard but not outstanding,
Girlfriend cold violence and being broken up,
The roommate left suddenly, leaving only one sentence of "help each other, goodbye to the rivers and lakes." ”
The tragic factor is full.
Liu Shisan, who was hit by reality, fell drunk in the rental house, thinking of his grandmother and that town.
In the original book, the love between grandparents and grandchildren, which has a great sense of substitution, has become the first time that the whole play has been severed.
Wang Yingying, a seventy-year-old lady with a hard mouth and a soft heart.
drove a tractor for 200 kilometers and dragged Liu Shisan, who was drunk and smoked like mud, back to the commissary in Yunbian Town.
The plot of the first chapter of this book is placed in the memories of the second half of the movie.
On a rainy night, the old lady who drove the tractor was rain or shine.
Maybe the director wants the audience to cry hard here because of Wang Yingying's death.
There are indeed a lot of tears here, and the atmosphere is rendered in place, but it also loses the opportunity for the audience to quickly bring in the love of grandchildren.
The out-of-place subtitles make people break the defense in a second.
For example: Grandma looked at the drunk Liu 13 and nagged about missing her, she hid her face and cried, feeling sorry for her grandson.
The actor's mood is in place, but a piece of white subtitles in literary style floated out:
The old lady is heartbroken! It hurts so much that it shatters!
Well, this scene, I'm also broken.
The tears that were originally swirling were forced back.
Looking at the whole movie, the emotional bond between Wang Yingying and Liu Shisan has also been shattered by various chaotic characters and plots.
Yes, the second type of sense of separation comes from the characters who suddenly appear one after another.
Yes, it represents unswerving love to death.
Cattle Ota A tyrant who is regarded by Liu Shisan as the most likely to buy insurance is a character who does not read much in the town, but relies on counterfeiting and running casinos.
He fell in love with Qin Xiaozhen, who was born in an intellectual family.
The way to express love is to deliberately delay the construction period of Xiao Zhen's house to repair the wall, to give gifts every day, and to follow secretly.
In today's terms, it's tailgating.
I don't understand why suddenly, Qin Xiaozhen said that she was in love with this man.
Falling in love with being followed every day?
What's even more explosive is that because their parents don't agree, the first date between the two will become the last.
Niu Datian suddenly went crazy, ran back to his factory, and burned it.
The smoke is billowing and the fireworks in the warehouse have become a tool to create a romance between the two.
(Crime is not romantic at all)
It's love. The familiar Zhang Jiajia-style routine love only talks about pure love, but not logic.
In addition to love, the tragic line of the little people, he also wants.
Wang Yong. A man who loves his wife and daughter is forced to become a madman.
He used to run a small business, and he was originally very kind, borrowing money to give generously to others.
His wife was seriously ill and did not get back a cent of the money she had lent.
My wife is gone, my home is gone, and I live with my daughter under the bridge that will leak rain, and I still want to save money (pick up dung) to pay my daughter's tuition.
Until he was killed by the police for breaking into a bank and injuring someone with a knife,
(If you don't read the original book) I'm afraid I will react,
It turned out that the strange little girl who suddenly appeared early in the morning and pestered the male and female protagonists to call her parents was his daughter.
The interaction between father and daughter, with little pity, is superficial.
has caused another kind of separation, and between the characters and the characters, they are just dispensable spectators in Wang Yong's story.
In the next pair, the deaf and dumb sister and the supermale brother are on the "family line".
My parents died, my sister opened a massage shop to beg for a living, and my yellow-haired brother came to the door to smash and ask for money.
forced my sister to sell the store and divide the money, and I comforted myself because I didn't want to drag my sister down.
As for my sister, I have no regrets, and I give the monthly money to both of them, just so that I can see my dear brother once a month.
In the end, he forcibly let go, "Although I gamble and fight, I love my sister very much." ”
Logical and messy.
So in the end, a hodgepodge of movies, it seems like there's everything,
Sister and brother love, male and female love, mother-in-law and grandson love, father-daughter love......
Practically nothing is far-fetched.
02
Really good-looking "Yunbian Town"
It's hard to put into words when you watch the movie.
Forget about the plot of the movie, the beautiful town of Yunbian is like a painting.
Flowers and plants in spring, rice paddies in midsummer, fallen leaves in autumn, and snow in winter.
The clouds and mist of the four seasons drift to and fro.
Zhang Jiajia wrote in the book that childhood is like a fairy tale, Liu Shisan and Cheng Shuang, who met in a fairy tale, can meet again when they grow up.
The grandmother who grew up in the fairy tale, the grandmother's courtyard, and the peach tree in front of the courtyard, and the mountains and fields in the distance,
also dragged him steadily in Liu Shisan's almost broken life.
Yunbian Town, a small town, has all the resources that a young man who worked hard in the city.
A childhood friend, a familiar friend, and a grandmother who loved him the most.
Such a Yunbian town, everyone must have loved it.
In other words, its name is hometown. It is also the countryside where all stories sprout.
When I read this book for the first time, what I remembered was the days when I ate watermelon and shook a fan at my grandmother's house in the summer, and I didn't know what sorrow was.
Those days are yellow, like a warm current, shuttling in memories.
I can especially understand the light or heavy sobs in the cinema.
Perhaps, for a moment, you remembered your "Wang Yingying".
They are always very fond of you, and when they come back from work, they will always bring a popsicle, or a lotus flower, a basket full of fresh lotus flowers.
And your "Cheng Shuang". Childhood friends may have long been separated and have not seen each other for many years, but the slopes they climbed together and the cattle and sheep they chased are all imprinted in their memories.
And, of course, your "Cloud Side Town".
Days are slow in the town, and riding a bicycle through the country roads of the rice paddies will take you to the town's hottest shops, buy some snacks, rent a disc, and go home with a watermelon in your hand.
Sometimes, we talk about sadness.
Not because of the loss of anything, but the warmth that it once had been so real.
Of course, the real beauty of "Yunbian Town" is in addition to your heart.
In reality, there is also a very immortal "Yunbian Town".
It is the filming location of the movie, Fenghua, Zhejiang.
Wang Yingying's commissary and the rice fields that Liu Shisan drove Cheng Shuang through are all in this village in Fenghua, Xifu Village.
It is about an hour and a half drive from Ningbo and two and a half hours from Hangzhou.
Walking into the summer countryside here is really like returning to the summer vacation of childhood in a second.
The mountain road is winding, the distant mountains are like daisies, and the village, there are white houses and small slopes that can slide slides.
In fact, the whole of Fenghua is an underestimated small city.
It is located on the eastern coast of Zhejiang, south of Ningbo City, east of Xiangshan Port, and south of Ninghai County.
The view is stunning. There are old streets on the banks of the Yanxi River, Tingxia Lake with plants and trees like the world, and Qianzhang Rock that flows straight down.
There are traces of "gods" here.
A huge Maitreya altar is like a golden "heavenly palace", as if connecting heaven and earth, man and god.
However, the locals prefer to worship the Xuedou Temple.
Founded in the Jin Dynasty, the name of the mountain was "Waterfall Courtyard", and later because there were many waterfalls in the mountain, to the Southern Song Dynasty, it was named one of the "Five Mountains and Ten Temples".
When you come here, it's hard not to be shocked by the Maitreya Buddha, which is more than 50 meters high.
Worship sincerely, and a trace of peace and stability will naturally arise in your heart.
If the mountains and villages of Fenghua are full of tranquility.
Then when you arrive in the urban area, the fireworks on the streets are condensed in that authentic flavor.
As the "hometown of Chinese peaches", Fenghua in summer is peach-flavored.
After eating peaches, you have to have a bite of freshness.
Beef jerky noodles, many people come to eat it.
This is because the "dry noodles" here are handmade sweet potato vermicelli after being soaked in water. The beef is stewed until it is soft and rotten, and together with the soup base, each noodle is wrapped, rich and delicious.
The breakfast set here is a three-piece set of raw pan-fried, wontons, and ramen.
Other snacks include champion cakes, hair cakes, casseroles and so on.
Summer is coming.
If you too will miss that distant childhood town.
Let's forget about the movies,
Go to the real "Yunbian Town" to see.