Source: Chen Luyu's movie sofa (lyyy_scndgs)
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It's been a long time since I've seen such a film with such an appetite -
The duration of 100 minutes accurately captures the complex and subtle mental state of young people at present, flying, romantic, and breaking conventions.
Instead of jumping back and forth between boredom and blood, he found a clever balance between jumping out and reality.
The ambiguous pull of adults gives people a sense of drunkenness, and the imaginative setting makes people escape from real life for a short time.
It doesn't fall into clichés, but it resonates.
didn't preach at the head, but he was full of stamina.
Without further ado, let's have something good to eat.
"Negative Negative Positive"
⚠️ Friendly reminder This article contains spoilers
01
It is friendly to the audience's eyes & mental state
Some people say that this movie is like an "absurd patient exchange meeting", which is very in line with the mental state of young people today.
If you look up the people behind the film, you'll see that this feeling is not without reason.
Director of Photography Feng Yuchao, representative work "Jiao Ma Tang Hui", Douban score 8.6;
Tang Qiang, the color grading director, and his representative works are "Roadside Picnic" and "The Last Night on Earth".
Editing director Kong Dashan, whose masterpiece "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" is another patient exchange in last year's theatrical movie;
Wang Yitong, one of the leading actors in "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department", also participated in the performance of "Negative Positive", playing the role of "alien" in the movie.
No wonder many netizens will sigh that your "negative and positive" is really strict.
How to say it, I believe that many audiences are willing to enter the theater for it just by seeing the behind-the-scenes lineup.
What's more, there is also Zhu Yilong, who finally used his face correctly, the brokenness of his blue hair overflowed the screen, and Qiu Tian had red hair, colliding with brilliant colors on the screen.
In short, it is very friendly to the eyes and mental state of the audience.
The way the movie tells the story also reveals a sense of calm madness.
"Urban hollow man" Huang Zhenkai (played by Zhu Yilong) always feels that he is living in a life script that has been written.
It's like making a movie, day after day, and there's no escape.
And the director team of this life movie is a group of aliens dressed in human costumes.
Study hard, go to school hard, go to the big city to work hard, find a stable job, and have a stable relationship......
According to the established trajectory of life, it seems that you can get recognition in the secular sense, but your heart is becoming more and more numb.
Happy things are not so happy, and sad things are not so sad.
He wanted to make a change.
There is not much that can be changed, changing a new hair color and moving to a new place of residence are all he can do, but he didn't expect the butterfly effect to start.
The mysterious roommate Li Xiaole (played by Qiu Tian) broke into his life.
They are so different.
Compared with the orderly and numb Huang Zhenkai, Li Xiaole is a disorderly liberal.
Huang Zhenkai eats the same rice balls every day, goes to work in the cubicle, two o'clock and one line, and follows the steps.
And Li Xiaole changes different looks every day, wears different wigs, and even gives himself different names, and there may be three lies in a sentence, mysterious and changeable, free as the wind.
They were so different that they had opposite schedules, and they were under the same roof but rarely had the opportunity to talk, until one day, the two of them appeared in the same picture.
At this time, the alien director broke out the golden sentence - for love to happen, it doesn't need them to be the same people, it only needs them to have a need for love.
The aliens are anxious to advance the development of the story, and they are scrambling to build momentum for Huang Zhenkai, with lights, music, and pink bubbles that control the atmosphere of love...... Huang Zhenkai's face was full of embarrassment and helplessness - again?
But as soon as the camera turned, Li Xiaole stretched out his hand to pop a bubble, looked in the direction of the alien and asked Huang Zhenkai: Are they your friends?
Huang Zhenkai didn't understand and was shocked: You can also see them?
Yes. One, two, three, four, five, six, Li Xiaole clearly counted their numbers.
The director uses this wonderful and unconventional way to express the most simple emotions and bonds between people - I understand you.
Over the years, the feeling of being strong but nowhere to confide, the grievance of being torn apart by my father when I was a child and drawing alien manuscript paper, wanting to escape but unable to do anything, but still having to make a small change, may be understood.
The lights dimmed, and the ambiguous atmosphere rose to its peak.
The heartbeat will define us first, and love will break the rules and bubble pink.
02
What is love?
They laid out three rules for the relationship–
Rule 1: Never spend the night in a room;
Rule two: Never talk about not defining the relationship;
Rule 3: Always turn off the lights.
Director Wen Shipei summarized the relationship between Huang Zhenkai and Li Xiaole in an interview-
They start with sex, then kiss, then hug, and finally hold hands.
seems to have completed a flashback of the traditional relationship, and it also alludes to the promotional slogan of the movie-
"What is more intimate than revealing the body is revealing vulnerability."
They all have their own vulnerabilities.
Huang Zhenkai, who has lived in a traditional and conservative family since he was a child, feels that his life is just a movie with a weak plot.
Hiding in the house to draw aliens, telling Dad that they were in the corner of the room, Dad tore up the painting, beat him up, and his classmates isolated him, thinking he was abnormal.
When he grew up, he was dragged by his colleagues to a party, and he was the one who didn't know when to raise his glass.
Li Xiaole, his father is a liar, and the only thing he taught Li Xiaole was how to weave three lies in one sentence.
He told Li Xiaole that when he returned, he would take her to Buenos Aires for ice cream, and then, he never returned.
One is manipulated, the other is abandoned, neither of them likes the life script they get, one chooses to be numb, and the other chooses to disguise.
Two completely different people, but because of their encounter, they found an opportunity to "change themselves".
They test each other and explore themselves in constant collisions.
There is a scene in the movie that is very moving.
Huang Zhenkai and Li Xiaole entered each other's childhood, appeared in the moment when they needed company the most, taught them the way to vent their emotions, listened, comforted, and accompanied.
The old wounds in the original family have been gently soothed.
Off-screen, we were also deeply moved by this moment.
Obviously, "Negative Positive" is an unconventional romance film.
In the scene of shuttling in childhood, on the one hand, it is moving, and on the other hand, it makes people sigh: can you still shoot like this?
We can also see many other elements in the movie, aliens, vaporwaves, dream core stream of consciousness, as well as the setting of Galaxy Film Studio, the scene of Huang Zhenkai vs. aliens.
It's special, anti-routine, fresh, romantic.
But the more we watch, the more we realize that the movie uses unbridled imagination as a shell, but it wraps the ancient subject of love-
What is love?
This is also one of the original intentions of director Wen Shipei to shoot the movie.
A common feeling is that many young people don't believe so much in love and marriage these days.
But he feels that not believing in love does not mean that there is no need for love, most people have the need for love, but for some reason, they don't know how to love anymore, and they don't dare to love anymore.
He really wants to make this film so that those who don't believe in love, or those who have given but have been hurt, can gain a little "ability to love" and the ability to perceive the world in the process.
"Everybody can find someone who can make them positive."
03
Good romance isn't just about love
In "Negative Positive", Zhu Yilong, who is an actor, served as a co-producer for the first time.
Huang Zhenkai in the movie wants to break the script of life, and Zhu Yilong outside the play does not stay in his comfort zone, repeatedly breaking the audience's impression and expanding his boundaries.
At the Beijing premiere of "Negative Positive", during the post-screening exchange session of the Lu Yu Viewing Group, Lu Yu asked director Wen Shipei how he initially found Zhu Yilong to play the role of Huang Zhenkai.
Wen Shipei said that this is a process of slowly getting closer to each other, and after giving the script to Zhu Yilong, they started a long conversation, and Zhu Yilong also dyed his blue hair for a long time before the start of the film.
Wen Shipei felt that the blue-haired Zhu Yilong had really become Huang Zhenkai.
Playing the role of Huang Zhenkai, for Zhu Yilong, is also like an attempt to break the script of life.
Zhu Yilong said that when he encountered this role, his life state can be described as "full emptiness", although the daily work schedule is very fulfilling, but still eager for change.
He hopes to bring such a character to the audience, so that everyone can feel empathy and have the courage to change a little.
I believe that everyone's 7.2 score on Douban has given him some answers, and many friends have the urge to change after watching the movie-
"There was a tsunami in my heart that wanted to escape and be free."
"After watching the movie, I felt like I had to do something."
"If you encounter a life script you don't like, then rewrite it yourself."
A good romance movie doesn't just talk about love.
It is more like a life movie, in the process of finding and meeting love, you also find and meet yourself.
Director Wen Shipei said that the movie is an instrument for the audience to escape from real life, an arbitrary door.
Then open this imaginative arbitrary door together, complete a question about life, and escape for a short time.
It's like singing in the ending song of the movie -
The people who originally lived in the North Pole chose to take the risk,
Those who decide to set off, will meet.
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- Luyu Viewing Group ✖️ "Negative Negative Positive"-