It's been a long time since it's been this lively.
Last weekend, the director of "The Myth of Love", Shao Yihui's new work exploded Sir's circle of friends as soon as it was screened.
Douban has a score of 9.1.
Many people call it the "Top 10 of the Year".
So what are you waiting for?
Let's talk about it today:
Good stuff
Herstory
To be honest, even with so many praises, Sir still has doubts about "Good Things".
After all, usually a director's first work is canonized by the public, then it is difficult for the second work to reach the previous heights, and it should be clear when you think that so many new directors' second films have failed this year.
But so.
Not long after I walked into the theater, "Good Stuff" dispelled my doubts.
Shao Yihui is still very "spiritual".
What's more:
She used a "Yihui Experimental Primary School" to "surpass" her previous work "The Myth of Love".
It surpasses most movies with female protagonists.
01
Whether a movie is good or not depends on the whole.
But whether a director is good or not, as long as you walk into the cinema for ten minutes, you can judge the approximation.
"Good Stuff" tells us:
Shao Yihui, "deserved" was liked by everyone.
How so?
Because just like "The Myth of Love", even if Shao Yihui shoots a sharp story, he is using humor to dispel anxiety without creating anxiety.
This makes the temperament of the film very light.
For example, lines.
The lines of "Good Stuff" are always witty and humorous, but they don't feel reasonable.
For example, a straight man complains in another straight man's car:
"The fast driver stinks."
Then he realized that it seemed inappropriate, and said:
"But you're fragrant."
Straight men are embarrassed.
For example, when a wanderer thought that a woman was committing suicide by taking sleeping pills to sleep, he was so moved that he was willing to turn back.
So he said:
"Love me."
Honey confidence.
Even two men competed at the dinner table for a woman, secretly rubbing to see who ate more garlic, and their faces were so spicy that they were red.
The little girl was puzzled, what were these two doing?
The woman replied:
"Compete for masculinity."
Precise teasing.
It is precisely this kind of humor that makes most friends who have watched the screening have the most intuitive feeling about this movie in two words:
Funny.
Is it just funny?
More than.
This kind of "fun", sometimes combined with pictures or sounds, can make people feel more subtle than ever.
For example, there is a scene in the film where a little girl guesses the voice.
Musician Xiao Ye (played by Zhong Chuxi) asked the child Wang Jasmine (played by Zeng Mumei) to put on headphones and listen to the sound and guess the riddle.
In the world of children, those sound effects are full of innocent imagination, they are all things in the world, there is nature, weather, four seasons, and distant places.
In fact, these voices all came from her mother:
The rainstorm is actually the sound of oil when my mother is frying eggs;
The thunder is the sound of the water when the mother is drying the clothes;
The child imagines a dolphin jumping into the sea, but it is actually the pop of the mother throwing the vegetables to be washed into the pool.
The sound of the mother choosing vegetables is the sound of a panda eating bamboo.
The wonderful thing is that this is not only a contrast between the poetry in fantasy and the firewood, rice, oil and salt in the distance and reality, but also a vivid metaphor.
The sound of my mother doing housework is the voice of everything in the world.
The most touching thing is.
In life, mothers have repeated their hard work for many years, but they have been ignored.
In such a gentle and lovely form, it was heard and seen.
Friends who have not watched the film may find it difficult to feel this part of the relationship.
But for those who have seen the film.
It is estimated that many people will include this montage in the life movie bridge.
So how to say it.
That's right, Shao Yihui does shoot women's stories.
But before that, "Good Stuff" is first and foremost a "fun thing".
Humor is the soul of the whole film.
And only you are infected by laughter.
Let your guard down.
Shao Yihui will present her world little by little.
02
So what exactly is "Good Stuff" trying to say?
Sir's understanding is that what Shao Yihui is filming is actually a small world that many people are looking forward to, and this world may only accommodate three or five people, but there is no bitterness and hatred here, and there is no intrigue.
Yes, only good.
Just like the name of the school that appears in the film:
Yihui Experimental Primary School.
Shao Yihui brought together a group of normal people who can understand and empathize with each other, made a "small experiment", and showed us that the "tomorrow" that "will be better" is actually not so terrible.
She uses such a possibility to comfort thousands of ordinary people.
How?
Take the female image that the whole film focuses on, you will find that the real and free beauty of the female image here surpasses most domestic movies.
First of all, female friendship.
The film's perspectives unfold with women of three ages:
They are Wang Tiemei (played by Song Jia), a single mother, and her 9-year-old child Wang Jasmine, and Xiao Ye, a young girl who longs for love.
They live in an old alley in Shanghai, and they are neighbors who have just met.
Wang Tiemei is as her name suggests, steely plum blossoms, up to the hall and down to the kitchen, and has access to the toilet, and has all the characteristics of awakened women in the new era.
Xiao Ye is a bit of a people-pleasing personality, she is optimistic, kind, and bright, but she is always thinking about others.
When two women with such a big contrast meet, what will happen?
Love each other on the surface, but secretly compete with each other?
Possessive friendship in "Bird Romance Literature"?
No.
Shao Yihui said that a normal female relationship is not as exaggerated as it is portrayed in film and television dramas.
It can be mature with flabby.
For example:
Xiao Ye is in love, but Tie Mei, as a friend, will not scold her bitterly, nor will she take it upon herself to clean up the scumbag for her.
Because Tiemei knows that falling in love is everyone's psychological need, and who to fall in love with is their own choice.
Everyone is an individual.
And all she can do is tolerance, trust, understanding, and companionship.
The concept of friendship is fresh and refined, but what about love?
As a film with women as the main body, does it want to follow the current tide of public opinion and make an expression of "no need for men and no need for love"?
Of course not.
Shao Yihui uses two diametrically opposed views of love, telling us that love is neither a flood beast nor the whole of life.
For example, Tiemei.
For Tiemei, love is the best, and there is no force for it.
She needs, but does not depend on.
For her ex-husband (played by Zhao Youting), who came to the door to brush her sense of existence every now and then, she directly stated that the two are in the past, and there is only a "friend-raising" relationship at present.
In the face of the pursuit of the band's drummer Pony (played by Zhang Yu), she enjoys and enjoys, but she is never greedy.
This relationship is just a "10-minute break".
On the other hand, lobules.
She is a sober "love brain".
The reason why I say sober is because in her eyes, "love brain" is not a sin, nor is it a derogatory term.
Her understanding was: "I am just braver and more capable of loving".
It was precisely because she was "sober" that when she learned that her dating partner Xiaohu (played by Ren Bin) was a sea king, she opened her mouth and made up the lie "Actually, I am the mother of a 9-year-old child".
She hopes that she can be on par with the scumbag, so that she looks cool and is a very cheating mother.
What about "happy upside down"?
At least happy!
Love is free and diverse, and "Good Stuff" embraces the existence of any state of love.
Isn't this a sign of respect for humanitarianism?
Among them, Sir's favorite is Wang Tiemei's daughter, Wang Jasmine.
In her, we can see the meaning of "experiment":
That is, what exactly will a little girl who grows up in a normal "education system" be like.
Obviously, Wang Tiemei's education of Wang Jasmine is anti-success.
She is pure love.
100 points? It doesn't matter, what matters is whether the child is happy to learn.
She will not impose her unfinished ambitions on children, but patiently accompany her to find hobbies that she may like, and teach her the correct three views.
The result?
We will see that although Wang Jasmine is mature, she is not the precocious precocious who was oppressed by "love" and kidnapped by morality in the past, and had to grow up in advance and be sensible.
Her maturity is a kind of open-mindedness that integrates innocence, openness, and independence of thought.
For example:
In the film, when she learned that Xiao Ye was reprimanded by her mother when she was a child because she soiled the sofa with menarche, Jasmine said puzzledly:
Blood is not, how can it be dirty?
Doesn't your mom have a period?
Half the world bleeds!
Every word is the truth.
And when Xiao Ye laughed at herself for being useless, Jasmine asked her seriously and incredulously, "Do you know that your eyes are beautiful?" ”
"Your eyes are beautiful and bright, and I love that you stare at me."
Xiaoye, who was disgusted by her mother since she was a child, shed tears at this moment.
Guess what Jasmine Wang's reaction is?
She calmly dipped her finger in Xiaoye's tears and savored them.
Then say with certainty: "Your tears are delicious too!" ”
Beautiful, isn't it?
This is precisely the message conveyed by Shao Yihui's film.
The so-called feminism is not bitter and hateful.
The reason why we keep mentioning or appealing is not the act itself.
It's about "tomorrow will be better".
03
But alas, the current situation of "Good Stuff" is not very optimistic.
Large-scale screenings on weekends.
Although the opening score of the film is currently the highest score of domestic feature films, and it is called the "top ten of the year" by many people, it has exploded Sir's circle of friends.
But the reality is not optimistic:
4% of the film is scheduled, and the box office is less than 10 million, which is not as good as the domestic horror film "Mandarin Duck Tower", which has been released for more than two weeks.
Why is this happening?
Sir thinks that this is related to most of the impressions of this movie: I think this is a movie about gender topics and promotes women's rights.
For example, in the trailer, the "ligation" mentioned.
or in a short comment on Douban, questioning the movie's "objectification of men".
But is that really the case?
What Sir wants to say is that this movie is not promoting the antagonism between men and women, but rather creating a possible space for a good conversation.
Her vision goes beyond women.
What's more, it tells the story of what a normal society should look like.
For example, education:
Wang Jasmine was mentioned earlier, in fact, I can say more.
That's the school's education.
said that once, Wang Jasmine wrote an essay, "I No Longer Fantasize", standard negative energy.
But what about the teacher's reaction?
She praised Wang Jasmine's essay on the spot, praised her for her writing talent, and gave the essay a score of 99.
This is the real "teaching students according to their aptitude".
For example, occupations:
Tiemei used to be an investigative journalist in the news industry, but after the paper media withdrew from the stage of history, she had to work as an editor in a company run by an intern she led.
Still writing, but focusing on live broadcasting.
She said that she no longer had the same ideals as when she was younger.
Frustrated middle age?
But ah, after the young reporter wrote the topic she wanted to write about, but it was taken off the shelves one after another, she still encouraged the other party, or let's try again?
Friend asked, aren't you no longer idealistic?
Her answer was:
They're still young, and they still have a chance
"Good Stuff" uses this light to eliminate professional bias.
Or the attitude towards life:
Or Wang Jasmine.
Wang Jasmine is probably a "poor student" in the mouth of meritocratic parents, and her grades may not be good, so she is very distressed that she has no real strengths.
So she chose to learn to play the drums.
Does she really like it?
Maybe.
Because when she was offstage, she could see the sparkle of the drummers on stage, and she also fantasized about becoming a rare "female drummer".
And she really did.
performed on stage and received full applause.
But then what?
Then she said that she actually preferred the way she looked when she was in the audience rather than performing on stage.
She gave up.
You see, only by not being held hostage by worldly success can you learn to be your own master and truly define who you are.
So, Is Goodstuff a women's movie?
Yes and no.
The reason for "yes" is that Shao Yihui did capture the best state of women, and she told the friendship between women in a normal society with a light attitude, as well as their views on love.
And the reason for "not" is that Shao Yihui's vision is much larger than the word gender.
At this moment, which is easy to be labeled as "opposite", she does not complain, let alone beautify suffering.
She only gave those who saw her a brief break of freedom in 123 minutes:
Melt-down anxiety and enjoy happiness.
And tell everyone that there are many, better possibilities in life.
Sir is willing to call it the 2.0 era of women's films.
Speaking of which, Sir would like to mention one more thing.
Easter eggs from the movie.
The story goes back to the day when Wang Jasmine wrote the essay, Wang Tiemei looked at the article "I Don't Imagine Anymore", and like most parents, asked suspiciously:
"Why do you have so much negative energy."
Wang Jasmine stared at her, and then said something that did not match the age of 9 years old:
"It is because we are optimistic and confident enough that we can face the tragedy head-on."
Wang Tiemei was stunned:
"Who did you learn this from?"
Wang Jasmine disagreed:
"In the year I was born, you wrote this sentence in a report."
As an old media person, Sir couldn't stop crying.
Most of us are actually Wang Tiemei.
When I was a teenager, I had ideals and thought that I could influence the world with a pen and change the bad habits of this society, but as time passed, we finally recognized the reality and realized that an article may not be so important, and a truth that has been said countless times will not have a little impact on the world.
But so.
Shao Yihui said that those seeds of hope will not be annihilated.
It may not be so immediate.
But one day, it will fall to some unknown corner, quietly, take root.
Continuing this spirit.
So is the news.
The same is true for women.
This is true of all the ideals worth pursuing in this world.
So, is "Good Stuff" really about a fantasy future, an idealistic little world?
Not necessarily.
What it says is actually the present.
A firm one.
The present glows with "love" and "confidence".
The picture in this article comes from the Internet
Editorial Assistant: Ming Yan has passed the spring