One Second is a drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Zhang Yi, Liu Haocun and Fan Wei, released on November 27, 2020 in Chinese mainland. The film tells the memories and feelings of a generation in the film era, and in the era of material and spiritual scarcity, people have unlimited curiosity and enthusiasm for the film world.
Zhang Yimou personally participated in the screenwriting of the film "One Second" tells the memories and feelings of a generation in the film era in the mid-1970s, and in the era of material and spiritual scarcity, people have unlimited curiosity and enthusiasm for the film world. Zhang Jiusheng, who did not catch up with the movie scene, and the wandering child Xiao Jilin formed an indissoluble relationship with a movie. The plot slightly overlaps with Zhang Yimou's early experience, and it is also his consistent style of recalling and searching for roots in social history and culture.
As of November 30, 2020, the film was released for three days, and the film achieved a total box office of 70 million yuan.
As of 0:00 on December 4, 2020, the film was released for eight days, and the film achieved a total box office of 100 million yuan.
On January 5, 2021, he won the Chinese Film Awards - Best Film Award
In order to portray Zhang Jiusheng, a fugitive with a thin appearance and a rock-like heart, Zhang Yi lost twenty pounds and turned himself into the father who came all the way to be weak and tired, but determined to see his daughter. At the same time, in order to better reflect the character's extreme lack of water due to crossing the desert, Zhang Yi still chose to be exposed to the 42-degree desert even during the break. In the end, Zhang Jiusheng, portrayed by Zhang Yi, only relied on a line in the trailer to move the audience to tears.
When asked what the biggest difficulty in this shooting was, Zhang Yimou admitted that "One Second" he wanted to present a simple and affectionate story in an "approachable way" and that "under the tide of business, the existence of such a film is already very low." A director like me can make a few films, and the average director may not have invested. Therefore, to be able to make such a film is based on the emotions of the film era and the film, which is also a wish of my own. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > shorter than a second, not a lifetime</h1>
There are many things that creators can't tell you, and the audience can only figure it out from the details. After "forced" to weaken this setting, the emotions of the whole film are weakened too much, and it is even difficult to substitute for Zhang Yi's extreme longing for his daughter as a father. The motivation of each person's behavior in the film is combined with the background of the times, which is lamentable. This is also the valuable thing about this movie. As an audience who feels the director's expression, the best way is to give more applause.
A painful memory, a tragic song of the times, Zhang Yi acted really well, but the lack of his daughter's unfortunate death, the appeal was greatly reduced, and it was impossible to explain the emotional direction of the whole film, and it lost the criticality of that absurd history. The child became a fool because of his work, but in order to continue to be a projectionist, he also had to shoot the security section cadres and the field department relations to engage in infighting, so the complete tragic role became a laughing point.
We have embarked on the second great new journey of the next hundred years, and we are also full of cultural self-confidence, why do we still want to talk about that period of history, why do we have to make a movie like a woman with a foot binding? Without the courage to face history, how to have the courage to go to the future? Movies are not only entertainment, but also should bring people to think. Unfortunately we live in an era of pan-entertainment, and the fate of this film is the sadness of this era, and it is also the sadness of filmmakers.
Zhang Yimou waited for 50 years to shoot it. The reason why I want to bring this story to the audience so much, in addition to Zhang Yimou's own complex for open-air films and films, may also lie in the fact that there will indeed be no director to make such films now. This seems a bit old-fashioned and outdated for some, after all, many young people don't talk about film movies, not even open-air movies, and the rise of short videos, streaming media and mobile devices has greatly changed the viewing habits of young audiences.
When cinemas become dispensable, how many people care about the past and history of film screening? But no one to shoot does not mean that it should not be filmed, in fact, in my opinion, especially at such a special node this year, the emergence of "One Second" is more valuable and meaningful. Now I see the 70-year-old Zhang Yimou, returning to his original intention at the age of "not exceeding his heart's desires" and making such a movie about the memory of light and shadow.
The film "One Second" is about the remembrance of the past of the film film, but in the bones is a more direct attack on the audience's inner tragedy and emotional expression of the times - Zhang Jiusheng and Liu Girl, two strangers played by Zhang Yi, caused various misunderstandings due to a disc of film and then finally reconciled. There are too many mixed plots in the story: Zhang Jiusheng's desire to see his daughter, although it is not indicated in the movie.
But it can be guessed: his daughter has long died, so for the second that his daughter appeared in the "News Bulletin", he burst into tears, repeatedly watched it tirelessly, and even hysterically for the discarded film; the role of Fan Wei played by Fan Wei is more complex and multi-faceted, on the one hand, to keep his job to report Zhang Jiusheng, but also to take a big risk to secretly cut off the film of Zhang Jiusheng's daughter to Zhang Jiusheng..... The film is more touching under the superb acting skills of the actors, which is the foundation of the big director, returning to the basics and simplifying the complex.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Under the tide of the > era, you and I are nothing more than a weed, a grain of sand, wrapped in the times, buried by the wind and sand! </h1>
The director's ever-returned tribute to the "film era" is also a nuanced memory and love for the "movie watching". At that time, how many people wanted to be projectionists, and watching movies was like the New Year. The enamel cup no. 001 of the film projectionist is a symbol of supreme status. This is a "film projectionist technology popularization film": marvel at the ceremony of Fan Wei cleaning film in the film.
"Above are all advanced figures from all walks of life, and their faces cannot appear your dirty handprints"; this is also a "gathering to watch movie memories", the windowsill under the stage are all the audience, the chorus is followed by the screening, and the stool is moved after the screening; this is also a "guide to the viewing of contemporary civilization": silent after the opening, conscious and not distracted by any bystanders. Looking back at today, we experience fingertip screenings, watching movies alone, interfering with movies... Infinite sighs. The film lampshade emits the light of cinema.
Who doesn't remember the moment when you sat at the head of the village as a child and waited for the movie to be screened?