The fairest thing in this world is the sun, and every place, regardless of latitude and longitude, has half the time of day and night throughout the year. ”
"Sunshine" is a film directed by director Zhong Menghong, released on November 1, 2019. This is a movie whose name does not match the content at first glance, and looking at the warm and cheerful business card tells a tragedy, but under careful tasting, it is found that the name and content are so perfectly matched. The film also won 12 awards and nominations at the 56th Golden Horse Awards for Best Director and Best Feature Film, with a Douban score of 8.4.
Director Zhong Menghong uses his own delicate techniques to tell the truth of life with seemingly bland life stories, different people will get their own different feelings from this film, and everyone will learn a little growth from this movie, as a movie can do this can already be called a good movie.
The main story line of "Sunshine" is not complicated, telling the ordinary family of four, the father loves to learn alone, the eldest son who is perfect in everything he does, and never cares about the naughty little son in his eyes, resulting in two children eventually going to different paths in life, after experiencing a series of events, parents and children have gained a new understanding of life, so that the family can regain mutual understanding, get a new redemption, after experiencing some difficulties in life, it will usher in a new life and usher in a new sunshine.
Many people feel that the root of the family's problems comes from the problem of parental education, based on some family utilitarian education indoctrination, resulting in different treatment between the two sons, which leads to family tragedy, and this family also reflects the shadow of many families. In my opinion, in addition to parental education, we should also see that no one's life can always be under the sun, sunshine and darkness are two sides of life, and we must know how to accept and face it frankly. In this article, I will analyze why this film of ordinary people's lives can arouse so much resonance from four aspects, such as the root of family tragedy, not knowing how to communicate wrongly expressing my love, accepting difficulties calmly, changing myself to get redemption, director Zhong Menghong's shooting skills and life understanding, so that many people, including myself, feel that it is a must-push movie.
<h1 class="ql-long-10651343" >01 Extremely differentiating one's children is the source of family tragedy</h1>
1, Ahao: The sunshine boy in everyone's eyes, but he only wants to find a "cylinder" to hide until the final fall
The eldest son, Ahao, has always been a radiant being, good looks, good grades, gentle personality, and kind treatment, which really makes it impossible to find shortcomings in him. In contrast to his brother, who was useless in his father's eyes, he was not only pinned on his father's ardent hope, but also the only light in the whole family, even the only sun in the family, he has been silently carrying all the expectations of the family, illuminating others for 24 hours, but no one has ever asked him a word, what he is thinking in his heart, what he wants.
Although he was valued in this family, he was lonely inside.
Mom only cares about when he goes out and when he comes home, and he doesn't know if he hasn't gone to cram school for a week;
Dad only knows to tell him to "grasp the time and master the direction", but he has never really guided the direction of his son's life, only knows to give pressure;
The younger brother only thinks that the brother is the most perfect, the sun of all people, and he had better stay away from this sun so that he will not show his darkness.
Ah Hao told his friend that after Sima Guang smashed the water tank, sima Guang himself sat in the depths of the water tank, and this is the psychological portrayal of Ah Hao. He could no longer bear the pressure of doing 24-hour sunshine, he just wanted to hide, hide in a dark corner, relax his pressure, but no one knew his painful heart, including his dearest relatives, extremely depressed He finally chose the extreme path, and a rising star fell, bringing great pain to the family.
Everyone has their own energy, but this energy is limited, and it takes a period of rest to recover after using it. It's like working for a day and also needing to sleep. No one can always be in a positive, perfect state, and there will always be times when they are tired and want to take a break. However, Ah Hao was asked to be in a position where he could never rest, and he must remain perfect, not daring to slacken off in the slightest, or dare not show a single flaw and disappoint his father, and this pressure led to his eventual fall.
2, Ah He: Once gave up on himself, but in fact, his heart longed for sunshine, and growth allowed him to finally achieve self-redemption
No one must be a bad boy from birth, Ah He was also a lively and cute good child who would pestering his mother to ride him on a bicycle, why he would become what he later became, the mother in the movie only used not to know to explain. As a mother, do not understand the reasons for the change of her son, do not communicate with the child, can not guide the child to the right way at a critical moment, although she loves the family and her son, but it is also a dereliction of duty.
After the father knew that Ah He's grades were not good, he directly gave up on him and pinned his hopes on the excellent eldest son, completely without thinking of fulfilling his father's duty to pull the child back from the bad road.
In education, his parents neglected their duties at the same time, and Ah He's life path naturally became more and more skewed. He was actually very envious of his brother in his heart, so after his brother's death, he said that his brother had never done a thing, and the only thing he had done wrong was to jump from such a high place, which showed how perfect his brother was in his heart.
Because of his brother's departure, he grew up a lot, because he became the only child in the family, he had to replace his brother's "sunshine" position, although he was not the real "sunshine" in his parents' hearts, but he also came out of the shadows, had the courage to take on the obligations of being a son and a father, and worked two jobs a day to earn money to support his wife and children.
It is this growth that makes the father finally see the excellence of the younger son, and even in order to protect the son's hard-won excellence, afraid that he will go astray again, he has adopted extreme methods to protect the son.
In the movie, from the beginning, as the head of a powerful family, the father looks down on the young son Ah He, who has poor academic performance and fights in the society all day, even if his son is very reluctant to come to the court for fighting, and offers to let the judge send this son to the juvenile detention center for education. But for the eldest son Ah Hao is very good, every year from his own work to get the notebook he is reluctant to use, to stay for Ah Hao, because he has all his hopes, and it is for him such a two-level division that has caused the tragedy of his family, perhaps this is the last time he used extreme methods to protect Ah He, in order to make up for the mistakes he once made.
<h1 class="ql-long-10651343" >02 Everyone is a kind, hard-working person, but they don't know how to express it, they only know how to pay in their own way</h1>
In fact, in the play, careful taste can see that parents are loving their children in different ways, friends are also caring for friendship in their own way, and everyone is expressing love in their own way, but due to the lack of good communication, this expression cannot be accepted by the other party in time.
Although the mother does not care enough for the child's psychology, as a mother, she is also trying her best to love the child in her own way, no matter what happens to the child, she does not blame, but tries her best to help protect the child, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to care for the child, but ignores the most important psychology.
Although the father looks grumpy, eccentric, is the culprit of the family tragedy, but his starting point has always been to hope that the child can have a better future than him, hard work to earn tuition for the child, there are very extreme ways to express his love for his son, at the beginning is Ah Hao, followed by Ah He, although the way is extreme, this is not even afraid to sacrifice his own life, just to protect the child, is an alternative manifestation of father's love.
Caitou even used the wrong way to help his friends out of the head, maintain the so-called friend's righteousness and lead to imprisonment, he actually wanted to express his concern for his friends, but he used the wrong method, and his concern for his grandmother also showed his filial piety.
Although the father in the play has been over half a year old, the mouth has been reading "grasp the time, grasp the direction", but in fact, his entire life has not been alive and thorough, stubbornly dividing his son into different regions to treat differently, he has long lost his direction, failed to correctly express his father's love, which led to the final tragedy, fortunately, he woke up later and injected sunshine into the family.
In fact, the same is true in life, we love others, others also love us, parents, children, lovers, friends, but sometimes due to the lack of good communication leads to the use of the wrong way of expressing love, resulting in a complete departure from the original intention, or even the opposite result. Learning to communicate with others, especially those we care about, understanding what the other person thinks and thinks, and expressing love correctly is a compulsory course in our lives.
<h1 class="ql-long-10651343" >03 Facing life's difficulties and trying to change themselves is the reason why the family is finally redeemed</h1>
1. The growth of Ah He is the cause of reconciliation
After his brother's death, Ah He came to the funeral, and under the seemingly calm and waveless expression was indeed the inner world of the terrifying waves, so he returned to prison and ran on the playground like crazy, he did not want to believe that such a sunny, nothing wrong brother had made such a big mistake, and although he did not say it, he knew that he had become the only reliance on his parents.
After being released from prison, facing his wife and son, who looked like they were actually children, and his brother's death and devastated parents, Ah He grew up in an instant. This growth allowed him to begin to mature and play the light in his body. In order to make his family live a better life, he only slept 5-6 hours a day and worked hard for two jobs, which was three years. Take the initiative to speak to your father and open the door of father-son communication.
It can be said that Ah He's growth is sad in the movie, because from these aspects, Ah He is essentially a very good child, with a sense of responsibility and responsibility, and why is he disliked by his father to this point. It was not until after the death of the eldest brother that my father began to face up to his advantages, on the one hand, he was touched by the fact that he finally got the approval of his family, on the other hand, he was unfair to him, because I always felt that this recognition had a little taste of realistic persecution in it. If the eldest brother had not died, would his father have approved of him in this way? I think I should still turn a blind eye to him, and maybe ah he's tragedy will continue.
2) The father's transformation is the root of reconciliation
If the father had not changed, ah he would still be an unseen son in the darkness in his eyes. From the beginning when someone asked him how many sons he had, he replied that there was one, because in his eyes there was only one son, Ahao. Later, when others asked him, he still said that there was only one, because he really only had one left, helpless and sad.
It is precisely because of this son that he finally set his sights on Ah He, and only then did he discover the preciousness of Ah He, being down-to-earth and willing to work, and it was precisely in this way that his father realized. He is afraid of losing a son again, seeing his son do something wrong again, no longer as before to anger his son for doing bad things, abandoning his son, but believing that his son is forced to do bad things, in order to protect his son, he took 24 hours off to secretly stare at his son. Although he did not say it, this kind of behavior has perfectly shown the change in his thinking, and he wants to protect his child in his own way and avoid him from going astray again, which way may sacrifice his own life.
The transformation of the father is where the whole family is redeemed and returned to happiness, although this practice is too extreme, but it also makes people see the efforts of a father, and can't help but sigh, if he can understand this earlier, everything will be different. The director uses the subtle transformation of human psychology to promote the progress of the plot, which makes people regret and angry but feels that everything is reasonable.
3. The mother's understanding is the sublimation of reconciliation
In the last scene, The mother sits behind Ah He's bicycle, carrying up and watching the sun shine through the leaves on her face, which is very warm, simple but profound.
When he was a child, Ah He asked his mother to ride a bicycle to take him, and for 2-3 hours at a time, he always sat tirelessly, and he began to make trouble without taking it. Mom only knew that if she did this, he would be obedient, but she never knew why she should do it. At this moment, she seemed to understand, maybe the swaying tree shadows and mottled tree shadows were filled with sunlight, which was comfortable but not too hot. And this scene also highlights the theme of the film, the sun and the dark to alternate is the most comfortable feeling, too bright or too dark will go to the extreme of destruction.
Director Zhong Menghong showed his lens language skills at this moment, only with such a picture in the last moment perfectly reflected the theme of the entire film: sunshine, darkness, reconciliation, everyone has been watching the movie in the feeling of depression in this moment is released, by this kind of mother and son how long has not appeared linkage, warmed by the mother's understanding, although the family has experienced a lot of pain, at this moment also finally returned to the ordinary happiness on the right track, and this happiness comes from the heart of the sun, dark calm acceptance, So no matter what difficulties they encounter later, the family will continue to hold hands and go on.
<h1 class="ql-long-10651343" >04 The director's clever use of light and shadow shooting techniques and some understanding of life</h1>
1. The clever use of light and shadow is very suitable for the theme of the movie
In the film, director Zhong Menghong's use of light and shadow is really very suitable for the content of the film itself, the film is called "Sunshine", which expresses how to look at the opposite of light and darkness in life, and in the movie, the contrast between strong light and shadow is often used to show the mood of the characters and the things that are about to happen good or bad.
In the early stages of the film, the scenes are showing ah he's home situation or filming in ah he's home, and the light has always been dark, which means that the family's life is in the dark. Towards the end, my mother was collecting her brother's belongings and saw the sun shine into the home for the first time, and the director used this technique to show that ah he's family had attracted new life and light.
When dad talked to his mother at the top of the mountain, he sincerely showed his heart and inner thoughts for the first time, he was actually loving his son in his own way, at this time the director gave him a high backlight, indicating that his father was also making his own efforts for the family behind his back, not so ruthless on the surface, but his efforts were silently paid behind his back, not on the surface.
Dark clouds appear twice in the sky, and after each dark cloud covers the sun, there is always a life passing, the first time is Ahao, the second time is Caitou.
The director always runs through these alternating details of light and shadow in the film to hint at the progress of the plot, and careful viewers can guess from these changes in light and shadow what is going to happen next, good or bad, which is also a manifestation of the director's light and shadow technique application skills.
2. Letting go of the body and restraint, learning to communicate with the child, and understanding the child's true inner world is a compulsory course for every parent
In addition to letting us understand the light and dark side of life, "Sunshine" also sees that it is not close that means understanding a person, including one's parents and relatives. Ah Hao's sudden fall, the parents and brothers can not understand why, and his classmates say that she knows why. The reason is that there is no communication between parents and Ahao, only know how to manage the child's meals, tuition and notebooks that she feels are particularly good, blindly asking the child to be self-motivated, and this Ahao's classmate is willing to listen to Ahao's voice, so she can understand Ahao.
In the movie, the parents never knew that in fact, Ahao also had his own troubles, only that he had always been incomparably excellent, and it was already good to do this. For Ahao, his wish was to enter medical school, but he did not get into the first school, in a sense, he is also a loser, and he also needs someone to comfort him and understand his inner troubles. And it is precisely because of the refusal, or the father who does not know how to communicate, that this originally excellent child has lost his living life.
Communication is not difficult, but among traditional Chinese parents and children, sometimes it is a little embarrassing, embarrassing and even a little arrogant to feel that they are equal and open to communicate like friends. I only know that blindly asking my children to study hard, and learning well represents everything, and never pay attention to their mental health. Watching "Sunshine" always makes parents reflect. Even if you are willing to go home and talk to your children once, hug your children well, and enter their spiritual world, the value of this movie is also reflected.
3, know how to face the trough of life, brave to face, will always come out
Everyone's life will encounter the highlight moments and troughs of success, sometimes in the time of success, praised by people, full of energy; sometimes suddenly encounter difficulties, low and decadent, extremely lost, in fact, no matter what is part of life. No one is always in the sun, no one is forever placed in a dark corner, and we will always have successes and failures.
So when you are successful, don't try too hard to maintain this success forever, so that you will only receive endless pressure and disappointment in yourself; at the low point of life, you don't have to complain about yourself, just willing to sink to the bottom, but should firmly believe that the sun will always be behind the clouds.
Sunshine alternates with darkness, success takes turns with lows, and that's life. Parents know how to communicate with their children, and they also know how to correctly face the successes and failures in life, peaks and valleys, do not need to pursue too brilliant life, perhaps a plain family and harmonious reunion together is happiness.
summary:
"Sunshine" is not a plot ups and downs, gripping film, the reason why it can have such a high rating, is not because the plot is so complex and profound, but director Zhong Menghong uses the small stream of film language to show us the temporary haze that will be encountered in life, the family will usher in warm sunshine after working together through the haze, and the seemingly tragic movie will feel that it contains healing warmth after watching it, making people have more expectations for life.