In 2017, an ultra-small-budget film was released.
Not many people watch it, and even fewer people can watch it.
Awkward acting skills, patchwork plot, rough photography, people who have not finished watching will always shout "bad film".
However, people who read it will more or less shed tears.
Such an unprofessional movie, the Douban score reached 7.6 points, even higher than the works of many well-known directors.
Right Shijun looked at the entire cast list of this movie with curiosity, and it turned out that all of them were amateurs!
Zhang Haifeng, an amateur director who did not even introduce himself, took the extras to shoot this "Liu Xia".
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It took a lot of trouble to find a little information about director Zhang Haifeng.
He describes himself in his introduction:
With a passion for the film, a group of friends and I made this work in a month with limited funds.
After the release of "Liu Xia", Zhang Haifeng did not have any changes from this movie, he is still a movie "Xiaobai", struggling with himself in the video circle.
And his group of friends, in addition to a few seven- or eight-year-old children, are a few seventy- and eighty-year-old people.
At the end of the introduction, the shabby director even left his own contact information directly for cooperation.
It can be seen that the situation is not optimistic!
Today, let's take a look at how this real "bad film" has touched the audience.
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The plot of "Stay summer" is so simple that it can be summed up in just one sentence, "the summer of a group of left-behind children".
Zhang Hanxiang and his grandmother are dependent on each other in their hometown. He misses his parents who work outside the country and yearns for life in the city.
One day during the summer vacation, Yiyi, a girl who had returned from the city, attracted the attention of the children.
In order to win her favor, Zhang Hanxiang tried his best to please her.
As the summer vacation approached Yiyi was picked up, Zhang Hanxiang finally ushered in the life he was about to look forward to.
However, the grandmother who stayed in her hometown became another heart disease of this young child.
The director set the background of the story directly in the ordinary countryside, and there is no need to build props at all, directly restoring the most simple folk life.
Almost every picture from the field to the tile house is the most realistic portrayal of China's current rural areas.
The biggest benefit of this is not only to save money, but also to bring more memories and resonance to the audience.
Judging from the acting skills of the actors, the whole movie is filmed around several children and grandmothers.
The exaggerated performances of several small protagonists are almost like an improvisation on the podium of the classroom.
Not only is the expression exaggerated, the action blunt, but also emotionless.
When it comes to amateur actors, there is probably no more deserved than these people.
Because of the limitations of the photographic equipment, the overall clarity of the film is not high, and it lacks the texture that a feature film should have.
Almost all of the soundtrack is non-original mainstream music, and even classic children's music such as "Kikujiro's Summer" is among them, and it is estimated that the copyright fee director cannot afford it.
So the question is, how did the high score of Douban 7.6 come about?
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Zhang Yimou once said: "A good movie not only needs a good script and actors, but also has emotional resonance!" ”
"Staying in Summer" is such a "bad film" that moves the audience with feelings.
If you haven't lived in the countryside and don't have the youth experience of 80 or 90, then this movie is really difficult to impress you.
"Liu Xia" edits our childhood memories one by one, and pieces together a simple plot.
When the audience feels empathy, the plot becomes less important.
During the broadcast of the film, Right Shijun deliberately opened the bullet screen and found that almost all the audience was talking about their childhood, and even studied "various ways to play".
For example, several children play "pinball" together, and the name of the game has different names throughout the country, and the gameplay pattern is different.
Zhang Hanxiang's large iron basin when he bathed, the tools made of wire rings to glue spider webs when catching dragonflies, the snowflakes flashing on the TV screen every Tuesday, and the watermelons put in the well to freeze, this series of scenes instantly lit up the audience's memories.
Isn't that what you looked like when you were a kid?
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There are two points of conflict in the movie "Staying in Summer".
The external conflict is a "fight" between Zhang Hanxiang and his neighbors.
The boy in the neighbor's house would always come up with some novelty, and in order to please Yiyi, Zhang Hanxiang even exchanged the amulet that his grandmother asked for him.
In order to make his friends happy, Zhang Hanxiang gave his beloved toys to others, and finally exchanged a "whistle" for Yiyi.
When Yi Yi got the whistle, he was already on his way back to the city.
Zhang Hanxiang's kind behavior not only touched Yiyi but also changed his confrontation with the neighbor boy.
The inner conflict is the relationship between Zhang Hanxiang and his grandmother.
Zhang Hanxiang is not only kind but also sensible, although he yearns for the life of the city, he never deliberately shows it.
When his parents finally came to pick him up and take him to school in the city, Zhang Hanxiang began to worry about his elderly grandmother.
In the film, grandma stewed ribs when saying: "Grandma is old, can't eat", I don't know how many people have been touched.
A lot of the audience shouted, "I miss my grandma." ”
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"Liu Xia" is analyzed from the film aspect, and it is definitely a complete "bad film".
But from an emotional resonance perspective, it succeeded.
Douban's score of 7.6 points is estimated to be largely due to the impact of feelings.
Almost every adult can find the answer they want in a movie.
In recent years, there have not been many films focusing on left-behind children, and many directors have even disdained to participate for reasons of commercial value.
An unprofessional director who dares to take the risk of shooting such a socially meaningful film is admirable.
And this ultra-low-cost "Stay in Summer" can be released smoothly, and it also objectively reflects the support of society.
From the perspective of watching the movie, "Stay summer" is not worth your brush, but from the perspective of feelings, you may really need to feel it.
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