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There is no doubt that "Chosin Lake" has become the biggest winner of the 2021 National Day file, and the current box office has exceeded 2 billion in the 6 days of release, and it may even surpass this year's champion "Hello Li Huanying" to become the box office champion of the whole year.
At the same time, "My Father and Me", which was released together, did not continue the peak of the first two series. The box office has now exceeded 800 million in the 6 days of release, although the results are not bad, but it certainly cannot be compared with the first two films with a box office of 3 billion+.
In fact, there is no obvious gap between the overall quality of "My Father and Me" and the first two films. At the same time, because there are only four stories, strictly speaking, it is slightly better than the first two in terms of completion, and now the box office is not good, in addition to encountering the enemy of "Chosin Lake", it is also possible that the audience has some aesthetic fatigue of this unit movie.
In any case, of the four stories in "My Father and Me", my personal favorite is the story of Zhang Ziyi's "Poems" that was the first director. This story is really well filmed, and I hope that Zhang Ziyi can really transform into a director in the future and make a feature film that is not inferior to this story.
If you can become a romantic female director, it is also a good thing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="13" which story is best for "My Father and Me" >? How do you choose</h1>
There are four stories in "My Father and Me", namely "Riding the Wind" directed by Wu Jing, "Poetry" directed by Zhang Ziyi, "Duck Prophet" directed by Xu Zheng, and "Young Journey" directed by Shen Teng.
Whether zhang Ziyi's "poetry" is the best shot is the audience's personal feelings. After watching "My Father and Me", I was personally impressed by several shots of the other three stories.
First, in Wu Jing's "Riding the Wind", when the regimental commander sacrificed his son to save the innocent villagers, the regimental commander had his son's blood on his hands and squatted in the barren grass beach and cried. Interspersed with footage of the four men charging to the death, the theater was filled with sobs.
By the way, the determined look in Wu Lei's eyes when he sorted out his military hat was very good.
The whole section of the cavalry regiment's charge, especially the true display of the battle damage, was neither evaded nor exaggerated or emphasized. It's just a matter of course human sea tactics. Although the flag is somewhat deliberately artistically processed, it is still very shocking.
The second is Xu Zheng's "Duck Prophet", Zhao Pingyang and his wife quarreled, the wife picked up the Ginseng Yangrong wine to drink bitterly, Zhao Pingyang asked "Is it delicious?" ”。
Over the years, the quality of Xu Zheng's feature films has been somewhat controversial, but the short film works he has made are good, especially the small people who love to play tricks and tricks have a lot of experience, almost to the peak. It can be said that Xu Zheng is really very mature in making short films, and the achievements of short films are far above his achievements in long films.
Finally, Shen Teng's "Young Man's Line", in fact, the completion of the whole story is still quite high. But the shots that impressed me personally were not, and the plot's ups and downs, reversals and emotional outbursts were basically guessed.
Among these four stories, the one that amazed me the most was Zhang Ziyi's "Poetry". I think this is the most show of the "director" idea of a shot in the whole film, it does not completely depend on the script and actors, it can move me, it can be said that director Zhang Ziyi played a great role.
The mother played by Zhang Ziyi recalls the spring, autumn, winter and summer when the husband and wife walked together on the way to work, and when the camera turns, the father's figure quietly disappears, and the corner of the mother's mouth raises a smile.
In that moment they were inseparable from each other and became one.
The audience in the cinema sobbed one after another in this part of "Poetry", some audiences may feel excessively "sensational", but aerospace is originally a romantic and great cause, from every shot and every line of Zhang Ziyi and the poem at the end, I felt the astronauts of that era, the hardships of the working environment, the persistence of ideals, and the deep and strong love of parents for their children.
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Personally, I feel that "Poetry" even surpasses the last "My Hometown and Me" and is in my heart the best story in the "My Series and Me" trilogy. Not to mention the long shots of children playing at the beginning, the blue-colored sky before dawn in the northwest is full of beautiful shots.
The whole story is not written in strict chronological order, but is told like a mother telling a bedtime story for her child.
For example, it first tells the children who find that their fathers are working overtime and the brother discovers the truth on the rainy night, and then goes back to the mother's request to hide from the brother at the father's funeral. But this chaotic chronological order does not affect the telling of the story in the slightest, just as in the bedtime story, every time the child asks why, the mother will always answer the question for the child.
This story is again the only one of the four that does not limit "My Father and Me" to fathers and sons. In this story, the father and mother care about the upward are one, unified for the "father", and the same brother and sister are also "me".
I have to say that Zhang Ziyi interpreted the image of a widowed mother very well, which is higher than Marley's lonely sentence "being both a father and a mother". In the part of the thunderstorm night, she could not stop her brother from falling into the water, her sister was frightened by the thunder and cried, and the lightning illuminated her face...
At that moment, grief, grievance, disappointment, resentment, anxiety, and mixed feelings, but what is still invisible is the numbness to pain. On the other hand, although "Daddy" was sacrificed at the beginning of the story, even twice, his sense of existence did not fade.
On the one hand, the brother looking for his father is the bright line of this story, on the other hand, "Dad" is like the military flag in "Riding the Wind", and his "poem" is the spirit of the whole story. And just like the parents intertwined with the image of the father, the poem that runs through the whole text is the father who wrote the title and the mother wrote the chapter, just like that sentence, the father is the mother of the bone and the blood.
Finally, there is the sublimation part, "the fire that reflects half the sky.". It can be said that without the last part, this story can adapt to all the stories of hard struggle in the early days of the founding of the country. But it is this poem that gives this story the soul of spaceflight.
At the beginning, my father said that the work I did was to write poetry in heaven, at this time I felt a little divided, after all, the harsh natural environment expressed in the movie, the difficulties of living conditions, even the black engine, the cold shaver, these "science and engineering" imagery, how can not be related to romantic poetry, and the poems written by my father are really just "poetry".
After that, the poem becomes a dark line hidden in the story, until finally, the rocket takes off, and our eyes rise to space, looking into the vast universe.
The flashpoints, tears and bursts of this clip have also reached their peak, Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xuan's voices are intertwined, the younger sister has become an astronaut in heaven, the brother is watching his father's letter in front of the TV, where it is really shocking and romantic, and a big brother next to him cries when watching the movie.
I see a lot of people on the Internet complaining that the protagonist of the narrative is the brother? In the end, how did she become a sister and become an astronaut.
I don't understand where to see it. Does this work have a so-called protagonist? Just to highlight a certain person? Although I think it is a pity that I did not give my childhood sister a shocked close-up at the end. But in this story, it's all about a group of people, a family, and it's not thought to be highlighting any one person.
In the end, the story continues to tell the suffering confined to a corner, the people who laugh about life and death in the suffering, the support of the fathers across the four seasons, the rockets built by hand in the vast loess soil, and the continuation of the group of intentions spanning thousands of years, and the Kong Ming Lantern - Dongfanghong I - Shenzhou manned spacecraft, all of which have become the best footnotes to this poem.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="69" > epilogue</h1>
Zhang Ziyi's "Poetry" is indeed filmed very well, but many fans have already seen it, that is, Zhang Ziyi's romanticism, from the lens performance, emotional conversion and many other aspects of the obvious learning of Chen Kaige, but why did she shoot this story well, Chen Kaige's last story "Daylight Meteor" criticized more?
The reason is that the fifth generation of directors such as Chen Kaige are now too deeply influenced by the Western and Japanese ideological culture at that time. Chen Kaige is entangled in his romanticism and commercial entertainment in making films of other themes, resulting in the surprising overall details of the film, and the problem of using the main theme of this set is even more serious.
The biggest problem of "Daylight Meteor" is to use the structural metaphor of "Les Misérables" to build China's poverty alleviation, and then use Western religious inspiration to build China's aerospace spirit.
Although Zhang Ziyi's "Poetry" also has romanticism, there is no Western thought and culture to deconstruct these things. China's aerospace is a tragic grandeur of poverty and whiteness, and it can also be a fantasy; Chinese astronauts are conscientious efforts and spirits of faith, which can of course be like poetry.
Since "Wuji", director Chen Kaige's films have been entangled, and there have been directors of various types of blockbusters in Chinese films over the years, but even in literary and art films, there are few romantic directors like him, and there are very few romantic films.
Zhang Ziyi's "Poetry" is a really good story, but this is a short film rather than a feature film after all.
Finally, I hope that Zhang Ziyi has the opportunity to transform into a theatrical feature film to try, if she can really transform into a romantic female director, which is also a good thing for domestic films.