This poem comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's "Pipa Line", and the meaning is literal: You and I are all fallen people in the end of the world, and when we meet today, we should pity each other, so why should we care about whether we knew each other before.
At the 2019 Hong Kong Film Awards, the best actor candidates are Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok, Wu Zhenyu, Jiang Haowen and Huang Qiusheng, and in the end, Huang Qiusheng, who is not hot but has no suspense, won the film emperor as he wished, which is also the third time Huang Qiusheng won the golden film emperor, at the award ceremony he ridiculed himself: "It turns out that my acting has not been very good, and the whole body is only better than the head."
So when Huang Qiusheng, who was in a wheelchair and half-dead, collided with this song "Pipa Line" from 1,200 years ago, there was this "Fallen Man".
Director Chen Xiaojuan, a high-achieving student at the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, directed his first work as "The Fallen Man", and before that, who was she? What has been done? No one knows.
In the whole movie, except for Huang Qiusheng and Ye Tong, who plays Huang Qiusheng's sister in the film, and Li Cansen, who plays Ah Hui, there is no actor we know well. But it is such a pot of clear soup and water that has brewed a movie emperor, a best new director, and a best newcomer actor.
In 2018, the film with the smallest cost and the greatest return should have a place for "The Fallen Man".
<h1>Let's start with the story</h1>
Chang Rong (Huang Qiusheng) originally had a happy family, his only son was about to enter the university, one day he passed a construction site, and the scaffolding that fell from the sky smashed on Chang Rong's body.
From then on, he became a half-hearted man, unable to stand up again except for his head and hands that retained some function.
The son also lost the exam that year because of his father's accident.
Overnight, Changrong lost almost everything, and his wife went abroad with her children and married someone else.
Chang Rong's only sister (played by Ye Tong) is also like a stranger to herself, and even on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve meal, she only hurried past and turned away.
There is a scene in the movie, it should be changrong just encountered an accident shortly after, he sat in a wheelchair, looking at the railing in front of him, he tried to stand up hard, and then jumped for life, ending his life, but the lack of upper body strength, so that he did not even have the ability to end his life.
He fell back into his wheelchair.
(On the night of the Academy Awards ceremony, the repetitive footage on the big screen is also exactly this scene, Huang Qiusheng's eyes like dead ashes and dying limbs perfectly interpret what a "wasted man" looks like.) ）
Changrong's life went from happiness to the bottom of the valley, and from this moment to the heart like ashes.
Since you can't walk, let's live like this.
Evelyn is a Filipino maid, she became a maid of Changrong under the introduction of Ah Hui, the time point of their encounter was in the summer, and the time point of separation was also in the summer, the four seasons, like a reincarnation.
In this reincarnation, Evelyn redeemed Changrong, letting him know that life can still be very warm and beautiful, and Changrong also helped Evelyn, so that she finally bravely stepped forward on the road of chasing her dreams.
One master and one servant, the film spends eighty percent of the time in these two people's world, but it is this slightly deserted two people alone, but it gives the audience the greatest warmth and comfort.
There are two emotions in the movie, one is family affection and the other is friendship
And many people say that between Changrong and Evelyn, is there still a faint love? When Evelyn was with her sisters in her hometown, she once said: I don't want to go into a marriage without love, I have to marry the person I love.
Then the camera turns, and her mind comes to Changrong, which may be proof that Evelyn has love for Changrong.
Chang Rong also had an inexplicable feeling for Evelyn, and he often sat behind Evelyn and looked at it faintly for a long time.
The feelings between them may have had love, but in the end they did not go beyond this step, so they are more like friendship, family affection is not enough, love is only passing by after all.
In the final scene of the movie, the bus carrying Evelyn passes by the wheelchair that ChangRong is sitting in, and then the bus gradually overtakes the wheelchair and leaves.
Evelyn's life, at this moment, set sail, her life will be extremely exciting, and her world will eventually rub shoulders with Changrong.
This kindness to each other is just like this in the heart.
(Text/Film Critics)