This year's National Day file, the limelight is in "Chosin Lake". In the past, the "Me and Mine" series of movies that led the way, this time it is inevitable that there will be a lot of loneliness. However, because "My Motherland and Me" and "My Hometown and Me" laid the foundation for two consecutive years, the "Me and My" series also has a fixed audience. If you are not interested in big-scale war movies, "My Father and I" is a movie to take with my parents and the whole family, and the platter is also another kind of family fun.
Every year, the "Me and Mine" series is like a proposition essay contest, and people will always argue about who is the first and last place. Although everyone wants to be the top in this competition, in an era of difficult speech, it seems more difficult to be able to fall to the last place than the first place throne. For example, in 2019, in the "My Motherland and Me" series, the unit directed by Chen Kaige made many people call out "daytime meteor ptsd".
In contrast, this year's audience did not show a very obvious likes and dislikes, "Riding the Wind", "Poetry", "Duck Prophet", "Young Line" four units did not open a very large gap in word of mouth, the main reason is that these four chapters have different styles, more or less have the point of poking the audience.
Personally, the most surprising part of this year is Zhang Ziyi's "Poetry". A pair of parents played by Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xuan, with their children to conquer scientific research missions in the Great Northwest, the son will be afraid when he hears the explosion, afraid that his father will be killed. The father comforted his son that he was actually a poet, a poet who wrote poetry in heaven, until he later found out that his father had never returned home.
In fact, in the "Encounter" section of "My Motherland and Me" in 2019, similar stories about scientific researchers have been told, and Zhang Yi and Ren Suxi present more of a kind of sadness. This time, the romantic atmosphere is even stronger. From the Kong Ming lantern in the Great Northwest to the quarrel of "You are not my father" on a rainy night, the light and shadow and musical taste of this unit are soft and romantic but passionate. In the dark environment of the cinema, you can often hear the bag looking for napkins and sucking sobbing, and the tears are not because of misery, but the love of "the end of the world at this time".
In addition, for the shaping of the role of the mother, it is even more out of the framework of traditional women, "she is the mother and the father", she is also a member of the scientific research work, is a capital letter and an independent self. Until Zhang Ziyi thanked the creator behind the scenes on Weibo, from the screenwriter to the camera is female, so the delicate style of the whole unit is not difficult to understand.
Wu Jing's "Riding the Wind" also made many people cry like rain, and this tear-jerking was really because it was "tragic" to the extreme. In order to protect the villagers, the father played by Wu Jing released a signal bomb to lead the Japanese army to the direction of his son, resulting in his son being surrounded and killed. But, maybe that's it. The later plot exposes many of the slots of the script, such as the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, and the war horses can break through.
In response to the criticism of some "anti-Japanese dramas", many people said that this was a real flesh-and-blood sacrifice that had occurred in history, which was an insult to the martyrs. Why did the cavalry take human flesh warfare, and what are the advantages of this tactic? Although screenwriter Yu Baimei said a lot of stories other than "Riding the Wind" on his Weibo, it is a pity that the film failed to make the essence.
"Duck Prophet" directed by Xu Zheng tells the history of Advertising in China, which is actually the history of rapid economic development after the reform and opening up. Walking in your comfort zone and sticking to the theme, I have to say that I am very smart. The life of a small people in the city has always been Xu Zheng's best play, and the clips of promoting health wine on buses and shooting advertisements at home can be said to be full of comedic effects. What is more special is that the strict symmetrical picture and candy filter color of this unit are inevitably reminiscent of "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and Xu Zheng himself admitted during the roadshow that he studied a lot of Wes Anderson's works to solve the problem of depth framing difficulties. Judging from the results, the tribute to this kind of lens is very much in line with the sense of foreignness brought by Shanghai.
Compared with Xu Zheng's Shanghainese comedy, Shen Teng's "Young Man's Line" knows that it is a "happy twist". The tension of the comedians represented by Shen Teng and Ma Li makes up for the cliché of the script, and this unit is also the biggest part of the laughter I have seen. This qualified work is more like a soda that meets the instant experience, and it is over after laughing. But looking back, it really does make people think of any amazing points.
Having said that, despite enjoying box office dividends for three consecutive years, the "Me and Mine" series faces the same problems every year: the director's style is very different, and the story plot is awkwardly connected. Although there is always a product that the audience can see, there are also some that can be disgusting, in fact, it is also testing the audience's tolerance. Fifty or sixty-one tickets were spent, but the audience had to endure the sense of separation brought by the platter, which was unfair in the relationship between supply and demand. If in the first year, the lineup of big-name directors and stars still has a strong sense of stimulation and appeal to the audience, this year, the platter movie is no longer the secret recipe that can quickly absorb gold.
Relying solely on the patchwork of short films is easy to fall into the trap of form being larger than content, and it is difficult to satisfy the public's desire for stories.