The Laughter of Moon Bay is a typical scar movie. In the rural areas, ten years of turmoil have brought tremendous damage and impact to the people's production and life. Even at the beginning of the chaos, once bitten by a snake for ten years afraid of the well rope, people are still in a state of fright.
This film tells the story of a peasant in a rural area in Jiangnan in this state, Jiang Maofu, who encountered several different encounters and changes in his life during the ten years of turmoil, as well as the new atmosphere of rural life after the uproar.
"Laughter at Moon Bay" was released in China in 1981. Zhang Yan, a famous film actor who played the uncle of the rich man, won the Best Actor at the 2nd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema in 1982. "Laughter at Moon Bay" had a huge impact that year, and the audience reached 33 million people less than half a year after the film was released. The impact is evident.
I was so impressed with the film that some of the shots and mood changes while watching the film on the spot are still remembered today. The film was screened in our village next door, and I vividly remember it as a summer night. The film was screened several years later than elsewhere.
When I was a child, I always felt that the things in movies and television were far away from us, and they were more advanced than the reality of our lives. The homeland is a plain, and there are no orange trees. Therefore, at that time, I saw the place where the rich uncle lived and lived, and I felt very envious. White walls and gray tiles, green mountains and green water, orange and red leaves, and even an iron cow - tractor, were very impressive at that time. To this day, the perception of the Jiangnan countryside still has the shadow of that year. Therefore, after these memories, there are related impressions of the several ups and downs of the story and the fate of the characters. For example, uncle Fufu cuts orange trees - it is a pity, and the scenery changes of the wind and snow set off the mood and the fate of the characters, as well as the picture of Uncle Fu and his granddaughter catching chickens and ducks and tying their mouths, along with the expression of his laughter after the final mountain and water restoration, which is still vividly remembered.
True reflection of social reality, positive guidance of social emotions, and pointing out the direction for economic and social development, this is the great practical significance of this film at that time. Now it seems that several of the main actors in the film not only play the characters vividly, but also place them in the environment of that year, even children like me, can really feel the influence and even squeeze of the outside world on everyone. I didn't go through the era of hats, but the stories I heard also completely affected our hearts. My grandfather is a typical example, who used to work in Huangshi, Hubei Province, and was later reported by a hometown person who took the hat and suffered. Although he was later rehabilitated, he was always unwilling. And the rich uncle may have a more bumpy fate, the key is that he still has to worry about his son, the eldest is old and can't marry his daughter-in-law because of his hat, can he not be in a hurry?
Looking back at this movie again, its story is still wonderful, the plot is still tortuous, and the setting is very clever, and the rich uncle finds an object for his son and his two hats and two lines are intertwined, forming a main line of the story. The reporter's three interviews have become a booster for the development of the main story, so the ups and downs of the plot are full of tension: the rich uncle became rich because he planted fruit trees, and was put on the hat of "the top man who took the capitalist road", and the marriage that the child had just negotiated was yellowed by the opposition of the woman's father; the reporter came to interview the typical example of getting rich, the rich uncle was red, the woman's father repented, and finally the marriage was finally settled; the reporter came to interview again, and the rich uncle was then put on the hat of "bourgeois upstart", and the woman's parents opposed it He also pulled his daughter away at the wedding. At this time, everyone's heart is at the bottom. However, the "Gang of Four" has collapsed, the risk of wealth has been rehabilitated, the wedding has been held, and the reporter has come again.
Watching this movie today, it still exudes its great artistic charm. In addition to the wonderful story, the actor's interpretation is indeed delicate, simple and natural. The expressions and movements, as well as the inner world, are vividly interpreted. The film is a comedy, and many of the storylines, including the action, have some exaggerated artistic elements, but all this is not offensive, but the emotions between tragedy and joy are more subtle and vivid.
Therefore, whether from the perspective of reality or from the artistic achievements of the film, "Laughter in Moon Bay" is a model of scar films.
Now we know that the place where the film was filmed was in a place of Moon Bay in Jing County, Anhui Province. That is the beautiful place of the mountains and rivers in Jiangnan. Now, through the lens of the movie, we can still see what it looked like in the new socialist countryside nearly 40 years ago. White-walled gray-tiled houses, orange orchards with gratifying growth, flocks of chickens and ducks, these have become the dreams of many people in the vast countryside?
Cinema is the clarion call of the times. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Party's policies were fully implemented in rural areas. This movie is the stormtrooper of that era. At that time, it inspired and inspired hundreds of millions of people in the rural areas to strive for the future beautiful new socialist countryside!
At that time, wasn't Moon Bay a model of a beautiful countryside that everyone envied?