"Me and My Fathers": In the name of our fathers, we look back at our past

Reporter Wang Yan

"Child, if you can, I want to tell you all the mysteries of the world..." There is a family letter in "Me and My Father", which is a prose poem written by the father to the child. There are glorious and dreaming paths in the poems, and they also write the true meaning of home and country, just like the movie itself.

The film "My Father and I" takes the generation as the chapter, Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Xu Zheng, Shen Teng, the four directed and starred in a unit, Li Xuejian, Zhang Yimou, Chen Daoming and many other filmmakers have made cameos in the film and written a stroke in the "family letter". From the time of the War of Resistance Against Japan to the imaginable future, the moving stories of four groups of families have been imprinted from generation to generation. According to the real-time data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 21:30 yesterday, the film's box office on the National Day was 182 million yuan, and the cumulative box office was 273 million yuan.

Yesterday afternoon, the Shanghai Cinema came to several special audiences: director Xu Zheng's teacher, mother, and the archetypal characters in the story, and the parties to the first TV commercial that Chinese mainland that year. They recall the past and say the present from the perspective of their fathers, which makes this special screening called "Taking the Children to See the Fathers" quite meaningful. This scene is also exactly the agreement between "My Father and Me" and the audience - let audiences of different generations find their fathers in the story, take the stars of their fathers from the filmmaker's book, and deliver new youth.

In the name of my fathers, I saw the way to a happy life

Wu Jing's "Riding the Wind" took the lead. Riding the wind is the name of Wu Lei's son, and it is also the heroic image of riding the wind and returning with the wind in the story. How arduous the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was, and where the affection of the military and civilians came from, the story was only taken partially, but it can already be seen.

It was during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the Japanese Kou carried out a large-scale sweep of the base areas. Ma Renxing, the commander of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, and his son Ma Chengfeng took the wind into battle as father and son soldiers, leading this unit to stir up the storm in the encirclement of the Japanese army and repeatedly made military achievements. On the way to the battle, the father remembered to use Ai Ye to heal the wounds of the wind, and said to his son, "If you want to die, you will die behind me." There is no father who does not love his son, but the country is in trouble, and some of the originally firm order of priority has changed because of the encounter with more people who want to protect more. Ma Renxing, who originally led a small group of people to break through, met more than 50 local villagers on the way. In order to lead these old, sick and pregnant people to transfer safely, and to find ways to avoid the siege and interception of the Japanese Kou, and to break through from despair, my father decided to attack the east and the west. It's a story of choice, where soldiers of the Eighth Route Army defend their homeland without fear of sacrifice, even if the price is too pathetic. It is precisely this choice that makes our ranks grow and become an eternal monument in the hearts of the people.

Similar sacrifices and sacrifices are also found in "Poetry" directed by Zhang Ziyi. In the 1960s, there was a special living area in the Gobi, where children with question marks lived. They don't know what their parents are doing, but they remember a few explosions on the other side of the Gobi Desert, accompanied by black smoke and sound waves penetrating the vast wind and sand. In order to send Chinese his satellite to the sky, Huang Xuan's father died in the experiment, and Zhang Ziyi's mother, as a gunpowder carver, always worked in an environment where her life was hanging. In the movie, my brother's sentence "My father and my former father are dead" touched countless audiences, because everyone knows where Chinese their space dream came from.

Xu Zheng continues his consistent Shanghai well comedy in the series. The first wind letter of reform and opening up blew the wind on the sea, and the inadvertent changes were condensed in a "duck prophet" who could not help but be amused. Sitting in front of the big screen more than 40 years later, watching his "bragging bull" in 1979, the first TV commercial in the mainland, or the Hongqiao on the Huangpu River, no matter how whimsical, dreams are blossoming today. Shen Teng's "Youth Line" is also full of laughter, a little soft science fiction elements carry the imagination of the imaginative teenager, the current and future "fathers" in the echo of time is meaningful.

On the social platforms of the past two days, too many similar words have been repeated by netizens, "Prosperous China, as you wish" and "1.4 billion Chinese people have the strength to not be afraid of any difficulties"... Today's young people are the generation that doesn't hesitate to say "I love you, China." Therefore, when the film goes back in the name of the father's generation, the audience seems to see the road to a happy life in the family book, reliving the ups and downs that this generation has not participated in.

Inheriting all the loyalty and dedication, "We will eventually become you"

Today's peace, abundance, and strength have been laid for us by countless fathers. "My Father and Me" not only presents the results, but also tells the ordinary and great character of the father and mother to the present.

Under the Japanese plane, how to save the country from breaking the mountains and rivers? "Riding the Wind" shows the bloodiness of the Chinese nation. What is blood in the war years? It is the young man who ties his fate to the tip of the sword, although he has not regretted his death. The torch of faith has been passed down from generation to generation, and today's shubian heroes and anti-epidemic fighters are the inheritors of the spiritual torch.

In the scientific research work in the era of material scarcity, scientists firmly believe in the truth of science, and also firmly believe in the struggle and dedication of "everyone" with "small self". Using romantic poems, the poem sketches the image of a scientist who "buries a celebrity in anonymity and does earth-shattering things", also outlines the great female power, and also gives an answer to "death education" - "life is something that burns, and the universe is something that makes death small." The children in the movie are forced to face death after the death of their father to understand life, old age, illness and death. When the stars move and turn, whether it is the sister in the story who becomes an astronaut flying into space, or in reality we cheer for the "Chang'e 5" lunar exploration and the "Tianwen-1" falling fire, the star sea of China's aerospace industry is the crystallization of the loyal dedication of generation after generation.

What does Duck Prophet pay homage to in its witty way? In the story, Zhao Pingyang, head of the sales section of shanghai no. 2 traditional Chinese medicine factory, is a person who dares to taste early everywhere, in order to sell the "Ginseng Gui Yangrong Wine" in the factory, he pays for Shanghai TV station to shoot advertisements. At the end, standing on the sightseeing floor of Shanghai Center, the tallest building in China, the elderly "Duck Prophet" looked and looked at it with joy, and the dreams of the bright moon and the breeze are now real life and poetry. Those who have achieved this are a group of dream executors who dare to think and dare to be the first.

And an artificial intelligence seed planted in 2021, in the film in 2050 to grow into a towering tree, Shen Teng said, "the future is strong is the country is strong, the youth is strong, today's China has too many aspects worthy of praise, we use the way of crossing to express the theme of rejuvenating the country through science and technology." And the most moving off-site evaluation is to give the baton to my generation, to open up the world that my fathers have never seen, and to write the unfinished poems of my fathers.

Source: Wen Wei Po