A little.
It has been 23 years since "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" came out.
23 years have passed, idols have become directors, small flowers have become big flowers, the entertainment industry has changed from generation to generation, and the top stars of millennial TV dramas have also experienced their growth and stumbling.
In 2013, Zhao Weichu used "To Youth" to pry the box office market of youth films, and in 2014, the dialect village women in "Dear" brought her acting recognition.
In 2017, Su Youpeng directed the second film "The Appearance of Suspect X", which is also a significant improvement over the painful and youthful "Left Ear" in 2015.
At that time, Lin Xinru had just started her road as a TV series producer, "Beauty And The Heart" was on fire, she produced "The Princess of the World", the quality of Taiwan dramas recovered, she produced "Sixteen Summers", "My Boy", "Those Bird Things They Started", after the TV drama field matured, she paid attention to the small-cost films that urgently needed to be supported.
The one I'm going to talk about today boldly touches on a marginal society—
Lin Xinru's first film, which was directed by Lin Xinru, took the route of the international film festival: osaka film festival, New York Asian Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, and walked around. At the beginning of this year, it landed in Taiwan theaters and only received NT$590,000 in the first week of release, which was converted into less than 140,000 yuan.
At present, the Douban score is 6.6, hovering on the passing line.
As for whether the evaluation is pertinent, the old girl wants to have a good chat with you.
Transgender people, illegal migrant workers, hearing impaired people.
The plot revolves around the individual representatives of these three kinds of marginalized people.
Among them, Andy, played by Li Liren, is the most important role.
The English title of the film, Miss Andy, also hints at "Ms. Andy's confusion" in a pun.
The elderly man, Andy, awakens after the widowhood and wants to become a woman.
Relying on drugs can ripen his female sexual characteristics.
However, due to the high price, the operation has not yet been completed.
To raise money —"
Andy was beaten by prostitutes for selling her body, was accidentally detained and ridiculed by police officers, and was discriminated against and abused for getting paid for her proper work.
The only person in the world who can give him understanding and comfort is his transgender friend, Lucy.
This time of snuggling up to each other ended after Lucy's sudden death.
After that, the lonely Andy met two people by chance——
Su Ho (Lin Xinru), an illegal migrant worker who runs away with his young son.
A jin (Chen Zeyao), a hearing-impaired person who gives him respect for his personality.
Originally, three small people at the bottom of society huddled together to keep warm.
Andy takes in Soho and her young son, and also develops a crush on Akin.
However, the seemingly harmonious atmosphere was shattered after a windfall.
The ugliness of human nature is also revealed with the end of the film.
What awaits Andy will be a new round of emotional loss that cannot be found.
Obviously, Lin Xinru seems to have the heart to fade the aura of the protagonist of the TV series Female No. 1 for more than twenty years.
Short hair styling paired with inexpensive attire, looming wrinkles and chapped lips.
To survive, she had to work.
Working at a massage parlor, I was oiled by guests.
Her husband was violent, beating her deaf in one ear, running away from home, displacing with her children, and worrying about where to live tonight every day.
Until she compromises on reality and betrays Andy, she prepares to elope with Akin, a boy with hearing impairments but overflowing with hormones.
A brief outburst, as well as a verbal dodge to the young son's questioning.
It's a tired, middle-aged woman struggling on the brink of survival.
The male protagonist Li Liren, in the impression of the old sister, the most dazzling label on his body is Tao Jingying's husband, a good man who dares to tie for love.
Good men want to play a transgender person, it is a contrast, but also a challenge.
The trouble of transgender people lies not only in the evaluation of public opinion, but also in their own rejection of their own gender.
Let's see how Danish Girl is handled.
Eddie Redmayne's appearance is almost non-contradictory, visually closer to the female figure.
But turning to look at Li Liren, his rough line texture is incompatible with words such as femininity.
Long hair, heavy makeup, stockings, high heels, each of which highlights the weirdness of his behavior.
From this point of view, his external conditions invisibly increase the society's demands on him, and also reflect the despair of Andy's character repeatedly hitting the rocks in the process of seeking new life.
Coincidentally, the shape of "black brother" Jiang Haowen in the film "Trish" also has the same characteristics.
The director believes that this design better reflects the true form of transgender people, that is, they will not be blocked by the desire to become women because of the limitations of their appearance.
In fact, it can be seen from the various similar themes on the market that the most painful key to the parties lies in the tearing of family relations.
Middle-aged men, whether transgender or coming out, are destined to endure thousands of fingers.
When he was young, he withdrew from the pressure of reality and ran his family under the requirements of the world, thus giving rise to a new tragic group, the same wife.
Strictly speaking, same-wife refers exclusively to homosexual wives.
However, considering that transgender wives receive a devastating blow to their husbands' self-gender perceptions and sexual orientations similar to those of their co-wives, they will not be subdivided here.
Focusing on "Lost Andy", the setting of the male protagonist's widow abandons many details that can be dug deeply, resulting in the audience can only analyze the problem from the perspective of the transgender person himself, with a certain subjective color.
In contrast, in "Trish", there is an arrangement for the role of the wife to form a witness.
Therefore, in the process of emotional collision between the two sides, we can understand that Trish is a tragic character ripened by traditional concepts, but she is also the initiator of the life of her wife.
The film leaves plenty of room for Trish to self-dissect, amplifying his desire to become a woman from a subtle demeanor.
This kind of silent solitude is powerful because it reflects the heart of the person concerned.
But exactly when Andy's awakening began, we don't know, the film is just a cursory strip.
In the final analysis, the discrimination against him by others is a single level, and even his own accusations of reality are shallow.
Until the later encounter with Akin, his motivation to become a woman was mixed with the impulse to love, but it blurred the real appeal of transgender people.
The extension of the ugliness of human nature at the end is also more abrupt, which is contrary to the theme of the early stage of the film.
In addition, "Lost Andy" focuses on the marginalized people in society, but the attention to the special groups in which Andy is located is not high.
In other words, the plot sketches independent Andy, so that a character like Lucy who is worth digging into is only for Andy, and the causes and consequences of the characters are unclear.
In contrast, the group portraits of "Trish" are richer and the characters are more three-dimensional.
Among them, Yuan Fuhua, who played the bell brother, even won the Best Supporting Actor Award of the Hong Kong Academy of Gold in one fell swoop.
Of course, the shortcomings of "Trish" itself are also obvious.
The collision of the values of the two generations is an issue worthy of deep cultivation, but the plot has made the children's understanding of the parents' sexual transformation, but it has not been connected in time. In order to advance the plot, Trish's real decision to make a makeover actually relies on the support of her late old lover's partner. Including the inexplicable emotional drama of the first two people at the end, the setting is also very abrupt.
Therefore, in a macroscopic sense, the themes chosen by "Lost Andy" and "Trish" are worth encouraging, but the degree of completion can be higher.
"Who Fell in Love with Him First" also wrote about the same wife.
More than 300,000 people scored 8.6 points and won many awards, although the topic was heavy, but the performance technique was light.
It explores the legacy of a deceased gay family from the perspective of a child, creating conflict through an insurance sum and asking "why I like you upset her."
Half-wife, the son of the same wife, and the little king who has one more root than the little three.
In the endgame, the three form a delicate relationship, the fun is tense, and the texture is revealed.
There is also a "Uncle Uncle", which seems to be lighter.
The Deep Cabinet group also has a daily life, they try their best to complete the duties of a husband or father, but how can day-to-day forbearance not mean emotional betrayal, and why not expect spiritual salvation?
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People who huddle in the corners of society are often stretched thin when dealing with a difficult life.
The bitterness is that the loneliness of being suppressed by the real dilemma is roughly the same.
And this should have been a more advanced and primitive mission of film art.
Compared to the splendid love of the workplace elite.
Those who avoid the spotlight, those who seem to be forever insoluble despair and wandering.
It is more worthy of being written and seen.