In 2017, Huang Xinyao's large-scale debut "Big Buddha Plus" was a blockbuster.
4 years later, Huang Xinyao returned with his new works, in addition to the original team of "Big Buddha Plus", there are more newcomers to join, which makes people look forward to it.
"Classmate Mai Nasi"
The film debuted as the opening film of the Golden Horse Awards, and was shortlisted for 9 awards, and nearly 80% of Douban's viewers gave more than 4 stars.
From Plus to Minus, what tricks is Huang Xinyao playing? Is this just a harmonic sound?
Not!
Also the bottom of the mourning culture, "Classmate Manas" is closer to life, the scale of the film is not the focus, and the metaphor hidden in it is difficult to say...
The story revolves around 4 dicks.
One is Tim Tsai, who has a director's dream, one is a can that still does not have a stable job in the year of confusion, one is a stuttering, closed section of the paper business, and an electric wind that does insurance work.
After graduating from high school, the four of them often gathered at a black tea shop to play cards.
Tim Tsai has always wanted to become a director, except for filming at night when he is talking about dreams, but he usually has very little practical action.
But the wife has high hopes for her husband's dream of directing, washing and cooking, doing housework, and taking care of her husband's life clearly.
Dreams are meant to be had, but what if they come true?
Because he could not attract investment, he could only do some small advertising shooting work in order to make a living, but in fact, his understanding of movies was even worse than that of helping to shoot advertisements.
The insurance salesman who has worked hard for more than ten years has been unable to be promoted and raised because he has not been able to work diligently but will not be in a personal relationship.
Because his girlfriend was pregnant, Electric Wind bought a house to get married, spent all his savings to pay a down payment, and bought a parking space that no one wanted.
Because parking in this parking space is a purely manual way: after the car is in the parking space, the car is pushed into the parking space.
Here, the director complained that the parking space of the electric wind is the motorcycle position, but the electric wind said that this kind of parking space does not have to worry about being touched by the door and can exercise, which is very cost-effective.
The canned one night ate a large bottle of diet pills and foamed at the mouth of the bath center.
Canned was probably the worst of them all, and when he was younger he had a girlfriend who made him give it his all.
Both Tim Tsai and Electric Wind suspected that he was committing suicide, and when the bathroom owner let them check out, they learned that this guy had called "Martha" twice before taking medicine.
There was no way, the brothers could only pay for this massage.
Life is saved, but it can't be as muddy as before.
So the can was introduced to a job of checking household registration.
Here, he meets his young crush, Mynas.
Canned approached Manas several times in the name of checking her account, but unexpectedly, when she knocked on the door once, a strange man left her room.
It turns out that the school flower goddess of the past is now reduced to a dust girl who sells meat, and the canned heart is full of mixed feelings.
The love belief that I had believed in for many years collapsed in an instant, and the former goddess became a bubble of broken dreams.
Although the family is not rich, people have a good heart.
He has a grandmother who has been sick and bedridden for many years, in order to give his grandmother a rush of joy, he specially came to the Red Lady Company and wanted to find a partner to get married quickly.
Even though he stuttered, the brothers had a sharp mind, and before he could finish speaking, everyone guessed what he was going to say next.
Perhaps it was the heavens that took pity on him and let him finally "embrace the beauty and return".
He met Ah Yue through the marriage agency, Ah Yue is the second marriage, but the closed section does not care, because Ah Yue does not dislike the closed section poverty and stuttering, the two get along very well.
Ironically, such a good old man was killed in an accident.
The closed section was killed by the underworld, and the strange thing is that the cause of death was that the underworld recognized the wrong person.
With the death of the closed knot, the relationship between the four brothers has also changed, and the once teahouse's laughter and laughter are no longer there, and instead they are gradually drifting apart...
This matter has to start with Tim Tsai.
Because Tim Tsai received a task to make a fake video shooting for his political achievements, he was favored by the mayor and abandoned the film to enter politics.
Ben was the puppet of Mayor Gao, but he did not expect to grasp the initiative with his own ambition and ability.
In order to do everything in his power to campaign, he led people to the closed funeral site and actually pulled up a vote on his good brother's spiritual hall.
This angered the electric wind and the can, and he didn't care about the closure at all.
One did not hold back, the can jumped up is a kick, and at this time the director Huang Xinyao also jumped in to participate in the group fight.
Is this a movie or a real life?
At the end of the film, a line of words appeared: "I would like to commemorate my classmate Lai Junjie with this film." ”
Yes, this Lai Junjie is Huang Xinyao's classmate and the prototype of closed reality.
At this point, you should be able to understand the meaning of "Meñas", right?
Minus means subtraction in English, and in the film it is a personal name, but it is also a metaphor for the closure of a classmate, and it is also a metaphor for the decline of friendship between classmates until it disappears.
Other nicknames have their own metaphors.
The electric wind is actually an electric fan, and it keeps working but does not even get "electricity".
The can is more vivid, we all know that the can has a shelf life, after the shelf life will deteriorate and rot, which is also a metaphor for his final disillusionment in the goddess.
And the closed section of his life is sacrificing himself to complete others, he made a big house for the electric wind out of paper, which has the script needed by Tianzai, the school flowers needed for canning, but there is nothing he wants.
The best people end up the most miserable, how ironic!
And TianZai has no nickname, but from his name Wu Mingtian, the director believes that such a person, even if he is in a hurry, there is no tomorrow to speak of.
Such a fierce irony, I am also convinced!
This film should be one of the few good films this year, and people who are not a certain age cannot feel the deep meaning of it.
The problems encountered by these characters will always make you feel empathy, and the whole film revolves around forty and gets the feeling, which makes us think about it while laughing.
In real society, how many people can break through the class barrier and become a superior person?
I think the fate of most people should be to admit their mediocrity, let go of all resistance, and accept the baptism of fate.