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In fact, there are many good films recently, but the heat is not high. "Dream Quest" (Douban score: 9.1) has made all viewers cry, but still has not crossed the 1 billion mark at the box office. In addition, there are "Paddington Bear 2" (Douban score: 8.4), "Beloved Van Gogh Starry Sky Mystery", "Douban score: 8.7", "Darkest Hour" (Douban score: 8.6) and "Courage to move forward" (Douban score: 8.5).
For me, Ye Qiuchen believes that works with more than 8.5 points are worth seeing. So the above works, if you have time, you can feel it.
Compared with the above five works, there is no accident that they are the top rankings of foreign films, which suddenly overshadows this domestic film "Old Beast" (Douban score: 6.9). It's like seeing the rankings in school and you just focus on how many you're ranking. If the fifth person jumped to the third place, he would not pay attention to who the twentieth classmate was, but only look at the names of the first two people who still needed to be surpassed. Despite this situation, the subject matter of the film "Old Beast" still attracts me, because it throws out a thought-provoking and thought-provoking question, which is also a special phenomenon unique to Chinese society.
In foreign countries, because of the different ways of education, children can talk to their parents like friends and make wrong choices with each other through communication. In China, this situation is relatively rare, and it is usually a repressive obedience. You should and you should not, not what I suggest and what I don't suggest.
Zhou Ziyang, the director of "Old Beast", is a newcomer director who decided to quit his job in 2013 to write a script. Giving up his old comfortable life is a new challenge for him. But such a effort is worth it, although the future is uncertain at the moment of abandonment, but in the end he won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards in 2017 with "Old Beast". At the same time, the work also nominated him for the Best New Director Award, and also appeared at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival and the 9th Macao International Film Festival. It's a good start, and for him it's not just a 6.9 movie in the eyes of the audience, but more of a door, a door to the world of cinema.
The protagonist in the story is naturally the "old beast", he is Lao Yang, played by Tu Men is nearly 60 years old, because of this role successfully won the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Best Actor Award in 2017. Best Actor, which is the dream of many actors. However, for the current trend of traffic domination, it seems that acting is no longer the focus, and the means to make money by using traffic are the mainstream. In such an era, it is rare to have an old man like Tu Who chases acting skills.
In "The Old Beast", he experiences sudden wealth to poverty, great sorrow and joy to the impermanence of life. One day, he actually embezzled the surgical fee that was supposed to treat his wife and save his life, causing his children to be discouraged by this, and even staged a drama of kidnapping his father. Lao Yang was indignant about this, so he took his children to court, and the final outcome, no matter what, would not be a happy one.
In the face of the wrong decisions made by their parents, how should children deal with them? Nature should not be the extreme way of the film, but how should we, who are accustomed to "filial piety" in Chinese society, avoid the misunderstanding of "foolish filial piety" and "filial piety"? Ye Qiuchen had always felt that there was a solution to everything, but this was the exception. I have not been able to understand it myself, so please express your opinions.
I have always liked to see works in which this contradiction intensifies, because the conclusion of this subject is often the same as the views of both sides of the debate, and it is difficult to say that either side is completely correct. It is this kind of choice that makes the level of the film more full of three-dimensionality.
May this lost path slowly become clear and clear. I also hope that every family facing such a difficult choice can finally harvest the warm ending in their own eyes.
Only wish, just wish.
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