Poster of The Story of McDougall
In "The Story of McDougal", there is a close-up of McDougall's birth certificate, he was born on June 22, 1995, that is, he will be 25 years old this year.
His world is probably the same as in the movie, from a colorful animation scene to a real picture of reinforced concrete, in his words, from soft to hard.
Stand-up Comedy actor Huang Zihua said that we ordinary people are usually unlucky people, but just not enough, but not without, so we sometimes suddenly feel that this time it should be my turn to be lucky.
Zhou Runfa of Lamma Island just took a lucky step and became a brother in the entire Chinese film circle. How that was lucky seemed to be rarely understood.
Mrs. Mai taught everyone to roast chicken, the step is to prepare a chicken, then roast a roast, the dish is completed, as for what the secret is, that is, roast it better.
Mai Tai kitchen
For ordinary people, we only know what the ideal state is, but often we are not clear about the intermediate process, do not know which road to take to reach the expected end, and only lucky people can go the right way.
The movie "The Story of McDougall" tells the story of an ordinary person who goes from being hopeful and believing that he can be lucky to finally being disappointed.
At the beginning of the film, when Mrs. Mai is about to be born, a miracle appears, as if the child is the chosen son.
However, this god, in Cantonese, is said to be "glue pocket", that is, the meaning of plastic basin, does not look very advanced, probably in the god world, "pocket god" is just an "ordinary god".
The difference is called wheat glue
When introducing the appearance of Springfield Flower Kindergarten (Kindergarten), the film uses a hilarious advertising tape, which involves many place names, of which the more famous place is probably Sham Shui Po, which is a relatively backward living environment.
Then look at the children in the kindergarten, there are pigs, cows, ducks, etc., it is easy to imagine a group of poultry to be slaughtered, coupled with the brainwashing of various kinds of baked rice in the opening song, somehow, I always feel that even if they are made into food, it can only be a cheap box lunch.
McDougal would help her mother draw lottery numbers, but never won once. The lottery is the same as Mrs. Mai's storytelling style, mrs. Mai always tells bedtime stories to Mai Du, "Once upon a time there was a little friend who lied, and one day he died." ”
Mai Tai talks about antiquity
In Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Deeper Than the Sea", the down-and-out writer played by Hiroshi Abe will buy a lottery ticket every time with hope and tear it up on the draw day.
Whether it succeeds or fails, the lottery can tell you the result directly, skipping the myth of "how to roast the chicken better" in the middle.
But reality can't jump like this, just like McDougall to bailigan as a teacher, you have to go through the process of "how to roast chicken". But this kind of hard work is not a move to get the head at a glance.
Many times we feel that we have walked the right way, just like learning the art with the master of Olympic windsurfing champion Li Lishan, it seems that we are on the road to winning the Olympic champion, and we do not know that what we are desperately trying to practice is not even a project.
Lai's foot melon
It is true that "The Story of McDougall" is relatively mournful in the eyes of adults, but in this kind of mourning, it seems to imply a kind of admiration for the small people in the city.
Mai Du knew that the future of grabbing Bao Shan was bleak, and he had given up in the middle of the way, but after going home and seeing his mother's letter to the Olympic Organizing Committee, he plunged into the practice of grabbing Bao Shan again.
As at the end of the film, facing the headless sea, McDougall plunged headlong into the waves, rather than being swept into the waves on the shore.
What Mai Du and Mrs. Mai represent is probably those who know that the road ahead is confused and still bravely move forward.