Movies are like magic, the usual use of vision to create illusions, a green cloth can stage thousands of troops or landslides, more intelligent is to create spiritual resonance, just over a hundred minutes of story, through the cutting of scenes and plots, it will change the life of life, old age, illness and death and joy and sorrow, see life, play people's hearts. Directed by Xu Chao, written by Wang Shuo, and starring Wang Chuanjun and Wang Luodan, "The Strange Affair of Immortality" belongs to this kind of film that can see life and move people's hearts.
With love as the axis, what unfolds is life. Like all works written by Wang Shuo, "The Strange Story of Immortality" has a witty and witty city atmosphere, clever and quirky and sharp lines, profound irony and self-deprecation, and a flexible and eclectic narrative, which may make you laugh forward and backward in one second, but suddenly burst into tears the next.
Different from the past, this film can be regarded as a summative work of Wang Shuo's dedication to a battle, if he uses "Looks Beautiful" to project his childhood impressions, with "Sunny Day" to recount the youth snip, "Party A and Party B" and "Private Customization" are laughter and anger at the adult world, venting the desire for ideals, "Never Lose My Love" and "Insincerity Do Not Disturb 2" are calling for true love and lamenting life and death. Obviously, then, "The Wonders of Immortality" covers all of the above, all the propositions that a person has to face in his life, childhood, youth, love, ideals, and reality, can find corresponding presentation and understanding in the film.
The story of the film begins with the encounter between Guo Xiaolu and Su Lingfang, around this pair of green plum bamboo horses, the time span of half a century from the 70s to the 10s, launching a love that is constantly divided and chaotic, and then through the intersection and dispersion of the lives of the two people, connecting the waves and changes of the whole world, the fate of the characters and the description of the times are intertwined, in addition to the love and hate of the strings, the collective memory of the whole people is also moving, from the opening of the Yangtze River Bridge to the Shenzhou heaven, from rock music to the fever of going abroad, From reform and opening up to the rise of science and technology, the pulse of the vigorous times corresponds to the joys and sorrows of all Chinese people.
In reality, we did not grow up like this, spent the 70s in ignorance, full of hope to bid farewell to the 80s, the 90s tasted helplessness and loss, from the campus era of indulging in books, music and studies, to the fanatical pursuit of ideals, after starting a family, Guo Xiaolu, played by Wang Chuanjun, from the sea breeze of Qingdao to the noisy and bustling Beijing bar, from the laboratory in a foreign country to the ruined Africa, experienced although unique, but the trajectory of growth, the perception of the world, The pursuit of love and ideals is by no means an isolated case, but a common memory of generations.
When Guo Xiaolu was a child, after experiencing an explosion and injury, the world in his eyes became slow, and when he became an adult, he no longer grew old because of stem cells, which was to express a nostalgia for the innocent era and the resistance to the fast-paced and efficient era, and to use his slowed eyes to see the years like a white colt passing through the gap, driving the audience's perspective experience, like a time and space traveler, there is a sense of real experience, clear insight into everything, but can not make changes.
Using such a surreal technique, the film can keenly capture the most real spiritual world of the characters, write through the passage of time, the struggle of reality, convey the enthusiasm of life and the pain of loss, and show a more transparent world view. No matter what kind of story it is, it is actually inseparable from the support of reality.
As another of Wang Shuo's screenwriting masterpieces, "The Wonders of Immortality" breaks the conventional narrative experience, with the wonderful setting of "immortality", the surface is laughter and anger, it seems that the teenager does not know the taste of sorrow, but the essence is sentimental and attached, not only retains the original Wang Shuo-style comedy elements, but also the style is more novel, the narrative is novel, the thick love and growth pain are adjusted to a wonderful pen, seemingly understated, to achieve the depth of the unforgettable, the contemporary experiencers can not help but suppress tears after watching, This is probably the legendary life like a dream.