"It was a farewell to me, a turning point for me."
This was said by Jia Hongsheng to reporters after the release of the movie "Yesterday".
We believe that this movie is indeed a farewell to Jia Hongsheng, and a farewell to the previous dark life, just like his friends and colleagues said, the nineties and Jia Hongsheng and the last decade of his life Jia Hongsheng are like a different person.
What we don't want to believe is that the movie "Yesterday" may really be a turning point for Jia Hongsheng, but unfortunately, What Jia Hongsheng hoped for was a good turn, but in fact it was a bad turn.
The last straw that crushed Jia Hongsheng may have been the death of Nobel prize winner Salamago, but his tragic ending seems to have been planted from the movie "Yesterday".
First, unique movies
"Yesterday" is a film with a unique style, and the film industry defines the film as a pseudo-documentary or pseudo-documentary feature film, that is, its story structure is real, but its core and details may have been artistically processed.
This film tells a real life experience of Jia Hongsheng, the main body of the story is between 1995 and 1996, Jia Hongsheng's parents moved their family from Siping, Jilin to Beijing, and took care of Jia Hongsheng nearby, during which a series of stories and contradictions occurred.
Then the film uses a retrospective way to tell how Jia Hongsheng stepped into the darkness of life step by step from 1992 to 1995.
The ending of the story is beautiful, with the help of his family, Jia Hongsheng relieved his mental problems through hospital treatment, quit drugs and alcohol, and started a new life.
The whole movie uses interviews, dramas, and memories to string together the main story line, the plot is very full, the thought is very deep, and the use of the lens is also relatively unique, for example, after Jia Hongsheng beat his father, the contradictions of the Jia family completely broke out, and the lens of this scene slowly pulled away, allowing the audience to see a scene on the stage of a drama, from the author's point of view, this shot greatly reduced the tension when watching the movie, and also had a feeling of sympathy for the tragedy of the Jia family rather than simply watching the play.
Therefore, if you look at it from a cinematic point of view, "Yesterday" is definitely a wonderful, profound, and highly watchable work.
Douban score 8.6, or more objective.
2. Shooting tidbits
The director of "Yesterday" is Zhang Yang, the screenwriter is Zhang Yang and Huo Xin, and the starring actor is Jia Hongsheng.
When Zhang Yang proposed the idea of shooting the film to Jia Hongsheng's family, Jia Hongsheng agreed with a mouthful, which we can see in the movie.
But Jia Hongsheng's father, Jia Fengsen, and his mother, Chai Xiurong, did not agree, they did not want to uncover the scars of the past, nor did they want to expose the ugliness of the family, which is the thinking of normal people.
Not to mention that in those days, even now, there are few people who are willing to make their own dark history and life lows into movies and real people starring in real names. Don't forget, Jia Hongsheng's father, Jia Fengsen, was the head of the Siping Repertory Theatre, and his mother, Chai Xiurong, was a pillar of the troupe, and they were all national second-level actors, in other words, they were also characters with heads and faces.
However, after Zhang Yang's persuasion and Jia Hongsheng's insistence, the second elder still agreed to star in the film, Jia Hongsheng's mother proposed three reasons, one is to give Jia Hongsheng a name, because the previous matter about Jia Hongsheng, the circle outside the circle is very messy and bad, through this film can show the public Jia Hongsheng's situation at that time, but also show his state after quitting alcohol and drugs.
Second, in order to support children, Jia Hongsheng has this courage, and parents should also have this courage.
The third is to hope that this film can bring some comfort and hope to some families with drug addicts, so that they can see that through the efforts of their families, society and individuals, things will turn around.
Only Jia Hongsheng's sister in the family did not appear in the movie, and from God's point of view, Jia Hongsheng's sister's choice is undoubtedly correct.
Actor Wang Tong starred as Jia Hongsheng's sister, her acting skills are very outstanding, a family of four people only she is an outsider, but from the movie can not see anything wrong.
There is an important supporting role in the movie, Shunxing, that is, Zhu Hongmao. He had a great influence on Jia Hongsheng, and the Beatles and "Let It Be" were introduced to him by Zhu Hongmao.
The film also reviews a gray history of Zhu Hongmao, while also having his girlfriend, and explains the ending of Zhu Hongmao's girlfriend, who died of a drug overdose.
However, zhu Hongmao's girlfriend at the time of filming, that is, the heroine Zhu Jie in the movie "Growing Up", has been dead for three years, so the person who played Zhu Hongmao's girlfriend in the film is not herself, this girl looks familiar, a bit like Pan Yuchen, she was studying in Beiying at the time, but the author is not sure if it is her.
In addition, the film has an important bridge section, Jia Hongsheng's 26th birthday, in which the people who appear in that scene in addition to Jia Hongsheng and Zhu Hongmao, there are director Zhang Yang and screenwriter Huo Xin, as well as He Yong, which is more like a suggestive shot, representing the bad habits in the Beijing rock circle of that era.
There are two important scenes in the film, one is Jia Hongsheng's home, and there are two filming locations, one is in an unfinished community in the Asian Games Village, and the other is on the stage.
Jia Hongsheng has a shot of slapping his father in the film, that is indeed the truth, and Jia Hongsheng is also a real fight in the movie, father and son are excellent actors, they should be able to adapt to this scene, but when filming that scene, they still can't stand it.
There is also a scene in the welfare home in Xiaotangshan, Beijing, with which Zhang Yang worked when he made the movie "Bathing". At first, the author thought that these mentally ill people in the film were real, but in fact, they were all normal people, and the state of mental illness was acted out.
There is a scene in the film where Jia Hongsheng was particularly dissatisfied with his performance of "New Liang Zhu" and even kicked the TV set with his feet, according to the producer of "New Liang Zhu", at that time, he was indeed in an extremely bad state when filming this TV series, and there were many contradictions with the director, and people were either dizzy or flying.
In the bridge section where Jia Hongsheng and Zhu Hongmao separated, there is a shot of the slow fall of the soot stick in his hand, in order to shoot that scene, everyone in the crew was playing on the spot to smoke, foreign domestic cigarettes have tried a lot, anyway, who smokes a long ash stick, he crept into Jia Hongsheng's hand, and as a result, after a scene was filmed, the whole house followed the fire.
In the movie, there are many times when Jia Hongsheng eats noodles, asks for money to eat ramen, steals cabbage to make noodles, goes home to buy noodles to make fried sauce noodles, etc., because Jia Hongsheng really loves to eat noodles. He is a person who has no desire to consume, as long as there is instant noodles, he can not go out of the house for a month or more, and he has no mobile phone and no computer, and he only listens to music and watches movies at home, so some netizens call him the ancestor level of China's otaku.
3. Follow-up to the film
"Yesterday" was still very concerned in that year, after all, it was the first film in China to take the dark history of stars as the theme, and it was also the appearance of stars and their families, the scarcity and topicality were very strong, and it became a hot film as soon as it was released.
Jia Hongsheng said that this movie is his end point, but also a turning point, which is partly right, "Yesterday" has a great impact on the future of many people, but some people are good influences, some people are bad.
Director Zhang Yang, the film won awards abroad, further establishing his role as a powerful faction in the sixth generation of directors.
Screenwriter Huo Xin, who later became a big screenwriter in the film circle, and popular movies such as "Kung Fu" and "Journey to the West" are all from her handwriting.
Jia Hongsheng's sister plays Wang Tong, who was a newcomer when filming the film, and later became a producer, and cooperated with her husband Liu Jiang in popular dramas such as "Let's Get Married" and "The Old Tavern".
The above three have all received positive influences from the movie "Yesterday", and there seem to be more people with negative effects.
Zhu Hongmao, since 2001, gradually disappeared from the music circle and the film circle, and ran away from home in 2007.
Jia Hongsheng, before the movie "Yesterday", although he had some rumors in the circle, but did not affect his career, from his departure from the mental hospital, he first starred in Wang Xiaoshuai's movie "Extreme Cold", and then participated in the famous main theme TV series "The Right Way in the World" with his father Jia Fengsen, and then the famous movie "Suzhou Creek" cooperated with Zhou Xun.
It is worth mentioning that the hit drama "Daming Palace Words" originally invited Jia Hongsheng to play the prince Li Hong, Jia Hongsheng took his girlfriend Zhou Xun to audition together, and as a result, Li Shaohong took a fancy to Zhou Xun and let her play the young Princess Taiping, and the production company behind it, Rong Xinda, also signed Zhou Xun's key training, and since then Zhou Xun has stood firm in Beijing and has been unable to receive it.
It can be said that before "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng was still a normal working film and television industry practitioner, or simply a film and television star.
However, since the release of "Yesterday", his body seems to have been labeled by the public as "drug use" and "not in good spirits", and many crews dare not look for him to shoot again, and occasionally they also let him play marginal roles such as drug dealers, drug addicts or mental patients.
In the ten years from the release of the movie "Yesterday" to Jia Hongsheng's fall from the building, his only work was the drama "The Blind City", which was still his parents who repeatedly found the leaders of the National Drama Theatre to recommend his son to let him star.
After "The Blind City", Jia Hongsheng also met some directors with his parents or colleagues, but no one was willing to invite him in the cold world, and some people even spoke very badly.
The National Drama Theatre was originally preparing to reschedule "The Blind City" because the original author of the play, the Portuguese writer Saramago, was preparing to visit China, and Jia Hongsheng, who had an excellent performance in "The Blind City", was very excited and waited for the day when the drama was re-rehearsed.
On June 18, 2010, Zaramargo died suddenly, the reopening plan of "Blind City" failed, and on July 5, Jia Hongsheng fell from a building in his home and died.
We can see that in the ten years after "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng's experience was worse than before and after his drug rehabilitation, he ripped off his clothes to expose his scars to warn others not to play with fire, everyone looked at his scars and nodded their heads in deep agreement, and then turned around and told others that the scars on Jia Hongsheng's body were disgusting, don't play with him in the future.
After the release of "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng once said a sentence in an interview, Zhang Yang never went to hell, always turned a corner and went to heaven. He said to me, you've been to hell, that's enough.
The history of Jia Hongsheng's drug abuse began with Zhang Yang's graduation drama "The Kiss of the Spider Woman", and the scar that unveiled Jia Hongsheng in front of the public was Zhang Yang's film "Yesterday", Zhang Yang's directorial road was smooth and smooth, and it was inseparable from Jia Hongsheng's help.
But when Jia Hongsheng encountered ten years of difficulties, who could help him?
Therefore, Lou Ye, who is also a sixth-generation director and has cooperated with Jia Hongsheng in "Suzhou Creek", also said that we are all people who have turned the corner to heaven, and only Jia Hongsheng has gone to hell alone.
Postscript, the most distressing person in the movie "Yesterday" is Jia Hongsheng's parents, after his death, the two old people behaved very strong. Jia Fengsen once played the role of Lao Zheng in Zhang Yang's "Flying Over the Old People's Home".
After that, Jia Fengsen and his wife were both taken to live abroad by Jia Hongsheng's sister and left sadly, which is probably the great luck of this family's misfortune.
It can be seen that Jia Hongsheng's sister refused to star in "Yesterday" that year, which was also a very wise choice.
Also, in the movie, Jia Hongsheng once shouted to himself: "Jia Hongsheng, hold on."
Later, on the Douban platform, there appeared a topic group called "Jia Hongsheng" created by id "Jia Hongsheng, hold on", many people thought that this was the real Jia Hongsheng, unfortunately, Jia Hongsheng's family and colleagues confirmed that he did not have a mobile phone and computer, and would not go online, that is not really Jia Hongsheng.
However, even if everyone knows that this is false, there are still people who keep leaving messages on it for ten years.
True, or false, sometimes it doesn't matter that much anymore.
After the release of "Yesterday", Jia Hongsheng was alive, but in many places it was the same as death.
After Jia Hongsheng fell from the building, he really died, but in some places, he was still alive.