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"Half a Comedy" is about the same as the title, half comedy, and the other half is a realistic choice. A lot of the plot is abstract, but realistic.
Set in a modern city, half a comedy focuses on three young people with three completely different views of love: some people are anxious to get rid of singleness, some people want to be debauched before marriage, and some people want to gain a foothold in the big city. Because of an emotional derailment, the three twisted into a mess of "laughter and anger".
Half a Comedy
There is a saying in the "Zhuge Liang Collection": "Do not act with evil and small, and do not act with good and small." ”
Don't think that bad things are small and do them, and don't think that good things are small and don't do them. This is a bottom line and a normal choice for life.
Now society contains more: ideas, morals, laws, and so on.
In life, there will be all kinds of problems, all kinds of troubles, of course, there are happy and cheerful, because of life, there are white lies, there are hurts to others, hurt by others, "Half a Comedy" is about the lives of young people, in the face of a variety of ensuing troubles and "lies", how should you choose, choose to be "yourself" or be yourself.
The choice of the people in the play is also the choice we expect. The choice to be true to oneself may be the repetition of every day in this lifetime.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > choice for the people in the play</h1>
Momo (Ren Suxi) is 29 years old and almost 30 years old, and is urged to marry by his mother.
Sun Tong's (Wu Yuhan) mother wants him to settle down in Beijing and start a family.
Zheng Duoduo (Liu Xun) "waves" again before getting married.
Zheng Duoduo (Liu Xun) Left Gao Lu (Tang Min) Right
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Sun Tong's choice & general public choice (realism</h1>).
Sun Tong lived in Zheng Duoduo's home, Zheng Duoduo helped him arrange work and settle in Beijing, Momo is Zheng Duoduo's first love goddess, about to get married Zheng Duoduo also has to go on a date to cheat Momo. (Momo didn't know that Zheng Duoduo wanted to get married and have a girlfriend) After Zheng Duoduo knew that Sun Tong and Momo were good, he asked Sun Tong to separate from Momo.
Sun Tong made a difficult choice, left silently, and did not make a choice; but Sun Tong's mother knew that this matter would make Sun Tong's stable job lose, and even the hukou settlement would change.
Because of his mother's love and real life, Sun Tong quarreled with Momo and separated.
Sun Tong (Wu Yuhan) Left Momo (Ren Suxi) Right
Mr. Lu Xun's "Wounded Death" said: "People must live, and love can be attached to beauty." "Simply put, people must first have their own life (this includes both economic life and spiritual life) before they can pursue their own love.
Momo has an economic spirit, but Sun Tong does not, he is still struggling in reality, just like us ordinary people. He couldn't ignore his mother's feelings, couldn't lose his work life, couldn't "offend his good brothers."
There was no right or wrong in his choice.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Momo's choice & idealistic choice</h1>
Momo went to the hospital, heard the hospital nurses talking, Sun Tong's mother decided to say a panic: let Sun Tong and Momo leave separate, temporarily hide Zheng Duoduo, can continue to work, waiting for half a month after the household registration to settle down.
Sun Tong's mother (played by Zhao Haiyan)
Momo family is well-off, Beijing has a house, works in the bank, material needs can be satisfied by themselves, although the family urges marriage arrangements for blind dates, but has its own pursuit, is an idealist. She doesn't want such a sneaky relationship, she wants to live with the people she likes in a fair and normal way. She couldn't accept Sun Tong's mother's approach.
Is Momo wrong?
It is certainly true, but the difference between realism and idealism is clearly placed in front of the audience at this moment.
Realism: People who care about reality and reality. Idealism: People who have faith and pursuits.
Momo pursues what she likes, she can not care about Sun Tong's family situation, do not care about Sun Tong's mother's dissatisfaction, she cares about the people she likes, Sun Tong's opinion, when Sun Tong is tormented to choose, can only stand on his mother's side, Momo disappointed to go.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Zheng Duoduo's choice & "true or false brother" choice</h1>
Zheng Duoduo is a rich second generation.
In Sun Tong's understanding, Zheng Duoduo is a classmate and good brother for many years, helping him arrange work, implement household registration, and borrow for free. For Zheng Duoduo's marriage, he can help hide his infidelity, and Zheng Duoduo's fiancée is also a classmate and a friend for many years.
Zheng Duoduo, Sun Tong
In the play, Zheng Duoduo said to Sun Tong in an "imperative" tone: "You immediately call Momo to break up." ”
"Since you can't break up, then leave the unit, leave the place where you live, can this be done?"
In zheng duoduo's eyes, Sun Tong can be regarded as a good friend, but the family environment is different from the growth, he feels that Sun Tong is "different" from him, I help you with everything, but you are still good with the people I like, that is betrayal. He does not care about Sun Tong's feelings and dignity, and perhaps in his understanding, everything in the material is greater than the dignity.
Zheng Duoduo derailed
Based on reality, Zheng Duoduo's approach is not wrong, it is correct in his world.
Because he had a good father, he had money in his family, and he was also an idealist, but what he pursued exceeded our ideological and moral bottom line.
So Zheng Duoduo's choice is, I let you do what you have to do. It is the command of the superior to the inferior, and there is no brotherhood.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > real-life choices</h1>
【Ideal "True"】
At the end of the play, Sun Tong was still cheating on the day of his wedding, Momo appeared, struggled with his heart, and finally broke with Sun Tong, he wanted to be a person who was loyal to his heart. Then reconcile with Momo.
It's a gentle ending with the audience's anticipation. This film is also a comprehensive description of the reality of various choices, bottom line problems, I hope that the public who are still choosing can clearly understand themselves and make the right choice.
The choice in the play is gentle and hopeful, and the theme of this film is to tell the choice, the choice of young people, and how to choose before the bottom line.
Sun Tong can give up everything that is stable, work, hukou, "friendship", his mother's "love", he found himself, sublimated himself, and finally loyal to his inner thoughts, seeing this plot, I believe that many viewers are recognized, he lived to understand, and became a loyal person.
This is the choice of the people in the play, and it is also the idea that many young people want to achieve but "dare not" realize.
French writer Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: "Sisyphus is an absurd hero. Both out of his passion and out of his hardships. "In every instant he left the top of the mountain, every minute and every second of his gradual dive into the lair of the gods, he transcended his own destiny. He was stronger than the stone he pushed. ”
In Sisyphus' passion for life is revealed, and in him we can only see a picture of a nervous body repeating an action a thousand times, moving a boulder, rolling it and pushing it to the top of the mountain to achieve its purpose. Then he saw the boulder rolling down again toward the world below in a matter of seconds, and he had to push the boulder back to the top of the mountain. So he went down the hill again.
How similar this is to our lives, except that Sisyphus can turn this punishment into his own rebellion, and every time he repeats this futile and hopeless labor, he devotes himself wholeheartedly, and every time he consciously pushes the stone to the top of the mountain, it is the moment when he transcends his own destiny.
【The Truth of Reality】
In real life, Sun Tong's mother helped him make a choice, an old man who has been in real life for half a century, making the "right" choice based on the reality of life. When Sun Tong was entangled, he had already made a choice, maternal love could not be separated, and life needed an economic foundation.
Sun tong mother
This is the truth of life, in life, it should be understood that many people cannot be as "true" as Sun Tong in the play, because life itself has too much entanglement, concern, and helplessness. Perhaps only after the material life and spiritual life are satisfied, as Mr. Lu Xun said, can we pursue self-true love.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > how to turn imagined "truth" into reality? </h1>
This requires a process, and it is impossible to struggle like the play, and you can "give up" everything.
First of all, we must understand our own ideas, understand everything that real life should abide by, thoughts, morals, and laws, so that we can have "consciousness" to live and face every day.
Wu Yuhan
This film expresses this result, more to arouse the hearts of the public, to be able to clearly recognize themselves, find themselves and be loyal to themselves. In the process of realization, it may be very long, it may be a lifetime is still in the process, and it is not yet possible to transcend, then just like Sisyphus, every day of life, devote yourself to it, feel everything around you.
Life is too short, that is, tens of hundreds of years, want to live into their own ideals of the person, the pull of real life, let us pursue this process more meaningful.
Find yourself and take the first step, take the second step in conscious life, and the third step is this life!
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Life is very long, like "Half a Comedy", after understanding the self, happy to face life, although a lot of plot abstraction in the play, plot development is difficult for many viewers to accept, but its core meaning is good, I hope that all young people have their own cognition, fully engaged in every day of life.
Ren Suxi
This "Half Comedy" is also the original team of "Donkey Got Water" to create, Zhou Shen, Liu Lu, Ren Suxi cooperated again, full of sincerity, Ren Suxi was deceived at the beginning of the film, the scene where the feelings were really exploded. Wu Yuhan's appearance is also a very real interpretation of a person who is suppressed by reality. Zheng Duoduo, played by Liu Xun, did play a debauchery.
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