"With You": Father-son love tear gas
Huang Zihong
In 2002, Chen Kaige's film "With You", starring Liu Peiqi, Tang Yun, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Hong, etc., told a secular and flashy story with a very full tone of Beijing flavor, rendered a hard-won father-son relationship, became a heavy "tear gas" of the year, and also became an unprecedented clear stream in the father-son family film.
"With You" depicts the real life of ordinary people, and the film takes the core of the question of "who to be with" when a person comes to the crossroads of emotions and careers. A young man who plays the piano, according to the guidance of the soul and the true desire to grow, emotionally and warmly sprouts the buds of his youth.
This film reasonably draws on the elements of Hollywood commercial films in the United States, making the film flexible and rich, the story is good, the character portrayal is delicate and vivid, "With You" marks Chen Kaige's "successful transformation", and it is also Chen Hong's best acting film so far, there is no one.
Liu Cheng, the "peasant" father played by Liu Peiqi, has made various efforts because he firmly believes that his son has musical talent. Everywhere, they live by our side, in order for the children to have a future, even if they smash the pot and sell iron and give up their old lives.
Lily, played by Chen Hong as the "three escort girls", is a person who cares very much about feelings, living with desires rather than ideas and ideas.
Teacher Jiang, played by Wang Zhiwen, is extremely talented, but also extremely eccentric. On the outside, he looks scruffy and untrimmed, talking to people is always screwed, but in his bones, this is a person who thinks everything clearly.
Professor Yu, played by Chen Kaige, is a music professor who has trained the world's top violin masters.
Xiao Chun, played by Tang Yun, began to learn the piano at the age of 4, and compared with most of his peers who learned to play the piano, his father's harshness on himself has almost "domestic violence". I almost broke my father's arm. But all this did not make Tang Yun resent his father: "It is precisely because of my father's strict education method that I laid a solid foundation for my later musical path."
Lin Yu, played by Zhang Jing, is hateful, snobbish, ruthless and insidious. She was in the professor's house and did not allow Liu Xiaochun to share the sink with her, calling him a "country boy".
Ordinary people Liu Became the violin skills of Liu Xiaochun, the son who played the violin from childhood, had a great improvement, took him from Jiangnan to Beijing, worshiped the strange personality of Teacher Jiang as a teacher, in the process of learning, Liu Xiaochun gradually became a friend of Teacher Jiang. Lily and Liu Cheng's father and son live very close, and she makes Liu Xiaochun gradually develop an inexplicable love.
After Liu Cheng accidentally listened to a young man's wonderful performance, he visited his mentor Professor Yu and persuaded the other party to accept Liu Xiaochun as an apprentice. Liu Xiaochun left Teacher Jiang with helplessness and regret, and threw himself into Professor Yu's disciples, but only gained restraint and repression, he began to doubt "his father's choice", and the relationship with his father became more and more tense.
At the end of the film, Xiao Chun, who concentrates on learning the piano and wants to make a name for himself on the international competition stage, accidentally learns of his origins, gives up the game for his beloved father, and goes to the bustling train station, under the joint witness of Teacher Jiang and Lily, full of tears to play a long-rehearsed song for his father live...