"Spring Tide": Hao Lei's seven-minute monologue completes the Chinese mother-daughter relationship

Author: Wang Xiaoli

Directed by Yang Lina and starring Hao Lei and Jin Yanling, "Spring Tide" recently chose to be screened ahead of the video website, and it has also become the fifth theatrical film to choose to be released online this year, triggering a boom in movie viewing and also spawning a lot of discussion. If "Chinese-style mother-daughter relationship" is the synopsis of the story of this literary and art film, then its internal verification is a difficult problem that human nature can never get around - how to be honest with yourself.

"Spring Tide" focuses on three generations of grandchildren living under the same roof: reporter Guo Jianbo (Hao Lei), mother Ji Minglan (Jin Yanling) and daughter Guo Wanting (Qu Junxi) form a small female world in which men are absent, and the three people tied together by family ties seem to be calm but actually have a dark tide.

Reporter Guo Jianbo was forced to face the scars on his body while reporting on negative social events; his mother Ji Minglan was enthusiastic outside, but when he returned home, he sentenced the two of them and liked to calculate; Guo Wanting, who was still young, learned the rules of survival in the adult world early and secretly rebelled and resisted in hidden forbearance. In this way, one "war after another" exploded into silence between three generations.

At the end of the film, the seven-minute monologue of the lead actor Hao Lei, who does not follow the film routine, can be called the essence of the film, touching the deepest and softest part of the hearts of many audiences. Hao Lei revealed after the film was released that it was this monologue that made her decide to take on "Spring Tide".

There is also another story about the performance behind this, and on the set, Hao Lei and Yang Lina had a disagreement, and she believed that Guo Jianbo's statement should be more euphemistic: "There is a sense of space in this passage. This may be the content of Guo Jianbo's diary, or it may be said countless times, if she can tell her mother when she was adolescence, there is a dialogue context, then in the end Guo Jianbo may not be nothing. In the end, at Hao Lei's insistence, this multi-layered performance like "before the tsunami" was born.

For the literary and art film "Spring Tide", many people approached Hao Lei's name. Whether it was in the early years of "Dear" or "Floating City Mystery", Hao Lei shocked the audience with an extremely distinct personality. In "Spring Tide", Hao Lei still does not change this stubbornness. As a journalist, she is very tough, and can even directly slap the suspect in the sexual assault case. However, the strong Guo Jianbo is also sensitive, the absence of father's love is always a hurdle in her heart, but it does not mean that she has stopped missing her father, and the complex emotions behind the contradictions have also made "Guo Jianbo" more introverted and indifferent than hao Lei's previous interpretations.

In recent years, Hao Lei's film and television works are not many, and she has also admitted that she is not a person who likes to show her face, but she has not forgotten the role of an actor's performance, and continues to shine on the more "exquisite" stage of drama. As early as 2003, she contributed to Meng Jinghui and Liao Yimei's famous work "Rhinoceros in Love" that "the closest to the script itself" mingming, which is still regarded as a classic. Last year, she happily accepted lai Shengchuan's invitation to "Once Upon a Time", on the grounds that "this is a script that can answer the confusion of life".

At the age of 40, Hao Lei has entered the ranks of mature actresses, and in this age group that makes many stars feel anxious, fans can read more freely on her face, because her desire has never been more exposure and spotlight, but one day, her performance can be written into the textbook. (Wang Xiaoli)