I first learned about this movie because in a report, I accidentally saw Peng Yuchang participate in a film project that focused on rural Areas in Yunnan and helped alleviate poverty.
Since the supervising producer of this film is Chen Kexin, who once directed "The Chinese Partner", the basic plot setting is also three people starting a business, coupled with the film's attention to the theme of young people's entrepreneurship and rural poverty alleviation, this film has attracted a lot of media attention at the beginning of filming.
To be fair, this film that continues the basic configuration of "Chinese Partner" in terms of protagonist setting and plot structure, and presents the main theme story in the form of a light comedy type film, is above the passing line from the overall point of view, but other than that, the whole movie has almost no achievements.
You know, the producer of this film is a famous director who has shot commercial blockbusters such as "Cast Name" and "Chinese Partner", and the director is Xu Hongyu, who started high in his debut.
However, "Arriving Home at One Point" is difficult to say to be a mature and profound masterpiece from the perspective of realistic refraction, plot ups and downs, character images, and the use of comedy elements.
Relentlessly, in this film, the director tries to please the audience through comedic elements, selling stalks and emotional accumulation, but he has never found a correct narrative rhythm and independent film style, and the film is also very far-fetched in the theme discussion
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Tea? Or coffee? For customers, it is only a choice, but for the villagers led by Li Dad in the movie, this is a choice that symbolizes the concept of value and the concept of life, and for the entrepreneurial group led by Peng Yuchang and Liu Haoran, this is full of expectations for future life.
From the outline and divergent performance of the characters of the two factions at the beginning of the film, it can be seen that the director still used his heart, but with the gradual development of the plot, we can feel that the film does not make full use of the character relationships and contradictions established at the beginning.
In the absence of presenting the core of the contradiction, without presenting the situation of not breaking or standing, it quickly entered the stage of wanton lyricism, which makes the film's depiction of contradictions and disputes flow into form, and the multi-faceted three-dimensional shaping of the character image is also destroyed in the vulgar sensational bridge section, not so much that the film is a sublimation built on the basis of reality, but rather a utopia in the fairy tale world.
Today, tea cultivation in Pu'er has hundreds of years of history, for the local people, especially the older generation of tea farmers, tea is the basic guarantee to bring them a happy life, is the faith of life.
In other words, even if growing tea is no longer profitable, this cause full of historical memories is still worth adhering to in the eyes of many elderly people.
Li Shaoqun in the movie, because he cut down tea trees to plant coffee trees, was expelled from the house by his father, and even regarded him as dead.
Just one young man who has changed the traditions handed down from generation to generation in order to realize his life ideals has been treated so unfairly, so what kind of challenges and dilemmas will the three fledgling young people face if the entire villagers of the village give up growing tea and planting coffee?
The film not only does not highlight such challenges and contradictions, but uses a radio station speech to lightly brush the whole incident over, and Li Dad's stubbornness is also touched and hesitated by three words and two words, which is obviously far from the actual reality.
Even if the narrative space is too narrow, if several super awkward sensational scenes in the film are deleted and the contradiction between conservatism and innovation is added, then the overall perception and theme discussion of the film will not be criticized as the finished film today.
Why is the tea sales in the village sunset, and why can it be better to change the coffee? Why is the price of tea in the village getting lower and lower, and even going to the embarrassing situation of loss? Judging from the plot reflected in the movie, on the one hand, it is because the village is in the mountains and the transportation is inconvenient; on the other hand, it is due to the continuous oppression of the buyers; at the same time, the traditional planting mode is difficult to adapt to the needs of the market, and it cannot be compared with the opponents with advanced planting technology and experience.
Then in other words, coffee will also face a similar dilemma, the film is only a superficial loss of tea, but it does not explain to the audience why it is lost and how to change this situation, so that the development of the whole event has always been a layer of estrangement from reality.
Why did the villagers finally choose to believe Peng Yuchang? Finally choosing to plant a coffee tree? Even if rural people are too simple, I believe that it is obviously difficult to impress their hearts by personality charm alone, so the sentence "We don't believe in coffee trees, we only believe in you" in the movie is very empty and powerless.
The film is obviously deviating from the direction at this point, and the reason why the villagers chose to follow Peng Xiubing to change to coffee is only because of Peng Xiubing's personality charm, and at the same time, because of the decreasing tea income, their living conditions are becoming increasingly difficult.
In order to live a better life, many young people in the village cannot return to their homes, and they have been uprooted from their homes for many years and have wandered outside, so that most of the people left in the village, which were originally full of joy and laughter, are now old, weak, sick, disabled, and left-behind children.
The payment and return of planting tea are completely incomparable, which is the most fundamental and direct reason why the villagers choose to follow Peng Xiubing to plant coffee. When adhering to tradition can no longer meet their expectations and yearning for a better life, only pioneering and enterprising can go further!
Back to reality, coffee, as an important cash crop cultivated by farmers in Yunnan, is not only cultivated in Yunnan in recent years, and the way of farming is far from being shown in the movie.
In Yunnan Pu'er, Baoshan and other cities, there are coffee cultivation and picking, after nearly twenty years of exploration, farmers gradually found a realistic cultivation and development route, that is, in the tea market is better when the choice of cultivating tea, on the contrary, choose coffee, rather than planting coffee has been planting coffee, planting tea has been planting tea, and in order to stagger the ripening period, the same coffee garden, the coffee in the same pool is often a variety of colors intertwined, Instead of pursuing visual stimulation like in the movie, a pool full of red fruits is full.
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A large part of the reason why several people can start a business together is because they are like-minded, but if one day, when several people have irreconcilable differences over the future development of the company, there will often be a story ending. Of course, in the eyes of the Chinese people, as an inspirational comedy type of movie, it is natural that there can be a story ending similar to poisonous chicken soup, so we can see the end of the movie of "Chinese Partner", and several entrepreneurs go around and finally continue to struggle together.
As a rural version of "Chinese Partner", "Arriving Home at One Point" naturally cannot end with the parting of the three protagonists as the end of the story, so we see the end of the story, and the three partners finally unite to gradually develop and grow the coffee business in the depths of the mountains of Yunnan.
The story is beautiful, but if we think back to the setbacks and tribulations that the three protagonists experienced throughout the entrepreneurial process throughout the film, they are almost out of proportion to their success.
In short, the whole movie is like a utopia in a fairy tale world, not real at all. Perhaps because of luck, or perhaps because the film's narrative space is limited, several protagonists have quickly promoted online shopping and express delivery with little effort.
The cultivation and promotion of coffee is unimaginably smooth, and it has successfully attracted the attention of brand owners without encountering any difficulties and resistance.
After experiencing disagreements, the strength of several people reuniting is even more endless, almost rapidly expanding the coffee garden under their hands into a large company supported by high-tech and mature publicity. Compared with the hardships and hardships depicted in "Chinese Partner", "Arriving Home at One Point" is simply not too beautiful!
For example, although Li Shaoqun has made many attempts in the previous few years and has a certain development foundation, he still faces many problems in promoting coffee to the whole village. According to the setting in the movie, the old people in the village have never been exposed to coffee cultivation before, how to prevent and control pests and diseases, how to skillfully control the overall quality, how to make the tea farmers who grow tea trees all year round change their minds...
These are all details that are worth describing and exploring in the film, but from the perspective of the finished film, these plot points from the perspective of reality are almost completely untouched, and the entire second half of the film plot is completely sensational one after another.
Overall, "Home at One Point" is a qualified commercial film, but it is not a success. Neither the film director nor the producer came out within the framework of the main theme, did not let the film fly high under the sky of realism, did not show humanistic feelings in the rich local style, and did not properly deepen the theme ideas.