On the 11th day of the release of the movie "Auspicious Ruyi", the Douban score was 8.0, and this innovative work has been well received since the screening.
Seeing that the third uncle in the film was crying and the grandmother was gone, Jia Ling could no longer hold back and wiped her tears.
Liu Haoran did not slow down after watching it, and similar experiences made him burst into tears, and he lamented that this was probably the real power.
The tough guy Zhang Yi also cried, he praised this as a landmark work, and he will regret it if he does not look at it.
Awkward blowing? Business mutual praise? Can The Di Si Male Roc make a good movie? Today Uncle Chai will take you to find out.
The road to transformation, stumbling
In 2012, a self-made web drama "Di Si Men" that specializes in various unhappiness swept the screen, snaring many hot stems, in the absence of popularity, with the most direct, the most gimmicky way to increase the heat, which is the director and starring Dapeng intentional, the series became popular, he was also hot.
In the following years, the sequel to "Di Si Men" was launched one after another, which swept the internet, and at the same time, the vulgar questioning of Tu Hi has been heard endlessly.
In 2015, Dapeng integrated resources and launched his first film "Pancake Man", which won 1.163 billion at the box office and won the double award at the 12th Media Awards, which can be called the winner of the year.
In addition to his success, this popular but not popular film invisibly labeled him: Dapeng, a director who will only cater to the market and is kitsch and spoof.
In 2017, after 3 years of precipitation, Dapeng launched the comedy film "Sewing Machine Band", and explored and innovated in narrative skills and laughter rhythms, but the film performed poorly after the release of the National Day file, and the reputation was overdrawn, and he said: Lose, but also stand and lose.
He held his breath, stumbled, kept trying and changing.
As early as the filming of "The Sewing Machine Band", he had "ambition" and secretly brewed a completely different film.
This time he wanted to shoot what he really wanted to shoot, a form of shooting that almost no one had tried, and for him, it was also an adventure and a challenge.
So at the beginning of 2021, we saw this sincere work "Auspicious and Ruyi".
Although the film does not have the star-studded sparkle of "Pancake Man" and the inspirational plot of "The Sewing Machine Band", it is a private family film that he spent 4 years to truly expose the pain.
He moved the shooting set to the small village where he grew up, aimed the camera at his dearest family, opened the most intimate and soft place in his heart, and used the film as a medium to re-understand himself and his family, and to re-understand the film.
Chen Sicheng, who is also a director, was touched and jealous after watching the film, he envied that Dapeng could create so freely, and hoped that he could also shoot works so close to life more freely.
Guan Hu could not hide his excitement after watching it, and even praised the film to expand the principles and meaning of the documentary, saying that he would try more in the future.
After many years of dormancy, Dapeng finally tore off the kitsch label.
Changing from a three-way video choreographer to a cutting-edge film director is not an easy task, but he did not disappoint anyone, although the process was too arduous and even a little cruel.
Four years of scars will eventually heal
At the end of 2016, when filming in his hometown of Ji'an, there was a vision that gradually became clear in Dapeng's mind, he wanted to record the clip of his grandmother's New Year at the special node of the New Year, so the family had a happy time.
Unexpectedly, when she was preparing to start filming, my grandmother suddenly fell seriously ill and fell into a coma.
On the one hand, the film crew that was already in place, on the other hand, the grandmother who was seriously ill, in the face of Providence, although he was helpless and painful, he could only carry out the shooting with a hard scalp.
So the subject of the film changed from grandma to grandma's third son, the third uncle Liu Jixiang, who was once a beautiful and the former oilfield security section chief who contributed the most to the family, because of illness, his mind returned to childhood, and he has lived with his grandmother for twenty years.
With the sudden death of his grandmother, the third uncle, who could not live independently, became a problem that the family had to face. At the end of "Auspicious", the third uncle is walking alone in the snow, and there is no longer a mother's waiting at home.
As soon as the camera turned, in the theater of the upper film festival, Dapeng lost his voice in a question from an audience, and the picture naturally transitioned to the second half of "Ruyi".
At this time, we suddenly realized that the original "Auspicious Ruyi" consisted of two parts, "Auspicious" is a complete short film, and the second half of "Ruyi" is the narration deconstruction of "Auspicious", and all the mysteries are solved in "Ruyi".
"Auspicious" enlists everyone in the innings, and "Ruyi" puts everyone on the outside.
The two chapters are wonderfully connected through the jumping short films, in which there is a deep and incomparable emotion, which is gradually revealed as the picture progresses.
We see Dapeng standing by the fire after his grandmother's death with a blank stare, see the touching smile on the face of the third uncle when he is accompanied by his daughter, and the sob that he seems to understand when his grandmother is dying...
The film is not a simple drama film, nor is it a pure documentary, it breaks the boundaries between documentary and film.
As early as 2018, the short film "Auspicious" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Short Film, but the release of "Auspicious Ruyi" lasted 4 years, during which Dapeng cut open the wound countless times and completed the editing of "Ruyi" in a painful heart.
He believed that he had died when he went back to make a short film, and he regretted it, blamed himself, and even became depressed for a while, and needed to seek help from a psychologist.
That unspoken grandmother I think of you, that regret of not having one last look, are left to the end of the film after the release.
He was so desperate to see the movie come out, to end it as soon as possible, like a solemn ritual, that he would return to his grandmother's grave and talk to her so that he could heal and move on.
Because of the pain, so real. And this reality is hidden in the fiction, which is the wonderful thing about the film.
The virtual and the real are intertwined, sincere and moving
The essence of "Auspicious Ruyi" is to concentrate all the virtual reality on one point. And this focus is Liu Lu, the only actor in the film.
Dapeng cleverly inserted Liu Lu in the film, using a professional actor to affect the emotions of all the family members who played the role, and the contradiction and conflict between the responsibility of family affection and the helplessness of reality could be naturally pulled apart.
In the climax of the whole film Chinese New Year's Eve in the dinner scene, after the family and Hemei toast and blessing, they inevitably talk about the placement of the third uncle. Liu Lu was sitting and listening in silence, and it was precisely because she was not a real Li Li that the Second Master could say what he thought without scruples, and the harmony was hidden under the surface of precariousness, so that it could be truly highlighted.
The more the relatives who insisted on the arguments, the more fierce the controversy became, the emotions intensified to the peak, Liu Lu was surrounded by a huge sense of guilt, covered his face and prostrated his head almost collapsed, the crowd dispersed unhappily, and the shooting was forced to be suspended.
In fact, when actor Liu Lu participated in the discussion in front of the camera, the real Li Li hid behind the camera.
When Liu Lu fled the shooting area to ease his emotions, the real Li Li was playing with her mobile phone casually, and the two people in the same room reacted intriguingly, forming a dramatic contrast.
Li Li's reaction made Liu Lu confused, and she couldn't help but raise the question in her heart: "I still don't understand why I haven't gone home for ten years?" ”
Li Li's speechlessness temporarily put an end to the conflict, but the doubts and speculations in the audience's hearts suddenly spread.
Liu Lu and Li Li, fiction and reality, are perfectly integrated in Dapeng's shots.
After the shooting, Dapeng told his family that he could afford his third uncle's future life.
Faced with the decision to send the third uncle away, the family members who had argued countless times did not agree.
In the end, the third uncle is still taken care of by the four brothers and sisters in turn, and he can still walk around the familiar village alley and reminisce about the vague and mottled past.
The film abandons all techniques and uses Liu Lu's addition to ignite real life, cruel and naked, but also incomparably sincere and moving.
As a creator, Dapeng shows all his thoughts and feelings in this film.
Behind the scenes, the hope of the film
He wraps this almost true story in a documentary way, and uses the interweaving of the recorded and the recorded to perfectly express the tearing of the body and the soul.
As Dapeng said in the film: I feel that I am now two people with Beijing.
The film condenses Dapeng's profound sense of life, and he has been drifting north for many years, and he is also trying to find a balance between reality and family affection.
Through the film, we see the soft heart hidden deep under the calm appearance of this former "sensationalist".
After the movie was released, Dapeng invited Li Li to watch the whole movie, and when she saw the picture of the family arguing, she took out her mobile phone again, and at that moment Dapeng understood her, she was not indifferent, not indifferent, she just had no way to face it, this was her way of escaping.
This film also allows Li Li to reflect on her relationship with her parents and daughter, which is the precious place of the film, which will allow everyone to comb through their lives.
Perhaps in our relationship with our loved ones, we can have less remote communication, less cover-up of good news and no worries, and chat about trivialities and complexities together, and return to the real life of triviality.
The film chose to be released before the Spring Festival, which is most valued in Chinese, and the ardent expectation it hides is that I hope that you and I, who are busy outside, can often go home to see.
Life is impermanent, fate is difficult to find, don't let Dapeng's regrets repeat itself, don't let seeing each other again become luxuries and delusions.
The Spring Festival is coming, choose to celebrate the New Year on the spot, remember to let love go home, and miss the most loved ones to say: I am very good, just miss you, the epidemic is over, go home.
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