On December 31, 2020, "Warm Hugs" was released.
However, after the film was released, it ushered in polarized comments on Douban and was criticized a lot.
In fact, turnip greens have their own love, and whenever a movie is released, it seems that it will always be accompanied by praise and spit, which is actually a normal situation.
However, many of the complaints about the film that it has been pulled out by fans are basically black reviews, and its reputation is actually lower than the real level.
The so-called seeing is believing, many viewers who have seen the movie can't help but be confused, and some people can't help but cry for it:
"I don't know why the scolding is so loud, I think I have laughed, touched, laughed and cried!"
Audiences from the front line also reported that the film erupted in laughter ten to twenty times or so during the screening:
Everyone has different opinions about the above controversy, but for Chenchen, who has seen the movie for the first time, it makes me laugh and cry, it can be said that people "scratch their hearts and scratch their livers" when they see it, and when they walk out of the theater, although the temperature is very low, they feel particularly warm inside.
2020 is a year of ups and downs, and at the end of this year, how much everyone needs a comedy to soothe the tired soul, in the face of the same period of action films, dramas, the emergence of "Warm Hugs" is timely.
This comedy film, which has been prepared for 4 years and gathers Chang Yuan, Li Qin, Shen Teng, Qiao Shan, Ma Li and other super lineups, is like a successful end to the sense of ceremony at the end of the year.
In fact, as early as the film was not yet released, 330,000 people marked "want to see", the first day of release of the box office as high as 192 million, the current box office has exceeded 500 million, directly help the annual box office to break through the 20 billion mark!
At the same time, the film has obtained a high reputation of 8.9 points on the cat's eye, better than 89% of comedies, better than 91% of domestic films, for ticket-buying audiences, this word-of-mouth performance is undoubtedly of great reference value, reflecting the high recognition of the core audience of comedy.
On these platforms, many viewers have expressed their true feelings, which made many people laugh and cry after watching it:
"After watching the premiere, the whole person was happy, and some of the laughs were really funny."
"Laughter and tears coexist, warmth is more, after reading two lines of tear masks are wet."
I can understand Bao Bao... The film is full of joyful atmosphere.
Someone even gave the highest evaluation, directly saying:
"I'd like to call it the best comedy movie of the year."
The content of the story is actually not complicated, mainly about Bao Bao, played by Chang Yuan, who has an almost morbid obsession with the orderly life, and the lonely story that after meeting the original female singer played by Li Qin, his life has undergone a huge change.
And it is in the process of his transformation that he reveals full of warmth and laughter, and the most rare thing about it is that it involves two very poignant questions in the movie:
Can't the shadow of the original family be forgiven?
From "All Is Good" to "I Am Yu Huanshui" and "Thirty Only", the influence of the original family is increasingly mentioned in film and television works.
In addition to film and television works, everyone now pays more and more attention to the original family, in many blind date conditions, many people almost mention that the other party's "native family" is good, and even a certain "bad habit passed down from generation to generation" is on the hot list.
So, people with shadows in their original families don't deserve to have a normal life?
In Warm Hugs, it tells us that this shouldn't be the case.
Bao Bao, a children's piano teacher in the film, is his only rule of life.
On the one hand, all his life arrangements such as sleeping, getting up, and going to work are calculated according to the time card point on the watch.
There were no students coming to class, he had to wait for 1 hour to get off work after sitting on the cold bench, and even farting had to eat soybeans in advance every day, concentrated at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
On the other hand, in his monotonous black-white-gray home, clothes, sheets, murals, including food in the refrigerator, are arranged neatly.
Seeing his colleague eating potato chips and falling to the ground, he quickly took a vacuum cleaner to sweep, and even if the person next to him ate a noodle, he also had to take out air freshener to remove the odor.
As a result, students dislike him, colleagues alienate him, and Bao hugs him as a "freak" that no one wants to see.
Behind his "weird" behavior, it actually has a great influence on his original family.
In the film, Wang Zhi and Tian Yu play Bao Bao's parents, and the two of them can be said to be a combination of two "weird coffee".
Because they felt that kissing and hugging were very "dirty" and there were many bacteria, the couple, who did not want to be intimate, chose to give birth to Bao Bao in the form of IVF.
In their homes, the living arrangements are all symmetrical, and even the dumplings must be eaten in a circular measure, accurate to the cubic centimeters of the mouth.
Many people say that a person's personality and habits are basically fixed in childhood, and the life habits of Bao Bao, who grew up in such a family, have been engraved in their bones.
Whether it is the doctor who is forced by Bao Bao to become a patient, or the various "strange people" in the spiritual nursing home run by Shen Teng, they create many laughs in the film.
In fact, because the film pursues drama, the "strange people" represented by Bao Bao it presents are exaggerated and extreme, but in fact, it alludes to the existence of a few people who are a little different from everyone in our lives.
In the face of Xiao Bao hugging Lei and wanting to sleep with his parents and being rejected, even a hug can not be satisfied in the childhood, watching him crying and shouting "Mom and Dad I don't want to hug again", the audience can't help but shed tears.
The world's billions of colors, not only black and white, out of the movie, but in front of the screen, should we have more empathy and tolerance for the "weird people" around us?
Since there is a mainstream, then there must be a non-mainstream, adhere to the mainstream in some aspects but also invisibly there is a suppression of the non-mainstream, the film under the cloak of comedy, the marginal crowd represented by Bao Bao is full of humanistic care.
In addition to the warmth of inclusion, we also see change.
Second, how to cure the loneliness of "hit workers"?
With the development of the Internet, each of us seems to have become an island, watching the news, chatting, ordering takeout, playing games, and having a mobile phone seems to be enough to survive.
Can the communication across the screen really reach your heart?
In the film, the maverick Bao Hug responds to the words in Lin Youjia's lyrics: "One person goes out, and another person lies in bed... I'm always alone, practicing a person."
Sitting alone on the balcony, Bao Hugging saw the lights of thousands of families gathering, and lonely he took out the voice assistant on his mobile phone - even if someone said a word to me.
Although human sorrow and joy are not always the same, Bao Bao's loneliness pierces the hard shell of the audience's disguise, and tells the reality that many "hit workers" who are busy making a living lack emotional communication.
And we may be able to get some inspiration from the process of Bao Bao's loneliness being healed.
In Bao Bao's unchanging life, Song Wenwen's appearance became the first accident in his life.
Song Wenwen, as the ex-girlfriend of Wang Weiren, played by Qiao Shan, as a singer-songwriter, she once wrote songs for him with her heart and lungs, sometimes writing a night to eat 6 quick-acting heart-saving pills, and the names of the songs she wrote all belonged to Wang Weiren.
Relying on one song after another, Wang Weiren finally caught fire, but after the fire, what greeted Song Wenwen was betrayal and turning his face and not recognizing people.
The warmth of the love wounded therefore found Dr. Jia, played by Shen Teng, and the first step in treatment was to start writing songs again, participate in singing competitions, and move towards a new beginning.
A wounded singer-songwriter meets a "freak" who cannot afford to commit suicide, and the two people accidentally sing a song and a harmony at the "King of Originals" competition, but the temporary group provokes a strong chemical reaction, instantly exploding on the Internet.
For Song Wenwen, in order to continue to participate in the competition, she must make Bao Hug "normal";
For Bao Bao, he found for the first time that there were audiences who liked him and discovered the meaning of life.
One for the game, one for the affirmation of others, two people who only thought of themselves at the beginning, formed a combination of "resurrection from the dead", but in the process of getting along, they affected each other, and the hearts of the two people also came back to life.
The scruffy Song Wenwen from the beginning of bao hug 360 degrees to clean the room gas, to get along with bao hug after inadvertently forming a habit of setting up beer bottles;
And Bao Hug from the beginning of the meticulous, to take off the watch, eat fat intestines, let the red and white small porcelain people hug together...
"No one said I was cute."
"You're weird, weird and cute."
It can be said that two people together, many people always try to change each other, but do not realize that even if they are intimate like lovers, two people cannot be exactly the same independent individual.
Song Wenwen in the film wants to change Bao Huo, but she can also find other shining points on Bao Bao's body, believing that he can do better and respect each other;
And Bao Bao finally opened the door of his heart under the guidance of Song Wennuan, gradually accepted himself, and said:
"Thank you for helping me change and getting better and better."
Just as many years later, Bao Bao found the letter hidden in the bear that his parents gave him a birthday gift-
It turns out that just like the beautiful meaning of every parent naming their child, the reason why parents named their son "Bao Bao" is that they hope that he can get some comfort from the name;
In fact, they also feel guilt and pain for the loving parents who cannot respond to their son, and they are also determined to take that step for the sake of their children, change themselves, and try to give their children a kiss and hug.
"Desperately embrace everyone who loves you, and be brave enough to love everyone around you!"
Whether it is Song Wenwen, who has come out of his emotional wounds, or Bao Bao's family who are trying to change their family habits, they can't help but think of what Luo Xiang, a professor at The China University of Political Science and Law, said: "Among all human virtues, bravery is the most scarce" -
It takes courage to change, but for ourselves and for the sake of our loved ones, we must summon up the courage to change ourselves.
In the end, the white clothes became flower shirts, no one paid attention to everyone to greet, Bao Hugging changed, and became integrated into the people around him.
However, as Song Wenwen said, "How are you on time again", Bao Bao still maintains his own original intention in the process of reconciliation with himself and the world, which may be the real growth.
From the film Bao Bao and Song Wenwen sang "You are my sunshine" "With you, I am not afraid of anything", to the end of the film Zhang Jie sang affectionately "I can meet you in this life, spend all my luck", the film tells us not to be afraid of the shadow of the original family, do not avoid loneliness, we must believe -
Love heals shadows, don't look ahead, be brave!
Having said the content of the film, let's talk about the main actors at the end.
From the perspective of the two leading actors, in order to maintain the human body state of a meal only eat 10 grains of beef, lose nearly 30 pounds before and after, retreat for a month before filming and live in strict accordance with the schedule of Chang Yuan, all efforts made have not been in vain, and the role is very suitable, and the role of Bao Bao is also a relatively special existence in domestic movies;
As the debut of big-screen comedy, Li Qin, incarnated as the "little fairy of the comedy industry", beautiful and cute, both of them have discovered their new side, have an inexplicable sense of CP in the film, and broaden the drama road.
From the perspective of several other participating roles, Shen Tengyi appeared full of laughter and still "grabbed the scene", Ma Li, a good brother Qiao Shan, who was obliged to come to the scene during pregnancy, as well as Allen, Tian Yu, Wang Zhi, Wei Xiang, etc., all became laughter points and contributed to a very personal acting style.
In general, "Warm Hugs" reveals a hint of absurdity while being funny, behind the extreme exaggeration, but without losing delicacy and warmth, the film does not take the vulgar and funny road, and it can only feel the love and courage it conveys when it enters the theater.
Although some people are happy, some people are sad, but in fact, we are all the same, the movie has laughter and tears and more temperature, it is completely tailored to move towards the new year, after watching it can't help but have an impulse -
It's time for a warm hug with the people around you.
Bluestone Film Editorial Office | Morning
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