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"Reunion 4" has won a double harvest of box office word of mouth since its release.
In terms of word of mouth, Douban Kaihua was fanatically painted to 9.3 points, and then the rational powder entered, and the score was stable at 8.7 points, basically booking the No.1 of the Marvel series.
In terms of box office, it is even more "God blocks the killing of God, Buddha blocks the killing of The Buddha", 5 days of wild volume 2.2 billion +, the proportion of the film has been maintained at more than 95%, so that the Berlin Film Festival Emperor Jingchun can not help but sour in the social dynamics.
Immediately following the "May 1st gear", look at the opponents of the reunion 4, there is indeed no one who can play.
When everyone thinks that it will be the "crushing game" of "Reunion 4", a Lebanese film has staged a "tiger's mouth" and become a dark horse.
This is "What a Home"!
Director: Nadine Labaki Writers: Nadine Labaki / Jihad Hogary / Michel Keswani / Georges Habaz / Khalid Muzana Starring: Zane Al Rafia / Jodanos Shifero / Boruwatif Treje Bancor / Cassar Al Haddad / Fadi Yousef Genre: Drama Country/Region of Production: Lebanon / France / United States Language: Arabic / Amharic Duration: 126 minutes / 117 minutes (Chinese mainland) Douban: 8.9
The film was originally called Capernaum, a very awkward name.
Capernaum is a biblical place name located near the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus passed during his ministry, leaving behind many miracles and stories.
The fact that female director Nadine Labaki dared to choose this name represents that her original intention in creating this film was not to cater to commercialization.
This 2018 film was only introduced to the mainland on April 29 this year, and after its release, the Douban score rose from 8.8 points to 8.9 points, surpassing "Reunion 4", which shows its hard quality.
The box office of 140 million in 6 days may not be worth mentioning in front of "Reunion", but it is a considerable achievement for a low-cost literary film.
In fact, it has long been recognized by the industry.
Cannes Film Festival Jury Awards, Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe Awards Best Foreign Language Film nominations, César Awards Best Foreign Language Film nominations, Asia Pacific Film Awards Best Director...
When so many honors are added, you may still wonder: Can Lebanon, a turbulent country, a film desert make such a good movie?
But when you actually watch the movie, you understand how well-deserved the praise it receives.
"What a Home" is summed up in three words: touching, authenticity and courage.
First of all, say touching.
Hollywood movies are often very good at playing routines, every few minutes to a laugh point, the first few minutes of the male and female protagonists go to bed, the first few minutes of villain gg, the first few minutes of tears, all like assembly line products are calculated very accurately, watching more inevitably become numb.
But "What a Home" allows Pigo to find the purest touch that has been missing for a long time.
The touch is in the story.
A poor Lebanese family whose parents could not afford to raise children sold their 11-year-old daughter to a grocer.
His 12-year-old brother Zain angrily ran away from home for the big city, where he met Rahil, an ethiopian immigrant, a kind black woman who also lived in poverty and an unidentified son, Jonah.
The little boy and Rahil mother and son established a deep relationship, and then Rahil was arrested, the boy took the baby and began a journey of escape, after a turbulent displacement, Zain was finally crushed by life, and painfully handed the baby over to the traffickers in exchange for the opportunity to flee abroad.
In order to prove his identity, he returns home to learn that his married sister died tragically in the hospital due to premature wifehood, and the boy begins a journey of revenge with a knife...
The moving is also in the characters.
The insensitivity of the boy's parents, the innocence of the boy's sister, the kindness and helplessness of the black woman, and the innocence and cuteness of the baby all make people mixed feelings.
Among these characters, the boy is sometimes the brother who protects his sister, sometimes the who steals, sometimes the babysitter of the baby, and sometimes the violent maniac who runs wild with a knife.
He is a mixture of angels and demons, and his small body is a battlefield, always staged in the struggle between good and evil, such a load is unbearable for an adult, let alone a child.
One of the most interesting details in the film is that the boy himself made dirty, but asked the baby not to touch it, saying that it would get dirty hands.
There have never been any good years, but someone has carried the weight forward.
At that moment, I really thought he was handsome and exploded.
So when he finally ran to the enemy with his knife, the audience was instantly captured by this "little villain" and shed complicated tears.
The touch also lies in the lines.
Throughout the film, only one line is remembered: "I will sue my parents because they gave birth to me", which is placed in the most prominent position in the movie poster.
It is really painful for a child to say such a thing, which actually denounces the social quirk of "the poorer and the poorer, the poorer the poorer".
This line is similar to the sentence "I am sorry to be born as a man" in "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nut".
Second, let's talk about the truth.
The truth of the film is that it does not portray the protagonist as a "perfect person".
He is a person without status, living under the scolding of his parents for a long time, and selling things in order to survive, such a child must be full of hostility.
In the film, Zain is such a person full of stains, he is a petty thief, full of dirty words, and he learned to smoke at a young age, which is real enough.
What impressed Pig most was that Zain ran away from home to the amusement park in the big city, could not afford to sit on the carousel, and he took off the coat of a statue of a beautiful woman, revealing a rounded breast, and the audience did not seem to feel obscene and obscene.
The black woman washing dishes in the kitchen of the restaurant saw this scene through the window and also showed a happy smile.
The host of "Round Table Pie" asked Xu Zidong, what is the simplest difference between popular novels and literary works?
Xu Zidong replied: "Just look at whether there are pure good and bad people in the book, some words are popular novels, and if there is no words, they are literary works, such as "Dream of the Red Chamber". ”
Similarly, comparing "Avengers 4" and "How to Be Home", the positive and negative characters in "Avengers 4" clearly understand, while there are no good people and bad people in the pure sense in "Why Home", which is closer to the reality of life.
Of course, the above truth is still due to the careful creation of the screenwriter and director, but watching the Easter egg at the end of the film makes us more shocked.
It turns out that the main actor in the film is a refugee living in Syria, he was selected by chance by the casting director, and like the character in the film, he could not even write his own name when he was discovered.
He starred in the film as a non-professional actor, on the one hand, he did not have the ingenuity of the actor, on the other hand, most of the plot in the film was his real experience, he did not act, but completely reproduced the life he experienced.
So, to some extent, this film is a work between a documentary and a movie, it is not a street beggar who wags his tail and begs for pity, but a grounded true record, and this reality is even more shocking.
Finally, let's talk about courage.
It takes courage for a female director to hire a 12-year-old Syrian refugee as an actress and finally make an art film that shocks the world.
The production time of this film is as long as 5 years, the preliminary research is carried out for 3 years, the script is gradually formed in the process of research, in addition to the starring many of the participants are real-life people, and even the director himself has personally starred in the role of a lawyer in the film.
The film was shot for 6 months, accumulated more than 520 hours of footage, and took two full years of post-editing, but finally gave an unpleasant name, completely isolated from business.
The director dares to expose the "ugly" side of his homeland.
What impressed Pigo was that, in addition to the performances of several main actors, there were also the densely packed and dilapidated dwellings in the Lebanese refugee areas, where people lived like ants.
In the film, the little boy wanders with a baby, and the numb eyes of the surrounding crowd are like Lu Xun's lively Chinese, which are deep places beyond the cheap touch.
In addition to earning our tears, the director is actually bravely accusing this society, who is doing wrong? Why put the blame on a little boy?
The boy's father pushed his son weakly, asking why they lived without status or dignity.
The black woman cried across the iron railing of the prison and asked the little boy, where had her son gone?
The juvenile prison mate saw the little boy calling the TV station and followed suit, trying to make a small fart child speak up for himself.
Many people say that the ending is too sensational, but in fact, this is the director expressing his heart with the mouth of a 12-year-old boy: if you don't have the ability, don't bring your child into this world.
So this film is not only touching, the female director hides needles everywhere, and after crying, it will give you heavy thinking.
Fortunately, in the end, it was a bright ending, and when Little Zain took the ID photo, he smiled happily because he had become a "person with an identity".
"Reunion 4" made many people cry, and "Why Home" also made many people cry.
The two kinds of tears are not the same, the former is the tears of 11 years of companionship, which is the tears that satisfy our heroic dreams and youthful aspirations; the latter is the tears of witnessing the truth of life, the tears of brotherhood and empathy.
Two kinds of tears, one looking up at the starry sky, one is down-to-earth, one is indispensable.
Therefore, friends who have finished "Reunion 4" with two brushes and three brushes are looking forward to being able to go to the theater to support this equally wonderful "Why Home".
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