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The legendary life of Mei Yanfang is difficult to be condensed into a movie, but "Mei Yanfang" is trying to do this well as much as possible. The director of the film, Leung Lok Man, does not deliberately create conflict, but takes the most important moment of her life as the node of the film, from the hardships of childhood poverty to the strength of middle age in the face of illness, which will once again bring a talented, positive and optimistic Daughter of Hong Kong into the light.
The remembrance of a generation of Hong Kong actresses is actually a very difficult thing, on the one hand, Mei Yanfang's archetypal characters have too many legends, the times are too close, and a slight deviation in character shaping will inevitably cause criticism, and the same audience's over-familiarity with the archetypal characters has also become a double-edged sword for biographical films, which can bring topics to the movie and become the shackles of the movie. The most outstanding place of "Mei Yanfang" is that the film is well controlled by a degree, it does not excessively add oil and vinegar, create contradictions, and does not list her life deeds alone, but through the story of family, friendship and love that happened to Mei Yanfang, the character is restored to the context of her original life, showing a three-dimensional and vivid "Mei Sister".
Why is it that in the Hong Kong entertainment industry where the stars gather, only Mui Yanfang has been named "Daughter of Hong Kong"? The movie "Mei Yanfang" is based on this angle as the starting point, closely grasping the macro of the pulse of the Hong Kong era and the individual of Mei Yanfang's female growth, in the personal growth of Mei Yanfang, she sold art in her childhood, from the bottom of the girl with her own efforts to grow all the way to become a world-renowned singer, and finally married herself to the stage and the audience at the end of the performance, the film shows every node of Mei Yanfang's life legend, from costume props to replica Hong Kong landmarks, as far as possible to restore, And the real image is just the right interspersed to bring people back to the glory years that belonged to Mei Yanfang.
Like Mei Yanfang's most legendary curtain call, the most tearful thing about the film is the restoration of this performance. As the actor of Mei Yanfang, although Wang Danni's performance is impossible to be exactly the same as the real person, but it can already make people see Mei Yanfang's shadow in terms of speech and demeanor, when Wang Dani put on the wedding dress on the stage like Mei Yanfang did that year, when she picked up the microphone and sang the "Sunset Song", the movie did have several moments as if it really made people return to the scene of this concert, her open-mindedness and reluctance, in the classic scene of the Sunset Song, was interpreted by the gods.
Through this film, we can find that the reason why Mui Yanfang can be called "the daughter of Hong Kong" is not only her external beauty, but more importantly, in her we see the Hong Kong spirit of hard work, hard work, pioneering and enterprising, flexible and self-reliant. She started from the bottom, but never forgot her original intention, even in the last moments of her life, she is still worried about how to give an explanation to the audience who love herself and her favorite stage, when she is terminally ill, she will soon die in a wedding dress on the stage, and the moment when the audience waved goodbye, how can people not be moved?
Time flies, 18 years have passed since Mei Yanfang's death, 18 years later, although film technology cannot make Mei Yanfang look like life, "Mei Yanfang" shows her most precious spirit and shows her most dazzling fanghua.
Personal rating: 8