At the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival held in October last year, the film "Tropical Rain" won the "Fei Mu Honor Best Film", and the actress Yang Yanyan also won the best actress in the unit.
From the premiere to the screening in the media field, "Tropical Rain" was not only full, but the audience waited outside the hall three hours in advance for the Asian premiere.
And the vast majority of these fans are going to the director and the main creative lineup that is in line with "Mom and Dad Are Not Home".
Bajie can also talk to you about this film that has been repeatedly rated as the top 10 of 2019 - "Tropical Rain" while retaining a small number of spoilers.
The young director from Singapore used his trivial but not boring, delicate and gentle family story to make audiences in The Chinese-speaking region and even the world empathize with the family's experience, gains and losses and farewells under the Asian financial crisis.
6 years later, Yang Yanyan and Xu Jiale, who played mother and son, came to a bold identity transformation in the movie "Tropical Rain": from mother and daughter to teacher and student
At first glance, it sounds ordinary, but the core of this story revolves around a seemingly absurd entanglement between a middle-aged female teacher and a junior high school student who has been married for 8 years. This is also why "Tropical Rain" has not been screened at major film festivals, but the highlights about it do not stop there.
It may also be related to Yang Yanyan's own participation in the creation of the script.
Therefore, the Chinese teacher played by Yang Yanyan is also a very embarrassing existence in the school where he works.
She has been married to her husband (Li Mingshun) for many years, tried countless times, but has never been able to have children.
While secretly giving ovigoki injections in the car, he is still doing his duty to take care of his elderly and paralyzed father-in-law in bed;
In school, the students who are not valued Chinese class and do not care about Chinese make Ah Ling feel deeply powerless.
When the long tropical rainy season of Nan Guoli comes, a boy who is in the midst of adolescence (played by Xu Jiale) breaks into Ah Ling's life,
Also with the husband who often does not go home, unsurprisingly cheating, paralyzed for many years of father-in-law (Played by Yang Shibin) died;
After this wet rainy season, Ah Ling's life seems to have a new beginning...
In the view of director Chen Zheyi, "it is not necessary to shoot a teacher-student relationship, because this topic is too sensational." Because in his mind, the story of Ah Ling and Jiale is more like a natural growth, and everything is like a natural arrangement.
The beginning of Jiale and Ah Ling seems to have nothing to do with the hormonal agitation of adolescent adolescence, but in fact, the two fill the gap in the life role that each other needs to some extent:
The boundary between parents in jiale abroad for many years and ah ling, a middle-aged female teacher who has been married for many years and has no children, is blurred at this time.
Just like inviting his parents to watch the game, Knorr gave the invitation to the long boxing competition that he regarded as the most important cause to the teacher Ah Ling for the first time;
Also like taking care of a child, Ah Ling sent Jiale home and gave him ice like a mother when the boy had a nosebleed.
It is also "logical" to have a hand-holding hand under the textbook of "courtesy, righteousness and shame" and when I meet Ah Ling's colleague in the elevator.
As the director said when talking about his original intention:
What I want to write about is a woman who is approaching 40 years old and has suffered a midlife crisis. Whether it is in marriage, family or career, she seems to have encountered a bottleneck. How to redefine herself, how to rediscover herself, how to continue to walk down the road. It was such a person whose life had been so much trauma and loss and loneliness; if she needed warmth, if she needed someone to give him some care, where would this person appear. He could not have appeared at home unless he was a ghost.
While "exposing" this unruly relationship, Chen Zheyi's gaze focuses more farther on the care for the survival of middle-aged women. Therefore, when the two make their final confessions in the rain at the end of the film, there is a dialogue that seems to be understated but focuses on the audience's nerves:
This is my first break up, can you make it memorable a little bit? What do you want? I want hug you! My heart hurts, it really hurts. That is true... You'll get used to it later.
Getting used to all encounters, goodbyes, all the accidents, the absurdities and seemingly unbearable present moments are really just the norm of life.
"We cross many life trials, not for the expectations of others, but to find ourselves."
The heroine of this matter, Yang Yanyan, expounds on the characters and stories, and also believes that "Tropical Rain" can give people who watch it more courage to find themselves!