Compared with the previous film works of "Happy Twist", "Warm Hugs" may be a little bland in the eyes of many audiences, but as Chang Yuan's directorial debut, although this film has shortcomings and deficiencies, overall, it is still more advantages than disadvantages, surprises are greater than disappointments.
As the last comedy film to be released before the end of 2020, the overall tone of "Warm Hugs" is relaxed and lively, the bright and fresh color collocation and the luxurious actor configuration believe that it can still bring a lot of laughter to the audience, and let everyone end 2020 in a relaxed and happy mood and enter 2021.
The protagonist of the story, Bao Bao, is a piano teacher, but he has a superhuman obsession with cleanliness and planning, and can even be said to have obsessive-compulsive quirks, but he is not at all likable.
Not only are his colleagues estranged from him, but even his students don't respect and like him. He lives every day like a clock punctual and rigid, spending every day in the process of completing various plans.
Until one day, Bao Bao sat in front of the window and looked at the lights of wanjia, and suddenly realized that he did not have any family, friendship or love to speak of, and life was so lonely and empty and empty.
In the end, he chose to get rid of his life by suicide, but the funny and sad thing is that even if he committed suicide, he planned the time in advance, prepared his ID card, household registration book, and made an appointment for himself in advance.
Seeing this, many viewers may say that it is unlikely that they will encounter such extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it is undeniable that the sense of distance between people and inexplicable indifference shown at the beginning of the film is the norm of urban life today.
Although the final memory clip of the film reveals that Bao Bao has such a deep obsession with cleanliness and planning is because of an unexpected tragedy in childhood, but if we look at it from another perspective, we can also explain Bao Bao's obsessive-compulsive quirk as a relentless pursuit of certainty in life and the pursuit of controlling his own life.
The tragedy of the accident in his childhood made the young Bao Bao not only fail to get the hug of his parents, but completely lost them, and at that moment he was full of fear of reality and worry about not being able to control his life.
It is under the influence of this emotion that Bao Bao, who longs for the love of his parents, eventually becomes the original appearance of his parents after adulthood, and even more so. His home is always spotless, and every moment of life is full of clocks and plans, and this seemingly extremely self-disciplined behavior is actually just his unremitting pursuit of certainty in life.
The reason why the chaotic space and objects are intolerable in his eyes is because these represent disorder and chaos, and what disorder and chaos bring is the uncertainty of life, and if there is uncertainty in his life, does not it mean that he cannot control his life?
However, making one's life full of plans at all times, and making one's life full of certainty and security, is not the same as being able to attain warmth and happiness.
In fact, although Bao Bao, who blindly pursues perfection and lives in his own world, looks strong and rigid on the surface, in fact, he is still fragile and lonely in his heart, and he has the appearance of an adult, but in essence, he is still the child who has not been able to get out of the tragedy of childhood.
In the dead of night, bao bao, who sits alone in front of the window and looks at the warm home of others, does not want to have a warm home, and does not want to personally experience the unique taste of friendship, family affection and love?
On the surface, the reason why Bao Huo is reluctant to contact people, is reluctant to hug, and completely excludes himself from other people's lives is due to his own obsessive-compulsive disorder, but behind the obsessive-compulsive disorder is his lack of self-confidence or inferiority. It is precisely because of his lack of self-confidence that he will choose to leave the heroine and choose to close a window that changes his life in the inducement of Wang Weiren's few words.
However, because the film adopts the classic three-mode drama structure, from the moment the male and female protagonists are unexpectedly separated, I believe that many viewers have already guessed the story reversal after that, but the way for the male protagonist Bao Bao to achieve self-redemption is something I did not expect.
The reason why Bao Bao has low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence is largely due to the unexpected tragedy that occurred in his childhood, which caused him to lose his parents forever, and also buried an unanswerable question in his heart - did his parents really love him? The hug bear, who had been thrown to the ground and had been placed in the corner by Bao Bao, finally answered this question and prompted Bao Bao to achieve nirvana rebirth.
Thrown to the ground and placed in a corner, the hug bear symbolizes Bao Hug's unexpectedly ended childhood and the time spent with his parents that he never came back again, and picking up the hug bear again means that Bao Hug finally no longer escapes reality.
And just as the overall tone of the story is relaxed and lively, reality is not so cruel and ruthless, so facing reality sometimes not only does not bring a bad ending, but will usher in a windfall and grow from it.
Overall, "Warm Hugs" has a sense of fragmentation in the plot setting, and the various story sections still fail to integrate smoothly and naturally.
Although the supporting roles played by Shen Teng and others have added a lot of laughter to the movie, they still have not played their greatest value for the development of the main plot.
However, as Chang Yuan's film debut, the preparation of "Warm Hugs" in the protagonist's shaping and growth transition is remarkable, and the song and dance section is also called wonderful, especially the song and dance clip of the original competition at the beginning of the movie can clearly see the intentions of the main creative team, the integration of music and lines, the collocation of characters and scenes, the use and processing of the camera...
For people who have experienced hardships and hardships in life in the past 2020, the growth of small people and the happiness in ordinary life are still the most touching stories! Therefore, "Warm Hugs" is still a comedy movie worth people walking into the cinema to watch, not to mention seeing Shen Teng!