"Women, the older you get, the lower the value, and that curve keeps falling like this!"
This is the most heart-wrenching line in the movie "29+1". We often say that thirty and standing, forty is not confused, but the movie "29 + 1" tells us a story about "thirty difficult to stand", the film is adapted from the drama of the same name known as "Hong Kong's most popular one-man show for girls", the whole film focuses on a woman lin Ruojun who is thirty years old, it seems that life, love, career is smooth, but in fact, the dark tide is surging and the crisis is continuous, when she was troubled, she met a woman born on the same day as herself in the same month of the same year, Huang Tianle, From then on, we have escaped into an illusion of life that is difficult to distinguish between you and me.
In fact, we can interpret the story of "29+1" as: meet another self. When we face our own life path, we can always encounter countless forks, any different choice, will change the next half of life, how wonderful, and terrible! If there will be another self, or more of a self, at every fork in the road, can choose a different direction from themselves, in the end, which self, will become the strongest?
I believe that many female audiences of about thirty years, when watching "29 + 1", will feel a kind of pain of being torn, first of all, from the age point of view, this is a particularly embarrassing age, youth has passed away, old age has not yet arrived, for the past, there are too many regrets, for the future, there are too many panic, is a typical "before the village after the shop" bottleneck period. Secondly, from the perspective of career, this is also a particularly embarrassing stage, the energy is not enough to work hard for young people, and the experience ability is not as good as that of the elderly, which is a typical "more than the upper than the lower" type of existence. Therefore, in the face of life, career, and relatives, whether to be a conservative and stubborn person, or to be a free person, whether to follow the eyes of others, or to follow their own hearts, seems simple, in fact, it is a major issue of "moving a hair and involving the whole body".
For mainland audiences, for the prototype of the film "29 + 1" drama is not too familiar, in fact, this is a drama written and directed by Peng Xiuhui, the most typical "one-man show", this time by Peng Xiuhui will be his own painstaking and proud work, adapted into a big movie, in fact, made a lot of adjustments, first of all, from the stage into the big movie, from a person's solo dance to a group of people's dance, which itself is the abstract culture for figurative processing, more, in the "distribution" of the role, The two characters that were once interpreted by her alone, this time by Zhou Xiuna and Zheng Xinyi respectively, perhaps this kind of treatment will make the feeling of "meeting another self" not so strong, but it will bring more emotional experience of different lives.
Although the story of the film is about the story of women in their thirtiethirties, but the title of "29 + 1" has a lot of deep meaning, no +1, is the "two Zhang" era, it feels very young, but once +1, it enters the "three Zhang" era, instantly bid farewell to youth into middle age, such a simple year, for many women, is nothing more than a nightmare year, and not standing, not confused, life is more difficult, more than this.
The director is very good at the depiction of women's psychology, and has a super sensitive treatment of the details in the film, which is an emotional film that can immerse people in it, and the story of the film may trigger a lot of reflection for the audience, but more importantly, through the future to examine the past, especially need to ask yourself inwardly: "If life can make you choose again, when will you want to start again?" In fact, if you have seen the movie "29+1", I believe you can find the answer.