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Director: Wang Jing
Writers: Xie Xiaodong / Wu Nan
Starring: Chen Gang / Wang Chang'e / Zhang Tong / Feng Dinghong / Zeng Yunzhen / Wang Mingming
Genre: Comedy
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Release: 2008-01-18(Chinese mainland)
Runtime: 100 minutes
又名: the end of year
imdb link: tt4543674
Synopsis:
The Spring Festival is approaching, with several brothers from the same village struggling in Beijing for many years Zhang Guodong (Chen Gang) is preparing to put down a year's hard work, take his girlfriend home for the New Year, but a small accident, let him get acquainted with the key high school vice principal Bai Teacher (Feng Dinghong), who is suffering from no one to renovate the new house. On the other hand, Li Jialiang (Zhang Tong), chief physician of the Department of Internal Medicine, is also preparing to take his family back to his hometown in Hunan to make a birthday for his old father, but not only is the ticket difficult to find, but his wife, who wants to let her son enter a key high school, is afraid of delaying her son's study and is firmly opposed to going home. Zhang Guodong's decoration project went wrong, and Teacher Bai, who was anxious to use his new home to entertain his sons and daughters, rushed to attack his heart and entered the hospital where Li Jialiang was located, and Li's wife learned of Teacher Bai's identity and began to consider how to build a relationship for her son... A drama of returning home to visit relatives was staged in the city of Beijing.
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For such a reunion movie we still like, at least in this film we see a strong national situation, the impulse to go home for the New Year will always emerge from the screen from time to time, making people caught off guard. This scene is imprinted with joy in the hearts of most of our countrymen. Aren't we just the faces of the thousands of people in the film who desperately need to go home to reunite themselves?
For this group of actors, there are almost no familiar faces, and the only Chen Gang still does not make people feel contrary to the sense of harmony. These vivid faces can't help but feel that this is a very realistic movie, and the migrant workers around us are basically like this. This film restores these faces very well.
However, "home" is a topic that no one can avoid, and every small fragment in the film tells us one story or another about "home". The contractor wants to settle the final payment of the project years ago, the old principal wants to complete the renovation of his house years ago, and the chief doctor wants to take his wife and children home for the New Year on his father's eightieth birthday. But such simple stories are intertwined, becoming a farce that makes people feel funny when they watch it, but feel sad after watching it.
The honest contractor was pit by his friends, then owed wages by his own customers, and finally had to make an IOU, but still did not get what he deserved years ago. This film does not do too much whitewash for the contractor. Therefore, it still feels more real, after all, the first thing that every normal person can think of when all kinds of unpredictable risks pour in at once is to escape, but this film does not depict how great this contractor is. He was also a normal person, so he didn't resolutely do anything. Although in the end, it is still a big reunion method to make everything as good as ever. But there were still struggles during this period. So it seems more real.
The old principal's example is also used to compare the boss who defaulted on the project payment, although his house was messed up, but after the other party finally made up for it, he was not blamed. At this point, Dali is still a bit of a cultivated old teacher.
As for the last chief doctor, he encountered medical trouble near the New Year, and the old father in his hometown met his grandson, and his wife was really unwilling to go back. The two things intertwined made this year particularly bad. But fortunately, in the end, the whole event ended with a happy result. It's a bit abrupt, but it still feels very warm.
The only regret of this film may be that the lonely old man did not enjoy a trace of warmth at the moment of family reunion. I don't know how I feel when I look at the lights outside the window and the Spring Festival Gala in the room. This may be the only regret of this film. But it is precisely because of such regrets that this film does not fall into the cliché. There are always some regrets that we feel that everything is real, and if everything is all right, then what will happen to the world to love that.
It is another movie with the theme of the Spring Festival, but Xu Wei's "Blue Lotus" at the end of the film still makes people feel a bit dramatic, and the author believes that it can be accompanied by "Home" to replace the blue lotus, because Xu Wei's song is still more in line with the theme. But this is impossible, because this film depicts the 2006 Spring Festival, and Xu Wei's "Home" was released in the second half of 20085, perhaps this is another regret.
This is the original appearance of domestic films, and there is no routine full of true feelings. It doesn't feel unreal. After watching it, it also feels warm. I really hope that the current director can calm down and come up with some humane works, rather than just pursuing capital.