Hello everyone! Today, Xiaobian watched a movie called "Uncle Against the Current", which tells the story of four uncles with different dreams, in order to save their jobs, mistakenly hit and bumped into the company's newly established dragon boat team, regained the momentum of life on the dragon boat that was only allowed to move forward and did not retreat, and overcame the story of one countercurrent after another in their lives with the rekindled fighting spirit.
It is a movie supported by four "uncles", Wu Zhenyu, Pan Canliang, Huang Debin and Hu Zitong formed a four-person group of uncles, and the age added up to nearly 200 years old. Coupled with TVB boss Hua Dan Hu Dingxin and Hong Kong's new generation of actress Yu Xiangning, only from the perspective of Cass, a strong Hong Kong flavor comes to the face. Romain Roland summed it up precisely in John Christophe: "Most people die at the age of twenty or thirty, because after this age they are only shadows of themselves." To use a vulgar but heartfelt phrase, it translates to "a man is not as good as a dog in middle age." "Passion fades with age, but wisdom and maturity are slow to come. Career bottlenecks, family conflicts, and emotional crises seem to follow at the same time. Every day I gasp in the cracks of life, mechanically repeating my past, but I can't see the direction of the future. This is the portrayal of the lives of countless middle-aged people. A while ago, a line in the Japanese drama "Uncle's Love" brushed the screen Weibo: "Don't scold young people loudly, they will resign immediately, but you can scold those middle-aged people to death, especially those who have cars and houses and babies." Because life has long since made them lose the courage and capital of "words and words", this is a naked reality. The protagonist in "Uncle Against the Current" is also such a group of middle-aged people who are a bit "desperate". The film also begins with the most sensitive "layoffs" problem in middle-aged people. The optical cable companies where several protagonists work because of poor high-level investment, rely on layoffs at the bottom to make up for the gap. This puts the "old employees" at their own risk. The good deeds organized a collective strike, but the old employees knew that it was just a formality. Only rookies who are not deeply involved in the world will sign their real names on the petition, and the old fritters will only shout slogans while signing "stage names" such as "Rowan" and "Huang Xia", after all, righteousness is worthless in front of the rice bowl. There are many such grounded and unbearable bridge sections in "Uncle Against the Current". Several uncles let you see the shadow of yourself or the men around you from the appearance to the behavior, a little awkward, but the real and full of market atmosphere. Wu Zhenyu changed the familiar image of the "big guy", left a bubble noodle head, stood up a small belly, and starred as an elderly single uncle. He had been taking good care of the single mother who lived next door alone with her daughter, but never dared to go any further. His classic line is: "People who are dozens of years old, what else do you want to think about?" "It seems that if you haven't fought for it, you won't be sad and hurt." In the face of feelings and careers, there is only one principle: "do not take the initiative, do not fight, do not refuse." People have never fought for themselves in middle age, so they have achieved nothing in their careers and have always been spare tires emotionally. Huang Shuyi, played by Pan Canliang, is a more typical middle-aged greasy man. Dozens of square meters of public housing are filled with the quarrels of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and the cries of children, and he has no place to stand in the middle. Just like the rather feminine name "Huang Shuyi", facing contradictions, weakness and avoidance are also his philosophy of life. At this time, the appearance of the beautiful coach of the dragon boat team just satisfies his fantasy of love and becomes his escape from reality.
Sketch passages, life-like scenes, and group portrait depictions fully show the emotional crisis, family crisis and career crisis of middle and low-level people in Hong Kong. Similarly, the ups and downs of a bunch of rough guys are a concrete metaphor for Hong Kong. What is rare is that the film organically combines the situation of the characters with the spirit of sports competition, and various crises are alleviated in the drumming noise, of course, not to dissolve the root cause of "spiritual derailment" is to escape and irresponsible for reality. Since the soap bubble of fantasy will always break, it is better to take the courage to face reality from the beginning, maybe life is not as bad as you think. Compared with the roles of Wu Zhenyu and Pan Canliang, the roles of Huang Debin and Hu Zitong are relatively thin. Li Jiatai, played by Huang Debin, is a middle-level small leader who is optimistic about his superiors, but the change of marriage makes him begin to reflect on his life and gradually find the courage to face himself. William, played by Hu Zitong, once gave up his dream of being a professional athlete for love, and the experience of participating in the dragon boat team made him find his ideal weight.