"Lightly I will leave you, please wipe away the tears from the corners of your eyes..." As soon as the lyrics appear, people of a little age will hum and sing Qi Qin's "About Winter". The movie "About Winter" under this name is a love movie released last weekend. This film is based on Rao Xueman's novel of the same name. It once became the single-day box office champion this weekend. It has a total of 140 million yuan at the box office, which is not bright. eye.
Rao Xueman, once a writer on the rich list of Chinese writers, thought that her novels had many readers in the youth community, and these readers have now become the main consumers of the theater. Therefore, many film companies are committed to developing the IP of Rao Xueman’s movies, looking forward to the possible box office revenue. Only this year and next two years, there will be several movies adapted from Rao Xueman’s novels. Before that, the novel with the same name was released. "Is also considered a representative work of Chinese youth films.
Rao Xueman's novels write about the pain of youth, are good at describing girls' growth stories, and prefer stories with a sense of the times. These stories still had an audience ten years ago. Now, Xueman Rao is a middle-aged author who is nearly fifty years old. Will the stereotypical youth stories she writes still have an audience? The young men and women who have been touched by her novels now have their own social lives. Will they still believe in the plot of the novel?
"About Winter" is titled with the song of the same name by the famous singer Qi Qin. It tells the love entanglement between Chengdu girl An Ran and Taipei boy Qi Xiao from the 1990s to the present. The movie has two clues. The second line is the youth love of An Ran's daughter. Compare the emotional story of the mother.
Unfortunately, despite the blessings of Ma Sichun and Huo Jianhua, and the nostalgia that Qi Qin's songs evoke, this movie is still a relatively failed movie. Although the movie has repeatedly portrayed the romance and misses of An Ran and Qi Xiao, and wanted to arouse the audience's sigh, the whole movie seems unsympathetic due to the terrible plot.
Watching the complete film, we can feel that the creative concept of this film is deviated. On the one hand, the use of a large number of nostalgic golden songs is to allow the audience to better substitute the film’s plot and project their own emotions; but because the film art and story are both Too false, so that the film is full of the texture of the TV series of the last century, and cannot effectively match the emotions of today's audiences. Moreover, in order to show a sense of nostalgia, several sections of the movie, such as strolling in the Houhai, eating stewed in a small restaurant, and buying CDs at a record store, are all because of a strong sense of posing and making people feel that this movie is more It's like an extended advertisement. Therefore, whether it is the loss of youth love or the nostalgic atmosphere of the 1990s, it can be said that it has become the background board of the hollow and boring polygamy of the movie.
can compare the views of love in different eras, contrasting the regret that the hero and heroine failed to come together due to factors such as not being brave enough. However, this kind of plot setting in which the ex-boyfriend and girlfriend failed to get married, and the emotions let the offspring continue to continue, is really a kind of unimaginative plot, which may be acceptable in fast food novels for young people. Once such a story Being put on the big screen, the falsehood has also been magnified, and it cannot be recognized by more mature audiences.
Interestingly, there is a similar plot in "Left Ear". The parents of the hero and heroine once fell in love, but failed to be together, inheriting an entanglement. It's just that this plot is expressed more intensely and with tension in "Left Ear", and today's "About Winter" strives to show a kind of indifferent after vicissitudes of life. Of course, these are not important, no matter how you change, this set of narrative rules can only make the movies of these protagonists hoarse performance more distorted.
Writing youth and singing youth is a common theme in movies, but youth does not mean releasing all your emotions, love becomes everything in the world, and all entanglements in life revolve around love. From a certain perspective, "About Winter" and the once popular TV series Qiong Yao are a creative idea. The emotional process of the characters relies on coincidences, and the protagonist has no real meaning in his decades of life. The characters exist as if they took time out of time and social background, and the so-called nostalgia fails to effectively grasp the mood of the times.
In the Chinese-speaking world, youth films produced in Taiwan have attracted attention from all walks of life for a long time. Whether it's Hou Xiaoxian's "Love in the Wind" in the 1980s, Cai Mingliang's "Youth Nezha" in the 1990s, Yi Zhiyan's "Blue Door" after 2000, Yang Yazhe's "Girlfriend, Boyfriend", and "Nine Knifes" Chased together in those yearsWorks such as "Girls" all exaggerate the beauty of youth while responding to reality with the experiences of young people in different eras. Because these movies always connect the situation of teenagers with real society and real problems, giving people a strong sense of identity.
The youth films in mainland China started relatively late, and many films have involuted their problem consciousness. They are not so much showing the situation of teenagers as they express a kind of narcissism. The plot of the film is nothing more than plastic sisters, unexpected pregnancy, and multi-faceted. Love and so on trigger the imagination of youth pain. "Little Times" and "Left Ear" have all received a lot of criticism to a certain extent, and the problem with this "About Winter" probably lies here. These stereotyped shaping of youth cannot reach the real audience. After all, youth films are for young people, and who wants to watch an old Qiong Yao-style movie?
□ Yu Yu (film critic)
