If you know that this is the director’s debut, you will be surprised at the completeness and depth of thought of the movie "Send Me Up to the Clouds".
At this directors meeting in Shanghai Paragon Cinemas (Lujiazui Central Store), as a contracted media person of Film Control Media, I was fortunate to have an exclusive interview with Director Teng Congcong on behalf of the Circle Brother Film Group.
Ms. Li Yinhe commented on "Send Me to the Blue Clouds", "It is very direct and rare to face women’s sexual pleasure rights." The
film is indeed, as Ms. Li Yinhe said, centered on the "Sheng Man" played by Yao Chen , Also incorporates a lot of thinking about women, which is rare and straightforward now.
But in a sense, "Send Me to the Blue Clouds" as a whole is more like a vivid panorama of social figures, showing both the helplessness of women and the pressure of men. The film deconstructs the confusion and reflection of contemporary young men and women in a very vivid and humorous way.
If you haven't been tumbling in the waves of that era, you will not be able to substitute into the rationality of "Sheng Nan" emotional changes.
"I am a child born in the first generation of family planning. Since I was a child, I have been taught that men and women are the same. There are many female friends or classmates around me called "Shengnan" or "Asian". However, these girls are growing up The secondary sexual characteristics have been weakened."
In the movie, Sheng Nan wore a jacket with a carefree personality and grew up like a boy until she experienced a major turning point in her life, which made her begin to respect and obey the secondary sexual characteristics in her heart. Especially the intuitive presentation of active Suohuan has shaped an extremely rare and bold scene in Chinese movies in recent years.
To some extent, "Send Me to the Clouds" is not deliberately exaggerating women's rights, but in response to "historical issues", it explores young people who have grown up under a special background and face personal and social trade-offs in the torrent of times .
For example, Sheng Nan, played by Yao Chen in the opening chapter, has just made a sharp satire on Mr. Li, who was rated as a hero for fake arson. Mr. Sheng opened the car door and saw Mr. Li’s dissatisfied face. This contrast and accident made all the audience on the scene. They all laughed out loud.
Later, she actually relied on writing an autobiography for Mr. Li’s father to get the cost of her own treatment. Her refusal caused a series of chain reactions. The laughter of the film gradually sublimated into a very serious one. dark humor.
A person with a high degree of education and professional ethics is so poor that he has no money to treat himself.
A fat-headed and uneducated person, but has a wealth of wealth.
This is the highest level of irony in real life. What is even more ironic is that Sheng Nan had to lower his arrogant head and accept the cooperation. Jumping into the long river of history, the caring for reality revealed in "Send Me Up to the Blue Clouds" seems so appropriate and natural.
In addition to the main line of choice, "Send Me to the Blue Clouds" also played the "extraordinary sound", through a fuller image, get rid of the flat character shaping system of Chinese movies, and complete a broader "connection" with social reality. The "connection" of
is comprehensive in the film, including the portrayal of the living conditions of all kinds of characters in different environments, and it has been evaluated by many audiences as "too much appeal, squeezing the main line".
However, in a limited medium, the original intention of conveying more expression should not be excessively harsh. Empathy, sometimes it is a point, sometimes it is a face, the key is to handle it properly.
In the second half of the movie, Guizhou, the filming location, occupies an important position of sceneization and reflecting the psychological activities of the characters. This forms a kind of realistic care with Si Mao and Sheng Nan who have worked hard in reinforced concrete cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou all the year round—that is, reaching a wider social reality.
According to Teng Congcong, Guizhou is a very "wild" place: the degree of urban development is low, and the mountains and rivers exude atmospheric beauty.
However, she, who is not a local, also realizes that she cannot perfectly transplant the local humanity and customs into the movie like the Guizhou director Bi Gan ("Roadside Picnic"), who has a local feeling.
Under the lens she designed, the wild Guizhou has been "overheaded" into a small smoky city, accompanied by mist and water vapor rising slowly, connecting the people scattered here into a picture of human fireworks.
"You are really playing cards and mahjong when you come back home, every dayI have to be idle, there are no classes to go to, even if there is a job in the afternoon, if you are late, you will not go today, just stay at home without much pressure. "
Teng Congcong said bluntly, there is no difference between good and bad, but everyone’s life choices are different. Some people live very hard. If this small town doesn’t fit my aura, then I will go to places like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou. Work hard.
Based on this delicate exploration of life, "Send Me to the Blue Clouds" is particularly tolerant in the transformation of images. The female issue with Sheng Nan as the main line is only one of them. It hopes to "bring out more branches." , To explore more topics in the melting pot of society: from the world’s incomprehension to Sheng Nan’s choice and choice, the rationality is explained.
Teng Congcong takes the "four hairs" in the movie as an example, his real name is Mao毳. "Willowness refers to the minuscule hair, which is the smallest and insignificant type of hair on the human body, as small as a small screw in the vast society. "
is insignificant and echoes the ordinary. The real life hides behind this set of relationships. It is also the empathy setting that the film hopes the audience to actively discover and substitute.
"Send Me to the Blue Clouds" intends to show the "moving and mortal" in real life The coexistent side." In the words of the sensitive Teng Congcong, people who are really interesting and lively should be like this. Everyone has an impressive side and a disdainful side.
Liu Guangming, kind but kind Vanity, disguised but timid, lacking sense of resistance. "If you use one or two words to describe it, this is not a person. "She said.
"You think (everyone) contradicts each other, but together they make a very vivid person. The more complex the character, the more attractive. "
Sheng Nan got rid of the shackles of his own sexual characteristics and social external factors, and finally ushered in an open.
" good wind, with its strength, send me to the blue clouds" is derived from Cao Xueqin's "Linjiang Fairy Catkins". The previous sentence is "Shaohuaxiu laughs without roots", which means "don't laugh at it without roots and bottomless, and don't laugh at it slightly". When there is a good wind, you can go straight up.
Don't lose hope for anything. . Life is like a movie, and a movie has a life, send me to Qingyun.
Special thanks: Shanghai Paragon Cinemas (Lujiazui Center Store) for providing venue support for this interview
