1905 Film Network News For any new director, if he can get the attention of the international film scene with his debut, it is a very worthy “show off”. Of course, after this kind of luck, it is also pressure. This pressure comes from the expectations of the outside world, as well as their own requirements.
"Tropical Rain" and "Proxima Centauri" are the second works released by the two directors after years of deposition. Both of these films have received good reviews at various international film festivals before. This time, the two films were screened at the Macau International Film Festival at the same time. In the context of the Chinese language, how would the two films be evaluated?
"Tropical Rain" lives up to the audience's expectations of Chen Zheyi. After the release of the previous film "Parents Are Not Home",
won the Golden Camera at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival (the best debut). Director Chen Zheyi has become a new force in the Chinese film circle, and has even been hailed as "the next Li Ang" by many.
When everyone expected him to release a new work as soon as possible, he dormant for 6 years before handing over the current "Tropical Rain". This work also did not disappoint. At this year's Pingyao International Film Festival, it won awards such as best film, best actress, and movie selection honors. The most fascinating thing about Chen Zheyi’s works is his description of women. Actress Yang Yanyan, who has collaborated on two works with him one after another, once said, “The mother in his works is what everyone will see on the road and on the bus. Women."
But in this work he focused on a middle-aged woman who still has no children with her husband. At the beginning of the movie, the heroine sits in the driver's seat and gives herself an egg injection, which is full of pinholes in the eyes of the audience. At this time, the image of a nearly desperate woman becomes extra three-dimensional.
soon, the film explained that she is a Chinese teacher in a middle school, and in the entire Singapore education environment, Chinese is not taken seriously, and everyone still speaks English and Chinese. Of course, this is what Chen Zheyi wants to express to the audience. In today's Singaporean social situation, Chinese has lost its momentum to some extent.
He made a very clever combination of the plight of women and Chinese in society. He used four or two strokes of force to easily stand up an originally vulgar plot.
"Proxima Centauri" has the best and most authentic green baby in recent years. Green
Four years ago, female director Alice Winogul won the Oscar nomination for best foreign language film on behalf of France with a fierce "Wild Horse". Four years later, her new work "Proxima Centauri" is eye-catching, and it is more commercial in terms of subject matter and production.
Eva Green is also rare to appear mainly in her native language, without heavy gothic makeup. The "green baby" in "Proxima Centauri" seems to be closer to her original appearance: gentle and full of power.
As shown in the film’s translation of the film’s title in Macau, "Mom is an Astronaut", the film tells how an astronaut’s mother is about to go to the International Space Station for a mission, how to accompany and take care of her while completing the arduous training mission 7 The story of a year-old daughter. Many people don’t know that for astronauts, the preparation before the official mission is often the most difficult part, because once you get into space, everything is ready, and before that, you have to face parting with your loved ones at the same time. , Hard training and fear of the unknown, stress and anxiety can be imagined. "Proxima Centauri" focuses on such a special time that is unknown to ordinary people. When
portrays the family interaction between mother and daughter, the director appears calm and restrained. Instead of boasting tears with fierce drama conflict, he touches people's hearts with tender and delicate details of life. The mother in the closed training is always concerned about whether her daughter has made new friends in the new school, but the 7-year-old daughter has quietly learned all the professional aerospace language before the rocket takes off. The
film is partly inspired by the separation of director Winogul himself from his daughter. The director also started from his own experience and portrayed the ambivalence of the mother who wanted her daughter to be independent when she left her, but also feared that she would gradually fade out of her daughter's life.
is different from other aerospace-themed movies, "Proxima Centauri" boldly cuts from the microscopic perspective of mother-daughter affection. No matter how great an astronaut is, he is also a mother, and also has to face the balance between career and family, reason and emotion. However, this approach of "seeing the big from the small" also has its shortcomings. The description of space workAnd the depiction of the discrimination and predicament faced by female astronauts are slightly superficial. As a movie that hopes to pay tribute to this special group of female astronauts, the format is inevitably smaller.
