is here again.
When he speaks, you want to laugh.
But be careful this time-
is a bit sour, a bit astringent, and the eyes will be wet.
asked you such a question abruptly-if
has no love, is the world worth it?
"People Caught by Light"
director Dong Runnian's debut.
Prior to this, he was the screenwriter of "Cook, Actress, Ruffian", "Heart Flower", "Old Cannon", and "Crazy Alien".
"Man Caught by Light" has a breakthrough in genre.
throws a high concept setting.
starts from the director's brain hole-there are groups of people in the world who are captured by light and the world evaporates. What story will happen?
attracts the strongest cast of 2019:
Huang Bo, Wang Luodan, Tan Zhuo, Bai Ke, Huang Lu, Song Chunli, Wen Qi, Ding Xihe, Li Jiaqi, Lu Xingchen, Jiao Junyan, Li Qian, Li Dan, Wang Ju, Huang Jue...what happened to
?
A flash of light
a mysterious white light suddenly descended over the city.
that day.
People's teacher Wu Wenxue (played by Huang Bo) is giving lessons to students. After
was in a trance, the school fell into chaos, and many teachers and students disappeared before his eyes.
Li Nan (Wang Luodan) originally had an appointment with her husband Hu Jianping to go through the divorce procedures. After the white light appeared, she encountered a traffic accident.
Hu Jianping did not appear in the Civil Affairs Bureau.
He was also "caught".
Chopsticks (Decorated by Bai Ke) and the younger brother went to ask for the bill, he was at the door of the store to behave. After
white light arrived, the only people who came out were the shop owner. The
brother disappeared out of thin air.
The people who were still next to you a second ago disappeared instantly.
and more terrifying is-
no one knows what this light is.
no one knows where the disappeared people went.
The whole city fell into suspicion and fear, buildings were bombed and shops were looted.
Seeing this, I believe that many viewers' thoughts must be focused on: Is
an alien attack?
Where did the people who were arrested go?
However, "People Caught by Light" just passed by the question, and asked in turn-what will happen to the people left by
? Under the dazzling white light of
, all the hidden secrets of men and women who want to talk about food and drink in the city are like being pulled onto the operating table and examined without omission.
At first, the nakedness makes people laugh embarrassingly, and can gallop in the direction of the ridiculous comedy.
smiled and smiled, and the more complex sentiment was illuminated. When the people in
were panicking, a research result tore a crack in the chaos:
reportedly said that the missing people were all paired up. Some of
are husband and wife, and some are male and female friends.
anyway.
The person who is caught by the light is the person who loves each other deeply.
The question seemed sharp and embarrassing.
was not taken away, as if being sentenced by God:
you have no love.
There is no light in your life.
...
all of a sudden, everyone fell apart.
sweet talk, love each other, share the same bed...
in the end, this is not love!
Which one do you not love?
You just don’t love each other anymore
I really love you
shudder.
.
I love you, you love me.
can be this kind of trust in intimacy, life style and even dreams and beliefs. Is
just "form marriage"? When did
start when we no longer love each other?
So everyone defended themselves like a sinner, looking for evidence from heaven and earth.
I not only want to prove that I have love (not guilty), but I also want to prove that there are two different possibilities. I can only choose one of the two:
You love me and you are innocent.
you don't loveMe, you are guilty.
When people living in a peaceful city, all people who meet the conditions of love physically and psychologically, are pulled out of the cave and rushing around.
is more like a hot ant with nowhere to hide under the focus of a magnifying glass.
Are they still saved?
A scar
was pierced by white light.
Just let love be exposed to the sun, waiting to die?
only raises the problem, and the high concept that does not solve can only be hooliganism.
"The Man Caught by Light" can invite so many acting schools to join, and there must be a lot of confidence.
That is how to save yourself after being abandoned by white light. Some people in
"survived".
left the loneliness of two people.
Wu Wenxue and his wife Zhang Yan (played by Tan Zhuo) didn't care about the eyes of others at first.
Class photos, class photos, days passed.
, if it's just an emotional walking dead, it just acts according to inertia and won't last long.
Their relationship is becoming more and more fragile.
At home, Wu Wenxue's mother felt that the daughter-in-law must not love her son.
Face-saving martial arts literature, trying to prove love.
But at the classmate meeting, one of the two smiled strongly and the other was expressionless.
A wall separated them, one on this end and one on the other.
Another story line, Li Nan encountered a solo flight.
She stayed, but her husband left.
In this failed marriage, she has no love, but why can her husband have it?
Did he go with Xiaosan?
Li Nan approached Hu Jianping's lover He Xiaofen (Huang Lu) to ask about his whereabouts, but the other party was also looking for someone.
She is not reconciled, and wants to give herself an explanation before burying love herself.
Is there a small fourth, small five...
there are still people who have disappeared without reason.
chopsticks worried about the whereabouts of his friend Qin Shan, and what made him even more puzzled was that the disappearance of
would be for granted.
You are a single dog, how can you get caught by the light?
He came to look for someone and found that there were visible blood stains on the wall. All the signs made the chopsticks fall into obsession-
Qin Shan, died of homicide. The
murderer killed him when a large number of people were missing and the city was in chaos!
He looked frantically. Girlfriend
(Wang Ju) couldn’t help but ask a thought-provoking sentence:
, do you TM like Qinshan?
After the white light disappeared, they were still dazzled, and they were severely thrown on the operating table of doubt and despair. Every time they were beaten, they became more and more painful.
but it is getting clearer. The answer of
is about to be revealed on the old scars and new injuries that cannot be concealed.
Do I love you or not, who is it that I love? Unknowingly, the audience was also led into the white light.
Because of the director's subtle capture of life, but also because of the true temperament of acting, one detail can move you. There is a section in the
trailer that Huang Bo smokes on the street. There is almost no change in expression on
's face, and the ups and downs of emotions are performed only with the expression in the eyes.
However, you will certainly not be unfamiliar with this feeling: the balance between pressure and powerlessness, only in real life, there is such an absurd "harmony".
Maybe we all sighed like this.
But many people never asked any more. The
movie gave us a chance. What is deep in the scar?
One word
There is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, after seeing the truth of life, you still love life. You have heard this golden sentence of Romain Rolland
more than once. Dong Runnian, the director of
"People Caught by the Light", wants to ask us whether we dare to be emotionally like this-
should we keep a little ambiguity and look at the flowers in the fog?
is still the bottom line, good for feelings?
Dong used this sensitive experience in his previous works to allow the audience to enter the play in the genre and obtain a more transcendent empathy.
such as "Heart Flower Road Release".
Hunting Yan, in fact, is a defection under the rules of secular ethics for a long time.
But at the end of the hunt for beauty, it is the return of ordinary life. Unconsciously,
transitioned from the salvation of a middle-aged greasy man to the search for both men and women. The dialectic between "ordinary" and "very"
once again appears in "People Caught by Light"-
adopts a bizarre concept.
beats and scrutinizes us like a clockwork, day after day.
is not like this, can it? There is a "Thousand Family Lectures" in the
trailer, and Li Dan, who appeared in the guest appearance, once again outputs the love poison chicken soup:
You love or not, it is not the person who has the final say
We can deceive ourselves
Our human civilization advances by what
self Consolation, director
used the role of "Professor Christmas" played by Li Dan to satirize the opposite of "Light"-
seems to be logically self-consistent, but in fact it is for everyone to continue to circle around the mediocre central plains, unable to find the north.
and you choose to accept.
still out of the vicious circle? In the
trailer, Mr. Han (Jiao Junyan), as a bystander, sighed: Is it possible that
disappeared? It's not them that
disappeared, maybe it is us?
This is by far the most touching sentence of Sir.
Maybe these talents were captured by the light and came to another time and space.
But they are still willing to ask about love or not, and they are willing to struggle with pain for love. How can
be said to be a person without love? What
is really terrifying may not be the anxiety after the white light strikes.
should be, indifferent numbness. If
has doubts and struggles, there is hope.
From this point of view, "The Man Caught by Light" is closer to a modern fable. The theme of
is still rare in domestic films.
But in fact, we are no strangers. Fables like
always say the same thing over and over again: if
, this normal world suddenly becomes abnormal one day...
Kafka’s "The Metamorphosis" refers to a civil servant who wakes up and finds himself changed Become a beetle.
In the future world of the movie "Lobster", match a partner within 45 days, otherwise you will be turned into an animal.
"Survival Family" tells that when electricity suddenly disappears, a family flees the city, trying to survive like primitive people. What is the reason for
?
can't help but say.
They were attacked by a huge mutation, and the original social rules were completely subverted. Is
absurd? The fable of
is just an introduction to the absurd, reflecting the greater absurdity of this seemingly normal world.
takes a high concept as a starting point and falls back to everyone's realistic problems.
and "The Man Caught by Light" is a love fable that dares to eat crabs in domestic films. What is
"caught away by light"?
In Sir's eyes, light is a halo, a fabulous brilliance.
Isn’t all the love in our idol dramas like this-
love is flawless, beautiful and dreamy, the protagonists do not eat the fireworks in the world, their love is always centered on love, and will never be separated without suspense.
When we look at them, they shine brightly.
seems to be watching a group of immortal couples living in the kingdom of love.
while.
What about those who are actually living on the dust and who are not "caught away by the light"?
Are they qualified to enjoy love.
Their love is incomplete, broken, or plain water, is it hopeless?
They are not others. They are all of us.
does not have a magical light that will take us to another world.
We just love in humbleness.
shimmered in the dust.
This year's Chinese-language movie finally appeared in a love movie like "The Man Caught by Light", a high-concept setting, careful thought and fear, but also a realistic topic.
Why did the light come, and why were people taken away.
has long been unimportant.
Because in the end, the truth that the movie will take us to face is:
Can you still feel love in your life?
Do you still dare to love?
At the end of 2019, this is an opportunity to talk about love.
Sir believes that the weakness of love is not in distance, betrayal, time, or even life and death.
love, the most afraid of is courage.
In front of it, love can expose all its texture.
is clear, delicate, rich and profound.
white light is here, we are brave once.
