Some people say that the behavior of "囧Mom" is a betrayal of the theater chain. Others say it is a change and innovation. Today, let's not define whether this transaction is good or bad. Let's just talk about this movie.
Audience tastes change so quickly. In the early years, the Spring Festival files have always been the world of comedies, but this year's Spring Festival file is well-known comedy, and there is only one "囧 mother" directed by Xu Zheng. The number of comedies in
Lunar New Year's films has spread from Hong Kong to the Mainland, and we have seen it. Family relationship and family are generally the main theme, love and marriage are suitable as plots. Groups of groups are happy to fight and fight, and finally it is a reunion. Lovers must finally get married, family members must love each other, and decadent guys must also get up and fight for their ideals.
And the story of "囧Mom" is very simple, two or three sentences can be finished. According to behind-the-scenes rumors, Xu Zheng and the screenwriter team completed the basic creation of "囧Mom" in only five days of and .
Xu Yiwan (Xu Zheng), a middle-aged man with a successful career, has troubles for his forehead. What kind of concert is going to go to Russia for an uneasy old lady (Huang Meiying)? An emotional wife (Yuan Quan) To divorce and go to the United States to start a second career, the unreliable assistant (Guo Jingfei) is good at messing up and messing up everything. By coincidence, Xu Yiwan and his mother set foot on the K3 train to Moscow. A mother and son who are incompatible with water and fire are going to complete a "Russian" journey.
An adult who has his own worries, and his mother will live together for six days and six nights. Does this sound like you coming home during the Spring Festival? "Forced" to stay with their parents, quarreling with each other and caring for each other, and then separate and run around in the coming year, and return to their own lives.
I have no doubt that this is a story that is basically completed in five days, because it is a very routine type script. The main character has gone through a journey, involving multiple conflicts, and finally obtained growth or transformation .
In terms of character relationships, this is the most common "Happy Enemy" in comedy. The two main characters originally had conflicts that were difficult to reconcile, but they experienced various disturbances during a period of travel, and got a good result when they were relieved.
In the premiere and interview, Xu Zheng repeatedly mentioned that he hopes to do more than comedy. The funny way of "囧Mom" is just a comedy how you look at it, but the less comedy part is what I really want to explore. In the
movie, there are two typical conflicts. Ivan and his mother’s native family, the mother has a very strong desire to control, while Ivan is like a child who has not grown up. The mother-child relationship is that the mother must control and the son must rebel. The main thread hidden in the whole story is that the mother must understand that the son has grown up and has his own independent and complete life, and that must learn to let go of .
and Ivan and his wife’s new family are almost a copy of the original family. Ivan also has a strong desire to control, and his wife has become a rebel. The failed marriage of two people, the wife’s response in the quarrel, in one sentence: "Why do you want to reform me with perseverance? Don’t you realize that I am not the person you think? You want me to be what you imagine My wife in China, I have worked hard, but I am not.”
What’s interesting is that when Ivan and his mother were arguing about trivial matters, he directly quoted the original words of his wife. This is not only a repetition of the plot, but also a kind of helplessness of the Chinese family is hidden in it. Ivan does not want to be controlled by his mother and hopes that his mother will let go. However, he himself unknowingly inherits in the new family. Mother's behavior.
This is the paradox of the Chinese-style family. From the growth of children to adults, rebellious children will eventually leave home, but they seem to have left physically, mentally falling into a certain cycle, and repeating their parents inadvertently. Concept of life.
I often have a joking saying that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law contains the truth of the universe. The uncomfortable proposition here is that in the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother, son, and wife represent two strong family relationships. When the two families are reorganized, the son (husband) is the bond, while the mother and wife will getGet new identities and become mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Reorganization means destruction, duplication, construction, and the ultimate balance or imbalance.
The relationship between people is the basis of the whole sociology, and in the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, three people and two families are a miniature combination of interpersonal relationships. They have a blood and love relationship, which seems indestructible, but because of the intergenerational gap, there will be a redistribution of emotional resources, which will lead to fierce conflicts.
This is not an exaggeration, we take Ivan as the center and observe the relationship between the three people, it is easy to find. In front of his mother, Ivan was trying to get out of her control, and in front of his wife, he suddenly became a mother-like control freak. The business war between Ivan and his wife is fundamental to the fact that Ivan is unwilling to let go in the face of the renewed feelings and the determined wife.
During the journey of "Russian", the living space of Ivan and his mother was compressed on a train. This is actually a metaphor for the emotions of two people, and it is also compressed in a small space. Ivan has been fleeing, but there is nowhere to escape the space and emotions, so you can only face it, whether it is negative or positive. The whole story of
happened because of the barriers between mother and child and husband and wife that had to be resolved. The process of resolution is mutual dependence and understanding. This is not to return to the original pure relationship, but to accept and repair with tolerance after cracks have occurred.
Therefore, the whole theme of the movie is "let go" . The mother must realize that the child has grown up and is no longer an accessory. She needs to find her own life and let go of the child; the wife understands that love is over, but also realizes that behind Ivan’s reluctance to let go, she still needs to digest Obsession, let go of their love. Xu Yiwan, the protagonist of the
movie, finally gave his mother a big hug, from a complaining child to a dependable adult. This trust is the mother who understands letting go, and Ivan also understands her mother's not letting go. The mother-child relationship is not a reunion-style reconciliation, it is more about letting go of each other and looking forward.
Frankly speaking, I didn’t particularly like this "囧Mom", but the love line between Ivan and his wife in the movie is what I admire. The two adults loved and missed it, understood each other, and let it go. Up. This actually goes against the happy ending of the Lunar New Year comedy. The more commercial ending should be that the husband and wife reconcile and love each other again, but both of them actively face love, respect its occurrence and disappearance, and let go.
A dead love, using each other's tolerance to digest it, is far more realistic and more touching than being together again. The movie can be a fairy tale, or it can be put a little bit in the fairy tale, which is slightly bitter but more authentic. In a New Year comedy that likes to please the audience, it is a bit risky.
The mother and son in "囧Mom" reconciled, and the husband and wife are also tolerant. It looks like a comedy, but reconciliation and tolerance do not necessarily mean happiness. Letting go is a compulsory course in growing up. It is not only sweet, but also the helplessness of some people. In the performance of
, I want to pay tribute to the actor Huang Meiying. The nagging, trivial, and controlling desires of the old mother are too much like the Chinese mother we are familiar with. But these are not what moved me the most. In the performances at the Red Star Theater in Moscow, Huang Meiying's self-confidence and calmness showed a kind of beauty like an extraordinary pearl.
The old Chinese lady who sang "Red Plum Blossom" was obscured from the ordinary and trivial life, but when she slowly walked onto the stage and sang songs, it shocked an adult audience like me: we My mother is so beautiful.
The even greater touch was the momentary loss of the old mother who urged the birth of a child after learning of the irreversible failed marriage of the two, and the rapid adjustment of emotions. A strict mother's desire to control comes from "love." When he sees Ivan with scars, the distress, loss, and the strength of instantly transforming belong to the feeling of a special Chinese family.
Huang Meiying's performance at that moment saw a sore nose on my nose. This is a performance from life, and it is first-rate.
Basically, "囧Mom" is still the "囧 series" road + comedy road number, the same noisy and tossing. Xu Zheng entrained private goods. It is no longer a reunion comedy. Everyone in the film does not want to get anything, but to put down. To put it more sorrowfully, letting go is a way out for yourself and others.
