decides whether a movie is good-looking, the story is very important.
However, today when there is no shortage of good stories, how to tell a good story seems to be more important than the story itself.
"No Question West and East" has been lying in my Douban "Want to Watch" movie list for a long time, and now I finally watched this movie. How do you feel? Frankly speaking, it is very good, at least it is not in vain to look forward to it for a long time, and there are even surprises that exceed expectations. After thinking about it, it was probably because director Li Fangfang not only told a good story, but also told the story very wonderfully.
is just as the movie will be released soon, and I also believe that it will surprise you. Four stories of
, one kind of life
Five young people, four periods of time and space, make up the four independent and overlapping stories in "Wuwenxidong". Wu Linglan, Shen Guangyao, Chen Peng, Wang Minjia, and Zhang Guoguo are the five protagonists in the movie. They are in their youth, and they have encountered various tests of life at their age.
Wu Linglan, who was on campus in the 1920s, was troubled by careers and hobbies;
, when the nation’s survival was in danger in the 1930s, the ideal of family and country or a comfortable and prosperous life, the choice between the two must be placed in front of Shen Guangyao ;
In the 1960s, in the era of chaos, Chen Peng, who had a good future, loved Wang Minjia, who was labeled as a reactionary;
After 2000, Zhang Guoguo, who was proud of his career, faced the dual choice of interests and conscience.
It is not uncommon to tell multiple stories in parallel in one movie. If "Wuwen Xidong" only tells four stories about youth, it's not wrong. However, what makes this movie special is that director Li Fangfang gradually converges these seemingly unrelated stories that belong to different time and space, and finally weaves them into a rope that leads to the same destiny. The
film deals with these four stories in a "non-linear narrative" process, which is a great highlight, and it is also the best way to guide the story of speech. The four main lines are intertwined and entangled with each other, breaking the constraints of time and space. The whole movie is not delayed according to physical time, the main story line is completely shredded and cross-narrated. This kind of shooting technique is very common in Hollywood blockbusters. For example, Nolan, he split the plot to serve the genre attribute of the suspense film. In a youth film, what is Li Fangfang's intention?
In fact, the lives of these five protagonists seem to be unrelated, but they are closely linked. Have you ever imagined that the status quo we are facing today may be the "butterfly effect" brought about by a stranger's inadvertent move at a certain moment? It is like in the film that Wu Linglan was encouraged by his teacher and chose the life he wanted, which later affected his student Shen Guangyao, and it was also Shen Guangyao who chose to join the army during the war and famine to send supplies to poor children. , So that Chen Peng, who was a young man, can survive smoothly, and there is a story of Chen Peng who was admitted to university and fell in love with Wang Minjia.
In the fate of others, your fate is also born. In the comparison of the fate of multiple characters, the trivial and accidental life chances can be more revealed. The new narration gives the story a broader meaning. The director used a tight structure close to the inference film to stitch the story together perfectly. For this, there are foreshadowings everywhere in the movie.
is obviously a very ordinary plot, but when they are broken up and presented together again, they have a different meaning. This also makes this youth film not only limited to "youth", in other words, it writes a grand narrative about youth straightforwardly and passionately. That is the theme of the film: No Questions.
If Wu Linglan and Zhang Guoguo are just lost in their personal ideals and pursuits, and they are stuck, then the test facing Shen Guangyao and Chen Peng and Wang Minjia is even more cruel and inevitable, because the complexity of the times has changed their ideals. It is no longer simple, and youth is no longer a small emotion belonging to the individual. The five protagonists of
are nothing but a drop in the torrent of time under the grand historical background. However, why not our youth and life? It is not only full of individual ideas, but also unable to escape the numerous restrictions of the real society. To put it bluntly, everyone's life is a struggle between the self-world and the external world. The so-called same fate of
is also obvious.
Speaking of, no matter when and where, the biggest confusion facing human beings is actually idealsConflict with reality. But when you are able to recognize yourself in a difficult situation in life, and stick to your true self, you can gain true freedom, and you can be called "No Questions." As the director said in an interview, "You need to know what kind of person you want to be, where you want to go, understand what you really want, discard those that are not important, and block the voices of others outside. "
Life is "being opened"
has a saying like this: a novel only gains life after it is read by the reader. I think this is the same for movies.
After a movie is made and before it is watched by the audience, it is closed and not activated, waiting for the audience to "open" it one by one-only thoughts after viewing can give the movie Richer ambiguity, and a space worthy of a long aftertaste. The
story is specific, and the understanding can be diverse, because everyone is unique. A movie is only in the process of being repeatedly understood, it gradually gains vitality, and it is gradually connected to the fate of the audience.
life is the same, only when it is continuously connected with the fate of other people, will it be more meaningful. In the story of Wang Minjia and Chen Peng, there is such a key role: Li Xiang. Li Xiang, whom Wang Minjia loves so much, must have never thought about it. If he hadn't retreated when Wang Minjia was wronged for his own good future, how could Wang Minjia be persecuted and beaten and eventually disfigured? But it is precisely because of his withdrawal that Wang Minjia can see in Li Xiang and Chen Peng who is the one who truly loves herself—Chen Peng can stand on the opposite side of everyone for her, when she is so isolated and helpless Take her away at all times. The dramatic thing is that Li Xiang finally regretted the harm he caused to Wang Minjia for his whole life. He sacrificed himself in an avalanche and saved the lives of Zhang Guoguo's parents, and then Zhang Guoguo was born.
Li Xiang is a somewhat complicated character. He is selfish and hateful in the fate of Chen Peng and Wang Minjia, but he is a selfless and great person in the fate of Zhang Guoguo.
In the process of watching "Wuwen Xidong", such associations abound. The director’s intentions are so clever. It allows you to feel that life is full of infinite possibilities, and these possibilities are all caused by Create of your own choice. Is there right or wrong or good or bad? It's really hard to say, because the future is an open-ended proposition.
"Wuwenxidong" presents such a state of "being opened". Such a movie is worth seeing by more people.
once watched an interview with director Li Fangfang, she said: "You shut the audience in a dark room, facing a big shiny screen, and you also charge them money, and you don’t want them to take phone calls. . You should be grateful for the time they spent in return. Because the audience donated to you not only the tens of dollars in movie ticket money, but also the two hours of their lives."
Don't worry, these two Hours of life will not be wasted.
