in 2005, scored 8.7 points on Douban. This is a successful low-cost film. The filming of the entire film was almost done in an old courtyard in a Beijing alley.
There are no more than 10 actors. This also includes the two porters when moving, the daughter of an old lady who appeared for less than 10 seconds, and if it were not the sign in the cast list, many people would ignore the old lady who appeared for about 2 seconds. Wife and son-in-law. All the stories of
are based on the daily life of Xiao Ma and the old lady. At the beginning of the story of
, the college student Xiao Ma wore a military coat and covered in snow, and his face was red with cold looking for a house to rent in a hutong alley. Finally, he asked about the old lady’s yard, which happened to have an empty room at her house.
When the little horse took the key to look at the house, the house displayed in front of the screen looked like an abandoned house in the eyes of the audience, and the old lady started chanting "(rental) cannot be too low. The location is good," and then he said "not too high, poor students". The opening of
made people realize that this is not a nice old lady. And the last sentence makes people feel that this is not a completely indifferent old lady.
lived in the old lady’s yard from the pony, and a series of life chores happened.
asked for money from the phone, bought fish with the refrigerator, wanted to use the kitchen to change the gas tank, etc., because of the "phone call" alone, there were great differences. Also, there was a big quarrel about the pony secretly using the heating.
Xiao Ma: "You are a blame old lady, no wonder no one is waiting for you"
old lady: "You are a bad girl, no young man will marry you"
At first the two were extremely mismatched, and then the relationship slowly eased . There was a scene at
that touched me a lot. The Chinese New Year was about to come. The little horse was busy in the yard, hanging many lanterns and pasting couplets and window grilles. The old lady sat in her house and asked Xiao Ma, "Do you want to go back to your hometown during the New Year?" She hung up a lantern and answered "No", and then whispered "Who doesn't want to go back".
The next day, Xiao Ma came back from outside with the phone bill and asked the old lady if he had made a long-distance call. The phone bill had changed from more than 30 yuan to a few hundred yuan, saying that the long-distance fee should be paid by the old lady herself. The old lady
firmly believes that she did not go to other provinces, and Xiao Ma also firmly believes that she did not make long distances. Therefore, the two had a big fight. The stubborn old lady once again told Xiao Ma to move away quickly and said that she was not good at speaking. Xiao Ma was sad. Ran away. The old lady
ran to the yard and tore off all the window grilles and couplets on the pony, and picked out all the lanterns in the yard with her cane.
finally found out that it turned out to be a call from other provinces by his grandson. The old lady
put back the couplets and window grilles herself again, and hung lanterns in the yard again, everything is just like the pony did.
On New Year's Eve, the old lady made a table of dishes and sat in the house, looking at the yard from time to time. Late at night, Xiao Ma came back, and ignored the old lady's call. The old lady walked to the door of Xiao Ma to ask her to eat.
In the dark and restless wind on New Year's Eve, the old lady fell in love with this stubborn girl. The plot of
is also the turning point of the whole story. Since this incident, the old lady seems to be more and more agreeable, and the relationship between the two becomes more and more harmonious. Just like granddaughter and grandma, Xiao Ma will think that his house is hot and run to the old lady’s house. I took a nap in the house and felt that the old lady’s house was too dull and started to transform...
everything seems to be developing towards a better place.
However, the pony finally moved away as the old lady called at first. The old lady watched the pony tidy up, and saw that the pony’s beautifully arranged house became empty again, and asked the pony: "Just Is it so emptied?".
The audience saw some emotions in the muddy eyes of the old lady that we didn't understand but seemed to understand.
is like the phrase "Don't go home?" repeated by the elderly at home when you tell the elderly at home during the New Year. The movie
was a bit dull at first: alleys, alleys, dilapidated yards, and old people. Except for the little heroine who has the name "Little Horse", everyone else is "Anonymous".
Then, the plot gradually enters, there are laughs and tears, it is obviously just a trivial matter between the old lady and the pony, but it will make you happy at a certain moment, and at a certain moment make your eyes red. The first half of the
movie,The old lady quarreled with Xiao Ma. Everyone saw that it was the old lady's bad relationship and Xiao Ma's grievance. In the second half, the old lady fell in love with the pony, and most of the bickering between them was caused by the pony.
is like Xiao Ma put up posters on the wall of the old lady, and after a few days the old lady told Xiao Ma that she could not sleep well looking at those posters and asked Xiao Ma to tear it off.
Xiao Ma insisted on keeping one, and finally fell in love with an old painting of the old lady’s house, but after a few days, the old lady came to see Xiao Ma again and said that she always felt that she was missing something. Xiao Ma returned the painting to her.
Xiaoma probably felt that the old lady was being unreasonably entangled again, and was so angry that he hung the painting back, and tore the painting that she had never let the old lady tear off.
In fact, the behavior of the old lady in the movie is understandable, just like the elderly at home, they have their own set. If
were the previous old lady, of course, it would not take a few days until she felt uncomfortable before she came to Pony, and asked Pony to help restore the room, tear off the poster, and paint. There is a plot of
, which is very touching. In the second half of the movie, the old lady is sick, and Xiao Ma goes to visit the old lady, and then the old lady’s daughter stingingly said that she is closer to an outsider than to her own family. Then he said to Xiao Ma, should you take her to live with you?
In reality, many people are just like the daughter of an old lady. They don’t understand why the old lady is close to Xiao Ma or what the old lady needs. The shortcomings of the
movie, the first point is that the abandoned dog picked up by the pony was placed at the cobbler on the roadside, but the dog did not appear afterwards.
speculation of the audience, maybe the pony did not get the dog back, but took the opportunity to throw it to the shoe repairer. This is the most likely ending that the audience thinks, and of course it may be adopted by others. Although
said that after this episode of the whole movie, it doesn't even affect whether there is or not, but since there is this episode, it is always a mystery.
The second point is that there is a problem with the time that appears in the movie. The calendar that was also torn off as the little horse helped make is 2002, and on New Year’s Eve, the TV shows the Spring Festival Gala in 2005 in the background, and The Pony’s heater was sealed by the police, and the seal was 1994 and so on. The third point of
is that at the end of the last few minutes of the story, the shooting level is obviously insufficient. This is also the biggest shortcoming of this film, or perhaps the technology 15 years ago did not meet our expectations.
ignores these shortcomings that do not affect the overall situation. This small-cost movie can be said to be very successful. The emotions they want to convey are also received by the audience.
Pony is a vigorous and stubborn little girl, and the old lady was a royal sister when she was young. She has carried a gun and rode a horse and smoked a lot. She is stubborn than a pony, but she is older.
This old lady who is not close to strangers and who is not easy to be with, calculated, stingy, and troublesome, was played by Jin Yaqin to the bone, and the skill of chanting made people into the drama at once.
An old man you love, your father or grandfather is at best only your spiritual guide, and for the old man, this young man is all his spiritual and even material things. The old lady
was sitting, poking her crutches on the ground, and yelling "Little horse!", the little horse ran over.
is a "running" image throughout the movie. She is a young man who is growing and rising. She ran here, ran there, ran into the dilapidated yard, found a suitable one, and naturally ran away. Even when she left, there was no soft word in front of the old lady who liked her.
Xiaoma did not try to endure the old lady like a good understanding girl after all, her young soul is still vigorous, and the old lady has passed the age of running, her life is quiet and boring.
is about to die, and the other is vigorous. This does not hinder the formation of emotional bonds, but the contrast between strengths and weaknesses eventually becomes unbalanced. Xiao Ma ran into her life, and finally left her alone. The old lady changed from tough to compromise, and from compromise to weakness, her eyes became more and more sad.
is a three-year low-cost movie, with warmth and tears. After watching "The Two of Us", call the old man at home who is looking forward to your return home and tell her/him that you miss her/him very much. If possible, just go home.
