During the National Day of 2019, a film about my growth with my motherland, "My Motherland and Me" is not only a film with the main theme of the film industry collectively presenting the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it also relies on The high-quality content of the topic touched countless audiences and became the biggest winner of the National Day file. One year later, Zhang Yimou will be the director system, Ning Hao will be the chief director, and Zhang Yibai will be the chief planner. Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Chen Si Cheng, Yan Fei & Peng Damo, Deng Chao & Yu Baimei are co-directed. The film "My Hometown and Me" to be released on National Day can be said to be a luxurious upgraded version of the former.
If "My Motherland and Me" in 2019 is enough to dazzle the audience, then the companion article "My Hometown and Me" not only brings together the top production lineups in the Chinese film industry, but also The strongest group in the Chinese comedy film industry teamed up to create five "hometown comedy stories". In addition to amusing the audience, they also expressed their sincere feelings for their homeland in the way of "laughing with tears"!
If I use one sentence to describe my feelings about watching this film, then I must admit that "My Hometown and Me" is using the most easy-to-understand comedy section, conveying the moving theme of love and warmth to the audience. Although the locations of the five stories are not the author's hometown, during the viewing process, I sometimes laughed to tears at the creator's bizarre setting, and sometimes moved my eyes moistened by the surprise turn of the story. It is not difficult to prove that whether these stories took place in a specific area is actually not important, and the "empathy" expressed in them is what really moves us.
"Beijing Good People"
As the chief director of "My Hometown and Me", Ning Hao not only needs to coordinate the emotional tension between the five stories, but also has to ensure the quality of the part he directs. Especially as the opening, if the audience cannot be quickly drawn into the emotional atmosphere created by the film, it is likely to affect the presentation of other stories. In view of this, Director Ning Hao chose to cooperate with Teacher Ge You again to tell Zhang Beijing's unfinished "good story".
In "My Motherland and Me", in order to help Wenchuan disaster-stricken children realize the Olympic dream, Ge You's Beijing brother gave up the tickets to watch the Olympic opening ceremony, leaving a deep impression on the audience. In "Beijing Good Man", Zhang Beijing once again encountered a problem: after he finally saved the money to buy a car, should he lend it to a distant cousin who urgently needs the money to see a doctor. Audiences familiar with the works of Director Ning Hao know that he is good at telling comedy stories full of market life from the standpoint of ordinary citizens from a low-level perspective, so it is easier to get the audience's resonance. This time the director focused on the issue of the cost of medical treatment for migrant workers in Beijing, and undoubtedly touched on the people's livelihood topic that most people care about. The director seriously discussed this topic in a rather advanced form of comedy.
Faced with the difficulties of his cousin in the countryside, Zhang Beijing wanted to help, but he was reluctant to lend out the money he had saved. Under the dilemma, Zhang Beijing, who was "successful in wit", came up with a ridiculous method.This triggered a series of ridiculous stories. The film's particularly outstanding part is that Uncle Ge's "play in play" without any sense of contradiction fully reflects the profound skill of the old opera.
If "I am not the god of medicine" discusses serious people's livelihood topics in the form of first joy and then sadness, then "Beijing Good Man" does the opposite. In addition to the intensive laughter and humor, the film also explains the difficult life of these migrant workers. Especially in giant cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, most people's daily lives cannot be guaranteed without their silent contributions.
Ning Hao compares two small people from the rural areas of Hebei and the bottom of Beijing, respectively, aiming at topics that are closely related to the people's livelihood. During this journey of urban and rural reconciliation, Ning Hao, as a comedy director, not only brought joy to the public, but also demonstrated the social responsibility that a literary and artistic worker should have.
"A UFO Falling from the Sky"
The 2020 Spring Festival file, due to the sudden new crown epidemic, the domestic films that were ready to go have been withdrawn. This includes the long-awaited "Chinatown Detective 3". However, this time, Chen Sicheng and his team also contributed a wonderful "Guizhou Extraterrestrial Village Detective" in "My Hometown and Me" to the audience. I believe it is not inferior to the former. In addition to the old partners of Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran, the addition of celebrities such as Huang Bo , Wang Yanhui, Wang Xun, Dong Zijian and others have given the director more room to display his talents.
Guizhou has been developing slowly because of rugged mountain roads and extremely inconvenient transportation since ancient times. In recent years, the opening of the "eye of the sky" has promoted the development of a number of nearby villages. In contrast, the small mountain village in "A UFO Falling From the Sky" is extremely lonely because of its remote location and traffic congestion. At this time, the video of "Aliens Arriving in a Mountain Village in Guizhou" that suddenly appeared on social media made this little-known village a hit and became a famous "alien tourist attraction."
In order to investigate the "UFO incident" in the village, the two "senior" media persons of the "Re-entry Science" column group, Lao Tang and Xiao Qin, accompanied by the village chief and village entrepreneurs, began to search for the truth. journey of. In the process, they met a well-known "net celebrity", Huang Dabao, a rural inventor who relied on all kinds of strange inventions to blog people's attention. After Lao Tang's "meticulous" inference, they have reason to doubt Huang Dabao and the mysterious The UFO incident of China is inextricably linked.
Audiences familiar with the "Tang Detective" series must be familiar with Chen Sicheng's self-contained comedy style, especially when combined with the thematic clues of detectives solving crimes, Director Chen's ability to make jokes in a suspenseful and strange atmosphere is even more impressive. Highlight to the point of vividness. This time, "A UFO Falling from the Sky" not only continues the style of both lively and festive and suspenseful detectives, the director also extended a poignant "country love story" with this suspenseful story with some "earth" science fiction elements.
From the mysterious UFO incident, to the poignant "rural love story", to the "time theme" of building the most beautiful Guizhou, Director Chen Sicheng completed the film genre to the theme idea in just 30 minutes Alternate. With the help of the elements of genre movies, the lofty ideal of eager to give back/build hometown is expressed from the perspective of micro-individuals. This is also the most simple and sincere truth that the whole film tries to convey to the audience.
"The Last Lesson" and "The Road Back Home"The reason why
juxtaposes these two stories is because they both focus on the topic of hometown education. Although the locations of the two stories are thousands of miles apart and the ways of telling them vary greatly, the true feelings revealed in them have something in common, which is enough to impress every audience present. "The Last Lesson" directed by
Xu Zheng tells the story of Lao Fan, a professor of art in a foreign country. His memory was chaotic because of a serious illness. His only clear impression was still in 1992, when he was still in Zhejiang. Teaching in a primary school in Chun'an County. In order to help his father retrieve the lost memories, his son Xiaofan contacted the students who had been taught by Teacher Fan, and with the unity and cooperation of everyone, he restored the classroom taught by the teacher. Here, Teacher Fan taught the children the last lesson about "My Hometown and Me".
If you still have impressions of Xu Zheng's "Win the Championship" part of "My Motherland and Me", then it is not surprising that the director is good at expressing his emotions through nostalgic forms. The addition of Teacher Wei makes the emotional core of the film more convincing.
, the people's teacher who dedicated his ten years to rural education, when his physical memory suffered such a severe damage, he was concerned about the children who were full of curiosity for knowledge. And after the excellent interpretation of teacher Fan Wei, the image of an educator who "wax torch turned into gray and tears began to dry" also appeared on the screen.
Coincidentally, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei’s "Road to Homecoming" also has such a mother Gao who is rooted in the country and dedicated her life to the people’s hometown. It is precisely because there are countless such high mothers who silently dedicate and burn themselves behind their backs that they were able to cultivate the famous entrepreneurs Qiao Shulin and Yan Feiyan. The story of "The Road to Homecoming" is exactly when they returned to their hometown to participate The journey of the school celebration begins.
In "Road to Homecoming", Yan Feiyan played by Yan Ni and Qiao Shulin played by Deng Chao left the audience with completely different impressions from the moment of their respective appearances. One is an upstart female enterprise with a thriving live streaming business, and the other is a downright small business owner who is desperate for face and suffering. On the way back to their hometown on the same plane, the same bus, and the same car, the director continued to strengthen the audience’s "pre-existing impression" through various comedy bridges, and laid an important foreshadowing for the subsequent turn of the story. .
Generally speaking, whether it is Teacher Fan who has worked hard in township elementary schools for ten years on the screen, Mother Gao, the principal of elementary school who has dedicated her life to Huangsha in the northwest, or the principal who takes root in the deep mountains of Yunnan and founded a free female high school in real life Zhang Guimei is worthy of the honorable title of the people's teacher. Regardless of whether the batches of children they cultivated will be successful in the future, or unknown, they are all doing their best to give back to their hometown and society in their own way. In this sense, isn't this the most lofty mission of education?
"Ma Liang of Magic Brush"
As the finale show, "Ma Liang of Magic Brush" co-directed by Yan Fei and Peng Damo is undoubtedly attracting attention. What is more surprising is that it is a happy twist from "Charlotte". After "Special Trouble", Shen Teng and Ma Li were invited againCo-starring. Although it was only thirty minutes, with the tacit cooperation of the two, they jointly pushed the atmosphere of the whole film to a climax.
As we all know, 2020 is an important year for striving to achieve complete poverty alleviation, and how literary and artistic works should reflect such a grand theme in a timely manner without falling into the stereotypes of "propaganda and singing" has become a major challenge for the creative team. problem. Fortunately, the happy twist, which has always been at the forefront of the trend of the times, this time keenly captured the way to seamlessly embed the personal narrative into the emotions of the country and the country, and finally presented the audience with a perfect ending performance with laughter and tears. .
The painter Ma Liang, played by Shen Teng, hopes to go to the countryside to engage in poverty alleviation work, and use his painting talent to help the village he grew up in to transform. However, his aggressive wife Qiuxia seemed to be nonsense. She only hoped that her husband could go to the Russian Repin Academy of Fine Arts for further studies and win the respect of others with art. After weighing the balance, Ma Liang had to tell his pregnant wife that he had gone to Russia to study, but he actually went to the countryside to help the poor. In order to fulfill her husband's "beautiful dream" of "studying abroad", the whole village cooperated with Ma Liang to complete "real-life performances" full of exotic and hilarious laughter.
Seeing Shen Teng and Ma Li performing on the same stage again after many years is the biggest surprise left to the audience in the whole film, and the tacit cooperation between the two proves that the trump card effect of happy twist is indeed well-deserved. In fact, how Ma Liang weighs the pros and cons between his family and his career and makes trade-offs has always been the core of the dramatic conflict that constitutes this story. The most admirable quality of
and happy twist lies in the ability to use comic techniques to present this dilemma extremely vividly. The meticulous design of many comedy sections may be common in daily life, but once it appears in the film, it is enough to make people. Absolutely.
What's more rare is that "Ma Liang" not only tells the warmth story of husband and wife reconciliation, but also cleverly echoes the grand theme of the development of the times, leaving the audience with ample room for aftertaste, which is a wonderful finishing touch.
"My Hometown and Me" tells the stories of authentic hometowns that took place in the five provinces of the motherland, but coincidentally, the five short films all adopt the form of comedy and will be related to the grand theme of hometown development and the individual at the micro level The narrative is seamless. Under the seemingly joyful and lively plot structure full of dramatic tension, what actually connects each individual is the love and attachment of each individual to the homeland, and the sincere enthusiasm for building/giving back to their hometown.
cuts in from the microscopic perspectives of these very individual little characters in the five stories. The film takes the audience to experience the great changes in their hometown, whether it is Guizhou Sky Eye, 5G network, or live delivery, express delivery, logistics infrastructure, etc. So.
And more importantly, under the blessing of modern technology, the aim of the film is still the inner care of the hometown and people at the individual emotional level. While the audience is laughing, it is not enough to be moved by the strong nostalgia in their hearts. Amazing! This is also the important reason why this film can go beyond pure entertainment and rise to the spiritual and cultural level.
It is a bit of coincidence that this year’s National Day coincides with the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, which fully interprets the Chinese people’s feelings of “one family and the country” since ancient times. When the Chinese people miss their relatives and friends in their hometown and their strong motherland When the love is integrated and expressed with the help of a commemorative and important moment such as the festival, going to the theater to watch "My Hometown and Me" is undoubtedly a recommended choice.
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