The 3rd Yamaichi International Women's Film Festival opened in Chengdu the day before (September 19). The opening film "Spring Tide", starring Hao Lei and Jin Yanling, was shortlisted for the best film in the main competition section of the Golden Goblet Award at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival and won the Best Photography Award.
has only one screening opportunity, and it is very rare to see Hao Lei and Jin Yanling two outstanding actresses on the big screen, so the "Spring Tide" will be sold out as soon as the ticket is opened. We were lucky enough to go to the scene and listened to a lot of back stories outside of the movie.
"Spring Tide" tells the story of a family of three generations of women living under the same roof.
Grandma Ji Minglan (Jin Yanling) is a retired teacher with a strong personality. She is enthusiastic in front of her neighbors and loved by others. But when she goes home, she is not like two people and frequently criticizes her daughter. His daughter Guo Jianbo (Hao Lei) is a journalist and an older single mother who is unmarried. She is jealous, but indifferent and not talkative. She will only show her gentle side when facing her daughter and treat her mother blindly and restraint. The little granddaughter Guo Wanting is lively and cheerful, but she is very personal. She knows how to survive the relationship between grandma and mother at a young age.
When watching a movie, there is a strong feeling that the three grandparents on the big screen are so real. They are so real that they can see the shadows of themselves and their relatives at home by taking a shot.
For example, there is a scene where my grandmother Ji Minglan brought a group of neighbors to rehearse at home, and his daughter Guo Jianbo came back from get off work and saw that the house was upset. Although he was upset and irritated, he did not dare to blast away the neighbors directly in front of his mother, so she secretly The drain pipe in the kitchen was unplugged and the water flowed to the ground, and the chorus had to pause and leave. To be honest, the trick of unplugging the water pipe, every year when my family is bombarded by relatives during the Spring Festival, I have quietly practiced it 100 times in my heart.
and when Ji Minglan tried to stab Guo Jianbo, her daughter tried to open her mouth to say a few words, but she interrupted, she also had to turn the old account back together, her daughter went back to the room silently, and she felt like she was shaking her face to show her, so angry. The tone of "I'm too lazy to serve you mothers" is exactly the same as when my mother exploded and dissed me and my dad. After the screening of the
film, the creative director Yang Lina, the heroine Hao Lei, and the producer Li Yaping also came to the scene to exchange views with the audience.
In answering questions from fans, Hao Lei said frankly that she was very satisfied with her performance in the film, and believed that although her character is very different from the character Guo Jianbo in the film, she actually feels the most substituting for her, because in reality she The identity of "is both a mother and a daughter."
is just that Guo Jianbo speaks very little and is "a person who is a bit far from life." In order to show this sense of alienation, she said that she would even avoid meeting with the teacher Jin Yanling, who played her mother.
The scene where Guo Jianbo speaks the most is her large monologue at the end of the film. After her mother fell ill, she was finally able to take advantage of her deep sleep to express her heart's lack and resentment as a daughter for decades.
However, this literary monologue that Hao Lei ridiculed as "not human" was interpreted by fans on the spot to have a completely different meaning. Some people think that it is the highlight moment of the whole film, which is a footnote to the movie. Some people think that the camera narrative has already made the audience aware of the love and hatred of the family, and such a long period of chanting has actually affected the blank space that the literary film needs to create for the audience, which is too full.
Hao Lei bluntly said that she was moved by seeing this monologue and decided to take this movie. As Guo Jianbo herself, she can fully understand what this woman has suppressed in her 40 years of life, and as Ji Minglan’s daughter, she can also understand the heart knot that her mother has always been unable to let go of. Because of her understanding, she just chooses to be in that one. It broke out all the time, and that passage may have been repeated countless times in her 40-year-old life, and it was so bitter, "Everyone listened to it again." That's it, Hao Lei's straightforwardness.
Regarding the question of why such a Guo Jianbo was shaped, Director Yang Lina gave a speech to start his original intention of filming.
She was born in a documentary. Observing and recording life is her good at and interest. She has personally experienced or heard of too many contradictions in Chinese-style families. This is a problem that every human being will experience and experience for life. Guo Jianbo The right home may be the most common or typical of these families, equally unbearable, oneLike chicken feathers all over the floor, it is equally difficult to separate.
"The torture of life to you is like a small knife scraping you, not stabbing you", Hao Lei added in a later interview. The most special thing about
is that there is no man in this family. Grandpa passed away. His father is unknown. There is only one neighbor, Grandpa Zhou, who belongs to the twilight love with grandma, but he is completely an outsider in the relationship between these three generations. The three seem to be dependent on each other on the surface, but in fact they have their own knots, and the undercurrents are surging. In the end, the conflict can always return to normal without incident. Director
did not write about the direct confrontation between women and men. Instead, he put three generations of women who were also women in one place. The men in this place are missing, but the source of the contradiction is actually closely related to men. Ji Minglan hated her husband for a lifetime, as well as Guo Wanting's unnamed father. Women and women are constantly at war, but there is a connection that is difficult to cut. Intimacy, yet divided, the original family problem portrayed in the movie is also a problem that attracts the attention of young people in modern society. What makes
even more suffocating and powerless is that the atmosphere of this family is now dominated by a strong grandma, but the "latecomer" who has taken over the status of the leader of the family situation, in this original family environment rooted in the blood , No one knows whether they will become the next such dominant player unconsciously. Therefore, the theme of the movie's original promotion always mentioned, "The relationship between you and your mother determines your relationship with the world."
"Push open the door of a Chinese family, there may be the same grandma sitting inside", the director used this idiom to tease her understanding of the original family problems, and she also emphasized that she is only a recorder It’s not about teaching the audience how to do and think, so whether Guo Jianbo and his mother have reached a settlement, what kind of adult his granddaughter Guo Wanting will become in the future, the movie does not give any answer, after all, even God’s probably “can’t give life” correct answer". During the communication with
, a female audience stood up to share her story. She said that she had watched half of the movie in tears, and she could understand the insufficiency of this unspeakable life. When she was a child, her father worked in the field for a long time and didn't go home. If he came back some time, her mother would let him hide behind the curtains when banqueting and entertaining friends. Although she still remembers this humiliating and vague impression that she dare not share with her partner, but fortunately she has grown up to an age that can understand her family, and even reflects on her current character and behavior through her childhood experience. She is very grateful to herself .
once hurt, how can you forget it, reconciliation will not reconcile, learn to face it, don’t escape, maybe you can find a way to heal yourself, this is probably what "Spring Tide" wants to say.
