On September 12, the domestic film "Everything Like You" was released warmly. The film is directed by Huang Hong as the chief screenwriter/director. Four young directors born in the 1980s, Huang Zhaohan, Fu Shaojie, Zhang Nan, and Li Zhi, are co-directed by the sixteen talents including Lan, Yu Yang, Qin Yi, Tian Hua and Xie Fang. The old artist co-starred with sixteen young and middle-aged actors including Xi Meijuan, Liu Peiqi, Nie Yuan, Ma Su and Zhang Yixing.
"Everything is Like You" is composed of 10 stories, depicting the portraits of the elderly in modern society in detail, and can be regarded as China's first film to show the education of aging national conditions. When it was released, Guan Hu, Liu Tao, Huang Xiaoming, Yang Mi and other literary and artistic stars spoke for it one after another; the audience enthusiastically responded, and appeals for additional filming came in. The high reputation of
"Everything Like You" is not accidental. In addition to the novel and unique combination of actors, the approachable film tonality, and the core of the true and moving story, this film is a typical "Chinese storytelling". It integrates the traditional Chinese "filial piety culture" into the creation of film and television art, follows the real life scenes of the Chinese people and the rules of film creation, and does not blindly kitsch audiences and markets. Behind its success, it shows the integrity of a group of domestic film adherents.
Nowadays, the standard configuration of the hot models in the film and television industry is "large traffic, big ip", "Everything is like you" is really retrograde: the protagonist is a group of old artists with an average age of 86, and like Zhang Yixing, Nie Yuan, "Popular" young actors like Ma Su are willing to be green leaves. The ten original stories and ten groups of characters are all things that happen every day around every Chinese, like a picture scroll of real life, slowly unfolding on the big screen. The performances of
old artists can no longer be described as performances. They live on the screen as the familiar "them" of every audience: or they can’t remember the time to eat but still remember their son’s love of peach crisps. Mother, let me understand that as long as my mother is still a child, or grandparents who are trying to learn to use WeChat for their grandchildren, or stubborn fathers who have inconvenient legs but still dream of cycling around China... They use plain and meticulous methods. The performances brought the grandparents of each of our families to the screen from home. The old artists of
not only contributed natural performances, but also demonstrated the professionalism of the first generation of Chinese filmmakers. Teacher Qin Yi, who was just awarded the national honorary title of "People's Artist", was unable to leave the hospital due to physical discomfort, so he completed the filming in the hospital; at such an old age, he still adheres to his qualities as an actor, which is admirable. Teacher Yu Lan, who played the classic image of Sister Jiang in "Eternal Life in Fire", has just been awarded the personal honorary title of "The Most Beautiful Struggle", which is admirable.
If the old artists have Chinese filmmakers' insistence on the quality and professional ethics of the film, then the young team that made this film shows that a new generation of Chinese filmmakers have inherited this spirit from them. We have no way of knowing exactly their original intention of creating this film. But the starting point of artistic creation always comes from the innermost desire to talk. I am grateful for the special emotional appeal that "Everything is Like You" brought to the audience. "I write my heart by hand" is the beginning of all great works. In the current circle of chasing fame and fortune, being able to return to the original heart and the artistic creation itself to pursue the way out of the film is an answer that young Chinese filmmakers handed over to the society.
