This article contains certain spoilers about the core plot, if you haven't watched the movie, please read it carefully!
If you only see time travel + comedy, you will think of the movie "Hello, Brother" as simple. In fact, the whole film is an affectionate exchange between grown children and their parents.
Bridging the generation gap The post-80s and post-90s generations may be the most special two generations since the founding of New China, because the birth of these two generations coincided with the historical period of drastic changes in China's reform from the planned economy to the market economy.
going to sea, layoffs, restructuring of state-owned enterprises... are all popular words in those years, behind which are profound social changes.
is like the strong brother played by Jia Bing and in the film. He is a typical image of those who left the public-owned factories and went to the south to do business and go to sea.
The impact of this upheaval on ordinary people is so profound and far-reaching that we ourselves do not fully realize it.
One of the most direct results it has caused is the huge generation gap between the two generations after the 80s and 90s and their parents. The generation gap between the two generations of
is much larger than that after the founding of New China and the post-00s and post-10s born now.
After the founding of New China, material was scarce and it was isolated from the world, so the living conditions of parents and the next generation were similar.
Now material life is extremely rich, and there is no estrangement from the world, but the entire country has reached the world's leading economic level, and parents and children have similar exposure to the world.
There are only two generations after the 80s and 90s, and the lives of parents and children are very different.
For example, in my parents' time, there were very few college students, so Wu Hongqi played by Wei Xiang and was so popular and respected. Now the proportion of college students is very high, which is not new.
is like his parents' time, with average material level, but the two generations after the 80s and 90s grew up with the prosperity of the country, and have never experienced such life as starvation, distribution by votes, etc.
understand the background of these times in order to understand the connotation of the film "Hello, Brother", which is actually about Xiao Wu's process of finally understanding his parents by constantly traveling back to the time when his parents were young. At the beginning of the
movie, Xiao Wu's voice-over said that he seemed to be at odds with his father since he was born.
This kind of discord, on the one hand, you can understand the secret after watching the plot, and there is no spoiler here; on the other hand, the underlying reason is the difference between the old Wu and Xiao Wu era. In
, the son of Xiao Wu in the film has the feeling of being useless. His occupation is to train others to play games, which is very different from Lao Wu's rigorous engineer status.
At the beginning, Xiao Wu and Lao Wu's father and son always had conflicts. His father was in a coma and became a vegetative state. Xiao Wu thought his father was joking and couldn't take things seriously.
However, when his father lost consciousness and his mother never met, Xiao Wu realized that he no longer had the opportunity to express his love to his parents, and even had no chance to say a word to his parents.
At this time, when he was looking for his father's passbook, he accidentally discovered his mother's diary and made a trip through the "fantastic" ring. Only then did he have the opportunity to understand the living conditions of his parents in those days, their factory era, their Love, the predicament they encountered, etc.
Therefore, this "traveling" in the movie "Hello, Brother" is more of a plot device than the plot itself. The role of
is to provide Xiao Wu and viewers with similar problems an opportunity to communicate with their parents.
The generation gap and incomprehension between the post-90s generation and their parents, don't wait until it's too late when "the child wants to be raised but the parent doesn't wait".
If you happen to watch this movie and this article during this Mid-Autumn Festival, I hope you can also understand the true meaning of "Hello, Brother".
There is no parent who doesn't love their children, but we grew up with a twisted relationship with our parents, and it's time to talk to them.
The grandmother's paradox
The second thing about the movie "Hello, Brother" is that its script design also involves the so-called "grandmother's paradox" puzzle.
The so-called "grandmother paradox" or "grandfather paradox" (Grandfather paradox)Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation is:
If you go back in time and kill your grandparents before your father is born, this action creates a paradox: you go back in time and kill your young grandmother or grandfather, grandmother or grandmother If the grandfather is dead, there will be no father, and there will be no you without the father, so who killed the grandmother? Or think of it as: Your existence means that your grandmother didn't die because of you, so why did you kill your grandmother?
This paradox also happened in the movie "Hello, Brother", and the setting can finally justify itself.
When Xiao Wu finally found out the truth, he made one last time crossing in order to exchange his own life for his mother's life.
If Xiao Wu's attempt is successful at this time, then the film falls into the "grandmother paradox" - that is, I went back to the past to prevent my birth, but since I was not born, who stopped me What about birth?
Of course the movie wasn't designed that way, but instead let motherly love and fate prevail.
Xiao Wu went back to the past for the last time and failed to save his mother. The mother used her powerful strength and instinct to sacrifice herself to save the child. Xiao Wu also gained a thorough understanding and relief of his parents.
There are many European and American movies that involve the "grandmother paradox", such as " butterfly effect ", " former destination ", "12 monkeys", and the popular "Creed" in the past two years.
And the use of this puzzle in "Hello, Brother" is not placed in the shell of a sci-fi story, but is used to unravel the knot of family and family, and it is shown in a comedy way, which makes people feel refreshing .
Wei Xiang+Ma Li+Chang Yuan——"Family of Three" was surprised and burst into tears.
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