Article | Edited by Annette
| Annette
Although the Mid-Autumn Festival has only three days of holiday, there are many newly released films, among which " has her in the world " has attracted much attention due to its strong cast.
Li Shaohong , Chen Chong , Zhang Aijia co-directed, Zhou Xun , Zheng Xiuwen , Huang Miyi , Yi Yang Qianxi , Xu Di , Feng Delun led the film through three parts The short film tells three stories that happened in Wuhan, Beijing and Hong Kong during the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020.
In recent years, there have been a lot of films about the epidemic, but there are few good ones. There are two main reasons. One is that most of these films have grand narrative themes. .
"The World Has Her" chose a smaller entry point, focusing on the three emotional relationships of the lost mother-in-law, the long-distance couple, and the separated husband and wife, focusing on women as a narrative perspective, and three female creators off-screen together constitute "her". main body.
When history goes from face to face, it falls back to every family and individual. Their luck and misfortune are placed in the torrent of the times. , The little love in the world under the big background is the emotional power that can truly make the audience empathize and move.
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When "he" leaves the scene
The three short films all make explicit male absences.
In the first short film directed by Li Shaohong, Zhou Xun and Baike play a couple living in Wuhan. They have a son, and the mother-in-law played by Xu Di lives with them.
At the beginning of 2020, the Wuhan epidemic broke out. Zhou Xun's Shen Yue was diagnosed with the new crown , but the hospital bed was in short supply, so she could only isolate at home, which meant that the whole family was at risk of being infected. The conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was quickly brought to light. The mother-in-law, who loved her son like her life, wanted Shen Yue to move out, but Shen Yue firmly stated that she was the one who needed to be taken care of the most.
Shen Yue's isolation is in fact an externalization of her long-standing family relationship as an "outsider". At the same time, the family begins to "separate", Shen Yue has a room, her husband and son have a room, and her mother-in-law is in the living room. , I don't see each other unless it is necessary. I don't know if the epidemic has "ripped apart" the family, or it has been like this for a long time under the surface of daily calm.
soon, the last bit of superficial harmony is also broken, mother-in-law has a fever, suspected infection. This time, Shen Yue and her mother-in-law reached a consensus for the first time—let her husband and son move to a rented house. Since then, the male characters have left the scene entirely, existing only in the voice of the phone, but ironically, they remain at the center of the conflict between the two women.
In the second short film, director Chen Chong filmed a couple who were about to get married. Xiaolu, played by Huang Miyi, and Li Zhaohua, played by Yi Yangqianxi, work and live in Wuhan. At the beginning of 2020, Xiaolu returned to Beijing to celebrate the New Year, and Li Zhaohua stayed in Wuhan. From their daily video calls, reveal every bit of their daily life. Until Wuhan closed the city and Li Zhaohua was infected, everything took a turn for the worse. Li Zhaohua doesn't seem to haveAppeared, but he provided company. In the third short film of
, director Zhang Aijia focuses on a separated couple in Hong Kong. Liang Jingsi played by Zheng Xiuwen and He Daren played by Feng Delun have two children, but they will come to an end due to problems such as family division of labor. He Daren moved out of the house, and it was not until the younger son had a fever that they came together again, and as a result, a very exciting quarrel broke out. From Liang Jingsi's complaint, we learned that He Daren lacked the roles of husband and father at home, and He Daren But thinks that he has given her everything she wants, and she should take good care of the family.
The two are peers, rushing in the news every day, Liang Jingsi loves her job with a camera, and He Daren thinks she doesn't have to compete with a group of men for the best photo spot. This is of course an indictment of women's rights, but Liang Jingsi's "clumsiness" in the quarrel is so real, just like most wives in life, they always hope to find their own value other than "husband and child", but She is always defeated by the strength of her husband and the ties of her children.
It seems that only by letting men really leave the scene can we pay attention to the existence of "her", and focus on "her" as a human being, her dreams and thinking, her perception and sensitivity.
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Love Eternal
The three short films deal with the ending, which makes people feel the ruthlessness of the epidemic, and also allows us to regain the ability to love in the face of life and death.
In the story of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Shen Yue's care for her mother-in-law finally resolved the emotional gap between the two. Shen Yue was in critical condition many times. The critical moment was that her mother-in-law found an oxygen generator in time to save her life, and in the end, her mother-in-law entered the rescue At the last moment, the smiling faces of her family members in her mind became the last obsession, giving her a new lease of life.
The love between Xiaolu and Zhaohua is one of the beauty that was sacrificed by the epidemic. Director Chen Chong, through the switching of black and white pictures and the design of the camera inside and outside the mobile phone, very subtly reflects the new love of contemporary people under technology. Even if they are not together, the audience can feel the love between the two. Only in this way can the final "pain" achieve real results.
It's just that this "unreachable" companionship between modern people may ease the pain of lovesickness, but it is not real companionship after all. In the face of the epidemic, the love is separated by mountains and seas, and the mountains and seas are not flat. Li Zhaohua will always be fixed on the other end of the phone.
If in the first two stories, the epidemic had a great impact on the protagonists as a major event, then in the relationship between Liang Jingsi and He Daren, the epidemic is more like a background board. The changes brought about by the epidemic in the city - emptiness, depression, closed store doors, locked swings, and even a man who has lost his job and started to accompany his children are all recorded in Liang Jingsi's lens.
The conflict between Liang Jingsi and He Daren will always exist, whether the epidemic comes or not, and it seems that there will never be a solution, but when we see the end, we find that they took a group photo with masks in front of the SARS sign in 2003. In a moment, not only will the two protagonists reach a reconciliation, but the audience will also be moved by it. It turns out that in the face of disaster, we also loved each other.
This epidemic has separated many lives from death, and it has also caused many people to look up and see each other every day. The epidemic has created the furthest distance in the world, and it has also shortened the two hearts that have grown apart. Maybe people always have to face the big right and the wrong, the catastropheOnly then can we discover that the ordinary is precious, can we cherish the daily calm without waves, and can truly express our deepest emotions and love bravely.
