This year's National Day file is relatively deserted, but the summer file has produced several dark horse works.
For example, Zhu Yilong starred in this " Life Events ".
is a small-budget movie, and the counterattack has become a dark horse. So far, the box office of has reached 1.712 billion, and it has also broken 16 film history records. The cost of
is less than 60 million.
From the summer season to the National Day season, it is the biggest winner, and the producer has made a lot of money.
Today, movies are also popular abroad.
has also landed on Netflix in the United States, Canada, Australia, , New Zealand, and other international theaters.
brought a lot of joy and emotion to audiences at home and abroad.
01, filling the gap in the "funeral industry".
on Douban, the movie scored 7.3 points.
Producer Han Yan , once directed " send you a little red flower ", " animal world ", " get out of the tumor ".
is quite experienced.
And for director Liu Jiangjiang, this film is his maiden work.
After graduating, he once worked on the column drama " in the Village of " for 11 years.
Later, he also wrote and directed a funeral culture work "Go to Heaven".
Today's "Life Events", has a little connection with the former in content. He not only serves as a director, but also serves as a screenwriter.
Judging from the team of the film "Life Events", it is a typical successful case of "supporting young directors".
directed a film for the first time, and it is quite good to be able to achieve such box office and results.
There are three things that make this movie successful.
First of all, the subject matter of the movie is very novel.
Birth, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature, and everyone is unavoidable.
But there are not many movies and TV dramas focusing on the funeral industry.
In Japan, there are touching dramas like " Entering the Undertaker ", is still very blank in the Chinese market. Although the movie
is not as popular as "The Undertaker", it also gives a very clear point -
"Life is nothing but death".
abroad, the United States, Germany and other countries have set up courses of "life and death education" since childhood.
conveys the concept of life and death to children when family members and small animals leave. At the same time,
will also provide opportunities for children to organize children to go to funeral homes and other areas to experience the evolution of the life cycle.
In my country, the curriculum of life and death education is still relatively lacking.
mentions the natural law of life and death, many people will be very taboo and stay away.
and "Life's Events", with a small and broad, come to to tell a story about human nature, family, life and death.
face life and death calmly, all deaths deserve to be respected.
He changed the clothes of the deceased, carried the coffin, and sent them on their last journey with all his heart.
Sanmei's serious work attitude is precisely the respect for the deceased, which is also the most simple and basic emotion of human beings.
allows the relatives to leave in a quiet and harmonious environment without any worries, which is also a great comfort to the relatives.
shows death and confronts life and death. The movie presents this topic and resonates with the audience.
02, break the prejudice. Another theme of the
movie to the audience is to break down prejudice.
Zhu Yilong plays the third sister in the movie.
At the beginning, he was regarded as "alternative".
Others disliked him for being unlucky, and his girlfriend chose to leave because of his work.
was slandered as a thief when he held funerals for the deceased.
forced him to take off his clothes to prove his innocence.
Some people may think that this part of the movie is too exaggerated, however, the actual situation is not better than the audience imagined.
In the final analysis, it is still because of the public's prejudice against the funeral industry.
According to the data analysis of the Civil Affairs Bureau, by the end of 2020 , there are 4,201 funeral service industries in the country.
With the implementation and implementation of a series of policies, the country's demand for professional and skilled talents has gradually increased.
But correspondingly, there are only 5 vocational colleges and 3 secondary vocational colleges in nationwide. The extreme imbalance between supply and demand of
, is ultimately caused by the prejudice of most people.
It is not difficult to understand why Sanmei's life is so rough.
Compared with others, Sanmei has almost always lived at the bottom of the biological chain .
was despised by his father since he was a child, has no ambitions, and even went to prison, becoming a loser in his life.
While working, he met Xiaowen, who became the light of his life.
stumbled and stumbled. For Xiaowen, Sanmei decided to open the company "Go to Heaven". The fate of the third sister
is ill-fated, and Xiaowen doesn't seem to be much better.
Whether in movies or in reality, many people become third sisters because of prejudice.
However, he never gave up from beginning to end, and with his own efforts, he made everyone change their views.
owns his own destiny in his own hands, a story with ups and downs, the metaphor behind is the thinking about life.
03, the joys and sorrows of small people, the city life is very active. The characterization in the
movie is very successful.
In the movie, the protagonists speak the Wuhan dialect .
Zhu Yilong himself is also from Wuhan, this challenge is a piece of cake for him.
The three generations of old, middle and young people are all small people in the market.
They roamed the streets and alleys, shuttled in the city, and the strong breath of life formed a picture of all living beings full of vitality.
This is the most simple and real life. The
movie does not have forced sensationalism and tears, but it makes people feel real and moving. The two protagonists,
, are members of all living beings who came together because of fate.
From the beginning of the confrontation to the later reconciliation, they have been together, laughing and crying, and the joys and sorrows of the little people are presented on the screen.
faces death directly, but can interpret it in a touching and warm way, mixed with joy and sorrow, without making people feel depressed.
The life cycle is endless, and the warmth is endless.
