If you have a rigid relationship with your parents for many years, and you can't love them, the love-hate relationship for the original family is extremely helpless. When you suddenly have the opportunity to go back to your parents' youth and see their "friends" side instead of just serious middle-aged "parents", when you see their jet-black hair, youthful faces, working hard at work Struggling, enjoying the future life with full of anticipation, watching them have similar troubles and happiness as themselves, facing the struggle and helplessness of various choices, will you feel that your parents are just like yourself, and life was full of freshness Living colors, full of laughter and tears, and even finding out that my parents love me more than I imagined... What kind of experience would that be? Curiosity or excitement, regret or relief?
's fantasy comedy "Hello, Brother" starring Ma Li, Chang Yuan and Wei Xiang created such a space and time. "Hello, Brother", which was released for 60 days, had a box office of over 500 million, and it became the box office of the National Day movie. 3rd place. In the film, "family affection" is transformed into "friendship", from entanglement to calm observation, and finally everyone sees each other because they know each other, which warmly resolves the estrangement between the two generations.
"Hello, Brother" tells the story of how to reconcile "Xiao Wu" played by Chang Yuan and his father "Lao Wu" (played by Wei Xiang) who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Although the life of two generations is told with the help of "traveling", the overall design of the story is not complicated. The "decadent" Xiao Wu happened to experience a time-travel. In the image of the eldest brother, he watched and promoted Lao Wu and his mother who died early. The process of knowing each other and falling in love. At first, Xiao Wu returned to the past for his own survival, but as the story progressed, Xiao Wu saw the sincere love between Lao Wu and his mother. After his mother died of dystocia, Lao Wu was in pain, and finally decided to exchange his life for his life to save him. The mother was rescued by her mother. This is the sublimation of the whole movie, and it is also Xiao Wu's spiritual redemption. Maybe people are looking for "love" and "being loved" all their lives. This is also demonstrated in the film. Xiao Wu experienced the complete love of his mother, and he also forgave Lao Wu's inability to face the great grief of his wife's death. Indifferent, Xiao Wu began to learn to love his father, to marry his girlfriend who had been in love for many years as his wife, and to bravely assume the responsibility and inheritance of love.
There are many highlights in the whole film. Ma Li, who plays the role of mother, performed online and created a woman with strength, wisdom and vitality. She almost contracted the highlight moments and laughs of the whole film. Wei Xiang also explained and The role of Lao Wu is shown, which makes the audience deeply resonate with Lao Wu's experience, and Jia Bing's strong brother, although not the protagonist, carries the banner of "laughing" together with Ma Li in the film. On the other hand, Xiao Wu, as an important lead character, has a slightly weak emotional expression. For example, when he first sees his mother who has never been masked, he seems too calm, and when he advances the relationship between his parents, he is too urgent and direct. But overall, the core meaning of the film is still fully presented.
As a comedy, "Hello, Brother" is slightly lacking in laughs, and even mixed with joy and sorrow, but the film has a good idea and faces many injuries and estrangements caused by the problems of the original family in modern society. "Confrontation" is not The solution is "love" and "understanding". And this simple and straightforward emotional output corresponds to the audience's emotional needs for a relaxing holiday, and is also an important factor in its box office success.
