"Together with You" is a story about emotions and art between Liu Xiaochun, a violin teenager and his father Liu Cheng. The overall tone of the film is warm and won the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards, Chinese Film Media Awards, and Golden Rooster Awards. To achieve such a huge success, of course, there is credit for popular themes such as "abandoning the baby, fatherly love", but it is even more inseparable from the character design techniques it adopted. "Being with You" adopts an ingenious antithetical character design. The classical symmetrical structure of the character design is as elegant as the exterior wall design of the Parthenon in Athens. The whole film is full of simple and gentle beauty.
There are three sets of opposing characters in "Being with You", Liu Xiaochun and Lin Yu, Teacher Jiang and Professor Yu, Lili and Lili’s boyfriend, they are all established for the role of "Liu Cheng", the center of emotion and contradiction in the film Services. Let me talk about Liu Xiaochun and Lin Yu. The two children are also taught by Professor Yu, and they also have amazing artistic potential, but one loves the piano, the sound is the heartfelt voice, the other is famous for learning arts and is willing to make profit, and their different values cause completely opposites. The ending. Liu Xiaochun, who loves music for the Aegean, finally gave up the competition for his father's love, but instead won a huge stage that truly belonged to him, playing a magnificent and magnificent life movement that moved all audiences on and off the screen. Although Lin Yu, who was seeking a competition by fame, got on the gorgeous stage as he wished, desperately squeezing his own emotions, but he could only pull the bow and struggle with the huge torrent of music, leaving only an empty and indifferent face at the end of the song. They confirmed the potential theme of "The purity of art determines the height of artistic achievement". Another example is Teacher Jiang and Professor Yu, who also love art. As a teacher, a corner of life committed to persisting in dreams, and ultimately won respect and self-achievement due to pure dedication to art; a standing tall hall is respected by others, but because of Art and emotion are used as tools for fame and fortune, falling into a situation where students are calculated and driven by others.
Their ending also expresses the theme of the work "The attitude of love really determines the height of artistic life". Or like Lily’s boyfriend and Lily, Lily’s boyfriend regards truth as a tool for money, and eventually disappears silently in the torrent of life, leaving nothing behind. In contrast, Lily, who was originally utilitarian and secular but not distorted, gradually found herself in the process of helping Liu Cheng and his son. She truly lived out her own beautiful posture and won the respect of people. Two closely related but different stance figures once again proved the key word of the film "True Love Wins Gold". The three groups of characters have different attitudes towards their colleagues, showing the possibilities of life and art, emotion and fame and fortune, human nature and emotion to the audience one by one. Their different life experiences and social status backgrounds can also bring emotional resonance to audiences at different levels, which in turn triggers in-depth thinking.
Of course, if you stop here, "Being with You" is still far from being a classic. The fundamental element that really helps it become a classic is the difference between the understanding of "qin" and "love" in this structural design. , Which in turn triggered the conflicts and contradictions of rationality. This contradiction is centered on Liu Cheng in the “dome”. His selfless dedication and his expectation of his son to learn something is exactly the image of a typical Chinese father, and it is easier to resonate with the audience. The work captures the audience’s viewing psychology, and has formed an extremely rigorous and precise character relationship axis from him, such as Teacher Jiang who is responsible for proving that Liu Cheng is "selfish for his son", or is responsible for reflecting Liu Cheng's "Yes" Lily, who is a kind father but a strict father, and Professor Yu, who is responsible for disproving Liu Cheng's "sacrificing her own emotional needs for his son", the conflicts between the three are also for the role of "Dome" Liu Cheng. Ingeniously, these characters are not thin, they also have their own corresponding auxiliary roles presented oppositely, and they also perfectly fit the theme and story line of the film, such as the creation of Lili, Liu Cheng, and Liu Xiaochun’s father Yu Contradictory, designed in response to the theme "sincere emotion". Or Liu Xiaochun, who is responsible for finally proving the central theme of "art as the son of emotion and emotion as the father of art". Liu Xiaochun not only created all the main contradictions and conflicts in the whole film with Liu Cheng, but also made the most reasonable interpretation of all the unreasonable behaviors of Liu Cheng. The character design of this film is exquisite and elegant, which makes people have to marvel at the producer. Ingenuity.
Of course, as the ultimate goal of a movie, it is still to get close to the emotional needs of the public through themes, so this design of pillar-shaped characters and dome-shaped characters is ultimately to guide the audience’s psychology and allow them to further think about the central connotation of the film . This is from the character design of each group of characters, It can be seen by deliberately magnifying the difference between them. Just like the "visual correction" design of the Parthenon's pillars, this differential design also exists to support Liu Cheng's "dome" and guide the audience to make correct judgments of emotion and value.
"Being with You" has an unquestionable role in guiding public opinion positively. After the film was broadcast that year, it immediately triggered heated discussions in the whole society. Many works imitate the trend, but many imitators have never seen a masterpiece. Even the film is quite "too stiff". The fundamental reason is also related to the deliberate use of techniques. As the theme of this film says: Art is the son of emotion. All works without sincere emotion will be pretentious. Today, art forms are becoming more abundant, and audience judgment standards are becoming stricter. It is only natural that this kind of main theme works are marked as "play for the show" and vulgar. Therefore, classics can be copied, but they must maintain their original intentions and must be derived from the art. Love. Otherwise, it can only become another sad orgy in Handan.
