Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Wu Xiang) The documentary "Qijia Le", which takes the extended family as the core and tells the true story of an ordinary family in Shanghai, will premiere on the Documentary Humanities Channel at 21:00 on May 15. Directed by Shanghai media person Jiang Weimin, the film records the nearly 100-year history of a large family in Shanghai in oral form, condensing a century of warmth and memories of the times into a long video.
The subjects of "Seven Family Music" are the narrators, who are the seventh siblings of the Wang family of director Jiang Weimin's mother. Through the personalized narration of seven elderly people with an average age of 77, the director skillfully interweaves the two main lines of family and era in the dual dimensions of time and space. Childhood, further education, work, marriage, demolition... each story of life details and house changes shows the ups and downs of Shanghai citizens' life, and also reflects the impact of changing times on personal destiny. In the
film, the extensive use of Shanghai dialect not only makes the narrative full of authentic life, but also adds a cultural charm, as if it takes the audience back in time to experience the daily life of the Wang family. The opening and ending of the film are also very distinctive. The director opens the film with a long shot of a family gathering during the Spring Festival. The seven elderly people introduce themselves one by one, which not only establishes the basic form of the oral history of the film, but also vividly depicts each family. Members’ personalities and roles. At the end of the documentary, the director's grandfather personally made a photo album of "Seven Music" for the seven sisters and brothers, paired with just the right music, without the need for words, the emotions flowed and touched people's hearts.
During the trial screening, the film was praised by the audience and industry insiders as "a rare perspective, a rare reality, a rare uniqueness", "showing the richness of the life trends of ordinary Shanghai citizens in the great era", "every Shanghainese can I can see my ancestors, the joys and sorrows of my relatives for more than half a century, and the living conditions of Shanghainese from cramped to spacious, and I can also see myself." Jiang Weimin said that "Seven Family Lore" not only records the history of an ordinary family in Shanghai, but also tells us that everyone is the creator of history, and the story of every family is worth remembering. No matter how the times change, the family is still the eternity of human society. Theme of. The film will also be launched simultaneously on BesTV iptv, Internet TV, and cable TV.
