The role of Wu Di played by Hu Ge has to make people feel that " Stop and Go " is like the companion piece of the movie " It's Worth It " (also starring Hu Ge). The protagonists are all frustrated screenwriters by profession, including the setting of returning to their hometown to make movies, which can easily make some viewers feel fatigued.
because it reminds people of , "Galaxy Writer", "Yongan Town Story Collection", and other movies that express the film and television industry itself. Links to related articles: The frustrated screenwriter played by Hu Ge in "It's Worth It" made me see myself...
However, compared with the two movies mentioned above, "Stop and Go" is relatively more down-to-earth. Some. After all, for most ordinary audiences, watching a show within a show or watching someone filming a movie is no essentially different from watching stories in other industries. It does not affect their resonance with the characters, especially those like Wu Di who are wandering in the north. A middle-aged man who returned to his hometown after failure.
In "It's Worth It", the screenwriter who could not continue to work in the film and television industry changed his career and wrote a eulogy. In this movie, although there was an attempt to make a movie, Wu Di finally chose to be a taxi driver. A very realistic choice. One day while driving for a job, Feng Liuliu (played by Gao Yuanyuan), a female classmate with whom he had an affair, sat in the passenger seat of the car next to him.
Because of the traffic jam, the two cars were stopping and going, and there was always a chance to talk side by side. However, neither of them said hello or looked at each other. Instead, when they were "running neck and neck", one person turned to look at the other. People, both of them did this action, but they both looked forward and did not respond to each other. This image cleverly echoes the theme of the movie's title.
It was actually a more deliberate arrangement for Wu Di to meet his female classmate Feng Liuliu, because Feng Liuliu was engaged in the documentary industry, which provided the possibility for Wu Di to film his script into a movie. On the other hand, the behind-the-scenes footage of the film and previous interviews with Wu Di were eventually edited into a documentary that is enlightening to reality.
In addition to the various roles and background settings in the film industry, when filming the movie, Wu Di and cameraman Cao Ge behaved like filmmakers who are completely making literary films. For example, Cao Ge mentioned that according to Ozu Yasu The Jiro way of making movies. These are actually the elements just mentioned that can easily make some viewers feel that they are taking advantage of the pain points of their own industry to gain sympathy.
The story of a middle-aged man who drifted to the North and returned without success is a rather sad story, so it needs to be expressed or resisted in a humorous way. The small life-like details in the film make people laugh. His humor is not Northeastern sketch style. Some of his humor is not even based on words, but actions and actions.
For example, when they realized that their father might throw things or even turn over the table when he was angry, the mother and daughter were fully prepared. Wu Di's sister Wu Shuang jumped on the table when her father was about to overturn it. This scene is undoubtedly one of the most humorous comedy scenes in the film.
During the filming, the wig blowing into the river and the scene of waiting for the father to urinate before turning on the camera also contributed to varying degrees of happiness. Although the black and white images interspersed in it are a relatively literary and artistic shooting method, the overall tone determines that the film is still a relaxed and warm realism-themed film.
Since it is tenderness, in addition to laughter, there are also tears. The heroine of Wu Di's movie was his mother, but she died unexpectedly during the filming and the filming was not finished yet. After his wife passed away, his father, who was not very supportive at first, disguised himself as a woman and put on the skirt that his wife wore in the movie before his death. This made up for the film. With his back to the camera, he also imitated his wife and was busy making homemade popsicles... …
