The movie "stop " starring Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan is a surprise in this year's Dragon Boat Festival.
Hu Ge's performance as "trash" is getting better and better, which is also an important sign of the progress of his acting skills.
But the two veteran actors Yue Hong and Zhou Yemang performed better in this drama.
Yue Hong won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 14th Beijing International Film Festival Tiantan Award for her role as Wu's mother Jiang Meiling.
At the same time, this film also won the Best Film Award and the Best Screenplay Award at the Beijing Film Festival.
was released in theaters on June 8, and it was released for 1 day and 8 hours. The box office exceeded 30 million, and the current number is 37 million.
More than 20,000 people on Douban rated it 7.9, and I personally think it deserves an 8.
The protagonist of the film is a Beipiao screenwriter named Wu Di (played by Hu Ge).
After 10 years of drifting to Beijing and achieving nothing, his girlfriend left him and his roommates moved away. Wu Di reluctantly decided to return to his hometown of Chongqing.
When he returned home, Wu's mother Jiang Meiling asked him how many days he would stay back this time, and Wu Di announced that he would come back to develop.
I looked around for jobs, but none of them worked.
Father Wu abandoned his old ways and asked someone to help find a stable job for his son, but Wu Di refused.
encounters middle school classmate Feng Liuliu (played by Gao Yuanyuan). Wu Di is unbeatable and only says that he is in a gap period and is hiding his strength and biding his time.
Feng Liuliu was filming a documentary on the TV station, and wanted to make a good film, but unfortunately the subject he just found passed away.
met Wu Di and had an idea. He felt that the material of Beidiao's return home was quite meaningful, so he thought about filming Wu Di.
Feng Liuliu and photographer Cao Ge carried photographic equipment to Wu Di's home to shoot.
Feng Liuliu and Brother Cao were already accustomed to Wu Di's pretentious gesture.
However, the boss disliked that Wu Di was just an unemployed vagrant with an ordinary life. What could he do to take pictures?
But Feng Liuliu doesn’t think so. She has her own insistence on documentaries.
When Jiang Meiling showed Feng Liuliu the script "An Old Friend Is Coming" written by Wu Di, Feng Liuliu thought it was well written and encouraged Wu Di to make it into a movie by himself.
Photographer Cao Ge hit it off immediately and provided support including people and equipment, and Feng Liuliu used his own resources to find actors.
When the filming date came, the actor who had been scheduled went to Hengdian for filming and took the actress away with him.
Wu Di invited Li Yuan, a drama actor that his mother Jiang Meiling liked, to play the male lead, while Jiang Meiling directly played the female lead.
The filming location was at the home of Wu Di's family of four. There was no makeup artist or recorder.
The unknown screenwriter Wu Di is the director, Jiang Meiling, who has never acted in her life, is the heroine, her sister Wu Shuang is in charge of the lighting, Wu Di directs, Cao Ge sets up the camera to shoot the movie, and Feng Liuliu takes the machine to shoot the documentary of Wu Di's movie. The improvised team of
started shooting a movie and a documentary at the same time in a cramped two-bedroom apartment.
Then, something interesting happened.
Wu Di shouted "action" and waved his hand, hitting the photographic equipment in the room.
Brother Cao’s camera was focused on Wu’s mother, and Feng Liuliu’s camera was focused on Wu Di.
In the play, Wu's mother had an affair with Li Yuan. Outside the play, Wu's father looked around sullenly, deliberately coming out to get water again and again. He drank too much water, and the sound of going to the toilet was clearly heard by everyone in the house. The filming was interrupted, and everyone Everyone was waiting for him to finish peeing, breathing a sigh of relief thinking it was finally over, when suddenly a few more drops came.
Mother Wu could no longer hold back her laughter.
Serious and realistic documentaries, literary and nostalgic movies with endless twists and turns, and real life full of trivial situations, collided together and triggered a wonderful chemical reaction.
All of this superimposes a multi-layered space with rich elements in the film, with a light comedy style and a return to the texture of life itself. However, life itself has its own drama, and when changes occur, you are caught off guard.
Jiang Meiling, played by Yue Hong, can be said to be the dramatist of this film.
The overall temperament of the film is particularly consistent with the temperament of the character Jiang Meiling.
After the male protagonist Wu Di returned home, he seemed to find a kind of spiritual belonging in Jiang Meiling's words.
The values of the entire film were more clearly presented through Jiang Meiling's words and gestures.
"Success is not necessarily gold, and failure is not necessarily shit. You just need to know what you are like."
Living in mainstream values, how many of us have been kidnapped by the success that the world admires.
A life lying flat is not worth living, and a loser does not deserve to live.
Only when you are successful, famous, elegant and rich will you be glorious.
Everyone strives to be a winner in life.
However, how many winners in life can there be in this world?
As for those people who are considered flat or even degenerate in the eyes of the public, are they really what you see?
Wu Di writes scripts seriously. He has been a screenwriter for 10 years and has not waited for his work to be made into a movie, so he will work hard for his dream and make it himself.
Feng Liuliu worked hard and wanted to make a true documentary, but the leader robbed the material and maliciously edited it into a story that was contrary to reality and completely different from recognition.
In the story, Wu Di became a naughty old man when he returned home, and making movies became a willful nonsense. Everyone was happily making movies, but it became full of complaints and became the last straw that broke the old mother's back.
However, the irony is that audiences love to see this. The leader became the director of this documentary and won the documentary award, and Feng Liuliu became his assistant.
Compared to the leadership award, does Jiang Meiling deserve the Best Newcomer Award? Unfortunately, she only got her wish in the Easter egg.
(There is a major spoiler below, be careful!) The most tearful scene in the entire film of
is the turning point.
After Jiang Meiling passed away, Wu's father, played by Zhou Yemang, thought that his wife hated quitting halfway in his life, so he suggested that his son finish the film.
So in the 4:3 black and white shot, Li Yuan said his farewell words, and in the kitchen was the back of Jiang Meiling in a long skirt, her head slightly lowered, making popsicles.
After taking the last long shot, Jiang Meiling turned around, and the person wearing a long skirt with long hair was the face of Father Wu.
He wore his late wife's long dress and used his back to complete the unfinished shot of her. This shot of
is really stunning, and the emotion it leaves behind is lasting.
Wu Di, who returned to his hometown from Beijing, was most influenced by his mother. He inherited Jiang Meiling's spiritual temperament and rediscovered his own value identity in his hometown.
Life does not have so many surprises, and life still has to be lived day by day.
His script is still lying in a drawer, the movies he made will not win awards, and he even took over his sister's job of driving a taxi.
But he will still open the document, type out the title of the script - "Stop and Go", and start writing the first line.
Life is not that good, nor is it that bad.
Life is just like water, flowing slowly or urgently.
Take a break when you are tired. When you have rested enough, keep walking forward. Stopping and walking is the rhythm of your body and the rhythm of life itself.
