Have you ever had the experience of talking to a chicken with a different frequency?
If you don’t have it, I recommend you to read the following classic clip; if you have it, you can also recall the past:
- Middle-aged people like you are often faced with double pressure.
-Middle-aged?
- You are middle-aged, you are two months older than me.
- Do you still remember my birthday?
- Huh?
Have your toes dug out of the living room in embarrassment?
But the above dialogue takes place between Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan, and you will feel it is extremely natural.
To be precise, it is between the characters played by Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan in the new film " stop and go ".
Male, Wu Di, 35+ unemployed and crispy young man who returned to his hometown. With curly hair, black-framed round glasses, and a baggy shirt wrapped around his baggy body, he looks like the protagonist of Woody Allen wandering into a small southwest town.
female, Feng Liuliu, Wu Di’s high school classmate. Divorced single mother, working as a documentary director for a local TV station.
Feng Liuliu, a top student and class beauty, may have been Wu Di’s crush. Many years later, I was actively invited by the "goddess". The latter's small expectations and excitement bubbled up from time to time, and her thoughts went astray, so she often missed the key points.
Comfortable designs that make people smile are everywhere in the film, outlining the film's unique comedy flavor: light and down-to-earth comedy .
It connects with the character's life experience while cleverly digesting the actor's personal traits.
hot knowledge: Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan can be said to be the most "Buddhist" top artists of their age in domestic entertainment.
In terms of career, they prefer to "stop and go".
does not participate in variety shows, minimizes exposure, only chooses the works he wants to shoot, and even has similar remarks about "retiring from the circle".
Suffering from two serious diseases of contemporary society, namely "crispy young people" and "class-flavored patients", he was cured by this new film and felt completely comfortable: Unexpectedly, "Mr. Bao" became a "waste" and became more fragrant.
"Escape from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou" has become more and more concrete in recent years from slogans to actions. In the current bustling wave of "returning home", Wu Di, played by Hu Ge, is a small splash.
Beijing "could not move" back to his hometown. The small loss of the wasted young man was accurately grasped by him.
The seemingly slow life in his hometown was not as simple as he imagined. When
was looking for a job, the capital he was proud of turned into a drag, adding weight to the balance of life, raising the word "comfort" high.
Sometimes, I feel that he has no relevant work experience and the company does not want to pay extra training costs.
Sometimes, I think he is older, and the sentence "no people over 35 years old" will stop him.
Sometimes, I dislike him for being unrealistic. His boastful educational philosophy of happiness and encouragement has become a laughing stock in the face of performance-first performance.
Suffering has become the norm at a certain stage of life.
In this regard, Hu Ge described Wu Di as being like a top, always spinning in place, using some funny postures to relieve the pressure that life brings to him.
Wu Di is used to swallowing bitter things, chewing them to squeeze out the sweet aftertaste, and then spitting out the dregs.
He is good at laughing at himself, and even better at self-comfort and self-motivation like an ostrich.
"Returning Home" seems to others to be like being unable to survive. Wu Di put a beautiful sugar coating on it: He compared it to a race in life, "Everyone said I ran slowly and thought I was lazy. In fact, I wanted to use my strength." Save it for the sprint stage. "
He is very good at adjusting himself and never consumes himself.
What should I do if I have nothing to do?
Or you may be slumped on the sofa at home, too lazy to get up to pick up the remote control, so you use your feet to do the work.
Or watch the old men playing chess on the street or sit on the empty swing to relax.
Or play a game with your kid brother. The kid just wants to win, which makes the kid cry, but he just laughs and laughs on the sidelines.
He is as soft as mud, but in fact he is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. He refuses to raise the white flag to the unpleasant life, he is stubborn and naive.
He was repeatedly rejected for jobs, so his father shamelessly took him to visit old friends and find a job within the system. But when he received the offer, he turned down the rare iron job.
He seemed to have completely given up on his original path, but quietly stuffed the results of the difficult childbirth under his pillow, as if he slept with it, and there was a little light in his dreams.
all say that "big cities cannot accommodate the body, and small cities cannot accommodate the soul." Wu Di, who is a bit of a loser, actually lives a very clear life and strives to find a balance between the body and the soul.
Once he encounters something he likes, he will go all out, regardless of success or failure.
Wu Di's "arrogant" attributes and "performative personality" were peeled off layer by layer while getting along with Feng Liuliu (played by Gao Yuanyuan). When
unexpectedly met Feng Liuliu, it happened to be at the bottom of his life: Beidiao was frustrated and returned home, unable to find a job for a while, "gnawing at the old man" at home and asking his mother for pocket money, and queuing up among the elderly to receive free eggs every week. .
When TV news cameras accurately captured him as an "other", the awkward reunion set the tone for their relationship.
Compared with the "crispy young man" Wu Di, Feng Liuliu has a completely different appearance and temperament.
As a single mother who has to bear the pressure of raising a child, Feng Liuliu lives very hard.
She works proactively, has a serious attitude, and always maintains decent makeup and posture. Those with high EQ are called sophisticated white-collar workers, while those with low EQ are called: the class is a bit heavy.
The sense of dislocation between Feng Liuliu and Wu Di can be summed up in one scene.
Feng Liuliu asked Wu Di why he was queuing here. Wu Di shook his head and replied: "I was in a gap recently."
"For what?" Feng Liuliu, who lives in a small town, did not understand this fake "high-end vocabulary" at all.
She is a lens that truthfully records every detail of Wu Di’s life; she is also a mirror that reflects Wu Di’s truer and more vivid self.
In front of old classmates, Wu Di always had "idol baggage" that he couldn't get rid of at the beginning. His inner self-esteem, arrogance and inferiority were tangled into hairballs, making him a little awkward and even ridiculous.
Just as he packaged "unemployment" as "hide your strength and bide your time" when they met, he tried hard to prove himself in front of Feng Liuliu.
So, before Feng Liuliu filmed his documentary, he rummaged through the cabinets and found the trophies from elementary school and placed them on the cabinets.
When the camera was focused on him, he pretended to stand up casually, walked to the cabinet, brushed his hand over the trophy, and added lightly: "Because I want to hide my strength, I always look like a late bloomer."
But Wu Di's self-righteous cleverness cannot deceive Feng Liuliu who knows him well.
Feng Liuliu has the straightforward background of a Sichuan and Chongqing woman. She can tell the truth when she sees through it, and she will express her attitude simply:
Can you be more truthful? Do you think this is the real you now?
Wu Di had a nickname in high school. He always thought he was "Cong Cong", describing him as smart.
As a result, Feng Liuliu told him that the nickname was "Cong Cong", which just described the way his hair looked like scallions.
Just like this nickname that has been misunderstood for many years, Feng Liuliu photographed all the details that Wu Di ignored, invisible or even misunderstood, enriching his profile.
's unexpected reunion opened a window for the two to see another world. With their increasing contact and understanding, they changed each other and themselves.
Feng Liuliu is not pretentious, but is content with the status quo. Wu Di gave her the courage to go out.
Wu Di learned from Feng Liuliu to face himself more calmly, and no longer retreated and escaped blindly.
"Stop and Go" has a wonderful ending.
A few years later, Wu Di and Feng Liuliu met on a traffic jam on the highway. The two people in the two cars have opened a new chapter in their lives.
On their respective tracks, the two cars stopped and went, constantly alternating. It not only echoes the title of the film, but also is a microcosm of life.
What is go and stop?
It is "rolling up" and "lying down", "distance" and "hometown", two states of being alive.
The education we have received since childhood is to strive for the top, study, exams, competitions, and test... There are countless "small town problem solvers" who work tirelessly to stay away from the "small town". It seems that stopping and going back is tantamount to facing shame. and admitting failure.
But how can there be people who run all the time but never feel bitter or tired? The reason why I can't stop is because of my inner weakness, timidity and fear.
Fortunately, Wu Di, as the spokesperson of the "stop and go" concept, has a whole family behind him.
The current rapidly developing and rapidly changing society often causes people to feel uncertain. In fact, the sense of hierarchy in life does not lie in the distance, but in finding the neighborhood and starting from the neighborhood. and home is near the smallest unit.
Wu Di's family is a very typical family.
His decision to return to his hometown for development has been expressed by his family in turn.
's mother Jiang Meiling (played by Yue Hong) bluntly said that he "just can't get along" and "what you lack is your strength"; his sister Wu Shuang (played by Jin Jing) complained that "it's a matter of endurance. Men can't last long in anything they do." time".
The father Wu Mingfa (played by Zhou Yemang) is even more vicious and boldly speaks: "Gold is gold wherever it is, and shit is wherever shit is."
No one in the family seems to think highly of Wu Di, and there is a lot of bad news.
However, despite the scolding, when it was really the turn to take action, everyone still stood with Wu Di tacitly: This is the reality in the world, and actions are more convincing than any words.
The new "track" opened up by Wu Di, my sister contributes, and my mother contributes people and money.
Father Wu kept his private money at the bottom of the box, but his mother encouraged his son to dig it out. Leaving behind the words "last chance", the mother left gracefully, with encouragement and expectation for her son in her eyes.
As the mainstay of the family, Father Wu's attitude towards Wu Di is more ambiguous and vague.
He habitually pours cold water on children, sings the opposite, is harsh-tongued, and is petty-minded. Whenever something goes wrong, he glares, throws things, and wants to flip the table.
When his mother and daughter helped Wu Di, he not only watched with cold eyes, but also often openly laughed at them. With his hands behind his back and his head raised, the smell of "Dad" was so strong that it would break through the Tianling Cap.
If someone else had played the role, he would have been a rough old man with a disgusting appearance.
However, Zhou Yemang, who played "Old Koehler" in " Love Myth ", gently lifted up the character's many minor flaws and added a touch of childish naughtiness and even cuteness to make the subsequent character changes reasonable.
reminds everyone, be sure to pay close attention to the second half. There is a highlight scene of Wu's father, which made Piao Piao's eyes turn red. He understood the weight of the word "father" and also understood the meaning of "stop and go". .
The English title of "Stop and Go" is "gold or shit", which fits Wu's father's words and also poses a question to everyone inside and outside the film: Is success equal to gold and failure equal to shit? Who can accurately define success and failure?
Living in a modern city, we are accustomed to living a 45-degree life: unable to roll up, lying unevenly, often internally consumed, competing with ourselves, and both physically and mentally "brittle".
recommends that all "Banwei'er patients" should read "Stop and Go". It is the most effective medicine for migrant workers to spend their "mules and horses holidays".
It does not criticize from above, nor does it pretend to be aloof. It just presents another path and another possibility to everyone, telling everyone: life is ultimately your own. Instead of showing it to others, it is better to stop occasionally. stop.
Just like what Wu’s mother said in the film: "You don’t have to be shit or gold, just an ordinary person. Stopping and going is the normal state of life."
