"Let's go home. Home is where grandma is."
Zhang Jiajia 's new film is a box office hit.
has been released for two days, and the box office has exceeded 130 million at the time of writing. The total box office forecast given by Maoyan is over 400 million.
"There is a canteen by the cloud".
Many viewers bought Zhang Jiajia's popular book when they were in school. For them, watching the movie is like realizing a dream.
There are also viewers who have not read the book. When they walked into the theater and saw the nearly 10-minute animation at the beginning, they thought they were in the wrong theater. The first round of word-of-mouth reviews for
came out, and the comments were even more polarized. It wasn’t just five-star reviews that made people cry.
is one star begging "Zhang Jiajia, stop being a director." What kind of movie is
that has such divisive reviews and such explosive box office?
watched this movie for the first time, and it was indeed a wonderful movie-watching experience.
First of all, we can confirm that this is a movie that can make you cry.
's style is definitely not as eloquent as " please reply 1988", which will make you shed tears unconsciously.
No, Zhang Jiajia definitely wants to make you cry in the theater, especially in the second half of the movie, when the tears come one after another like a snowball. It uses strong emotion to force you to shed tears.
Secondly, it is not a movie for everyone, but it will definitely become the first dark horse movie of the summer.
Its audience is by no means limited to fans of Peng Yuchang , Zhou Ye or Zhao Lusi , or even Shufen.
While watching the movie, I noticed that the theater where I was in was dominated by female audiences, and almost all the audience members around me were crying. The girl on my right kept wiping her tears with paper, and the mother and daughter behind me were sobbing loudly. Come watch the movie with me.
Maybe it’s because the video is really touching, or maybe it’s the atmosphere of the scene, but I couldn’t hold back my tears.
But when I got home after watching the movie, I thought about this movie and thought that I shed tears for this movie, and I felt an inexplicable sense of shame.
Because "There Is a Canteen by the Clouds" is really not a high-end movie.
The whole plot is actually very cliché. From the plot to the theme to the concept, it all feels familiar. The film's excessive sensationalism may cause discomfort to some viewers who are not fans of the original work.
But, it makes me cry.
So here comes the question, why do so many people cry when watching such a healing movie directed by Zhang Jiajia and adapted from a popular novel?
Perhaps it is because the movie ultimately focuses on family ties and hometown.
And who doesn’t want to have a grandmother like Wang Yingying, and who doesn’t want to have a hometown like Yunbian Town?
01 Not high-end
Let me be honest first, "There is a Shop on the Edge of the Clouds" is definitely not a very perfect, very high-end movie.
first looks at a name.
Zhang Jiajia.
"Cloud Edge" is a movie adapted from the novel. The original author is Zhang Jiajia. The novel has been read by more than 1.2 billion people on the Internet. It is a smash hit and has countless book fans.
Zhang Jiajia directed this movie himself, which has become the reason why many book fans are looking forward to it.
The novel is shot by the author himself. Of course, it can best restore the original temperament of the novel, and there is no need to worry about magic modification.
In fact, the degree of restoration of the movie is indeed very high. The scenes, dialogues, and famous scenes in the original work have all been restored.
But Zhang Jiajia is not only the reason for many people to go to the theater, but it may also be the reason for some viewers not to go to the theater.
Let’s watch the plot again.
This is actually a popular "homecoming movie".
Perhaps city life is too tiring. In recent years, many film and television works have focused on their "hometown". TV series include "Hometown, Stay Well" and so on, and movies include "Get Home at One O'clock" played by Peng Yuchang.
In that movie, he returned to his hometown to start a business in express delivery. In "There is a Commissary by the Clouds", he returned to his hometown to sell insurance.
The story opens with Liu Shisan, who has not been doing well in the big city, being dragged back to his hometown by his grandmother on a tractor. Due to the foreshadowing laid before the movie, the main line of the movie is to return to his hometown to "sell 1,000 insurances." This plot set me up Personally, I really, really don’t like it, but we’ll talk about it later.
Let’s look at the idea again.
In fact, this is a movie that makes people understand at a glance: leaving your hometown to work hard in a big city, trying to prove yourself, but the result is only to prove your failure, calm down and return to your hometown, with the help of family and love Find yourself next.
Although this idea is good, it has been used in many movies, and even the idea of hometown goddess is no longer new.
The details follow.
Zhang Jiajia's original work is a big seller because the protagonist's life experience allows many people to see their own shadow and it is easy to resonate. After
returned to his hometown, the movie also showed the various life styles of the people in Yunbian Town. The once naive Niu Datian has become Mr. Niu, who seems to own the largest industry in the town, but he is still a naive man who only loves white moonlight; Mao Tingting, who cannot speak, relies on her own crafts to make money, and also takes care of the unemployed and has nothing to do to cause trouble. Brother Mao Zhijie.
And the male protagonist’s childhood goddess also returned to her hometown for him, just to cheer him up.
These plots are already very dreamy and very Zhang Jiajia.
But what is even more dreamy is definitely Zhang Jiajia’s film techniques.
The opening ten-minute animation introduces the childhood story of Liu Shisan and Cheng Shuang. It is an innovative attempt, but it is actually separated from the entire movie. Only fans of the original work may understand it.
Zhang Jiajia's narrative rhythm is loose at first and tight at the other. It may be difficult for ordinary viewers to quickly enter the plot in the first half.
Coupled with the storyline of returning to my hometown to sell insurance, no matter how funny it is, it still makes me feel uncomfortable.
And the second half of the movie is like a non-stop melancholy.
Zhang Jiajia must make the audience cry, stacking too many sensational points together: Sister Tingting marries in a foreign country, grandma Wang Yingying passes away, Thirteen hangs lanterns on the mountain, Cheng Shuang leaves, Qiuqiu runs inspirationally... The director seems to use We try our best to make you cry out of the theater.
Zhang Jiajia seems to be telling the audience a golden saying: The meaning of returning to hometown is actually to say goodbye to it officially.
Especially, people from my hometown.
02 Very good to cry
A movie like this, logically speaking, must be a bad movie.
I thought so at first. After watching the 10-minute animation, I rolled my eyes a few times. I heard that the man wanted to go back to his hometown to sell 1,000 insurance policies, and I immediately had the urge to get up and leave.
But the strange thing is that you don’t know from which second, you suddenly see it, and you don’t know where you are, you suddenly shed tears, and then the video ends, and you find that your eyes are red and swollen.
Why can a movie with such a strong sense of patchwork and sensationalism give people such a strong and real emotional impact?
I think there are three reasons.
One, photography by Li Pingbin.
Yes, it is Li Pingbin who has shot " In the Mood for Love " and " The Untold Secret " and is regarded as Hou Hsiao-hsien's royal photographer.
The master took such beautiful photos of his hometown, Yunbian Town, with distant mountains, floating clouds, rice fields, crucian carp fragrance, rice wine fermentation, those green waters and mountains, as well as the fireflies and burning clouds, hanging lanterns all over the mountains and fields for the deceased, and finally, the peach trees The Yingying canteen below.
As it is said at the beginning of the film, "Yunbian Town is a place where you can touch the clouds by opening the window." It is as beautiful as a fairy tale. Li Pingbin’s photography captured the fairy tale town.
Also, the master is very good at photographing beauties. Back then he photographed the most beautiful Maggie Cheung and the most beautiful Shu Qi. Now she also photographed the most beautiful Zhou Ye.
The girl in the yellow dress with a bright smile should be engraved in the hearts of the audience along with this fairy tale town.
Second, the actor’s performance.
The most touching thing about the movie is of course the love between grandparents and grandchildren, the love between father and daughter, and the hazy love. But the biggest credit for making it so moving lies in the actors.
Peng Yuchang does have a bright future. He can play the role as himself every time. The most difficult thing about Liu Shisan's acting is that he is ordinary.
But Peng Yuchang performed this kind of ordinary, ordinary wandering in the city in the beginning, frustrated, ordinary cheering himself up and speaking harshly, and then ordinary experiencing various changes and ordinary growth after returning to the city.
This is an ordinary person, until the end, but if you look at him hanging the lamp in the wind and snow, you can't help crying.
is also very good.
Cheng Shuang had a few scenes that moved me very much. One was the one where he was eating noodles in the rain, and he felt lonely and courageous while eating the noodles. The other was the scene before leaving, which was as beautiful as a dream.
There is also a little clever Gui Qiuqiu. When he first appeared, he had a little painted face and messy hair, and insisted on calling people mom and dad.
But since she met Shisan and Cheng Shuang, her "parents", her life has undergone earth-shaking changes, and she finally turned into a beautiful little girl. The young actors performed the growth of the characters.
But the most exciting one, without any doubt, is Alia's grandmother.
looks so fierce and sharp on the outside, but he has such a gentle heart, whether it is the journey back from the big city carrying Thirteen, or the last words he said to his grandson.
The deep love between ancestors and grandchildren, such dense emotions, are all handled by her so well.
Her performance is the biggest tear point of the movie. The foreshadowing is sufficient, and the last memory scene and Peng Yuchang's red eyes from crying can move the audience.
It can be said that it is Aaliyah's performance that holds up this drama.
Third, control emotions.
said that "There is a Canteen by the Clouds" is a movie that makes people cry, but this is only half right.
This is actually a movie that makes people cry and laugh at the same time.
director Zhang Jiajia may not necessarily be superb, but he is indeed a master at mobilizing the audience's emotions.
Just like his blockbuster novels.
In the last scene, the male protagonist was carried back to his hometown by his grandmother, which made the audience laugh.
In the next scene, we see Liu Shisan, who has no friends, reunite with Cheng Shuang, who has no tomorrow, and sighs.
Next, Qiu Qiu Noodle Shop recognized her relatives, which made the audience laugh out loud again.
But the next scene, where Qiuqiu misses his biological father’s favorite chicken cake that has become a lunatic, makes people cry again.
At the end, when the audience saw that his grandmother passed away, Liu Shisan walked to the top of the mountain alone to light a lamp for his grandmother, crying and crying, how could people not burst into tears.
But in Niu Datian's English notes, the sentence "this is a happy ending" makes people feel warm again.
The director seems to have his own emotional metronome, scratching your creaks and poking your tears.
The audience became captives of the director's emotional manipulation, spending 131 minutes crying and laughing.
You may think this technique is a bit low, but it is not that easy to hit the beat of every emotion.
From novels to movies, Zhang Jiajia has never been the most advanced author, but every time he makes the ups and downs of emotions invisible, making the audience laugh and cry along with him.
This is his ability, there is nothing to say.
At the end, the audience will definitely be reminded of their hometown.
That hometown seems to be still the same, but it is different from our childhood.
Time passes by everyone fairly, and in every hometown in people's hearts, some grow up, some leave, and some grow old.
We all know that the hometown we remember can no longer go back.
But, we still want to return to our hometown.
Because there are always some things that remain the same.
In Yunbian Town, Liu Shisan’s hometown, there is still the spicy grandmother Wang Yingying who makes delicious meals; there is the domineering and interesting Cheng Shuang, and there are simple and kind fellows... The hometown is ever-changing, but the one thing that remains unchanged is the human touch.
Wherever there are people, there is love. The audience can feel the human touch left in this movie.
03 Returning to Hometown
At the end, we knew that Zhang Jiajia wanted to make us cry, but we were still made to cry by him. The director
also changed the ending of the original work. The ending of Cheng Shuang's surgery was changed to an open ending. This should be the tenderness and longing left for Liu Shisan. He was brought up by his grandmother since he was a child. In the end, his grandmother also left, and Cheng Shuang left again. , there is no one left in his hometown.
This tenderness is actually buried in the entire movie.
I think many people, even if they have not seen the original work, will definitely remember the line in the movie when they walk out of the theater, "Wang Yingying, live a long life."
Those who have cried while reading this book will cry again after reading this.
People who have never read the book may still cry when they read it because of this line.
Because everyone has his own Wang Yingying in his heart!
The most wonderful adaptation of the movie is to adjust the sequence in which the original grandmother drives a tractor to pick up Liu Shisan. Only in the second half do we learn that the original grandmother knew that her time was running out.
The reason why we miss our hometown. It’s always because of the people in my hometown.
Jia Zhangke said, "Only when I leave my hometown can I have a hometown."
Perhaps many years after leaving my hometown, those who are truly memorable in memory are those who live in memory. It will become clearer.
In the movie, Wang Yingying is the reason why Liu Shisan returns home.
Watermelon, rice wine, and voice recorder are all because of her.
Life and death are ordinary things, clouds gather and disperse, they are all normal, but precisely because there are gatherings and separations in the world, when you see it or think of that person, your heart will feel hot.
So in the end, what moved us may not be just the movie, but the hometown in everyone's heart, and your Wang Yingying. Liu Shisan in the
movie finally found himself, but we are still struggling in the city. The wheel of fate keeps moving forward, and no one has time to stop.
But the movie will make the audience be transported to a certain point and awaken the memory of the past.
Is there a cute canteen in your hometown?
Are there any regrettable people or events in your hometown?
Do you still remember the aroma of rice wine in your hometown?
Can a person take you back to your hometown?
Heart-wrenching questions came one after another. Rather than crying for the movie, it is better to say that the movie awakened memories and everyone cried for their past.
So, "The Shop by the Cloud" is such a movie.
It's not a movie for everyone.
But it is a ticket back to my hometown.
It’s not exquisite or perfect, but there are always some memories of this trip, which can soothe your tired heart like the warm sun in winter and watermelon in summer.
The story is indispensable for its sensationalism, which will make you burp and feel helpless at being dominated by the prepared dishes, but the feeling of being healed is real.
The former self you see in this story is real.
Even if it is just a short-term relief, it is well worth it.
"Whether it is a mountain or a sea, wherever the person who loves you is, that is your hometown."
There will always be a moment when you take on the role of your hometown, your grandmother, and the Wang Yingying in your heart, and then say silently in your heart, I hope She also lives a long life!
