The audience is eagerly looking forward to seeing Shen Ma reunite again. It was screened for three days, with an opening score of 7.5, and the cumulative box office exceeded 500 million.
" catching dolls " is quite interesting.
Good news, the Shenma content is 100%, and it is finally no longer a pretense. In the top start, the rich pretended to be poor and made the poor laugh. If you really can't, donate some to me.
Many days have passed, and all I can think about is: "Hermès kelly orange lychee pattern, Hermès kelly orange lychee pattern." How much does this thing cost? Does it look better hanging around the neck or in the hand?
is full of laughter throughout the whole process, and the Xihong City universe is linked with dreams. I thought it was a pure comedy, but I didn't expect it to be the strongest "educational film" in the summer season. The more I watched, the more heartbroken I became, and I cried while laughing.
【1】
Catching the doll is not just catching it in the claw machine, it is actually "grabbing it from the doll".
Ma Chenggang (played by Shen Teng ) and Chunlan (played by Ma Li ) are a second-married couple. Lao Ma and his ex-wife practiced the tuba, Ma Dajun (played by Zhang Zidong), but unexpectedly, the tuba became useless.
There is no other way but to place hope on their trumpet: Ma Jiye (played by Xiao Bochen).
The old horse knows the way, but the little horse suffers.
directly took the child from the big mansion to the small courtyard building where he grew up. He cultivated a life of hard work and hard work. I am familiar with this. The young master of the Mala Prince family also grew up in this way.
The essence of raising a child from a rich man to a poor man is to raise a finely crafted successor. Every step in the growth process must be carried out according to the plan set by Lao Ma. In the final analysis, that is really pitiful for the hearts of parents in the world.
Chicken Baby, a unique education method born in exam-oriented education. Generally, the rich chicken baby is a cultural and sports tour. The main focus is to increase knowledge and cultivate sentiment, and comprehensively focus on quality and test-taking.
Lao Ma is different. Call him a chicken, he is also a chicken.
But what he is doing is the heretical and crooked ways, so a poor person is in charge. The water at home is "stolen", the food we eat is all "morning market" food, and the clothes we wear are rags that have been mended for three years.
The school teacher really couldn’t stand it anymore and invited entrepreneurs to fund it. As a result, the couple directly provided high-end coffee and top-quality cigars to other entrepreneurs.
Chunlan’s headband looks like a broken key chain, but it is actually from Balenciaga. The luxury watch inadvertently exposed on her wrist is simply incompatible with the environment at home. It was so dangerous, the secret was almost exposed.
Young Master Ma, who was so "poor" but still emotionally stable, found the goal of life amidst the "torture" day by day: to go to a sports school, which broke his heart.
spent hard money to hire a professional team to help. Unexpectedly, the child's martial spirit awakened and he wanted to run. Lao Ma and Chunlan tried their best to cure the child's lameness.
The actors in the professional team also worked hard. There is a "Sanwei Bookstore" at the door of the building. The boss is older than Lu Xun. The neighbors in the building either rely on physics to communicate, or they always have endless math questions.
Everyone Xiao Ma met along the way was studying tirelessly.
This pony was full of doubts. His father said that reading can change your destiny, but four people in a house love reading so much, how come they are still too poor to afford big fish and meat?
There are also two "stalkers" riding electric bicycles among the actors. They seem to be well-dressed passers-by, but in fact they are small bodyguards holding a walkie-talkie to report.
The city outside is developing rapidly, but this small shabby building has kept the life in the 1980s. Xiao Ma's energetic appearance every day is like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning.
The worst path Ma Jiye has ever gone through was nothing more than the tricks his father bought and laid for him.
[2]
Most Chinese children have heard a sentence when they were young: "I am all for your own good."
This sentence has a strong pua attribute and a strong sustenance from the parents. Ma Jiye is Such a living example, in his carefully planned life, he must be arranged to study business management at a top prestigious school.
On this road arranged by Ma Chenggang, there is no room for any mistakes. His son has to be monitored at all times, and all emergencies need to be interrupted by another thing at the first time.
This growth structure looks a lot like "The Truman Show", but compared to this film and television classic, the satirical direction of "Catch Me" is more down-to-earth, almost creating a feast of irony for exam-oriented education.
When Xiao Ma was a teenager, he had almost no right to make choices in life. The school reported to parents that their children were partial to English, so Lao Ma teamed up with the teachers and arranged a bunch of extras for Ma Jiye, who would pass by Xiao Ma every day. Communicate with him in English on the road.
This is the same situation as in "The Truman Show", where Truman desperately wanted to escape from the world, but was repeatedly caught home. There are all kinds of force majeure in their lives.
But rather than saying that "Catch a Baby" is similar to "The Truman Show", it is better to look back at the previous works of "Xihong City Universe".
In the summer of 2015, "Charlotte " suddenly visited, creating a top reputation for domestic comedy films. To this day, this movie has been mentioned by the audience.
To put it simply, "Charlotte Troubles" tells the fantasy journey of Charlotte suddenly returning to middle school to win over the goddess because she was drunk. In fact, it just alludes to the ordinary audience's daily life, and they will suddenly think of "What if I return to the middle school?" What will happen to me in a certain year?" A curious story.
In the summer of 2018, Yan Fei and Peng Damo brought a new work " The Richest Man in Xihong City ", which jumped out of the framework of the previous work and told the story of "If a huge sum of money falls from the sky, what will happen to my life?" The story of how things have changed.”
After 6 years, "Catch a Baby" still continues the fantasy proposition of ordinary people, positioning the story as a story of "What would my life be like if I were a rich second generation raised in poverty?" After all, such an idea It is too common among ordinary people.
From this point of view, the current three feature films of Xihong City Universe seem to be about people's "ultimate ideals" at different stages, but why does "Catch a Baby" have a more obvious irony compared to the previous two works? Woolen cloth?
"Catch a Baby" does not tell the story from Ma Jiye's perspective, but from Ma Chenggang's mouth, which has become an established fact. He has long known the truth of the matter, so in such a story narration, we take the initiative to focus on the right person. In the discussion of Ma Chenggang's education methods, he kept his expectations on the fantasy level to a minimum.
Stop talking about us. Ma Jiye, the man in the game, after encountering so many strange things, would rather not believe in materialism and would rather believe that his classmates said his mother had cheated on him than dare to imagine that he is a rich second generation.
In Ma Chenggang’s education system, the family of three is actually very representative. As a self-made rich generation, Ma Chenggang has experienced hardships, and he is indeed a person shaped by hardships.
After his eldest son failed to learn and had no skills, he firmly believed that his education method could influence his second son and take over the family business.
This kind of fatherly feeling that bursts out from him happens to be the epitome of the male chauvinist father image in some East Asian families.
Chunlan is a loyal supporter of this father figure. She believes that Ma Chenggang's education model can shape a pillar of talent. She also looks forward to Ma Chenggang's wealth, which can bring her a better life, so she does not hesitate to reject her children and her grandmother. Grandpa’s meeting.
Luxury goods are a response to suppress the anger in her heart. In this process, a talented son is more like an accessory that symbolizes class to her.
The image of the fake grandmother Teacher Li ( Sarina ) is actually the richest in the family. Her role is dual-sided. On the one hand, she is the gold medal teaching consultant hired by Ma Chenggang, and on the other hand, she integrates into this family. The family becomes a part of it.
As an "outsider" in the family, she has experienced every moment of Xiao Ma's growth. For Xiao Ma, she is both a parent and a teacher, so at the end of her story, Xiao Ma's emotions also moved the audience. The emotion pushed the story to the climax.
The core point of the entire film is highlighted by these three key characters: Ma Jiye’s path to success is actually more like a notice warning “Chinese-style parents”.
【3】
But apart from that, the brother Ma Dajun is a character arrangement that I like very much. After watching the whole film, it is difficult not to be moved by his simplicity and kindness.
is different from his younger brother in that he has been wealthy since he was a child. He was poor in studies, so Lao Ma paid high school fees and sent him abroad for "further study." Although he failed to study further, he brought back a blond "male daughter-in-law."
The younger brother was forced to go out to pick up plastic bottles. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked his boyfriend to take him back to his residence and bought dozens of plastic bottles at a high price, just to give him a bath.
It has to be said that the genes of Northeastern people for bathing are engraved in their bones.
In his simple understanding, his younger brother was more like the product of his father's display of power, so even if his father had conflicts with him countless times because of his younger brother's growth path, he did not bear any grudge against his younger brother.
For Ma Jiye, the existence of this brother is both strange and special. His brother is a counterexample and the person he will never be able to become.
But even if he doesn't know the words, he will take his boyfriend and accompany his brother to run a marathon that "never deflates".
This brotherhood is actually very rare, because when they were growing up, the father's role was two extremes with drawbacks, one is delegation of power, the other is power, but it is obvious that the two people grew up in such different environments. , all want to prove the value of their existence.
From this point of view, I think this film is not a simple emotional comedy, it has a strong sense of tragedy. This kind of tragedy is not just an isolated tragedy. Many people say that it even has "horror" elements, because many The content is chilling after the irony.
In addition to the big selling point of the combination of Shen and Ma, it is certainly a thought-provoking surprise.
After the era of cheating has passed, some stories about parents cheating their children without knowing it have been put on the screen. This is what makes it most like "The Truman Show": it allows the audience to look in the mirror.
