Text/Miss Bovary
Hello my "acquaintances", happy July! Have you ever gone to the cinema to cool off?
This year’s summer season is a bit sluggish compared to last year. It doesn’t have that dazzling, indistinguishable, overwhelming sense of abundance, which somewhat disappoints the scorching July sun.
Either it is a familiar formula - suspense, bullying, Southeast Asia, Zhang Junning, Wang Chuanjun ...yeah, " silently kills " directly reminded me of several movies last year. I couldn't help but go to Douban to take a look at the main creators. There is no Chen Sicheng;
Either one of the films is the best, dominating the box office and topics with absolute advantage, leaving other films to die without a trace and quietly. The last time it destroyed the list like this was the Spring Festival release " Hot" "Hot ", this time it is Shen Teng Ma Li 's " Catch the Baby ".
is pretty boring anyway.
But if you really want to go to the theater and use the air conditioning, "Catch Me Doll" is still worth watching, and you won't waste two hours in vain. How is
worth it?
Usually, the four words "laughing with tears" are very useful when introducing a movie. But when it comes to the viewing experience of "Catch a Baby", "laughing with tears" is extremely accurate. .
The laughter is due to the constant burdens and the wonderful performances of the actors; the tears are from the perspective of a little boy. You can easily feel that it is not easy for children to live these decades.
Educational version of "The Truman Show"
The plot is very simple. The rich man Ma Chenggang abandoned his eldest son and later gave birth to his second son Ma Jiye with his second wife.
The second child was also doted on briefly, but the old horse learned lessons in time and reined in the cliff. In order to avoid having no successors, he used his money power to amplify his tactics and created a "growth utopia" for Jiye.
People say that the setting of the movie is like "The Truman Show", which it is, but even so, I still admire the screenwriter's imagination.
"The Truman Show" is a play-within-a-play without spoilers in advance. The audience is kept in the dark just like The Trumans, and they are confused and want to uncover the mystery. This makes the film inherently suspenseful; live-action The motive of the show director is also full of room for interpretation. He stood in front of the big screen and remained silent, like an arrogant and profound outsider.
"Catch Dolls" broke all the mystery. It moved the camera from the reality show set to the family education experimental field, creating a "Truman Show" in which concreteness is greater than abstraction, and practical significance is greater than symbolic significance.
There are no outsiders here, only ordinary people. You can not only take the perspective of Ma Jiye’s growth, but also the perspective of his parents who took great pains, and the perspective of workers who are paid to act, and you can’t even understand the weird operations of the old Ma family. An outsider's perspective.
is not suspenseful at all. From the beginning, we knew that this was the rich father’s plot, so the part of the play within the play deliberately created a deliberate feeling similar to that of a model play, which was contrived and absurd.
is fake, obviously very fake, the acting is obviously very poor, and the script setting is also full of personal limitations. The overall situation is so bad that it cannot be used as an advertisement, but Ma Jiye spent his elementary school surrounded by plastic acting and outdated plots. , middle school and high school.
Dad loves you
As the initiator and investor of the "Ma Jiye Growth Plan", this decades-long drama can almost be said to be the embodiment of Ma Chenggang's educational philosophy.
Main venue: The shabby old house where he lived when he was a child.
Core concept : The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and the poorer and more miserable the child, the stronger it becomes.
Auxiliary concept 1: Advocates gratitude education. Grandma is paralyzed in bed, and children have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of taking care of their elders since they were young.
Auxiliary concept 2: Resolutely resist playing with things to lose one's ambition. Neighbors must be educated people, do not talk about physics, do not talk about right and wrong, and do not write calligraphy.
Practical guidelines : covert protection + moderate guidance, keyword - moderation. For example, pretending to meet a foreigner by chance and read very unsophisticated English according to the textbook, so that the child can have the feeling of applying what he has learned, and at the same time achieve a Consolidate the effect of review.
The ultimate goal : to train children to be smart, hard-working, persevering graduates of famous schools, until they become outstanding entrepreneurs.
and above, it can be seen that Mr. Ma’s main idea is very clear, which is to devote himself to cultivating children to become the second him.
Gee, this is so arrogant.
Not to mention that everyone is an independent individual, children are another living life, so what, do we need to consider the differences in time and background? Do you want to respond to the national call to keep pace with the times?
The spring breeze of reform is blowing in our face. Three to five years will be a big change. Why bother to turn back time and lock the children in their childhood? At least thirty years away!
Children who walk to school, pick up bottles, dress in ragged clothes, and do not play games will be regarded as alien and bullied.
There is indeed a scene in the video where Xiao Ma is teased by his classmates while picking up a bottle. Let’s just say, does this really not leave a psychological shadow? Is there really no problem in going out and building relationships with peers in the future?
Also, after staying in a fake environment for more than ten years, he has been immersed in a cultural atmosphere that is not very sophisticated, and has accepted various tests of low difficulty level. When he grows up and enters the real society, Will there be no gap or discomfort?
After all, this world is not made up of simple book knowledge. Where can we find so many "good neighbors" who love to study, don't quarrel, and don't gossip!
I don’t like to pick on logic when watching movies, but I have to say that there is an obvious bug in "Catch a Baby" that is hard to ignore, and that is - It is difficult for Ma Jiye to grow up so well.
is a bright and sunny young man with excellent character and academic performance. He can be pulled down. He will enter the age of eighteen with a series of problems including self-cognition disorder and social development retardation, becoming the second number to be scrapped by Ma Chenggang.
When a person’s motivation is self-righteous and self-centered, God will not let him get what he wants. People who want to be God will only get the greatest backlash, because the rules of the world are not based on personal will. Even if he is the richest man in Xihong City, it will not help.
This is of course a horror movie
There are two parts in the film that gave me chills:
The first one is that Xiao Ma wants to take the physical education school, but is fooled by the old horse and finally gives up the dream because it is not in line with the old man. Horse pair Regarding his career setting, Lao Ma's plan is not for him to be an "athletic student with strong limbs and a simple mind", but an "entrepreneur who hires others to work for him."
In the second one, Xiao Ma saw with his own eyes that his grandma was walking as fast as flying and not disabled at all. But after returning home, everyone including his father, mother and grandma denied what he had seen - "No", "Is it wrong?" "I've been under too much pressure recently"...
Oh my god, isn't this the first step in pua? Treat your true feelings as illusions, and then you will no longer believe in yourself and can only listen to me.
There is no such thing as "poor parents in the world". This is called taking great pains to make their children become their vassals, and not hesitate to let their children suffer the pain of bereavement when necessary.
Near the end, I heard Lao Ma’s lines that sounded particularly familiar to me: “Did I really make you suffer? Compared with the hardships I endured, what are you doing? To become a man, you have to practice hard!”
Maybe it was a self-justification to save respect out of desperation, or maybe it was because he really didn't know what Xiao Ma was angry about and what pain he was feeling.
Of course he is not complaining about being poor for more than ten years, but he cannot accept why his parents treat him as a fool.
He may think this way: Why can other children grow up naturally in the real world, but I can't? Is it because I am weak and have no immunity against "germs", so I can only live in an artificial vacuum?
"Is it because I am weak?" Such thoughts are a great harm to narcissism.
In fact, he is not weak. He has no flaws. His father subconsciously hopes that he will be weak.
Smelling such a message made him angry and powerless. You are the elders who should be trusted and relied on, but it turns out that they don't really want you to be strong, but they just want to break your original wings and install a pair of plastic ones, and they call it "all for your own good."
Psychology calls it "creating symbiosis". Symbiosis is based on one will of life devouring another will of life. Therefore, at the spiritual level, symbiosis can continue, and only one of two people can live.
In reality, there are generally two extreme endings of symbiosis. One is that the overbearing parents gain a "good child"; the other is that since they cannot negotiate mentally, the child simply kills the elder's physical life. (For example, the case of Wu Xieyu from Peking University.)
In short, there is no happy and happy ending in the movie.
In addition, it is difficult for the elder brother and the younger brother to get along so harmoniously within a year. In the elder brother's eyes, the younger brother is the depriver of family resources and father's love. How can this knot be easily smoothed away? It just reinforces the stereotype of "the rich second generation who is unlearned and unskilled, that is, a heartless big boy".
At the end, Lao Ma’s words of “having a younger brother and sister” raised the terror index to the full level again - well, two sons are not enough for him, he still wants to do it again, right? This father is hopeless!
What is even more terrifying than this is that in reality, many parents do not have the skills and wealth of Lao Ma, but they still want to be the big director who controls the destiny of others.
Outsiders know that children must not accompany adults in this drama, but as the authorities, there are often very few children who can escape from the set and write their own lives.
