In this summer season, the most popular film currently is undoubtedly " Catch a Baby " starring Shen Teng and Ma Li. If nothing else happens, this film may be the box office champion in the summer season. And it should be able to enter the top three box office rankings of this year's theatrical films.
The plot of "Catch a Baby" is not complicated. In the film, Ma Chenggang, the father played by Shen Teng, is a wealthy man in Xihong City. He has an eldest son named Ma Dajun, but the growth trajectory of this eldest son is not what Ma Chenggang expected. The same, so he felt that his son was useless, so he decided to raise another one.
Ma Chenggang and his wife Chunlan have a younger son named Ma Jiye. It can be seen from this name that Ma Chenggang really has high hopes for this son.
Speaking of names, the name of Ma Li's character in the film is also very interesting. In the previous "Charlotte Troubles", Ma Li's character was called "Dongmei". In "Me and Mine" In "Hometown", the character played by Ma Li is called "Qiuxia". This time, the character played by Ma Li is called "Chunlan".
It is said that originally the heroine "Xia Zhu" in "The Richest Man in Xihong City " was supposed to be played by Ma Li, but later she was not cast due to other reasons. As a result, "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" was missing the character "Xia Zhu". ", I feel a bit regretful.
Talking about "Catch a Baby", when Ma Chenggang was planning how to raise his youngest son, he thought of his own growth experience. He believed that the main reason why he was so successful was that he suffered enough as a child.
So he, Chunlan and their young son returned to the place where he lived when he was a child, and began to act poor.
If you just read the introduction, this story is indeed a bit like "The Truman Show", and it is easily reminiscent of the so-called "Chinese-style education", so you will feel that some plots can be guessed without reading.
But in fact, although the overall framework of this drama is not novel, there are still a lot of laughs in the film, and it can be regarded as a qualified comedy.
The funny methods in the drama are all based on the character's personality and are set as the plot progresses. There are no low-level jokes about third parties and peeing, and there is no deliberate attempt to create a "clown"-style tool role. To create jokes by killing monsters, this alone has been able to defeat more than 90% of domestic comedy movies in recent years.
The only thing that makes people feel that it may be a bit of a sidestep is Ma Dajun's friend Ma Peter. When these two people appear together, it is easy for people to make some associations.
But fortunately, there are no exact shots in the following film to prove that this conjecture is correct. It can be said that it is suspected that the screenwriter wants to "drive", but there is no evidence.
So this movie is very suitable for watching with your family, without having to worry about embarrassing scenes.
But just when most people thought that "Catch a Baby" was a comedy movie that was "harmless to humans and animals", the famous director Lu Chuan jumped out to educate the audience and directly labeled it a "cultural sadness".
I guess many people were surprised when they saw Director Lu Chuan’s comment. How come ordinary people watching a comedy movie and having fun become culturally miserable?
Ordinary people work for a week, or even work overtime for a week, and finally it’s the weekend. The adults don’t have to go to work, the children don’t have to go to school, and the family goes out to watch a comedy movie and laugh happily for two hours. , temporarily forgetting the unsatisfactory life and unsatisfactory work.
Maybe on the way home, I will chat with my family about my thoughts after watching the movie. When it comes to the laughter that both of them can get, they can still be happy for a while.
Even when I go to work the next day, I can have a common topic with colleagues who have watched this movie. The atmosphere when several people chat about comedy movies is definitely much happier than when talking about dramas or tragedies.
Watching a movie can bring you joy for a day or two. How can this become a "cultural tragedy"? Could it be that in Director Lu Chuan's mind, domestic culture simply does not allow ordinary people to laugh?
In fact, different audiences will have different interpretations of the same movie. When we were in school, we all learned how to do reading comprehension on Chinese language papers, and we all understand that no matter what type of literary works or literary works, as long as they "Formula" can interpret the "connotation" and increase the "value".
For example, this movie "Catch a Baby" can be said to reflect the public's understanding and contradictions about education in a period. After watching the film, parents can trigger a discussion about whether their children should be raised poor or rich, and at the same time, they can learn something to accompany their children. skills to understand where the boundaries of education should be...
Anyway, as long as you find a point and use some of the Chinese reading comprehension answering skills of the year, you can come up with a valuable and high-level review of three to five thousand words.
No matter how you write it, it is better than Director Lu Chuan who only gives a conclusion but not the argument process.
Nowadays, some directors don’t think about how to make good films that the common people like to see, but they always want to give the common people some values. They use a kind of well-intentioned lamentation and a kind of compassionate drama, stepping on China with their soles. Culture, in an attempt to elevate itself, has reduced the entire Chinese popular culture audience to dust. In fact, the existence of this type of people may be the "sadness of culture".
