movie " negative negative makes positive " was released on Chinese Valentine's Day. Compared with the past market appeal of starring Zhu Yilong , this literary love movie was not successful, and it also caused some couples who "went to the wrong set" to experience a similar experience. The misplaced embarrassment of “Another Night on Earth.”
But it is still a very unique one among Chinese love movies. It is light, free, psychedelic and absurd, but it allows people to read the real loneliness and heartbeat. It breaks away from the holiday-limited framework and does not cater to people's desire for sweet romance. expectations, but explores loneliness and interpersonal relationships in modern cities in a unique way.
"A negative makes a positive" poster
The story of Huang Zhenkai and Li Xiaole has been shrouded in a faint sense of alienation from the beginning. The beautiful lights of the city are intertwined with the busy life. Huang Zhenkai realized that he seemed to be living in a framed script since he was a child, and when he grew up, he repeated the life of a social animal day after day. His blue hair became his weak resistance to ordinary life. No matter how blue it was, no one cared about it, and everything remained the same. Only Li Xiaole made an OK gesture to his new hair color.
Stills from "A Negative Makes a Positive"
The appearance of Li Xiaole seemed to be a ray of light, illuminating his monotonous life. She is quirky, passionate and alienated, burdened with the trauma of growing up, and her protective color turns her into a chameleon. Lies are a way of survival taught to her by her liar father as a child, and they are also the refuge she imagined because she hates her own life. Similarly, it is also because of this "lying" setting that the plot of the film is more confusing, and the audience can make up more room for interpretation.
Stills from "The Negative Makes the Positive"
Two strangers live together, and then what? Of course it's love. In a love story like
, the story is not even the most important. The trivial little feelings and the human heart reflected behind these feelings have become the most attractive and touching part. To use today's popular words, the male and female protagonists can be regarded as two "crispy" young people. Their encounter is not a love script in the traditional sense, but a more complex process of emotional exploration.
Those abstract emotions are presented by the director in concrete visual language. The pink bubbles rising in the eyes while watching the "Egg Fried Rice" teaching program on TV on the sofa, or lighting a cigarette across a bed board. The peace of mind gained from companionship. The audience seems to be able to touch the characters' distant emotions through the screen, and feel the struggles and desires deep in their hearts.
Stills of "The Negative Makes the Positive"
"You don't need two identical people to love each other, only two people need to love." The movie expresses this "need" frankly, from the spirit to the body, without avoiding it, and also There is no deliberate sublimation. Everything can happen naturally and end quietly. Just like the encounters and partings that happen every day in the city, there is not so much excitement.
One thing that deserves recognition is that in this movie about love, the expression of sex is very frank and clean, and the animation is clever and accurate, without any secrets or deliberate gaze.
There are no sweet words and no oaths of love. The love in "The Negative is the Positive" is two lonely people staying close to each other for warmth. They don't recognize each other, but when they turn off the lights, they can imagine going anywhere. They traveled back in time to each other's childhoods. I helped you fight off the bad kids who bullied you, and I helped you deal with the arrogant and indifferent parents. After becoming an adult, the inner child who was once unable to take care of is seen and comforted, which is the most healing scene in the movie.
"I have begun to hate you" and "Then I hate you too", in fact, what they are saying is "I have begun to understand you" and "I understand you too". But if you are really close to the other person, you can't help but want to run away and hide. After missing it, you will realize the sadness and helplessness of being caught off guard, and it is the unspeakable pain of many adults.
"How can people live alone all the time without feeling lonely?" This question raised in the movie may still not have an answer after watching the movie, but if you can resonate with the world on the screen, you may also be able to understand your own loneliness. , feeling a little optimistic. Li Xiaole said, "If you hate yourself, then don't be yourself." If someone is willing to embrace the annoying you, can you also have the courage to embrace yourself?
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"A Negative Is Positive" is a very "good-looking" movie in terms of visual experience. Both the male and female protagonists are eye-catching, and even a bit standout in their beauty. Unlike the delicate soft light filters used by the protagonists of traditional idol dramas, the exquisite lighting and composition create an atmosphere that is both realistic and surreal.
Audiences who have watched the movie will find it difficult not to associate the visual style of this film with Wong Kar-wai. Qiu Tian's appearance and acting style are very similar to Faye Wong in "Chongqing Express". The male and female protagonists are in the same space together. It is so similar to the setting of "Chungking Express"; the longing for Buenos Aires continues to write about the regret of not being able to start over in "Happy Together"; the setting of the alien movie and the "2046" train The robots whose origins are unclear have different ideas but the same purpose.
In addition to Wong Kar-Wai, there are also many references to classic romantic movies in the film, such as the soft science fiction script setting of tracing the girl's trace, such as the softness of "Warm and Warm Embedded Light"; the indistinguishable truth and falsehood in lies, also Like the pursuit of unwilling questions and obsessions in "Suzhou River"; through Wang Yitong's collaboration with " Universe Exploration Editorial Department ", the vacant romantic verses have become tacit laughter among movie fans...
"negative" Stills of "Negative Makes Positive"
For movie fans, there is room for endless enjoyment in the movie-obsessed memes of "Negative Makes Positive", and the audience can even find their own emotional outlets in repeated recollections. However, an overly dense sense of collage seems to blur the director's own aesthetic expression, and the mixed emotional puzzle always lacks a bit of original purity. The advantages and disadvantages of
's film are obvious. The most regrettable part is that it can obviously create a light and free projection of urban autism syndrome group portraits, but it has to set up an overly extreme native family and make the plot become a piece of shit. When the protagonist's various motivations and choices must be based on the background of his parents' cheating, deception, abandonment, and blood debt, the commonality and resonance of alienation and insecurity are reduced, and instead bring about deliberateness.
The interesting setting of Alien finally comes down to the protagonist's resistance to fate. The ambiguity and lingering in the adult world suddenly turns into the "my fate is up to me and I can't help it" in the juvenile comics. Such a forced inspirational and fulfilling theme, and The chicken soup ending of regaining childhood dreams and re-embracing your lover has become another stereotype script paradigm.
The stills of "The Negative Makes the Positive"
Compared with the past special schedules such as "Valentine's Day", "Chinese Valentine's Day" and "520", it is a sugary romance movie that can break 100 million in one day of release, but no one cares about it after it expires. "Negative Negative Gains Positive" is worthy of recognition enough. There is no standard answer to love, it may just be one person's illusion. This kind of "love movie" does not have to involve a couple working together to make you feel emotional and tearful, and it does not miss the youth that will never return and miss the person who was young and frivolous and sad.
Loneliness and understanding may be issues that more adults need to face. On the market, it may not be suitable for couples who need to have sex with each other on a certain day. Maybe in the future, more people can open it when they need "a glass of red wine with a movie". , nestled comfortably on the sofa.
