's first Pingyao movie viewing this year was dedicated to the opening film "Girl Jiahe" of the "Crouching Tiger" unit.
The third Pingyao International Film Festival is divided into seven units, including the "Crouching Tiger" unit dedicated to discovering new works by outstanding newcomers around the world, and the "Hidden Dragon" unit dedicated to discovering new generation Chinese directors.
"Girl Jiahe" press conference
"Girl Jiahe" as the opening film of the "Crouching Tiger" unit, the first media screening was carried out on the first day of the festival.
At the press conference before the premiere, Marco Muller, the artistic director of the Pingyao International Film Festival, shared: "As the film festival's film picker and director, my greatest happiness is to find new people. Not only a new director , And new actors. "
"Girl Jiahe" is such a very "new" team. The film is starring Deng Enxi, Li Gan, Wu Guohua , and Lu Bingshu is the producer. This is not only director Zhou Sun’s feature-length debut , but also the feature film starring Deng Enxi.
"Girl Jiahe" The girl Li Jiahe in the crew of
"Girl Jiahe" was excluded from school because she was the daughter of a butcher. At the same time, in her single-parent family environment, the factual disagreement over the accidental death of her mother also made her and The father had a diaphragm.
One day, she occasionally met Yu Lei, a young man who had returned from a work-study school education reform. When she was close to this young man, Jiahe's life and revenge took a turn.
"Girl Jiahe" stills
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As the first audience to see "Girl Jiahe", this time watching the movie brought a lot of novel experiences to Sister Ba.
For example, one minute before the start of the film, Sister Ba was worried about whether the projector was malfunctioning, and Jiahe's life was squeezed into a square frame. Director
later stated that she actually deliberately used the sense of oppression and restraint brought about by the 4:3 frame to match the girl Jiahe’s living condition:
girl Jiahe is an inward story that can happen in many places. Therefore, there is no need to emphasize the relationship of any environment, and the intention is to deliberately blur the scenes in the movie to more easily arouse empathy from the audience.
"Girl Jiahe" stills. There are not many lines in the film
. The director seems to be more inclined to use pictures to coherent the plot and let the audience feel the emotions she wants to convey.
For example, at the beginning, Jiahe was like a calf in a fence that appeared at the beginning of the film, colliding in the plight of school and family. This sense of pressure is further reduced when the screen is reduced to a narrower mobile phone vertical screen. Projected to the audience.
movies and images on mobile phones are media carriers that can convey information. Director asked whether modern people are used to prying into the world from narrow screens and whether they have chosen a downward perspective on life.
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"Girl Jiahe" character relationship is the highlight of the film, but also the audience is prone to misunderstanding and disagreement. Perhaps the audience thought they would see the faint love between the young hero and heroine budding. What is rare for
is that director personally broke this routine and provided us with a brand new idea of youth films.
"Girl Jiahe" director Zhou Sun
Zhou Sun has a preference for juvenile, because juvenile characters are in a critical period of character formation and have complex, sensitive and unstable characteristics. Although the story of
involves juvenile crime, the direction of the writing is the choice made by during adolescence before the two protagonists embark on diametrically opposite life paths.
The further you go, the more you can get used to this unfairness.
-The director of "Girl Jiahe"
chooses to follow the choices made by a 13-year-old girl before the critical point when assumes responsibility when she is about to grow to fourteen to show her adolescent growth.
The fatal choice of the young boy Yu Rai was the beginning of everything, and it ended when the girl Jiahe made a diametrically opposite decision while facing the same life and death choice.
"Girl Jiahe"
in Jiahe’s growthHolding the deadliest weapon in her hand, is the connivance of the judge, just doesn't know anything about it.
But also because of this, Jiahe's growth is spontaneously . Whether deciding revenge or choosing reconciliation, she has always held the absolute initiative.
"Girl Jiahe" poster
maybe for Jiahe at the beginning eye for eye, tooth for tooth is the way young people get out of trouble, so when she was isolated at school, she chose to splash a bucket of red paint To the pool, to resist the unfair treatment of her classmates.
But when her revenge target handed the razor to her hand, the knife never stabbed.
is precisely because in her growth, 's dilemma has been broken by her hand in the process of her choosing to and inaction with her father, the juvenile who killed her mother in Radium, and reconciliation with unfairness.
"Why are you betraying me!"
"I don't have one!"
-"Girl Jiahe"
chose to reconcile and let go in the process of resisting the injustice of fate, Jiahe moved to another life.
Therefore, the sense of faith and idealism in this film is enough to support the pattern of this film, and there is no need to entangle the feelings of teenagers and girls.
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"Dog Thirteen" poster
In a similar girly-themed movie, the director Cao Baoping of "Dog Thirteen" once taught director Zhou Sun's experience: "Choose a good actor, the movie will get twice the result with half the effort. "
So after the roles were determined, the director and actors of "Jia He" have established a lot of trust in each other in terms of character creation. The director even more frankly shared: "I don't have much experience in acting, and basically rely on them to perform in their true colors."
"Girl Jiahe" Deng Enxi Li Gan
"Girl Jiahe" is the leading actress Deng Enxi The feature film shot at the age of twelve may explain that she was still a little immature when she was Jiahe, but she has experienced the polishing of many film and television works such as "Hello, Zhihua", "Appearance of Suspect X", and "The Peace and the Calm" When the younger sister returned to face the interview, she was already generous enough and sincerely answered the question about the reporter asking her to star in such a "big female lead drama" when she was 12 years old.
"The calm and calm" poster
She said that the role of the girl Jiahe and the crew made her understand the meaning of the actor to complete the role, making her grow into a real actor.
"Girl Jiahe" Deng Enxi
Every girl who has gone through puberty may still remember how precious her long hair was at that age, but in order to become "Li Jiahe", Deng Enxi cut off her long hair and even deliberately turned her ugly closer to the role. But the director pointed to the monitor and said to her, , "Eunxi, you are still too beautiful, you have to stay up late."
"Girl Jiahe"
, the actor Li Gan played in Rai actually has fourteen with Deng Enxi In the story of "Girl Jiahe", Yu Lei's character complexity is only a lot more than Jiahe.
"Girl Jiahe" Li Gan
is a rich second-generation juvenile offender with a complicated family background. For the female protagonist who approaches him with the purpose of revenge, perhaps he knows well whether he wants to perform such a complicated juvenile role according to the stereotype. In fact, Li Gan There is no bottom. Director
suggested that he extract from his life the real experience that can be presented under the lens, and only then has the juvenile Yu Lei, who is questioned as "not very similar" to the juvenile offender.
Maybe there are people who have been given a second life in their lives, and they have returned to ordinary days after being forgiven. This is actually what youth is like.
