Are people laid off in middle age? Are you constantly stuck on your job search journey? How should the dilemma of middle-aged people be solved? The movie "Retrograde Life", written, directed and starred by Xu Zheng, is now showing in theaters. But before "Retrograde Lif

people were laid off in middle age? Are you constantly stuck on your job search journey? How should the dilemma of middle-aged people be solved?

The movie " Retrograde Life " written, directed and starred by Xu Zheng is now being released in theaters.

But before the release of "Retrograde Life", some people publicly took the lead on the Internet, madly complaining about Xu Zheng's deliberate "consumption suffering", "traffic passwords, making fun of people at the bottom", and "why do we have to watch rich people play poor people".

There are also theaters that refuse to show this movie. This series of operations seems to tell everyone that this movie will definitely fail!

However, the premiere box office of "Retrograde Life" exceeded 50 million. Although it cannot create the box office myth of " I am not the god of medicine ", Xu Zheng's 200 million investment should still be able to make back the money.

Xu Zheng wrote, directed and acted, starting a retrograde life.

Xu Zheng, who has made great achievements in the film industry through the "囧" series of movies, this time meets the audience with his first new work with a realistic theme, "Retrograde Life".

Xu Zheng has multiple roles as director, screenwriter, and starring. From the perspective of real delivery workers, it tells the story of middle-aged delivery workers headed by "Gao Zhilei" who break through the mid-life crisis and seek new opportunities in life.

The male protagonist Gao Zhilei encountered a crisis of company layoffs at the beginning. As a professional programmer who has worked hard for more than ten years in a major Internet company, it is sad enough to suffer from occupational diseases caused by staying up late and working overtime every day.

ended up being laid off by the company without warning, and the company only gave him 300,000 yuan in compensation. How could it be worth his more than ten years of hard work?

argued hard with the company, but in the end it could not change the fate of being laid off.

If the job is gone, you can look for it again, but for Gao Zhilei, who has entered his 40s, he sent out a thousand resumes, and 999 of them were lost. The only one he got was the wrong age, so he got the opportunity to be interviewed. .

During the interview, the interviewer was cold and ruthless, which also completely exposed the most realistic aspect of workplace discrimination.

At a loss, Gao Zhilei finally had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and take up the job of "delivery boy".

When the webmaster of the takeout station was unwilling to accept him as an elite in the workplace, Gao Zhilei could only grab the webmaster's arm and humbly say this: I can't find a job, I need money.

When Gao Zhilei started delivering food, he was reminded of orders by the system, complained by customers, often couldn't find his way around, and couldn't see anyone... Only when Gao Zhilei stepped into the food delivery industry did he understand every industry, It’s not easy for people in every position.

Jia Bing plays the webmaster of the takeaway station. Although he does not have many scenes, he also vividly interprets the personality and mission of the webmaster. Before

became the webmaster, he was just a security guard at the gate of the community, and he had to stop the delivery people from entering the community every day. After becoming the webmaster, his task is to teach every delivery person how to break through the security guard and make the delivery safe. Delivered to every customer.

It can be said that the role of webmaster has made the delivery industry more three-dimensional and more concrete.

Lao Jie is a colleague of Gao Zhilei, and he comes from a humble and poor background. In order to save money for his daughter’s medical treatment, he was reluctant to go to the hospital for bandaging when he was injured while running takeaway.

When I usually eat out, every meal consists of clear soup with little water, which is enough to fill my stomach. You can even ask the restaurant owner for an extra side or two.

The "Volume King" of the takeaway station is also the top seller Dahei. He is Gao Zhilei's competitor and also the object of learning.

runs the most orders every month. He remembers every place, every alley, and even every corner of the city clearly. This is the magic weapon for him to become the "Order King".

But behind the scenes of his never-ending and ever-increasing involution, he is just trying to help his brothers pay off their debts.

Therefore, the ordinary delivery people who walk around the streets every day actually have extraordinary lives and experiences.

Through this video, I believe that every viewer will have a different understanding of the identity of a delivery boy.

was boycotted before its release. Is it really unfair?

"It's so difficult to make movies now." This is Xu Zheng's first public response after netizens boycotted and complained about it.

Xu Zheng said that the current film market is saturated and audience demand is high, making film creation increasingly difficult.

At the same time, a thousand viewers will have a thousand feelings and opinions, and no one can make a movie that satisfies everyone.

Therefore, it is really unfair and irrational to publicly criticize a movie before it is officially released. As a movie creator, you will also feel helpless.

So looking back, is it really unfair that "Retrograde Life" was criticized? In fact, there are still more or less embarrassing elements.

"Retrograde Humanity" follows the line of realist social comedy. It directly captures social problems, such as middle-aged unemployment, workplace discrimination, etc., and touches on many unspeakable pain points in reality.

It also tells the experiences of ordinary people from an equal perspective, without deliberately whitewashing the beauty or deliberately creating hardships, and reflects the daily life and bitterness of ordinary people.

There are also noisy scenes, anxious involutions, and helpless compromises in the film, but these are suggested to be closer to life and more resonant on the basis of not sensationalizing, not selling misery, and not preaching.

Finally, regarding the point of "praising suffering", both the protagonist Gao Zhilei and others in the film are just experiencing suffering, frustration, pain and struggle that ordinary people will experience.

Faced with various problems, the protagonists in the film also gave reasonable methods and answers - they just stood up after falling, vented their emotions to the air, patted their butts and continued to move forward.

So even though the filming of this film is not so extreme and pure, it does not push it into the ranks of "bad movies" in one fell swoop.

As for why some theaters refused to show "Retrograde Life", this also has to do with Xu Zheng's breaking of industry rules.

"囧Mom", which was released on New Year's Day in 2020, should have set off a strong box office performance during the Spring Festival. However, due to the special environment at the time, "囧Mom" could not be released normally.

Xu Zheng could have postponed the release of the film like other films. As a result, Xu Zheng still chose to meet the audience on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the way of meeting changed from a cinema screening to an online broadcast.

This was an unprecedented operation in the film industry, and it was also a bold attempt by Xu Zheng, but Xu Zheng offended theaters across the country.

Therefore, "Retrograde Life" is scheduled to be officially released on August 9. On August 5, some theaters took the lead in issuing a statement to publicly boycott the broadcast!

Everyone understands the principle of "put yourself to death and survive", but it is difficult to actually do it!

The middle-aged man Gao Zhilei in "Retrograde Life" faces such a dilemma at the beginning. Should he live the rest of his life decadently, or should he cheer up and rise again?

If it were you, what choice would you make?

believes that viewers who actually go to the cinema to watch this movie will be touched by the encounters, emotions and atmosphere of the characters in the play, and will also calm down and think about this issue seriously.

Instead of following the rhythm of the Internet and listening to the so-called boycott voices, they sentenced the film to "death" in advance.

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