Editor | summer If the rise of women's films is a clarion call for the awakening of women's consciousness, then the full flowering of women's films directed by women is one of the important signs of the unprecedented progress of this ideology. Since the beginning of this year, a

Editor | summer

If the rise of women’s films is the clarion call for the awakening of women’s consciousness, then the full flowering of women’s films directed by women is one of the important signs of the unprecedented progress of this ideology. Since the beginning of this year, a series of films focusing on female growth, including " is hot and " and "'s determination to run away ", have achieved excellent results in word-of-mouth and box office.

Why can women’s films stir up such huge waves? The reason behind this may be due to the current high participation of female groups. According to questmobile data, over the past year, the proportion of women in the mobile Internet has continued to increase to 49.5%. Among them, female users born in the 1990s accounted for the highest proportion at 19.4%. Users in second-tier and above cities increased by 6.6% year-on-year. Overall, the female group’s willingness to discuss and consumption power are continuing to improve.

According to data from Maoyan Research Institute, as of October 30, the proportion of female audiences in the 2024 movie market is 52.8%. Based on this huge user base, people’s expectations for female movies will be relatively higher.

On the other hand, traditional films pay relatively little attention to female issues, and are more auxiliary to male characters in narrative structure. Therefore, this market is also a blue ocean space worth exploring. This is why the number of female films this year has One of the reasons for rapid growth.

In fact, we can see that compared to the so-called female films in the past that simply changed the perspective of the protagonist, the films currently presented by will have a more female perspective, and their core often focuses on women's self-growth and how they fight against difficulties. . This kind of discussion will be more in-depth and more delicate, and the audience will be able to see a more three-dimensional, more vivid and more diverse female image.

Compared with film and television works that are purely dominated by male directors, female directors or related creators will have a deeper understanding of women's plight and emotional needs, and the resulting works will be more likely to resonate with fellow women.

can be said that from her perspective, female needs, female aesthetics, and female expression are reshaping the entire film and television world in an all-round way. This not only presents a novel performance perspective, but also presents people with soft and powerful images. This kind of light expression of female values ​​​​is scarce in previous film works. In today's special planning, topher has selected a number of wonderful films directed by female directors, and we look forward to watching them with you.

part 1 Re-Looking at the World

The film " Good Stuff " written and directed by young female director Shao Yihui was recently released. The film received a high rating of 9.1 points on Douban and achieved good box office and word-of-mouth success.

"Good Things" focuses on several women with different characteristics. Wang Tiemei, a pushy single mother played by Song Jia , takes her daughter Wang Moli, played by Zeng Mumei. After moving, she gets acquainted with the so-called sober love brain played by Zhong Chuxi. My neighbor is Xiaoye, who is the lead singer of a band.

These two women have very different personalities, one is strong and the other is soft, one is good at being a mother, and the other is good at "lying" at any time. When Wang Tiemei was busy at work, Xiaoye would enthusiastically help her take care of her daughter Wang Moli. Xiaoye carefully discovered Jasmine's growing pains, and Jasmine also healed the trauma of Xiaoye's original family.

Faced with old traumas and new challenges, they warmed and comforted each other. At the same time, they also reflected on themselves in daily trivial matters and lived a better life. The beautiful friendship between women is also vividly presented in this film. It may not be gossip in the traditional concept, but a hand in hand to help each other, resist difficulties together, and ride the wind and waves. The power of this kind of female friendship is extremely huge and touching. Perhaps this is the most trivial "girls help girls" in daily life.

As for the two men surrounding Wang Tiemei, Zhao Youting 's ex-husband will "add trouble" from time to time, Zhang Yu 's daughter's drummer teacher seems to be full of new possibilities.As women who have awakened and men who have learned about gender issues, what new problems will they encounter? How do you view yourself and the world?

In fact, this film explores how women build a strong inner world in a relaxed and humorous way, allowing the audience to understand through laughter how women should awaken themselves, face and cherish themselves, and bravely face the challenges of their hearts and lives. challenge.

Movie: "Good Things"

Director: Shao Yihui

Screenwriter: Shao Yihui

Starring: Song Jia / Zhong Chuxi / Zeng Mumei / Zhang Yu / Zhao Youting...

Type: Drama / Romance

Production country/region: Mainland China

part 2 Reconstructing the parent-child relationship

How do divorced families get along? How to clear the knot between mother and daughter? With the question "Why don't you want me?", people's hearts were deeply touched, and people were eager to explore the story behind it. In the official announcement poster of

mother, the film's protagonist Yu Meihui looks sideways at her daughter Yoko, her eyes full of motherly love and a hint of unnoticeable sadness. The sentence "Just because you don't say it doesn't mean you don't love" establishes the warm core of the film "Although there is confusion, love is the background". The trailer released in the early stage opens with a suspenseful tone, with a girl asking her mother, "Why don't you want me anymore?" This question directly addresses the conflict between mother and daughter in a divorced family. The story of the film is based on tens of thousands of real cases of mother-daughter relationships in divorced families. Such a realistic and topical subject makes people want to explore what kind of story this is.

is produced by Cheng Qingsong, written and directed by Li Jue, and the movie " Yoko's Confusion" starring Huang Xiaolei, Tang Zeng, Zheng Yayun, and Gong Hongjia will be released nationwide on October 28. This film tells the story of Gao Yangzi, who has been living with his father after his parents divorced. He accidentally discovered that his mother, Yu Meihui, had given up her custody rights. As a result, he became hostile to her mother and confused about the relationship between mother and daughter.

Huang Xiaolei plays Yu Meihui, who has thin eyebrows, red lips, and fluffy waves. She is a "fashionable" woman who belongs to the most avant-garde type of person who has worked in a big city and then returned to settle in a small town.

However, on the one hand, she was defrauded of a huge sum of 100,000 yuan by her boyfriend, and her best friend said that she was "a pregnant woman." On the one hand, the daughter who lives with her ex-husband lives like a hedgehog, fighting with her classmates and venting her dissatisfaction on herself. Yu Meihui's life seems to be in a mess, and her love seems to be gone. Can the family relationship be restored? Can a divorced woman get a turn in her life? All the answers are in the video.

In "Yoko's Confusion", the characters are full of emotional tension, which allows us to see the dilemma of divorced women in love and family relationships. It also makes people look forward to how the film will present such realistic and topical content.

In fact, the mother-daughter relationship is perhaps the most complex of the intimate relationships in the world, especially in divorced families. The movie "Yoko's Confusion" presents the creative team's thoughts on the relationship between mother and daughter in divorced families and the discussion of the emotional state that divorced women should maintain. It is an emotionally delicate female-oriented movie.

Video: "Yoko's Confusion"

Director: Li Jue

Screenwriter: Li Jue

Starring: Huang Xiaolei/Zheng Yayun/Tang Zeng/Gong Hongjia

Type: Drama/Family

Production Country/Region: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

release date: 2023-10-28

part 3 Reorganize your inner self

Four years ago, in 2020, 56-year-old Su Min drove a polo car to travel through China and lived an enviable free life. While traveling, she used self-media to subsidize her travel expenses.

However, behind the departure, there is an image of a "woman trapped in a marriage for thirty years": In the 34 years since her marriage to her husband, the two have been in a relationship, and they are criticized every day when they work as a free nanny... In a video about why she traveled by car, Su Min narrated her experience, and the clinker was transferred to the Douyin platform by netizens and quickly became popular. So, Su Min started to start self-media.

In March 2022, through her own efforts, Su Min took out a loan to buy a RV. After running away, she finally lived the life that she and many others had dreamed of for a long time but dared not realize.The journey may be difficult, and she may have to sleep in the open air, but this kind of "freedom" from being restrained has been her longing for half her life.

It was also the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year. Su Min, who had been away from home for two years, returned home. The first thing her husband said when he saw her when he came in was, "You still know how to come back? You can't survive anymore, right?" Su Min decided to divorce.

On August 20, 2024, "Determination to Run away" adapted from Su Min's story was officially announced. At that time, she also hesitated, would anyone really read the stories of ordinary people? However, the all-female creative team composed of director Yin Lichuan, screenwriter Ami, and lead star Yongmei said in the interview that they hope that through this film, more people will see the efforts and difficulties of women, and encourage more women to become themselves .

is different from the conventional method. Although this film tells the story of running away, it does not unfold in the form of a road movie. Instead, it focuses on the life experience of the heroine Li Hong played by Yongmei as a girl, young and middle-aged, trying to answer "Why do ordinary middle-aged women want to run away, what hinders them, and how to run away."

It is worth noting that Li Hong in the film has been trapped in the web of life before running away. As the eldest daughter of the family, sister, wife, and mother of two younger brothers, all her marks are bound by these social roles. But only I don’t have myself...and these tiny and trivial daily routines eventually became the straw that broke the camel’s back. Fortunately, she chose to release herself and embarked on a "journey away".

It can be seen that at present, women's role identities and self-perceptions are constantly changing. On the one hand, they bear more responsibilities and responsibilities, and on the other hand, they are also constantly exploring themselves and releasing their endogenous power. Through this movie, we also get a glimpse of how women transform and grow under multiple pressures such as love, family, society, etc., and finally achieve the arduous journey of self-awakening.

Movie: "Determination to Run Away"

Director: Yin Lichuan

Screenwriter: A Mei / Yin Lichuan

Starring: Yong Mei / Jiang Wu / Wu Qian / Zhang Benyu / Ma Su / More...

Type: Drama / Family

Producer Country /Region: Mainland China

Language: Chinese Mandarin/Henan Dialect/ Sichuan dialect

Release date: 2024-09-15 (Mainland China)

Film length: 106 minutes

part 4 Defending the power of women

The 8-episode miniseries "My Altay" adapted from Li Juan's essay collection of the same name is the best rated so far this year The highest domestic film and television drama. In the

film, the snow-capped mountains towering into the clouds, the lush forests, the herds of cattle and sheep, and the galloping horses all reveal the strong vitality. In fact, in addition to these desirable natural scenery, the diverse female images in the film are the most attractive.

For example, the heroine Li Wenxiu looks weak on the surface, but is perseverant in her heart. Even in the face of ridicule from her peers, she still persists in her inner literary dream, just like the Altay weed growing tenaciously in the wind. Li Wenxiu's mother, Zhang Fengxia, is rugged, slovenly yet delicate, and has been commented by netizens as "the wind of freedom in the wilderness."

Token, a widowed Kazakh woman, faced the departure of her husband and the rigidity of her father-in-law, but she did not give up her pursuit of a better life. She led her children to move forward in the difficult years. Looking at the grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's, she can always enlighten Wenxiu with a transparent attitude...

You can see that every woman in this film shines with a different light, and their wonderful The story, their attitude towards life, their strength, and their richness of heart are all amazing.

Indeed, women are three-dimensional and multifaceted, but the similarity is that no matter which era they are in, they actively speak out and shout in different fields, and strive to reflect the shining brilliance of women to the world...

Video: " My Altay"

Director: Teng Congcong

Screenwriter: Teng Congcong/Peng Yining

Starring: Ma Yili/Zhou Yiran/ Yu Shi / Jiang Qiming / Yan Peilun / More...

Type: Drama

Production Country/Region: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin Chinese / Kazakh

part 5 Dare to look for true love again

Recently, the urban love comedy "The Love I Loved" directed by He Miaoqi and starring Sandra Ng and Zhang Tiantian was screened in major theaters. The film was not only selected for the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan section of the 2024 Golden Rooster Chinese Film Festival, but also won the "2024 Golden Rooster Annual Anticipated Chinese Film (Hong Kong and Macao Region)".

The film is based on a real Internet fraud news. It tells the story of Yu Xiaoqin, a Hong Kong gynecologist with a net worth of hundreds of millions. Four years after her husband died unexpectedly, she established a romantic relationship with a "French uncle" she met on a dating app. However, Unexpectedly, behind the romantic love is actually a scam. The film

uses comedy to tell a love story that develops in a fraud case, focusing deeply on the emotional dilemma and self-exploration of middle-aged urban women. At the beginning, the detection of this fraud case was revealed to the audience through flashback, and then the sweet love story recalled by the victim Yu Xiaoqin and the fraud story told by Li Weizu were intertwined and presented to the audience.

However, the film does not go further into the issue of fraud. Instead, it mainly limits the scope of discussion to the category of emotion, firmly grasping the desire of urban men and women to love and be loved. What is even more surprising is that as the victim, Yu Xiaoqin always insisted that she was just in love.

In her opinion, even if she is only in a love relationship woven by a scam, the feeling of love she experiences because she is fully devoted is real. The film valuablely acknowledges that any woman, regardless of occupation or age, will have strong emotional needs. They have their own desires in terms of loving and being loved.

Video: "The Love I Was Talking About"

Director: Ho Miao Kei

Screenwriter: Ho Miao Kei/Chan Hing-ka

Starring: Sandra Ng/Cheung Tian Tian/Stephy Tang/Chan Fai Hong/Zhang Jincheng/more...

Type: Drama/Comedy/Romance

production Film country/region: Hong Kong, China

Language: Cantonese / Mandarin Chinese

tail

In the movie "The Determination to Run Away",

once said,

"It is impossible for all roads to be sealed. Mountain roads, wild roads, there are always roads."

This may be what all women's movies are doing at the moment. Important ideas you want to convey.

That is, no matter what the current situation is, no matter what the path is, as long as you dare to move forward,

there will definitely be the path you want to take.

For a long time,

women have been trapped on the only path.

They are required to be a good daughter, a good wife, a good mother, and a good employee,

but are never allowed to be their true selves.

But now, with the rise of more and more women's films,

we have begun to realize that there is more than one solution to women's life, and there is more than one path.

hopes that all women in front of the screen can find their own path of growth.