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There are many masterpieces in the movie market in 2005. Major productions such as "Myth" and "Promise" have earned enough attention, "Peacock" and "A Thousand Miles" "Riding Alone" and other works have also attracted much attention. In the exciting movie market that year, a "Movie Memoirs" suddenly emerged and received a lot of praise. The film was nominated for the best feature film at the Changchun Film Festival and was even hailed as the Chinese version of "Paradise Cinema".
"Movie Past" is starring Xia Yu. He became the actor of the Venice Film Festival at the age of 17. He is the youngest international actor in history and the most low-key actor in China. Guan Xiaotong, who is only 8 years old, also participated in this movie,
A film that pays tribute to Chinese films, the scenes such as social phenomena, old movies, outdoor cinemas, and children's shooting games shown in the film, portray the childhood memories of people born in the 1960s and 1970s.
Director: Xiaojiang
Screenplay: Cheng Qingsong/ Xiaojiang
Starring: Xia Yu/ Wang Zhengjia/ Guan Xiaotong/ Zhang Yixuan/ Qi Zhongyang/ More...
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Release date: 2005-04-07
Length: 93 minutes
also known as: Dreaming Childhood/ Electric Shadows
The storyline of "Movie History" is quite nostalgic, but there is no lack of fantasy fairy tales, and the film's narrative It is carried out in the interlacing of two eras. The scene is switched back and forth between the streets of contemporary Beijing and the small town in the 1970s, using the current story to string together the past. The
film presents a period of time to the audience. Those scenes that seem to be old today are full of romantic nostalgia, which makes people can't help but move.
, the waterman Mao Dabing played by Xia Yu accidentally knocked down a brick while delivering water, and then he was smashed into the hospital with a brick by a young woman.
After the girl was detained, she asked Darling Mao to take care of the goldfish in her home. When Darling Mao opened the girl's diary, she found that the actor in the diary was actually herself. The dusty past of
is opened, and the stories related to light and shadow in their childhood began to be shown like a movie.
In the golden age of open-air movies, the announcer Jiang Xuehua, who aspired to be an actor, became pregnant unmarried and gave birth to daughter Jiang Lingling. When Lingling met in elementary school, she met the mischievous Mao Xiaobing. Lingling’s mother was ostracized by the people, while Mao Xiaobing’s parents Also divorced, he is not seen by his father.
Both children like to watch movies. They often use Mao Xiaobing's telescope to watch movies played in the open-air cinema from a distance, and the two have also become close friends.
Mao Xiaobing also has an unfortunate family. His father and stepmother are not good to Mao Xiaobing, and his father often fists at him, so Lingling took Xiaobing into her home, and Jiang Xuehua also treated him as if she had gone out.
Soon, Mao Xiaobing was sent away by his father. Before leaving, he gave the telescope to Jiang Lingling as a gift.
Lingling’s mother married the film projectionist Pan Daren and gave birth to a younger brother. Since then, Lingling has received less and less attention at home.
Later, every household had a TV, and the open-air cinema ceased to exist. Since then, Lingling's life has lost its color, and she has become more and more lonely and depressed.
When Lingling and her brother were watching a movie with the binoculars left by Mao Xiaobing, her brother accidentally fell from the top of the building and died. My father mistakenly believed that Lingling deliberately killed her brother and gave Lingling a heavy slap in the face, making Lingling double He was deaf and ran away from home.
Mao Xiaobing changed his name to Mao Dabing when he grew up. The accident in the water sent him again to encounter Lingling who was deaf and mentally unstable. At the same time, she discovered that Lingling had been secretly caring for her parents, thus revealing the dust. Long time ago, Lingling and Mao Dabing have recovered their former family and friendship. zThe various coincidences in the plot of 1z
seem a little unbelievable, but in fact the movie has another title "Dream Shadow Childhood", so the plot of the film also has some fantasy fairy tales, which is exactly this imaginative The plot triggered the audience's nostalgia and sorrow for the past.
Send a small reunion, regain family affection. These plots can be met in real life. The innocence is fleeting. The simple and beautiful days of childhood can only be relived in the dream factory of movies. Director
cleverly inserted a number of old domestic films into the film, and every important life transition of the characters was transitioned by a domestic film. "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Railway Guerrilla", "I would rather die than surrender", "Small Street", "Angel on the Road", these old movies also hint at the fate of the protagonists.
Jiang Xuehua once dreamed of becoming a movie actor, but because of unmarried and first pregnancy, she suffered constant discrimination and criticism. After many failed struggles, she succumbed to reality and ended up being an ordinary woman.
Lingling liked movies as a child and dreamed of becoming an actor, but because of exam-oriented education, she was stopped by her mother who had the same dream. Because she was not taken seriously by the family, she eventually became a deaf-mute girl with mental instability.
Mao Xiaobing once obtained maternal love and friendship from Jiang Xuehua and Lingling, all of which was finally broken up by his father forcibly and eventually became an ordinary waterman.
Just like the plot of a movie is bound to have various turns, life is also full of regrets, the original movie portrays a real life.
The reunion of childhood friends makes people sigh the wonder of fate, the ups and downs of their respective experiences, and the regrets of life.
This also corresponds to the sentence on the movie poster, "When dreams can only be realized in movies...", we can only accept the reality of life and find our dreams and salvation in movies.
"Movie History" is such a film, carrying the ideals and dreams of a generation, telling stories about childhood, family love, growth and redemption.
black and white screens appear, the open-air cinema is crowded with people, and every household has a good place to wait for the projector to sound... The times like
are long gone, but I believe there will always be an old movie that will evoke your memories and recreate the past.
However, it’s a pity that such a good film was ultimately incompatible with the commercial film market and was eventually buried by time. Nowadays, few people know
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