In recent years, with the rapid development of the Chinese film market, not only the annual box office has broken through 60 billion, but also the Pingyao Film Festival, FIRST Film Festival, etc., which have promoted the surge of young directors, including "
I am not The Wen Muye of "The God of Medicine ", Bai Xue of " Over Spring ", etc., and the Wang Xiaoming , who took " Floating a Dream " to participate in the Pingyao Film Festival in 2018, and successively named "Week and Die". , "The Death of a Film Director", etc., continue the story of his unwilling person, and incorporate a certain amount of humanistic care.
The fable of the unwilling:
The ancients often said that they are depressed and unwilling. It comes from the "Xin Tang Shu" Volume 84: "(Li Mi) was hungry at the age of the year, peeling the veneer to eat. Changed his name to Liu Zhiyuan, and gave it to the professor on his birthday, depressed and weeping." The meaning mainly refers to I was depressed and depressed because my ambitions and ambitions could not be fulfilled, which was further extended later. Feng Junhao, the biggest winner of this year’s Oscar Film Festival, was interviewed by Cai and how he summarized his film creation. He said that from "Kidnapping a Dog" to "Parasite", he told stories about people with unwillingness. . The young director Wang Xiaoming, who is famous for "All the Way North" and "Happy Events in the Big City", also puts the "unwilling" as the focus of his attention, telling their happiness, anger, sorrow, and humane care with strands of compassion.
The first time many audiences came into contact with the work directed by Wang Xiaoming was the road drama "All the Way North" starring Wang Jinming. The film tells about middle-aged oil tanker driver Ah Bing, facing his son's imminent drop out of school, his mother's serious illness and the need for huge medical expenses, so he accepted the heavy responsibility privately entrusted by the boss and drove a truck all the way north...
At the beginning of the new century, the protagonist, A Bing, had lost his wife in middle-aged at the beginning, and was facing unemployment, his son dropping out of school, and his mother's serious illness. Although he had a soft and ordinary heart, he had to be on the road. Facing and solving those sudden and even unreasonable demands and problems, it can be said that he was a disillusioned person in life from the beginning. Although he became a comrade in the end and learned a little bit of humanity, what he has The lost authenticity is integrated into director Wang Xiaoming's concern for humanity.
"Week and Die" even points the fate of the unwilling to "death." "Zhou and Resurrection", originally called "Zhou and Resurrection", is a black humor film with modern themes. The film tells a third-rate painter who is depressed. Although he is diligent in painting, it is difficult to find a good gold master, so he encounters a teenage friend , The two planned a "famous after death" incident to hype up the price of the painting, but it was self-defeating...
The film tells the story of death/life in a cruel and tender way, and also involves some modern society. Ugly phenomena, such as artificial hype, and the protagonist's memory loss after encountering an accident, this also means that the unwilling person "forgets himself". Fortunately, the warm sunshine in some small mountain villages and years of friendship have brought him a little warmth in his life and the audience.
is lonely and not alone:
is born lonely. In the finale of the American drama "Suspect Tracking", it gave a lot of TM monologues, a little review of the heroine Root's pursuit of dreams and the life of no regrets and no regrets, and also brought out the theme of "Life is lonely" . In fact, since the first episode of the first season of "Suspect Tracking", the main members of the TM team have been constantly facing the problem of loneliness, but they are still able to walk hand in hand under difficulties.
For the unwilling, this kind of loneliness in life is often clearer. In "All the way to the north", the protagonist A Bing became a middle-aged wife lost and unemployed. He drove a large truck from Jiangsu to Guangdong, without a second driver taking turns driving, and most of the time he was alone on the road. , Sometimes when you want to contact a distant family member,The "lost connection" state that cannot be tied. The protagonist in "The Death of Zhou" is a third-rate painter, has a wife and a teenage partner, but the car accident caused him to live in a small mountain village, coupled with amnesia and lonely. The director Wang Xiaoming in the mobile phone experimental movie "The Death of a Film Director" has a wife and a son, but they have been in a state of separation from the beginning of the film. The occasional contact is through WeChat, Douyin, etc. Modern methods can hardly cover up the gap between them.
But fortunately, they are not alone. This is not only because many people are depressed, but also because they sometimes extend a helping hand to warm the lonely heart.
is the most prominent in "Week and Die". When he was a teenager, his friends have always been around to support this third-rate painter. Although he came up with the idea of "resurrection from the dead", the focus is also on "resurrection"; later when he really saw the "resurrected" painter At that time, even though his words and deeds showed some emotions of "I hope he really disappeared", this is also an ordinary humanity in itself, and when he gave up his wealth in exchange for the personal safety of the painter, he also Very indifferently revealing his determination to continue to support him. What's more, when the painter lost his memory and wandered in the small mountain village, he was taken care of by the heroine's family, and he was able to quickly recover, and with the help of the heroine and the others, he found his "self".
dreams illuminate reality. With his passion for film and television, Director Wang Xiaoming paid attention to the gloomy daily life of many unwilling people, and blended in the beauty of a touch of human nature, which resonated with many people and gained warmth.