Author: Canghai
After watching " Catch a Baby ", a huge question mark arose: Is this a comedy or a tragedy?
I went to watch the movie "Catch a Baby" on the morning of the parent-teacher meeting. The last time Shen Teng Ma Li worked together, what impressed me most was the platter movie "My Hometown and Me", and the overwhelming media promotion. Tell me this movie with a lot of "Teng" content will make me laugh from beginning to end.
The content of the story is very simple, but I have a question, is this a comedy?
The story narrated in the movie is the same as the choice of many parents of second-born children nowadays. When they lose their ability to practice the big size, they choose to practice from scratch. What they want is for their dreams to come true, regardless of whether the dream belongs to the child or the parents.
For all parents who were born in the 1970s and 1980s, we followed the changes in the world and created many items from scratch, such as computers and mobile phones. Internet communication is fast and diversified. Before the Internet, we only knew about the children from the next door neighbor. Excellent people were rare. After surfing the Internet, I saw too many successful people and other people’s stories. The door I opened was full of anxiety. .
Whether our generation can be regarded as a person who changed the world may need to be discussed later, but our generation can definitely be regarded as a generation that revives its own family. It helped myself and my family to cross a class with a surname. Especially after experiencing the entire country's advocacy of fertility policies, it is particularly important for most people who only have one offspring. It is said that people born in the 1970s have no time to worry, but they are only insecure about their children's future. They are afraid of not giving enough, afraid of giving too much, and afraid of giving the wrong thing.
I actually didn’t have high hopes for watching "Catch a Doll". I just hoped that the movie would be watchable. In fact, it is worthy of the word "watchable". A comedy film is already very good without tickling you. It worked.
The story is straightforward. The child born by Lao Ma and his ex-wife, as the future number one player of the family, is a useless young master in the eyes of his parents, and it is impossible to maintain the foundation created by Lao Ma. The name of Lao Ma's second son from a remarriage speaks volumes - Ma Jiye, who has the attribute of inheriting the family business since he was born. Most of the parents in the 1970s and 1980s were born in hardship. In order to escape hardship, they worked hard to improve their own abilities. Most people who achieved transcendence through their own abilities were hardworking and self-disciplined. There are two main channels for people in this generation to achieve familial crossover across classes, one is to study, and the other is to seize the opportunities of the times. Even the latter has always agreed that "everything is inferior, only reading is high" and believes that reading can best change one's destiny.
It was under the influence of this ideological factor that Lao Ma decided to forge a "Ma Jiye's World" in which poverty requires self-improvement. He took off his designer clothes, abandoned his luxurious villa, and used the shabby house of his childhood to forge a shabby-looking skin for his second son. Ma Jiye has been educated by his parents with ulterior motives since he was a child. Members of Jiye's successor planning team surrounded Jiye, and his neighbors talked about literary masterpieces and Olympiad geometry. There is also the "uncle" who plays the piano for Jiye when he falls asleep at night. He seems to be uneducated. Chunlan, Jiye's mother, who works as a housekeeper, is catchy about the author, style and playing techniques of piano music. Maybe in Lao Ma's view, what he needs is "to have great scholars when talking and laughing, but not to have idle contacts". The environment will change a person, this is definitely what Lao Ma thinks. Of course, the food should not be ambiguous. Chopped sea cucumbers, deformed shrimps, and simple meals are just formalities.
While Lao Ma spared no effort to forge difficulties, Ma Jiye found his own interests and future direction - athletes and long-distance runners. When the coach found the family, Lao Ma seemed to happily agree, although in Lao Ma's succession plan, Jiye should go to Qingbei University, majoring in business administration, and inherit the family business. Lao Ma told Jiye, if you want to hire someone to help you make money in the future, Qingbei Industrial and Commercial Management can let others help you make money.
verbally agreed to Ma Jiye’s dream of being a long-distance runner. In private, Lao Ma forged Ma Jiye’s X-rays and told his son through fake doctors and real employees that he had leg problems and that the child was not material to be an athlete.
Year after year passed, Ma Jiye finally wanted to realize Lao Ma's wish. How could the forged world pretend to be real forever? Teacher Li, who plays the deceased Jiye’s grandma, can’t lie still. When Ma Jiye abandoned a wheelchair pretending to be a paralyzed patient, he saw his grandma playing basketball, and Jiye's world suddenly collapsed. Grandma's inexplicable and rapid death and the grief-stricken funeral full of loopholes failed to stop Jiye from doubting his own life and whether it was real. The world that Lao Ma built with a lot of money and time has become loose.
"The truth is also false when it is fake." Amid repeated suspicions, Ma Jiye gave up the college entrance examination and used the forgery skills he learned to forge a kidnapping, and successfully escaped from the cage established by his parents in the name of "love". I also discovered the world outside Truman. The ending is of course ideal and open. The ideal is that Jiye gets admitted to a sports school with high scores and becomes an athlete. The open ending is when you see an athlete leave the track in the middle of the game to pick up a lot of empty space. Plastic bottles, where do you want to change money? Do you think he will not be the successor?
After watching the whole movie, I have a question, is this a comedy or a tragedy? Comedy is what the actor wants to tell us. In terms of tragedy, everything done in the name of love is a tragic drama of different forms and contents performed by every family.
Speaking of education, it is actually a false proposition that goes against human nature. It requires people to be diligent, requires people to be self-disciplined, and requires people to be ascetic in life and ask themselves to make progress. Speaking of ideals, what is more important is the ideal of a child's freedom, or the ideal reality planned by the child's parents for the child. Finally, there is a huge contradiction between the persistence of contemporary Chinese parents in crossing classes and the escape from pressure faced by contemporary young people.
all say: Parents who are teachers have seen the most naughty children, but parents who are doctors have seen the most regretful parents. Of course these are just extreme students, but there are also extreme parents. When children are young, they all have a dream of Qingbei. I once met a second-grade child who said that when he grows up, he will go to the Academy of Military Science and become a military scientist. His parents took this sentence into their hearts and engraved it on their bones. Whenever a child skips class and is slow in doing homework when he gets home, his mother will say, don’t you want to be a military scientist? I asked her, is this your ideal or your child’s ideal? She said that my ideal is to help children realize their ideals.
In fact, the ideal of children is for your parents. Children are pure and sophisticated complex beings. Behind seemingly immature ideas, there is a purpose to please. Children know what goals their parents have set for themselves. That parent lives in anxiety every day, and his idiom is, it's too late, the third grade will be too late, is there still a rush for the fourth grade? I dare not say what the child's future will be like. What I can be sure of is that the child's mental state must be depressed and helpless.My child’s mother asked me countless times, do you think my idea is wrong? am I wrong? To be honest, I am speechless.
What is a good education? This is a proposition that the whole world is thinking hard about. Chinese parents have magnified the dimension of this proposition and defended its solution. That is, reading is the only way to change one's destiny. To be more precise, reading can change one's destiny in an elegant way, a Chinese style of noble and hypocritical elegance. What we would like to say to others today is to live in the present. In the present moment, we are looking up to the upper class all the time, observing, envying, longing for, and being jealous.
When people reach middle age and become parents, all efforts to improve themselves are rarely just for themselves. Is that wrong? Yes, maybe! But at least I can say I don’t love myself enough. If you don’t love yourself enough, will you definitely love others? not necessarily! At the very least, this is a kind of bound love in the name of morality.
Many people will ask, what is the most reasonable education? Today, the dog at work peed on the sofa at the door. The children asked me what to do. I said you can let it dry or brush it. She asked me what to do if it still smells after drying, and I was too tired from washing it, so I couldn’t answer either. The purpose of education is to solve problems, not to find them. Nowadays, there are more people who find problems and fewer people who know how to solve them. Movies can't give me a good education, but I have my answer.
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