The film was badly hurt, even when the director was questioned by the audience, he mentioned that the whole script was carefully polished, the first half was very mature, and the procrastination in the second half dissipated all the emotions accumulated in the first half.
The first is the distortion of characters. Is Yao Jun a real person? When depicting a character, in order to reflect the complexity and three-dimensional character, we will set motivation, fear, advantages and disadvantages, true self, dark side, personality arc and so on. Therefore, Yao Jun is a good man, and his goodness is on the bright line, because the goodness on the bright line is too strong, which may be attributed to Wang Jingchun's performance, which made him hide in the dark line. During his family planning period, all his desires and anger were ligated, but after the loss of his beloved son, his anger and hatred were cut off, and he was forced to add a "moral fault" that did not conform to the character's character. In the end, this fault was still hidden, so such a character without self-awareness and emotional release was constantly dispelled by the plot.
In addition, in his statement, the director is praising ordinary people who are strong and full of goodwill even though they have been displaced all their lives. If a person hits you, you can bear it, and it's okay to punch again. Then he called a group of people to beat you. You can say nothing. I forgive you. This is not kindness, but connivance.
So how do you shape a real three-dimensional figure? In fact, the film has a good theme. Hatred and forgiveness under bereavement, the death of his two children, is a social result. For this result, Yao Jun has room for self-reflection. Is he a good husband? Is he a good father again? Even men? The film didn't develop further, and even Yao Jun no longer appeared. He was smoking a cigarette, his face was livid and his face was sad, but it just became an emotional fragment, both in character selection and character transformation.
As for the lines of the characters, the director is too vivid and eager to throw golden sentences, so from Yao Jun and Liu Yunkou, we heard a language that does not belong to them:
"In her words, time has stopped and the rest are getting old."
"Li Yun and I are living for each other now and can't stand the toss."
"In that case, what else can't we face?"
Even the key figure in the background, Hao Hao, has a long section of extremely nonverbal lines:
"There is a tree in my body that is about to burst ... (roughly)"
These lines have become obstacles for actors to perform and even stones that hinder the whole emotional flow. Just as the director constantly throws out his own feelings about life during the screening, these words that are suitable for writing memoirs instead of movies will not come from the hearts of every audience, and certainly will not enter the hearts of the audience.
In addition, the inexplicable introduction of Molly's perspective puts Liu Yun, who should be the protagonist, in an awkward and out of context. Although Yongmei won the Best Actress, he was surprised to find that the film seemed to push Liu Yun to the position of the background character, but introduced Molly's perspective. Molly is a "witness", similar to the audience's perspective, which is reasonable in "memory", but she should not usurp the role of the host in the narrative of "now". Probably because the confrontation between Yao Jun and Liu Yun is too weak, Jasmine has become a supplement to the role camp contest. However, the setting of taking a dip before going abroad and wanting to have a baby even made Yao Jun nervous at the last minute of the film, which was incredible. Reminiscent of the Christian second sister in Brighter Summer, she is the most sober and calm person in the whole family. She has no ability to change the world. She witnessed everything and made her own choice. This is the proper position of the role as a "witness".
Secondly, the proportion of the plot is unbalanced. Try to sort out the movie clues;
Yao Jun:
1. The father-son relationship between Yao Jun and the fake "star".
The plot is not well done, and the mismatch between the process and the role makes this line collapse.
2. Yao Jun and Molly's instruction was derailed.
Does this make Yao Jun's role very bad, so does it conform to his role to present a man's desire?
Yao Jun doesn't forgive Haiyan for having an abortion in order to finish her work.
In order to protect Haohao, Yao Jun wouldn't let his father talk about killing stars.
Is this a normal human emotion? Emotional suspicion is serious.
5. The affection and friendship between Yao Jun and his wife Li Yun for many years.
The emotions of the two people who should be presented most lack concentration.
Liu yun:
1. Aborting the child caused her to be unable to get pregnant, and the consequences of family planning for her.
2. Yao Jun's infidelity and the oppression of women by the concept of carrying on the family line.
Other characters:
1. Molly likes Yao Jun, is dissatisfied with what happened to their family, and is willing to give birth to Yao Jun.
2. Hao Hao was burdened with the truth of killing stars all his life.
Haiyan has been burdened with killing Liu Yun's child for work all her life, which made her unable to get pregnant.
4. A new relationship with Mei Yu.
The interweaving of the past and the present is closely stitched in the first half, which increases the readability of the film. However, there is still an extra part of the plot line. If it is not a group drama, the most important thing in the grand narrative may be that the protagonist's perspective cannot be shifted, and the branches around the protagonist should be related. The branch line of Xinjian and Meiyu has almost nothing to do with the main line, and Molly's love and derailment are even presumptuous. Especially in the last hour, old Yao Jun and Li Yunfei returned to Baotou. The content of this paragraph has nothing to do with the previous paragraph in structure, but it seems to be very long. I also see that the director has been looking for a suitable destination and can't find it. Let's give it a happy ending.
Of course, in Forever, the rhythm and atmosphere of the first hour are in place, and two tunnel scenes are also the most shining moments: Yao Jun holds the drowning stars and the beautiful clouds of suicide, panting and becoming a language. Running through the darkest moment of life, the train whizzed by, and the emotional power of the audio-visual situation came into place, which became the most powerful section of Yao Jun. Reminiscent of luc dardenne's Other People's Son, the father who also suffered from the loss of his son, silence and breathing became a language, and the superposition of an emotional pressure was completed in this silence.
Taking a family photo is also a good joke. Sealed old photos floated out from under the cabinet. I remember that Liu Yun was innocent and quiet, and the two families got along well. This must be a specific case, and it will be a thing of the past forever. Forever, it is about friendship, mutual forgiveness in the torrent of the times, and mutual affection between a couple.
However, the film lacks in the level of theme disassembly and presentation. I am afraid that the topic of family planning can only be presented at the moment of the "second child policy", and the images in the chain as mass media products are always pale and unable to reflect and criticize. The rulers of modern countries put the seemingly natural and true existence of life into political logic, and they no longer have the power of "death" but the power of "life". This obedience and awe to the central power should be regarded as the inner nature of these tragic figures. If the two families have a life-and-death enemy, they should carry out the crime and punishment to the end. There is power in this, rather than softening or even eliminating the contradiction by a rumba and a happy family reunion in memory.
We knew what Haiyan would say when she died, but I didn't expect it to be such a sentence, "We have money, we can live", which made people feel sympathy. Because of unreasonable logic, the word "plan" is a mistake in people's eyes. Haiyan never faced up to her mistakes and blamed them on history. There used to be policies, but now there is capital. People caught in the cracks are never really happy. So the ending is a false ending, because people's current emotional experience is constructed and deceived by false illusions, and is moved by emotional plots and excessive music. This makes people hate the title of the film, which has never happened before.
On the other hand, Hao Hao tried to solve the guilt for many years through confession, just because he could not bear it, so he prayed for the forgiveness of the victims. I think this motive is even worse. This film tries to say that Haiyan and Hao feel punished, and they have no peace in their lives. Only the act of asking for forgiveness, no redemption. Yao Jun and Liu Yun have no obligation to forgive anyone, hatred is reasonable, because those people are not for work, not for face, but at that moment, they were born with malice, which is the source, and death is only the result.
So, back in Paul Hu, where we can't avoid it, children also died in this movie. There are many reasons for death, social, personal and oral. The unborn child was stillborn because of Haiyan's "work" (family planning), and his son Xing Xing was "pushed" by Haiyan's son Hao Hao and killed. Some people will compare this movie with the death of Hooper. Because of "work" and "promotion", the position chosen by the creator becomes his attitude towards certain events. Even if there is guilt, there is forgiveness, but death is a very serious matter.
A three-hour screening, perhaps only an award-winning film like The Avengers and a super-large production can make the cinema accept such a long screening time. However, these three hours tell a story that lasted for 30 years, a story full of the influence of the times on life.
When the educated youth goes home, it is farewell and a fresh start. Everyone is full of hope for their future. When the music of Auld Lang Syne started, Liu and Shen Yingming thought that mutual affection could last forever. They worked together in the factory and had children at the same time. Taking photos with these two families is like a warm family photo. The two children grew up together like brothers. At that time, they all thought that this kind of life could really last forever.
Yao Jun and Liu Yun want to have a second child, and they hide the fact of pregnancy from Haiyan, the director of family planning. However, her stomach is getting bigger and bigger, and her health is getting worse day by day. After work, Liu Yun suddenly fainted to the ground, and Haiyan knew she was pregnant.
Because of her position, Haiyan persuaded Li Yun to take her to the operating table. However, something happened during the operation, and Li Yun could no longer be pregnant.
I lost the chance to get pregnant, but I got an ironically "advanced" title, which made two people's names appear on the list of laid-off workers.
Helpless, ironic and ridiculous.
After the death of the star, Yao Jun and Liu Yun couldn't laugh anymore. Haiyan and Yingming were tortured by their inner guilt, and Liangliang became the object of everyone's protection, but he could not forgive himself.
When everyone is celebrating the New Year, there is no expression on each other in the cold room. Molly brought jiaozi from Bao Haiyan, and the three men chatted with each other. No one dares to mention the stars, but when the words come to their lips, they can only be silent together.
Yao Jun and Liu Yun chose to leave this dark room, a place full of painful memories, and went to the far south, where the dialect is comparable to a foreign language. They adopted a child and named him the star.
Stars know that they are substitutes, so they play truant, fight and run away from home.
Yao Jun and Liu Yun were left alone to face the dilapidated houses flooded by rain. They eat, work, and find stars. There are no superfluous words and no emotional ups and downs.
Yao Jun and Liu Yun expressed sympathy for this. People who have lost their independence can only live on each other. Life without passion, time seems to have stopped. All they can do is wait to get old.
Yao Jun and Liu Yun need to face the cruel fact of "losing their independence", but selfishly let the stars become substitutes for their children. Yingming and Haiyan had to bear the fact that the bright star "killed" and felt guilty for a lifetime. Until the end, Haiyan still couldn't forget the debt owed to Yao Jun and Liu Yun. The phrase "now that we have money, you can have children" tells the shackles that have trapped her life. In a bright heart, the taller the tree, the more it is not his sadness.
The wise sister Molly became an embarrassing and real existence in this incident. When Yao Jun lost all her passion and hope, her appearance rekindled her little desire, adding some stains to a kind and compassionate character like a blank sheet of paper, and Molly became pregnant with his child.
Liu Yun has seen through everything, but she has never punctured it. She knows that now two people only live for each other, but if there is an opportunity, she hopes that one person can suffer less, so she chose to let go. However, Yao Jun also knows Liu Yun's inner pain and despair, and also knows the gap between him and Molly. If Liu Yun leaves, he really has no hope.
Fortunately, Li Yun came back from the rescue, and Yao Jun didn't accept Molly's child. This may be his last chance to have children of his own. At this time, Liu Yun is more important to him than children.
Life is like this. When we think that we are the darlings of this era, we will find that in this torrent, we are just one of the tens of thousands of ordinary people in Qian Qian, Qian Qian. The times are advancing, but we must bear all the joys and sorrows brought about by various changes.
Time is like a magician, he brings everyone pain, and makes these pains scar a little, and finally only one scar remains. With Yong Bok Chu's real name, the star became the truest self. A kowtow, a speechless, a "dad" let Yao Jun and Liu Yun regain the identity of parents.
Bright confession gave them a new life, and also opened the last knot in Yao Jun and Liu Yun's heart. "Just say it" is in sharp contrast to what they said before, "As long as you are alive, you can't say it", which is also their perception of life and reality in recent years. Molly's half-blood son made Yao Jun no longer have any contact with her. The death of Haiyan seems to have taken away all the pain, leaving a group of people who are still running with the times. Finally, Yao Jun and Liu Yun came to the grave of the stars, and they could finally laugh.
Director Wang Xiaoshuai told the story of that era, familiar factories, familiar uniforms, familiar old streets and staff dormitories, and the square dance that still has feelings until now. All the colors of that era were so real. All the characters live their own lives simply, but we can't help crying when we look at their days.
When Yao Jun rushed to the hospital with the stars in her arms, the nurses' accustomed expressions and the patients' curious eyes made "death" very important. When Liu Yun was forced to go on the operating table to remove her child, Yao Jun accepted that her child had to be removed, but she was surrounded by couples expecting her child to be born. When Yao Jun once again ran to the hospital with Liu Yun who had taken sleeping pills, the whole world in Yao Jun collapsed, and the repressed emotions of the audience were released to the greatest extent.
We will bemoan families like Yao Jun and Liu Yun, but the saddest thing is that in the torrent of this era, there may be thousands of families like Qian Qian in Qian Qian. Director Wang Xiaoshuai, growing up, described a story that could touch the world in a three-hour film. The coronation of the best actor and the best actress at the Berlin Film Festival makes this film more meaningful.
The winners of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival were announced in the early hours of February 17, and China's film Forever won two Silver Bear Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. The film is directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, starring Wang Jingchun and Yongmei. When awarding the film, the chairman of the jury of Berlin Film Festival and other judges gave great comments: "Few other couples on the screen can perform so naturally as Wang Jingchun and Yongmei!"
Auld Lang Syne is a literary film. In this film, we see the condensed social changes in China in the past 30 years. This film is mainly about two families separated by an accident. One of them moved away from home from north to south. However, thirty years later, the two families were together again. A lot of things happened here, which fully showed the influence of social waves and man-made accidents on some ordinary people at that time. Of course, the actor's acting skills are also remarkable.
Auld Lang Syne is the first part of Wang Xiaoshuai's "Hometown Trilogy". 20 16, during the Shanghai international film festival, he said that a series of great narrative films of the times would be completed in the next decade, which is just the "homeland trilogy". Now he has made great achievements in the first step, and I believe that the next two films will not be bad.
Wang Jingchun, the leading actor of the film, talked about this role in an interview with the media after winning the prize, and we realized that Liu in the film was just looking up to the world. Because Wang Jingchun also revealed that many similar things happened to him. On the whole, the role is really the right person. And "Liu" in the play is an ordinary person, so no matter what happens, there won't be much role contrast for him. Wang Jingchun shows everything through details, and all the small details in life can be reflected, which is also an important reason for his award.
The heroine Yongmei is 49 years old this year, but she made her debut in 1995, but she has been playing a supporting role. This is her first time to play the heroine. When she won the prize, she said she couldn't believe it. At the age of 49, she won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival as the heroine. But while she was excited, she also said that she could no longer live as "lazy" as before.
The movie Forever is really great, the plot and acting are first-class, and the copyright of this movie is sold out all over the world except the United States.
First of all, I am honored to answer this question for you. At first, I thought Haiyan's performance as Arya was too eloquent, but on second thought, Haiyan, as a factory leader, was deeply influenced by the system, and her "bureaucratic tone" was very consistent with the character. For nearly 20 years, this character has been suffering from self-blame and regret. Arya has only played amazing roles in two old-age dramas, showing the shackles of fate that she can't get rid of all her life. Li Jingjing, the actor of "Mei Yu", and Edward Xu, the wise actor, embraced Yao Jun and his wife in tears in the scene of a hospital reunion. They were silent but full of thousands of words. What is even more rare is that Li Jingjing still reveals a sense of being a girl beyond her age in the scene of youth. Du Jiang and Roy didn't hesitate in front of the old players. Especially in the climax of the film, the former choked several times before the word "I pushed him" and grasped his lines well. Generally speaking, Wang Xiaoshuai's Auld Lang Syne has nothing to do with the bitterness of the trafficking era. It only records a long life, as well as the sadness left by history and a little light after passing through the sadness. Let me share with you my views and opinions on this issue. At the same time, I hope my sharing on this issue will help you, and I hope you will like my sharing. I think as long as you like this movie, no matter what others say, you just like it. You don't need to change it or explain it. On the contrary, you don't like it. The answers I shared above about this question are all personal opinions and suggestions. I hope the answers I shared here can help everyone. Meanwhile, I hope you like my sharing. At the same time, I hope that if you have a better answer to this question, you can also share comments and discuss this topic together. I wish you all a good start in the new year, live a good life, be happy every day and grow up happily. Thank you!
This award-winning film won two awards. The award-winning film is based on the long-lost production time of Forever, starting from 20 15, and it is one of the Wang Xiaoshuai Home series. I believe that such grounded oriental films can be displayed more on the screen. After all, the life of China people is the most grounded.
I introduced Auld Lang Syne in my article.